@@richardcranium5048agree with this 🖕 everytime one of you dildos says someone is underated you shove them deeper into the shadows and insult that musician.
@Brandi6666 are you serious. I wonder, can you guess which one of the 5 greatest guitar players to ever take a stage the f@ggits at Rolling Stone did not put on the 250 greatist guitar players list is. Lita Fuckin' Ford is on that list...Lita Ford. Alvin Lee is the single most under-rated/appreciated guitarist of all time..Of course as an American I stand in support of your right to be wrong.
This song came about during a tumultuous time during the early seventies. The Vietnam War was still raging, racial tensions were high and that generation was bearing the brunt of it.
Ten Years After is one of my favorite bands and Alvin Lee was remarkable guitar player ever, I always loved how they slowly built their songs into a great groove
Alvin Lee, one of my all time favorite guitarists, and a great vocalist. Since the 70's I've felt that Alvin Lee has been one of the most underrated and underappreciated guitarists of all time. He deserved much more accolades that he received. And tragically he died undergoing what was supposed to be a safe minor heart operation to correct an atrial arrhythmia. He died at the age of 68, the same age I am now. You should check out "The Bluest Blues." If you do be sure to pay attention to the great slide guitar work. It was played by George Harrison, a former Beatle.
Huge Alvin Lee fan here! I once had all of his albums but sadly fell on hard times decades ago and had to sell them. As for the lyrics, the part about dykes and fairies, well, times were different back then. Makes me cringe a bit now tho. It's also pretty apathetic to say "I'll leave it up to you". We change the world by changing the person that we see in the mirror. That's the best that we can do. I saw him in the late 90s at The Greek Theater and he still killed it on that guitar! You might want to check out his massive library of bluesy rock songs like "The Bluest Blues" or "I Can't Keep From Crying". There are so many excellent tunes to choose from. One of the best guitarists to live (RIP) but very underrated.
Great review. I think on the "leave it up to you" part he was relaying what you stated. That we're relying on others, our politicians, our neighbors... to make changes, hence -leave it up to you. Isn't that almost of us do? Pay taxes, in essence pay other people to solve problems in society, to solve problems that will better our own situation? I think a lot of us would like to make changes in the world or to the system but we really don't know what to do. People have forgotten that when we unite the government and corporate America have no choice but to listen. But they've kind of neutralized that through long hours of hard work where people are too tired at the end of the day... Making sure most of us are fairly well taken care of... The car is paid, food is in the refrigerator, we live in a reasonable area of town... Our kids have decent clothes... Most of us even have some extra money to participate in life to some degree even though prices are through the roof... So people are not as inclined to revolt under these conditions. Even though it's highly stressful on the average citizen and corporations and governments are lining their pockets more than ever with our money. I guess that's why they made more money... Otherwise the rich would have to do without, Or they would have to exploit us to such a degree that we would have to lash out. That's what history shows, that if you impoverish a people badly enough they will revolt or retaliate. But instead of learning that it's wrong to exploit people the powers that be have just learned how to skirt the line. Shame on them for not learning their own lessons as well as us not learning ours. The lessons are right there. It's just hard to get man to apply them on both sides of the aisle. SIGHS
The name Ten Years After is a tribute to Elvis Presley, one of frontman Alvin Lee's musical heroes. The band was founded in 1966, 10 years after Elvis' first year of success in 1956 (Ten Year After). Great songs are HEAR ME CALLING, SAD SONG, LET THE SKY FALL, and TURN OFF THE TV BLUES. Thanks for playing Ten Years After. Your song reviews and commentary are the best.
That is incorrect. That it was 10 years after Elvis, is just coincidence. The band was named after a book called "Suez. Ten Years After". Check out the YT channel of Leo Lyons, he explains it in one of the videos there.
Guitarist Alvin Lee (RIP) belongs in the same league as the other greats of the era - Hendrix (RIP), Page, Clapton, and Blackmore. He could jam, but he could also make his guitar speak. His true passion was blues, and much of TYAs music was tinged with that. Here he is 25 years later (solo) - "The Bluest Blues": - try keeping your eyes dry. th-cam.com/video/3lz3px4dTU8/w-d-xo.html
I have loved Ten Years After for over 40 years ! Another good one to check out is I Can't Keep From Crying , live . Then you can find out how good of a guitarist Alvin Lee is !!
My most played and favorite song when it came out...and it remains a sentimental favorite. I still remember specific incidents of just thinking about the song...50 year ago.
This song came out when I was 12. It was a tumultuous time. And the question he asked is I want to change the world but I don't know what to do. And now it's 63 years old there is no room for remaining neutral, we all have to be the change. I'm ashamed of my generation. The people get beat down by the system we can't leave it up to someone else to change the world it has to be us.
I'm glad he mentioned the drum piece by Alvin's brother Ric. The song is about a chaotic world way ahead of its time. We know what to do but powerless in knowing how to change the world.
This is one of my favorites of that era and to this day. I love the interweaving of the acoustic melody with Alvin Lee's electric guitar work. As you said, the lyrics leave you thinking, too.... Check out Alvin Lee's version of 'The Bluest Blues'. GREAT stuff. And Ten Years After's performance of 'I'm Going Home' live at Woodstock (the fifteen-minute version, not the six-minute clipped video) is one of the greatest live jams ever.
Nice shout out to the incredible bass guitar playing in this which you should check out their other stuff, there is so much good stuff and all of them were Savage beasts at what they did. But anyway, I could see in your face and your eyes how much you really really got it. Hats off.
One important thing to note about the lyrics, he is not voicing his own opinion in the first couple of verses. He starts off with the opinion of the Conservatives, then Socialists, Capitalists and the Hippies. To show they all have flaws in their ideas, therefore he does not know what to do, and leaves it up to you. Thus when he says tax the rich, feed the poor, until there are no rich no more, he is not saying that we should do that, he is pointing out the flaw in that concept. If you run out of rich people, then there is no money left to give to the poor. Same for the first part where he refers to: hairies (which he would have been one of), freaks, dykes and faeries. Then he says where is sanity? That is not his opinion, he again shows the flaw in the Conservative concept.
Love that album. It was a great influence on me as a guitar player. I learned every song on it. I am glad I'm Going Home isn't on it. That tune would've discouraged me and I probably would've thrown my guitar away if I'd have tried to learn that song 😆 One of These Days is my favorite song on this album. You should give it a listen.
This banger, I believe, meant just the opposite of the overt words: "Till there are no rich no more." Listen carefully for his nearly whispered 'economy," "monopoly." The best.
Your first exposure to Alvin was when he was Live tweaking on LSD/Acid at Woodstock doing "I'm Going Home". This was recorded in a studio, but just as fast, I wonder if there was any drugs involved?
Eventually you run out of OPM (other people's money), and then who will you tax, and finding there is no one, how ever will you live. I remember when this first came out. Unbelievable live. Just a freaking monster.
I don't know if I've seen you react to this song before, but what an awesome track this is! And if I have seen this before it's so good I want to see it again!
Fantastic song, superb band, legendary guitarist, Alvin Lee. (Nice reaction, too, lol) Y'know, it occurs to me that ol' ALvin here may well have NOT been on the recent Rolling Stone magazine's "Top 250 guitarists ever" list. I mean, I wouldn't know just WHERE to rank him (top 50, probably?) but I knw he WOULD be on anyone's "250" list. But it wouldn't surprise me if they left him off.. THAT's how piss poor that list was! It was an abomination of misrankings and dissed artists. Many here will know what I'm talking about!
@@AP-gb3eh the verse is "tax the rich to feed the poor until there are no rich no more" so if your argument is that, that is an endorsement of the idea that no rich is a good thing it would seem to suggest that you believe Alvin was in favor of starving the poor
I was kid and a teenager in the sixties and seventies and with few exceptions ....the music cannot be matched . There were sub ( not in quality ) genres of music ( punk , Indie/Grunge , Metal ) that had true moments of greatness that carried us through . But now ... sad to say , music is fake , pumped out crap and pathetic ... so sad . PK
Economy…Monopoly… No, not for me. A social injustice song. I’m old but don’t care for some of their gay descriptions. But that was the day. We still accepted.
Probably the 3rd or 4th song I ever learned on guitar back in the 70's saw these guys back then live Humble Pie opened the show great memories concert ticket was $5.00 I have kept every single concert ticket I ever went to I have a shoebox full of well over 100 tickets.✌👍
Alvin Lee one the best underrated guitarist in the rock music. So bluesy !!! I tell you twice, underrated !!!!
I simply could not agree more. In fact were I king of the world it would be a criminal offense to not list him in any top 5 greatest list
Dude nobody fucking underates alvin. Stop it, just stop it😮
Should you go for thrice?
@@richardcranium5048agree with this 🖕 everytime one of you dildos says someone is underated you shove them deeper into the shadows and insult that musician.
@Brandi6666 are you serious. I wonder, can you guess which one of the 5 greatest guitar players to ever take a stage the f@ggits at Rolling Stone did not put on the 250 greatist guitar players list is.
Lita Fuckin' Ford is on that list...Lita Ford. Alvin Lee is the single most under-rated/appreciated guitarist of all time..Of course as an American I stand in support of your right to be wrong.
The biggest problem I have with this song is that it could have been about 10 minutes longer. Love this tune.
30 minutes longer would be just fine.
The Most underrated...underplayed...Masterpiece...talk about food for your soul..what a Jam
🤔 underated by whom? Is this the first time you have heard of alvin? Heres to underating you 🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕
As relevant today, as it was then.
Not surprising the issues Alvin is singing about in 1970 are still there today. We lost a truly great musician when we lost Alvin Lee.
This song came about during a tumultuous time during the early seventies.
The Vietnam War was still raging, racial tensions were high and that generation was bearing the brunt of it.
"I don't know what to do, so I'll leave it up to you". This sums up the grace and folly of mankind.
Ten Years After is one of my favorite bands and Alvin Lee was remarkable guitar player ever, I always loved how they slowly built their songs into a great groove
This song STILL holds up 52 years later , They burst on the scene at Woodstock. I'm going Home an anti war song you should check out, It's Awesome
These guys gave on of the best performances at the original Woodstock in 1969. Check out I'm Going Home.
It is in JM's Playlist
This entire album is FIRE!!
Alvin Lee is fantastic guitar player. Thanks for the great reaction. Appreciate you
Alvin Lee, one of my all time favorite guitarists, and a great vocalist. Since the 70's I've felt that Alvin Lee has been one of the most underrated and underappreciated guitarists of all time. He deserved much more accolades that he received. And tragically he died undergoing what was supposed to be a safe minor heart operation to correct an atrial arrhythmia. He died at the age of 68, the same age I am now. You should check out "The Bluest Blues." If you do be sure to pay attention to the great slide guitar work. It was played by George Harrison, a former Beatle.
Just wanted to mention that there are a number of pretty good songs on that LP/CD such as: 1) One Of These Days 2) Here They Come 3) Let The Sky Fall.
Told Ya, a real banger with a huge message and fine guitar work from one of the legendary master guitarist. Thanks again.
Some of the best opening lines of a song❤️
Huge Alvin Lee fan here! I once had all of his albums but sadly fell on hard times decades ago and had to sell them. As for the lyrics, the part about dykes and fairies, well, times were different back then. Makes me cringe a bit now tho. It's also pretty apathetic to say "I'll leave it up to you". We change the world by changing the person that we see in the mirror. That's the best that we can do. I saw him in the late 90s at The Greek Theater and he still killed it on that guitar! You might want to check out his massive library of bluesy rock songs like "The Bluest Blues" or "I Can't Keep From Crying". There are so many excellent tunes to choose from. One of the best guitarists to live (RIP) but very underrated.
Great review. I think on the "leave it up to you" part he was relaying what you stated. That we're relying on others, our politicians, our neighbors... to make changes, hence -leave it up to you. Isn't that almost of us do? Pay taxes, in essence pay other people to solve problems in society, to solve problems that will better our own situation? I think a lot of us would like to make changes in the world or to the system but we really don't know what to do. People have forgotten that when we unite the government and corporate America have no choice but to listen. But they've kind of neutralized that through long hours of hard work where people are too tired at the end of the day... Making sure most of us are fairly well taken care of... The car is paid, food is in the refrigerator, we live in a reasonable area of town... Our kids have decent clothes... Most of us even have some extra money to participate in life to some degree even though prices are through the roof... So people are not as inclined to revolt under these conditions. Even though it's highly stressful on the average citizen and corporations and governments are lining their pockets more than ever with our money. I guess that's why they made more money... Otherwise the rich would have to do without, Or they would have to exploit us to such a degree that we would have to lash out. That's what history shows, that if you impoverish a people badly enough they will revolt or retaliate. But instead of learning that it's wrong to exploit people the powers that be have just learned how to skirt the line. Shame on them for not learning their own lessons as well as us not learning ours. The lessons are right there. It's just hard to get man to apply them on both sides of the aisle. SIGHS
The name Ten Years After is a tribute to Elvis Presley, one of frontman Alvin Lee's musical heroes. The band was founded in 1966,
10 years after Elvis' first year of success in 1956 (Ten Year After). Great songs are HEAR ME CALLING, SAD SONG, LET THE SKY FALL,
and TURN OFF THE TV BLUES. Thanks for playing Ten Years After. Your song reviews and commentary are the best.
Wow! I've never heard that.
@@debjorgo Because it is an incorrect rumor.
That is incorrect. That it was 10 years after Elvis, is just coincidence. The band was named after a book called "Suez. Ten Years After". Check out the YT channel of Leo Lyons, he explains it in one of the videos there.
Guitarist Alvin Lee (RIP) belongs in the same league as the other greats of the era - Hendrix (RIP), Page, Clapton, and Blackmore. He could jam, but he could also make his guitar speak. His true passion was blues, and much of TYAs music was tinged with that. Here he is 25 years later (solo) - "The Bluest Blues": - try keeping your eyes dry. th-cam.com/video/3lz3px4dTU8/w-d-xo.html
I have loved Ten Years After for over 40 years ! Another good one to check out is I Can't Keep From Crying , live . Then you can find out how good of a guitarist Alvin Lee is !!
The live version is
quite the banger!
Alvin shows some intricate acoustic guitar work then sets his electric guitar on fire with his blazing fingers. "Music To My Ears".... Mine too.
My most played and favorite song when it came out...and it remains a sentimental favorite. I still remember specific incidents of just thinking about the song...50 year ago.
Thanks, JM. Enjoyed your discussion of this. We just had one unforgettable band after another back in the day.
one of my favorite groups from my youth.
those first few lyrics tell it all. look at the world now 50 years on.
Lucky enough to see Alvin Lee twice. Opened for Kansas in December 1980 and then in a bar in Florida in 1985. The dude absolutely wailed.
Alvin Lee's recording of 'The Bluest Blues' is a blues guitar masterpiece IMO. Check it out soon.
It is indeed a fantastic song!
This song came out when I was 12. It was a tumultuous time.
And the question he asked is I want to change the world but I don't know what to do.
And now it's 63 years old there is no room for remaining neutral, we all have to be the change.
I'm ashamed of my generation. The people get beat down by the system we can't leave it up to someone else to change the world it has to be us.
I have a Red Gibson ES 335 Guitar just like the one Alvin used here hanging on my music room wall, I smile just looking at it.
One of my favs of all time.
Another great song from 1971
Yes the Bands of the late 60's are wonderful.
MASTERPIECE!
From the early 70s. One of the best of that time.
I'm glad he mentioned the drum piece by Alvin's brother Ric. The song is about a chaotic world way ahead of its time. We know what to do but powerless in knowing how to change the world.
Alvin Lee, uno de los mejores guitarristas de todos los tiempos !! Saludos desde Buenos Aires, Argentina !!
been listening to this song for 50+years and it's always been one of my all-time favorite songs.
Alvin Lee 60's 70's guitar slinging hero and original shredder unbelievable tone, powerful tasty burning red hot riffs firing out of his Gibson 335 .
This is one of my favorites of that era and to this day. I love the interweaving of the acoustic melody with Alvin Lee's electric guitar work. As you said, the lyrics leave you thinking, too.... Check out Alvin Lee's version of 'The Bluest Blues'. GREAT stuff. And Ten Years After's performance of 'I'm Going Home' live at Woodstock (the fifteen-minute version, not the six-minute clipped video) is one of the greatest live jams ever.
I'm Going Home long version is in JM's Playlist.
TYA has MANY great albums with MANY great tunes. This is your proverbial bunny 🐰 hole
His guitar play changed the world
Nice shout out to the incredible bass guitar playing in this which you should check out their other stuff, there is so much good stuff and all of them were Savage beasts at what they did.
But anyway, I could see in your face and your eyes how much you really really got it. Hats off.
One of my favorite ten years after song. This album is so underrated. Thanks for sharing
You are my favorite reactioner..is that a word? LOL I love how you jam to the songs and NEVER stop the music!! Save your reactions for the end.
Such a great band!
What a great song! Nice pick
Dude you're the best reaction guy or girl on TH-cam. Listening to the whole song without saying anything. Kudos
What a banger ✌️
Smythe one of the great social commentary songs of the generation!! And Alvin Lee....!!!!!!!
One important thing to note about the lyrics, he is not voicing his own opinion in the first couple of verses. He starts off with the opinion of the Conservatives, then Socialists, Capitalists and the Hippies. To show they all have flaws in their ideas, therefore he does not know what to do, and leaves it up to you.
Thus when he says tax the rich, feed the poor, until there are no rich no more, he is not saying that we should do that, he is pointing out the flaw in that concept. If you run out of rich people, then there is no money left to give to the poor. Same for the first part where he refers to: hairies (which he would have been one of), freaks, dykes and faeries. Then he says where is sanity? That is not his opinion, he again shows the flaw in the Conservative concept.
Yep. Vietnam conflict era.
Love your reactions! Marvelous!
CRANK IT UP! and Spark Up my Pipe for this one, Thanks
Seen Alvin live in concert in the 70's was awesome show. topped only by Led Zeppelin
ALVIN LEE !...cde super guitariste , sur cet album absolument fantastique!!0...
Allen lee a true guitar god thanks for not interrupting the song like so many do
Hooray, you listen carefully to the lyrics, so right on. Thanks! Now listen to them at Woodstock doing Going Home and hang on for a wild ride.
Love that album. It was a great influence on me as a guitar player. I learned every song on it. I am glad I'm Going Home isn't on it. That tune would've discouraged me and I probably would've thrown my guitar away if I'd have tried to learn that song 😆
One of These Days is my favorite song on this album. You should give it a listen.
One of of my favorite Ten Years After songs..................
It is so easy - Ten Years After forever! And Alvin Lee - Wow - Wow - Wow - then and now!
This banger, I believe, meant just the opposite of the overt words: "Till there are no rich no more." Listen carefully for his nearly whispered 'economy," "monopoly." The best.
Your first exposure to Alvin was when he was Live tweaking on LSD/Acid at Woodstock doing "I'm Going Home". This was recorded in a studio, but just as fast, I wonder if there was any drugs involved?
Eventually you run out of OPM (other people's money), and then who will you tax, and finding there is no one, how ever will you live. I remember when this first came out. Unbelievable live. Just a freaking monster.
masterpiece! def top 100 of all time...somewhere in there. thannks for a great channel and fun sincere reactions. cheers brother!!!
Try "50,000 Miles Beneath My Brain" for more Acid Rock guitar jams, or "Me And My Baby" to check out Alvin's Jazz playing.
RIP Alvin. Thank You!
Everything about this song from the lyrics vocals guitar drums bass is amazing really is an underatted song
I hadn't heard this for decades until a couple of years ago. It's nice that most great music has been preserved so we can rediscover it.
Been a listener since the 1970's. I'm old..I'm realizing😬
Just watched reaction to High tides and green grass and asked if you would do this one, yay, love this song
I don't know if I've seen you react to this song before, but what an awesome track this is! And if I have seen this before it's so good I want to see it again!
Yup, that's a good'n
I always saw this as one giant guitar solo, with a song tacked to it as an afterthought.
I love the older music. And some new.
Love like a man, iam coming on 50 billipn miles beneath my brain 3 great tracks
words are so deep
Great music with a greater message. I miss the sixties and seventies!
Thank you! Love this song. I was 10, lol
Very underrated
great post. awesome song.
Fantastic song, superb band, legendary guitarist, Alvin Lee. (Nice reaction, too, lol) Y'know, it occurs to me that ol' ALvin here may well have NOT been on the recent Rolling Stone magazine's "Top 250 guitarists ever" list. I mean, I wouldn't know just WHERE to rank him (top 50, probably?) but I knw he WOULD be on anyone's "250" list. But it wouldn't surprise me if they left him off.. THAT's how piss poor that list was! It was an abomination of misrankings and dissed artists. Many here will know what I'm talking about!
top song of the sixties
Came out in 71
Saw them in Boston
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Cream - "Born Under A Bad Sign"
Try the " Bluest Blues "
Goin Home (Woodstock)
try the bluest blues by alvin lee.
Still relevant
THANK YOU TRY Boney James - “Be Here” ft. Kenny Lattimore (Live) VERY VERY SMOOTH
Do this whole album
Try “Gimme Shelter” by The Rolling Stones.
This is one of them lps i turn to 11
Do WOODCHOPPER'S BALL!
Until there are no rich no more... I've always understood that as recognition that, that would not be a good thing
exactly. eventually they run out of other people's money.
Not the way anyone I knew took it ☮️ it’s an indictment of the powerfully
@@AP-gb3eh the verse is "tax the rich to feed the poor until there are no rich no more" so if your argument is that, that is an endorsement of the idea that no rich is a good thing it would seem to suggest that you believe Alvin was in favor of starving the poor
You should listen to the bluest blues by alvin lee
I was kid and a teenager in the sixties and seventies and with few exceptions ....the music cannot be matched . There were sub ( not in quality ) genres of music ( punk , Indie/Grunge , Metal ) that had true moments of greatness that carried us through . But now ... sad to say , music is fake , pumped out crap and pathetic ... so sad . PK
Economy…Monopoly… No, not for me. A social injustice song. I’m old but don’t care for some of their gay descriptions. But that was the day. We still accepted.
Probably the 3rd or 4th song I ever learned on guitar back in the 70's saw these guys back then live Humble Pie opened the show great memories concert ticket was $5.00 I have kept every single concert ticket I ever went to I have a shoebox full of well over 100 tickets.✌👍
Old words "dykes and fairies" might make it seem hostile to newer listeners. Just a thought.
Same album best track song One of these Days seems no one reacts too
Life is funny.
Sky is sunny
Bees make honey
There goes a bunny
I like eggs runny
Cher and Sonny