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| Alvin Lee & Ten Years Later at Calderone Concert Hall in Hempstead, NY on 7/23/1978. This concert was recorded and then broadcast at a later date by WLIR 92.7 FM in Long Island, NY. |
Alvin Lee was an English guitarist, singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist and guitarist of the blues rock band Ten Years After in the late '60s to the mid-'70s. He ended the 1970s with an outfit called Ten Years Later, which released two albums, Rocket Fuel (1978) and Ride On (1979), and toured extensively throughout Europe and the United States.
Lee's performance at the Woodstock Festival was captured on film in the documentary of the event, and his 'lightning-fast' playing helped catapult him to stardom. The film brought Lee's music to a worldwide audience, although he later lamented that he missed the lost freedom and spiritual dedication of earlier audiences.
Ten Years After had success, releasing ten albums together, but by 1973 Lee was feeling limited by the band's style. Moving to Columbia Records had resulted in a radio hit song, "I'd Love to Change the World", but Lee preferred blues-rock to the pop style the label preferred. He left the group after their second Columbia LP. With American Christian rock pioneer Mylon LeFevre, along with guests George Harrison, Steve Winwood, Ronnie Wood and Mick Fleetwood, he recorded and released On the Road to Freedom, an acclaimed album that was at the forefront of country rock.
Also in 1973, he sat in on the Jerry Lee Lewis double album The Session...Recorded in London with Great Artists recorded in London, featuring many other guest stars including Albert Lee, Peter Frampton and Rory Gallagher. A year later, in response to a dare, Lee formed Alvin Lee & Company to play a show at the Rainbow Theatre in London and released it as a double live album, In Flight.
Lee died in Spain on 6 March 2013, aged 68, due to complications from surgery to correct an atrial arrhythmia. (Wikipedia)
