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Author Message   Hughlysses Posted on Wednesday, March 06, 2013 - 09:05 pm:        Fastest guitarist ever. Very sad news: http://www.americanbluesscene.com/2013/03/alvin-le e-guitarist-singer-for-ten-years-after-has-passed- away/   Ltbuell Posted on Wednesday, March 06, 2013 - 10:31 pm:        ..yeah,really sad.Great one he was.One of the best.And he was only going in for a regular routine operation...gone while under.He was interviewed on a local classic rock station via telephone from his home in Spain,just last month.I remember it. May he play in peace with all the other greats up there.LT   Rich Posted on Thursday, March 07, 2013 - 05:45 am:        He's gone home.   Teeps Posted on Thursday, March 07, 2013 - 12:21 pm:        Fitting song for the day. It was our anthem when I was in the Army, back in the day...   Loki Posted on Thursday, March 07, 2013 - 01:46 pm:        Sad day. Alvin will be missed. The music he gave us will live on. Hopefully a new generation will grow to appreciate it. Time to crank up a few tunes in his honor.   Leftcoastal Posted on Friday, March 08, 2013 - 11:44 am:        Saw '10 Years After' in Syracuse, NY. in late '70 or maybe early '71. Being broke college students, we 'snuk' into the concert through a back door. Awesome concert. Maybe even better due to the "stolen watermelon tastes sweeter' factor. He'll be missed, along with all those vinyl records (some of them had him on them) that I parted with years ago.   Teeps Posted on Friday, March 08, 2013 - 12:38 pm:        Still have my vinyl from back then. I have Alvin Lee's first solo album "On The Road to Freedom."   Hughlysses Posted on Friday, March 08, 2013 - 01:15 pm:        Vinyl? I had a bootleg 8-track Ten Years After tape. Listening to some of their stuff again, I'm surprised at how well "I'd Love to Change the World" holds up; some very nice guitar work on that. And that Woodstock performance of "I'm Going Home" still boggles my mind. I'm sure Alvin had the action set at ~1/64", and a large portion of the notes he's playing are hammered-on rather than picked, but good Lord, I don't know how his fingers didn't burst into flame. That's just freaking Warp 9 playing there.   Buellish Posted on Friday, March 08, 2013 - 03:09 pm:        A friend told me yesterday about in the early 70s going to a concert with Rod Stewart as headliner and Alvin Lee and Ten Years After as the opening act.He saw an interview with Rod in the 80s in which Rod said that concert was the worst day of his life.He stepped out of the helicopter into knee deep mud,then got blown off the stage by Ten Years After. RIP Alvin Lee

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