Legendary guitarist Alvin Lee passes at 68...

Alvin Lee Is Going Home: 'Ten Years After' Guitarist Dies : The Two-Way : NPR



Looked around but didn't find a thread for this. Legendary guitarist, songwriter and singer of Ten Years After, veteran of such festivals as Woodstock and Isle of Wight, has passed away at age 68.

Really sad to hear this. Easily my favorite of the more obscure classic rock bands. This one's for you, Alvin! Never be another guitarist half like him, that's for sure!



I just adore the chaos he turns the song into near the end... detuning the guitar and turning it into this sort of evil rumble and then bringing it all back to the start, even retuning the guitar as part of the song! The man was bloody brilliant.

That's really sad. Ten Years After was my second favorite part of the Woodstock film (after Joe Cocker) and I just bought one of their albums yesterday.

In tribute........

He was one of the greatest!

R.I.P.

Great musician, I think one of the very first rock albums I ever bought as a kid was the live double album 'Recorded Live'...I bought it at a record store in a town in France called Trouville on a school trip.



Sometimes these people pass away and you have to stop for a minute and think "Who??"...but Alvin Lee was known to all rock fans from that era. I wouldn't myself call him one of the all time greatest guitarists... I bet there's polls on here in old threads on 'Your Greatest Rock Guitarist Ever', and I'd be surprised if he figured on many people's list, but he was right up there with the best "blues" guitarists.

Looks like he died in hospital during routine surgery, which I always think is an unforgivable way to die if you're in there for something relatively treatable, and you die surrounded by doctors.

^ Blasted Recorded Live at full blast as soon as I heard the news.

I'll always remember when my brother went off to college and then one day he called me up all frantic about this record he was listening to with the greatest guitar solo of all-time on it. The album was Recorded Live and the song was I Can't Keep From Cryin' Sometimes. I went out and bought Recorded Live the next day.

TYA is one of my dad's all-time favorite bands, top 2 or 3 for certain. He's really broken up about it too, he saw them live 6 times back in the day.

Very sad news..........


In tribute:

No More Lonely Nights

Another legend gone...

I just picked up a brand new vinyl copy of "A Space In Time".

Probably my favorite performance from Woodstock was Ten Years After.

Sad news R.I.P Alvin

Sorry to hear about the passing of another rock legend from my youth

I've had this one bookmarked for awhile...



R.I.P.