This whole album is off the charts good. One of, if not the best British Blues rock albums ever. Shhhh and A Space in Time are amazing. Alvin Lee one of the forgotten great guitarists.
Grew up on this song, my folks were into the best music back in the 70s and early 80s and we all had the best audio equipment money could buy the middle class. The speakers in my home were hand made by a man named Baker, an engineer for at&t and to my knowledge they still pump music. THIS song was heard 7 houses down the street at the neighborhood pool. Our neighbors absolutely fuckin HATED us. But hey... We had a blast while we were there!
Someone gave me the 45rpm single of this song for my 14th birthday in 1971, which is the year it came out. I had picked up the guitar about a year earlier and I already knew about Alvin Lee so he gave me the record. Alvin Lee is an incredibly influential guitarist. He is among the likes of Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck as the founding fathers of British Blues Rock. Ten Years After was contemporary with The Yardbirds through their transition to Led Zeppelin; They were around when John Mayall recruited a young Eric Clapton to join Mayall's band The Bluesbreakers. They were around when the bands Chicken Shack, featuring a young keyboard player and singer named Christine Perfect (not kidding) and the newly formed Fleetwood Mac, featuring guitarist & frontman Peter Green, were playing the British Blues circuit. Ms Perfect and the bass player in Fleetwood Mac, John McVie - in fact John is the "Mac" in Fleetwood Mac - became an item and Christine would appear on almost every FM album. This was 1967 through the early 1970's, it was a formative time in the history of rock and roll. Eric Clapton formed a little Blues band called Cream with bassist Jack Bruce and drummer Ginger Baker. Cream is one of the first bands to be called a "power trio", a label that would eventually be applied to bands such as Motorhead, Nirvana, Green Day and Rush. Here are a couple of suggestions for you: Fleetwood Mac's original version of "Black Magic Woman" (It was written by Peter Green, FM recorded it and Carlos Santana covered it beautifully); "Tales of Brave Ulysses" by Cream; ""Itchycoo Park" by The Small Faces, with Steve Marriott singing. Also literally anything from, Are You Experienced? by The Jimi Hendrix Experience's debut album. "Foxy Lady", "Red House" and "3rd Stome From the Sun" are high on my list from that record.
Lot's of these bands Sceez experimented with LSD or Acid and other substances which led them to the finding of their center core of existence. Great Song see you on the Live.
Somebody older than me introduce me to this album in the late 70s in junior high school and it changed everything. This whole album is incredible, and some of the transitions between the songs are not only really creative and technically difficult in some cases, but just really spacy and psychedelic. Within the next two years, I literally bought every album from the very earliest to their last one and I love every one of them.
You’re killing me! How do you find these oldies I have forgotten? It’s my awesome childhood all over again. Nice to have you to listen and relive with you! What a beautiful analysis of how no matter things change, they always stay the same ✌🏼
Alvin Lee was one of the greatest guitarists of the "golden age of rock". So much of the music of the 60's was directed at social issues. Listen to "Aqualung" by Jethro Tull for commentary on homelessness as told from two perspectives (that of the homeless and that of how they are viewed by much of society).
It's one of those songs that you love first time you hear it. You got the message and unfortunately what the solution is we still haven't figured out so I'll leave it up to you. Human nature doesn't seem to change or evolve to a higher order despite many people wishing or trying to make it better.
Time to critically think. When this song was made, the thought was there was over population and the earth could not support more as well as all the social ills. The human population has quadrupled since then and there are plenty of resources still. The fact that these are the same social problems as was the case now 50 years ago, men simply need to make what is a problem and human innovation (technology) rises to meet the challenges and the need. The social aspects always will exist no matter what as being human has a large spectrum of every kind of thought that cannot be stopped. Can you stop a person from thinking a thought? You can brainwash them as the woke do now, but the thoughts inside the mind persist all the stronger especially when suppressed externally. If you tax the rich till there are rich no more, who is left to take from for the reaming poor as you have the poor with you always (those not willing to work for their meal) as if it was your right to take what others earned through their abilities?
Your right, no matter how hard we tried we still have the same shit going on, very sad!!! 😢😢 Now it's up to YOU, best of luck!!! ✌✌ At least in the 60's - 70's we had bands that tried their best to change the world in a very positive way!! This kind of music kept us focused, entertained, consoled and sane!!!👍👍 Live shows were $5, 10, $15.👀👀 New Years Eve with the Grateful Dead was $25✌✌
This song created a bunch of controversy because of its socialistic nature. The rich have screwed our society into something I no longer recognize. I love this song! We NEED IT! It’s the definition of “groovy”.
It is not really socialistic though. He is just going through all the political and cultural movements, he names some of their views showing they do not have a solution, if you pick conservatives then the freaks/hairies/dykes/fairies will be placed out of society, if you pick the socialists, well, if you keep taxing the right until there are no rich no more... there is nothing left to tax, and you run out of money. It sounds socialistic, but he actually means it is not the solution. Same for capitalism and the hippies which he addresses later in the song. Because whatever he chooses to vote/follow, none have the perfect solution, hence he does not know what to do and he leaves it up to you.
Seems to me that you like to react to more eclectic music. Please play mine and Eric Clapton's favorite, Freddie "The Texas Cannonball" King. The song is "Goin Down". The studio version. Put your seatbelt on, cause this rocks.
I hear you - some artists back in the day, as enlightened as they seem on some issues, still had a ways to go when it comes to accepting ALL people - but I don't get mad at art that was a reflection of that time & I still enjoy the song for everything else it is.
All of us old hippies have been trying to change the world for years. Now we seem to be getting dragged back into the past by the morality police 👵🏼💜☮️
If you want to hear though provoking. You need to listen to ..MASON PROFIIT..TWO HANGMEN. Its a extremely rare song, many people have never heard cause of the reality of the song
A suggestion- eliminate world's borders, and convert the economy into one global NPO, friendly competition from within. A unified social democracy- and one-world peace force for security. We need to stop competing, end inequality, and bring in cooperation over technology and world's resources.
