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Jimbuna
03-16-13, 07:39 AM
One of the truly great guitarists of our time.

RIP Alvin

http://entertainment.time.com/2013/03/07/rock-guitarist-alvin-lee-68-dies/
Sailor Steve
03-16-13, 09:20 AM
OH NO!!!

I loved Alvin Lee. Ten Years After was one of my faves. :cry:
Jimbuna
03-16-13, 05:07 PM
I always wanted to go to Woodstock and see him but never managed.
Sailor Steve
03-16-13, 06:27 PM
You always did? I didn't even hear about Woodstock until I saw the movie a year later.

Reminds me of when my younger daughter was three. I got her something for christmas that neither I nor she had ever seen, and when she opened it she said "It's just what I asked for!"
Diopos
03-16-13, 06:47 PM
I Woke Up This Morning (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjXjxnaH8Yk)
Great music.
R.I.P.
Jimbuna
03-16-13, 07:30 PM
You always did? I didn't even hear about Woodstock until I saw the movie a year later.

Reminds me of when my younger daughter was three. I got her something for christmas that neither I nor she had ever seen, and when she opened it she said "It's just what I asked for!"

Sorry, I meant I would have liked to have seen him at Woodstock :)
Sailor Steve
03-16-13, 07:37 PM
And the performance that made him a legend:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW5M5xljdCI
eddie
03-16-13, 07:45 PM
I always wanted to go to Woodstock and see him but never managed.

I was stationed in North Carolina when Woodstock was going to happen. We got weekend passes with restrictions though, we couldn't travel more then 75 miles from base, and Woodstock was off limits,lol Anyone caught up there would be considered AWOL. Took all the fun out of it!
Highbury
03-17-13, 12:25 AM
Like many people who were not born in '69, I discovered Ten Years After through the Woodstock film some time in the early 80's. Loved that band, sad loss.
Cybermat47
03-17-13, 12:29 AM
I'm not really into music enough to know many names, but still.

R.I.P.
vienna
03-17-13, 04:58 PM
The Woodstock film was a blessing and curse for Lee: it gave him and Ten Years after worldwide exposure, but it also pigeonholed him as "the guy who sang that real long song about goin' home" (as a younger acquaintance of mine once said)...

RIP, Alvin...

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