Ten Years After- Woodchopper's Ball, Live At The Marquee

Live Marquee 1983

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Music

Tags:

• blues
• guitar
• alvin
• lee

[londonuk70]

@flashzblue Besides, I think that even Clapton couldn´t play like this. Have you ever wondered why Clapton never played with Alvin?????????

This Alvin really rocks!!!!!!!!!!!!

[unkljer]

These guys were all about lettin loose on stage, if they were inspired. the old story was that occasionally , they would give subpar shows. I saw them on an amazing night in 1974 when they blew ZZ Top off the stage. Now that's saying something. Alvin just left his guit feeding back when he left the stage. Leo was such an energetic bassist, much different than other bassists of his era.

[SilentBen18]

leo "the power" bass

[raymind1313]

@2711913 ---thanks for that info--Woodchopper's a Woody Herman piece I beleive, who played a pretty mean clarinet himself--the first time I saw TYA live(Fillmore 1968) and heard those first few notes from Spoonful I was hooked, and recall my friend next to me saying something about how he must have had some classical guitar experience--don't know--but know his own guitar pieces are classical and will remain so for Many Years After! Thanks again!

[2711913]

@raymind1313 Alvin Lee played clarinet before guitar and I think that's where the swing element in his music comes from.

[2711913]

@deanslist101 Loved these guys since their first album. Saw them at Winterland here in SF in 1975. Check out "Ten Years After Winterland 1975" on yt for the 12 part series. Amazing they only had one radio hit-"I'd Love to Change the World"  Still played on radio today. "Ten Years After Undead" is still one of my fave albums of theirs.

[MilSepic60]

thanks bornblues for posting this. Alvin is such an underrated player. Love to hear hard rock swing. The whole band cooks!!!

[stratas2]

got to see them play this in Cherry Hill, N.J. 1979, Awesome !

[Ironhorse7874]

Remember first hearing this cut,and it's pretty safe to say I shit my pants.

[deanslist101]

These guys behind him had to work fast and hard to keep up with Alvin. I saw them at least three times in their prime and, trust me, the guys who worked up the biggest sweat were the bass player (Leo Lyons), the organist (Chick Churchill) and the drummer (Ric Lee). Alvin was the coolest one of them all but he worked his butt off too. Listen to how they sound and it shows. What a great musical era that was!