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.
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.
@@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..!
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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”
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.
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.
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 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.
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 🎸
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.
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.
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.
"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.
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.
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'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.
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
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🎸
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'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.
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 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 !
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!
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
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.
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!!!!!!!!
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.
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)
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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 !😎✌😎!
If you like loud rock 'n roll with a jazzy twist, you'll love TYA!!!!! How Leo Lyons ever kept up with Alvin Lee, I'll never know!!!! Or, how Alvin ever kept up with Leo!!!!!!!!!!
