Alvin Lee...one of the most under-rated guitar players of all time...

Alvin was a monster guitar player but don’t overlook the incredible bass playing by Leo Lyons and smoking drums by Rick Lee!

It’s so incredible this was Alvin Lee’s moment and he took it for all it was worth and made it count .I think everybody there who was able to hear him had to pick their jaw from the floor He tore it up and will be known for this performance forever

the greatest single performance in the history of R&R never to be equaled in a million years. he also played homage to Elvis. the bass player will never be equaled either

That whole era was great for pure blues rock n roll..so raw and aggressive.

He was so ahead of his time , RIP Alvin forever missed and thank you for making this world a better place

The legendary Alvin Lee. Now you know.

I had the good luck to see Ten Years After a few months after Woodstock. They were simply terrific live and Alvin Lee was just as fantastic as this famous video shows. What a guitarist! He had great rapport with us crazy fans in the audience, which I appreciated. I'm 71 years old, still rockin' and I have great memories of Alvin Lee and this wonderful band. RIP Alvin.

To me this guy's performance is the BEST about Woodstock! I love this song. : )

Do yourself a BIG favor, girl. This was Ten Years After at Woodstock. Find the uncut version for your own enjoyment, because this edit does not really do it justice!!

This era was the best time ever to be a teenager! A generation with a soundtrack.

Saw them for the first time on 04/04/1970 at the Capitol Theater in Portchester New York. The Legendary DJ Scott Muni from WNEW FM introduced them. What an amazing concert. From that night on and today Alvin Lee is my favorite guitarist of all time as is TEN YEARS AFTER my favorite rock blues band of all time. Saw the original TYA 6 times and Alvin 4 times without TYA. I live in the Bronx New York. Everytime I drive home from Limerick PA,I always listen to the live cd Ten Years After from the Fillmore East . A great way to drive home. I just drove home this past Saturday 02/22. Their version of Sonny Boy Williamson's Help Me is the best I ever heard. Also check out I Cant Keep From Cryin' and Rick Lee's solo on drums Hobbit. I once saw Alvin with Ten Years Later in August of 1989 at The Chance in Poughkeepsie NY,it was a very intimate club. I was only ten feet from Alvin, Ill never forget that great memory. Alvin Lee. MAY HE RIP.

For me this is probably the greatest guitar intros ever. Thanks for featuring it.

The Late Alvin Lee is one of my favorite guitarrista of all time. Very underrated but a true blues rock interpreter. Great band. I’d Love to change the world. 50,000 miles beneath my brain. Love them

That era was the best and Alvin was brilliant.

Love that you reacted to one of the great performances in rock and roll history and that you genuinely appreciated it!

Unbelievable performance, RIP Alvin Lee.

Alvin Lee could put on a concert all by himself but with Ten Years After, well suffice it to say it was an experience.

The late, great Alvin :Lee was 1 of the world's greatest guitarists who totally idolized the Chicago-style Black Man's blues. His bandmates-Ric Lee (drummer-no relation), Chick Churchill (keyboards), & Leo Lyons (bass guitarist) were brilliant in their own right-& the chemistry they made together speaks for itself. Lee was a great poet too; his lyrics reflect that-w/ a lot of social & political commentary. I love it when young people today tune in & turn on to this era of ultimately timeless muzik....

Alvin Lee and Ten Years After killed it at Woodstock in 1969. A memorable performance.

When a band more-than-earns their standing applause ...

That's some bad ass guitar... I saw him play this live 4 times... 3 when he was the front man and heart of Ten Years After and 1 time when Alvin fronted Ten Years Later. Rock on!!!!

That music! You CAN'T sit still & listen to this! This it's my first time hearing this too. Thanks love it! WOOOOOOHOOOOO!

Alvin Lee was the fastest guitar player of his day

Alvin Lee one of our very best guitarists! Doesn't get the recognition he deserves. As good as Clapton and others. TYA superb group full of talent. Leo Lyons on bass

This particular performance was all the rage and talk from the Woodstock show. As a young aspiring musician in 1969, I was honed in on the music of the times. We all thought Alvin Lee must have been doing speed to be able to play that fast. In other performances of this song, he plays it at a slower tempo. Those were special days. So many excellent musicians. Real musicians!

When you say the camera is going crazy, believe me that’s how it felt to be at their concerts. And I totally agree with Billy Sharp. Alvin Lee was definitely underrated as a guitarist.

I was in awe the two times I saw him play live .he's part of the reason im wearing hearing aids ! crank it up !

Oh yes. I saw Ten Years After and knew the feeling. Anything by Mountain or Humble Pie....Disraeli Gears by Cream or anything by Cream. Anything by Trapeze or Traffic and one more ..Eight Miles High by The Byrds...

This performance is from Woodstock. Unfortunately this is a cut up and really shortened version. Pink Metal Head: If you liked this version, you will LOVE the uncut version!

One of their best songs is I'd Love To Change The World

This is from Woodstock,that's why he says he's going home by helicopter because the roads were so jammed with the 450,000 attendees it was the only way for the bands to get in and out.

Ten Years After is so under-rated from that era. Back in the late 70's we played this at bars and parties as a "jam song" everyone got to solo, and usually stretched the song out like to 15 minutes plus.

I was 16 at the time- as impressive(ok, my jaw dropped) as Alvin was, the bass line just reached inside- I went out and got a bass after that, determined to learn to walk that thing like he did

I love your reaction to this epic classic from Ten Years After at Woodstock. I’ve been listening to it ever since the movie came out I think it was 1970. It never gets old. Rent Woodstock the movie and you gonna find some fantastic music from that concert that launched many careers. Check out sly and the family stone Carlos Santana Jimi Hendrix Joe Cocker Richie Havens so many rock icons from that era.

Yes do react to more TYA, watts and cricklewood green or a space in time, are amazing albums Alvin Lee never made a bad tune.RIP

That was great! I loved watching you see and hear this for the first time and loving it! It was the next best thing to hearing it again for the very first time. Im always amazed to see Alvin Lee not on a greatest Rock Guitarists list. He should be on all of them!

You would probably love Canned Heat live from the same era

Girl ! You just witnessed Rock N Roll Royalty At it Best !!!

Every band and performer who was on that stage at Woodstock in 1969 played their hearts and souls out for all the people in attendance ... and a few groups were almost "brand new" in the music industry at the time. Santana; Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young; and several others were just getting their feet wet in the youth movement and getting recognized by the hippies, boppers, music lovers of all sorts.

I love how you expand your tastes. To many get trapped with in their "genre" and miss out on so much excellent music. Love you darlin. Keep on expanding your tastes

Uufff este hombre era un genio , lo amoooo.

Still makes me want to get up and DANCE! I love Alvin Lee

Alvin Lee my dear. Thank you. Now it is time to react to Rory Gallagher. Nobody has reacted to Rory. Maybe they think it is a risk because he is not so big at the States but in Europe he is still a legend. Be the first and you wont regret it...Songs like Philby, Moonchild, Bad Penny, Shadow Play, Wayward Child and many others are great rock-blues anthems. I am expecting.

Alvin Lee died in 2013 after surgery.... 68 years old. Rock on Alvin, RIP.

It is So important . I just don't know how people can live or how I EVER lived before without watching another person's reaction to first hearing this song. It changed my life . I need to go watch all the videos I can of other people ,watching videos.I now understand the meaning of life.

My friend who was around at that time told me in his best way. "This music was a protest to the war, a protest to the police, and a protest to the government at the time." I feel as if this type of music is groovy and funky and awesome but it was also filled with pain and anger for what was happening

The 1st time I herd this was in music class 1970 Robert imperato blasted it on boom box,my brain froze,all these years later still thawing over this,masterpiece

Cricklewood Green - my favourite TYA album. Whole album is on KZfaq.

1997, Esbjerg Rock Festival in Denmark. I was there with Peter Green's Splinter Group. We sat outside our dressing Portakabin drinking with Ten Years After, the very same line up that appears in the video, after watching them play a blistering set

This performance, along with Santana's Soul Sacrifice, were the best Woodstock perfomrances in my opinion.

He was wasted as hell at Woodstock. He did such a master performance. It's amazing

You add a whole new dimension to listening to these old songs. Beautiful!

Ten Years After its so good, i love blues. See too “On the Road Again” by Canned Heat, the woodstock version, has a similar energy. But if you wanna something more funky, see Grand Funk Railroad playing “Inside Looking out” live 1969.

I have seen Ten Years After in the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam in january 1972 I was thirteen years old.

This is not the full version. It’s been chopped in a few places. Best to see the full version.

You can almost hear the roots of thrash metal in Alvin Lee's 'going home'. Lee was a wild man in his day. I'm only 2 years younger than Alvin, wish I had seen him live!

Ten years After was named by founder / Guitarist Alvin Lee Which 10 yrs after the birth of Rock & Roll (1957) He started his band in '67 He had 10+ albums . His biggest hit would come later , "I'd love to change the world " You should give a listen 👍😎👍

oooo... You should see Santana's performance of 'Soul Sacrifice' from that same event (it was the Woodstock Festival BTW...)

Hello women!!! Long time since I been at ur channel. Nice n good vibe,thanks Pink

I’m glad to see you enjoying TYA. I grew up in the 60’s-70’s, I knew of them but never really started listening until the 90’s. All those years lost but I got caught up. If i could recommend A Space in Time is one of my favorite albums.

Iconic performance!

You are right. The late sixties into the seventies were the best era by far. Glad you got to appreciate Alvin “Fast Fingers” Lee. Welcome to my world.

Let the Sky Fall studio version is amazing. I really loved watching this.

What would have been awesome is if Jimi and Alvin had played at the same time. Both were awesome but combined. = Legend. We are greater together than apart.

Ten Years After live at Woodstock 1969 a definition of classic rock. 3 day of Peace, Music. and Love. 350,000 people attended this concert dubbed by CBS news as Hippie Fest. Check out Richie Havens "FREEDOM"

I am 74 years old and I have never in my life seen such jamming goodness ever. He and that band and the audience were one, just jamming at max speed.

Jeez, imagine having to play that at every gig...........exhaustion!!!!!! Check out some other fantastic performances, from other bands, at Woodstock!

Remember this from the Woodstock film, absolutely the best

I was lucky to see them at the Academy of Music on 14th Street in NYC when I was 16!

It was an amazing era. How'd have been seeing this for the first time? It's great to honor the true classics.

70's child here... this was our music. Plenty of talent in music today, but you would be hard pressed to compare anything created from 1970 to 1979 (6th grade to college for me). Love your style!

HOLY COW!! Still as fresh as it was in 1969 !!

I’m so glad that you listened to my advice to pay attention to this group!!! Love to see your face when you was listening!!!

Saw them live in Toronto before they went o Woodstock at a place called the Rockpile. Couldn't hear properly for a couple of days and I'm sure I damaged my hearing . Still listen their vinyl album Undead recorded live in England. Alvin Lee was one of a kind. So was the whole band.

It IS 2024....STILL ROCKING...!!!

Alvin Lee's guitar-stink-face is/was/will always be..... rivalled by no one!!!!!

Ten Years After, one of my all time favorite bands (and personal friends for over fifteen years). Little known fact regarding the Woodstock film, it was edited by legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese

I'm glad you learned of Alvin Lee and his band 10 yrs after :) I was 15 back in 1979 when I won a Frisbee tournament sponsored by WRNO radio in New Orleans, LA. The prize was 11 albums and some other items. One of the albums was Alvin Lee w/ 10 Years After. I had never heard of them but had already gotten into blues music. I remember wishing I had been old enough and able to go to Woodstock but I was about 10yrs too late. Since it was 1979, I thought the bands' name had something to do w/ Woodstock since it had occurred back in 1969. I was a fan the first time I listened to it. Blew me away. I really love their best hit : I'd Love To Change The World. Later in life I found myself in San Diego working for a bar that had bands play. I would arrange chairs, sound checks, backstage door man, .......... anything just to get in free to see the bands. I got to see and work for many bands that came through there like Leon Russell, Edgar Winter, Johnny Winter, INXS, Guns & Roses, including Alvin Lee w/10 Years After twice. I think there are 2 reasons I lean towards that music period : a) The blues rhythm and improvisation aspect is the closest I've seen to emotion in music. b) The innovation of music was accessible easily and was therefore very attractive. Loved your video and expressions as you learned the new sound, Sincerely ................................. God Bless, Steph

Thanks for helping me re-live the first time I heard it!!!

I saw them back in around 1970 in Houston, Texas!

Boogie Woogie blues, combined with Rock. Just pure jam. I was only 11 tears old when this song hit big. My older step-sister gave me the Woodstock album when I was 13. I wore it out.

Hi pink,check out mountain,Mississippi queen! That clip was ten years after from the Woodstock festival. Amazing band.lay down,by melanie was a song about Woodstock,and she also performed there as did mountain.

Ladies & Gentlemen...the great Alvin Lee..

You're talking over the best parts. Dude is supersonic, mind blowing.

Alvin lee ( Graham Anthony Barnes, su verdadero nombre ) era un demonio con la guitarra, la dominaba tan bien, como un Marine a una M-16.

Right On Alvin Lee and Ten Years After was great band thank you !

Not sure ive ever commented, but i love this one.

The greatest guitarist no one ever seems to talk about.................maybe ever. Make no mistake, Alvin Lee could plug up and go with the very best of the best of that era, or any other for that matter. This cat was so finger fast he once fingered a groupie and she exploded!

Saw 10 yrs after at Boston Garden unreal! Alvin Lee RIP

Alvin Lee on Gibson ES330

One of two guitar players to show up Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock.

This song will played at my funeral!!!!!!

Darling, this is pure Rock & blues!

Alvin is such a great guitarist I love good morning little school girl live in Germany

I love showing this video to people for the first time. Prepare to have some mild mannered Brit melt your face off with his guitar.

Amazing classic performance

Great guitar player I am glad I saw them live!

I recall seeing them a month or two later, October 1969, at the Large Hall, The Polytechnic, and we had over an hour's worth of sheer energy and noise. The week before we had Atomic Rooster, 2 weeks later Family. Cracking times to have lived through. The Round House at Chalk Farm was just up the road from flat, Hammersmith Odeon for more established groups like Jimi Hendrix, Cream, etc, so many local pubs with resident bands that were for ever circulating members so the whole music scene was constantly developing. It was always a toss up between buying another LP or going to a venue for a live rendition! I wish I had had good recording equipment.

The reference to helecopter is that ALL the artists at Woodstock were helecoptered on and off the site