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Title: Alvin Lee
Post by: omega3000 on 06 March 2013, 20:50:43

RIP  :'( http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21688814


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NS-U5Tk6bo

Title: Re: Alvin Lee
Post by: Olympia5776 on 06 March 2013, 21:03:34

Shocked at that.
I was playing his "Zoom " album on Monday .
Superb guitarist and entertainer who'm I've  listened to for 45 years.

So long Alvin .......RIP.

Title: Re: Alvin Lee
Post by: albitz on 06 March 2013, 21:14:31

R.I.P.  :'(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RM2dLFyXAI

Title: Re: Alvin Lee
Post by: Rog on 07 March 2013, 14:26:53

Blimey. I didn't know about this    :(      :(      :(

Saw him many times with Ten Years After

Title: Re: Alvin Lee
Post by: tigers_gonads on 07 March 2013, 14:37:17

Yup
The boy could play  :)
RIP  :(

Title: Re: Alvin Lee
Post by: STMO123 on 07 March 2013, 15:47:53

Well, I must confess, I've never heard of him.

Title: Re: Alvin Lee
Post by: albitz on 07 March 2013, 16:34:59

Heard of Ten years After ?

Title: Re: Alvin Lee
Post by: Rog on 07 March 2013, 17:01:36

Quote from: Rog on 07 March 2013, 14:26:53

Blimey. I didn't know about this    :(      :(      :(

Saw him many times with Ten Years After

Just over half way down . . . .

 . . . . yes I was there, I am that old


(http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/sunbury68-artists-600.jpg)

Title: Re: Alvin Lee
Post by: albitz on 07 March 2013, 17:03:24

Thats a hell of a line up Rog. :y
There are very very few artists I would bother leaving the house to watch these days,but theres a list of them there that I would really like to have seen,and a few I have already seen. :)

Title: Re: Alvin Lee
Post by: Rog on 07 March 2013, 17:08:43

Quote from: Albitz on 07 March 2013, 17:03:24

Thats a hell of a line up Rog. :y

Yup. I used to go to this every year until life got serious and I had to start working for a living  >:(

Stopped in about '70 when I moved to London, then started doing festivals again in around 2003 when my kids were old enough to go with me  :y   :y Now they go without me  :'(   :'(

Title: Re: Alvin Lee
Post by: albitz on 07 March 2013, 17:13:45

I used to go to see just about everyone who would come to Belfast in the 70,s,but (not including the Olympics closing ceremony) I have only been to about 5 gigs in the last 25 years.
Clapton at the Albert hall.
Clapton at Earls Court
Roger Waters at the O2
Gary Moore at the Bush hall,Shepherds Bush.
Clapton & Jeff Beck at the O2.

Title: Re: Alvin Lee
Post by: Elite Pete on 07 March 2013, 17:20:02

Quote from: STEMO on 07 March 2013, 15:47:53

Well, I must confess, I've never heard of him.

You and me both :(

Title: Re: Alvin Lee
Post by: STMO123 on 07 March 2013, 18:47:55

Quote from: Albitz on 07 March 2013, 16:34:59

Heard of Ten years After ?

 :-\ :-\ I've heard of Kenny Ball :y

Title: Re: Alvin Lee
Post by: albitz on 07 March 2013, 18:49:22

Your even older than everyone thought then.  ::)

Title: Re: Alvin Lee
Post by: jerry on 07 March 2013, 20:14:31

not heard of his death and wasnt aware he was ill.One of the great British guitar players.RIP.

Title: Re: Alvin Lee
Post by: omega3000 on 07 March 2013, 21:46:22

Quote from: jerry on 07 March 2013, 20:14:31

not heard of his death and wasnt aware he was ill.One of the great British guitar players.RIP.

Aye

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he unexpectedly died on 6 March following complications during routine surgery.

you never know when your time is up .

Really sad  :( But at least his memory lives on in his music ..

Title: Re: Alvin Lee
Post by: Olympia5776 on 07 March 2013, 22:14:15

Quote from: Albitz on 07 March 2013, 17:03:24

Thats a hell of a line up Rog. :y
There are very very few artists I would bother leaving the house to watch these days,but theres a list of them there that I would really like to have seen,and a few I have already seen. :)

Albs , open this and look at the " who played  when " section on the LHS column .
 http://www.glasgowapollo.com/index.asp?s_id=1&m_id=1
I went to The Greens Playhouse then Apollo many many times from '71 on and although I seen lots of iconic bands there were many I didn't and I ask myself now .....Why ?
And no, I was somewhere else on the 19th of October 1973 .......... :'(