torrent love love story download -1970 arthur lee Albums. Released UK 9/66 Elektra EKL/EKS (7)4001 (US) Elektra EKC 4001 (Reel to reel - 7 1/2 IPS) Elektra 74001-2 (CD) (US) Vogue LVLEKS 86 30 (France) Vedette VRM 36038 (Italy) Edsel ED 218 (UK) (CD) 4/87 Integrity ISD-003 (CD) Integrity ISC-003 (Cass.) 1. My Little Red Book (Bacharach-David) 2:30 Lyrics and chords 2. Can't Explain (Lee-Echols-Fleckenstein) 2:35 Lyrics 3. Message to Pretty 3:10 Lyrics and chords 4. My Flash on You 2:05 Lyrics and chords 5. Softly to Me (Maclean) 3:10 (stereo version fades out 5 seconds later, revealing more guitar soloing) Lyrics and chords 6. No Matter What You Do 2:40 Lyrics 7. Emotions (Lee-Echols) 1:55 (mono version ends 5 seconds later, apparently catching the final symbol hit.) 1. You I'll Be Following 2:25 Lyrics and chords 2. Gazing 2:40 Lyrics 3. Hey Joe (Valenti) 2:38 Lyrics and chords 4. Signed D.C. 2:44 Lyrics and chords 5. Colored Balls Falling 1:50 (mono version fades out 4 seconds later.) Lyrics and chords 6. Mushroom Clouds 2:45 (mono version fades out 15 seconds later and therefore contains a beautiful acoustic guitar solo missing from the stereo version. Lyrics 7. And More (Lee- MacLean) 2:56 Lyrics and chords. (Thanks to Steve Espinola for the notes about the difference of the tracks) All other songs written by Arthur Lee except where otherwise indicated Performers: John Echols: Guitar Ken Forssi: Bass Arthur Lee:Vocal / Guitar Bryan MacLean:Vocal / Guitar , Lead Vocal on Softly To Me and Hey Joe Alban Pfisterer: Drums. DA CAPO Release Variations. Released UK 2/67 Elektra EKL/EKS (7)4005 (US) Elektra EKX 4005 (Reel to reel 3 3/4 IPS) Elektra K42011 (UK) Elektra 74005-2 (CD) (US) Vogue CLVLXEK 249 (F) Elektra 8122 73604-2 (CD) (5/2002) 1. Stephanie Knows Who 2:33 Lyrics 2. Orange Skies (MacLean) 2:49 Lyrics and chords 3. Que Vida 3:37 Lyrics and chords 4. 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Stand Out 3:35 (Recorded Live In London, February 27, 1970 At The Waltham Forest Tech College) 5. Keep on Shining 3:50 Lyrics. 1. Anytime 3:23 2. Slick Dick 3:05 3. Love is Coming 1:24 Lyrics 4. Feel Daddy Feel Good 3:15 5. Ride That Vibration 3:34. All other songs written by Arthur Lee. Performers: Frank Fayad: Bass Arthur Lee: Vocal / Rhythm Guitar / Piano Gary Rowles: Guitar George Suranovich: Drums. Nooney Rickett: Vocal all songs except The Everlasting First, Stand Out and Slick Dick / Rhythm Guitar all songs except The Everlasting First Jimi Hendrix: Guitar. REEL TO REAL. Released UK 1/75 RSO 2394145 (UK) RSO SO4804 (US) 1. Time Is Like A River 2. Stop the Music 3. Who Are You 4. Good Old Fashion Dream 5. Which Witch is Which? 6. With A Little Energy. 1. Singing Cowboy (Arthur Lee-Jay Donnellan) 2. Be Thankful For What You Got (William DeVaughn) 3. You Said You Would 4. Busted Feet (Arthur Lee-Charles Karp) 5. Everybody's Gotta Live. All other songs written by Arthur Lee except where otherwise indicated. Performers: Bobby Lyle: Keyboards Billy Sprague: Horn Sherwood Akuna. Bass Gary Bell: Synthesizer Joe Blocker: Drums Wilber Brown: Horn Fred Carter: Horn John Clauder: Horn Alan DeVille: Horn Howard Feitin: Guitar Vanetta Fields: Vocal Art Fox: Acoustic Guitar on Which Witch Is Which Buzzy Felton: Lead Guitar on Who Are You? Harvey "The Snake" Mandel: Electric Guitars on Which Witch Is Which Arthur Lee: Rhythm Guitar, Acoustic Guitar on Which Witch Is Which and Everybody's Gotta Live, Vocal, Producer Herman McCormick: Conductor Robert Rozelle: Bass on With A Little Energy, Singing Cowboy and Busted Feet Joe Deaguro: Vocal, Vibes on Be Thankful For What You Got Jessica Smith: Vocal Clifford Solomon: Horn John Stirling: Guitar Melvan Whittington: Guitar Carlena Williams: Vocal. LOVE LIVE. Released UK -/80 Line 625047/5153 (D) Rhino 251 (US) Rhino RNDF 251 (Picture Disc) (US) 1. Alone Again Or (MacLean) 3:17 2. 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All other songs written by Arthur Lee except where otherwise indicated. Performers: Arthur Lee: Guitar / Keyboards / Harmonica / Vocals Melwan Whittington: Lead Guitar Robert Rozelle: Bass Gary Stern: Drums Tony Mikesell: Keyboards, Guitar, Bass Alan Talbot: Sax on Ninety Miles Away Keith Farrish: Vocal on The Watcher. Released UK 29/5-2001 Viper CD 003 Viper LP 003. 1. Alone Again Or (MacLean-Breadcrust) 2. Daily Planet 3. Signed D.C. 4. And More Again 5. A House Is Not a Motel 6. Somebody's Watching You 7. Hey Joe (Valenti) 8. Passing By 9. My Little Red Book (Bacharach-David) 10. Orange Skies (MacLean) 11. Everybody's Gotta Live 12. Interview-May 1992. All other songs written by Arthur Lee except where otherwise indicated. Recorded At The Academy, Liverpool May 1992 Musicians: Arthur Lee: Vocals, Harmonica, Guitar Michael Head: Guitar, Backing Vocals John Head: Lead Guitar Martyn Campbell: Bass, Backing Vocals Little Johnny: Drums. ELECTRICALLY SPEAKING. Released UK 25/6-2001 Yeaah 49. 1.Alone Again Or (Maclean) 2. My Little Red Book (Bacharach / David) 3. 7 & 7 is 4. Orange Skies (Maclean) 5. Signed DC 6. The Everlasting First (Lee / Hendrix) 7. And More Again 8. Hey Joe (Roberts) 9. She Comes in Colors 10. Everybody's Gotta Live (Lee)/ Instant Karma(Lennon) Bonus Tracks: 11. That's the way it goes 12. Signed DC 13. And More Again 14. Little Wing (Hendrix) All other songs written by Arthur Lee except where otherwise indicated. All source tapes licensed from the archives of Arthur Lee. Produced by Keith Dion for Almafame Ltd. UK 2001. All tracks recorded At My Place, Santa Monica, CA 28/11-1991. Bonus tracks recorded At My Place, 29/11-1992. Little Wing recorded at: The IBEAM. SF CA 27/1- 1990. Mastering and sequencing at Radical House and Rizzo Pro Studios, SF, CA. Engineered by Carl Stanley and Jeff Risdon. Photographs by: Robert Leslie Dean and from the collection of Keith Dion, Hollywood Blvd photo by Don West. Layout and design: Paul Bevoir. Dedicated to Bryan Maclean, Ken Forsi and British Author Tony Brown. Musicians: Arthur Lee: Vocals, acoustic and electric guitar, harmonica, percussion Tony Mikesell: Keyboards Melvan Whittington: Electric Guitar Alan Talbert: Alto Saxophone Gary Stern: Drums Sherwood Akuna: Bass (Little Wing) Berton Averrie: Guitar (Little Wing) THE FOREVER CHANGES CONCERT Release Variations. Released UK 2003 Recorded january 15. 2003 at Royal Festival Hall, London. Snapper Music SMACD868 (2CD) Bonus: Seven and seven is Your mind and we belong together Signed D.C. My little red book Extras: Alone Again Or enhanced video track from Royal Festival Hall Downloadable screensaver Picture gallery. Snapper Music SMACD869 (1CD) Bonus: Seven and Seven Is Your Mind and We Belong Together Orange Skies She Comes in Colors Listen to My Song August. Snapper Music SDPCD173 (Midprice release) Performers: Arthur Lee, Guitar, Lead Voc., Harmonica Mike Randle-Lead Guitar, backing voc. Rusty Squeezebox-guitar, backing Voc. Dave Chapple-bass David "Daddyo" Green-Drums. The Forever Changes String & Horn Ensemble: Orchestrator/conductor is Gunnar Norden, Anna Landberg (cello), Erik Holm (viola), Caroline Valdemarsson (violin), Ketil Solberg (violin), Andreas Forsman (violin), Bjorn Samuelsson (trombone), Stefan Persson (trumpet), Fredrik Oscarsson (trumpet). Sound, informations and Yahtze: Karsten "Kose" Sorensen. GALAXY THEATRE, SANTA ANA, CA December 26, 2003 Cover scan. Your Mind And We Belong Together Alone Again Or A House Is Not A Motel Andmoreagain The Daily Planet Old Man The Red Telephone Between Clark and Hilldale Live and Let Live The Good Humor Man Bummer In The Summer You Set The Scene Seven And Seven Is A Message To Pretty Orange Skies Everybody's Gotta Live Signed DC My Flash On You August Singing Cowboy Smokestack Ligntning. Produced by Nick "The New Guy" Koff Executive producer: Arthur Lee. Performers: Arthur Lee, Guitar, Lead Voc., Harmonica Mike Randle-Lead Guitar, backing voc. Rusty Squeezebox-guitar, backing Voc. Dave Chapple-bass David "Daddyo" Green-Drums. Johnny Echols plays guitar on A House Is Not A Motel, Seven And Seven Is, Singing Cowboy and Smokestack Ligntning. Don Conka plays drums on Smokestack Ligntning. HENRY FONDA THEATRE, December 27, 2003 Cover scan. CD1: Alone Again Or A House Is Not A Motel Andmoreagain The Daily Planet Old Man The Red Telephone Between Clark and Hilldale Live and Let Live The Good Humor Man Bummer In The Summer You Set The Scene. CD2: Orange Skies Everybody's Gotta Live My Little Red Book A Message To Pretty My Flash On You She Comes In Colors Stephanie Knows Who August Seven And Seven Is Singing Cowboy Smokestack Ligntning. Produced by Nick "The New Guy" Koff Executive producer: Arthur Lee. Performers: Arthur Lee, Guitar, Lead Voc., Harmonica Mike Randle-Lead Guitar, backing voc. Rusty Squeezebox-guitar, backing Voc. Dave Chapple-bass David "Daddyo" Green-Drums. Johnny Echols plays guitar on A House Is Not A Motel, Seven And Seven Is, Singing Cowboy and Smokestack Ligntning. Don Conka plays drums on Smokestack Ligntning. GREAT AMERICAN MUSIC HALL, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA JANUARY 16, 2004 Cover scan. CD1: Your Mind And We Belong Together Alone Again Or A House Is Not A Motel Andmoreagain The Daily Planet Old Man The Red Telephone Between Clark and Hilldale Live and Let Live The Good Humor Man Bummer In The Summer You Set The Scene. CD2: My Little Red Book A Message To Pretty My Flash On You Signed D.C. Seven And Seven Is She Comes In Colors August Singing Cowboy. Produced by Nick "The New Guy" Koff Executive producer: Arthur Lee. Performers: Arthur Lee, Guitar, Lead Voc., Harmonica Mike Randle-Lead Guitar, backing voc. Rusty Squeezebox-guitar, backing Voc. Dave Chapple-bass David "Daddyo" Green-Drums. Strings / Horns: Heather Lockie: Viola, Ana Vale-Lenchantin: Cello, Julie Carpenter: Violin, Carrie Bartsch: Violin, Dan Clucas: Trumpet/Flute, Willie Waldman; Trumpet. Love Lost Cover scan. Sundazed SC 11207 (CD) Released 27/10-2009 High-Definition Vinyl 2-LP Set LP 5281. Tracks: 1. Love Jumped Through My Window 2. I Can�t Find It 3. He Said She Said 4. Product of the Times 5. Sad Song 6. Everybody�s Gotta Live 7. Midnight Sun 8. Good & Evil I 9. He Knows a Lot of Good Women 10. C.F.I.* 11. Find Somebody 12. For a Day 13. Good & Evil II 14. Looking Glass 15. Trippin & Sippin�/Ezy Ryder 16. He Knows a Lot of Good Women (alternate)* 17. Find Somebody (alternate)* 18. Midnight Sun (alternate)* 19. Product of the Times (alternate)* * LP Only Bonus Track. Black Beauty Cover scan. High Moon Records (Vinyl) HMRLP-01 December 2012. 1. Young & Able (Good & Evil) 2. Midnight Sun 3. Can't Find It 4. Walk Right In 5. Skid. 1. Beep Beep 2. Stay Away 3 Lonely pigs 4. See Myself In You 5. Product Of The Times. Torrent love love story download -1970 arthur lee. Editorial Reviews 2002 remastered reissue of the West Coast folk-rock/psychedelic band's 1969 album for Elektra includes three previously unreleased bonus tracks, 'Robert Montgomery' (Alternate Vocal Version), 'Talking In My Sleep' (Alternate Mix) & 'Singing Cowboy' (Unedited Version). Updated liner notes include contributions from frontman Arthur Lee. Elektra. ********************** Amazon customer; 5.0 out of 5 stars Love's Best Album. August 16, 2011 By Stacy Pulliam (US) - See all my reviews This review is from: Four Sail (Audio CD) Everybody seems to think of the album 'Forever Changes' when Love is mentioned. That album has become popular over the years due to curiosity, film soundtracks, etc. But most people dont seem to be very familiar with Love's other work. And even though 'Four Sail' featured a different line-up (with Arthur Lee) the album - in my opinion holds out just as much and just as strongly as 'Forever Changes'. Actually I listen to 'Four Sail' much more often then 'Forever Changes'. The band's line up here were very gifted, funky and heavy musicians. But you also have the beautiful voice and lyrics of Mr. Lee. You get the heavy as well as the soft and emotional. 'Four Sail' is heavier than one would expect and is so much more than your typical late 60s psychedelia. The bands first 2 albums are more pop-like in terms of the so-called "flower power" sounds. Then of course later things changed. For the better. Im not knocking their first works. Not at all. Everything you can find from Love is amazing. ( I own all the albums) But for me- Ill take 'Four Sail' over the others if I had to choose only one. It never gets old. Im never tired of listening to this band ever- and especially this album. This could have been a major hit. possibly. But youd have to know the band's history to understand why their albums didnt sell as well as most great bands from that time. I strongly suggest any album from Love but this one in particular. It will indeed blow your mind. Arthur Lee was one of our great Amerikan minds. He can make you cry, smile, dance, and love all at the same time. He can make you free. God bless him. ************************************ more info: http://www.allmusic.com/album/release/four-sail-bonus-tracks- mr0001918946. Track Listings 1. August 2. Your Friend And Mine 3. Im With You 4. Good Times 5. Singing Cowboy 6. Dream 7. Robert Montgomery 8. Nothing 9. Talking In My Sleep 10. Always See Your Face 11. Robert Montgomery (Alternate Vocal) (Bonus Track) 12. Talking In My Sleep (Alternate Mix) (Bonus Track) 13. Singing Cowboy (Unedited Version) (Bonus Track) Torrent love love story download -1970 arthur lee. It seems that Love is in the air…. Just a few days ago we featured a swell duvet cover featuring the cover art of Forever Changes as the prevailing design. Love was perfectly primed to become an object of cult adoration. They were an interracial band that was smack in the middle of a very fertile California music scene in the 1960s. The quality of their output was very high, and reflected a very important transition in the maturation of the rock scene as a whole. Love’s “classic” line-up didn’t last long. They were a hard-luck band with more than its share of uncommonly punitive arrests and premature deaths. On top of all that, Love did produce the one clear masterpiece, the aforementioned Forever Changes that is today widely regarded to be one of the greatest albums ever recorded. The documentary Love Story was released just after frontman Arthur Lee’s death from leukemia in 2006. While it is properly adulatory, directors Chris Hall and Mike Kerry largely manage to keep the distorting effect of sadness and grief out of it, presumably because much of the footage was filmed before the deaths of Lee as well as the (unrelated) 1998 deaths of Ken Forssi and Bryan Maclean. The documentary addresses a curious moment in 2002 when the British Parliament issued a decree declaring Love to be “the world’s greatest rock band.” There’s funny footage of MP Peter Bradley reading it aloud followed by fellow MP Stephen Pound crying out “Arthur Lee!” and worshipfully dropping to his knees. The final spoken words of the movie come out of Lee’s mouth, lamenting that Love is still not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. More than ten years after his death, they still aren’t. Arthur Lee and Love’s Essential Bootlegs. Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen, Denmark March 12, 1970 The greatest, unbootlegged live band of the mid-Sixties is the original lineup of the Los Angeles group Love — the bi-racial folk-rock pirates who made Love and Da Capo in 1966, then the silken psychedelia of Forever Changes in 1967. If there are any soundboard or audience recordings of Love in their Sunset Strip prime, they have not surfaced. Singer-leader Arthur Lee’s aversion to the grind and indignities of the road ensured that no one rolled tape anywhere else. Lee’s next version of the group, a hard-rock U-turn from Forever Change ” bruised romanticism, toured hard (by his standards), reaching Britain and Europe in early 1970. Love were especially feted in Denmark: Danish TV interviewed Lee and taped five songs at the Tivoli show, including the convulsive thunder of “August,” from 1969’s Four Sail , and Lee’s brutal update of the heroin-blues crawl “Signed D.C.,” originally on Love . It is a short but rare solid-audio shot of Lee in the kind of dramatic vocal command that made him an instant, fearsome star on the Strip just five years earlier. A fuller, official view of that Love era was finally released in 2007: A disc of recordings from the British leg, with Cream-like bluster and dramatic rearrangements of songs like Da Capo ‘s “Orange Skies,” comes with the three-CD set, The Blue Thumb Recordings (Hip-O Select). Black Beauty Unreleased studio album, 1973 The band that made this album, for the small Buffalo label, was Arthur Lee’s first all-black Love. It was also the first Love album produced by Paul Rothchild, best known for the Elektra albums he made with Love’s chief rivals at the label, the Doors. Black Beauty might have been received as a strong comeback for Lee, a turn to steamy R&B with heavy-guitar punch — if it had come out. The label went bankrupt before release. Born in Memphis, Lee was — under that black-Mick Jagger armor — a soul man who sang like a tougher Jackie Wilson, with a sharp crying edge that cut through the early Love’s tense folk-rock jangle with emotionally vengeful poise. That voice is here too, with more Dixie in its inflection. Lee’s writing and the power-funk arrangements lack the provocation and complexity of Forever Changes , but “I’m Good & Evil” is frank cocky rock, “Midnight Sun” sounds like something Lee could have written for his friend Jimi Hendrix and “Stay Away” would make a hip cover for Living Colour. Black Beauty has circulated in various forms and fidelity for many years. The good news: According to the official Arthur Lee website, an official release is, at last, in the works. Robert Plant, “We’re Doing It for Love: A Benefit for Arthur Lee,” Beacon Theater, New York City June 23, 2006 After his release from a California prison in 2001, Lee quickly went back on the road, going deep into Love’s Sixties catalog, mostly with the perfectly suited Los Angeles band Baby Lemonade. Bootlegs abound from Lee’s final working years, along with an official release of his complete performance of Forever Changes , with an orchestra, at London’s Royal Festival Hall in 2003 — The Forever Changes Concert (Snapper). But in the spring of 2006, Lee announced that he was being treated for leukemia. Nils Lofgren, Yo La Tengo and Mott The Hoople’s Ian Hunter were among the artists who performed at this New York benefit to raise funds for Lee’s care. Ex-Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant, an avowed fan of Love and Lee, was the star in name and commitment, performing a full set with a good New York band and, in the Forever Changes songs “A House Is Not a Motel” and “Bummer in the Summer,” original Love guitarist (and Lee’s boyhood friend) Johnny Echols. Plant celebrated Lee’s influence as well as his songbook, drawing connections to Buffalo Springfield’s “For What It’s Worth” and Zeppelin’s “What Is and What Shall Never Be.” Plant also slipped a shot of Neil Young’s “Cowgirl in the Sand” into Da Capo ‘s “7+7 Is.” Plant’s performance was an unforgettable show of Love ¬ — and love . I was there. I keep going back, thanks to a DVD shot from the Beacon balcony — with steady hands, decent focus and better-than-expected sound — and sent to me by an acquaintance in Denmark. Something from the soundboard, formally released, would honor both Plant and Lee. Lee, hospitalized in Memphis, could not attend the show. He died a few weeks later, on August 3rd. He was 61. New DVD documentary on Arthur Lee: "Love Story" When I think of the peak concert attending experiences of my life, two of the top ten shows were Arthur Lee and Love. In the early 90s, I saw a pre-jail Arthur do a nearly all-acoustic set at a small bar in North Hollywood because the electricity went out. He made up for the loss of the band with inspired skat singing and the audience left the show grinning from ear to ear. The second time I saw Lee play was even more memorable. After spending 5-1/2 years in prison, Lee was released and began a tentative series of gigs around Los Angeles playing Love's classic 1967 album "Forever Changes" in its entirety. When he walked onstage that night, at a packed Henry Fonda Theater, he looked tiny, frail, old, scared even. His clothes looked too big. Everyone was pulling for him, we all wanted this to be amazing and triumphant, but it didn't look promising. Within seconds, however, he strapped on his hollow body electric guitar and became the great Arthur Lee. It was a magical musical event. Lee's voice had lost none of its beauty and range; the songs none of their power. Audience members were moved to tears. Yes, it was that good (and thanks to the Internets, here's a clip from that very night's highlight, "You Set the Scene"). Now, two years after his untimely death, there is a new feature-length documentary, Love Story that tells the tragic trajectory of the life and times of Arthur Lee. It's a great film and thank the gods that someone got Lee on video talking about his life's work before he died. The dramatic power of Lee's story hasn't been diminished from constant retelling on Vh1 rock docs and "Love Story" is gripping from start to finish. Mostly it focuses on the band's first three records, especially "Forever Changes." And of course it also covers Lee's notoriously difficult personality and the drug use that split the band wide-open. The only criticism I have of "Love Story" is that there isn't more footage of Lee and and the band in their prime, but it's not like the filmmakers had much of an option as there is virtually no footage of Love that exists from that era save for this wonderful clip of them on Dick Clark's American Bandstand performing a blistering version of Burt Bacharach's "My Little Red Book." Arthur Lee and Jimi Hendrix "Everlasting First" unreleased demo. Crap gadgets reborn as "Dead Startup Toys" Dead Startup Toys is selection of classic crap gadgets recreated in nonfunctional funsize form. There are adorable Juiceros and Jibos, internet-of- things drink coolers, the well-meaning but hell-bent One Laptop Per Child, and of course the greatest of them all, the Theranos blood assay Minilab that raised nearly a billion dollars and was for all intents… READ THE REST. Team Trump's new social media platform is called "Gettr" and it's recommending that I follow Hitler. Politico reports that a new social network app named "Gettr" is in fact developed by Team Trump. It's described as having been "quietly launched" by Trump's former spokesman Jason Miller, a charitable way of describing something so workaday and generic it's not clear if it's ready to be noticed. There are spelling errors in its… READ THE REST. Venture capitalists launch Future, an "optimistic" tech site. Future is a new online magazine from venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz offering "optimistic" coverage of tech to counter everyone else's growing discomfort with it. Here's Sonal Chokshi, Editor in Chief: We are pro-tech, pro-future, pro-change. But we are also "informed optimists", not freewheeling futurists making predictions without any skin in the game. So even… READ THE REST. Join the webinar age with the video ease of LiveWebinar Pro for under $100. How do you reach dozens, hundreds, or even thousands without leaving your home or office? Well, there are always avenues like advertising. Of course, 30 seconds of television time isn't cheap, let alone if you want to talk for 10 or 30 or even 60 minutes. And heck, nobody wants to go outside and brave… READ THE REST. Upgrade your kitchen with 15 percent off these gadgets and appliances. If you've been wanting to upgrade your kitchen with new gadgets, storage solutions, and cooking utensils, now's the time. That's because all of these items are marked down for a limited time for a semi-annual sale. Whether you've been meaning to cut back on your trips to the coffee shop by brewing your coffee at… READ THE REST. Take an extra 15 percent off on these wireless charging stations for your mobile devices. A wireless charger can make just about anyone's life so much easier. Whether you're looking for a wireless charger for your watch or a dock that can tackle a few of your gadgets at once, there are lots of markdowns right now for a limited time. There are even some chargers that are portable, so you… READ THE REST.