Live at the Fillmore East 1970, is a double-disc live album by Ten Years After recorded in February 1970.
CD1
1. Love Like A Man 0:00
2. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl 9:37
3. Working On The Road 17:05
4. The Hobbit 20:42
5. 50,000 Miles Beneath My Brain 31:30
6a.Skoobly-Oobly-Doobob |
6b.I Can’t Keep From Crying Sometimes | 41:37
6c.Extension On One Chord |
CD2
1. Help Me 1:01:10
2. I’m Going Home 1:24:25
3. Sweet Little 16 1:36:48
4. Roll Over Beethoven 1:41:28
5. I Woke Up This Morning 1:46:14
6. Spoonful 1:54:10
Ten Years After was initially 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.
This is great bluesy hard rock, Alvin Lee is sometimes criticised for his machine gun guitar solos, but I find them well constructed and exciting. But this is more than a one man band, this is a high calibre quartet who certainly know their stuff.They are played with real precision and delicacy. In the opening number, “Love Like A Man” Alvin Lee’s solo is superb. 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 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. What is impressive about the 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.
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