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Ten Years After –
“Think About The Times” – The Chrysalis Years – 1969 to 1972
A Box Set – Released
2010 – Pay Attention, This Is The One To Buy
Re-Mixed and Re-Mastered
by Peter Mew who did the Beatles re-masters !
This three CD box set
contains five albums with the re-mastering done by Peter Mew who
also did the Beatles re-masters. The results are sonically
magnificent. Contained in this set are the following: SSSSH –
Cricklewood Green – Watt – A Space In Time and Rock and Roll
Music To The World. There are also single edits that were
previously unreleased / unavailable on cd format. Simply put,
Ten Years After have never sounded better than this, and it’s
excellently sequenced so that disc one has the first two albums,
disc two contains Watt and A Space In Time, and disc three is
devoted to Rock and Roll Music To The World.
It doesn’t get any
better than this.
This set represents Ten
Years After’s fourth through their eighth album in their
catalogue.
This covers the high
water mark for Ten Years After as their SSSSH album was released
the same month that the band took to the stage at Woodstock and
put on a performance that would see the quartet catapulted into
the realm of super-stardom. All the tracks in this edition are
of incredible quality, the sound being clear which really helps
let the music take centre stage. Also included here are five
single edit versions at the tail end of the albums that they
originated from. These singles include: “If You Should Love Me”
– “Love Like A Man” - “I’d Love To Change The World” –
“Choo-Choo-Mama” and a live version of “Love Like A Man”. It’s
also great to hear the evolution in the bands sound as they
progressed during this period. As a group, they were way
overlooked much too often, this set now allows someone to gather
the band’s best four albums in a one shot deal. This will really
allow someone unfamiliar, or who wants to upgrade their
collection, to really engage the music from this legendary rock
group. Alvin Lee is an incredibly talented guitarist, that when
backed up by Ric Lee, Leo Lyons and Chick Churchill, is
virtually like a steamroller coming through your speakers. I
truly enjoyed listening to all the music that this box-set
offers. I believe that any fan of Ten Years After, or rock music
from that period in general would be overjoyed with this
fantastic collection.
This collection
offers up the meat and potatoes of Ten Years After’s onslaught.
The re-mixing and re-mastering job here is excellent. If its
been awhile since you’ve listened to this classic material, it’s
refreshing to once again hear a great British Rock and Roll band
playing at full throttle, with a little psychedelia, and
recording experimentation of the day added. The fact remains,
that if you’re a die hard fan of lead guitar work, then Alvin
Lee during this period is just straight ahead shredding, with
simple classic fundamentals, played at blinding speed.
This is the one for
you.
Alvin Lee / Ten Years
After is such a great unheralded band, that is only now starting
to get their do. This set gets it and there is so much more to
the Ten Years After / Alvin Lee catalogue, I recommend that you
examine their history and check them out for yourself.
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