Ten Years After

Slow Blues In 'C'

Winterland (San Francisco, CA) Aug 4, 1975

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  • Anonymous Saturday, May 05, 2012 12:49 pm you're Great Mr Alvin !!!!
  • lagunacat Friday, April 20, 2012 2:00 pm Agree with most of the comments here on what a great musician Alvin Lee was. Truly one of the most underrated guitarists of his generation. He and Mick Taylor are top 2 on my list. I saw TYA many times at small clubs (Boston's Tea Party) and large venues (Strawberry Fields). Check out some of my photos here www.vintage-concerts.com/tya.htm
  • i5guitars Thursday, April 12, 2012 7:44 pm This was a kick-ass TYA performance.....Slade was wretched as always and Frankie Miller should have been 2nd billed. A Lee was a flighty fingered axeman,,,,never anything more and certainly not in the class of Hendrix, Winter,Santana,Clapton,Beck,Gallagher,Page etc and thats why he's not in RS 100 greatest guitarists tho I'd put him in mine just cause he could rock and roll big time! I don't think Randy California is in RS top 100 either but he's another one of mine.....another kick-ass guitarist who is often forgotten about. Slainte!
  • joe_in_st_cloud Thursday, April 12, 2012 6:07 pm frickin' awesome bass player!
  • sabaticl Thursday, April 12, 2012 7:32 am Nice shot of the largely invisible, also excellent, keyboardist at 16:00 of "I can't keep from Crying".
  • flatbrook Thursday, April 12, 2012 6:10 am woodstock baby woodstock had to be there to see it, mind blowing tune
  • TheJimbo Thursday, April 05, 2012 10:22 pm Now that's some guit pickin'!
  • TheJimbo Thursday, April 05, 2012 10:21 pm Now that's some guit pickin'!
  • TheJimbo Thursday, April 05, 2012 10:10 pm Here we go!!!!!
  • yardtrauma Monday, April 02, 2012 8:19 am Love like a man, man, I love that performance. Amazing bass!
  • chuck976 Sunday, February 05, 2012 11:57 am does anyone know if there is a place where i can get the audio of this? i need to have it.
  • windysuisun Monday, January 09, 2012 10:45 pm Paul- Was this the Winterland show you saw Whow! Blues rock at a mighty fine hour. Sometime after that date I saw these guys at a big Cow Palace show and did'nt seem as spirited.
  • CVGreg Tuesday, November 15, 2011 8:01 pm I was lucky enough to see this show. Winterland was my home away from home for years and I was lucky enough to see so many awesome shows there. Thankful to have Wolfgangs to relive those great shows. I've read all the debate about Alvin Lee and his place or lack of in the great guitar players. Who cares about if he's better than this one,not as good as that one, I saw this band twice and the were just a group of very talented musicians that kicked ass! period.
  • tunancheese Monday, October 31, 2011 4:00 pm Ahhh, remember this show so very well. Ten Years After & Slade. Fantastic!!!!
  • dona lynette Saturday, October 15, 2011 5:04 pm Remarkably handsome, so much soul, sounds American to me.
  • Anonymous Monday, September 12, 2011 4:26 am "I can't keep from Crying Sometimes' Turn it up and hear a fine, well constructed dynamic guitar solo...awesome...
  • valveman Sunday, September 11, 2011 8:45 am Alvin is one of the greats - an artist and creative person first and foremost, with great integrity and a straight shooter......accidental front man, but did it well nonetheless. Thanks for all the great music Alvin.
  • DeadchiefBMW Tuesday, August 30, 2011 3:03 pm Ten Years After was awesome. Thanks Wolfgang's Vault for the videos from Winterland. Amazing.
  • Jeff Sawyer Saturday, August 20, 2011 6:49 am And that's what Rock and Roll is all about, Charlie Brown. No lasers necessary. – www.sawyerspeaks.wordpress.com
  • TURBO88 Thursday, August 18, 2011 6:45 pm In my opinion, TYA doing this song, was the high water mark from original Woodstock show.
  • DownloadDan Thursday, August 18, 2011 10:19 am Fantastic! I have the audio from this performance, but I've never seen the video. Thanks for sharing it.
  • vekser Wednesday, August 17, 2011 6:54 pm I saw Ten Years after probably 6 times in SF, and this Winterland gig was the last. Every time though, they just rocked, Alvin was at that time such a guitar hero, so damn hot. Sex, drugs, and rock and roll, oh yeah!!
  • Anonymous Wednesday, August 17, 2011 6:18 pm tya could rock any venue in the world back in the day and they did.....
  • anonymous1486208 Wednesday, August 17, 2011 11:07 am Vu Alvin à Avoine et TYA à Avoine, Jarniou et Seignosse en France !.. whaouhhhh !... working on the road !..........
  • Anonymous Wednesday, August 17, 2011 10:21 am will everyone STFU about who's better, faster or whatever...this is a ROCKIN' take on a pure classic by a guy with mad skills and a red hot band too. tribal drums and a FAT bassline under it all. turn it up! always a pleasure Mr. Lee...thanks for the great performances!
  • Anonymous Wednesday, August 17, 2011 8:56 am alvin lee has been a badass forever
  • Anonymous Wednesday, August 17, 2011 5:06 am I saw TYA in San Antonio in 1971 and they were super. I think Alvin was always dismissed as a "lightning fingered" guitar player who didn't have much beyond that but he is every bit as good as Clapton, Beck and the others of that era.
  • wadehardin Friday, August 12, 2011 1:00 pm I saw Ten Years After In Omaha Nebr.Before they came on Ted Nugent Played and proceded to tell the audience he was the best Guitar player in the world.Alvin stepped out on stage and sad to the audience F----- Ten Nugent.Grabbed the Mike stand using it for a pick and played like a wild man.He ended the set by playing the most smoking Guitar i had ever seen.yes Ten Years after is one of the best band that came out of Woodstock.
  • whobynumbers Wednesday, August 10, 2011 4:29 pm Nothing but an excellent guitar licks class!!! Six years after Woodstock and it just seems to have been created the day before!! And Thank You!!
  • myinnereyemike2 Monday, August 08, 2011 1:34 pm I love this performance, and am very thankful for the post. I've always felt like TYA was one of the hottest bands to come out of the 60's and Alvin Lee, as well as Leo Lyons were outstanding performers. I've never understood why some people describe them as "jazzy". I love jazz, but I've never associated TYA and jazz in any way. Personally, I feel like Alvin could have smoked just about anyone of that era on a good night, and this show was a good night, as was the Live Fillmore East show released years ago. Alvin's slide guitar skills are sharp, and original. He definately gave Duane Allman a run for his money in my opinion.
  • Anonymous Sunday, August 07, 2011 11:13 am Visited R/Stones top 100 guitarists and agree 100% Alvin should have had a place on that list. Looks like a lot them made it on there for launching a style rather than how "good" they were. Alvin is obviously better than many of them. Funny, the last time I saw them, he was complaining about the monitors then.
  • Anonymous Tuesday, August 02, 2011 3:48 pm We should all be thankful this recording exists at all and thanks to Wolfgang's Vault for sharing it with us. One can never have too much guitar!
  • Anonymous Wednesday, July 27, 2011 2:53 pm Ok all you naysayers. Spend 20 minutes watching I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes. Such an intense structured solo from Alvin (and if you have a little smoke be sure to indulge a little first)...Forgot who was the best, the slowest, the fastest..etc etc..all the mind chatter, just let it take you on a trip. That's the context of those times. :-)
  • JoeMystery Sunday, July 24, 2011 6:24 am Well, I am back listening to Alvin and TYA again. This is my second post. As always I see that people have different opinions about players. Alvin, in particular, is one guy who seems to be quite polarizing. I think that is because his style did depend a great deal on speed and, over time, he did get very redundant with his riffs. Poor old Alvin- what did he ever do but practice his butt off to get better. From my perspective and remembering back to those days long ago, I recall the many conversations amongst musicians about who was best- Clapton, Lee or Hendrix. Kind of silly in retrospect but you know we were like 18 years old. What do you expect? However, it always seemed to be those three being mentioned together. Of course, there were other excellent players such as Johnny Winter, Mick Taylor, Robbie Krieger, B.B. King, Terry Kath. Should I put Kath of Chicago in with the greats and notables? Surprisingly, Kath reportedly floored none other than Jimi Hendrix- at least that is a story I have read more than once. Just goes to show you, different strokes for different folks.
  • portland john Saturday, July 23, 2011 2:38 pm I will say that you can't rock like this without SOME emotion. Good grief. What a time. They were the most fun for me to listen to in '68, '69. A little more jazzy sounding. But they were a FUN band. We loved 'em, and I still do. Wouldn't care to rank them. I just love music.
  • Anonymous Monday, July 18, 2011 6:52 pm First time I got psychedelic at a show was with these guys. UNFORGETTABLE!!!
  • CLrocker Monday, July 18, 2011 4:28 am incredible
  • Anonymous Monday, July 18, 2011 1:55 am Can't stay away, thanks for the response and I agree whole heartedly. Buddy's old. Yes to Freddie We seem to agree on the Brits. I do not put Alvin in the list, but, as I said he's a better player than me.
  • Anonymous Friday, July 15, 2011 11:34 pm great performance.......Ten Years After is one of my favorite rock bands...
  • wab151 Thursday, July 14, 2011 4:27 pm Sorry turbo, I misread. you got it.
  • wab151 Thursday, July 14, 2011 4:25 pm Yeah, the bass player is great. Leo Lyons, I believe. Works his butt off.
  • wab151 Thursday, July 14, 2011 4:24 pm Alvin Lee b.19 Dec 1944 -doesn't that make him 24 @ Woodstock. Wen he's 25 it's over.
  • Anonymous Wednesday, July 13, 2011 9:09 pm @Bob Butler When Buddy Guy wants to play he can't be beat. Problem is most times I've seen him live over the past 20 years he's been going through the motions. Other than the first time I saw him in 1969 the best I saw him play was in a small club with one of his peers, Mel Brown. It was electric. Both players pushing each other to the limit. The one American player that should always be mentioned in a list like yours. Freddie King. The best. As far a British players go. My humble opinion only. Jeff Beck - amazing. Peter Green - The best blues guitarist to come out of Britain bar none. Saturated with soul and feeling. Clapton - Great, but deduct points for the '70's shlock. Jimmy Page - Great in the studio, sloppy as hell live. Gary Moore - Technical genius, but often a bit over the top. All of them, a damn site better than me. :)
  • Anonymous Wednesday, July 13, 2011 5:37 pm Good Lord! I just saw that there are more comments below. Again, sorry guys/gals, I stick with my observation that he got very sloppy and had no good emotional feel when he played. Comparing his wok with Hendrix, Clapton, and in response to those comments that the Brits have some sort of lock on our native music, go back to Blues 101. Stevie Ray Vaughn, (even his brother Jimmie), Duane Allman. Christ Buddy "fucking" Guy. Let me say this one more time, BUDDY "FUCKING" GUY. Matt"guitar Murphy. Mike Bloomfield was a bit of a punk, God rest his soul, but he could play with ease, fast when needed but never to an excess that detracted from the music. Do I need to keep going? Robert Johnson? Hubert....Muddy, Elvin(got a little off base towards the end but understood the blues. I'm done. Those of you who think British blues is some sort of an evolution, I disagree. I also appreciate Jeff beck's work. Jimi took Buddy's influence and flew! God if those two could have put together a band! Peter Green fell of the map and his insanity never allowed his progression. What a sad result of a horrible disease. Have you all had enough? I think I'll stay away from reading responses but if you want to tear me a new A-hole, butlerr@ohsu.edu will work. For the Brits, God love you, gave us Keith Richards which is more than enough for me. Ask him who were his major influences? Bob Butler again
  • Anonymous Wednesday, July 13, 2011 5:03 pm He's technical. Plays a hell of a lot better than me. There was never any real feeling. Blues progressions are so basic. If you're going to go somewhere that grabs me, it's not going to be just fast playing, and boy could this young artist get sloppy (witness Woodstock). Bob Butler
  • Anonymous Wednesday, July 13, 2011 1:27 pm @TURBO88 Not to take one thing away from him but actually he was 24 at Woodstock. I think Mike Shrieve was one of the youngest, if not the youngest player there.
  • Anonymous Wednesday, July 13, 2011 6:49 am Alvin is great, no doubt about it!! But how about some cudo's for the bass player? I haven't seen anybody put such heart and soul into his total performance like that in those days! I actually think he looked at his fingers at the end of "love like a man" to see if he was bleeding. Check out how hard he plays his instrument!! He has no cares on how he treats his instrument; he just plays his ass off! The perfect bassist for Ten Years After!
  • george0383 Wednesday, July 13, 2011 6:15 am I think when Rolling Stone magazine came out with a list of the 100 greatest guitarists Alvin Lee wasn't included. That is absurd. He is one of the greats! Always wore his signature white clogs onstage and his peace button on his Gibson. Wish he would come to New York to play again.
  • TURBO88 Wednesday, July 13, 2011 5:18 am I think Alvin was only 17 yrs. old at Woodstock. I saw him Nov. 20 1971 at Duke University when I was 16 yrs. old.Yes was the opening band. One of my favorite concerts of all time. Really remarkable!
  • JoeMystery Monday, July 11, 2011 6:58 pm One of the truly great sixties bands. Alvin Lee was right up there with Hendrix and Clapton and Beck. And the rest of the band was way talented. Check out the Stonehedge album. Check out Lyons, Churchhill and Rick Lee here. Awesome band. It just wasn't Alvin although he was truly a star amongst rock stars.
  • unky goopy Monday, July 04, 2011 9:28 am HAPPY 4th of JULY !!! unkygOOpy here, appreciating ALL that AMERICA has given me these past 61 years ! first show i ever saw- ALVIN & THE BOYS @ Fillmore East 1968 !! saw them many times in the HEYday & witnessed many a heated argument as to who RULED ---ALVIN,JIMI or ERIC ...it truly was a THREE WAY TIE @ the time !!i gotta say Alvin's face playing technique matches Jimi's tongue-work OH YEAH !!have a GREAT day ever'body & DON'T FORGET TO THANK A VET !love&PEACE~U.G.
  • Kim Kraus Tuesday, June 28, 2011 10:33 am Cricklewood Green. My favorite album. The Brits Know How To do IT.
  • loufromperu Monday, June 27, 2011 11:56 pm I like what they did with Good Morning Little School Girl. Totally turned it into their own tune. What a jam - real good.
  • Cool Musician Friday, June 24, 2011 2:50 pm I was fortunate to see Alvin 5 times in "glory days", but never knew he played harp at all. He is excellent at it...wished he worked into more of his songs. A truly gifted musician !
  • Anonymous Monday, June 06, 2011 12:15 pm I was fortunate to see this show, with one regret. I waited outside all day and got to watch from stage center (I can see my head right in front of Alvin's mic stand. Unfortunately, all of Winterland wanted to be where I was and I got so crushed against the stage, I finally had to get out of there to survive. But it was one of the most memorable Winterland shows ever!
  • Anonymous Monday, June 06, 2011 9:16 am So good to see this Winterland stuff..Sound quality is very good and video equal..just like it was ...watching footage between sets..as for TYA..."I cant keep from cryin sometimes". A 20 minute masterpiece....
  • torn-and-frayed Monday, June 06, 2011 6:37 am AWESOME ALVIN
  • Hitechluddite Monday, June 06, 2011 4:52 am Great raw stuff here! No overdubs, hell they probably barley had a mixer board!
  • irishlyric Sunday, June 05, 2011 6:46 pm God, I wanna ball u ALL NITE LONG!
  • irishlyric Sunday, June 05, 2011 6:46 pm Baby, baby,baby!!
  • irishlyric Sunday, June 05, 2011 6:45 pm Whee Whrooo!@!!! @!
  • irishlyric Sunday, June 05, 2011 6:45 pm AWWW! That's SO PRETTY! I wanna ball u all nite long!
  • slubon Friday, June 03, 2011 9:04 pm loved him from the 70s,great to see this!
  • Cool Musician Tuesday, May 17, 2011 3:16 pm Alvin is probably the greatest unrelatively known guitarist of this era. He is on the same level as Hendrix,Clapton, ect. His fingers fly faster too !
  • pigeonphil Friday, April 29, 2011 11:35 am If that guitar, could talk...imagine