Ten Years After - Studio rehearsal in Germany, 1969 

This is better than heroin! Heroin destroys your soul, This enhances your soul!

Gold can’t buy this!

I've enjoyed him since day 1

I saw TYA about a year after they played Woodstock, was really impressed by his playing...here I am knocked out by his Wes Montogomery style octave solos- got to say he was ahead of his time in the rock genre for sure. NEVER saw him play anything other than his ES 335, interesting to hear him play a Strat!

My guitar teacher in the mid 80s was a huge Alvin Lee fan. I knew who Alvin was then but my teacher made me a fan. I wanted to learn how to shred but my teacher said learn some of this guys licks first.

absolutely 💥💥💥

I was into Jeff Beck, Hendrix and all that. I never had anyone turn me on to Ten Years After. I saw the Woodstock footage, but it wasn't the progressive blues like they play here. They took it to another level. He's not a real great vibrato player but he was playing really interesting stuff.

Was at Wight as well, 14 at the time, right up front under the stage, delirious.

@@wonder6789 You were 14 and I was 22 now I am 76. Enjoy that we are lucky to have seen things that the poor sods today will never know about our happy days

You got it man, John Dawson Winter lll, I seen JW about 6X an Alvin only 1X but so f-n killer

I’ll add Paul Kossoff to your list of under appreciation blues guitarists

@@leonbogdan1686 Saw Johnny Winter on tour with Rick Derringer. Rick could play with Johnny, note-for-note! They blew the walls down.

This is gold 😎

Just so smooth, I love the tone and texture of his music

Agreed 100%

Be' non esagerare 😀

I remember the bass player from the Woodstock movie. He good. But, he is just a little bit "different ", isnt he?

Leo now lives round the corner from me in a suburb of Cardiff, U.K. My wife used to work in the local post office and told me one of her customers played at Woodstock. I asked her to find out more and it was Leo. After that she got Leo to sign one of my TYA albums for my birthday. He is a very distinguished elderly gentleman these days. The stories he could tell!

Leo is also an absolute Gentleman.

No one ever talks about how great Leo Lions is, but he keeps up with old machine gun...

The tone is amazing

..yeah, was thinking the same..Strat!..looks like a large headstock but not sure

definitely doing a tribute to Jimi there

Absolutely, no question. AKA: SpeedFingers.

I second the motion!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!(etc.) But Eric was no slouch in Spoonful live...

I'll say again; where is Alvin Lee in Rolling Stone's top 100 rock Guitarists? NOWHERE! Could somebody please explain this to me?

@@donhancock332 they get the ssssh. Album a negative review too back in 1969

D'accord, mais il ne faut pas oublier Leo Lyons ; je n'ai jamais entendu un bassiste à qui on pourrait le comparer.

@@donhancock332 Easily. Rolling Stone have NFI!

@@yannicklemieux3520 Andy Fraser. jack Bruce ? .

I saw TYA at Winterland in 72. I was 14 and it was my first concert

Lucky man! I’m glad you made it home, thank you for your service.

@@kenvanalfen5025 wow, I was there! Remember KSAN radio in San Francisco? Absolutely the best music. Those were the days. I spent a lot of my youth at Winterland. Lol

Saw Alvin quite a few times at the winterland ballroom. That was a magical place. When it was torn down I got a basketball size piece of the concrete façade with the white paint on it. It sits proudly displayed in the guest bedroom.

@@Scorpio1060- at the time i was driving a 1970 chevy van, long bed,....when the show was over i could not get it on the street as the street was very steep....the van was a 3 speed on the column....slowly backed into the car behind me and the wheels just spun....very trippy ending to a very trippy show...

Bought Sssh in 69 , never looked back....55 years ago. Everyone has their opinion, but I'll take Alvin over anyone....capice

Cricklewood Green was my first Ten Years After 8-track that I bought after hearing them play Love Like A Man on the radio. Best damn blues/rock and roll guitarist that has been overlooked. I wish I could have seen them back in their day, along with Jimi Hendrix, the Doors (when Jim was sober) and Janis Joplin.

Leo is so cool, so funky…he’s fun to watch!

Sure you are. What's he doing, playing 16th notes and jerking around like Eyegor the hunchback? And sure Alvin Lee had talent, but tbh it was plain even in the late 60's that he had a couple of licks that'd show up in every song and that got old after awhile. Fast isn't necessarily good, it's just fast.

@@michaelwesterland1853 just say you are jealous of the talent you don't have.

@@MGDCrown559 I'm not a musician. What do I care whether or not somebody's more or less talented than me? We all listened to TYA when the first two albums came out, but man, after a while you couldn't miss the stuck-in-a-rut repetition so the albums eventually got passed on. Gotta admit it's funny to see a 50+ year old man wearing leather pants and playing guitar, though. And maybe Leo Lyons was playing 32nd notes, I don't know, but it's only impressive to watch, IMO, for a few years during adolescence and then tastes change. Sounds like you've got a powerful crush on those guys, hmm? To each his own, I say.

@@michaelwesterland1853 I think they rock, you obviously don't. I like rocking blues and they put out some of the best. Your taste in music does not recognize what I find spectacular. Ric Lee is also a fabulous drummer, your ear is not tuned to it. does not stop mine from enjoying it.

The director was Wim Wenders

Wim Wenders directed Wings of Desire and filmed Ry Cooder's foray into Cuba called The Buena Vista Social Club. Two Oscar nominations. Also worked with U@ and Talking Heads. That said, all he did was set up a tripod and change film when it ran out.

​@@rocketrose2165and Paris Texas a film with great music

😊

We were so fortunate to see life back then ,and now we must try to teach these God less morel less creations that this life need to change back to where we were with morels and respect for God and others

Lucky man

Hi, I am from Mansfield Notts, and I used to go to the slipper also.I used to play in a band in Mansfield too and knew the Jaybirds, and Rick Lee used to play in our band for a short time. I live in USA now and rarely go back to UK.

BETTER LATE THEN NEVER ENJOY

Well the best ever....Check out the other vids. The guy is King!!

Hi. Leo Lyons ! The magic freak. Just watch him go on videos of the bands gigs. I reckon he's one of the Top bass players ever ! He's a freak mate ! Cheers from New Zealand 🇳🇿👍

Leo Lyons too...

It's called soul. Leo is a fantastic musician.😀😃🤩

Ouch that's gotta hurt 12:17

It's the drugs.

Like mechanically posessed.

Certainly one of the best. The man can play.🤩😊😂

I think he's on drugs : )

Looks like pure Joy playing...

I think it’s joy mixed with lsd 😂

Herking, jerking, spanking his bass.

He is, isn't he!

Tru that

One of the top 5 bands ever...! EVER

One of best dead guitarist

Never lets you down.

They always gave it their all

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is bullshit. They are a good museum; but the judging is not right.

@@robertiaccarino4363 'Could still happen? - Alvin Lee is, quite rightly, making a lot more appearances on RU-vid lately I am glad to see.

Because the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a bad joke. There aren't any criteria for entrance. It's a question of who likes what when it comes time to let acts in.

And bands like Cheap Trick is in.

All awards are a joke.

Didn‘t know he played also Strats. Thought he‘d only play his Gibson ES

​@@scafusaDitto. I've only ever seen photos/videos of him playing Gibson's.

Yes

Same here ! I remember going into a head shop in early 70s hearing TYA for the first time, was just blown away ! I must have been 16 Wow

I was there also! My first concert at 16 yrs old. Incredible performance!

wow I wasn't aware he passed yes I agree RIP

I thought I knew rock/blues. Duane Allman and Peter Green, but this is as good as I ever heard! Alvin Lee didn't have to take a backseat to anyone!!! And Leo Lyons and the drummer, Ric Lee, are one great rhythm section. I listen to this everyday

@@garyesposito8982 I saw them 4x live over the years-- One of my top guitar players of All Time!!!!!!

Es lo mejor 10 años después

Read his Book: From Headstocks to Woodstock. written very well with lots of insight into TYA and his & the band's Humble beginnings.

This is the first time I’ve seen him playing a Strat.

Man--Where'd ya get this early one!!!!! Who filmed it??

Alvin played this strat at Van Dyke Club Plymouth UK January 1969 we were there luckily!!! The crowd kept asking for Spoonful as encore so they played it again!! Status Quo et al cry your eyes out!!! Best wishes from Plymouth UK!!

@@peteraustin370 Wow. Pictures of Matchstick men were there?? Just Wow!

I was 15 too, and I Saw them, in Woodstock , at the cinema , 1970

ALVIN was a gift from god. R.I.P. ALVIN. CHEERS.

ElPocho DelMundo Alvin Lee is dead....

@@Kreso191 could have broke it gently 😂

@ElPocho DelMundo I saw TYA shortly near my hometown in Germoney. They play with a wonderfull young gitarplayer from England. And the bass was played by Herman Hermits bass player.

DID ANYONE SEE THE FINGER TAPPING??? Eddie must have seen this

@@JohnSmith-ww2pi The first time I ever saw Eddie play was at the bowling alley in Duarte, California...10 miles from where they lived. Eddie was using an ES-335 that night. Me & my brother walked up and talked to Eddie who stayed by his equipment during their break. I don't think we asked Ediie about Alvin Lee, what he thought about him, then, at that time...but I wished we would have. Alvin had to be one of guitarist influences on him...that's just a given. Ed didn't play any Alvin Lee/TYA songs that night. He/they did do La Grange (ZZ Top) and Nobody's Fault But Mine by Zepplin. And Runnin With the Devil, which Roth mentioned was an original. Roth also said they had just learned a new one...Nobody's Fault But Mine, before they played that cover tune. One of my brother's friends told him they saw Ed play, I'm Going Home at a gig somewhere. It's too bad he never mentioned Alvin...but that's just the way he was. About the only guitarist he ever mentioned was Clapton.

@@JohnSmith-ww2pi So ya...Eddie wasn't the first to tap...just the first to perfect it and record the mind blowing/guitar world altering Eruption. I think Ed was the greatest...but I'd rather listen to Alvin or Michael Schenker play.

By far

@@dandettmann595Maybe one of the pickups of that 335 was the one he put on the bridge position in his famous Frankenstrat.