There are many rock bands who were much better live, than on their studio recordings. Alvin Lee, and Ten Years After, were one such band. From the late 1960s to the mid 1970s, I saw them many times, and they were always smoking hot. The last time I saw them was in the summer of 1975, at Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City, NJ, where they were in the middle of a triple bill show, with Lynyrd Skynyrd opening the show, and Rod Stewart as the headliner. Ten Years After, blew Skynyrd and Rod away, which is no easy task.
Here’s two excellent sounding Ten Years After “boots” with the classic lineup of:
Alvin Lee - guitar, vocals
Leo Lyons - bass
Chick Churchill - organ
Rick Lee - drums
‘Live in Seattle ’69'
Recorded on March 22, 1969, at the Eagles Auditorium, Seattle, WA.
‘On The Road To The World’
Recorded on May 8, 1973, at the Sports Stadium, Orlando, Florida
To get this freeload, you need to answer the following question:
What were you doing ten years ago?
factoid I heard once: I'd Love to Change the World was never played live by Alvin NealT. me 10 years ago preparing for some Springsteen shows
ReplyDeleteTen years ago, I was actively involved in being a decade younger (in calendar terms) than I am today. As far as I remember, no special skills were needed.
ReplyDeleteMmmh. Ten years ago I was actively involved in staying alive (not the Bee Gees way, of course). And I still am...
ReplyDeleteTen Years ago I was still going into the office, despite my business being on it’s last legs. I started to work from home for a few years later.
ReplyDeleteThe only time I saw Ten Years After was Reading Festival 1983 and they were excellent.
Ten years ago... I was still active doing all kinds of stuff at the tour agency's office here in Nonthaburi, with an occasional 'on the road' inspection to make it more interesting.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately I never saw Ten Years After live...
Ten years ago I was trying hard not to fuck things up as much as I had over the previous ten years - and not doing too well at it. Ten years after, well I'm still here, probably still a fuck up, but too old for it to matter as much.
ReplyDeleteMeeresstille und glückliche Fahrt across the blogosphere, Babs!
Rob (still sitoing at the bottom of Farq's 4or5 Guys deck in lengthy absentia)
Fucking things up makes us human.
DeleteThank you for your kind words.
Ten years ago, my wife began experiencing congestive heart failure and was essentially in the process of dying from an undiagnosed underlying heart ailment. She was only in her 40's, so it was highly unusual. Fortunately it was finally identified and she underwent a lengthy emergency open heart surgery.
ReplyDeleteTen years after, things are fine and I am serenaded to sleep nightly by the sounds of multiple mechanical heart valves clicking away.
Ten years ago, I was still going to my Wall Street gig, I was 68, and thinking about retiring, but didn’t for another 5 years. Also, I was still reeling from my husband’s death, two years earlier.
ReplyDeleteWow. Life ain't easy.
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DeleteThat's life...***sigh***
DeleteThanks for being there Babs, helping to sweeten up some shitty days.
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Thank YOU, Bat.
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10 ago? Getting ready for my son to graduate high school. Getting ready to settle into a life focused more on me and my wife.
ReplyDeleteSame here, Jethro! My son was a high school senior in 2014. Both of my kids have moved out since then. I miss them every day, and I still don't enjoy being an "empty nester"! One of the kids lives nearby, and we see him every week or so. The other one moved from the Southeast to the PNW, and we haven't seen her in almost two years.
DeleteRenovating a 150 year old house, that we loved, but ultimately sold to be able to get the hell out of the US.
ReplyDeleteBabs, thank you for adding my blog as one of your "friends". Art58koen posts there sometimes too! I have added a link on jonderblog to BabsSez.
ReplyDeleteIt's great to see new music blogs like yours and One Buck Guy at a time when more than a few bloggers have left the medium. I miss SteveShark, and I wonder if life has dealt him a loss like yours.
Music is a time machine, and a balm to the soul. Thank you for your generous "freeloads" and for sharing your thoughts and memories here.
Thanks, jonder!
ReplyDeleteI hope SteveShark, is ok.
What was I doing 10 years ago?? Well I could tell you but then I'd have to....... Seriously? Getting used to early retirement and maintaining and renovating (for the second time) my 130 year old property (it's a full time job). At least it hasn't fallen down yet.
ReplyDeleteThe start of an unanticipated life change unfolded in 2014. Here's the short version: an appraiser plucked a generative artwork of mine, Gardening Universes, off the wall of my stepmother's house. Because it was unsigned, she turned to me and asked if I knew who made it.
ReplyDeleteSheepishly, eyes downward, I confessed I had made it.
After she was done she told me she'd like to keep an eye on my art-making. Skipping over the details of her attention over the next few years, in 2016 she launched my career as an artist with a solo show here in Cleveland. I was 61 years old.
Here's the thing: at the time I was a hobbyist and knew basically nothing about what is an artist and what artists do. (Music I knew.) The best thing to come out of being an accidental artist was my hanging with artists and learning what artists do!
I put music-making to the side when I realized this was the only way to resist its siren call. Still, my art is deeply and essentially musical.
Thanks for asking Babs.