Arthur Lee warmly hugged original Love guitarist John Echols and then told the crowd to love one another.

And when you cast your eyes across the rammed seafront venue mixed with Noughties hippy chicks to fiftysomething herbal cigarette smokers, you could see they would do anything he asked of them.

And why not? After all, while Lees music is still being played by the man who created it the world can still be a beautiful place.

And having Echols, the guitarist on the seminal Forever Changes and the rest of Loves early work, back added to that nirvana feel.

One new number (Rainbow In The Storm) aside, the sea of smiling devotees of Loves main man mainlined on his classic Sixties songs, the bulk from Forever Changes.

Lee, tall and lean, stared into the mid-distance from behind shades, wearing a black shirt and matching bandana topped off by a crooked army green cap. Did he look cool. But his personality was warm as he joked see me after the show after one female fan shouted we love you, Arthur.

We all did, of course. He did almost every track off Forever Changes, including glorious versions of Bummer In The Summer, jibing at Michael Jackson and Tony Blair, Live And Let Live and You Set The Scene with dips into most of their other albums.

His mix of rock, folk, latin, quirky titles, strings, trumpet and changing tempos at odds with the prevalent heavier West Coast psychedelia when recorded remains fresh and still appeals.