The fact that Ten Years After isn't in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a joke and a travesty. They should be in based on their performance at Woodstock alone. The double live album "recorded live" is easily one of the best live Rock and Roll albums of all time. Alvin Lee is probably the most underrated guitarist of all time. I can listen to Ten Years After anytime. "Slow Blues in C" is an absolute blues gem. Ten Years After will remain on my playlist forever. Rock On!
100% agree...you said it all im 70, to me hendrix is my 1A and alvin lee is 1B....always infuriated me that lee is not considered when talking of the greats of all time...
@@robertlavorna2968 RRHOF is VERY biased against "old school" Euro rock bands like Ten Years After, Peter Frampton. Foghat, Rory Gallagher, Uriah Heep, UFO and Scorpions.
the RR hall of shame is a shamble. Just call it RRHall of shambles. Of course they won't select TYA. I agree about the Recorded Live album - truly a monster live album. The lead guitar riff on Good Morning Little School Girl was incredible. So smooth, so fluid, so difficult do play like Alvin. My favorite is I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes.
@@admiralbenbow5083 Agh you are so lucky ...What a well rounded band. So many wonderful memories...Leo is still cruizing the countryside with his band..Ad Be Jam on..!
Many years ago I heard a story about a little old lady who regularly bought guitar strings from a music shop in Nottingham. After a while, one of the shop staff got curious about why an old lady was buying top grade strings for an electric guitar, so he asked her. She replied that they weren't for her, but for her grandson - the grandson was Alvin Lee !
@@olvinyldude It originally came from one of my old school mates who went to Nottingham university around 1972, used the same music shop, and was told by one of the staff.
They meant a lot to me too in my teen years. Haven't grown out of them yet. Very few bands could generate the excitement, energy and heat like TYA. Alvin could destroy the stage when he turned the wick up. The albums began to suffer in the 70s when they were constantly touring but the early Deram recordings are essential.
Alberto, Rolling stone magazine did a 100 top guitarist, i first looked at the top ten, no alvin, ok he must be in the next ten, nope! The next? Nope, he wasn't even listed! Underrated? Ill say!
I was fortunate enough to see Alvin Lee live in Vancouver around 1975. He was touring with Johnny Winter and both played that night in the Pacific Coliseum. Needles to say, Alvin stole the show!
You didn't mention "Shhhh" which for some reason remains my favorite LP. It was released summer 1969 before "Cricklewood Green" and on the basis of that went to see them at Fillmore East fall 1969. On the bill with them was a great band: The Flock. I immediately went out and bought their debut LP. Liner notes were provided by John Mayall. Jerry Goodman, the electric violinist and part time guitarist, went on to The Mahavishnu Orchestra. What a great time to be alive.
Wow, you go way back!!! I caught their tours in 72, 74 in Chicago's Intl. Amphitheatre, and then 2 shows in the same week in 1997 at the House of Blues!!!! I saw Alvin meandering around the lobby before the 2nd show, and chatted with him for a bit, telling him we drove 2 hours to see them, and had been fans for 30+ years!!!!!!!!
You know me being a guitar player had to watch his fingers to learn so that was just amazing.Shhhh ...Anything they did was just amazing.I bet you have some cool stories and memories.So happy for you...jam on.
I got to see TYA three times during my college years back in NY. Twice on Long Island and on once at Madison Square Garden. As a side note their opening act was an unknown group from Texas, ZZ Top. Anyway, unless you saw them live, its hard to explain how powerful and dynamic a band they were. I feel that Alvin Lee never got the credit for how good he was. Being a guitarist myself, I can say in all honesty that his influence on me, at the time, was as great and lasting as was Hendrix, Clapton & Page. RIP Alvin Lee.
You do a fantastic job with these videos. I was a touring drummer for ten years and worked with many oldies groups who were on the way down. These videos bring back so many beautiful memories of being young and full of life. Thanks for giving so much of yourself and taking the time to do these. Thanks again bill feilhauer
Hey Bill. That's awesome that you got to gig with the band and others during that time. What was the experience like? What were some of the other bands you toured with? Hope you don't mind me asking. Thanks a bunch in advance!
Had the pleasure of seeing them live in concert as Alvin Lee and Ten Years After. Opening for Ted Nugent was Alvin Lee and Ten Years Later. Blew the house up! Alvin Lee RIP
I kid you not Leo lives just up the road from me in a suburb of Cardiff, UK! My Wife, who was working in the local post office at the time, discovered this and got him to sign one of my TYA albums for my birthday. It was only a month or so ago I had a chat with him outside his house. What a life he has led, I would love to sit down with him for a longer chat one day but I sense he doesn’t enjoy talking about his past that much, which is understandable as I am sure he has been waylaid by plenty of fans like me. What a crazy world.
Thank you so very, very much for making this and allowing the world to see it. As a guitarist/singer myself, I loved them. I have every commercially released record and a couple of boots. It's a curiosity that Alvin was rarely, if ever, given his due.
I saw them in the UK for the first time a week after Woodstock, at the Marquee National Jazz & Blues Festival. Saw them several times at the Marquee club itself later. Great live band.
Huge fan of Ten Years After,I have all their albums..saw Alvin in 1974 And again in 89...in 74 it was TYA,later as a solo with backup band, great shows, his album with Mylon is fantastic.
You failed to mention their most influential album - “Shhh” some of their best works - “Good Morning Little School Girl & The Stomp” not to forget “If you should love me”
One of my favorite live songs is "I'm Going home". It just doesn't get any more jamming than that. You can tell when a band is really getting into it and they were having a blast. Thanks Alvin and the rest of 10 Years After for the wonderful good times I've had playing that song. RIP Alvin.
I was a lucky fella when I was writing a song, Alvin Lee rang me to say he will help on it!. I was completely star struck as I was a big fan of his guitar playing!. I couldn't believe I was talking to my idol!!. Thank you Alvin. R. I. P.
Huh? I'm 66, in my American high school, everyone I knew including myself owned ten years after albums. In fact many years later, the first time I went to my future husbands house I discovered ten years after in his music collection and I knew he was the one! Alvin Lee was highly regarded here and the years after where very popular 🎸
Thanks for taking the time and trouble in putting this together, as you can see by the responses Alvin Lee's and TYA's legacy remains fresh in many minds.
another great video! Ten Years After were one of my favorites growing up and I got to see Alvin Lee when he opened for the Kinks in Washington, 1980. Thank you for the memories!
I managed to see Alvin Lee during the 10 years later stage of his career! He was an amazing guitar player who today is underrated and mostly unknown! Very sad!
I saw the ten years later band in NY State sometime in the late 70's or early 80's. Blue Oyster Cult was there also. I think there were 2 other bands er maybe not, I was pretty wrecked when BOC played "Cities on Flame" my God the air was pounding so hard..it was an AMAZING show. I can't even remember where in NY it was but I do remember being there with an ole friend named Roy and this other guy Larue who asked us to all go, I do believe there were like 5 of us, idk. It was a really Amazing night, I'll never forget./// Hey, Roy if you catch this, drop me a line sometime, you know where and who I am. That said, I never meant to hurt you, EVER! I'm entitled to a mistake now and then...a human, FFS. But what you did to me was far more devastating and hurtful then anything I could have possibly EVER done to you or anyone, to be honest. Aww, F it you'll never see this anyway. How could you throw me away? Don't worry, I'm not looking for you. I am however very hurt. Such is life, I guess.
Very interesting video about one of my absolute favorites Alvin Lee and Ten Years After!!! Love his I'm Going Home n Good Morning Little School Girl style, and I 'd Love To Change The World is of course, one of the best Revolution era songs!!! Thanks for the awesome band history!!!
I loved this band. I was lucky enough to see them play in Seattle in a pretty small theater called the Paramount and it was one hell of a concert. Ten Years after really out shined the show in Woodstock ... I got most of their music on computer and I think my favorite album was the recorded live. Alvin Lee was one hell of a guitar player.
After the passing of Hendrix, Johnny Winter and Alvin Lee became my favorite axe men. They were both multi-dimensional by the fact that they could play as well as sing.
Alvin Lee and Ten Years After just kicked butt ! I had heard along time ago that Alvin Lee was the fastest guitar player of them all.Don't know if that's true but that is what I had heard.
"Goin' Home" (Woodstock) is just over-the-top rockin'. Alvin just set fire to the air with that song. Fuckin' awesome. Alvin is one of the greats and deserves more recognition than he's gotten.
I saw them in Nottingham as the Jaybirds. Later to become Alvin Lee was an amazing guitarist even then. He also loved Buddy Holly and played “That’ll be the day” when I saw them. Also he played through a home made amplifier that his dad had made!
me too, I was in a band in Nottingham, Whichwhat, worked with the Jaybirds lots, Coop hall etc. Graham Barnes was alvins real name. From Wollaton, me, from Radford just down the street. Too fast a guitar style for me, Clapton, Pete Green was my favourite, but he was great though. R.I.P. Gray.
@@johnbednall4465 And Tony and the Veritones,Sons and Lovers and I’m sure many others. Remember the night the entire Brian Epstein stable ALL played the Coop- Beatles, Gerry, Cilla, Billy J Kramer plus more. All on the cusp of mega fame!! Probably 5/- tickets. Haha
@@johnknott6539 John, I was there to see that show it was 10 bob, and the Beatles opened their set with twist and shout.what memories.pity we can't go back.take care.
Talkin bout my generation!!! I always thought Alvin Lee's Guitar in "I'd love to change the world" was the best. I still play it on my Smart phone and Laptop. Excellent report. Thanks Millions.
Yes performance at Woodstock was awesome. Never got to see 10 years after live but did see 10 years later in 1978 at The Warehouse New Orleans. Alvin and the band were on fire that night, great show. And when he played Jimi Hendrix hey Joe, you would have swore he was channeling Jimi Hendrix it was great.
Hi, great update on Ten Years After. I was at their San Diego Sports Arena concert in late 1970 ( maybe early 1971. And the part omitted was a show in Portland, Oregon. Billed, I believe, as Alvin Lee and Company. Wasn't an album released with that same title? Seems like I owned it at one time. They were the best Goddamn Band in my humble opinion and when Alvin passed, it was a very sad day for me. Still play all their albums and youngsters come up to me to find out who is just killing it. John F. Cooper III
I'm 69 and in early 70's saw these guys twice open for huge bands of the time. Funny I can't remember the names of the headliners but that just tells me how great TYA were you know. I'd love to change the world, but I don't know what to do, so I'll leave it up to you. How prophetic in this day and age. Timeless music.
I'm almost 80 and just finding out about Alvin Lee. I've known about Albert Lee for years and years and was once in the same room with him. "Ten Years After" sounded a lot like the Beatles but I was listening to them yesterday and thought, that's not George or even Eric Clapton playing the lead on " I'd like to save the world" So I had to find out. A great guitarist that never got proper recognition. I was a Santana & Hendrix guy during the "Woodstock" days.
Went to see Ten Years After this August in my hometown. It looked a bit like assisted living on stage, but man, let me tel ya, they rocked the place hard. I don't know how it compares to the original line-up, but those tickets were not wasted.
*** I had to go back & check...Yes... I put up "Let The Sky Fall" in QUAD... it is amazing performance ! ! ! Just incredible listen, I think I will put up a few more, now !
Great video, 1st time I heard the live version of I'm going home, I was in my neighbors garage helping his older brother work on his hot rod, man, that screaming guitar was great.. I thought the radio was going to blow up... I made $5 dollars cutting grass, I bought the album a few days later .. rip. Alvin🎸
Saw them many times. One time in particular at the Palladium-Super Guitar Night-First came Mountain, then Johnny Winter, but they saved Ten Years After for last!
Saw them in Hawaii 1972 , Alvin was in a bad mood , played 3 songs and left the stage after throwing a harmonica at the speaker , Eagles opened for them , yeah long time ago
I was fortunate enough to see Ten Years After in 1970 at the Boston Tea Party and then a few months later at Harvard Stadium in Cambridge with Delaney and Bonnie as the openers.At that time they were easily right up there with the greatest bands of the day and always put on a great show.Alvin Lee and Rory Gallagher are two of the greatest guitar players ever and never got their due.I don't think they're even in the R&R Hall of Fame.
I was fortunate to see Jimi Hendrix twice and Rory a few times.Along with Beck,Page and Clapton.They were all the best of the best.IMHO. @@the-hollywood-dog-says-6072
While I'd Love to Change the World made it to the radio, and was a 70s mantra, Let the Sky Fall is by far my favorite song on the album with Once there was a Time, and Hard Monkeys a close second!!!!!!!!
Saw them several times in the 70's Filmore West with Cactus and some other band. Winterland, with Grootna and Toe Fat, Stockton CA., Sacramento. I remember Slade. Wait a sec, no, no I don't. Leo was one of the best bass players I've ever seen or heard. Rick Lee was one of the best drummers I've ever seen or heard. Spoke to Alvin a couple of times. Nice guy. Alvin was a heavy smoker like Tom Petty and Greg Lake. All three died suddenly at age 68. A Space in Time earned a spot on my All Time Top Ten Favorite Albums Alvin taught me how to play the guitar, for which I am eternally grateful. "If I don't get to heaven, then I'll go down there below. Better be a guitar when I get there or I will refuse to go" Never Sell My Guitar (Never did, Alvin, still have it 50 years after)
You forgot SSSHHHH (sp). Good Morning Little School Girl. This was first for me. Woodstock, the performance that launched hundreds (Thousands?) of guitar players....one was a friend...ha, better player than me. As much as i dug Alvin he was sorta 'patterny' to me which is to say almost every solo would wind up with the same licks. Heck, he even admitted to this a few years before his passing in an interview. Sig lines. He was still great. It was Alvin Lee !!! Glad for that.
You didn't mention the album Watt. It had some great songs on it. I said yeah. She lies in morning. Gonna run. Their catalog is deeper than "I'd love to change the world" . They were a very versatile blues band.
I loved the London Session of Jeryy Lee (RIP) and many younger supertalents! Probably the best record Jerry Lee ever made. Beating even his Starclub live record. To me ain't going home live at Woodstock was unbelievable! Only Carlos Santana and Jimmy Hendrix did performances of similar quality. In the late Seventies I used to visit a great club in Switzerland. The last record the DJ put on was always the Woodstock version of "Ain't going home". After dancing like crazy I nearly had to crawl out of the place sweaty and exhausted. This was always the highlight of the entire evening. Even during a snowstorm I was so hot that I I never felt cold wearing only a T-shirt. Once I saw Ten Years After live about 20 years ago. Without Alvin Lee it was not the same anymore.
From the very first-time hearing TYA, Alvin was and still is my favorite guitarist. I seen them in St Petersburg Fl just before going in the Air Force in 1974. Stood two rows from the stage just to the right of center. All I could hear for two days in my right ear was Alvin rippppping the strings. If I had a nickel for every time I listened to the Live At The Filmore album, I would have retired by the time I was 20.
I was fortunate enough to see them in London in 1973 at the Alexander Palace. Good morning little school girl was the standout song at the time and Alvin played it loud. We were sort of stuck right in front of a speaker stack near the stage and I think to this day it's why now I have to wear hearing aids. Nothing to do with old age of course. 🇦🇺
A very clever last sentence. But when I was a stand-in DJ at Michigan State Univ. in 1974, Good Morning Little School Girl was a go-to song for me. I mean this with all good intentions, sounds like you are an old fart like me.
Sometime in the early 90's we were over in Belgium staying with friends, on the saturday night we went to a free festival in Leuven, Market Rock. Ten years after were headlining in the main town square. They absolutely blew the place away. One of the best gigs i ever saw.
I saw TYA 3 times & TYL once during Jefferson Starship's Earth album tour. I have about 10 of the albums most without a scratch. There's the album The Cap Ferret Sessions from about 1972 and mixed in 2017.
Alvin Lee also made an album for Miles Copeland's No Speak record label, a label that made instrumental guitar albums from a plethora of famous guitarists, and also sponsored the Night of the Guitar tour, featuring many of those guitarists and there was also an album and video released from the tour
An incredible band; each player a virtuoso on their instrument, swinging from jazzy to heavy electric blues and rock 'n roll. Never forget listening to Rock and Roll Music to the World, and the more acoustic, reflective A Space in Time. Then later discovering Undead; the guys so young, a Maserati right out of the gate, already. Desert Island discs for sure.
I saw them at a Warehouse, in Nawlins, they Blew me away, then I saw them in Woodstock, I saw them again at a Warehouse, I went to the record store and bought a few sides, they were Phenomenal, jűs sāyīn !😎✌😎!
Saw TYA at a small club here in Plymouth UK...New Year 1968-69....Brilliant..!!...Later problems came from Alvin Lee..continually leaving to persue solo projects...none of which took off...we heard they were invited to do Woodstock 2....but Alvin Lee apparently wanted too much of the money..!!!!..This story came from the bass player and drummer who came to Plymouth backing Love Affair..couple of years later...!!!!
Alvin Lee is one of the most underrated guitarists of all time. RIP.
The fact that Ten Years After isn't in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a joke and a travesty. They should be in based on their performance at Woodstock alone. The double live album "recorded live" is easily one of the best live Rock and Roll albums of all time. Alvin Lee is probably the most underrated guitarist of all time. I can listen to Ten Years After anytime. "Slow Blues in C" is an absolute blues gem. Ten Years After will remain on my playlist forever. Rock On!
100% agree...you said it all im 70, to me hendrix is my 1A and alvin lee is 1B....always infuriated me that lee is not considered when talking of the greats of all time...
@@robertlavorna2968 RRHOF is VERY biased against "old school" Euro rock bands like Ten Years After, Peter Frampton. Foghat, Rory Gallagher, Uriah Heep, UFO and Scorpions.
the RR hall of shame is a shamble. Just call it RRHall of shambles. Of course they won't select TYA. I agree about the Recorded Live album - truly a monster live album. The lead guitar riff on Good Morning Little School Girl was incredible. So smooth, so fluid, so difficult do play like Alvin. My favorite is I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes.
I totally agree with everything you said.
I totally agree with you about the above statement. My ten years after album of choice. Crickel wood green
Their Woodstock performance was epic. Good band.
The Watermelon...the highpoint of Woodstock!
Lee was so off his face he couldnt remember being there!
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Agh you are so lucky ...What a well rounded band. So many wonderful memories...Leo is still cruizing the countryside with his band..Ad Be Jam on..!
...saw them at Mountford Hall not long after love like a man, they opened with it to avoid it as an encore.
Suppose you were there right 😏
Many years ago I heard a story about a little old lady who regularly bought guitar strings from a music shop in Nottingham.
After a while, one of the shop staff got curious about why an old lady was buying top grade strings for an electric guitar, so he asked her. She replied that they weren't for her, but for her grandson - the grandson was Alvin Lee !
That must have been Ol' Lady Barnes!!!!!!!
WOW AWESOME. 👌
Imagine she had been building egg slicers , on which little Alvin then played his melodies. 🤟🤩
LOL..That is a great story!
@@olvinyldude It originally came from one of my old school mates who went to Nottingham university around 1972, used the same music shop, and was told by one of the staff.
Thank you, Alvin, Ric, Leo, and Chick. Your band changed my life.
Me too!! I went straight to Blues and never looked back
They meant a lot to me too in my teen years. Haven't grown out of them yet. Very few bands could generate the excitement, energy and heat like TYA. Alvin could destroy the stage when he turned the wick up. The albums began to suffer in the 70s when they were constantly touring but the early Deram recordings are essential.
Saw them in San Francisco in the fall of 1972. They will always be the best concert I went to
Great band..."I'd love to change the world" is a rock anthem...Alvin Lee was the fastest and flashiest guitar player back in Woodstock.
Yes indeed ! I have that album in QUAD, and just unbelieveable, the sound... I crank it quite often!
agree, everything they credit van halen for, alvin lee did 10-15 yrs. earlier....how about .....help me....live at the fillmore in 1970......
Alvin Lee was an amazing guitar player. Unfortunalely, very underrated.
Alberto, Rolling stone magazine did a 100 top guitarist, i first looked at the top ten, no alvin, ok he must be in the next ten, nope! The next? Nope, he wasn't even listed! Underrated? Ill say!
@@shivasirons6159 No Roy Buchanan, no Robert Fripp, it's a terrible list.
Leo was a damned fine bassist too.
@@billd9667 Totally unique!
@@billd9667 I love the feel of the rhythm section, like a dog tugging at the leash while Alvin holds them in control.
I was fortunate enough to see Alvin Lee live in Vancouver around 1975. He was touring with Johnny Winter and both played that night in the Pacific Coliseum. Needles to say, Alvin stole the show!
I saw Ten Years After in 1972 (Boutwell Auditorium, Birmingham, AL). Just a phenomenal show.
Alvin Lee and Ten Years After were a great band ‼️👍 Without Alvin Lee, there is no Ten Years After ‼️
Their entire catalog is amazing.
Alvin was great. I saw him in Miami back in around 1974 I think it was. Thank You for posting this. Yes, the Woodstock performance was epic.
Alvin Lee was just a incredible guitarist
You didn't mention "Shhhh" which for some reason remains my favorite LP. It was released summer 1969 before "Cricklewood Green" and on the basis of that went to see them at Fillmore East fall 1969. On the bill with them was a great band: The Flock. I immediately went out and bought their debut LP. Liner notes were provided by John Mayall. Jerry Goodman, the electric violinist and part time guitarist, went on to The Mahavishnu Orchestra. What a great time to be alive.
Wow, you go way back!!! I caught their tours in 72, 74 in Chicago's Intl. Amphitheatre, and then 2 shows in the same week in 1997 at the House of Blues!!!! I saw Alvin meandering around the lobby before the 2nd show, and chatted with him for a bit, telling him we drove 2 hours to see them, and had been fans for 30+ years!!!!!!!!
Saw The Flock twice at various clubs back then, too!!!!! Great band!!!
Loved The Flock, especially Clown. The next album, however, disappointed. But what sound they had when they were in the groove!
Mine too
You know me being a guitar player
had to watch his fingers to learn so that was just amazing.Shhhh ...Anything they did was just amazing.I bet you have some cool stories and memories.So happy for you...jam on.
I got to see TYA three times during my college years back in NY. Twice on Long Island and on once at Madison Square Garden. As a side note their opening act was an unknown group from Texas, ZZ Top. Anyway, unless you saw them live, its hard to explain how powerful and dynamic a band they were. I feel that Alvin Lee never got the credit for how good he was. Being a guitarist myself, I can say in all honesty that his influence on me, at the time, was as great and lasting as was Hendrix, Clapton & Page. RIP Alvin Lee.
Saw "Ten Years After' after in Winnipeg Canada in 1971 at the Winnipeg Arena which has long since been torn down,
Once Alvin Lee passed that ended 10 years after.
Thanks. Alvin Lee was amazing. One of the best bands of all time.
I was such a Ten Years After fan in the late '60s that we named our teenage cover band Stonehenge
You do a fantastic job with these videos. I was a touring drummer for ten years and worked with many oldies groups who were on the way down. These videos bring back so many beautiful memories of being young and full of life. Thanks for giving so much of yourself and taking the time to do these. Thanks again bill feilhauer
Hey Bill. That's awesome that you got to gig with the band and others during that time. What was the experience like? What were some of the other bands you toured with? Hope you don't mind me asking. Thanks a bunch in advance!
Yes bill , that's great! I too would like to know some other bands you played with?
I tell the truth
I ain't no star
I only shout
And leave the rest to my guitar. Thank you Alvin Lee and TYA . Legends
one of my fave Alvin lines.
Had the pleasure of seeing them live in concert as Alvin Lee and Ten Years After. Opening for Ted Nugent was Alvin Lee and Ten Years Later. Blew the house up! Alvin Lee RIP
I kid you not Leo lives just up the road from me in a suburb of Cardiff, UK! My Wife, who was working in the local post office at the time, discovered this and got him to sign one of my TYA albums for my birthday. It was only a month or so ago I had a chat with him outside his house. What a life he has led, I would love to sit down with him for a longer chat one day but I sense he doesn’t enjoy talking about his past that much, which is understandable as I am sure he has been waylaid by plenty of fans like me. What a crazy world.
Thank you so very, very much for making this and allowing the world to see it. As a guitarist/singer myself, I loved them. I have every commercially released record and a couple of boots. It's a curiosity that Alvin was rarely, if ever, given his due.
You're very welcome!
They obviously suffered from a lack of business sense. Too many line-ups and too many break-ups.
I saw them in the UK for the first time a week after Woodstock, at the Marquee National Jazz & Blues Festival. Saw them several times at the Marquee club itself later. Great live band.
Don’t forget the album ”Watt” from 1970..
Nobody could bend them stings like Alvin Lee. Nobody.
Huge fan of Ten Years After,I have all their albums..saw Alvin in 1974 And again in 89...in 74 it was TYA,later as a solo with backup band, great shows, his album with Mylon is fantastic.
You failed to mention their most influential album - “Shhh” some of their best works - “Good Morning Little School Girl & The Stomp” not to forget “If you should love me”
as a kid i hear im going home from the woodstock LP i never forgot it and was still playing it in the 80,s,.
I saw Alvin Lee in Frankfurt Germany in December 1974.
I had the good fortune to catch Alvin Lee play one of his last shows with Ten Years After in 1975... of course it was amazing. He had it all.
One of my favorite live songs is "I'm Going home". It just doesn't get any more jamming than that. You can tell when a band is really getting into it and they were having a blast. Thanks Alvin and the rest of 10 Years After for the wonderful good times I've had playing that song. RIP Alvin.
Don't forget Love like a Man, Good Morning Little Schoolgirl, Can't Keep from Cryin, and Slow Blues in C!!!!!!
I was a lucky fella when I was writing a song, Alvin Lee rang me to say he will help on it!. I was completely star struck as I was a big fan of his guitar playing!. I couldn't believe I was talking to my idol!!. Thank you Alvin. R. I. P.
Saw Ten Years After at Atlanta Pop July 1970 .One of the best band's.Alvin Lee was the Electric Elvis. 🎸 🎶 🎆
Vastly under appreciated band outside the UK. Loved them.
So good!
I live in the USA and I had seen them many times, and the shows were always packed. I don’t think they got a lot of radio time though.
Huh? I'm 66, in my American high school, everyone I knew including myself owned ten years after albums. In fact many years later, the first time I went to my future husbands house I discovered ten years after in his music collection and I knew he was the one! Alvin Lee was highly regarded here and the years after where very popular 🎸
Nah! He was very popular here in the US during their heydey. Every stoner in the early 70's knew them well.
Got to see them several times in early 70's Really awesome
Thanks for taking the time and trouble in putting this together, as you can see by the responses Alvin Lee's and TYA's legacy remains fresh in many minds.
another great video! Ten Years After were one of my favorites growing up and I got to see Alvin Lee when he opened for the Kinks in Washington, 1980. Thank you for the memories!
I managed to see Alvin Lee during the 10 years later stage of his career! He was an amazing guitar player who today is underrated and mostly unknown! Very sad!
I saw the ten years later band in NY State sometime in the late 70's or early 80's. Blue Oyster Cult was there also. I think there were 2 other bands er maybe not, I was pretty wrecked when BOC played "Cities on Flame" my God the air was pounding so hard..it was an AMAZING show. I can't even remember where in NY it was but I do remember being there with an ole friend named Roy and this other guy Larue who asked us to all go, I do believe there were like 5 of us, idk. It was a really Amazing night, I'll never forget./// Hey, Roy if you catch this, drop me a line sometime, you know where and who I am. That said, I never meant to hurt you, EVER! I'm entitled to a mistake now and then...a human, FFS. But what you did to me was far more devastating and hurtful then anything I could have possibly EVER done to you or anyone, to be honest. Aww, F it you'll never see this anyway. How could you throw me away? Don't worry, I'm not looking for you. I am however very hurt. Such is life, I guess.
Very interesting video about one of my absolute favorites Alvin Lee and Ten Years After!!! Love his I'm Going Home n Good Morning Little School Girl style, and I 'd Love To Change The World is of course, one of the best Revolution era songs!!! Thanks for the awesome band history!!!
I loved this band. I was lucky enough to see them play in Seattle in a pretty small theater called the Paramount and it was one hell of a concert.
Ten Years after really out shined the show in Woodstock ...
I got most of their music on computer and I think my favorite album was the recorded live. Alvin Lee was one hell of a guitar player.
After the passing of Hendrix, Johnny Winter and Alvin Lee became my favorite axe men. They were both multi-dimensional by the fact that they could play as well as sing.
Yes, ALVIN, JOHNNY and RORY. Best guitar players. r.i.p.
One of the best not commercial bands ever
Best records were Cricklewood Green, Shssh and Watt.
No mention of Watt here!
Alvin Lee and Ten Years After just kicked butt ! I had heard along time ago that Alvin Lee was the fastest guitar player of them all.Don't know if that's true but that is what I had heard.
He was well known as one of the fastest, cleanest guitarist in England at the time!!!!!!
"Goin' Home" (Woodstock) is just over-the-top rockin'. Alvin just set fire to the air with that song. Fuckin' awesome. Alvin is one of the greats and deserves more recognition than he's gotten.
I'd Love to Change the World is a classic. I don't use that word lightly. Great, great song.
You forgot the SHH album released in 69. Excellent LP👍😎
Also Alvin had another Lp in the 70s titled RX5.
I saw them in Nottingham as the Jaybirds. Later to become Alvin Lee was an amazing guitarist even then. He also loved Buddy Holly and played “That’ll be the day” when I saw them. Also he played through a home made amplifier that his dad had made!
Cool!
me too, I was in a band in Nottingham, Whichwhat, worked with the Jaybirds lots, Coop hall etc. Graham Barnes was alvins real name. From Wollaton, me, from Radford just down the street. Too fast a guitar style for me, Clapton, Pete Green was my favourite, but he was great though. R.I.P. Gray.
@@johnbednall4465 And Tony and the Veritones,Sons and Lovers and I’m sure many others. Remember the night the entire Brian Epstein stable ALL played the Coop- Beatles, Gerry, Cilla, Billy J Kramer plus more. All on the cusp of mega fame!! Probably 5/- tickets. Haha
@@johnknott6539 John, I was there to see that show it was 10 bob, and the Beatles opened their set with twist and shout.what memories.pity we can't go back.take care.
After Woodstock 10YA played at the Texas International Pop Festival. And I was there. They blew the crowd away, it was awesome
Talkin bout my generation!!! I always thought Alvin Lee's Guitar in "I'd love to change the world" was the best. I still play it on my Smart phone and Laptop. Excellent report. Thanks Millions.
Ten years after we are still asking the same question
RIP #1 Guitar man.
Yes performance at Woodstock was awesome. Never got to see 10 years after live but did see 10 years later in 1978 at The Warehouse New Orleans. Alvin and the band were on fire that night, great show. And when he played Jimi Hendrix hey Joe, you would have swore he was channeling Jimi Hendrix it was great.
Hi, great update on Ten Years After. I was at their San Diego Sports Arena concert in late 1970 ( maybe early 1971. And the part omitted was a show in Portland, Oregon. Billed, I believe, as Alvin Lee and Company. Wasn't an album released with that same title? Seems like I owned it at one time. They were the best Goddamn Band in my humble opinion and when Alvin passed, it was a very sad day for me. Still play all their albums and youngsters come up to me to find out who is just killing it.
John F. Cooper III
I'm 69 and in early 70's saw these guys twice open for huge bands of the time. Funny I can't remember the names of the headliners but that just tells me how great TYA were you know. I'd love to change the world, but I don't know what to do, so I'll leave it up to you.
How prophetic in this day and age. Timeless music.
I'm almost 80 and just finding out about Alvin Lee. I've known about Albert Lee for years and years and was once in the same room with him. "Ten Years After" sounded a lot like the Beatles but I was listening to them yesterday and thought, that's not George or even Eric Clapton playing the lead on " I'd like to save the world" So I had to find out.
A great guitarist that never got proper recognition. I was a Santana & Hendrix guy during the "Woodstock" days.
The live at Fillmore East recordings are among the best ever
Went to see Ten Years After this August in my hometown. It looked a bit like assisted living on stage, but man, let me tel ya, they rocked the place hard.
I don't know how it compares to the original line-up, but those tickets were not wasted.
*** I had to go back & check...Yes... I put up "Let The Sky Fall" in QUAD... it is amazing performance ! ! ! Just incredible listen, I think I will put up a few more, now !
Cricklewood Green - the 'crick' is pronounced to rhyme with 'brick'. It's a place in NW London.
And Reading (town in Berkshire) is pronounced Reding
I had no idea Alvin passed 10 yrs. ago. I was standing right under him on the stage when they played Vegas in the early 70's.
Alvin Lee has gone home. R.I.P. Your Woodstock video is forever etched in my memory.
Alvin Lee rocked my world. I'm so happy that I got to see him and TYA play in concert.
Reading Festival - the "read" is pronounced like "red" not "reed"
Small point but sounds so wrong when spoken like a Yank
Alvin Lee's awesome live Rest in Peace Alvin😢❤😢😇🙏🏼💯✌✌✌👍
I’ve always dug TYA’s live recording of Woodchoppers Ball, it has a great jazz feel to it that suited Alvin Lee’s style of playing
Great video, 1st time I heard the live version of I'm going home, I was in my neighbors garage helping his older brother work on his hot rod, man, that screaming guitar was great.. I thought the radio was going to blow up... I made $5 dollars cutting grass, I bought the album a few days later .. rip. Alvin🎸
Saw them many times. One time in particular at the Palladium-Super Guitar Night-First came Mountain, then Johnny Winter, but they saved Ten Years After for last!
Saw them in Hawaii 1972 , Alvin was in a bad mood , played 3 songs and left the stage after throwing a harmonica at the speaker , Eagles opened for them , yeah long time ago
Woodchoppera Ball!.... Nuff said
Always one of my favorite bands. Discovered them when I was about 12 years old 1980. Very informative documentary
Thanks for the excellent video of the great Ten Years After , 🙏
Our pleasure!
I was fortunate enough to see Ten Years After in 1970 at the Boston Tea Party and then a few months later at Harvard Stadium in Cambridge with Delaney and Bonnie as the openers.At that time they were easily right up there with the greatest bands of the day and always put on a great show.Alvin Lee and Rory Gallagher are two of the greatest guitar players ever and never got their due.I don't think they're even in the R&R Hall of Fame.
Rory Gallagher is seldom mentioned as he died so young but Jimi Hendrix always praised him.
I was fortunate to see Jimi Hendrix twice and Rory a few times.Along with Beck,Page and Clapton.They were all the best of the best.IMHO. @@the-hollywood-dog-says-6072
I like to change the World was the cut that got me into them and liked by many
While I'd Love to Change the World made it to the radio, and was a 70s mantra, Let the Sky Fall is by far my favorite song on the album with Once there was a Time, and Hard Monkeys a close second!!!!!!!!
Saw them several times in the 70's Filmore West with Cactus and some other band. Winterland, with Grootna and Toe Fat, Stockton CA., Sacramento. I remember Slade. Wait a sec, no, no I don't. Leo was one of the best bass players I've ever seen or heard. Rick Lee was one of the best drummers I've ever seen or heard. Spoke to Alvin a couple of times. Nice guy. Alvin was a heavy smoker like Tom Petty and Greg Lake. All three died suddenly at age 68. A Space in Time earned a spot on my All Time Top Ten Favorite Albums
Alvin taught me how to play the guitar, for which I am eternally grateful. "If I don't get to heaven, then I'll go down there below. Better be a guitar when I get there or I will refuse to go" Never Sell My Guitar (Never did, Alvin, still have it 50 years after)
Aahh-- Once There Was a Time!!!!!
Another great flashback in time. 👍
Thanks for the visit
You forgot SSSHHHH (sp).
Good Morning Little School Girl. This was first for me.
Woodstock, the performance that launched hundreds (Thousands?) of guitar players....one was a friend...ha, better player than me.
As much as i dug Alvin he was sorta 'patterny' to me which is to say almost every solo would wind up with the same licks. Heck, he even admitted to this a few years before his passing in an interview. Sig lines.
He was still great.
It was Alvin Lee !!! Glad for that.
SSSSHHHH is a great album, showed the album cover to my mom and her friend to explain what the term "burnt" meant, haha
...so much better than Space in Time! I wish I could give your comment 2 thumbs up!
@@marcarturi2137 Thanx, man.
One of the best guitarist ever. Never got the rockstar status they deserved. We used to play I’m Goin Home on our pens in class back in 71😊
You didn't mention the album Watt. It had some great songs on it. I said yeah. She lies in morning. Gonna run. Their catalog is deeper than "I'd love to change the world" . They were a very versatile blues band.
Watt is one of my loved vinyls. A memorable cover plus songs with bite like My baby left me and She lies in the morning.
And Shhhh...
Gonna run is way ahead of its time a masterpiece and love like a man awesome.
@@gordonhutchison9647 Alvin had some Jazz in him and he showcases his skills in Gonna run. He was an outstanding guitarist!
I loved the London Session of Jeryy Lee (RIP) and many younger supertalents! Probably the best record Jerry Lee ever made. Beating even his Starclub live record.
To me ain't going home live at Woodstock was unbelievable! Only Carlos Santana and Jimmy Hendrix did performances of similar quality.
In the late Seventies I used to visit a great club in Switzerland. The last record the DJ put on was always the Woodstock version of "Ain't going home". After dancing like crazy I nearly had to crawl out of the place sweaty and exhausted. This was always the highlight of the entire evening. Even during a snowstorm I was so hot that I I never felt cold wearing only a T-shirt.
Once I saw Ten Years After live about 20 years ago. Without Alvin Lee it was not the same anymore.
TYA an amazing band .Alvin, Leo, Chuck & Ric all very talented musicians. Alvin a great
guitar rock atar.
From the very first-time hearing TYA, Alvin was and still is my favorite guitarist. I seen them in St Petersburg Fl just before going in the Air Force in 1974. Stood two rows from the stage just to the right of center. All I could hear for two days in my right ear was Alvin rippppping the strings. If I had a nickel for every time I listened to the Live At The Filmore album, I would have retired by the time I was 20.
Saw them at the Marquee in August ‘68. Great concert.
Alvin Lee. Killer guitarist
Love to change the world
What about the album Shhhhh!?
I was fortunate enough to see them in London in 1973 at the Alexander Palace. Good morning little school girl was the standout song at the time and Alvin played it loud. We were sort of stuck right in front of a speaker stack near the stage and I think to this day it's why now I have to wear hearing aids. Nothing to do with old age of course. 🇦🇺
A very clever last sentence. But when I was a stand-in DJ at Michigan State Univ. in 1974, Good Morning Little School Girl was a go-to song for me. I mean this with all good intentions, sounds like you are an old fart like me.
@@haihechina Almost 72 but the musical tastes of the 60's & 70s will go with me to the grave
Sometime in the early 90's we were over in Belgium staying with friends, on the saturday night we went to a free festival in Leuven, Market Rock. Ten years after were headlining in the main town square. They absolutely blew the place away. One of the best gigs i ever saw.
I saw TYA 3 times & TYL once during Jefferson Starship's Earth album tour. I have about 10 of the albums most without a scratch. There's the album The Cap Ferret Sessions from about 1972 and mixed in 2017.
A great question! Beautifully answered!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Alvin Lee also made an album for Miles Copeland's No Speak record label, a label that made instrumental guitar albums from a plethora of famous guitarists, and also sponsored the Night of the Guitar tour, featuring many of those guitarists and there was also an album and video released from the tour
What kind of “routine surgery “ was botched by Alvin Lee’s surgeon?
Heart.
My favourite album of TYA is Watt, which has a great album cover, plus songs with a lot of bite like My Baby left me.
An incredible band; each player a virtuoso on their instrument, swinging from jazzy to heavy electric blues and rock 'n roll. Never forget listening to Rock and Roll Music to the World, and the more acoustic, reflective A Space in Time. Then later discovering Undead; the guys so young, a Maserati right out of the gate, already. Desert Island discs for sure.
One of the many great groups, I saw live. Glad to have the single "Love like a man" and lp "Criklewood green" both in my records collection.
Love Like A Man was one of my favorites , the live version , Ten Years After did great Live versions of thier songs.
I saw them at a Warehouse, in Nawlins, they Blew me away, then I saw them in Woodstock, I saw them again at a Warehouse, I went to the record store and bought a few sides, they were Phenomenal, jűs sāyīn !😎✌😎!
Thanks for sharing!
Saw TYA at a small club here in Plymouth UK...New Year 1968-69....Brilliant..!!...Later problems came from Alvin Lee..continually leaving to persue solo projects...none of which took off...we heard they were invited to do Woodstock 2....but Alvin Lee apparently wanted too much of the money..!!!!..This story came from the bass player and drummer who came to Plymouth backing Love Affair..couple of years later...!!!!