4/17/2023 0 Comments A space in time by ten years afterStill, someone should have come in and said, hey, all the songs are going to be like “Hard Monkeys,” get it? And he did move off in other directions from what TYA had become. Getting back to “Over the Hill,” this is where Lee mournfully predicts “think I’ll leave the blues over the hill.” Still he also intones that “this stuff is killing me.”Īnd jumps right into “Baby Won’t You Let Me Rock ‘N Roll You,” pure hard driving rockabilly, which is only electric blues with a little white country on it.īoy that boy could play. I for one won’t patronize the song with Lee’s rippling, screaming guitar work wonderfully underlaid by Ric Lee’s ferocious drumming. Ten Years After did get their one giant hit record off this album, by the way - the hippie (I guess) anthem “I’d Love to Change the World.” Last I knew, the track was still getting FM “Classic Rock” play. Many thought that “progression” depressed Alvin but didn’t he have the industry muscle to stop it? “Who is (or was) this guy?” I found myself saying.ĭepending upon your level of generosity, Alvin and the band were broadening their musical style, trying to finally get a hit record, or leaving the blues for pop. There’s a sort of Traffic sounding angst poetry song and there are little pointless electronic effects that seem quaint now but were probably meant to be psychedlic, and maybe even a touch of the Kinks on “Over the Hill” (more about this tune later). The problem is the album moves off into a variety of stuff. Listen to the lead track “One of These Days” and tell me it wouldn’t be fine done by the Billy Boy Arnold Band. He didn’t just borrow it like most British and American rockers of the time, he got right down into it. He was also admirable for writing in the electric blues form of American artists of the 50s: Muddy, Howlin Wolf, John Lee. Page, Clapton, Townshend, any of that magnificent array of British rock guitarists of the era. But Alvin Lee in 1971 on A Space In Time - however uneven the album is - was the equal or better of any of his contemporaries. I mean I know he’s still out there and he probably still can. Ten Years After A Space In Time (Remastered) (Capitol)īoy that boy could play.
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