Alvin Lee, Rory Gallagher and Roy Buchanan were probably the most criminally underrated guitarists of their time. Jeff Healey was another one that came a bit later.
well, we know that great guitar plyaers because they had quite a lot of appreciation back then including radio and tv appearances. so certainly not underrated, rather forgotten.
I always felt that Alvin went for speed and virtuosity at the expense of lyricism and musicality. Good technically, but too repetitive. I would not rate him as high as Hendrix .
Saw him with Johnny winter one fateful night back in 81 I think....that night will go with me to my grave, when they put me under for my dirt nap, my soul will be remembering the slide work, the picking...the sweat flying...it was outside philly"The Brandywine club"....RIP Alvin....anybody who reads this GO SEE JOHNNY , he still Rocks HARD
have always loved this song. Heard it by so many artists but I got to say this version is unreal. Ten Years after you Rock. Alvin Lee wow just wow that man had soul.
Ten Years After they had the Blues flowing through their veins. One of the best groups of the seventies. I herad them in Munich play LIVE exactly five times. They rocked the crowd like nobody else! Unfortunately the brilliant guitarist (Alvin Lee) died quite a while ago already. They continued without him, but in my opinion it wasn`t the same Jörg J.
The youth of today & beyond will sadly miss bands like Ten Years After, Yardbirds etc........ Great bands that wrote songs that had meaning and substance. Rock & Roll will never die.
i agree with you...ummm...Alvin Lee wrote most of the songs he performed. THIS song, however...SPOONFULL was written by the great...MR. BASSOLOGY...Willie Dixon...
Man I love his phrasing.. back in the mid 60's only three guitarists ruled when it came to phrasing.. that's Jimi, Alvin & Eric while he was still with John Mayall.. Alvin got tired of the same old phrases by 1973 and Eric completely lost it until he started playing with bonnie and Clyde (sorry Del and Bonnie ;-) Watching this video is almost like sitting in the audience when they were recording "Undead"!
Ce son , cette attitude..Que c est bon..Ces images ...Maintenant, nous sommes ringards !! .A l image de gens détestables qui n apprécient pas !! Vive nous !! C est du pur bonheur cette vidéo ...
Genius...superb blues, saw them live a few times in my youth, Toby Jug, Marquee, and festivals I think. Alvin Lee one of the best blues men about at the time
oh no : ( sooo sad. just heard it from here. now i have the feeling the world just lost something of high value!! rest in peace dude. thinking of what you and your guitar gave us all these years with your sound.
I'm proud to say i got to see him live one time at the Keystone in Palo Alto Ca in 1983. He was amazing ! A true maniac on the fretboard. I saw Jerry G. there a bunch of times. Great memories of the good ole days. R.I.P. Alvin ! Theres some good jammin goin on in Rock & Roll heaven !
All I can say is thank you so much for finding and showing this video. It’s absolutely amazing. Alvin Lee is one of the greatest blues guitarist that ever played love that guy.
TEN YEARS AFTER with "Alvin Lee" these guys breath BLUES, eat BLUES, dream BLUES and they live for BLUES......That was always their Way of life Man...!!!! 🤟🤟🤟🎸🎸🎸
Good old fashioned psychedelic blues rock. I’m so glad I recently discovered this fantastic footage! It’s nice to have another reference to show people how good/underrated of a guitarist Alvin Lee was besides his fiery Woodstock performance of “I’m Going Home”. #RIP
Alvin Lee You are the on of soulful Guitarplayer and Singer...with positiv vibrations...heartfull sounds...fantastic Guitarsolis... R I P Dear Alvin...Your Musik is swinging on Earth and in Heaven... Dr.Ilja Lasaroff.Bulgarien.
Long Live Alvin...69 long years is indeed vintage, tastier than the sweetest wine-Champagne or Chardonnays....Fascinating guitar work- intriguing & unparalleled....My taste for TYA began circa 69 and over time the blues have become more bluesy.....such blues rock rendition with a powerful & mellifluous voice will always remain a mystery
@polymath7 My thoughts are based on the old live Cream version on RU-vid where they jam with no audience - watched it about 75 times. It's one of the best on RU-vid. So to assert anything is "better" is a tall, tall order. Let's just say they are both among the finest examples of what authentic rock music is all about - high energy, skilled musicians who are totally inside the sound, volume and burning hot vacuum tubes, transcendent emotions, eccentric style. Yeah life is good.
amazing really good guitar work vocals mint classic moment in history when the balance was just right ...still love the Clapton bruce ginger baker version from wheels of fire the best but this upload smoother version peace out
Alvin Lee was the Mack! He could play circles around almost all of his peers. (save maybe, Jimi Hendrix or Johnny Winter) And the way he was so unassuming about it. This is the shit!
What a superb guitarist possibly one of the best in the world C1968. This is Alvin Lee from TYA Big in the States. many years on Chyrsalis label with Chris Wright.
Lyrics Could fill spoons full of diamonds, Could fill spoons full of gold. Just a little spoon of your precious love Will satisfy my soul. Men lies about it. Some of them cries about it. Some of them dies about it. Everythings a-fightin about the spoonful. That spoon, that spoon, that spoonful. That spoon, that spoon, that spoonful. That spoon, that spoon, that spoonful. That spoon, that spoon, that spoonful. Could fill spoons full of coffee, Could fill spoons full of tea. Just a little spoon of your precious love; Is that enough for me? Could fill spoons full of water, Save them from the desert sands. But a little spoon of your forty-five Saved you from another man. Could fill spoons full of water, Save them from the desert sands. But a little spoon of your forty-five Saved you from another man.
