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Farewell to Alvin Lee of Ten Years After, one of the greatest guitarists of all time. The lyrics to their fantastic hit, I'd Love To Change The World, are still all too relevant. I've seen Alvin Lee live a few times and it was always amazing, at 68 he was way too young to go.
Ten Years After has many terrific songs with electrifying musicianship, I'd Love To Change The World was the most popular. If you've never checked out their album, Cricklewood Green, I think it's even better than A Space In Time.
"I hate movies where the men wear shorter skirts than the women." -- Mystery Science Theater 3000
"Elements of the past and the future combining to create something not quite as good as either." -- The Mighty Boosh
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Fenrir Kitsune wrote: Playing a lot of notes very quickly doesn't mean you are a great player. It just means you can play a lot of notes very quickly.
That's true and there are plenty of bands guilty of that, but I fail to see the relevance here. Alvin Lee played well both slowly and quickly and one only has to listen to I'd Love To Change The World to hear it. The acoustic parts are just as well played and brilliant as the electric parts and the slow parts are as evocative as the quick ones. No random flailing there, the notes are chosen carefully.
Another great song by Ten Years After from their Live At The Fillmore album. The now late great Alvin Lee really cuts loose vocally and on guitar in this one, the whole thing is like a rolling freight train. "Take me home, babe!" The studio version is on Cricklewood Green, one of their best albums for my taste.
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"I hate movies where the men wear shorter skirts than the women." -- Mystery Science Theater 3000
"Elements of the past and the future combining to create something not quite as good as either." -- The Mighty Boosh
Check out Cinematic Titanic, the new movie riffing project from Joel Hodgson and the original cast of MST3K.
See my latest eBay auctions at this link.
"We are building a fighting force of extraordinary magnitude. You have our gratitude!" - Kentucky Fried Movie
