All Alvin Lee Quotes
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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He saw us play a few times in fact. I did this song called I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes, and Jimi loved it. He paid me a huge compliment when he told me that he was thinking of doing something similar himself!
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Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.
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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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I just play to the people I can see. So it's almost like you are playing to the first few rows of the crowd. You can see the faces of the first hundred people, but then it becomes a blur as the crowds disappear over the hill.
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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 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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There is a big age gap between my sisters Janice and Irma and myself so I didn't know them that well when I was younger although they have been very supportive in later life.
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I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records.
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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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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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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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