I always felt that Alvin went for speed and virtuosity at the expense of lyricism and musicality. Good technically, but too repetitive. I would not rate him as high as Hendrix .
Alvin Lee, Rory Gallagher and Roy Buchanan were probably the most criminally underrated guitarists of their time. Jeff Healey was another one that came a bit later.
have always loved this song. Heard it by so many artists but I got to say this version is unreal. Ten Years after you Rock. Alvin Lee wow just wow that man had soul.
Ten Years After they had the Blues flowing through their veins. One of the best groups of the seventies. I herad them in Munich play LIVE exactly five times. They rocked the crowd like nobody else! Unfortunately the brilliant guitarist (Alvin Lee) died quite a while ago already. They continued without him, but in my opinion it wasn`t the same Jörg J.
Saw him with Johnny winter one fateful night back in 81 I think....that night will go with me to my grave, when they put me under for my dirt nap, my soul will be remembering the slide work, the picking...the sweat flying...it was outside philly"The Brandywine club"....RIP Alvin....anybody who reads this GO SEE JOHNNY , he still Rocks HARD
The youth of today & beyond will sadly miss bands like Ten Years After, Yardbirds etc........ Great bands that wrote songs that had meaning and substance. Rock & Roll will never die.
i agree with you...ummm...Alvin Lee wrote most of the songs he performed. THIS song, however...SPOONFULL was written by the great...MR. BASSOLOGY...Willie Dixon...
Man I love his phrasing.. back in the mid 60's only three guitarists ruled when it came to phrasing.. that's Jimi, Alvin & Eric while he was still with John Mayall.. Alvin got tired of the same old phrases by 1973 and Eric completely lost it until he started playing with bonnie and Clyde (sorry Del and Bonnie ;-) Watching this video is almost like sitting in the audience when they were recording "Undead"!
Genius...superb blues, saw them live a few times in my youth, Toby Jug, Marquee, and festivals I think. Alvin Lee one of the best blues men about at the time
TEN YEARS AFTER with "Alvin Lee" these guys breath BLUES, eat BLUES, dream BLUES and they live for BLUES......That was always their Way of life Man...!!!! 🤟🤟🤟🎸🎸🎸
I'm proud to say i got to see him live one time at the Keystone in Palo Alto Ca in 1983. He was amazing ! A true maniac on the fretboard. I saw Jerry G. there a bunch of times. Great memories of the good ole days. R.I.P. Alvin ! Theres some good jammin goin on in Rock & Roll heaven !
oh no : ( sooo sad. just heard it from here. now i have the feeling the world just lost something of high value!! rest in peace dude. thinking of what you and your guitar gave us all these years with your sound.
Ce son , cette attitude..Que c est bon..Ces images ...Maintenant, nous sommes ringards !! .A l image de gens détestables qui n apprécient pas !! Vive nous !! C est du pur bonheur cette vidéo ...
Good old fashioned psychedelic blues rock. I’m so glad I recently discovered this fantastic footage! It’s nice to have another reference to show people how good/underrated of a guitarist Alvin Lee was besides his fiery Woodstock performance of “I’m Going Home”. #RIP
Long Live Alvin...69 long years is indeed vintage, tastier than the sweetest wine-Champagne or Chardonnays....Fascinating guitar work- intriguing & unparalleled....My taste for TYA began circa 69 and over time the blues have become more bluesy.....such blues rock rendition with a powerful & mellifluous voice will always remain a mystery
@polymath7 My thoughts are based on the old live Cream version on CZcams where they jam with no audience - watched it about 75 times. It's one of the best on CZcams. So to assert anything is "better" is a tall, tall order. Let's just say they are both among the finest examples of what authentic rock music is all about - high energy, skilled musicians who are totally inside the sound, volume and burning hot vacuum tubes, transcendent emotions, eccentric style. Yeah life is good.
amazing really good guitar work vocals mint classic moment in history when the balance was just right ...still love the Clapton bruce ginger baker version from wheels of fire the best but this upload smoother version peace out
As an older dude who grew up in this era, it amazes me how this generation of musicians were all so young! What a time that was.
Schools still taught music back in the day.
They were playing for the love of the muzik and then letting the fame and all that comes with it follow 💯😁❤️🔥🎶
Is 2024 and I'm just now listening to this Alvin Lee still kicks ass!
Timeless CLASSIC ROCK 🪨
5:39 5:40 5:40 5:42 5:43
ALVIN WAS one of the BEST GUITARISTS ALIVE AND HE COULD SING. R.I.P
I always felt that Alvin went for speed and virtuosity at the expense of lyricism and musicality. Good technically, but too repetitive. I would not rate him as high as Hendrix .
I did not know he was dead!...
How and when was that? Could I see on youtube?
Let me see then
Очень не Хило!
Alvin Lee, Rory Gallagher and Roy Buchanan were probably the most criminally underrated guitarists of their time. Jeff Healey was another one that came a bit later.
I met Jeff Healey, nice guy. Sold a few of his trad jazz albums
Don’t forget Ronnie Montrose!!
You can hear the soul of the man and you feel the Blues runnin' through his veins in this version of this classic
The bass guitarist is moving like ginger baker what a savage.
Jack Bruce😁
You mean Jack Bruce
Ginger never made any grooves like bass playing the guy plays fast and hard tempos
@@Alan-su5bgdude Ginger Bakers Toad is crazy mature and laid back!
Willie Dixon wrote this and about 90% of the blues tunes the British kids brought to America and we had no clue all that music was from Chicago
have always loved this song. Heard it by so many artists but I got to say this version is unreal. Ten Years after you Rock. Alvin Lee wow just wow that man had soul.
Seen playing this at Chicago stadium 78/79
That Alvin Lee was a hell of a musician.its amazing how under the radar he was to some.rip Alvin Lee
R.I.P. Alvin Lee. The golden age of rock and roll just passed a little bit further into history.
One of our best guitarists, without a doubt.
one of the greatest of all time, peace to alvin lee!
Damn right. Clapton was excellent, but I think Lee was right at the top with the best of them. Power, speed and a shitload of soul. Great tone too.
Leo Lyons SLAPS that Bass...This was one of the best bands to see live..I saw them about 20 times in and around L.A.
So beautiful just imagining your experiences! 💞💞 Jealous as frig too!
Ten Years After they had the Blues flowing through their veins. One of the best groups of the seventies. I herad them in Munich play LIVE exactly five times. They rocked the crowd like nobody else! Unfortunately the brilliant guitarist (Alvin Lee) died quite a while ago already. They continued without him, but in my opinion it wasn`t the same Jörg J.
They was around in the sixties my friend, Woodstock 1969, and way before that in the u.k clubs!
Around in the sixties my friend, Woodstock 1969, and way before that in the u.k clubs!
They should be in the Rock & Roll HOF!!!
One of the best bands to see live back in the day.
Alvin Lee performed bigly at Woodstock. His drummer was great too.
Saw him with Johnny winter one fateful night back in 81 I think....that night will go with me to my grave, when they put me under for my dirt nap, my soul will be remembering the slide work, the picking...the sweat flying...it was outside philly"The Brandywine club"....RIP Alvin....anybody who reads this GO SEE JOHNNY , he still Rocks HARD
"Leo Lyons on bass guitar....Leo Lyons!"
Oh ya, Alvin kicks ass also!
My husband had the pleasure of seeing them in Providence, RI in 1971 with Humble pie
RightOne40 that’s awesome! What a lucky man! I’m jealous lol
@@JumpinJAKEFlash Saw them open for The Mothers of Invention in a tent in Framingham, MA in 1969.
I've loved this for nearly 50 years and I had no idea it had been filmed. Extraordinary thing the interweb!
Stands on His Own amongst the Greats 🎸 in a Crowded Arena, Alvin Lee sticks out with a Flaming 🔥 Flair of 1 of a Kind 👊💫👊
A permanent and infallible source of energy - that's what Alvin Lee was about. And that is what Art is about.
The youth of today & beyond will sadly miss bands like Ten Years After, Yardbirds etc........ Great bands that wrote songs that had meaning and substance.
Rock & Roll will never die.
Meaning and substance? What? Ten Years After? Clearly I'm missing something!
Who gives a shit what you think. You are clearly a fool!
They're out there just under the radar. Check out Black Pistol Fire - that dude has enough rock n roll for the next 20 years or so all by himself. :)
Substance it did :D
i agree with you...ummm...Alvin Lee wrote most of the songs he performed. THIS song, however...SPOONFULL was written by the great...MR. BASSOLOGY...Willie Dixon...
ABSOLUTELY EPIC FROM ONE OF THE GREATEST!!!
Stoned out of his head, but playing better than anybody could possibly imagine!
blues in the richest sense. alvin... you had it in your head... made the music, and gave it to us. thanks with love
Yeah, so am I. Great Great Alvin, seen him twice!!! Love you all my friends. Willy from Amsterdam
I believe this is the best version of Spoonful I have ever heard, I love Woodchopper's Ball also. Alvin Lee never got the credit he should have.
I'm loving his version.rip beautiful ALVIN
Cream’s 22 minute live version from 1967. Look it up on CZcams. It wipes the floor with this.
The Bloomfield/Butterfield cover is hot stuff too...
Howlin Wolf was untouchable. But Clapton, Bruce and Baker immortalized it.
@@Dagger_323 Yep, that version is also masterful.
That bass sounds fuckin great
Man I love his phrasing.. back in the mid 60's only three guitarists ruled when it came to phrasing.. that's Jimi, Alvin & Eric while he was still with John Mayall.. Alvin got tired of the same old phrases by 1973 and Eric completely lost it until he started playing with bonnie and Clyde (sorry Del and Bonnie ;-)
Watching this video is almost like sitting in the audience when they were recording "Undead"!
sgdeluxedoc only 3 guitarists ruled when it came to phrasing? Lol
My older brother turned me onto these guys back then. He wasn't aware of it...
Alvin Lee was amazing.
you can't teach an old new trick's I've been listning to this band ever since fm radio came out
TYA is just superb. R.I.P. Alvin Lee
I've heard of slapping the bass but Leo Lyons takes it to another level. Lol
Genius...superb blues, saw them live a few times in my youth, Toby Jug, Marquee, and festivals I think. Alvin Lee one of the best blues men about at the time
Yes Tom. Agree. Haven't seen this vid before. Incredible, almost 50 y ago. For me it's up-to-date blues. Awesome.
Bless all the great music you gave us *_Mr. Alvin "Guitar" Lee !_*
Мне 60, но я по прежнему кайфую от рок 60-70 х! А от басмена прямо прусь! Рок-н - ролл вечен!!!
As good as it gets. This is music nirvana. Alvin 1968 had no competition. Only Hendrix was up there. Rock on!!! 🎸
Rory Gallagher too, was jamming in a band called Taste i believe in 68..
Alvin. Lee was a badass rock & roller
TEN YEARS AFTER with "Alvin Lee" these guys breath BLUES, eat BLUES, dream BLUES and they live for BLUES......That was always their Way of life Man...!!!! 🤟🤟🤟🎸🎸🎸
gotta love Leo Lyons
Good God, you must hate real bass players.
Saw Alvin and ten years after ( twice)....... amazing guitarist!!!!
One of Favorite bands......and this one sexy song❤
AWESOME THE WHOLD BAND IS KICKING ASS
When you learn this song , you've got to play it. Thank you for sharing.
I'm proud to say i got to see him live one time at the Keystone in Palo Alto Ca in 1983. He was amazing ! A true maniac on the fretboard. I saw Jerry G. there a bunch of times. Great memories of the good ole days. R.I.P. Alvin ! Theres some good jammin goin on in Rock & Roll heaven !
Alvin Lee did not use. Drugs not a coke user just a fast guitar 🎸 player one of the best guitar players ever listen to spoonful and going home
Yes one of the best (and fastest) guitarists ever, and great band too
oh no : ( sooo sad. just heard it from here. now i have the feeling the world just lost something of high value!!
rest in peace dude. thinking of what you and your guitar gave us all these years with your sound.
Alvin
was one of the best
I love the way Chic plays that Bass!
LEO
Great shots of the drummer ! Amazing drum kit and miking position
-March 6, 2013. Another one bites the dust. Thank you, Alvin, for your time spent on this earth.
I just hear this beautiful music and forget everything, who plays it... it doesn't matter. I feel so happy to live in the era i could hear this song.
this is this blues
Wow, this is real music!!
Love this song.
Great feeling of Mr.Alvin Lee ! Very good group !
Great Song, Great Band!
Thank you,
Andreas Hamburg Germany
EXCELENTE , NO ME CANSO DE ESCUCHAR TANTO VIRTUOSISMO EN ESA EPOCA
ALVIN GENIO
Alvin Unleashed! Outrageously Goood!!
Ruhe in Frieden Alvin Lee. Dein Blues bleibt bei uns !!
Alvin doing some raw blues in every way!
That was a great time for music of all genres.
And Leo captures Willie Dixons bass.Outstanding!
Ce son , cette attitude..Que c est bon..Ces images ...Maintenant, nous sommes ringards !! .A l image de gens détestables qui n apprécient pas !! Vive nous !! C est du pur bonheur cette vidéo ...
Ainda que nessa epoca tinha 16 anos,vivi toda essa epoca de ouro,quando queriamos curtir e namorar muito.
R I P Alvin ! an thanx ..Memories of the Star in Croydon .
Mesmerized..
they sound hot and cool at the same time
Por siempre Alvin Lee... gracias por tu rock! Mi admiracion total
Excellent insight into the video making process and great song.
What footage fantastic.
Good old fashioned psychedelic blues rock. I’m so glad I recently discovered this fantastic footage! It’s nice to have another reference to show people how good/underrated of a guitarist Alvin Lee was besides his fiery Woodstock performance of “I’m Going Home”. #RIP
I always loved Ten Years After... In this video his looking just like Roger Daltrey from The Who. LOL...
What??? Isn't he Daltrey?? 🤣🤣🤣
@@felipeborgescunha4854 That perm is TERRIBLE... Dude... LOL
I thought that for time not only me then lol
I like this very much !
Long Live Alvin...69 long years is indeed vintage, tastier than the sweetest wine-Champagne or Chardonnays....Fascinating guitar work- intriguing & unparalleled....My taste for TYA began circa 69 and over time the blues have become more bluesy.....such blues rock rendition with a powerful & mellifluous voice will always remain a mystery
No me canso de escuchar este temon... Grande alvin... Forever
@polymath7 My thoughts are based on the old live Cream version on CZcams where they jam with no audience - watched it about 75 times. It's one of the best on CZcams. So to assert anything is "better" is a tall, tall order. Let's just say they are both among the finest examples of what authentic rock music is all about - high energy, skilled musicians who are totally inside the sound, volume and burning hot vacuum tubes, transcendent emotions, eccentric style. Yeah life is good.
yea that vid is heavy man
one more time he played it like Alvin, always the man
Blues de ma belle Jeunesse - Yeah ! Alvin Lee 👍☮🎻
Amazing ! Truly works of wonder.
Alvin Fuckn Lee one of the best Guitar players of all time RIP Brother
I love the tuning on that guitar. This is a version i hadn't heard before
Spoonfull may take me higher..and down..
Never seen this before, very cool.
Me too, and Alvin Lee is my favorite guitarist! OK, now I recognize the tune.
Obrigado, Valéria, pela indicação. Ótima banda, ótima música .
Awesome sounds from
Alvin Lee.
YOU ARE THE BEST ALVIN,R.I.P.
me encanta el estilo de tocar el bajo de leo lyons !!!
50yearsafter,still bad ass and better than most today,so sad ,oh well,maybe one day will hear some worthy
i was 11 when i first heard this
They should be in the hall of fame long time ago.
Great version. At some point, the camera could have panned to show us what Chick and Ric were doing.
さすが 早引き の世界一。 この曲は ただ単に 自分の早引きを 自慢したいだけの曲ですね！
それがまたいいんだよね~。 私は大好き❤
1968❤
ALVIN WAS BIG LEFT GUITARS HE WAS BIG LIKE FOR ME WHAT MY MUMY IN POLAND LOVE THIS MUSIC
amazing really good guitar work vocals mint classic moment in history when the balance was just right ...still love the Clapton bruce ginger baker version from wheels of fire the best but this upload smoother version peace out
Alvin Lee should be in Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Rolling Stone left him off list of 100 greatest guitarist totally unfair and incorrect.
Cara tocava absurdamente bem...nivel hendrix