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09-27-2011, 08:42 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Minneapolis | | | Love for Leo Lyons? from Ten Years After
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I haven't seen his name thrown around these boards too often, for whatever reasons, but after listening to Ten Years After - 50,000 Miles Beneath my Brain - YouTube
yet again last night; I still cannot comprehend how he keeps up with Alvin Lee.
Starting at about 1:30 or so the song starts to pick up, and doesn't stop for the next 5 something minutes. I'd give alot to play like he can! 
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09-27-2011, 08:44 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Minneapolis | | | If you are unfamiliar with the group, look up Good Morning Little Schoolgirl also. When Leo takes over the lead section it is rediculous.
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09-27-2011, 08:48 AM
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09-27-2011, 08:55 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: North West Indiana | | | I've been a fan since the 60's. My band covered them often. I have their first 6 albums.
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09-27-2011, 09:09 AM
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09-27-2011, 10:37 AM
| | Blazin' Acadian | | Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Ontario,705 | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Nightlyraider  If you are unfamiliar with the group, look up Good Morning Little Schoolgirl also. When Leo takes over the lead section it is rediculous. | Indeed! here's a link to good morning little schoolgirl and playing aWal 1983 club gig. Ten Years After - Good Morning Little Schoolgirl - YouTube
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09-27-2011, 10:42 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Forest Hills, New York | | | Huge fan of his..and he does not get the credit he deserves...
those guys smoked on some of the tunes... |
09-27-2011, 10:51 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Nesconset, N.Y. | | I saw Ten Years After live in the late 80's at the Westbury Music fair & they were great, Steppenwolf not so much although in their defense it was John Kay & Steppenwolf, not the original lineup. Check out his playing on this version of Woodchopper's Ball, not as great as the old live version but good none the less. Ten Years After- Woodchopper's Ball, Live At The Marquee - YouTube |
09-27-2011, 12:39 PM
|  | C'mon man! | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Hawaii | | | Loved them as a kid and saw them a few times back in 70-71. I learned a lot of Leo's lines when I was first playing.
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09-27-2011, 02:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Loel |
That is an awesome live video. How on earth can you be accurate while flailing your hands like he does?!
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09-27-2011, 02:54 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: North West Indiana | | | I saw them at the Arogon In Chicago. They opened for BB King. This was before Woodstock. They were great. I was suprised how good their organist was. Bass blow me away.
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09-27-2011, 04:28 PM
|  | put a bird on it | | Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Minnesota | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Thor Woodstock. Everyone else was stoned. Ten Years After DESTROYED. | i was going to post that video--he's really got an intensity to his playing |
09-30-2011, 05:42 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Georgia, 31419 | | | Nobody (well maybe Larry "Mole" Taylor from Canned Heat) headbanged like Leo Lyons back in the day. Ten Years After put out some great albums in the sixties/early seventies. Unfortunately most people are only aware of them at all because of "Goin Home" from the Woodstock movie. The entire band was made up of great musicians. Not a weak link in the chain.
On Youtube I believe there is footage of them playing "Spoonful" at the Houston Pop Festival in 1970. I think its Houston. I dare you to watch it and be able to take your eyes off of Leo Lyons. His intensity is hypnotic. He completely unintentionally steals the show by just doing his thing on the bass.
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09-30-2011, 06:33 PM
|  | Registered User | | | | | I'm a huge fan of Leo Lyons and TYA. Love his crazy right hand technique.
It's also cool to know he was a help to another one of my favourite bassists....
...."I remember being impressed with the band - so much so that we tried to help them get gigs in London," says Leo Lyons, Ten Years After's bass player. "I don't know how much help we were, but I heard that Geezer Butler mentioned it in a later interview. He was also quoted as saying that he learnt a lot of his bass licks from me. That was kind of him."
Geezer later recalled; "Ten Years After were one of our heroes. Alvin Lee was billed as 'the fastest guitarist in Britian'. One of our big breaks was when we did a gig with him. We supported Ten Years After and they really liked what we were doing. Alvin Lee got us a gig at the Marquee in London. That sort of started the ball rolling for us."
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