It felt like we were taking over,” Lee recalls.Īs the Brit boys drank, pilled and whored their way across the USA, high jinks were inevitable. “There was competition because of Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page, but there was room for everyone. In any case, it was a great time to be British in America. Now, Michael Wadleigh’s film (edited by Martin Scorsese) had their mugs on cinema screens worldwide, performing a boogie blues that rehashed every cliché in the book and seemed to have taken about five minutes to write.
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When the Woodstock movie of the festival came out a year later, Ten Years After’s showstopper I’m Going Home thrust the band towards superstardom, even though the studio version had flopped when released as a single from the excellent Undead live album.Ī year earlier, Ten Years After were playing that number in little clubs like Klooks Kleek in West London. And though history dictates that they were never considered as cool as Cream, the Jeff Beck Group or Led Zeppelin, Alvin’s monikers (Captain Speed Fingers, The Fastest Guitar In The West) guaranteed him kudos. (Image credit: Brian Cooke/Redferns)Īs part of the British Invasion of hard rock blues groups, Ten Years After were somewhere near the top. Ten Years After on stage at the Rainbow Theatre, London, 14th July 1972.
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