![]() This hitherto unprecedented facet, where the guitarist is as brilliant as on his previous path, contrasts with the musician’s iconographic figure at the Woodstock Festival (1969), igniting a crowd in hallucinogenic ecstasy with his impish Gibson. Filled with songs with acoustic bases, they would have inspired Alvin to follow the same path in his new compositions. This change was probably due to the great success achieved by the first Led Zeppelin albums. Most of his ten tracks are built not on guitar riffs, but on fingerings from Alvin Lee’s instrument. Space in Time, with its upbeat songs and full of sticky choruses, is like a last breath before the final journey through the darkest alleys of the seventies. The overflow and innocence of flower power were gone, as if predicting a dip in more dark and delicate times. The "Now" album with Joe has one of my favorite TYA songs ever - Hundred Miles High.Extremely cohesive and intertwined, the band managed to synthesize the transformations of the period in which the album was recorded. Yeah he was the frontman, the singer, the amazing guitar player, etc, but the other guys are damn fine musicians (Leo Lyons is an AMAZING bass player) and new frontman Joe Gooch has a great voice and is quite an axe slinger himself. And don't dismiss the new albums without Alvin Lee just because "it can't be TYA without Alvin". If you dig that stuff try branching out to the early stuff and in chronological order to see them progress. That is the album that turned me onto them, after dismissing them as a boring boogie band after seeing the Woodstock movie with Going Home. The whole album is a really good live album. If you dig those I recommend moving on to the live stuff like Recorded Live (1973) - side three of that LP is quite orgasmic if you dig live jamming, I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes is pretty amazing, and so is Slow Blues in C on "side 4" (I listened to that record so many times I still think of it as album sides). Depending on your tastes I recommend starting with Cricklewood Green and A Space In Time, which I think are their best studio albums, those have the best songs on them IMO of course. The early records are more bluesbased then they start getting more accessible/melodic/rock oriented with Cricklewood Green in 1970. Am not into rockabilly which is what Alvin sounded like to me in recent years so I stopped getting his albums.ītw, Andy Powell of Wishbone Ash dedicated a song to Alvin last night at a show I was at (the song was "Surface to Air" from Front Page News - first time I've ever seen Ash do that song, it's new to the setlist this year).Ĭlick to expand.Check out their wikipedia entry for an album list and some background to get you started. I have most but not all of Alvin's solo stuff. Was the USA LP on CBS? For some reason it seems to me like it was but I can't remember for sure.īy the way, do you have the 24KT+ Gold CD mastered by our host Steve Hoffman?Īs far as the poll Question goes I have every album TYA has released (including the ones with Joe Gooch on vocals/guitar which also I like very much). Started with it on cassette, then bought the LP, then the regular USA CD, then the AF CD. Reel to reel tapes, cartridges, cassettes, records, cds, digital downloads.? How many copies of the album have you owned over the years: Original Chrysalis CD and the AF (which I just got recently, have not even listened to it yet). ![]() How many copies of the album do you have now? Do you own the 'A Space in Time' album by Ten Years After?
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