Re: Rock - what are you listening to?
Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2011 4:43 pm
Thumbs upcybot wrote:Followed by some of this...
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Re: Rock - what are you listening to?
Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2011 6:26 pm
Their best album by a long shot....What do you think Modest?
Re: Rock - what are you listening to?
Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 10:43 am
Spot on Cybot. The third album Kings of Oblivion lost the all power for me.cybot wrote:Their best album by a long shot....What do you think Modest?
Re: Rock - what are you listening to?
Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 7:41 pm
Re: Rock - what are you listening to?
Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 8:21 pm
Another sleeve I always loved :-)DaveF wrote:
Re: Rock - what are you listening to?
Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 8:23 pm
Nice one :-)Modest wrote:Spot on Cybot. The third album Kings of Oblivion lost the all power for me.cybot wrote:Their best album by a long shot....What do you think Modest?
Re: Rock - what are you listening to?
Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 9:10 pm
on the turntable...
Re: Rock - what are you listening to?
Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 9:53 pm
Another live one... Anybody else got a (vinyl) copy?
Re: Rock - what are you listening to?
Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 10:00 pm
Dont have it Dermot. Worth getting?cybot wrote:Another live one... Anybody else got a (vinyl) copy?
Re: Rock - what are you listening to?
Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 11:09 pm
Most definitely yes, if you can get it :-) I'm not sure about the various CD versions including the expanded version. Read the other reviews on Amazon and see what you think; in the meantime get stuck into the review below...DaveF wrote:Dont have it Dermot. Worth getting?cybot wrote:Another live one... Anybody else got a (vinyl) copy?
When Alvin Lee & Ten Years After were first invited to play in America by legendary rock promoter Bill Graham in 1968, they wanted to release an album to coincide with the tour. Their 2nd studio effort "Stonedhenge" was not yet complete, so it was decided to do a live album. The result was one of the best live recordings of the period, and it arguably remains as one of the best "Live Rock & Blues" albums ever! As indicated in my Visual History book on Ten Years After - when Alvin Lee first heard this album he thought "Well that's it, that is probably the best I'll ever play and there are going to be problems recording in the future because this encompasses just about everything the band can do". Fortunately things turned out much better for Ten Years After but, listening to UNDEAD, it quickly becomes evident that Alvin's initial concerns were not unfounded. This album absolutely "SMOKES" from the onset and the musicianship is remarkable throughout.
Ten Years After were quite different from the other "2nd British Invasion" blues bands of the late 60's because they effortlessly fused jazz and blues, and that characteristic is exemplified in this album. "Woodchoppers Ball" and "I May Be Wrong, But I Won't Be Wrong Always" are absolutely stunning and every bit as impressive today as when they were originally recorded. A few critics later got some sort of perverse pleasure from claiming that Alvin Lee's guitar playing was "all haste and no taste", but none of that is remotely evident on UNDEAD. His highly accomplished and precise technique on the aforementioned two songs dances above, around & under any solos recorded by the other so-called "guitar gods" of the time. The four new tracks, comprised of material originally excluded due to vinyl record time limits, have made the remastered CD even better. "Spoonful" and "Crossroads" were, of course, played by almost all of the British blues bands and Alvin obligingly introduces "Spoonful" as a "Clapton - Howlin' Wolf number". But it's a treat to now hear TYA's own version of these tunes with Alvin's own inimitable guitar work.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e1suJRP ... ata_player - Listen to this..