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It wasn't very satisfying pla...

It wasn't very satisfying playing the big arenas, but it was good as far as a paycheck. But the sound was terrible, especially in hockey arenas - the sound would go on for 30 seconds after we quit playing.

Alvin Lee 45 quotes

It was by listening to Goodma...

It was by listening to Goodman's band, that I began to notice the guitarist Charlie Christian, who was one of the first musicians to play solos in a big band set-up.

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I write and record all the ti...

I write and record all the time; it's my hobby and my passion.

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We also did something called ...

We also did something called the Texas Peace Festival, which was actually a better gig both musically, and in the way it was organised.

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I strongly encourage listenin...

I strongly encourage listening to the radio to hear something you haven't heard before. It's a very healthy thing to do. It's strange: unless you reload your iPods every couple of weeks, you're listening to and recycling the same music all of the time. I'm serious. Listen to your radio station.

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Strangely enough, through all...

Strangely enough, through all those school years I decided at 13 or 14 I was going to be a musician and so school was just something to get out of the way, a waste of time and not to bother with it.

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I went to see John Mayall at ...

I went to see John Mayall at the Marquee, with Peter Green on guitar, and that was a particularly good gig.

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I've always been much more of...

I've always been much more of a guitar picker, but I began to feel forced into a position of being the epitome of a rock & roll guitarist. Originally, TYA wanted to make it without having to compromise to pop. It worked for a while, but after five or six years, the fun went out of it for me; a lot of the music went out of it.

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It's always been something I'...

It's always been something I've been searching for - freedom. It's a very relative thing. It means different things to different people.

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I just couldn't take school s...

I just couldn't take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden under the desk. It had strings on it so I would practice my chord shapes under the desk and that's about all I did at school.

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... I'm not conscious of the ...

... I'm not conscious of the speed ... it's not my motive ... my motive is displaying a voice through the fingerboard ... it can get to the point where I don't have control over what I am playing ... I never end the gig until I can't sing anymore

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That's the beauty of creativi...

That's the beauty of creativity. It comes from the ether. I like to think, sometimes, it's like I haven't written it, it's more like I just reached up and grabbed it from somewhere. That song, 'Song of the Red Rock Mountain,' is one of them. I recorded it and thought, 'Where did that come from?'

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It wasn't until the movie cam...

It wasn't until the movie came out that it all changed for us. Some people say it was the start of Ten Years After, but in another way, it was the beginning of the end.

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The chances of a reunion now ...

The chances of a reunion now are less likely. I was thinking of having a 40th anniversary of the band, but now they are really another band, so it's all a bit weird.

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I think a lot of modern day g...

I think a lot of modern day guitarists start off playing like Eddie van Halen, and they don't take the time to learn the basics.

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George Harrison was also a pl...

George Harrison was also a pleasure to work with. He was one of the most famous people I've ever known, but in spite of that fame, he was such a nice and friendly guy.

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My all-time favorite rock and...

My all-time favorite rock and roll players were Scotty Moore, Chuck Berry and Franny Beecher, and I listened to the country playing of Merle Travis.

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My favorite country blues pla...

My favorite country blues player was Big Bill Broonzy. City blues was Freddie King, but I liked them all - Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Ralph Willis, Lonnie Johnson, Brownie McGhee and the three Kings, B.B., Albert and Freddie. Jazz-wise, I listened to Django, Barney Kessel and Wes Montgomery.

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So if you see Ten Years After...

So if you see Ten Years After, it's not me anymore. I'm very happy with what I am doing now.

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That's the kind of musical fr...

That's the kind of musical freedom I like: jazz, rock, blues, anything. You adopt different attitudes when you play different music.

Alvin Lee 45 quotes

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