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Topic: Alvin Lee & Ten Years After

Driving home last Wednesday I had a sudden urge to listen to Ten Years After's A Space In Time album.  Boy!  Had I forgotten how great an album it was and still its.  Lee was one of the original speed merchants, but he could spell tone frontwards and backwards.  A Space In Time (1971) would be the band's best effort and I'd put it up against all the great ones of the era. That said I don't think the band gets near the props it should.
Here's an Alvin Lee duet with George Harrison on slide and the late Jon Lord on keyboards.  Fantastic song...

http://youtu.be/nhBQe1RriLk

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Re: Alvin Lee & Ten Years After

I hear ya Curby. TYA used to play for Bill Graham 3-4 times a year in SF from '69 through the mid '70's and I lost track of how many shows I saw, each as good as the others. I purchased A Space In Time on CD years ago and it still gets a spin year in and year out. Usually I'll hear I'd Love To Change The World on the radio and gotta hear more of it.

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Re: Alvin Lee & Ten Years After

My first exposure to TYA was, like it was for so many others of my generation, their jaw-dropping star turn in Michael Wadleigh's Woodstock.  Became an instant fan, and have been one ever since...

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Re: Alvin Lee & Ten Years After

Who could forget this....

http://youtu.be/ZaYj5DxJ5tM

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Re: Alvin Lee & Ten Years After

Wish Alvin would tour again in the USA....or does he only tour Europe these days ?

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Re: Alvin Lee & Ten Years After

Love me some "Choo Choo Mama".....

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Re: Alvin Lee & Ten Years After

Coach305 wrote:

My first exposure to TYA was, like it was for so many others of my generation, their jaw-dropping star turn in Michael Wadleigh's Woodstock.  Became an instant fan, and have been one ever since...

Mine was similar..Woodstock...there, lol.

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Re: Alvin Lee & Ten Years After

check out the extended version live, Moscow 1995. sound is real good and he invokes a little Elvis, a little Jerry Lee Lewis. I bought the album as soon as it came out, but never got to see them live. He rawks for sure.......bees make honey.

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Who could forget this....

http://youtu.be/ZaYj5DxJ5tM

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Re: Alvin Lee & Ten Years After

When I was in college, playing that album was a sure way to get the R.A. (resident assistant)--a senior who's room was right next to mine--to come visit...and turn it up!

Play like you've worked at it, and don't worry about sounding like your influences.  You can't cheat on them, or your practice, anyway.  If you've worked hard at your skill, your audience will know it.