TEN YEARS AFTER

'cricklewood green' is a really excellent lp. i dj'ed '50,000 miles beneath my brain' the other night and it went over very well. can anyone recommend some other music with has a similar sound? there are some bands which obviously cop a similar style so i'm looking for stuff i might not have heard of, which could be a lot tbh...

I love this song by them and that bass line, whoa.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4vgnhrWos8

I love all the early Deram Lps (although I have not heard the 1st one .. i'm sure it's good too)

Never heard the whole of Cricklewood but of course I love the single from it.

They were good. and yeah, that "good morning little schoolgirl clip" totally rips

off topic but i love this "10 years after"

http://www.bossa.net/image/N/Nara_Leao/Dez_Anos_Depois-thumb.jpg

50,000 miles beneath my brain' the other night and it went over very well. can anyone recommend some other music with has a similar sound?

love this song but everything else by TYA is more boogie/thud than space epic?

"i'm yr captain" by grand funk is somewhat similiar, maybe.

Lot of rockabilly, lot of blooz, some jazz -- particularly on Undead which was a live recording in a dive. The most boogie is on Recorded Live which has the superduper ten-minute crunch of "I'm Going Home" with the Chuck Berry medley thrown in the middle. Also see "Choo Choo Mama."

The other boogie number which crops up is "Boogie On" from Alvin Lee & Co but it's more of an instrumental spazz out in which everyone does their own thing for a section, rather than an actual straight boogie number.

A Space In Time has "I'd Love to Change the World" which was their biggest hit, definitely delivering a psychedelic vibe. Positive Vibrations was a lackluster more mediocre pop than rock LP.

The present edition of TYA does not include Alvin Lee which sounds like sacrilege ... but the resulting album Now was pretty good, anyway.

i pretty much like it all. even positive vibrations. stonedhenge is still my favorite of the 60's stuff, though it's less heavy than ssssh or watt. it just has such a great vibe. skeletal and ghostly in places. it's just a fantastic acid blues album. comparable in some weird way to mayall's bare wires (my fave mayall album too). and vernon's production on stonedhenge is, like i said above, just godhead to me. a space in time is solid thru and thru and more varied than the later stuff would be. rock and roll music to the world is the album i never play for some reason. i should dig it out.

stormy, you DO need the first album. it rips.

People, I am feeling the "On The Road To Freedom" record Alvin Lee made with Mylon Lefevre.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Road_to_Freedom

RIP MR. ALVIN LEE

hey that rhymes

Awwwwwww, shit, really? Of all the 60s/70s guitar gods, from Hendrix to Page to whoever, Alvin Lee was always right up there for me. The way he updated jump-blues-jazz still works for me in 2013 in a way a lot of those other guys don't.

Wow. RIP Alvin, you shredded at Woodstock.

aw, sad. love his records so much.

damn, rip

RIP, Mr. Lee.

you shredded at Woodstock

otm, rip

Watching this makes me wonder how/why anyone gave two shits about Clapton in those days:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vZVVq7WJFY

i have no idea. clapton is so friggin' boring.

i probably own like 15 ten years after/alvin solo albums (his solo stuff varies but its entertaining) and i don't own any clapton albums. i mean i listened to derek & the dominos and blind faith and cream a ton when i was a kid but i don't ever need to hear that stuff now. and i really don't need to hear his 70's solo albums. but ten years after i will ALWAYS listen to those records. he's known as the 60's blues jam guy but the first SIX ten years after albums are just great albums as albums. great rock album experiences. great productuon. ftom 67-71 they were awesome. and they were a real band. they were deep in it. never understood why stonedhenge didn't get more love from non-blues rock people. its so beautiful.

my dad's a fan, but i don't want to tell him about it because he's six years older than alvin was

Watched this on dvd last night. Loud AND Proud! RIP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5k9WJRg3Dc

RIP

I love his On The Road To Freedom album. It's an overlooked classic.

I do not share Scott's enthusiasm for "Stonedhenge" - to me it sounds like what happened when bands were expected to churn out an album every six months - but Alvin Lee's professed aim of combining Canned Heat and Tod Dockstader was a noble one which should possibly be repeated one day.

Try this: https://www.discogs.com/master/443451-La-Monte-YoungForever-Bad-Blues-Band-Just-Stompin-Live-At-The-Kitchen

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41sCGHGFtTL._UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg

Stonedhenge is still the only one I've heard but I like the spacier stuff on it a fair bit.

Also nice bump, ten years after.

I've tried with this band but not really got very far. They're like a cross between Canned Heat and the Groundhogs but not as interesting as either.

I prefer Cactus

I like the early stuff when the bebop influence is recognisable. 1st 2 lps, blues played with bebop influence and reflection of the time they were recorded. I hear it a lot on the Live lp in instrument solos etc. I think that is what becomes the frenetic soloing that people picked up on from Woodstock etc.
But I think the earliest track I heard by them was Spoonful from the first lp as a track on the MFP V/A lp The World of Blues Power. That's a really cool version. I could do with having the first lp as separate mono/stereo versions instead of one followed by the other.
Undead is very very cool I think throughout and may have even been expanded on the cd I have. Yeah and had BBC sessions added on a different version.

I enjoyed a live set from I think 1970 that I picked up i the early 00ies. I think its more rocky than they were 2 years earlier but are doing massive extensions on tracks.

Do think I picked up everything studio to about 1970 and didn't6 really mean to end there per se. But not sure when I last stuck them on Though do think some of them turned up during the youtube at random thing we had n during the bike course.

Yeah the jazz influence is important. Undead is one of my favorite records when I've had a few beers and it's time to crank the stereo. My ancient vinyl sounds so good. I love the live sound of the small club.

I hadn't really heard this band til I listened to A Space in Time this year, to my disappointment. If this record is supposed to be their big "artistic statement" how primitive must their earlier records be? Half the songs are blues / rockabilly / rock 'n' roll boilerplate, and the songs where you're supposed to "dig the message, man" are actively dumb. Yes, he plays blues scales really fast, that's entertainment for about 30 seconds.
I did like "Here He Comes", a moody ballad without too many pretensions, and I will probably check out an earlier album of theirs, though with diminished expectations.

"Here They Come".

He also decimated his queer audience by casting aspersions on "dykes and fairies".

I’ve listened to a few of their albums and they’re fine - I like some of the more experimental stuff on Stoned henge - but would it be fair to say they don’t have a lot of a musical personality? I can’t imagine someone saying “ah yeah this sounds like Ten Years After” about other music

I think that's fair. I never viewed Alvin Lee as a particularly strong songwriter or singer, hence why only "I'd Love To Change The World" made it to classic rock radio. They built their rep on blues covers and Lee's fast-fingered guitar, which is really what I listen to them for.

I was listening to a Jimmy Smith album today and it struck me that early TYA in many spots is amped up organ jazz with hotter guitar playing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVXu-JbWAeo

Yeah to be honest I initially gravitated towards Stonedhenge because of the musique concrete influence and was intrigued how they would reconcile that with jazzy boogie bloozey rock that I assumed would be typical of the time. And fortunately they do a lot of interesting things on it imo - and I'm a bit of a sucker for albums where each member gets a solo song; they were ahead of Floyd and Yes here (and yes there is it a major symptom of the era's 'rushed to do an album all the time' but that's another plus for me). And it has great artwork and it being a top ten album makes these factors feel more interesting and...

But, yet despite all that, I can't imagine listening to another album by them any time soon.

I'm a bit of a sucker for albums where each member gets a solo song

They're all terrible though - on the TYA album, that is.

this album has some nice tunes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY75qxcFyvg

Nah I quite like them. In part because of what they represent in context, admittedly. Would I rather have more ordinary TYA songs in their place? Definitely not. The drastic panning on Three Blind Mice is also subtly hilarious.

Mylon Le Fevre just passed away from cancer, a week ago today. I used to own that album but I don’t recall any of it. xp