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| Ssssh | Chrysalis/EMI Toshiba (TOCP-67503 ) | 1969/2004 |  | Músicos |
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Ten Years After - Ssssh (1969/2004 Chrysalis/EMI Toshiba Japanese Mini-LP Edition)
Créditos
* Alvin Lee - Guitarra , voz
* Leo Lyons - Bajo
* Ric Lee - batería
* Chick Churchill - órgano Hammond | | Temas |
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Con la excepción de la canción Good Morning Little Schoolgirl un clásico de Sonny Boy Williamson, todas las composiciones en el álbum fueron escritos por los miembros del grupo
1. Bad Scene(3:20)
2. Two Time Mama (2:05)
3. Stoned Woman (3:25)
4. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl Sonny Boy Williamson(6:34)
5. If You Should Love Me(5:25)
6. I Don't Know That You Don't Know My Name(1:50)
7. The Stomp(4:34)
8. I Woke Up This Morning(5:25) | | Comentario |
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Official Biography: In 1967, four young musicians from Nottinghamshire, England, Leo Lyons, Ric Lee, and Chick Churchill together with Alvin Lee, formed Ten Years After and became one of the biggest names and the most explosive quartet on the world stage. Their now legendary encore, I’m Going Home performed at The Woodstock Music and Arts Festival in August 1969, was captured on film and exposed their jazz, blues, rock amalgam to a large audience who were blown away by the intensity of the band’s performance when the Academy Award winning documentary was released. Their ten-minute appearance in the film is an acknowledged highlight and established Ten Years After a place in rock history. From 1968 to 1975 constant touring, playing important musical events like The Newport Jazz Festival, The Miami Pop Festival, The 1970 Isle of Wight Festival, The Toronto Peace Festival and huge venues like The Albert Hall London, Madison Square Gardens, NY and The Budokan, Tokyo, exposed the band’s music to a global audience. It is estimated that they performed to in excess of 75,000 new fans a week. Almost four million people a year, not counting those who saw the band in the Woodstock film. Between 1967 and 1974, Ten Years After recorded and released ten multi-million selling albums. Sadly, Alvin Lee decided to go solo in 1975 and the group ceased touring and recording. However, there has always been a demand for Ten Years After and, over the following twenty-plus years, there were to be three short-lived attempts at reformation and one new studio record, About Time. Each time, Alvin quit to return to his solo career. Starting in 2001, to take advantage in the growing interest in legendary bands like Ten Years After, EMI and Decca Records in conjunction with Ric Lee, digitally re-mastered and re-released the whole Ten Years After back catalogue, most with bonus tracks, including a “find that had lain unnoticed – the 1970 live recording of the band at its peak at the Fillmore East in New York. Ric and Chick both approached Alvin with a view to touring to support the releases, but Alvin declined. It was a frustrating situation and once again it seemed that fans would be denied hearing the music played live. A chance opportunity early in 2002 for the three founder members of Ten Years After - Leo Lyons (bass), Chick Churchill (keyboards) and Ric Lee (Drums) to work together gave them an insight into the intense, re-awakened interest in the band. By public request, the band is back together. With new member, sensational, twenty-seven year old guitarist/vocalist Joe Gooch, they are recreating the music, energy and excitement they’ve been known for over the past four decades. Ten Years After plays most of their classics, but it is not an oldies band riding around on past successes. It has taken up the reins and is riding into the future. Joe Gooch is fully conversant with all of Ten Years After’s previous triumphs, but he has a distinct personality that breathes new life into the band’s performance and helps forge a new direction with this highly respected team of legendary musicians.
Ten Years After……Now, the band’s first studio album, was released in April 2004 in Europe and came out on July 18th 2005 in the USA and Canada on the Fuel 2000 label. Throughout 2004 the band toured Germany, Belgium, Holland, Italy, Switzerland, Scandinavia, France, Czech Republic and Canada. 2005 proved to be even busier with tours completed in Europe and concerts being finalized for 2006 in USA & Canada, South America, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Dubai and many other territories. August 2005 saw the release of TYA’s double live album “Roadworks” in Europe to great critical acclaim. The band toured Europe and the USA relentlessly during 05, 06, 07 and 08 but somehow managed to find time to record a bunch of new material. November 2008 will see the release of the latest studio album - “Evolution”. A long-awaited DVD is still in the pipeline and will be released early 2009.
AMG Biography: Ten Years After is a British blues-rock quartet consisting of Alvin Lee (born December 19, 1944), guitar and vocals; Chick Churchill (born January 2, 1949), keyboards; Leo Lyons (born November 30, 1944) bass; and Ric Lee (born October 20, 1945), drums. The group was formed in 1967 and signed to Decca in England. Their first album was not a success, but their second, the live Undead (1968) containing "I'm Going Home," a six-minute blues workout by the fleet-fingered Alvin, hit the charts on both sides of the Atlantic. Stonedhenge (1969) hit the U.K. Top Ten in early 1969. Ten Years After's U.S. breakthrough came as a result of their appearance at Woodstock, at which they played a nine-minute version of "I'm Going Home." Their next album, Ssssh, reached the U.S. Top 20, and Cricklewood Green, containing the hit single "Love Like a Man," reached number four. Watt completed the group's Decca contract, after which they signed with Columbia and moved in a more mainstream pop direction, typified by the gold-selling 1971 album A Space in Time and its Top 40 single "I'd Love to Change the World." Subsequent efforts in that direction were less successful, however, and Ten Years After split up after the release of Positive Vibrations in 1974. They reunited in 1988 for concerts in Europe and recorded their first new album in 15 years, About Time, in 1989 before disbanding once again. In 2001, Ric Lee was preparing the back catalog for rerelease when he discoverd the Live at the Fillmore East 1970 tapes. He approached Alvin about getting back together to promote the lost album, but Alvin Lee declined. The rest of the band was up for it, though, and together with guitarist Joe Gooch, Ten Years After started touring again. In addition to touring the world, this new incarnation recorded their first new material in about a decade and a half and released Now in 2004 and added the live double CD set Roadworks in 2005. - By William Ruhlmann.
Album Reviews:
#1: This was Ten Years After's new release at the time of their incendiary performance at the Woodstock Festival in August, 1969. As a result, it was their first hit album in the U.S., peaking at number 20 in September of that year. This recording is a primer of British blues-rock of the era, showcasing Alvin Lee's guitar pyrotechnics and the band's propulsive rhythm section. As with most of TYA's work, the lyrics were throwaways, but the music was hot. Featured is a lengthy cover of Sonny Boy Williamson's "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl," with reworked lyrics leaving little doubt what the singer had in mind for the title character. Also included was a twelve-bar blues song with the ultimate generic blues title, "I Woke Up This Morning." Ssssh marked the beginning of the band's two-year run of popularity on the U.S. album charts and in the "underground" FM-radio scene. — Jim Newsom, AMG.
#2: The three primary vices of the late 1960's are on vivid display on this, Ten Years After's fourth album, released in 1969. While songs giving a sympathetic ear to underage sex ('Good Morning Little Schoolgirl') and drug usage ('Stoned Woman') are frowned upon today, it's revealing what Alvin Lee and his 'mates were committing to vinyl way back in the 1960's. You would probably draw the ire of Bill O'Reilly and perhaps the FBI for uttering lyrics like "I want to b_ _l you all night long" to an imagined "little schoolgirl" in this, the second millennium (I suppose Alvin could implicate original writer Sonny Boy Williamson for the faux pas, however). Alvin was 24 years of age when he suggested to this little schoolgirl that there was "nothing wrong" with such yearnings, nor does he sound disgruntled over his observation that "she's gonna keep him stoned out of his mind all the time" on 'Stoned Woman'. While Alvin and many of his contemporaries may have second thoughts about such judgements today, it's clear that very liberal attitudes were being quite freely propogated, and certainly followed in this era. And while it may be easy to dismiss such indulgences as typical of the times or youth in general, the problem is that it's so hard to separate Alvin's questionable sentiments with the great rock and roll music he composed to accompany it. While the B-side of the original vinyl version of 'Ssssh' is a bit uneven, the A-side is pure, unadulterated, rabid rock and roll heaven. The sound of the first four tracks stand up nicely against any comparable 16 minute sequence anywhere in rock. The album leads off with the great up-tempo rocker, 'Bad Scene'. The lyrics deliver an angry rant about life's hassles, from "hurtin'" to "chokin'", with Alvin's vocals processed through something that makes his voice sound like a tinny 1930's radio broadcast. I'm not sure what the intent is of that processing, but it sounds extremely cool. 'Two Time Mama' follows, opening with a bouncy acoustic riff and morphing into a boogie along the lines of Canned Heat's 'Goin Up the Country'. There's a great slide guitar to be had under the cautionary lyrics. 'Stoned Woman' is up next, featuring a sweet bass beat, fine guitar hooks, and Alvin delivering up plenty of tasty 'Ugh's, 'Ooh's, and 'Aah's. 'Good Morning Little Schoolgirl' winds up the quartet with 6:34 of solid-rock, and more orgiastic screams, grunts, moans, and groans. The B-side of the original vinyl starts out with a melodious acoustic track spiced up with a bit of wah-pedal guitar in the background, but 'If You Should Love Me' slowly gains steam until you're seriously folk-rockin' with fine organ support from Chick Churchill. After a two minute acoustic guitar and piano ballad, 'I Don't Know That You Don't Know My Name' (a real challenge to decipher for any TYA fan who's stoned out of his mind all the time...), serving as an intermission, TYA return to the blues-rock with a decided groove in 'The Stomp'. The disc winds up with perhaps the weakest track, a heavy and solid, but derivitive standard electric blues number, 'I Woke Up This Morning'. If you're a fan of heavy blues-rock music with excellent hooks and riffs, this vintage TYA disc is made for you, especially if you're okay with the provocative lyrical content. Be forwarned that this particular version (and there are versions aplenty of 'Ssssh'... which really should be 'Shhhh', shouldn't it?) of 'Ssssh' is marketed as a remastered disc from EMI Special Markets, but nowhere in the package is remastering mentioned, nor does the EMI moniker appear anywhere. Entering the bar code into the ebay listing generator, however, does identify this as a remastered disc from EMI. The label on the disc is Chrysalis, but the recording date is listed as 1975, which is a total mystery. Nevertheless, it sounds good, and perhaps that is all that matters in the final analysis. - D. Schmittdiel, Amazon. | | Enlace | Codec |
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