Audio CD review:
Ten Years After - Live at the Fillmore East

Ten Years After - Live at the Fillmore East

Band: Ten Years After Title: Live at the Fillmore East Rating: Release Date: 2002-01-08 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Love Like a Man 2: Good Morning Little Schoolgirl - Ten Years After, Williamson, Sonny B 3: Working on the Road 4: The Hobbit - Ten Years After, Lee, Ric 5: 50,000 Miles Beneath My Brain 6: Skoobly-Oobly-Doobob/I Can't Keep from Crying Sometimes/Extension ... 7: Help Me - Ten Years After, Dixon, Willie 8: I'm Going Home 9: Sweet Little 16 - Ten Years After, Berry, Chuck 10: Roll Over Beethoven - Ten Years After, Berry, Chuck 11: I Woke Up This Morning 12: Spoonful - Ten Years After, Dixon, Willie

Excellent audio quality of Ten Years After in their heyday It's in the CD section, when it should be a review in the download section. (NOTE: I downloaded this. It's far cheaper to download. Other than that, the comments here are the same as for the download. This is great stuff!) It's hard to find Ten Years After among downloads (I'm still looking for Shhhh), and the price on the download of this is far below the two-CD collection. That said, I got this as a download and it's AWESOME! Ten Years After have, for some reason, been somewhat overlooked by classic rock stations. Maybe because they crafted albums, not hit singles. They put out one live CD, which was, well, rather tepid. Thank God Bill Graham recorded just about everyone who played his venues (Fillmore East, West, Winterland, etc. ). His foresight has created a huge treasure chest full of live performances. (Check out the downloads available at Wolfgang's Vault, which contains Bill's almost obsessive collection of posters, handbills, assorted memorabilia, and, fortunately, recordings! Some dude bought his entire estate and set up Wolfgang's Vault, and while a lot of vintage items are expensive, the music choices are extensive. ) Anyway, this crisp recordiing captures Ten Years After in their post-Woodstock heyday, and is packed with energy and great performances. This concert was performed prior to the release of Cricklewood Green, which seems, by consensus, to be their best album. I know it's my favorite. So, it's a treat to hear several cuts from that album performed here, including a sublime 50,000 Years. . . A lot of live albums from the late '60s and early '70s were poorly recorded. Bill Graham was a perfectionist, and it shows here, as the audio is just great. You even get to hear him introducing the members of the band. This is a great find and is essential owning for any fan of Ten Years After!. DOWNLOAD THE MP3 @ $8.99 IS LIKE STEALING! Then I saw that I could download the songs to my IPod for $8. Having owned the Ten Years After CD "UNDEAD", I couldn't justify buying "LIVE AT THE FILLMORE EAST". 99. . . the choice was easy. I have nearly 1,000 CDs so, for the most part, I generally just use the IPod anyway. All of these other reviewers give you the scoop on this live offering, so I'll just tell you to check my other reviews to see what I think of Alvin Lee and Ten Years After on my review of "UNDEAD". Needed Addition If You're A Fan However, the sound is less than stellar, certainly not as well-recorded as the Dead's sets just a couple of weeks earlier at the same venue. This set kicks! A very jammin', intense performance from this bluesrock outfit at its peak. The muddiness gives it a dark and a fat bottom but will probably put off those who aren't fans of this group (as will the long jams). The fans will rationalize the audio, which I give as a 6. 5 out of 10, because of the performance, which is a 10 out of 10!! If you love TYA, defintely buy this. If you like jammin' bluesrock from this period, you should probably buy this. If you are neither, why are reading this far?. Iffy Sound Quality I recommend this as a later addition, after you explore the rest of the TYA catalogue. Good jamming, but poor recording of this legendary boogie blues band. The immortality ignores what fashion means! This band not only was owner of an inimitable charisma, but besides, Alvin Lee's contagious and vibrating energy conferred the spectators and listeners of enviable dynamism, mercurial conveyance, and unsurpassed adrenaline all the way through. This recital was (who can deny it ?) one of the main events in what it might be called the anthology of Rock music. And despite all these elapsed years, this ensemble has been able to engage and "recruit" several late generations. This ability was achieved just by original bands, such as The Beatles, The Rolling stones, Led Zepellin, Deep Purple, Pink Floyd, Steppenwolf, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Santana, among others no less remarkable. An additional evidence that reaffirms the term fashion simply doesn't exist in the dictionary of immortality. . You can see a complete list of all Ten Years After discography, or go back to the Ten Years After tabs