-- Ten Years After - Live at the Fillmore East | (Audio CD) MSRP $ 20.98 Amazon Price $ 18.99 Savings $ 1.99 | |  Release Date: 08 January, 2002, Capitol
TRACK LISTING - Love Like a Man
- Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
- Working on the Road
- Hobbit
- 50,000 Miles Beneath My Brain
- Skoobly-Oobly-Doobob/I Can`t Keep from Crying Sometimes/Extension on On
- Help Me
- I`m Going Home
- Sweet Little 16
- Roll Over Beethoven
- I Woke Up This Morning
- Spoonful
Usually ships in 24 hours | | | Ten Years After`s Phenomenal Fillmore concert on CD! | | This 2-cd set is worth every cent. The sound quality is terrific and Ten Years After puts on the best performance that this fan`s ever heard. Ever song is great and Alvin Lee never misses a note as he plays with lightning speed. You`ve got the classic "I`m Going Home" as well as songs from The Cricklewood Green LP such as "Love Like a Man" and "Working on the Road" as well as others including a great version of "Spoonful". All in all this should be released domestically so that every TYA fan can have a chance to hear the Fillmore East Concert and listen to this exciting blues/rock band. Highly Recommneded! | | | | 4 Jazz Musicians With A Master Chemist (Amazon.co.UK review) | | This CD is an answer to the many years of the silent prayers of loyal Ten Years After`s fans. What makes this CD instantly one of the greatest recordings of the band is the era when it was recorded. Ten Years After was a jazz band, (listen to their album "Undead"), that turned the corner to more of a progressive rock and roll sound. Three songs: "Love Like A Man", "Working On The Road" and "50,000 Miles Beneath My Brain" were brand new releases that appeared later on their "Cricklewood Green" album. They are played with real precision and delicacy. In the opening number, "Love Like A Man" Alvin Lee`s solo comes across as though he is a Master Chemist. He doesn`t pose, he stands there, and concentrates, like a focused Jazz Musician, and his lead evolves, expands, inhales and exhales. It is as though he is creating a living breathing being. Ric Lee`s liner notes are superb. He helps the listener understand what exactly it was like at the Fillmore East in 1970, the people, the neighborhood, the delicatessen next door, the conditions on and under the stage, and what exactly defined the Ten Years After "sound". Three of the band`s oldest numbers "Help Me Baby", "I Can`t Keep From Crying, Sometimes" and "Spoonful" are haunting songs; the organ, the deep tones and blue mood of these songs is classical Ten Years After. Alvin`s lead in this version of "Help Me, Baby" is by far the best of all his other previously released recordings; real psychodelic, powerful, and emotional techniques. I also really enjoyed the drum solo, "Hobbit", and I think that without this solo, the listener would have an incomplete picture of a Ten Years After performance. Listen to the opening beat that Ric Lee plays, this is a Jazz Drummer, he has subtle accents and delicate, refined rhythms; the group is anything BUT heavy metal. Rather, it has the sense of humor we find in most jazz combos. "I Woke Up This Morning" is also played with real precision. What is impressive about the backup band is that they never lag behind the intensity of Alvin Lee`s solos. They press forward with the same grit that has characterized Alvin Lee`s style. Ric Lee`s liner notes on "I Woke Up This Morning" talk about how important it was for the bass, drums and keyboards to play complementary and contrasting melodies to accentuate Alvin Lee`s solos. Perhaps at a later date, Alvin Lee wanted to shed himself of the high-speed leads found in this era of his career. But these leads are really what made his style legendary. One final note, as a loyal Ten Years After fan for 25 years, I have read reviews of the band in leading publications that seem to miss the magic of Ten Years After. Perhaps Ten Years After was so immense for its audience that they were above and beyond the skill of their music critics` ears. Maybe now those critics will want to listen again. | | | | This is the one to get | | I would buy this CD instead of the other Ten Years After live CD, called Recored Live. This has one has more songs on it. There is about 2 hours of music on these 2 CD`s. The sound quality is good but not excellent. Ten Years After played the same basic show for a decade. They had 5 core songs which would take up over an hour: I Can`t Keep From Crying Sometimes, I`m Going Home, Help Me, Good Morning Little School and the Hobbit. As the years went on, they would get more polished in how they would play these songs. I think some got better and some got worse. I can`t quite give this CD 5 stars. The first CD starts out strong and burns all the way through. It is very intense and energetic. But, things seem to go downhill on the second CD. It has the weakest version of I`m Going Home I have ever heard. Then there is the needless Chuck Berry songs, that just really slow everything down. These are classic songs, but the band just goes through the motions in playing them. So, if you already own Recorded Live, should you buy Live at the Filmore East? I like this version of I Can`t Keep From Crying better. They do more playing around with the song at the end. Also, Love Like A Man and 50,000 Miles Beneath My Brain are fantastic, and they are not on Recorded Live. But, the second CD isn`t so good. I bought it for Love Like A Man, and am glad I did. | | |
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