Love Is

Infobox Album
Name = Love Is
Type = Double album
Artist = 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
Producer = The Animals
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:9eamqjmbojha link]
Chronology = Eric Burdon and The Animals, UK
Last album = "The Twain Shall Meet"
(1968)
This album = "Love Is"
(1968)
Next album = --
Misc = Extra chronology 2
Artist = Eric Burdon and The Animals, US
Type = studio
Last album = "Every One of Us"
(1968)
This album = "Love Is"
(1968)
Next album = "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." [Andy Summers, "One Train Later", Thomas Dunne Books, 2006. ISBN 0-312-35914-4.]

Track listing (MGM, USA)

ide 1

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

ide 2

# "Ring of Fire" – 4:58
# "Coloured Rain" – 9:38

ide 3

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

ide 4

# "Gemini" – 11:50
# "The Madman (Running Through The Field)" – 5:24

Personnel

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

References