July 7, 2012
Ten Years After
This is probably the worst performance of Alvin Lee's career. But it was Woodstock. And it was iconic.
I saw Alvin twice in '78 when he was fronting a power trio called Ten Years Later. In retrospect, perhaps that Woodstock performance wasn't his worst. The lad was a shredder, though.
That is a truncated version, by the way, due to some copyright issues (I think he sampled some Chuck Berry and Sonny Boy Williamson in there, and a lawyer will pin his grandmother down and let a bulldog fuck her for a fee).
I believe the actual performance was north of 9 minutes. And infinitely better than Sha Na Na. Somewhere there is footage of Creedence, Mountain, and the Grateful Dead. Never made the final cut. They must have really sucked that weekend.
At the Fox?
Caught that one
Posted by: Cletus Socrates at July 7, 2012 5:35 PMApparently they had to re-track a good bit of that movie with musicians not with the original bands
Richie Havens FTw!
Posted by: Cletus Socrates at July 7, 2012 5:40 PMThe worst? Nah. Alvin nailed it.
After all the shitty, stoned music, the kids at Woodstock deserved to hear some real rock and roll.
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Posted by: LauraOV at October 24, 2012 10:49 AMRichie Havens FTw! Apparently they had to re-track a good bit of that movie with musicians not with the original bands
Posted by: AnneSarcione at January 20, 2013 7:20 AM