Love Is

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Love Is
Studio album by Eric Burdon and The Animals
Released	December, 1968
Recorded	TTG, Sunset Sound Studios, Hollywood CA, October 1968
Genre	Rock
Length	66:32
Label	MGM SE-4591-2
Professional reviews
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Eric Burdon and The Animals, UK chronology
The Twain Shall Meet (1968) Love Is (1968) --
Eric Burdon and The Animals, US chronology
Every One of Us (1968) Love Is (1968) The Greatest Hits of Eric Burdon and The Animals (1969)

Love Is is a double album by Eric Burdon and The Animals which was released in 1968 in both the United Kingdom and United States. It was the last album released before The Animals' second dissolution in 1969.

This album captured the only studio work of Animal and future Police guitarist Andy Summers; he later wrote that this recording of Traffic's "Coloured Rain" contained "one of the longest guitar solos ever recorded until this point ... a 'soaring hymn to ecstacy' style solo that is so long that I find it impossible to play in a full trance state and still come out at the right place, so Zoot [Money] stands in the studio, counting the whole way, and at bar 189 he gives me the cue out." Supposedly this solo earned Summers a "slight legendary reputation."^[1]

[edit] Track listing (MGM, USA)

[edit] Side 1

1. "River Deep, Mountain High" – 7:23
2. "I'm an Animal" – 5:34
3. "I'm Dying (Or Am I?)" – 4:28

[edit] Side 2

1. "Ring of Fire" – 4:58
2. "Coloured Rain" – 9:38

[edit] Side 3

1. "To Love Somebody" – 6:55
2. "As the Years Go Passing By" – 10:13

[edit] Side 4

1. "Gemini the Madman" – 17:23

[edit] Personnel

• Eric Burdon — vocals
• John Weider — vocals, guitar
• Zoot Money — vocals, piano, organ, bass
• Andy Summers — guitar
• Barry Jenkins — drums

[edit] References

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