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I remember he was in the same city of Kansas when I visited there to see the stones in 1981.

Mick Taylor was touring with the Alvin Lee band and was playing in KC that week... Keith & Ronnie (I believe) ran into MT & asked MT to join the band for a few songs...

very SAD news indeed, R.I.P> Alvin Lee

Stunned by this news. A genuine legend on the axe. Woodstock a crowning glory, but Shhh and Cricklewood Green in particular highlight Lee's talents.

To me, far more listenable and enjoyable than even Clapton or Hendrix. Sacreligious I know, but, well, there you go.....Lee for me, the greatest guitarist of all time, I am just shattered.

RIP ALVIN LEE - long you will live in my memory.

Rod



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When I read about Alvin Lee dying earlier today it literally made me feel kind of sick to my stomach. A phenomenal guitarist that I can proudly say I managed to see live.

CBII

Sad to hear, they're droppin' like flies. Stones better get rollin'...

CBII, Alvin often played your dad's songs in his shows, and he stayed true to the original versions, while still adding his immense guitar kills. Still can't believe it.

, RIP
Alvin
. Lee

Thank you IORR (ROPENI) I saw this in no other place.
Sure these RIPs are sad, but they are news worthy.



I will never forget Alvin Lee.
I remember as a kid, watching Woodstock at the movies and looking up at
the screen and seeing Mr Lee going ballistic, he was in another zone, off
the planet, playing his rock and roll, it was spectacular, esp when the band
went into the out of control jam... he influenced me as a kid... RocknFknRroll!!... and now he has gone home.



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ROPENI
Sorry to hear this news,loved his guitar work...




[www.alvinlee.com]

HELL YEAH!!!!

Sad one of the Best around!!!
Much better than Clapton and Direstraits!!!
Alvin still rules !!!!

Really sad news news. I loved Ten Years After. RIP Alvin.

TYA's Cricklewood Green and Shhh! were two of the first rock albums I ever bought along with Led Zeppelin 2 and III.

I remember people used to give him stick for his speedy guitar solos but to me he took rock music to a new level. TYA's mid period including the two albums mentioned above, Watt and A Space In Time were really a psychedelic take on the blues.

Particular favourites are Working On The Road, 50,000 Miles Beneath My Brain, Love Like A Man, I'm Coming On. But they could do tender ballads as well such as If You Should Love Me and Circles.

Two weeks ago Kevin Ayers and no Alvin. This is a bad year.



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RIP, Alvin

Thanks for your great music.....

Sad, sad news...which gave me the same kind of "sick to my stomach"-feel as the news about Lennon's death some decades ago. It's as if someone takes a part of one's life away. And Alvin Lee definitely played a huge role in my youth; there were times in the 70s when I listened more to Ten Years After and his solo stuff (On The Road To Freedom, In Flight) than to the Stones or any other bands/artists. Even had a nice conversation with him...

It's strange that TYA's "Recorded Live"-album never gets mentioned - it surely belongs in the top ten of all-time greatest live albums, alongside YaYa's, Live At Leeds and the like. A tour de force of Rock, Blues Rock, Blues, Rock'n'Roll - the absolute pinnacle of live TYA/Alvin Lee.

RIP Alvin...and all the best to his family.

Very sad news indeed....and this makes it even worse:

"Lee died in Spain on Wednesday, March 6 due to complications from routine surgery."

I saw TYA in January 1973 in Frankfurt, where they used the Rolling Stones Mobile Truck for the 'Recorded Live' double album.
no overdubs and such - they just rocked the Festhalle.


[www.discogs.com]

"This album is a truthful recording of Ten Years After with no overdubs or additives. What you hear is what happened on the night. Recorded over four nights in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Frankfurt and Paris with the Rolling Stones' mobile recording truck and later mixed from sixteen track to stereo at Olympic Studios in London.
In answer to the inferior live recordings sold illegally: this is the official Ten Years After bootleg."

RIP, Alvin Lee

Ten Years After was one cookin' little unit. Saw them at The Electric Facory in '68 I guess. I just dug up my Alvin Lee / Mick Taylor audience recording from Philly '81. He could play that thing. R.I.P

A great sampler is PURE BLUES, highlighted by The bluest blues (probaply the mostadequate feeling after learning that he passed away) with a slide guitar solo by George Harrison.

Salute!!! Alvin Lee!!!

Sad news....

Anyone know what the "routine" surgery was?

He was an innovator as well as a purist. In 2003, Alvin Lee teamed up with Scotty Moore, who played on Elvis' 50s recordings, and recorded an album [Alvin Lee In Tennessee; released in 2004] at Moore's studio in Nashville, Tennessee.



01. Let's Boogie
02. Rock & Roll Girls
03. Take My Time
04. I'm Gonna Make it
05. Somethings Gonna Get You
06. Why Did you do it
07. Getting Nowhere Fast
08. let's get it On
09. Tell Me Why
10. I'm Going Home


With Scotty Moore, D.J. Fontana, Willie Ramsford, Pete Pritchard

Rock & Roll Girls from 2004's Alvin Lee In Tennessee.

I saw Ten Years After @ Clark University in Worcester , MA in the late '60's ... great show

I think the headliner that night was Orpheus .
It was a no admission show and they passed the hat for The Clark Strike Fund .

Those were the days

This thread led me to do some delving into Alvin Lee's discography, and I was very impressed to discover that he appeared as a guest musician on the Earl Scruggs Revue album Super Jammin' (1976). That's quite a bit of versatility for a heavy blues-rock type of player. He plays on 3 tracks on the album. The clip below features Alvin on Bleeker Street Rag, with Billy Joel on piano and Charlie Daniels on electric guitar--oh, and Roger McGuinn on 12-string electric guitar.







Bleeker Street Rag
Earl Scruggs - banjo
Gary Scruggs - electric bass
Randy Scruggs - acoustic guitar
Roger McGuinn - electric 12-string guitar
Alvin Lee - electric guitar
Charlie Daniels - electric guitar
Reggie Young - electric guitar
Leon Pendarvis - organ
Billy Joel - piano
Willie Hall - drums
Ron Cornelius - electric guitar