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- From: Michael.P.Colburn@dartmouth.edu (Michael P. Colburn)
- Newsgroups: alt.rock-n-roll.classic
- Subject: Re: Alvin Lee/Ten Years After
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.214042.21607@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 21:40:42 GMT
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- In article <BzoztK.782@umassd.edu>
- pmsc13sg@UMASSD.EDU (Stephen Grossman) writes:
-
- > In article <ganders-221292151707@129.46.148.48>, ganders@Qualcomm.comm (Greg) writes:
- > >
- > >Anybody out there (besides me) still enjoy listening to the clean,
- > >lightning-fast guitar work of this man? E.g. Choo Choo Mama, Baby Won't
- > >You Let Me Rock-n-Roll You, Goin' Home, Once There Was a Time... etc.?
- > >
- > >Alvin Lee still puts heavy metal to shame...
- > >
- > >Why? -Cause distortion is no substitute for precision....
- >
- >
- > I thought I was the only person who remembers Ten Years After. They were one of the best
- > of the best blues-rock groups but, very unfortunately, I only found that
- > quality on their first album, which I still have and enjoy as much as when I
- > heard them AND Albert King (who just died) at the LA Coliseum in the late
- > '60s. It's really a shame that later albums lacked the precise creativity of
- > the first.
-
- I'm not sure which album you're talking about when you say the first
- one...is that the one where the band is standing in a field with the
- woods behind them? I had "Shhhhh", which I thought was pretty good. I
- particularly liked their version of "Good Morning Little School Girl".
-
- > Stephen Grossman <PMSC13SG@UMASS.EDU>
-
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