Between 1968 and 1973 the band's eight albums reached the top 40 of the UK Albums Chart. I mean, they enjoyed it and clapped and stuff, but there wasn’t the oomph there. So it’s something of a surprise to find them appearing in the grossly overrated movie Groupie. Ten Years After are an English blues rock band of the late 1960s and early 1970s. I thought it must be something like sweet wine. 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. There I was, standing in a field that they tell me is exactly where it happened. The New Ten Years After live album "Naturally Live" will be released on Butler Records September 6th 2019. Not for long, though. "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. Hard-rocking British blues band led by virtuosic guitarist Alvin Lee and best known for their legendary Woodstock performance. Appartengono alla stagione d'oro del blues-rock inglese. Alvin Lee died in 2013. The following year they started tapping into the burgeoning blues market in Britain that John Mayall had opened up. Still, at least we had dressing rooms, which we never had the first time…”. When I first heard it I thought, what are we going to do next? 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. Bonzo was beating out a riff on the drum kit, so I grabbed a floor tom and started thrumming hell out of it. The album itself wasn’t a problem. Ten Years After, Soundtrack: Tropic Thunder. He arrived and said: ‘Where do all the musicians hang out?’ I told him the Speakeasy. There was indeed resentment from the rest of the band. And we lost any contact with the audience. Please refresh the page and try again. Alvin Lee’s death In 2013, the guitarist died unexpectedly unforeseen complications in a routine surgical procedure in Spain. 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 getting dark by the time Ten Years After took the stage at Woodstock back in 1969. Ric describes Alvin and Leo’s relationship as “a well-oiled marriage”. I swear I could see and hear Jimi, Janis, Jerry [Garcia], Bob [Hite], all of them gone now. Suddenly TYA were the new heroes of British blues rock. 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. Louder is part of Future plc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. When Ric said the band didn’t want that as a single, Davis growled: “So why is that track on the album? I hit the first note on my guitar, and it struck the back of the hall and I saw it bounce back hitting the heads of the audience and ricochet up into the roof. 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”. [citation needed. I was certainly rusty. "Going home" was originally released in 1968 but it was the live recording at Woodstock (August 1969) that hit the charts in 1971. Ten Years After were happy to be a moderately successful, album-oriented blues-rock band. He was sitting there naked, playing away. 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 … Digital Music. Top Albums (See all 62 albums) The Anthology (1967-19… Ten Years After. Leo used to shake his head off. Formed in 1966 Ten Years After are one of Britain's seminal Blues based Rock bands. TEN YEARS AFTER Now are Leo Lyons, Chick Churchill, Ric Lee and Joe Gooch. (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 my best knowledge 'Ssssh.' finds beauty in the gradual pain of human existence, The 100 most influential guitarists ever: only in Classic Rock, on sale now. 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! Even on the slower songs his bursts of notes seemed faster than mere human fingers could manage. Artist Overview Albums. But the people weren’t there, the vibe wasn’t there. It was so experimental. I don’t know how I managed to play, but I noticed at one point the band were looking at me strangely. I never played it live. The audience – variously estimated at between 350,000 and 500,000 – was wet, chilled and bedraggled; many of them were the worse for wear after three days in the open. Le groupe se réunit ponctuellement en 1983 pour une tournée britannique, puis en 1988 pour un nouvel album, About Time, et une longue tournée essentiellement axée vers la nostalgie et la reprise des vieux succès de la fin des années 1960. But it was born out of frustration rather than jealousy. “The rooms were filled with bunks, and there were probably 10 or 12 people living there. Another petulant spat resulted in a threat to put the band on wages. Released in February 1969, the record set up Ten Years After for a momentous year. It was all new material; I didn’t play ‘I’m Going Home’ or any of that. It really was a heads-down-let’s-go-for-it attitude. He captivated everyone.”, Harrison even goaded Alvin into putting on his own gig. 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. We had one rehearsal in the afternoon, and then we plugged in and played and it was Ten Years After. Ssssh is the third studio album by blues rock band Ten Years After, released in 1969. As it was, everything became focused on the last song, the high-energy number.”. Bath Fair enough, you might think, as Alvin was the frontman, guitar hero and pin-up. I often wonder what the rest of our career would have been like if the Woodstock movie had used another song. Needing a new album to promote, TYA hastily recorded a live album at a club called Klook’s Kleek in London. “‘I’d Love To Change The World’ was a hit, and I hated it because it was a hit. It created a rift. Then, of course, there were the psychedelic delights of the West Coast. Historia. “We used to go out of our way to blow them off and make them look bad. Or, as Alvin puts it: “That’s when 14-year-old girls started showing up to our gigs with ice-creams.”. “I rang round the others and said: ‘I think we should do this’.”, Alvin felt “it showed us we could do it. Ten Years After es una banda de blues rock británica popular a finales de la década de los 60 y principios de los 70. It was awful. Alvin: “He said: ‘I bet you couldn’t.’ And I did. “She used to chase me around a bit,” he chuckles, “but I wouldn’t have it. “But it was very experimental in places. All rights reserved. I couldn’t believe it – ‘Big Bill who?’ We were recycling American music and they were calling it the English sound. “He has his own style but he can still deliver all the Ten Years After hits,” Ric says. Their reactions to that are revealing. © Maailmanmaineeseen yhtye nousi elokuussa 1969 esityksellään Woodstockin festivaaleilla, jossa taltioidussa elokuvassa yhtye esittää legendaariseksi nousseen kappaleen ”I’m Going Home”. 1975 májusában bejelentették a Ten Years After megszűnését. And the bassist reveals the secret of TYA’s vigorous live shows: “Ric and I egged each other on when we flagged. It’s your music. 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. £13.00 inc p&p to the Rest of the World. If I had taken a job copying somebody else’s music when I was starting out there would never have been a Ten Years After.". A vicious spat between Leo and Alvin buried any reunion hopes under a mound of perceived grievances on all sides. This feature was originally published in 2003, in Classic Rock 56. In June 1968 Ten Years After started a seven-week US tour at the Fillmore West: “That first tour was great,” Alvin recalls. “Someone sent me a copy recently, and I watched it while hiding behind the sofa with one eye closed. She came off stage and grabbed my ass and gave me a bottle. I used to go on stage and go: ‘dong!’ [mimes a big chord] and the audience would go: ‘Yeahhh!’ You could do anything. Riding the crest of this high-energy wave, Alvin would sneer and pout outrageously as he tore through solo after solo. Historia. The 28 US tours they notched up between ’68 and ’74 was unequalled by any other British band. They split up in 1974, but had several reunions (1983, 1988, 1999). Here are the buzz-worthy titles you're going to want to mark on your calendar. Joe Gooch left Ten Years After in 2014. 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". (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. Il gruppo storico era formato dal cantante e chitarrista Alvin Lee, l'organista Chick Churchill, il bassista Leo Lyons e il batterista Ric Lee. It was horrible. 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. We were booked into what used to be the Holiday Inn, Liberty – Tranquility Base in 1969. And the albums got bigger. Learn More. Around the time of Woodstock, TYA’s management had decided to focus all the attention on Alvin. At the very moment that Ten Years After should have been seizing the initiative, they were in fact losing the plot. The original thing was funky, this was all very clinical. We lost around $35,000, but we got asked back so we knew we were on the way. But I was still getting upset. It didn’t seem to matter.". But Ric and Leo believed Alvin was temperamentally unsuited to the role: “I felt it would be too much pressure for Alvin, and told our manager, Chris Wright, that he was creating a monster he couldn’t control,” Leo says. That was fine on stage, but he’d do it in the studio, too. 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. “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. Ten Years After belonged to the occupation of Woodstock, the American music festival in August 1969. “But then it got bigger, and people had to come to ice hockey arenas and stadiums to see the band. That amazed me. We used to have to gaffer-tape his headphones to his head.”. But the audience were in the same state. 2003 bis heute. "And I was just standing there going: ‘Wow’. 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. 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. 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. Future Publishing Limited Quay House, The Ambury, A Ten Years After egy hónappal később telt ház előtt játszott a Rainbow-ban. Except that it wasn’t. We used to wear the audiences out. It had nothing to do with it.”, Leo: “It turned out to be a series of flashbacks for me. It was a crucial opportunity for the band. There’s quite a lot of [avant garde industrial composer] Todd Dockstader in there. 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. Among them was noted blues producer Mike Vernon, who was there checking out one of his charges, Fleetwood Mac. Eventually TYA took a six-month break for the second half of ’73. 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. We’d done a photo session together, and suddenly we were presented with the album cover with just Alvin on the front. At Flushing Meadow in New York they played alongside Vanilla Fudge and Jeff Beck. 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. Sign up below to get the latest from Classic Rock, plus exclusive special offers, direct to your inbox! Alvin leads the song high and low, never letting the pace flag, until nine minutes later he builds to a final warp-speed cacophony. “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. “I pretty much had a nervous breakdown at the beginning of the tour. I rang up and got a booking at the Rainbow Theatre. “What’s the point?” was Alvin’s response. News, Tour Dates, Photos, Concert Reviews Thank you for signing up to Classic Rock. I Ten Years After sono un gruppo rock inglese particolarmente attivo negli anni sessanta e settanta. It was just crazy. 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. “Basically, that album put it in a nutshell,” Alvin reckons. £13 including p&p to the Rest of the World. “But by then I was too confused to take it,” Alvin says. He used to give me all these pep talks – ‘Stay on the bus. She was just too dangerous. I wasn’t getting singled out. “Mylon was great. Maybe I should have tried to talk more with them, but it didn’t work for some reason. I couldn’t face the tour. We hadn’t played for a while. And by now the drugs were taking effect. And there were a lot of bands in America who wouldn’t go on after us. In keeping with the times, TYA slapped down their first album inside five days. “There was one gig at the Fillmore West,” he remembers, “where somebody gave me this joint as we were going on stage. No wonder the American media dubbed him Captain Speedfingers. “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. He didn’t have the inclination, he was miserable, and communication within the band was generally reduced to “shouting and screaming matches”. And the recriminations continuing to this day. It was our American manager, Dee Anthony [who went on to manage Peter Frampton], who got me through it. When the band returned to England, Alvin bought his first Gibson ES335 – which would become his trademark guitar. Vernon later signed Ten Years After to Decca’s new Deram label (ironically, the band had recently failed an audition for Decca). At Woodstock, Country Joe whipped his equipment on before us because he’d played after us at the Fillmore East and died a death. Need some streaming picks for the month? 2001 brachte die Gruppe die CD Ten Years After - live at the Fillmore East heraus, die bereits 1970 aufgenommen wurde, aber bis zu diesem Zeitpunkt noch nicht erschienen war. Official site of the latest incarnation of the band - Leo Lyons, Ric Lee, Chick Churchill, and Joe Gooch. Forget all the bullshit. That one and a half hours on stage is all that counts’. It was a funny time in music. And the police saw him. And I, Mr Bravado, had to have a toke. Official Alvin Lee website - up to date news on Alvin Lee and Ten Years After plus complete history, discography, concert lists, and chat. It is expected that all existing tickets will remain valid for the rescheduled concerts, but any exceptions to this will be noted here. But, to tell you the truth, I did miss the oomph of the audience. 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 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. 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. To me it was a pop song.”. Alvin recorded a solo album with gospel singer Mylon Lefevre (who had supported them on tour) at his newly finished home studio. This Ten Years After discography is ranked from best to worst, so the top Ten Years After albums can be found at the top of the list. 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. I still enjoyed playing live shows, provided there were no tantrums. The sorting of the discography by release date seems wrong. We were playing little theatres, getting good reviews. “This is a thing called ‘I’m Going Home’… by helicopter!” he announces, and for a dozen seconds he rattles out notes on his trademark Gibson guitar that sound like a sustained burst of machine-gun fire. 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. 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Ten Years After is an English blues rock band, most popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s. We weren’t legends, we were old farts.”. £12.00 inc Rec Del p&p in the UK. Twelve albums scored in the US Billboard 200. But when their legendary performance at Woodstock became immortalized on film, and the pop 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". “But after that the albums never sold as well and we never had another hit. They split up in 1974, but had several reunions (1983, 1988, 1999). Nevertheless, the relentless schedule continued – successfully, too. I was 18, Alvin was 17, and we were exposed to prostitutes, pep pills and music 24 hours a day.”, Alvin confirms that the Hamburg experience was “a real rite of passage. We were together in that room 29 years ago.”, Ric: “Disappointing, really. Ten Years After toimi nimellä Jaybirds vuoteen 1966 asti, jolloin se sai nykyisen nimensä. To make it easy for you, we haven't included Ten Years After … In America, you had to be careful not to find your consciousness expanded unwittingly. TYA had already been part of the London underground scene during 1967’s Summer Of Love; they had even made a whimsical, trippy single in early 1968 called Portable People, and played at the hip Middle Earth. 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. And it was fun, actually. They started to get jealous because they thought I was being singled out to do all the interviews and the photo sessions. I just collapsed. BA1 1UA. By It stopped me in my tracks. Profile: British blues band. If the artists didn’t co-operate, then the record company would simply move on to one that did; they weren’t going to wait around for us to get our act together. She had me wearing my mother’s curtains for trousers, with those lampshade frills round the bottom. Ten Years After se sépare en 1975, après un dernier album, Positive Vibrations (1974), et une dernière tournée américaine. It was a lesson in reality.”. 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". Meanwhile, the others got on with music-related careers – playing, sessions, producing, managing. 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.”. Ez lett utolsó brit fellépésük, mivel Alvin Lee világturnéra indult Alvin Lee And Co. néven. If there were confrontations, I stupidly rose to the bait every time.” Amid such an atmosphere, the management kept their distance. It was getting dark by the time Ten Years After took the stage at Woodstock back in 1969. And we thought that from that gig there would be a reunion. Alvin went back to his own band, while the others remained together, occasionally playing and recording with various American guitarists. Ten Years After został założony w 1967, w składzie: Alvin Lee, Chick Churchill, Leo Lyons i Ric Lee.Niedługo po tym zespół dostał zaproszenie by grać na Windsor Jazz Festival, co zaowocowało kontraktem z Deram – pochodną wytwórni Decca Records.. Po odbyciu tournée w Skandynawii i Stanach Zjednoczonych, grupa wydała drugi album Undead, który zawierał I'm Going Home. I looked at the 13 week list of dates and thought, I’m not going to get through this. That was all part of it – the opening of consciousness.”. All songs composed by Alvin Lee, except where noted. 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. Then I did a Ten Years After tour and got the oomph back.”. Tour dates, news, and photographs. 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. Whenever Ric and Leo, angry at being marginalised, managed to provoke a reaction out of Alvin it was invariably the wrong one. They limped through one more US tour before it all disintegrated. And all of a sudden another bloke runs in and fires a gas gun into the room. 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. Ten Years After petered out when the bickering started up again. The situation is changing rapidly, so … I was still going on stage saying: ‘This is horrible’.”. “Oh boy, was my friend Iris pissed off when she saw the movie,” Leo laughs. It dates back to 1960 when Leo started playing with Alvin, already a precocious guitarist, in local Nottingham band The Jaybirds. "Going home" was originally released in 1968 but it was the live recording at Woodstock (August 1969) that hit the charts in 1971. Alvin then embarked on a solo career as Alvin Lee & Co, the Alvin Lee Band, Alvin Lee & Ten Years Later and even plain old Alvin Lee. To make matters worse, Alvin was also becoming estranged from the rest of the band: “I think they began to resent me because I started to back off then,” he admits. “I loved the underground,” he says. And despite the substances the band were tight and confident. Alvin remembers writing most of the songs in the taxi on the way to the studio. 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!’. After we finished the song I said: ‘What’s wrong?’ And they said: ‘We just did the same song twice!’. Ric remembers being invited to a Columbia Records marketing meeting chaired by Davis, with all the radio promotions people saying that Tomorrow I’ll Be Out Of Town was a perfect radio cut. Alvin Lee was born in 1944 to parents who were big Jazz and Blues fans. 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. What added to the bitterness was how close the group members had been up to then. She was the wild one. If you want me to do the job, don’t give me the tools and then take them away from me.”, “He’d been on our side up until then,” Ric says. Alvin didn’t seem to know what he wanted: “I did an American tour with Alvin Lee & Co. 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