Friday, March 08, 2013

Goin' Home- Ten Years After guitar god Alvin Lee passes at 68

Alvin Lee Goes Home - And His Toussaint Connection (by Brett Milano, Offbeat.com)

Lee’s band, Ten Years After, came in on the British blues wave that brought us Cream, Led Zeppelin, the original Fleetwood Mac and the Yardbirds. Like those bands, Ten Years After were raw onstage and experimental in the studio, and TYA’s studio albums were more psychedelicized than most. Sure, some of it’s dated—especially the lyrics, which were never his strong suit—but a track like “No Title,” from Stonedhenge, showed how imaginative blues-rock could get. The eight-minute song’s structure—beginning as near silence, with instruments being added until it turns to a harsh electronic wail—isn’t far from the studio art that the likes of Brian Eno would popularize later on. (That track isn’t on the web, but here’s the album’s finale Speed Kills,” and listen through to its surprise ending). (Read more)

From Alvinlee.com:
“With great sadness we have to announce that Alvin unexpectedly passed away early this morning after unforeseen complications following a routine surgical procedure.“We have lost a wonderful much loved father and companion, the world has lost a truly great and gifted musician.” Lee and Leo Lyons founded Ten Years After in 1966.  The band’s appearance at Woodstock was one of the highlights of the 1969 festival as well as the resulting film documentary.


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