260 beats to the minute they reckon he's playing at ! A master of his craft was Alvin, incredible. I never get tired of watching this Woodstock performance.
I'm 75 yrs old I have never heard another guitarist even come close to this kind of playing....There heart would explode trying to keep up.. Just a phenomenal player Alvin Lee was.
Alvin Lee was a PHENOMENAL guitarist who l think didn't get as much attention as he deserved. I'd put him up there with all the GREATS! Loved him! I was a BIG fan! ♥️🎼🎶🎵🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
I always absolutely loved Ten Years After. "I'd Love to Change the World" and "Love Like a Man" great guitar solos and vocals. These guys are phenomenal live and well produced albums. Overshadowed band who didn't get the recognition they should have.
Nothing we can do about the past, but in films like this, his legacy will live live on! My list of favorites is longer than the paper it’s written on, and Alvin Lee appears more than one time!
I was there in '69. Ten Years After had to come in by car and they came right by our car where we slept each night. Didn't know it was them until a guy in a Corvette stopped in the middle of the road, got out and said Ten Years After had to get through. To be honest we weren't really sure who they were. There were a lot of groups who performed at Woodstock who were relatively unknown before then, Santana being one of them. We had to ask a guy beside us who Santana was. Alvin Lee of TYA is one of my all time favourite guitarists. RIP.
Alvin Lee was known as the fastest guitarist alive in the late 60s and he doesn't get enough credit for his guitar skills Ten Years After never had any big hits on their albums but live they rocked as you can see here I got to see them live in 73 and they didn't disappoint
O.M.G. Every time a video of this performance pops up on RUclips I have to watch it. I have seen this performance at least 100 times And my reaction is always the same. It is the best live performance that I have ever seen and probably ever will. I saw this band live twice in 1971 and have always considered Alvin Lee to be one of the most talented and dedicated rock/blues guitarists to have ever graced our musical world!
I was a teen in the late 60’s, a lead guitarist in a rock band. I spent many,many hours dissecting Alvin’s solo’s. I was addicted to fast picking and he was the king. Thank you Alvin Lee. Don Bernier
One of the best performances at Woodstock. Alvin Lee was one of the great guitarist way ahead of his time. He was shredding 20 years before others caught up to him.
Alvin Lee, Peter Green and Rory Gallagher are the 3 most underrated musicians in history. Three souls made of pure blues, who were true to their roots without selling themselves to British fashion. Three exceptional guitarists who are already music legends.
Definitely the best single performance at Woodstock. As a side bar Harry, Alvin Lee was a neighbor of George Harrison and George played with Alvin on some of Alvin's solo albums. George played slide.
The common wisdom about the performances at Woodstock was that Alvin Lee and Ten Years After blew the other great bands off the stage. This performance put them on the rock map.
Alvin Lee stated in an interview that his adrenaline began kicking in when he looked up and realized there was half a million people in the audience in front of him.
Woodstock was performance after performance like this. Do some Richie Havens, or some Santana, or Sly and the Family Stone. There's a reason why it's still remembered.
Alvin Lee was an incredible guitarist. He was known as the fastest "gun". He was sooo fast with his notes & they are all in perfect time, loud & clear. Pretty good voice too. His band was real good & could keep up with him which wasn't easy. lol
This looks like the clip was taken from that actual Woodstock movie with the split screen and all. The other video of Alvin in Woodstock is not like this and is shorter!
may be the most iconic moment in rock history!!!...alvin lee and ten years after...never got the full credit they deserve...they have a lifetime of fabulous music on records and live!!
If you want to hear Alvin Lee really turn that guitar loose, give a listen to Help Me from the Live At The Fillmore East album. It's long...Alvin busts out a 9 minute solo. Nine freaking minutes! Also, big props to Leo Lyons, the most entertaining bassist I've ever seen, and I've seen a lot of them.
12:28 when he drops his hand to solo with the high notes is an amazing transition and display of ear & dexterity, for me. To write that is one thing, but to play it flawlessly live in front of thousands and cameras is another.
Using his right hand almost in a hard rhythm playing style and maintaining accuracy and clarity of the solos (riffs) must have also been some serious muting skills.
The bassist is phenomenal as well... seen few in my ancient life with faster hands. They show more of him in the song "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl".
I've been blessed in that I got to shake his hand when he performed at a small bar in Berkley, Cali when I lived there in the 80's. He was just as amazing then and had this same guitar.. covered in clear over the peace signs :)
Alvin was and still is my favorite guitarist of ALL TIME,and Ten Years After is my favorite Blues-Rock Band of ALL TIME. Saw the Original TYA 6 times and Alvin 4 times without TYA.. The first time I saw TYA was on 04/04/1970. Stone The Crows was the opening act. It was at the Capitol Theater in Portchester NY. Scott Muni the LEGENDARY DJ OF WNEW-FM INTRODUCED THEM. I still remember it like it was yesterday. His last line was. " Here They Are The Group That Tore Up WOODSTOCK TEN YEARS AFTER. WOW. From that night till now Alvin and TYA ARE STILL MY FAVORITES. We had orchestra seats. Only $5.50. Still have most of my concert ticket STUBS. Every time I drive home from Pennsylvania to the Bronx NYC I ALWAYS PLAY THE LIVE AT THE FILLMORE EAST CD. A GREAT WAY TO DRIVE HOME.
I saw Ten Years After twice. Once in the early 70's and again in the late 90's. They lost nothing & were still rockin hard. Alvin was one of the best ever.
Live in front of 1 million people. Ten years after was one of the best acts at Woodstock. Harry you should give a reaction to I’D LOVETO CGANGE THE WORLD by these guys simply awesome song
Ten Years After at Woodstock sent me to another place, when I watched Woodstock way back: my favs were of course TYA, & Santana, Janis J, Jimi H, Canned Heat & on and on 😆🎶☮️😻💕 I think I should spend the rest of my evening watching Woodstock. I wish I could have been there, ( but that crowd was so big, claustrophobic!! If I had I would have been in heaven listening to these fantastic musicians & singers 😎 thankfully it was recorded ☮️💗 ** I have to play Goin Home at least once a week, this is the song at Woodstock that I would have died for !!❤️🔥💎🎸🥁🎸🎼
At the end of that performance someone rolled a watermelon 🍉 up on stage. Alvin Lee picked it up, put it on his shoulder and walked off stage to enjoy! One of the best bands at Woodstock. Thanks Harri!
This was the closing song of a two-hour show, if you can believe they still had this much energy. Thanks for playing the whole performance. Too many reaction sites only play the 6-minute clip. I agree that this has got to be one of the top ten all-time great live performances.
2:17 the master's touch is evident in that last note he scratched to make the final riff int he series a little different than the others. The little things he does with sound. I listened to him a lot in the '70s. I read that he took his guitar to school, because he knew that's what he wanted to do in life, but they wouldn't let him after a while; so, he cut off a guitar neck and put it in his book bag and practiced chords without looking under his desk. That's a real love of the instrument. His ear was amazing and he had the finger-dexterity of champion typist.
Hi Harri; everyone was so off their head and running hours late, it's a wonder anyone could string a song together! Everyone kept forgetting the password to get backstage so they changed it to "I forget"!! Love peace and flying guitar fingers to you. xx
this is amazing and I've loved it for decades. Aside from the pace and skill the way he weaves about a dozen different songs into there is amazing. The bass player is great too
Tried learning to jam with this years ago, took the doctor days to get my fingers untangled, lolllllll 😂🤣 Alvin was a shredder, no doubt! Thanks Harri, good stuff on your channel! Cheers 🥂😁
Harri, you have to watch the entire Woodstock movie. You will love all of the music and get a better feel for the times. It contains some of the best live music ever recorded.
Harri! Do yourself and us a favor and take a couple of hours out your busy week and watch the documentary "Woodstock". It won multiple awards and will give you the best perspective of these times you'll get anywhere
This is the icing on the cake that was Woodstock. Many friends think that Alvin Lee is the greatest guitar player ever.....I think, maybe not the best, but one of them
One of my favorite live performance. Alvin Lee was passionate about his art and like guys like Rory Gallagher didnt seek out that commercial success. He left us much too soon.
Glad someone actually appreciates the skill. He's almost hard strumming the riffs, but maintaining accuracy and clarity of the notes. Can I add serious damping to your post.
Great reaction Harri. Alvin wears me out just watching him play this song. TYA was the first band to play after a long rain delay. They hit the stage just before 8:30pm on Sunday night and as you can tell by the crowd reaction, TYA was a huge hit.
There were many great one of a kind performances at Woodstock, and this was right up there. I watched the movie as a fan of Hendrix, The Who, CSN&Y, Janis Joplin, but had not seen 10 YA yet. This performance made me a fan. His solos, and hard playing blues style were near the top of concert, the whole band was great to keep up that pace for that long.I watched that movie every night for a week, just to make sure I appreciated it in it's entirety! I wasn't even 16 at the time movie was released. I married my boyfriend....a musician 2 years after Woodstock movie.
This was the performance which introduced me to TYA and I was hooked. My other favorite songs of theirs are "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl" and "50,000 Miles Beneath My Brain".
Alvin Lee was great rock/blues guitarist. Sadly he passé in 2013, at the age of 68. This was an iconic performance indeed. You should react to his biggest hit song, “I’d Love To Change aThe World”.
I am happy for you that you checked out this performance. I just mentioned it on your Santana video! :) TYA was a great band! That is their bestknown song, but they have other songs too, of course. It's also worth to check them out. For example the studio version of "i'd love to change the world" (but I don't know what to do! so I leave it up to you *sing).
600,000 People went crazy after Alvins speed fueled set it was fucking amazing WOODSTOCK was the end of the 60s and the beginning of the end of AMERICA ALL EMPIRES END and this was the begining of the end to what we have today
They were all 17 years old when they released their first album in 1967. This song does not exist in a studio recording and is only found in other live recordings (Undead LP 1968 & Recorded Live (2xLP 1973). This performance was never surpassed.
I'm So Glad Somebody Finally,Finally Did A Reaction To The Ten Years After Performance At Woodstock of There Song, I'm Going Home !! I Got To See Him Live ( only once ) in 1982 and He Was Fantastic !! R.I.P. Alvin Lee !!
![Couple First Reaction To - Ten Years After: I'm going home [Live]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/GmgSWZIBKMA/mqdefault.jpg)
260 beats to the minute they reckon he's playing at ! A master of his craft was Alvin, incredible. I never get tired of watching this Woodstock performance.
I'm 75 yrs old I have never heard another guitarist even come close to this kind of playing....There heart would explode trying to keep up.. Just a phenomenal player Alvin Lee was.
One of the most underrated guitar players and entertainers imo .For me him and Richie Havens were the best at woodstock
One of the best ever. Never got the credit he deserves.
Why does everyone think he is so underestimated? He played at Woodstock and is considered one of the greatest…
Alvin Lee was a PHENOMENAL guitarist who l think didn't get as much attention as he deserved. I'd put him up there with all the GREATS! Loved him! I was a BIG fan! ♥️🎼🎶🎵🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
I agree! He's one of the greatests!!
I also agree.
I could not agree more! Everything you said, I feel like a lot of us feel, and you said it very well!
You are so right …. He is in his own world here….he is definitely one of the all time greats
Interestingly he gets very little recognition for pioneering shredding.. he was doing it before they had a name for it.
Back in the day we would say; This is a trip, man!
Far Out! Groovy.
My favorite group in this concert. R.I.P. Alvin Lee ... greatest guitarist.
This has always been my favorite act from Woodstock, and there were many great acts.
😮 my first concert RI Auditorium 🤯@ 13 years old 😅
Santana ,Who ?
my favorite band of all time
It was one of the most iconic performances of time, energy electrified!!
There were numerous epic performances at Woodstock.. that's why it can never be duplicated.
I always absolutely loved Ten Years After. "I'd Love to Change the World" and "Love Like a Man" great guitar solos and vocals. These guys are phenomenal live and well produced albums. Overshadowed band who didn't get the recognition they should have.
I completely agree|
Nope Love to change the World was criminally wimpy!!! That album was probably their worse
Nothing we can do about the past, but in films like this, his legacy will live live on!
My list of favorites is longer than the paper it’s written on, and Alvin Lee appears more than one time!
His best solo's were done in "I can't keep from crying," I think, live at Winterland (1975); it's on YT and shows his hands a lot.
@@DexterHavenes, I can’t keep from crying is amazing. I can’t keep from watching ruclips.net/video/icWcaP0_L2o/видео.html it.
I was there in '69. Ten Years After had to come in by car and they came right by our car where we slept each night. Didn't know it was them until a guy in a Corvette stopped in the middle of the road, got out and said Ten Years After had to get through. To be honest we weren't really sure who they were. There were a lot of groups who performed at Woodstock who were relatively unknown before then, Santana being one of them. We had to ask a guy beside us who Santana was. Alvin Lee of TYA is one of my all time favourite guitarists. RIP.
Alvin Lee was known as the fastest guitarist alive in the late 60s and he doesn't get enough credit for his guitar skills Ten Years After never had any big hits on their albums but live they rocked as you can see here I got to see them live in 73 and they didn't disappoint
I got hooked on Alvin Lee and Ten Years After in 1968 and never heard anything like them. I’ve seen them live three times. Unforgettable!
You are so lucky !! I would have been in heaven seeing Ten Years After live 🎸🎸🎸☮️☮️☮️💎💎💎
O.M.G. Every time a video of this performance pops up on RUclips I have to watch it. I have seen this performance at least 100 times And my reaction is always the same. It is the best live performance that I have ever seen and probably ever will. I saw this band live twice in 1971 and have always considered Alvin Lee to be one of the most talented and dedicated rock/blues guitarists to have ever graced our musical world!
I was a teen in the late 60’s, a lead guitarist in a rock band. I spent many,many hours dissecting Alvin’s solo’s. I was addicted to fast picking and he was the king. Thank you Alvin Lee. Don Bernier
One of the best performances at Woodstock. Alvin Lee was one of the great guitarist way ahead of his time. He was shredding 20 years before others caught up to him.
exactly......van halen who??????
Alvin Lee, Peter Green and Rory Gallagher are the 3 most underrated musicians in history. Three souls made of pure blues, who were true to their roots without selling themselves to British fashion. Three exceptional guitarists who are already music legends.
I seen Alvin play this song live inGermany in 1972 and half of the audience was G I’s and the roof came down when they played this!
Rory wasn't underrated what the fuck you talking about?
@@RiverRat1953 here we go there's always that 1 guy. "I saw him perform in Germany in1971"..Fuck off Gerry.
@@stuwhyte479 what is your problem?
@@stuwhyte479 you have a very limited vocabulary!
Definitely the best single performance at Woodstock. As a side bar Harry, Alvin Lee was a neighbor of George Harrison and George played with Alvin on some of Alvin's solo albums. George played slide.
One of my all time favorite live performances and I'm old.
The common wisdom about the performances at Woodstock was that Alvin Lee and Ten Years After blew the other great bands off the stage. This performance put them on the rock map.
The great Alvin Lee! RIP! One of the top performances at Woodstock!
Alvin Lee stated in an interview that his adrenaline began kicking in when he looked up and realized there was half a million people in the audience in front of him.
Woodstock was performance after performance like this. Do some Richie Havens, or some Santana, or Sly and the Family Stone. There's a reason why it's still remembered.
Alvin Lee was known as the fastest guitarist in the west, it's sad TYA is one of the most underrated bands out there but he absolutely killed it!
Went to a concert at the Forum and saw Grand Funk Railroad as one of the opening act for 10 Years After. What a show!
I was there too
If you have Grand Funk Railroad open up a concert for you, you had to be good!
I am envious! wow!
The Forum 👍👍👍
Alvin Lee was an incredible guitarist. He was known as the fastest "gun". He was sooo fast with his notes & they are all in perfect time, loud & clear. Pretty good voice too. His band was real good & could keep up with him which wasn't easy. lol
I love Alvin. Yes he was fast, but he was accurate too.
Yes ACCURATE is the key...some people have said better than Hendrix because of both thee qualities!
This looks like the clip was taken from that actual Woodstock movie with the split screen and all. The other video of Alvin in Woodstock is not like this and is shorter!
Alvin Lee was a monster! The most fun I ever had at a concert. What a joy to hear/see him again. 🔥🔥🔥
may be the most iconic moment in rock history!!!...alvin lee and ten years after...never got the full credit they deserve...they have a lifetime of fabulous music on records and live!!
If you want to hear Alvin Lee really turn that guitar loose, give a listen to Help Me from the Live At The Fillmore East album. It's long...Alvin busts out a 9 minute solo. Nine freaking minutes!
Also, big props to Leo Lyons, the most entertaining bassist I've ever seen, and I've seen a lot of them.
I like "I Can't Keep Cryin' (Sometimes)" for Recorded Live better, but it also has a great version of "Help Me" too.
Leo lyons is nuts on that bass
Best version of Help Me.
Personally I find Help Me at the Marquee better.
Help me is awesome, Good morning little schoolgirl definitely creeps me out now though,it was a cool song in my teens...over 30 years ago ✌️
12:28 when he drops his hand to solo with the high notes is an amazing transition and display of ear & dexterity, for me. To write that is one thing, but to play it flawlessly live in front of thousands and cameras is another.
Using his right hand almost in a hard rhythm playing style and maintaining accuracy and clarity of the solos (riffs) must have also been some serious muting skills.
The bassist is phenomenal as well... seen few in my ancient life with faster hands. They show more of him in the song "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl".
I've been blessed in that I got to shake his hand when he performed at a small bar in Berkley, Cali when I lived there in the 80's. He was just as amazing then and had this same guitar.. covered in clear over the peace signs :)
Good to hear the original uncut version.
A phenomenal performance.
So many classic performances at Woodstock, of which, this is one! R.I.P. Alvin..
This is the best! Very under rated guitarist! Other guitarists knew how good he was!
Absolutely fabulous performance bar none 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
alvin lee and ten years after were in my top 3 at woodstock-just great
The best live performance of all time!!!
Nothing else even comes close
I once saw Ten Years after at a venue called Winterland in San Francisco he is mesmerizing
Alvin Lee was freaking phenomenal when I saw him as teen in early 80s dude is a stone cold Legend up there with Rory Gallagher & Jimi Hendrix
Alvin was and still is my favorite guitarist of ALL TIME,and Ten Years After is my favorite Blues-Rock Band of ALL TIME. Saw the Original TYA 6 times and Alvin 4 times without TYA.. The first time I saw TYA was on 04/04/1970. Stone The Crows was the opening act. It was at the Capitol Theater in Portchester NY.
Scott Muni the LEGENDARY DJ OF WNEW-FM INTRODUCED THEM. I still remember it like it was yesterday. His last line was. " Here They Are The Group That Tore Up WOODSTOCK TEN YEARS AFTER. WOW. From that night till now Alvin and TYA ARE STILL MY FAVORITES. We had orchestra seats. Only $5.50. Still have most of my concert ticket STUBS. Every time I drive home from Pennsylvania to the Bronx NYC I ALWAYS PLAY THE LIVE AT THE FILLMORE EAST CD. A GREAT WAY TO DRIVE HOME.
I saw them many many times. I saw Alvin solo at least four times. He always brought down the house!!!
He fascinated me since 70's when I was young. Filed long plays. Awesome live videos, incredible guitarrist, great works. Greetings form Argentina.
I saw Ten Years After twice. Once in the early 70's and again in the late 90's. They lost nothing & were still rockin hard. Alvin was one of the best ever.
Thank you Harri and Uncle phil. This is probably my favorite performance woodstock. Always fun to hear
He was one of a kind. Incredible speed.
Epic performance
They played at a lot of pop festivals and were always AWESOME!!!!
Was lucky enough to see him with Terry Reid and the Bar-Kays at Fillmore West. Got grounded for a month for staying out past my curfew. Worth it.
You gotta fight for your right to party! ... "Beastie Boys"
Wow..damn right lucky. Definitely worth a groundin', a beatin', whatever. That had to be awesome.
Live in front of 1 million people. Ten years after was one of the best acts at Woodstock. Harry you should give a reaction to I’D LOVETO CGANGE THE WORLD by these guys simply awesome song
500,000.
Ten Years After at Woodstock sent me to another place, when I watched Woodstock way back: my favs were of course TYA, & Santana, Janis J, Jimi H, Canned Heat & on and on 😆🎶☮️😻💕 I think I should spend the rest of my evening watching Woodstock. I wish I could have been there, ( but that crowd was so big, claustrophobic!! If I had I would have been in heaven listening to these fantastic musicians & singers 😎 thankfully it was recorded ☮️💗
** I have to play Goin Home at least once a week, this is the song at Woodstock that I would have died for !!❤️🔥💎🎸🥁🎸🎼
Until Woodstock,there hadn't been so many people to a concert of this size...everybody played their hearts out....Ty Harri
At the end of that performance someone rolled a watermelon 🍉 up on stage. Alvin Lee picked it up, put it on his shoulder and walked off stage to enjoy! One of the best bands at Woodstock.
Thanks Harri!
His energy could have powered all the amps there!! Epic!
incredible performance by an incredible guitarist /band. R.I.P. Alvin Lee one of the all time greats.
Alvin Lee incredible!!! So underrated!! RIP Alvin! Ten years after awesome!! Enjoy and he best music ever!!❤️
Alvin Lee was one of my favourite guitarists when I was growing up - unbelievable playing.
This was the closing song of a two-hour show, if you can believe they still had this much energy. Thanks for playing the whole performance. Too many reaction sites only play the 6-minute clip. I agree that this has got to be one of the top ten all-time great live performances.
Alvin did heartbreaking blues also. The Bluest Blues feat. George Harrison. Probably the best blues rock song (and instrumental) of all time.
I had the great pleasure of seeing Alvin Lee perform in person twice. Once on a big stage, and once in a bar. Dude could wail.
2:17 the master's touch is evident in that last note he scratched to make the final riff int he series a little different than the others. The little things he does with sound. I listened to him a lot in the '70s. I read that he took his guitar to school, because he knew that's what he wanted to do in life, but they wouldn't let him after a while; so, he cut off a guitar neck and put it in his book bag and practiced chords without looking under his desk. That's a real love of the instrument. His ear was amazing and he had the finger-dexterity of champion typist.
Best concert I have ever seen was TYA in Tempe Arizona 1974, Alvin did a 45 min solo and made every sound you can imagine come out of his guitar!
Hi Harri; everyone was so off their head and running hours late, it's a wonder anyone could string a song together! Everyone kept forgetting the password to get backstage so they changed it to "I forget"!! Love peace and flying guitar fingers to you. xx
"What We Have In Mind Is Breakfast In Bed For 400,000".....Woodstock Quote from "Wavy Gravy" .
“I forget”. Hahaha. That’s funny.
They were so good!!
this is amazing and I've loved it for decades. Aside from the pace and skill the way he weaves about a dozen different songs into there is amazing. The bass player is great too
Saw them whenever they came to town. Truly a sensational band. Yes, I was sitting in front of the stage that night/morning, glazed.
Saw them twice in concert back in the 70’s and was not disappointed once. Always loved them.
Alvin Lee and the band were all from England.
Tried learning to jam with this years ago, took the doctor days to get my fingers untangled, lolllllll 😂🤣 Alvin was a shredder, no doubt! Thanks Harri, good stuff on your channel! Cheers 🥂😁
Harri, you have to watch the entire Woodstock movie. You will love all of the music and get a better feel for the times. It contains some of the best live music ever recorded.
Harri! Do yourself and us a favor and take a couple of hours out your busy week and watch the documentary "Woodstock". It won multiple awards and will give you the best perspective of these times you'll get anywhere
Absolutely
most underrated band ever....
This is the icing on the cake that was Woodstock. Many friends think that Alvin Lee is the greatest guitar player ever.....I think, maybe not the best, but one of them
No, he was the best. He could play anything anyone else could at twice or three times the speed. Of course he could play slow stuff too.
I agree with your friends! Alvin's best and play just about anything any style over the course of his long career.
He had 500,000 people in the palm of his hand! ✌️❤️🎸😎
One of my favorite live performance. Alvin Lee was passionate about his art and like guys like Rory Gallagher didnt seek out that commercial success. He left us much too soon.
🎸🎼🎧💓Thank you Harry for sharing your feelings with us
ALVIN LEE ok! c'est magnifique ! un classique .....
Uncle Phil is kicking arse....
His timing and string bending is just amazing.
Glad someone actually appreciates the skill. He's almost hard strumming the riffs, but maintaining accuracy and clarity of the notes. Can I add serious damping to your post.
One of my favourite guitar player! He was great! And you're right he was really fast!
Great reaction Harri. Alvin wears me out just watching him play this song. TYA was the first band to play after a long rain delay. They hit the stage just before 8:30pm on Sunday night and as you can tell by the crowd reaction, TYA was a huge hit.
One of top performances at Woodstock!!! Santana certainly is another!!!🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸
Agreed, SOUL SACRIFICE and GOING HOME were two epic performances. Alvin Lee was totally underated and 20 yrs ahead of the rest. R. I. P.
Easily one of the Top 10 Guitarists of all time.
But word is offstage Alvin Lee was a cool guy, which also counts for something.
Ten Years After, (Alvin Lee), was absolutely the top act at Woodstock, followed by Soul Sacrifice from Santana
There were many great one of a kind performances at Woodstock, and this was right up there. I watched the movie as a fan of Hendrix, The Who,
CSN&Y, Janis Joplin, but had not seen 10 YA yet. This performance made me a fan.
His solos, and hard playing blues style were near the top
of concert, the whole band
was great to keep up that pace
for that long.I watched that movie every night for a week, just to make sure I appreciated
it in it's entirety! I wasn't even 16 at the time movie was released. I married my boyfriend....a musician 2 years after Woodstock movie.
Are you still married to Him ?
He was rated as one of the top ten fastest guitarist in his day .
THE FASTEST. And I have never seen anyone yet who can compete with him.
Agreed he was fast, but it's the accuracy and clarity of the riffs at that speed in this particular number that impresses me.
Ten Years After was the first concert I ever attended in 1970 and 50 years later it's still my favorite
The bass player is one bad ass.
This was the performance which introduced me to TYA and I was hooked. My other favorite songs of theirs are "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl" and "50,000 Miles Beneath My Brain".
Check out Melanie "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)" which she wrote and sang after her inspired performance at Woodstock.
Alvin Lee was great rock/blues guitarist. Sadly he passé in 2013, at the age of 68. This was an iconic performance indeed. You should react to his biggest hit song, “I’d Love To Change aThe World”.
Great live music
I haven't listened to this song in 30 years. Thanks for bringing it back to my attention.
Alvin gave THE performance of the 60's at Woodstock.
Thank you for the good music! Best songs from Ten Years After: Help me and I'd Love to Change the World
I am happy for you that you checked out this performance. I just mentioned it on your Santana video! :)
TYA was a great band! That is their bestknown song, but they have other songs too, of course. It's also worth to check them out. For example the studio version of "i'd love to change the world" (but I don't know what to do! so I leave it up to you *sing).
600,000 People went crazy after Alvins speed fueled set it was fucking amazing WOODSTOCK was the end of the 60s and the beginning of the end of AMERICA ALL EMPIRES END and this was the begining of the end to what we have today
They were all 17 years old when they released their first album in 1967. This song does not exist in a studio recording and is only found in other live recordings (Undead LP 1968 & Recorded Live (2xLP 1973). This performance was never surpassed.
I'm So Glad Somebody Finally,Finally Did A Reaction To The Ten Years After Performance At Woodstock of There Song, I'm Going Home !! I Got To See Him Live ( only once ) in 1982 and He Was Fantastic !! R.I.P. Alvin Lee !!