Recorded Live

構成数 : 2枚
合計収録時間 : 02:33:53
2 LPs on 1 CD; the song "The Hobbit" is ommitted from the original LP release. Ten Years After: Alvin Lee (vocals, guitar); Chick Churchill (piano, organ); Leo Lyons (bass); Ric Lee (drums). Recorded live in Amersterdam and Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Frankfurt, Germany; Paris, France. Personnel: Alvin Lee (vocals, guitar); Chick Churchill (piano, organ); Ric Lee (drums). Liner Note Author: David K. Tedds. Recording information: Amsterdam (01/26/1973-01/29/1973); Frankfurt (01/26/1973-01/29/1973); Paris (01/26/1973-01/29/1973); Rotterdam (01/26/1973-01/29/1973). Photographer: Brian Cooke. The cover of Ten Years After's 1973 album Recorded Live depicts a giant reel-to-reel recorder, which certainly captures the era when this double-LP set was recorded. Approaching the end of their run -- only one more album would come, 1974's Positive Vibrations -- Ten Years After were deep into the thick of '70s arena rock, so everything they played on-stage wound up stretching well beyond the five-minute mark, sometimes reaching upward of 11 minutes. Everything on this double-LP places improvisation over groove -- a sentiment that is accentuated on the 2013 expansion, which winds up running 21 tracks over two discs, adding bonus outtakes to the original double-LP set. The best parts here are the improvisations, particularly Alvin Lee's long, languid guitar solos, but this album -- either in its original incarnation or in its expansion -- is a distinctly '70s creation: it's unhurried and indulgent, reveling in its slow, steady march to a virtuosic, never-ending guitar solo. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine