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Would love to have the entire set by Ten Years After from Woodstock – they were very much at their best playing live on stage. Beginning in 1968, they had like 38 tours os the USA in less than 5 years.
This song & performance is what launched what launched TYA in to popularity in the USA
This song has Jerry Lee Lewis, John Lee Hooker and other roots rock segments in it – Alvin could play that music so effortlessly
And this has the famous scene where he tosses Big Red to the side at the end of the set and picks up the giant watermelon someone had tossed on the stage at the end of the performance
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My brother gave me the 3-LP Woodstock set and George Harrison’s 3-LP All Things Must Pass for Christmas in 1970. I went through all kinds of phases with both of them, and “I’m Going Home” was one of the ones I played over and over.
Some 20-30 year later, this translated to (sometimes) doing an Alvin Lee impersonation when I called home after work to let my sweetie know I was coming (she was indulgent of that—and so many other things—she told me I sounded good). I really like when his voice breaks into a falsetto whistle.
I got a sense of box patterns on the guitar from Ten Years After’s take on “Good Morning Little Schoolgirl” (and some of their other songs, “Let the Sky Fall” was a pentatonic riff based on the same shape).
Don D.
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My brother gave me the 3-LP Woodstock set and George Harrison’s 3-LP All Things Must Pass for Christmas in 1970. I went through all kinds of phases with both of them, and “I’m Going Home” was one of the ones I played over and over.
Some 20-30 year later, this translated to (sometimes) doing an Alvin Lee impersonation when I called home after work to let my sweetie know I was coming (she was indulgent of that—and so many other things—she told me I sounded good). I really like when his voice breaks into a falsetto whistle.
I got a sense of box patterns on the guitar from Ten Years After’s take on “Good Morning Little Schoolgirl” (and some of their other songs, “Let the Sky Fall” was a pentatonic riff based on the same shape).
Alvin was very much a pentatonic player with a lot of chord tones added. A lot of people think of his amazing speed that earned the name of Captain Speedfingers but in reality, he was a very melodic player
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