Alvin Lee one of the most smoking guitar players ever! I never get tired of listening to this song. So profound and fitting for this day and age! They probably couldn’t even make this song today! Might hurt someone’s feelings. Wouldn’t make it by the thought censers that currently control our lives.
Alvin Lee...one of the best guitarists ever. Imagine hearing this back in the day when it first came out (1971). I felt just like you do now, but I was only 21 then... Thank you yet again for another great reaction.
I hope you'll pay attention to what I say here: Goin' Home IS amazing but the vids of it on RU-vid are poorly edited and cut out half the perfomance, try to find the unedited version somewhere else. Alvin Lee will blow your mind for sure
What I like about it is that even though some 50 years since the song came out, the basic message still resonates...and stanzas could be added to present our modern dilemmas and bring about discourse, harmony and solutions...
One of the greatest guitar licks in the history of rock n roll. With a universal and timeless theme in the lyrics. Doesn't get much better. RIP Alvin Lee.
Back in the day when Jimi Hendrix was everyone’s favorite guitarist, mine was Alvin Lee. Check out their performance at Woodstock on the song “I’m Going Home” one of my favorite performances from the film and the guitar playing is insane.
I am 68yrs old.......are you kidding, do I know this group?.....Beautiful..One of the greatest bands in the late sixties beginning with Woodstock performance....play it, Going Home....
I don’t think our brains have evolved enough yet for us all to be able to live together in harmony. Having one universal language spoken by everyone, so we can communicate together would be a good start. Don’t see it happening anytime soon.
Being a teenager back in the 60s and 70s when music was the best and still hold up nowdays. I am happy I grew up during all this.😁😁 We will never see this type of music ever again. 😪😪
If you ever hear someone say that someone "made the guitar sing." THIS! THIS is what they're talking about. This is the very definition of making a guitar sing.
I have the album "Ssssh Ten Years after" 1969, and that is Alvin Lee on Vocals and Lead Guitar! They were pretty big in the day and ahead of there time!
For people that didn't listen to it back then, it must be unbelievable experience. Our Generation is so lucky, we weren't born 10 or 20 years after Ten Years After.
This song is a classic example of "the more things change,the more they stay the same"....all these years later, it's scary how relevant this song still is about the woes of the world.
I've been a fan of Alvin Lee and his style of guitar playing since 1968! He was such an original, especially at the time this song was released. No one was recording songs like this. He was so fast and accurate with his runs. RIP Alvin, we just sent you another guy to play with, say hello to EVH.
our brothers across the pond really did bring us some of the greatest music i've ever heard! I Love Alvin Lee.......... another great one in every way is Humble Pie "Black Coffee" Steve Marriott was incredibly soulful ! check it out you'll be blown away.
Ten years after was one of the mayor rock bands of the 60,s and beginning 70’s ．Please check out Woodstock live: Iam going home or love like a man. Alvin Lee is consider one of the great rock guitarist.
Alvin Lee was a great guitarist. Ten Years After was a great band from the early 70's.. I would like to recommend some more of their songs: Standing at The Station, One of These Days, Rock and Roll Music to the World. Choo Choo Mama, You give me lovin.
Great selection brother! This is a great song off of one of their best LP's...the whole LP is excellent. The lead singer/guitarist/songwriter Alvin Lee was considered to be one of the finest guitar players at the time & I agree with that! They put out a whole slew of good blues influenced rock LP's. They had a breakout performance at Woodstock too...I saw them live a few times & they were excellent!
I was fortunate enough to catch Mr. Alvin Lee live twice in my life before he passed. One time was in a bar in Orlando FL. I dragged some of my friends with me who had no idea who he was. He blew their friggin' minds. Ha ha haaa I love doing that kinda shit with people. :)
I like when you think the song is winding down to a conclusion, then the drums kick in and takes it to a higher level. This done during the Vietnam war.
This was the 1st Reaction I saw from Abracadabra...love his reserved, quick yet right on the money comments..felt like the 1st time I heard it in 1979 when a girl in high school introduced me to this song...like you said many sentiments still relevant today...BUT the music is phenomenal...just a great sounding song
Alvin Lee was an amazing guitar player but an even better person. I love the sentiment behind this song, we are all each other have in this world and if we don't take care of each other, we collapse as a society and as human beings.
Saw them (original TYA lineup) once at Hammerjacks in Baltimore, MD around 1990 or so (not a big place really). His cowboy boot was keeping time right in front of my face as he rocked my world and although Alvin was already my hero on vinyl, TYA blew my mind that night live...
Awesome. Ten years after we’re fantastic and Alvin Lee was BADASS. You should check out their performance of ‘I’m goin hime’ From Woodstock. Also, Love Louie a man, hear me calling, woodchopper’s ball...
There are so many songs that spoke about the social problems happening in the late 60's/early 70's that sound like they could have been written yesterday. Another one like this is Quicksilver Messenger Service's song What About Me? "I feel like an outlaw, in the land where I was born". I think you'd dig it.
Abracadabra, I'm white 68, and I've learned from you that you're one cool cat and have excellent taste in music. I've been listening to this since 1971. Glad to have met you thru this music. Right on right on
I’m loving that people are digging all kinds of music from all different genres, I love to see people expanding their musical taste it makes our world a better place…
I know I'm late to the party here but I grew up with this music fucking love it I'm a musician too and I can appreciate it. British stews that just I don't know all four of them were fantastic. So anyway it was really fun to watch your reaction. You really just seem to grasp on to it and get it. And the thing is it's difficult to pin them down although mostly you could say they're generally rock blues with some sign of Boogie little bit of funk in there some soul some slow bows. But it's not anything groundbreaking nowadays but back then it totally was. And that song that you just covered about want to change the world, this was a massive hit in the early '70s. Even though they were British we heard that all the time over here and all of his kids and like Junior High more like going out and buying all their albums. Becaise they had a whole bunch. What really put them on the map was about three or four years before this and it was that they had a slot at Woodstock and it was so cold you can see their breath in the air and Alvin Lee later said he just wasn't all that happy with it but man they fucking killed. They just slayed. But they are all over the map. This is a band that evolved with every single album. If you want to hear them super tear it up like a banger but not like older sparse stuff which is really killer too like Wood Choppers ball which is a Woody Herman cover from the big band era and I think at that point still a late 60s and there's some Underground club in London just tearing the shit up with a stand-up base and everything man. But they have so much great stuff. If you really want to hear him tear it up there are many many songs that do that. But many had a social conscience too and one of the ones off that same album A Space in time, that I'd love to change the world is off of every song that album is amazing. But there's one in there that's like somebody reaching out to people that are depressed and maybe considering suicide, but he's saying that he's been through it and even so though it's very emotionally sincere it's authentic but they still managed to turn it into a freaking jam later in the song and then they bring it all the way back and the keyboard player is queued up some synthesizer ocean sounds back when you had to do it all manually and create these sounds but it's like the waves of the ocean washing up on the shore. It's very relaxing. Anyway that's a great one, just called, I've been there too. But just Google 10 years after choo choo mama to hear kind of what they were like when they hit the really basic hard driving blues rock stuff especially when they played live. It's just crazy. It's a burst of energy.
Wow you are only the second reactor at ever seen do the song Thank you so much they were actually my favorite band in high school I'm not that old (54). Was not old enough when they were around but they still were my favorite band. Alvin Lee is a great guitarist
This group was a little before my time, so I didn't know this group or song until today. That's what I love about your channel, abra! Gettin introduced to new (old) stuff!! Love it! Thank you! 😊❤️😊
Sibling rivalry. Alvin Lee played the guitar and Ric was the drummer. Message was similar to "I'm just a Singer in a Rock and Roll Band' by the Moody blues. Ten Years After, "50,000 Miles Beneath My Brain" rock, or the blues - 'Love Like a Man'. .
Thank you for being so open minded sir.. This song expresses my feelings so well. Where is the sanity? Being an old hippy, I was in my late teens when this came out, and being a hippy myself, I faced backlash for my beliefs. My main belief is that we are all God's children. We all need to love and be loved. That's it. That's the message.
I was 16 years old in 1972 and my first out of town concert was seeing Ten Years After at the Cleveland Public Hall. As we arrived we had to walk through the Hells Angels Who were parked on their bikes in front of the hall.
I saw Alvin Lee and 10 Years after in the early 70's in Tucson Az. Your reaction is exactly what mine was 50 years ago. Small Venue, close to the front, felt like I was a part of concert. There was definitely a London Fog in the air with "Whiffs " everywhere. Appreciate your review brother!
Timeless music. I enjoy your reactions; the depth of your attention and the fact that you span so many genres and eras. I was born in the late 60’s to very young parents who played phenomenal music in the home; Rock, Motown, Soul, Jazz, Classical,; blessed for the musical foundation they gave me. Thank you for your reactions; music is the most powerful art form.
Wtach the Woodstock performance of "I'm Goin Home" it is a mega show, 11 minutes of them jammin and Alvin really taering it up with his guitar, also Alvin Lee song The Bluest Blues, fabulous!
I'D LOVE TO CHANGE THE WORLD, BUT I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO, SO I'LL LEAVE IT UP TO YOU. IT IS UP TO EACH OF US, NOT AS AN INDIVIDUAL BUT AS A WORLD. IT IS VERY HARD TO EXTINGUISH ALL THE HATE, LOVE IS THE ONLY ANSWER. LOVE YOUR FELLOW MAN!
