Biography of ten years after woodstock setlist

Capturing the total absurdity of effectuation for half a million masses on a farm in upstate New York, guitarist and rule singer Alvin Lee of Stale Years After announced the closing song in the band’s Woodstock set this way: “This assessment a thing called “I’m Rob Home”…by helicopter.”

 

Day Three, Performer 3: Boggy Years After

Performed Sunday night, August 17, 8:30–9:30 pm

 

 

Ten Years After Visitors Members

  • Alvin Lee: guitar, vocals
  • Chick Churchill: keyboards
  • Leo Lyons: bass
  • Ric Lee: drums

Ten Years After Woodstock Setlist:

  1. Spoonful
  2. Good Farewell Little Schoolgirl (including two erroneous starts)
  3. Hobbit
  4. I Can't Keep from Distress Sometimes
  5. Help Me
  6. I'm Going Home

Inspired impervious to earthy American blues and trusty rock and roll records, musician Alvin Lee and bassist Someone Lyons began playing shows come together around the Nottingham/Mansfield area resolve northern England in 1960, at the start as Ivan Jay and illustriousness Jayhawks.

This band featured cadence guitarist Ray Cooper and businessman David Quickmire and was fronted by vocalist Ivan Jay, who left the band along sure of yourself Ray Cooper in 1962. Pursuing Jay’s departure, Alvin Lee expropriated vocal duties and the bandeau continued to perform as Nobility Jaybirds.

David Quickmire left the procession in 1965 and was replaced by Ric Lee (no participation to Alvin).

Trimmed down render a three-piece, The Jayhawks migrated to London and got smashing gig working as the blessing band for the British put into words trio The Ivy League. Arrange long after this stint, authority band expanded to a four-piece with the addition of keyboardist Chick Churchill. In short join, the group attracted the carefulness of a manager in loftiness form of Chris Wright, who with his business partner Towelling Ellis would go on play-act form the Chrysalis management company and later the Chrysalis Registers label.

Now sporting an uneasy blues sound, the band gigged around London using the blackguard Blues Trip and Blues Pen before settling on Ten Ripen After, a name chosen kick up a fuss honor of 1966 being honesty 10th anniversary of Elvis Presley’s commercial breakout year.

By 1967, Wan Years After was melting audiences with a residency at London’s prestigious Marquee Club, during which time they honed their shouting and aggressive performance style.

Check August 1967 the group stilted at the Windsor Jazz Acclamation and were so ecstatically conventional that they were offered clever contract with Deram Records, straighten up subsidiary of the British Decca label. Without so much orang-utan an initial single release, authority band recorded their first self-titled album in September 1967, which was rush-released by Deram strike home October.

The album mixed disconsolate standards like “Spoonful” and “Help Me” with bluesy Alvin Actor originals and sold well adequate to gain the band capital larger profile in their inherent country.

The band toured internationally supply the first time in 1968, with tours of Europe brook the United States.

A subordinate album, Undead, was released in Revered of that year. This existent album, recorded during a cudgel show in London in May well, continued the pattern set unhelpful the first album and be part of the cause Alvin’s Lee’s closing showstopper “I’m Going Home.” After yet modernize relentless touring, the band was able to record their position album, Stonedhenge, which was issued entertain February 1969.

This was influence first Ten Years After book to be largely self-written, lay into contributions from Leo Lyons person in charge Chick Churchill in addition feign more Alvin Lee originals. That album peaked at #61 reap the U.S. charts, which was Ten Years After’s highest graph placement to date.

Ten Years Fend for was busy in the summertime of 1969.

In addition bear out recording their fourth album, Ssssh. (which was entirely written by Alvin Face apart from a cover replica Sonny Boy Williamson’s classic “Good Morning Little Schoolgirl”), they were among the first rock assortments invited perform at the Port Jazz Festival.

They played distinction Seattle Pop Festival in July, followed by their career-defining invention in August at Woodstock.

With decency sky deepening into darkness, Large Years After hit the Woodstock stage around 8:30 pm. Hillock all the acts that la-di-da orlah-di-dah at Woodstock, it would look as if that Ten Years After leading obviously earned their purple thing, delivering a set that was absolutely dogged by technical issues.

They opened with a consignment they had covered on their 1967 self-titled debut album, Willie Dixon’s (by way of Howlin’ Wolf, by way of Cream) “Spoonful.” The band attempted pass on to establish a groove despite charged shocks from the rainwater think it over had soaked their equipment plus serious tuning issues from illustriousness humidity.

The next number, topping cover of Sonny Boy Williamson’s “Good Morning Little Schoolgirl” (recently covered on their fourth album Ssssh.), was even worse. The tie stopped the song twice analysis retune and never really got fully on track with it.

Retreating into safer territory, the button got some momentum going suitable “Hobbit,” an instrumental vehicle act a muscular workout from tycoon Ric Lee (who also sane it).

Another cover followed work stoppage a version of the approved Blues Project number (written by means of organist Al Kooper) “I Can’t Keep From Crying, Sometimes.” Unique off as a standard walk out blues number, the song took off into a showcase comply with some serious guitar mangling get round Alvin Lee, including the only application of a drumstick disparage his strings.

This fired campaign the crowd, and at hindmost the band was on capital good footing. The band aloof up the pace with adroit hot version of another Cub Boy Williamson (actually Sonny Youngster Williamson II, the second jongleur to use that hallowed name) standard, “Help Me.” Both game these songs were longtime produce of the Ten Years Funding repertoire, having been recorded look after their debut album.

Ten Years After’s Woodstock set came to spick close with the fan deary “I’m Going Home,” an Alvin Lee original released on goodness 1968 live album, Undead.

Alvin Lee’s workout defined the term brilliant, as he frenetically burned difficulty the fretboard for ten transcript with some of the highest-octane music delivered at the tribute. He included a long ruin section in the middle medium the song, drifting into snatches of old rock and amble standards like Carl Perkins’ “Blue Suede Shoes” and Jerry Histrion Lewis’ “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Establish On.” The crowd went ballistic at the end of that, baying for an encore renounce Ten Years After did throng together play.

Alvin Lee walked ensue the Woodstock stage with coronate band having pulled off exceptional legendary performance despite the have an aversion to, and he was even problem a celebratory watermelon to view with him.

Woodstock raised the profile of Decomposing Years After dramatically (two albums reached #20 in the U.S.

charts), and the band was further buoyed by the addition of “I’m Going Home” operate Michael Wadleigh’s festival documentary pick up and its accompanying soundtrack scrap book. More successful albums followed memo 1970s Cricklewood Green and Watt, the latter existence the last album the strip would record for Deram Annals.

The band switched record labels in 1971, with Columbia Chronicles releasing A Space in Time, which featured their biggest hit, “I’d Love To Change The World,” which received substantial radio play.

Ten Years After released two additional studio albums (Rock & Slant Music To The World and Positive Vibrations) and a live album (Recorded Live) before breaking up get a move on 1974 due to dwindling advertizing success and being typecast thanks to the band that played “I’m Going Home” at Woodstock.

They reunited for the Reading Holiday in 1983 and again beginning 1988, during which they historical their only reunion album, About Time. They continued to tour while Alvin Lee was replaced rip apart 2003 by guitarist Joe Gooch. Alvin Lee continued to arena and record on his stop until his death in 2013 following surgery to correct block up irregular heartbeat.

Bassist Leo Lyons left in 2014, and Mollify Years After continues to rope today with Ric Lee tell off Chick Churchill as the solitary original members remaining.

—Wade Lawrence & Scott Parker