Alvin Lee [Ten Years After] 1944-2013 - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

Zoneboy · 03-06-2013, 04:02 PM

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Guitarist Alvin Lee, whose incendiary performance with the British band Ten Years After was one of the highlights of the 1969 Woodstock festival, has died.

He was 68. Lee's website says he "passed away early this morning [Wednesday] after unforeseen complications following a routine surgical procedure." An assistant to his daughter also confirmed the news to NPR.

His band's biggest hit — "I'd Love to Change the World" — came a couple years after Woodstock.

But for those of us of a certain age who wished they could play a guitar well, it's Lee's furious fretting on "I'm Going Home" — famously memorialized in the Woodstock movie — for which he'll be most remembered. Some have called it "guitar excess." This blogger can tell you that many, many teenage guys thought it was great.

Guitar Aficionado put it this way in a piece published last year:

"For a full-on blues-rocking experience, there's no beating Ten Years After's adrenaline-fueled reading of 'I'm Going Home.' The performance, an intense nod to vintage blues and '50s rock and roll, featured the lightning-fast fretwork of Ten Years After frontman Alvin Lee. 'The solo on the movie sounds pretty rough to me these days,' Lee told Guitar Aficionado late last week. 'But it had the energy, and that was what Ten Years After were all about at the time.' "

According to the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, a good source for Woodstock history, Ten Years After's set on Aug. 17, 1969, came right after the performance by Country Joe and the Fish and right before The Band.

Vahan · 03-06-2013, 04:06 PM

He also collaborated with Beatle George Harrison. One of them was an unreleased track from 1985 called Shelter in Your Love:

http://books.google.com/books?id=NRo...20love&f=false

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ9zrBIX0nE

ABlairican Pie · 03-06-2013, 06:58 PM

I always loved "I'm Going Home" and would crank it from my Woodstock album
when I was a teenager. "I'd Love To Change the World" was also one of the the first songs I learned on electric guitar.

70s show watcher · 03-07-2013, 04:53 AM

id love to change the world is one of my fave songs r i p mr, lee

03-06-2013, 04:02 PM	#1
Zoneboy RIP, I'LL NEVER FORGET YOU :( Moderator Forum Superstar Join Date: Jul 13, 2003 Location: AT HOME WISHING ALL THIS WAS JUST A DREAM AND THAT I'LL WAKE UP FROM THIS NIGHTMARE. Posts: 34,349	Alvin Lee [Ten Years After] 1944-2013 Link Guitarist Alvin Lee, whose incendiary performance with the British band Ten Years After was one of the highlights of the 1969 Woodstock festival, has died. He was 68. Lee's website says he "passed away early this morning [Wednesday] after unforeseen complications following a routine surgical procedure." An assistant to his daughter also confirmed the news to NPR. His band's biggest hit — "I'd Love to Change the World" — came a couple years after Woodstock. But for those of us of a certain age who wished they could play a guitar well, it's Lee's furious fretting on "I'm Going Home" — famously memorialized in the Woodstock movie — for which he'll be most remembered. Some have called it "guitar excess." This blogger can tell you that many, many teenage guys thought it was great. Guitar Aficionado put it this way in a piece published last year: "For a full-on blues-rocking experience, there's no beating Ten Years After's adrenaline-fueled reading of 'I'm Going Home.' The performance, an intense nod to vintage blues and '50s rock and roll, featured the lightning-fast fretwork of Ten Years After frontman Alvin Lee. 'The solo on the movie sounds pretty rough to me these days,' Lee told Guitar Aficionado late last week. 'But it had the energy, and that was what Ten Years After were all about at the time.' " According to the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, a good source for Woodstock history, Ten Years After's set on Aug. 17, 1969, came right after the performance by Country Joe and the Fish and right before The Band.
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03-06-2013, 06:58 PM	#3
ABlairican Pie Member Forum Superstar Join Date: Dec 12, 2001 Location: Living where cats reign more Supreme than a pizza. Posts: 31,620	RIP Alvin Lee. I always loved "I'm Going Home" and would crank it from my Woodstock album when I was a teenager. "I'd Love To Change the World" was also one of the the first songs I learned on electric guitar.
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03-06-2013, 04:06 PM	#2
Vahan Member Senior Member Join Date: Jan 14, 2008 Posts: 2,712	He also collaborated with Beatle George Harrison. One of them was an unreleased track from 1985 called Shelter in Your Love: http://books.google.com/books?id=NRo...20love&f=false http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ9zrBIX0nE

03-07-2013, 04:53 AM	#4
70s show watcher Member Forum 4000 Club Member Join Date: May 20, 2008 Location: between point place and studio 8 h Posts: 4,548	id love to change the world is one of my fave songs r i p mr, lee