Alvin Lee

gutpile · Post by **gutpile** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 11:26 pm

http://youtube.com/watch?v=HC4YGECcSOw

I always dug Ten Years After, still like the Fillmore concert...

EDIT: I think youtube is down for maintenance tonight (9/25)...

Roe · Post by **Roe** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 4:23 am

didn't alvin use a jtm45? and perhaps a 8x10" on some of the early stuff?

gutpile · Post by **gutpile** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 11:23 pm

I think now he uses a Marshall Jubilee 2550... I'm not sure what he used back in the day...

yngwie308 · Post by **yngwie308** » Thu Sep 27, 2007 1:51 am

Alvin used 100 watt Marshall stacks at the height of TYA, Leo Lyons-bass used Marshalls as well.
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electricskychurch · Post by **electricskychurch** » Thu May 01, 2008 5:09 pm

i think he's a great guitarist (one of the best of his type) and ten years after was a great band untill about the mid seventies although many of his compositions were not that great or maybe too " casualy insired".

"Sssh" and "Watt" were some great LP's .

i'd be curious to hear the cd live at the fillmore from 68 to 70' cause that's one of the only few i don't have.

i'm looking to buy Watt in cd cause i had it in vinyl lp but i can't find it anymore !

54strat · Post by **54strat** » Thu May 15, 2008 10:09 am

When I saw them in Lubbock (72ish) Alvin was using a 100 watt head a four cabs, Leo Lyons and Chick Churchill (keyboards) were both using similar rigs. A certain chemical made the wall o' Marshalls appear to wave like curtains in a breeze. Woodstock version of Going Home is a great 335/Marshall tone.

NitroLiq · Post by **NitroLiq** » Thu May 15, 2008 10:46 am

One word..."Woodstock." Absolutely ripping tone...had quite a few TYA albums between me and my brother.

45auto · Post by **45auto** » Thu May 15, 2008 11:01 am

ten years after recorded live '73, i wore the grooves out on that one. check out:
good morning little school girl
silly thing, classical thing, scat thing

i think his stylings may have motivated me to try to push the envelope a little more back then

Roe · Post by **Roe** » Thu May 15, 2008 2:14 pm

gutpile wrote:I think now he uses a Marshall Jubilee 2550... I'm not sure what he used back in the day...

he replaced the jtm45 with the jubilee. horrible choice IMHO

Mynameisfritz · Post by **Mynameisfritz** » Fri May 16, 2008 10:00 pm

Did you know - he played a strat in the very early days. And he sometimes used a WEM stack I believe, f.e. on 'Undead' - which is a killer album, especially 'I may be wrong, but I won't be wrong always'. Always liked their live albums more than the studio stuff. Great performers.
What do you think about the 'new' TYA?

Facetious11 · Post by **Facetious11** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 12:07 pm

Ive just recently gotten into Ten Years After. Boy, Alvin Lee had the fastest fingers back then. Shredding the Blues, allright