Ten Years After

Ten Years After is a British group of rock'n'roll and Blues, founded in 1965.

Become universally celebrates following the Festival of Woodstock and with the service on scene of its guitarist and singer Alvin Lee, Ten Years After was one of the major formations of the British Blues Boom at the end of the Années 1960. This group also contributed to the emergence of the Hard rock.

Members of the group

Alvine Lee: Singer and guitarist
Leo Lyons: Bass player
Chick Churchill: Organist
Ric Lee: Beater

History

The group is resulting from the meeting in 1964 between the guitarist Alvin Lee and the multi-instrumentalist Leo Lyons. They form the Britain' S Largest Sounding Trio which takes the name of The Jaybirds when they are joined by the beater Ric Lee (without family ties with Alvin) and the clavierist Chick Churchill (ex-roadie of the group). Playing of traditional of the blues and rock' roll, the four men take in 1965 the name of Ten Years After , to mark what they regard as the tenth birthday of the birth of the rock' roll.

Quickly, this new group forges a solid reputation in the small world of the British rock'n'roll. This reputation, it owes it in particular with its leader Alvin Lee. True wonder of the guitar, it electrifies crowd by its solos with extension, full with hustle and virtuosity which revisit the monuments of the rock'n'roll and the blues. Equipped with a voice hot and powerful in addition to its talents of guitarist, Alvin Lee can also count on a rhythm section of great quality, which contributes to do of Ten Years After one of the formations of blues-rock'n'roll more the appraisals of its generation on scene, comparable with the Cream of Clapton, Bruce and Baker.

Engaged by the Decca firm, Ten Years After publishes its first album in 1967. In spite of brilliances pieces (in particular the long recovery with the intonations jazzy of the I Can' T Keep From Crying Sometimes of Al Kooper in which Alvin Lee reveals a talent with the multiple facets), the album Ten Years After has only one mitigated success. The publication of Undead , first album live of the group in 1968, then of Stonehendge and Ssssh in 1969 does nothing but confirm the reputation of the group and charms the amateurs of the kind, without to make it take off médiatiquement.

For Ten Years After, any exchange in August 1969. Invited Festival of Woodstock, the group achieves a memorable service, immortalized there in official film of the Festival where the ten minutes of the piece I' m Goin' Home appear, kind length medley blues, rock'n'roll and boogy in which Alvin Lee appears boosted. The formidable blow of media projector thus related to the group makes it possible the fifth album ( Cricklewood Green , left in 1970) to be finally a large success. Ten Years After delivers its usual, made receipt to it recoveries inspired and original compositions accommodated also well by criticism, and completes to devote Alvin Lee like authentic a guitar heroe .

The exits of Watt in 1971 then of Space in Time in 1972 confirm that Ten Years After became one of the most popular groups of blues-rock'n'roll of its generation. But the purists start to regret the breathlessness of the group, with the compositions less and less inspired which lorgnent towards the pop music or a puffing hard rock. Alvin Lee itself seems more and more prisoner of its image of Woodstock and the reducing label of the fastest guitarist of the world which is coupled for him.

The albums " will follow; Rock'n'roll & Roll music to the world" in 1972 and " Recorded live" in 1973 (compilation of their European round 1972) which shows a group at the top of its art but also blowing itself seriously.

In 1974, after the exit of disappointing the Positive Vibrations , the group separates. After more than ten years of scattering of its members (Alvine Lee will found in particular transitory the Ten Years Later at the end of the years 1970), the four members of the group find themselves in 1983 for a British round then again in 1988 for a new album which will pass unperceived ( About Time ) and for a long round primarily centered towards the nostalgia and the resumption of old successes of end of the year 60.

Ten Years After exists always and continuous to occur regularly under this name throughout the world, but in the absence of its most famous member. In dissension with the other members of the formation, Alvin Lee was indeed replaced by the young guitarist and singer Joe Gooch.

To note however in 2001, on the initiative of the beater Ric Lee, the exit of double CD entitled " Live At the Fillmore East 1970" who us replonge in the best time of the group.

Discography

Albums

Compilations

Double Deluxe (1970)
Ten Years After (1971)
Classic Performances (1976)
Goin' Home (1977)
Greatest Hits (1977)
Profiles (1979)
Ten Years After (1980)
Timewarps (1983)
The Collection (1985)
At Their Peak (1987)
Universal (1987)
Portfolio (1988)
The Collection (1991)
Essential (1991)
Original Recordings (1993)
Original Recordings - vol. 2 (1993)
Pure Blues (1995)
The Originals (1995)
I' m Going Home (1996)
Premium Golden Collection (1998)
The Best off (2000)
Very Best Ten Years After Album Ever (2001)
Ten Years After Anthology (2002)
Love Like have Man (2003)
Deram Years Anthology (? ???)

" I' m Goin' Home" in Woodstock

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