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Alvin Lee, rock guitarist in the
band Ten Years After, dies at 68
BBC News, by Staff
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Original Article
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Posted By:poison spring, 3/6/2013 8:40:38 PM
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| British rock guitarist Alvin Lee, a member of the band Ten Years After, has died aged 68. His family announced on his official website that he unexpectedly died on 6 March following complications during routine surgery. The Nottingham-born musician rose to fame after appearing at the Woodstock festival in 1969. The band, who had eight Top 40 albums in the UK, had their biggest hit in 1971 with I'd Love To Change the World. "We have lost a wonderful and much loved father and companion, the world has lost a truly great and gifted musician," said the statement from his wife and daughters.
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Comments:
I was fortunate enough to see him perform in the 1980´s, and WOW was he fantastic. R.I.P.
Please post to word limit as shown. LCom Staff.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
DaddyO, 3/6/2013 8:59:24 PM (No. 9212154)
Tax the rich, feed the poor
Till there are no rich no more
I´d love to change the world
But I don´t know what to do
So I´ll leave it up to you..
Anthem of the late 1960s:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwnneiF_i7I
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
woodsman, 3/6/2013 9:04:11 PM (No. 9212161)
Brings new meaning to "I´m goin home"
Awesome guitarist
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
woodsman, 3/6/2013 9:05:15 PM (No. 9212163)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGV-CBhnC1w
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
ledbythnose, 3/6/2013 9:05:20 PM (No. 9212164)
Awesome DaddyO! We burnt up many 8 track players listening to this Cat´s music. RIP Alvin.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
antiquegolf, 3/6/2013 9:15:53 PM (No. 9212178)
He was a fantastic rocker. RIP.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Hazymac, 3/6/2013 9:28:06 PM (No. 9212190)
"Tomorrow I´ll Be Out of Town" (Ten Years After)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA1yMn3U-5g
Another of my favorite rock and rollers passes on. Getting older means getting lonelier. Rest in peace, Alvin. You done good. See you up there.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
dragonlearner, 3/6/2013 9:30:49 PM (No. 9212194)
Somehow, I suspect this guy would appeal to many on this site. I include myself.
The juiceboxers are saying "Who is Alvin Lee?"
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
mfm, 3/6/2013 9:34:58 PM (No. 9212198)
Not me, what a guitar, saw AL and Ten Years After on a few occasions between 1971-1975 in Denver, the old Coliseum, horrible sound but in the the front couple of rows it was NUTS! RIP Alvin, "I´m goin´ home...see my baby...one for the money two for the show..".
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Safari Man, 3/6/2013 9:57:44 PM (No. 9212220)
complications during routine surgery
I presume this was under the socialized medicine in the UK? When I worked in London, my company paid for insurance so I could visit private doctors. They said they didn´t want me at the mercy of their socialized medicine. So we paid twice for my medical coverage.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
greyseal, 3/6/2013 10:27:36 PM (No. 9212262)
Spent many a day in my youth (and not a few nights in my later years) working on getting the right feel for those licks - the intro to ´´I´m Going Home´´ live at Woodstock is still electrifying. Man could do some serious barrelhouse rock-n-roll with TYA.
R.I.P. Alvin
greyseal
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
motorcycleboy, 3/6/2013 10:28:43 PM (No. 9212264)
From his web site: "unforseen complications following a routine surgical procedure".
Did he die in England? Is he a victim of careless socialized medicine practices? There are plenty of socialized medicine horror stories coming out of the UK -- just as there will be here in the USA.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
cjjeepercreeper, 3/6/2013 10:39:08 PM (No. 9212277)
Listening to "A Space in Time" right now. Darn, I feel old.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Hazymac, 3/6/2013 10:39:14 PM (No. 9212279)
"I´d Love to Change the World" was one of the first songs I learned on acoustic guitar. Pretty simple chords played in step up arpeggios: E-minor, G, A-minor, C, B7. Even today I use it as a warm up before moving to more difficult material.
One I particularly remember from early 1969´s Stonedhenge was "Speed Kills" (link below) with its train moving from the left channel to the right channel, then Alvin´s electric guitar doing the same. Ten Years After was a very good band.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B51_gCJOohw
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Gazelam, 3/6/2013 10:57:46 PM (No. 9212303)
Oh man. I pretty much wore the grooves out on the Ten Years After Live album. His guitar work was so tasty.
RIP dear friend and a well played life
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
wilarrbie, 3/6/2013 10:58:05 PM (No. 9212304)
Heavy siiiigh. Much of my teenage years was as a neighborhood groupie for a reeeeeally good garage band who covered TYA among others. Alvin Lee, et al never did much top 40 but as I learned young - never confuse popular with talent. Something very lost on much of the populace these days.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Ammo Guy, 3/6/2013 11:20:40 PM (No. 9212317)
Ah yes, Captain Speedfingers...need I say more?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
rocco49, 3/7/2013 2:15:39 AM (No. 9212407)
OMG! I cant believe this! Great guitar solo at Woodstock..."Going home..by..helicopter"!
I will really miss his guitar playing...man, I´m bummed! Saw him with Brownsville Station and BB King, great concert...saw them several more times..still cant believe this..life is slipping by too fast.
RIP Alvin, you rocked!
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
franq, 3/7/2013 7:00:05 AM (No. 9212531)
"Juiceboxers". Man that´s funny. Lee had a cool tune called "Rock and Roll Music to the World".
I feel sorry for musicians and listeners today. They really have it harder than the pioneers of rock, trying to come up with something "new under the sun".
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
zoidberg, 3/7/2013 7:13:38 AM (No. 9212550)
From the way he slurred "I´m going home...by helicopter" at Woodstock, I thought he had to be very drunk. And then proceeded to shred like few have ever shredded. An amazing guitarist.
RIP Alvin Lee.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
tank, 3/7/2013 2:15:08 PM (No. 9213364)
Dang, heard about this last night listening to XM. Saw him in the mid 70´s with TYA. Three on the bill w/ TYA headlining. The guy was Peter Frampton, who was on his ´´Comes Alive´´ tour.
Played until 1AM, with my mom waiting in the lobby at Hara Arena for the show to finish.
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