Alvin Lee (19 December 1944 – 6 March 2013) was an English guitarist and singer, best known as the lead guitarist and lead vocalist with the blues rock band Ten Years After. Read full biography of Alvin Lee →
It will be the first time I've played live with a double bass.
It's always been something I've been searching for - freedom. It's a very relative thing. It means different things to different people.
My all-time favorite rock and roll players were Scotty Moore, Chuck Berry and Franny Beecher, and I listened to the country playing of Merle Travis.
So if you see Ten Years After, it's not me anymore. I'm very happy with what I am doing now.
That's the kind of musical freedom I like: jazz, rock, blues, anything. You adopt different attitudes when you play different music.
We also did something called the Texas Peace Festival, which was actually a better gig both musically, and in the way it was organised.
He saw us play a few times in fact. I did this song called I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes, and Jimi loved it. He paid me a huge compliment... →
I strongly encourage listening to the radio to hear something you haven't heard before. It's a very healthy thing to do. It's strange:... →
I've always been much more of a guitar picker, but I began to feel forced into a position of being the epitome of a rock & roll guitarist.... →
It wasn't very satisfying playing the big arenas, but it was good as far as a paycheck. But the sound was terrible, especially in hockey arenas -... →
Musical freedom has always been very strong for me, something to strive for, to be able to play the music you enjoy playing rather than playing music... →
My father was always playing this ethnic blues stuff around the house, and both my parents played. Then one day my father brought home Big Bill... →
My favorite country blues player was Big Bill Broonzy. City blues was Freddie King, but I liked them all - Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Ralph... →
Alvin Lee (19 December 1944 – 6 March 2013) was an English guitarist and singer, best known as the lead guitarist and lead vocalist with the blues rock band Ten Years After.