“But for this disease I never would have known I was loved this much.”<\/p>\n
Arthur Lee of (the band) Love has recently undergone stem cell transplants to fight leukemia. I mention this for two reasons – 1. Stem Cell research is vital to developing new ways to keep people alive and 2. Arthur Lee is a legend not enough people know of, and should. Last Thursday, Lee became the first adult in the state of tennessee to undergo a bone marrow transplant using stem cells from an umbilical cord. Until now such transplants in Tennessee involved children being treated at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and Vanderbilt University Medical Center. <\/p>\n
Doctors estimate Lee has a 10 to 20 percent chance of long-term survival.<\/p>\n
You’ve probably heard the big hit from Love, one of the first psychedelic bands of the sixties, “alone again or”. You probably didn’t know that Last year the bands 1967 album Forever Changes, turned up at No. 40 on Rolling Stone magazine’s latest listing of top 500 albums of all time. To me it’s not just a nostalgia thing – that album is great and Lee (who is as erratic personality-wise as prince) is a great rock personae – always doing what he pretty much wanted to do – usually for the worse. I could call him “the man called destruction” – but that belongs to Alex Chilton, while your at the record store, check him out too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
“But for this disease I never would have known I was loved this much.” Arthur Lee of (the band) Love has recently undergone stem cell transplants to fight leukemia. I mention this for two reasons – 1. Stem Cell research is vital to developing new ways to keep people alive and 2. Arthur Lee is a legend not enough people know of, and should. Last Thursday, Lee became the first adult in the state of tennessee to undergo a bone marrow transplant using stem cells from an umbilical cord. Until now such transplants in Tennessee involved children being treated at…<\/p>\n