In fact, on the Richter scale of rock groups behaving badly Ten Years After barely registered (“I tried to start a food fight one night, and everyone went: ‘Behave yourself’,” Ric admits). And we went: ‘What the fuck is this?’”. Via the Marquee, TYA landed a spot on the 1967 Windsor Jazz & Blues Festival (which later became the Reading Festival), and got a standing ovation there in front of 20,000 people. And it was fun, actually. “My problem was that I couldn’t communicate it to anybody. Thank you for signing up to Classic Rock. But it didn’t happen. The rain had come bucketing down mid-way through the afternoon, just as they’d been about to go on, drenching the stage and turning the site into a quagmire. The number fizzled out, and all I saw was Peter and Richard running on stage, each grabbing one of his arms, and his bare arse disappearing as they carried him off.”. They even went through the classic 60s rock group apprenticeship together, playing a five-week stint at Hamburg’s Star Club in 1962 – just a week after The Beatles. Ten Years After toimi nimellä Jaybirds vuoteen 1966 asti, jolloin se sai nykyisen nimensä. “I pretty much had a nervous breakdown at the beginning of the tour. Then, of course, there were the psychedelic delights of the West Coast. By the time I got to the stage my left leg felt a mile long. So it’s something of a surprise to find them appearing in the grossly overrated movie Groupie. That one and a half hours on stage is all that counts’. The titles of the Mylon Lefevre album (On The Road To Freedom) and Alvin Lee & Co’s live In Flight both seemed to offer broad hints about Alvin’s intentions. He used to give me all these pep talks – ‘Stay on the bus. All rights reserved. Ten Years After belonged to the occupation of Woodstock, the American music festival in August 1969. "Going home" was originally released in 1968 but it was the live recording at Woodstock (August 1969) that hit the charts in 1971. “That was my girlfriend, Lorraine. He didn’t have the inclination, he was miserable, and communication within the band was generally reduced to “shouting and screaming matches”. Please deactivate your ad blocker in order to see our subscription offer, (Image credit: Colin Fuller / Getty Images), Smith/Kotzen: putting two guitarists together in a studio can be dangerous, The 10 best Leon Russell songs, by Bruce Hornsby, Brick by brick: how The Dirty Nil's one-step-at-a-time climb has finally paid off, Kitten Pyramid's Koozy!! But the people weren’t there, the vibe wasn’t there. Another petulant spat resulted in a threat to put the band on wages. It was just crazy. But the jazzier influences in the group meant they were always, as Ric says, “a bit sideways-on to the blues”. (LP, Transcription + LP, S/Sided, Transcription), Live At Reading '83 (The Friday Rock Show Sessions), Not On Label (Ten Years After Self-released), Free Jazz in Amougies: Research on the Schedule of the Festival Actuel, October 24-28, 1969. Hard-rocking British blues band led by virtuosic guitarist Alvin Lee and best known for their legendary Woodstock performance. And we lost any contact with the audience. All songs composed by Alvin Lee, except where noted. Publicity shots of the time reveal TYA’s garish fashion sense: “Ah, Paisley shirts!” Alvin laughs. Track listing. Fair enough, you might think, as Alvin was the frontman, guitar hero and pin-up. But behind the bravado that had propelled Ten Years After into the premier league was another, more insecure Alvin who couldn’t handle the superstar status that the Woodstock movie had bestowed on the group: “We’d been playing for the heads, the growing underground audience,” he recounts. Appartengono alla stagione d'oro del blues-rock inglese. I never played it live. For TYA it all came to a head at the last of a series of European festival shows in 1999. They split up in 1974, but had several reunions (1983, 1988, 1999). I just collapsed. Tra il 1968 ed il 1973, otto dei loro album entrarono nei primi 40 posti della Official Albums Chart. No wonder the American media dubbed him Captain Speedfingers. In America, you had to be careful not to find your consciousness expanded unwittingly. Tote bag with the traditional Ten Years After logo £12 including Rec Del p&p in the UK . The band thought I was looney. “Pipes and stuff like that all over the place,” is Alvin’s recollection. I was still going on stage saying: ‘This is horrible’.”. Ten Years After released 11 studio albums between 1966 and 2008, and Lee had 14 solo albums in his career, until “Still on the Road to Freedom” in 2012, his last release. If there were confrontations, I stupidly rose to the bait every time.” Amid such an atmosphere, the management kept their distance. She came off stage and grabbed my ass and gave me a bottle. Need some streaming picks for the month? A Ten Years After egy hónappal később telt ház előtt játszott a Rainbow-ban. And we thought that from that gig there would be a reunion. Ez lett utolsó brit fellépésük, mivel Alvin Lee világturnéra indult Alvin Lee And Co. néven. To my best knowledge 'Ssssh.' Alvin Lee’s death In 2013, the guitarist died unexpectedly unforeseen complications in a routine surgical procedure in Spain. And by now the drugs were taking effect. It was our American manager, Dee Anthony [who went on to manage Peter Frampton], who got me through it. I couldn’t face the tour. “I couldn’t help it, I hated it. He arrived and said: ‘Where do all the musicians hang out?’ I told him the Speakeasy. I went into sulks and things like that. “Mylon was great. “But by then I was too confused to take it,” Alvin says. He went straight off, and came back about six hours later and said: ‘I got us a band.’ And in walked George Harrison, Steve Winwood and Jim Capaldi! Leo’s headbanging style even got him an offer from Frank Zappa to appear in a movie he was planning called The Choreographers Of Rock ‘N’ Roll. スタジオ・アルバム 『テン・イヤーズ・アフター・ファースト』 - Ten Years After (1967年) 『 ストーンドヘンジ 』 - Stonedhenge (1969年) 『 夜明けのない朝 』 - Ssssh (1969年) 『クリックルウッド・グリーン』 - Cricklewood Green (1970年) 『ワット』 - Watt (1970年) 『スペース・イン・タイム』 - A Space in Time (1971年) 『ロックンロール・ミュージック・トゥ・ザ・ワールド』 - Rock & Roll Music to the … Eventually TYA took a six-month break for the second half of ’73. Not for long, though. "And I was just standing there going: ‘Wow’. “There was one gig at the Fillmore West,” he remembers, “where somebody gave me this joint as we were going on stage. “There was a show we did with them at the Fillmore East and they were handing her bottles of Southern Comfort on stage and she was drinking them. It is expected that all existing tickets will remain valid for the rescheduled concerts, but any exceptions to this will be noted here. Here are the buzz-worthy titles you're going to want to mark on your calendar. One day I went into the bathroom and there was one bloke sitting on the toilet, a guy in the bath and another guy washing his socks in the bath water. And it turned out to be angel dust. He also remembers a more amusing incident at the end of the show when he and Bonzo joined Jeff Beck for the encore: “There was Robert Plant, Rod Stewart, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, and three bassists I think. Ten Years After had been in the vanguard of the second (heavier) invasion of the US by British groups, touring relentlessly and rapidly reaching top-of-the-bill status. Led Zeppelin also turned up to check out the competition. I swear I could see and hear Jimi, Janis, Jerry [Garcia], Bob [Hite], all of them gone now. After the laidback trip of Stonedhenge, Alvin was up and flying again; his blistering solo on I Woke Up This Morning was a corker, and the reworked riff that anchors Good Morning Little Schoolgirl was tougher than the rest. “Now it’s just an embarrassment. And the American bands all had Fender equipment, which sounded really tinny compared with the juicy sound you get from Marshalls.”, We were recycling American music and they were calling it the English sound. After Alvin turned them down again, they went looking for a new guitarist and found one via Leo’s son, who told them about a “shit-hot” guitarist he’d known at school, 25-year-old Joe Gooch. Ssssh is the third studio album by blues rock band Ten Years After, released in 1969. “I rang round the others and said: ‘I think we should do this’.”, Alvin felt “it showed us we could do it. She was just too dangerous. Leo used to shake his head off. Joe Gooch left Ten Years After in 2014. Alvin didn’t seem to know what he wanted: “I did an American tour with Alvin Lee & Co. 1975 májusában bejelentették a Ten Years After megszűnését. And then I saw Peter Grant and Richard Cole spotting the police. Between 1968 and 1973, the band scored eight Top 40 albums in the UK Albums Chart, twelve albums in the US Billboard 200, and are best known for tracks such as "I'm Going Home", "Hear Me Calling", "I'd Love to Change the World" and "Love Like a Man". Released on January 2021, this hack is a crossover of both Lugmillord's Super Mario 74 and its Extreme Edition counterpart which introduces newer themes for the levels, as well as newer missions. We were playing little theatres, getting good reviews. I thought it must be something like sweet wine. “The rooms were filled with bunks, and there were probably 10 or 12 people living there. Learn More. I had 24 songs that hadn’t worked with Ten Years After, and I rehearsed them with a band that included Boz Burrell, Tim Hinkley and Mel Collins.”. TEN YEARS AFTER - 20 21 As a result of Covid-19 any upcoming indoor concerts have been postponed. England and Wales company registration number 2008885. To make it easy for you, we haven't included Ten Years After … The band weren’t in much better shape, having travelled overnight from St Louis, making the last leg by helicopter and then being cooped up on-site in the back of a trailer, waiting for the rain to stop. It was a funny time in music. The musical segments are worth watching, but Spinal Tap would be a better buy for the backstage antics.”, It was TYA’s Ssssh album, recorded just before they embarked on their US summer tour in 1969 – that included Woodstock and the other festivals – that opened up the rift in the band. Much to the annoyance of an inebriated John Bonham, who suddenly lurched forward and threw a glass of orange juice over Alvin’s guitar, slowing up his fingerwork as the strings and fretboard got stickier. £13 including p&p to the Rest of the World. It was getting dark by the time Ten Years After took the stage at Woodstock back in 1969. "Going home" was originally released in 1968 but it was the live recording at Woodstock (August 1969) that hit the charts in 1971. The sorting of the discography by release date seems wrong. Even on the slower songs his bursts of notes seemed faster than mere human fingers could manage. You will receive a verification email shortly. When the Woodstock movie came out in late 1970 (more than a year after the festival) it did for Ten Years After what Live Aid did for Queen and U2: transformed them into superstars. Ten Years After. “But after that the albums never sold as well and we never had another hit. I asked them to change the name slightly, so as not to confuse the fans, but they refused.”, Alvin recorded an album with Elvis Presley’s original backing musicians, guitarist Scotty More and drummer DJ Fontana (“my teenage heroes”) in Nashville, titled In Tennessee, also reckons that “it’s a shame the new guitarist, who must be pretty good to play my licks, is copying somebody else’s style instead of playing his own music. “Basically, that album put it in a nutshell,” Alvin reckons. The situation is changing rapidly, so … We weren’t legends, we were old farts. Alvin: “It was a big disappointment. I wasn’t getting singled out. It had all gone wrong and I was thinking, what the fuck am I doing here?”, And the song that had made Ten Years After famous was becoming an albatross: “You’d walk on stage and people would be shouting for I’m Going Home, which was the last song. And I, Mr Bravado, had to have a toke. It was like an MOR concert. When Ric said the band didn’t want that as a single, Davis growled: “So why is that track on the album? The strange thing was that we had gone to what I considered to be the home of the blues but they’d never heard of most of them. We lost around $35,000, but we got asked back so we knew we were on the way. It was still very underground at that point, and we were making music for that audience – for ourselves, really, because we were that audience too.”, After we finished the song I said: ‘What’s wrong?’ And they said: ‘We just did the same song twice!’. And the recriminations continuing to this day. Among them was noted blues producer Mike Vernon, who was there checking out one of his charges, Fleetwood Mac. At Flushing Meadow in New York they played alongside Vanilla Fudge and Jeff Beck. By Maailmanmaineeseen yhtye nousi elokuussa 1969 esityksellään Woodstockin festivaaleilla, jossa taltioidussa elokuvassa yhtye esittää legendaariseksi nousseen kappaleen ”I’m Going Home”. Alvin found the new Ten Years After situation “very sad. Between 1968 and 1973, the band scored eight Top 40 albums in the UK Albums Chart, twelve albums in the US Billboard 200, and are best known for tracks such as "I'm Going Home", "Hear Me Calling", "I'd Love to Change the World" and "Love Like a Man". The camera remains fixed on him; there are just occasional glimpses of keyboard player Chick Churchill, drummer Ric Lee (no relation) and bassist Leo Lyons, who is headbanging furiously. TEN YEARS AFTER Now are Leo Lyons, Chick Churchill, Ric Lee and Joe Gooch. “Someone sent me a copy recently, and I watched it while hiding behind the sofa with one eye closed. Il gruppo storico era formato dal cantante e chitarrista Alvin Lee, l'organista Chick Churchill, il bassista Leo Lyons e il batterista Ric Lee. I’d done five days of interviews before it started, I’d left my girlfriend back in England, and I really wasn’t feeling very capable. Forget all the bullshit. After that my attitude was, ‘Let’s go into the studio and experiment, because we’ve already made the ultimate album’.”, That’ll be the not-so-subtly titled Stonedhenge, then, Ten Years After’s psychedelic blues album. Ten Years After es una banda de blues rock británica popular a finales de la década de los 60 y principios de los 70. Watt, released at the end of the year, failed to capitalise but Alvin finally got the time he wanted to write songs for the next album, A Space In Time and came up with the band’s biggest hit, the deceptively simple, catchy but left-field I’d Love To Change The World. And the albums got bigger. It’s your music. Ric describes Alvin and Leo’s relationship as “a well-oiled marriage”. Ten Years After's second album 'Undead' is released August 10, 1968 August 10, 1968 - Kempton Park/Sunbury-on-Thames, UK This is the eighth annual National Jazz and Blues Festival with Arthur Brown, Ginger Baker, The Nice, Jeff Beck, Ten Years After, Tyrannosaurus Rex, … Top Albums (See all 62 albums) The Anthology (1967-19… Ten Years After. The album itself wasn’t a problem. Then I did a Ten Years After tour and got the oomph back.”. They limped through one more US tour before it all disintegrated. We used to wear the audiences out. 2003 begann sich die Band zu reformieren, da Alvin Lee aber nicht … Super Mario 74: Ten Years After is a major ROM Hack created by Mariocrash (also known as LinCrash on Twitch). Even worse, Alvin vetoed the record company choice for the follow-up single, which annoyed the head of their US label, the redoubtable Clive Davis, who had earlier told the band: “Give me the tools and I’ll do the job”, and promptly made I’d Love To Change The World a Top Ten hit. In fact Woodstock was just one of half a dozen festivals they played that summer, including Texas, Seattle and the prestigious Newport Jazz Festival – the only year rock bands were allowed in. He was sitting there naked, playing away. We had one rehearsal in the afternoon, and then we plugged in and played and it was Ten Years After. It dates back to 1960 when Leo started playing with Alvin, already a precocious guitarist, in local Nottingham band The Jaybirds. Alvin leads the song high and low, never letting the pace flag, until nine minutes later he builds to a final warp-speed cacophony. Alvin Lee was born in 1944 to parents who were big Jazz and Blues fans. And despite the substances the band were tight and confident. In June 1968 Ten Years After started a seven-week US tour at the Fillmore West: “That first tour was great,” Alvin recalls. “This” was the new management strategy of putting the focus on Alvin. “Mike could see we were a bit radical as far as his kind of blues was concerned,” Alvin recalls, “but he basically gave us the freedom and said get on with it.” The album caught TYA’s raw, jazzy approach to the blues, which could be high-velocity, as on the opening I Want To Know, or slow, extended and mood-building, on the closing Help Me. "The crowd were going apeshit as we banged out a blues standard, and Bonham, who was already stripped to the waist, took off his trousers and underpants. In a scene that attempts to prove guilt by insinuation, Leo is seen with a young lady in a hotel coffee shop, ordering tea, while the soundtrack plays TYA’s Good Morning Little Schoolgirl. Scioltisi nel 1975, si riunirono per la prima volta nel 1983 per poi riformarsi e sciogliersi diverse altre volte. Released in February 1969, the record set up Ten Years After for a momentous year. And the police saw him. Even legal drugs such as alcohol could also be hazardous for Alvin, particularly if they were being brandished by someone like Janis Joplin. © Suddenly TYA were the new heroes of British blues rock. “I threw myself headlong into that,” says Alvin, who had grown up listening to his dad’s collection of pre-war bluesmen such as Big Bill Broonzy, Lonnie Johnson and Josh White. Ten Years After Go Unlimited Start your 30-day free trial Listen to songs by Ten Years After for free with Amazon Music Unlimited trial. The rain had come bucketing down mid-way through the afternoon, just as they’d been about to go on, drenching the stage and turning the site into a quagmire. It didn’t seem to matter.". In keeping with the times, TYA slapped down their first album inside five days. Ten Years After, Soundtrack: Tropic Thunder. I used to go on stage and go: ‘dong!’ [mimes a big chord] and the audience would go: ‘Yeahhh!’ You could do anything. A vicious spat between Leo and Alvin buried any reunion hopes under a mound of perceived grievances on all sides. Stonedhenge could fairly claim to by TYA’s most innovative album: light and trippy on the insistent Going To Try and the bouncy Hear Me Calling, a positively spooky on A Sad Song. “We had such a good time out there. The original thing was funky, this was all very clinical. Artist Overview Albums. And the bassist reveals the secret of TYA’s vigorous live shows: “Ric and I egged each other on when we flagged. This feature was originally published in 2003, in Classic Rock 56. I rang up and got a booking at the Rainbow Theatre. But I was still getting upset. Recorded in Erfurt Germany last year, it captures the new lineup at their electric best. “We used to go out of our way to blow them off and make them look bad. Not that even Clive Davis could have done much with Rock And Roll To The World which was recorded and sold pretty much on auto pilot. Between 1968 and 1973 the band's eight albums reached the top 40 of the UK Albums Chart. Twelve albums scored in the US Billboard 200. We were booked into what used to be the Holiday Inn, Liberty – Tranquility Base in 1969. I was the songwriter, singer and lead guitarist, after all, so obviously I was the one they wanted to talk to.”. Alvin tended not to get involved in the rock’n’roll high jinks, however: “The reason I didn’t mix with bands like Led Zeppelin and The Who too much and go in for all that hotel wrecking was that I was a doper; I was always carrying hashish around, and in those days you could get 12 years if you got caught with a joint in somewhere like Texas. Vernon later signed Ten Years After to Decca’s new Deram label (ironically, the band had recently failed an audition for Decca). In Richard Cole’s notorious Stairway To Heaven kiss-and-tell, the former Zeppelin tour manager relates how Jimmy Page was awestruck by Alvin’s playing. Official site of the latest incarnation of the band - Leo Lyons, Ric Lee, Chick Churchill, and Joe Gooch. The crowd, their central heating now restored, erupts. Sign up below to get the latest from Classic Rock, plus exclusive special offers, direct to your inbox! Ten Years After je anglická blues-rocková skupina, která byla populární koncem 60. a začátkem 70. let.Mezi lety 1968 a 1973 se Ten Years After se svými alby umístili osmkrát v Top 40 v UK Albums Chart.V USA, v žebříčku Billboard 200, měli dokonce dvanáct alb a nejvíce je proslavily písně "I'm Going Home", "Hear Me Calling", "I'd Love To Change the World" a "Love Like a Man". Ten Years After is an English blues rock band, most popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s. After we finished the song I said: ‘What’s wrong?’ And they said: ‘We just did the same song twice!’. “Oh boy, was my friend Iris pissed off when she saw the movie,” Leo laughs. Ten Years After’s big break came in 1967 when they played the National Jazz & Blues Festival held at Windsor Racecourse to the west of London. I’d got used to that. It was getting dark by the time Ten Years After took the stage at Woodstock back in 1969. I didn’t realise until I walked into the hotel bar. £12.00 inc Rec Del p&p in the UK. Ten Years After se sépare en 1975, après un dernier album, Positive Vibrations (1974), et une dernière tournée américaine. They started to get jealous because they thought I was being singled out to do all the interviews and the photo sessions. It really was a heads-down-let’s-go-for-it attitude. It was madness. came after 'Stonedhenge' not only by recording date, but also by release date. When the band returned to England, Alvin bought his first Gibson ES335 – which would become his trademark guitar. There I was, standing in a field that they tell me is exactly where it happened. But it’s pretty tame stuff now. I often wonder what the rest of our career would have been like if the Woodstock movie had used another song, “You had police with guns, and cotton wool in their ears, sneering at the band and looking for half a chance to beat up the audience. Ten Years After petered out when the bickering started up again. [citation needed. That was fine on stage, but he’d do it in the studio, too. Except that it wasn’t. In 1983 Ric got a call from the Marquee presuming that Ten Years After would be playing at the club’s 25th anniversary celebrations. It was horrible. It had nothing to do with it.”, Leo: “It turned out to be a series of flashbacks for me. Undead caught the sweaty, small-club atmosphere and the band’s free-form approach to Won’t Be Wrong Always and Woodchoppers Ball, the moody blues of Spider In Your Web and a younger but already potent I’m Going Home. Louder is part of Future plc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. I’d yell: ‘Hit ’em, you bastard!’ And he’d shout back: ‘Fuck off.’” Leo would also spur Ric on by spitting at him – anticipating the punk movement by a decade – but the drummer never minded “because he always missed”. And Alvin admits the pressure got to him almost immediately: “There’s this story about how I nearly didn’t play Woodstock because I had a bad back. Needing a new album to promote, TYA hastily recorded a live album at a club called Klook’s Kleek in London. Hugh Fielder We’d done a photo session together, and suddenly we were presented with the album cover with just Alvin on the front. So I drank it, and promptly collapsed and passed out in a quiet corner. Ten Years After were soon gigging steadily, including holding down a residency at London's Marquee Club, and in 1967, after an appearance at the Windsor Jazz Festival earned praise in the music press, the quartet signed a record deal with Deram Records, the progressive subsidiary of the U.K. Decca label. finds beauty in the gradual pain of human existence, The 100 most influential guitarists ever: only in Classic Rock, on sale now. Future Publishing Limited Quay House, The Ambury, It created a rift. I don’t know how I managed to play, but I noticed at one point the band were looking at me strangely. Ten Years After is an English blues rock band, most popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The New Ten Years After live album "Naturally Live" will be released on Butler Records September 6th 2019. And there were a lot of bands in America who wouldn’t go on after us. The record was rough and ready, but it attracted the attention of famed American promoter Bill Graham, who was looking for new bands to play his Fillmore venues in San Francisco and New York and figured there must be more where Cream and Hendrix had come from. The following year they started tapping into the burgeoning blues market in Britain that John Mayall had opened up. “Initially I was sceptical because of his age,” Ric admits, “but as soon as I saw him play I had no doubts.” A couple of European dates convinced all of the band that Joe was the man to replace Alvin. Please refresh the page and try again. Maybe I should have tried to talk more with them, but it didn’t work for some reason. He captivated everyone.”, Harrison even goaded Alvin into putting on his own gig. But it was born out of frustration rather than jealousy. Ten Years After are an English blues rock band of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Leo contends that Alvin in turn made the band’s lives a misery: “It stressed me out so much that I stopped trying to reconcile things. Alvin Lee died in 2013. In the movie of Woodstock, the camera picks out the skinny frame of TYA’s Alvin Lee, his boyish face ringed by shoulder-length blond hair. It was so experimental. There was a problem. The 28 US tours they notched up between ’68 and ’74 was unequalled by any other British band. (Classic Rock) 22 January 2020, Woodstock made Ten Years After into world stars, but instead of capitalising on their new-found fame they lost the plot. To celebrate, they changed their name from the now outdated Jaybirds to Ten Years After – which Leo found while flicking through the pages of the Radio Times. 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