Straight up classic. Every time Alvin gets mentioned, everyone smiles and nods... Just doesn't happen often enough.

In1969 I was a hotel maid in Salt Lake Utah. Went into a room to clean and this entire band was in the room. These guys, Talk about nervous, They talked to me a bit while I was trying to clean the room. Asking them if they needed any towels and such. They could tell I was nervous.. Upon leaving they gave me 5 tickets to the show that night. Me and 4 friends went and watched these gorgeous long haired men. Those were the best of days..The music,, well you know.

Alvin Lee had a close friendship with George Harrison and George played slide guitar on Lee's "The Bluest Blues". It's considered one of George's best solos.

One of the most underrated groups ever.

Saw them back in 71. Alvin had some of the fastest fingers, According to very many of his contemporaries back in the day, and the thing that stands out most among all of them is Hendrix made some admiring statements about how great Alvin was.

Everyday we saw the burnt bleeding bodies of our kids. As a kid I lived in a working class neighborhood and we lost so many, my brothers were coming to that age. I can’t tell you what it felt like to be a small child seeing the war on tv every night, along with the social unrest ,the southern people screaming at little kids trying to go to scroll, police openly beating everyone,using water cannons on people protesting. Rage at injustice is burned into my soul . The pain of the tyranny overtaking the country right now . I wish the young the best , it’s your hot mess now .

I met my future husband in 1972, when I was 18 and a senior in H.S. He was fresh out of the military, loved his buddies, but ready to put that behind and join the peace movement. Such a great song to chill out too. Still have this vinyl in our old collection. We’ve been together for 54 years, married for 49….. still rocking😎

Whats insane this song done over half a decade ago sounds like it was meant for today! Alvin Lee one of the most underrated guitarist of all time! ✌🏻

"I'd Love To Change The World" by Ten Years After, was the 1960s handing the baton to the 1970s.

Have you seen their Woodstock performance? One of the most insane things you'll ever see.

Another band and album I learned of in College in the 70s. Who says you can't learn anything in school.

"Tax the rich, Feed the poor, 'Till there are no rich no more". "Nuff said.

I lived through it. Yes, I was relieved when they abolished the draft and went to an entirely voluntary military. We wondered if it would last, but here we are decades later, still voluntary.

I remember owning the Cricklewod Green album by them. A great band and Alvin Lee is one of the greats. Thanks Arnie and Lee.

Thanks for the Alvin Lee from my day. Also kudos for the Two Wolves mention. For those who may not be familiar: One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people. He said, "My son, the battle is between two "wolves" inside us all. One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other is good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith." The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather: "Which wolf wins?" The old Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed."

My uncle worked on helicopters in Viet Nam during the early days of the war (1966). He had just returned, we were all at Gramdma's house, I looked at his scrapbook from the war. A few photos showed South Vietnamese soldiers with necklaces of human ears and other horrors. When I turned 18 a few years later, I knew I wanted nothing to do with that war.

Bluest Blue is a song that I guarantee you will have it on your playlist!✌🏻

Great song! The Vietnam War ended the year before I turned 18 and my age group of males were getting a bit worried we'd be called up for the draft. My mom later told me she was ready to take me and my younger brother to Canada, if it came down to that, and I had to tell her I probably wouldn't have left with her. No matter how opposed to the war I was, I'm not a coward. However, it was a tense time back then, which was undercut by a pervasive, growing numbness to the war, due to the "Body Count." Every evening on the Nightly News, the networks would update the viewers on the progress (or lack thereof) of the war and then would show the damned Body Count, which ranged from 35 - 235 deaths every single day. It was a horror show, and eventually people began to grow numb to the death and destruction, just to cope with the trauma caused by seeing that damned Body Count, along with the horrific visuals coming out of 'Nam. A lot of people wanted to change the world back then, and much got done, but "the man," like a Vegas casino, always wins.

The song's message is still relevant today. Sad.

One of my favorite songs from that era!

I owned one Ten Years After album - SShh (can't remember exact spelling). Killer cover of Good Mornin Little Schoolgirl by Sonny Boy Williamson

Love this song. Not PC today, but still moved me. RIP Alvin Lee.

Hi Lee. 'A Space in Time' (1970), one of the greatest and most beautiful Albums of all time from one of the greatest Bands of all Time with one of the greatest Guitarists, Singer and Composers in the Hisrory of Rock, Mr. Alvin Lee - Ten Years After! This Album from 1970 is One of the most outstanding Albums ever recorded. A Record of beguiling beauty. Hence my tip - is simple: listen, marvel, enjoy, kneel down and cry! ☺ Kind Regards Heinz (from Munich/Germany). 🌳❤🥀✨

One of the best guitarist’s in rock

The first big out of town concert i went to was 1972 in Cleveland 16 years old. Ten Years After, Black Oak Arkansas opened for them.

I honestly don't know if I have heard this in 50-odd years, but the words and music were straight back front and centre. Amazing and beautiful! Thanks, Arnie

Saw them in the 1970's at the Philadelphia Spectrum. Great show!

Alvin was phenomenal. I saw him five times, twice with Ten Years After, once with Ten Years Later, and twice solo. Incredible shows every time. He never played this song at any of those shows. Go back and listen to the drums and bass. The lyrics, melody and guitar bring you in, but the bass and drums are right up there with everything else. Lots of great TYA songs you could do - Rock and Roll Music To The World, Slow Blues in C, I Woke Up This Morning, Good Morning Little Schoolgirl, No TItle, Baby Won't You Let Me Rock and Roll You,....

At the end of the song, Alvin Lee whispers " AND I WISH YOU LUCK".

An iconic song! I was 5 yrs.old when I first heard this song. It made me instantly aware of what an electric guitar sound was. I was instantly mesmerized by it. One of my desert island songs for sure:)

So happy this was introduced to you. Great song

Great Review! I had the good fortune of seeing Alvin ! Saturday, October 01, 1983 Venue: E M Loews Theatre Location: Worcester, Massachusetts, United States "One of These Days" "Rock 'N' Roll Guitar Picker" "Good Morning School Girl" "Slow Blues in 'C'" "Love Like a Man" "Ain't Nothin' Shakin'" "Hey Joe" "Slow Down" "Help Me" "I'm Going Home" "Choo Choo Mama" "Sweet Little Sixteen"

guitar work is next level on this song. Whole album was great. Alvin Lee was one of the great blues rock guitarists.

Saw them live in Hawaii on the tour for their album after this one. Incredible! The opening act stunk - a brand new smooth rock band with no edge called The Eagles. But Ten Years After were on fire!

Now you gotta love the drumming in this song,lol.TYA is truly a badass band.Rip in the history of R&R.

Thanks, ARNIE P.

Another classic ! Just wait until someone requests the song , Good Morning Little Schoolgirl , live at Winterland in 1975 ! You might like that !

This whole album is a Classic, and worth a listen. Still listen to it all to this day.

Classic song ☮️

One of my favorite songs of their, I keep this CD, now I have to put it in my car.

One of my favorite amd i think best guitarist of all time. He was good friend of George Harrison and they loved to sit and kam just for kicks... he has many rockers from his solo days. I saw him in Denver in the 80s I think. Great show....

Was a young aspiring song writer when this came out. Dug the music but thought that the lyrics were lazy. Old now, enough to know I was an ignorant punk. Great song!

Love this song. Not PC today, but still moved me.

Great timing as it was 54 years ago last week, that I saw Ten Years After in Toronto. We were so mesmerized by Alvin Lee's playing along with the entire amazing band. Great memories and Happy Canada Day! Thanks Lee & Arnie P.!

Great band, especially live.

Took me until age 38 - 9 years ago - when I found out the name of this band.

Great reaction. Alvin Lee was amazing. The Bluest Blue is a fantastic song by him

I love this format, with the album cover filling the left side of the screen and Lee filling the right. 👍

Fantastic song

Their "Recorded Live" album is amazing. Highly recommended.

absolute classic talent!

One of favorite songs of all time.

Love TYA, there's only one problem here, your first listen was " I'm going home" which is off their first album " Undead " and this one is off one of their last albums , there's a lot in-between you missed.😂 You still have a lot of work to do.🤣🤣🤠👍

Great song. My 9 yr old gr-granddaughter and I are enjoying this : )

I saw Alvin Lee and Johnny Winter on the same night in Portland Oregon in the 70’s. I was in guitar heaven!

Lee, one of my favorite songs ever. Alvin just kills on this. My favorite album by them to. Got to see Alvin Lee & Ten Years Later a couple of times, always great. He does a nice cover of the Beatles I Want You (She's So Heavy) How about Walk Like A Man next

Great Song. 👍.

This song still applies today!

Alvin Lee's solo featuring George Harrison on slide, very cool

True classic.

Great song. This song is the one with which I'm most familiar from them.

Saw their farewell concert at the Old Chicago Stadium. People ripped out their sets and took them home!

Still true. Things haven’t changed.

Saw them a couple of times in the late '60...their live album, "Undead", is worth checking out, particularly "Woodchopper's Ball" and "Goin' Home"...

I have always loved this song! ❤

I remember buying this excellent LP along w "Who's Next", "After the Gold Rush" + "Seatrain" in '71. 4 for $10. @ Flo's Record Boutique in Pittsburgh, freshman year. Music Explosion.

The guitar mastery of Alvin Lee. Unmatched in it's day.......

When Jimi Hendrix was asked what it was like to be the greatest guitarist in the world he replied, 'I don't know, ask Alvin Lee'.

Killer song! Love Alvin Lee!

1971 is the year the Who released WHO’s NEXT 1965 to 1975 song and groups that are heavy, hard and loud that has something to say and don’t care if it’s not what the establishment would like. Nor commercial a.m. top 40 stations advertisers would like because if you really say it, the radio won’t play it so you have to lay it……..

Great song Lee! A Space in Time is a grand album. I bought it years and years ago and dug the shit out of it. This was their radio hit. The first two songs on the album are my favorite though: One of These Days, a great rocker, and Here They Come, a spacy eerie song about alien visitors. Love your reactions dude!

Alvin Lee. 'Nuff said.

My recollection is hearing or reading that Alvin Lee really didn't like this song. I saw them 3 or 4 times when they were still pretty big, and they never played it. I saw Alvin flying kick over one of his Marshall stacks when their encore was interrupted twice by power loss. He then turned to the audience, smiled and waved, and that was the end of the show. Oddly satisfying ending.

Great song and reaction

The most epic song they ever did was Standing at the Station. It builds to a frenzied finish. I know you'd love it because your musical tastes closely align with mine.

Ten years after is one my favorite bands ever and and why they’re not in the rock and roll hall of fame is crazy

One of my favorites from back when! Hey...side note: cool shirt! I bought my brother one just like it!!

That was the first progressive album I ever bought in 1970

that tone is impeccable

Alvin Lee invented the air guitar, just for us.

Singularly epic.

Great reaction Lee. Love the way you weave stories and themes from your life into your videos. Even though it’s through the internet you make a real human connection that way and it’s very cool. Great message in this song that it’s too daunting to figure out how to change the world but you can be the world you want it to be.

Don't know why it's not mentioned here Alvin Lee and 10 Yrsrs After we're at Woodstock. Awesome as they are.

This will still sound great decades into the future. Very 70s-rooted and yet kind of timeless. Fun to play too. When I play this at 'gigs' the smiles on people's faces makes all the work I did learning to play guitar well worth it.

I'm going home . . . by helicopter - That's another great listen, Alvin's set at Woodstock, he's in a groove a mile deep. I had friends who briefly argued this was a George Harrison song. Ah, the days of the DJ not mentioning the name at the end, missing the start where they talked over the opening was a crime too.

Great song! Excellent critique! Lee, when are you going to start Reviewing more, Doobie Brothers? So many great songs in their catalog.

How this gem only made it to #40 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1971 is a real head-scratcher. Should've been an easy Top 10.

First song on album the best on album. The song iss One of These Days. Know one reacts to. Seen them twice Germany 1970 till 1974 I know what I'm saying Do It

This album is a classic from Ten Years After. Great choice. ✌️❤️🎶

1965 Barry McGuire Eve of Destruction. Similar lyric.”handful of senators, don’t pass legislation” 1971 senators, stop the war. The war in Vietnam started 1955 the US sided with the south Vietnamese government. It’s not simple getting involved in a civil war. It had been going on for 9 years before the US GOT INVOLVED IN 1964

Yamo highly recommend Bad Scene 'n Stoned Woman from their classic album SSSSH. I saw them live at the Fillmore West in 1969...a great show.

They have a album named Ssssh . Every song is gold!! Rock on dude.

The title reminded me of the old series of commercials and the jingle, "I'd love to buy the world a Coke". Though I quit drinking Coke, they had classic commercials, e.g., polar bears.

Congrats on hitting 25K!

You have played some bangers today overall. Everyone a classic.

So, so good!

Some bands are great in the studio and some are extra good live. These guys were a great live band. Bob Segar, is great too buy he's even better live. Jeff Beck was that way too. Flawless live.

This is a really good album ,you should give a listen

Fabulous weave in this beautiful song. " ...but l don't know what to do...."

Can't get away with his lines today" Every Where there 's Freaks and Hari's!"( Hari Krishna movement) who would accost people on streets for donations!" Dykes and Fairies!"He wasn't PC! No not Today!,but it is what it is,Loved Alvin any thing off "Cricklewood Green!" my fav!