[Chi-townChief]

I'm not sure why I was thinking about this today but I marvel at how TYA tossed away the political crap with their follow-up, "Rock and Roll Music to the World." I still find "I'd Love to Change the World" one of the most annoying pieces of schiess ever composed but "Baby Let Me Rock and Roll You" and "Uncle Jam" really kick it!!

[guitfiddlist]

One of my favorite albums of all time. Forgetting the trite socialism mouthed in "Change The World", the sentiments are genuine and the instrumentalism is outstanding.

A very strange song off that album is "Here They Come", which is about UFO's. Very nice acoustic work in that one.

[sully777]

Ten Years After

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Ten Years After is a British blues-rock quartet consisting of Alvin Lee (born December 19, 1944), guitar and vocals; Chick Churchill (born January 2, 1949), keyboards; Leo Lyons (born November 30, 1944) bass; and Ric Lee (born October 20, 1945), drums. The group was formed in 1967 and signed to Decca in England. Their first album was not a success, but their second, the live Undead (1968) containing "I'm Going Home," a six-minute blues workout by the fleet-fingered Alvin, hit the charts on both sides of the Atlantic. Stonedhenge (1969) hit the U.K. Top Ten in early 1969. Ten Years After's U.S. breakthrough came as a result of their appearance at Woodstock, at which they played a nine-minute version of "I'm Going Home." Their next album, Ssssh, reached the U.S. Top 20, and Cricklewood Green, containing the hit single "Love Like a Man," reached number four. Watt completed the group's Decca contract, after which they signed with Columbia and moved in a more mainstream pop direction, typified by the gold-selling 1971 album A Space in Time and its Top 40 single "I'd Love to Change the World." Subsequent efforts in that direction were less successful, however, and Ten Years After split up after the release of Positive Vibrations in 1974. They reunited in 1988 for concerts in Europe and recorded their first new album in 15 years, About Time, in 1989 before disbanding once again. In 2001, Ric Lee was preparing the back catalog for rerelease when he discoverd the Live at the Fillmore East 1970 tapes. He approached Alvin about getting back together to promote the lost album, but Alvin Lee declined. The rest of the band was up for it, though, and together with guitarist Joe Gooch, Ten Years After started touring again. In addition to touring the world, this new incarnation recorded their first new material in about a decade and a half and released Now in 2004 and added the live CD and DVD Roadworks in 2005. (By William Ruhlmann / BarnesandNoble.com)

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A Fayetteville, Arkansas radio station played Undead two years ago and it was awesome! There are many similarities between Yard Birds/ Early Led Zeppelin and Alvin Lee's blues riffs with TYA.

[Brad C.]

TYA, the first concert I ever attended. So long ago and so far away in Denver. If I remember correctly, Uriah Heep was the second band.

Alvin Lee was absolutely incredible, I didn't know any one could move their fingers that fast. It has been too long since I played any of his music. Better go dust off the collection.

[vetvetdoug]

I have the TYA album, A space In Time, in quadrophonic. That album is a Jewel...minus the PC crap. I think that Shhhhhhh is a great album also with respect to R&R. Alvin Lee plays with C&W artists often these days, he spent much time with the pickers in Nashville. I met him at a Chet Atkins Appreciation Society meeting somewhere prior to 1998....Alvin Lee is more picker that Rocker nowadays.

[Enterprise]

"Everywhere is freaks and hairies.
Dykes and fairies.
tell me where is sanity"

I still think this was one of the most enjoyable opening lines of a rock song I ever heard. And, being a proud owner of the CD, "One of These Days" kicks megabutt!

[Blind Eye Jones]

Really liked Goin' Home at Woodstock and the guitar lick opening is one of the all time hardest to play... but the album AST is kinda sloppy and repetitive. Check out the bad drumming, but there are some good songs on the album.