BluesRocker
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Ten Years After - Religion...taken from their album ' Rock & Roll Music to the World.'
1970s Blues/Rock bands
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Ten Years After - Religion...taken from their album ' Rock & Roll Music to the World.'
BluesRocker
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Move aside Jimi Hendrix and Duane Allman, this guy is my favourite American player - Roy Buchanan, the ABSOLUTE master of the Telecaster...A SUPREME guitarist and right up there as one of my all time faves...His wizardry on the fretboard here on this clip really is something else..This recorded in 1976 in Austin, Texas..The way in which he tickles those strings, OH MAN!
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E-Z
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With regards to both Savoy Brown and Ten Years After I love em both although I tend to prefer both bands late 1960s & 1970s output and particularly when it comes to TYA minus Alvin Lee on guitar & vocals my interest fades somewhat.
E-Z
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Actually Rock & Roll Music To The World is my favourite TYA album although for some reason all the rock critics seem to regard this album as below standard compared to the other TYA albums previously released which I don't understand why?. It is one of those albums where every track ends and follows nicely into the next track. Also I like the follow up album and last true TYA album Positive Vibrations from 1974 and obviously Cricklewood Green is a classic rock album of the early 1970s.
E-Z
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Yeah Roy Buchanan pretty much a unknown and forgotten guy these days, anyway his original material on albums are worth a listen although I like Roy's studio interpretation of Hey Joe that appeared on his debut 1971 album that he dedicated to Jimi Hendrix after Jimi's death in 1970 and also I like Roy's studio interpretation of the Joe Walsh song Turn to Stone as well. In fact I haven't played any of Roy's albums for maybe 20+ years so I think I shall dig out a best of that I have had since the early 1990s and listen to it again later this evening
From memory Roy died in suspicious circumstances in an American police cell after a evening of drinking from memory??
E-Z
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With regards to Jeff Beck yeah I tend to agree with you BluesRocker and also I never really got into him either although I do like the Beck, Bogert & Appice power trio but Blow By Blow & Wired are a bit to 'Jazz/Rock' sounding for my liking plus with 'instrumental albums' I am a bit indifferent to them because I do tend to like to hear a vocalist usually.
Apparently before Jeff's death all the British guitarists referred to Jeff as 'The Guvnor' which was fair enough but on the whole his recorded output from the 1960s to his last album release apart from the Beck, Bogert & Appice album in 1973 leaves me a bit on the cold side??
BluesRocker
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yes, that is correct..From what i can remember his family have disputed the findings that he committed suicide.
E-Z
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Roy use to play a butterscotch yellow (yellow mustard) coloured Fender Telecaster mostly.
From memory the song Roy recorded called Because We've Ended As Lovers was dedicated to Jeff Beck and I think Jeff reciprocated with dedicating a song to Roy.
BluesRocker
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+1...me too E-Z...i love this album....sod the critics, they can have their opinions, but i will have mine...
The other people that i cannot tolerate are these so-called Blues purists..Blues snobs they are..They harp on about the true origins of the music and dismiss anyone that hasn't thoroughly researched the history of the blues...They are a load of idiots.
E-Z
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I recall Alvin Lee of Ten Years After saying in a video recorded back in the 1990s that those 'blues purist guys' would show up at early TYA gigs wearing a raincoat and wearing glasses and holding a notebook and pencil and stand right down the front of the stage watching Alvin play and also making notes on his guitar playing and saying to each other things like "He's just played a non-blues note!" and stuff like that which really got up Alvin's nose!!.
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