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Alvin Lee has died today, following complications from surgery.
As I'm also from Nottingham, and used to work with one of his friends, Alvin was one of the first guitarists I heard about.
Goin' Home from the film Woodstock is IMHO one of the highlights.
This weekends TFND+LT will be for Alvin.
maggit
As I'm also from Nottingham, and used to work with one of his friends, Alvin was one of the first guitarists I heard about.
Goin' Home from the film Woodstock is IMHO one of the highlights.
This weekends TFND+LT will be for Alvin.
maggit
The reason I picked up a Guitar and started playing along with Tony McPhee, will play The Bluest Blues tonight and feel just a little sad at the loss of someone who could really play.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhBQe1RriLk
Genuinely sad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhBQe1RriLk
Genuinely sad.
Gene Vincent said:
The reason I picked up a Guitar and started playing along with Tony McPhee, will play The Bluest Blues tonight and feel just a little sad at the loss of someone who could really play.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhBQe1RriLk
Genuinely sad.
I'm sorry he's gone too. But one does wonder how some of the Ten Years After stuff will stand the test of time. There is no doubt that Lee was a virtuoso - though maybe perhaps one who put virtuosity ahead of the music at times. I can't remember who it was, but one of the old time blues men said about Lee, it's about feeling the blues, not about how fast you can play the licks. And on more than a few of their albums (and I have more than a few), his speed gets in the way of the music, IMHO. It would be interesting to know what others on here think.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhBQe1RriLk
Genuinely sad.
- 1988 saw him on Night of Guitars Tour - AWESOME Riff Raff said:
But one does wonder how some of the Ten Years After stuff will stand the test of time. There is no doubt that Lee was a virtuoso - though maybe perhaps one who put virtuosity ahead of the music at times........ And on more than a few of their albums (and I have more than a few), his speed gets in the way of the music, IMHO. It would be interesting to know what others on here think.
There you and I would have to agree to disagree.Ten Years After had a major effect on my musical taste - I have their entire catalogue on vinyl.
IMHO Alvin Lee was at least as influential on rock guitar playing style as Hendrix, and possibly more so.
RIP to one of the greats.
Sad news for me, he was my Guitar hero, and TYA my favourite band. I saw them in the early 70's at the Munster Landshalle in Germany, an amazingly powerful and tight rock band. in.
I also saw him in 2005 doing in "In Tennesee" tour, totally different, still unmistakenly Alvin Lee, and just as good, in fact better. He was a very underrated, and sadly ignored guitarist. At the height of his fame, when TYA were at their peak ( a band who toured the USA more than any other british band, including the Beatles) He turned his back on fame and fortune, in an interview he said he did not want to be a superstar, he just wanted to play music in small venues, and that when he left this planet, he simply wished to be remembered as a musician.
Lets hope hIs wishes come true.
RIP Alvin, and thank you for some wonderful music, your Going Home
Going Home
And for those who don't know him, take a listen to some of the vids that appear on the list
TYA
I also saw him in 2005 doing in "In Tennesee" tour, totally different, still unmistakenly Alvin Lee, and just as good, in fact better. He was a very underrated, and sadly ignored guitarist. At the height of his fame, when TYA were at their peak ( a band who toured the USA more than any other british band, including the Beatles) He turned his back on fame and fortune, in an interview he said he did not want to be a superstar, he just wanted to play music in small venues, and that when he left this planet, he simply wished to be remembered as a musician.
Lets hope hIs wishes come true.
RIP Alvin, and thank you for some wonderful music, your Going Home
Going Home
And for those who don't know him, take a listen to some of the vids that appear on the list
TYA
Edited by JensenA on Friday 8th March 11:02
Just read about Alvin passing away, another of my musical favourites gone.
"Und jetzt, in der Festhalle in Frankfurt : Ten Years After !"
First sounds on the "Live" album, spoken by legendary promoter Fritz Rau,
Festhalle is 2mins from me.
Enjoyed concerts of TYA and later TYL, Alvin was really working the guitar
and seemed to be a "down to earth" person.
He was not only doing the speedy stuff, felt and played the blues in slow tunes, too.
In April he was booked for a gig together with Johnny Winter.
R.I.P......and do a little Jam with Stevie Ray
"Und jetzt, in der Festhalle in Frankfurt : Ten Years After !"
First sounds on the "Live" album, spoken by legendary promoter Fritz Rau,
Festhalle is 2mins from me.
Enjoyed concerts of TYA and later TYL, Alvin was really working the guitar
and seemed to be a "down to earth" person.
He was not only doing the speedy stuff, felt and played the blues in slow tunes, too.
In April he was booked for a gig together with Johnny Winter.
R.I.P......and do a little Jam with Stevie Ray
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