After Love
The success of Love was short-lived, though, and the original group broke up. For a time, his considerable talent as a bassist gained him studio session work and offers to join various other rock groups. He played briefly with a band called "The Elves Themselves" and worked on a record with Jimi Hendrix. During that time Ken had no steady job.
Ken Forssi never again reached any level of fame.
After the original members of Love scattered, he moved back to Sarasota in the early 1970s, where he found fewer and fewer opportunities to use his musical talents. He mostly worked at various odd jobs over the years, his employment usually hampered by long-term substance-abuse problems which seem to have started during the years of fame.
During Ken's last years, he became very concerned about the possible existence of world political conspiracies. In the early 1990s he moved to the little town of Greenville, Florida, where his mother then lived. Ken died in nearby Tallahassee on January 5, 1998 (according to his Tallahassee Democrat obituary), due to a brain tumor.
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