What makes Alvin Lee even more impressive is the fact that his solos were pretty much done with 3 fingers on the neck. His pinky barely got involved. Those quick little slides up and down covered a lot of ground. RIP Alvin. One of the greatest.
I am watching Alvin Lee play and I have gotten the chills just listening to him play with so much soul I still think that I'm going home is still one of the best live Rock song's of all time. If you have not listened to it in a while it will blow you away. I haven't heard anything from him in a long time and I forgotten how much of a awesome guitarist he is. What a great show this must have been. Steve Howe and Alvin Lee on the same bill. Steve Howe is my favorite guitarist in the world and I felt that way since I first heard him play. My favorite Yes album with Steve is Relayer. The most original and creative guitarist to have ever picked up a guitar. And he certainly has been around creating music the whole time. My second favorite guitarist is Mick Talyor from the Rolling Stones. I still cannot get over the fact that he left the band in the most creative period time the band has ever had. Greetings from Atlantic City New Jersey USA
James Farrell I had understood that Mick was kinda 'vibed' out of the Stones by Keef. Wanted Ronnie Woods instead, something like that. I always thought Mick Taylor sounded and played better (I was at Altamont, audience-right light-tower) but Ronnie 'looks' like a Rolling Stone should look, like Keith and Mick's brother...
I have recently read that Mick Talyor was using heroin with Keith and wanted to totally distance himself from the whole situation. He also wasn't given credit on some of the songs that he wrote and was getting frustrated with that situation. Greetings from Atlantic City New Jersey USA
Steve Howe ;I always admired his work great musician he can play all styles from classic to rock etc etc , a master !....🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸 five stars 1...♥1!.......Alvin Raw Concrete 👍
I still listen to Alvin Lee and Jimi Hendrix 50 years later. We must be blessed to have lived in this era. Honestly JIMI is unique. Hopefully they have Gibsons and Fenders up there.
TYA at the first Bath Blues Festival summer 1969. Was back stage waiting for a ride back to London with Clouds but they didn't show up. Watched Jimmy Page compose Led Zep II on an old Danelectro. Final act was TYA about midnight they finished with Goin Home through a massive PA. Lights and incredible sounds echoing off the hills surrounding Bath. A night to remember. The 2 Steves, Howe and Hackett, the best and McLoughlin the fastest I've ever seen and really pissed because I missed his farewell tour when in Smashville Thanksgiving week. John back to his Mahavishnu days!
McLoughlin was the fastest I've ever seen and he had the most finger-aching stretches in his chord patterns. That said, All the guys you mention are brilliant.
Alvin always use to say that his fans though he played super fast but he humblely say that he thought John Mc'laughlin was faster. Different styles. I don't think John was much faster. Alvin liked jazz and, would play some and a bit of everything. He no doubt is one of the great all-time guitar heros of rock n' roll and, one of my big heros on the guitar. I'll never forget at woodstock on 'GOING HOME'. He stold the show and, man, there were alot of great performers there. When they asked Jimi Hendrix who he listened to, he said 'ALVIN LEE'. God rest his soul, I got a friend who name his first son after Alvin Lee.
Alvin was fine at Woodstock... but he sounds the exact same or worse than he did there. He's like that other dude... Wango Z Tango Ted Nugent, 40 years in the key of A. You DARE try to compare Alvin to John McLaughlin? ROFL! They're not remotely close to in the same league. John PLAYS the guitar (amongst many other instruments... a TRUE musician... he also has perfect pitch). Alvin just goes for speed and mucks it all up. I loved what he did at Woodstock. I saw the whole thing, not just the movie. :P Yes I'm an OLD man now. I was there for the final show as well... Jimi Hendrix. Ayway, for as good as Alvin WAS, he lost it later on... and trying to compare what he did to some of this world's true greats... is just awful and pathetic. It's like trying to compare Susan Boyle with some of the world's best Opera singers. Or Mahler to Bach. LOL
Steve is so underrated or unheralded.ALVIN was my guitar hero from the ist time I heard him play in 1970.Only other player that did that was SRV..I'm from Texas and I can still remember walking into a music store in 1983 and they had Texas Flood playing in the store..Who the hell is this?I can't remember what I went in there to buy but I came out with Texas Flood
Steve Howe is great, never a doubt about that, but I didn't recognize Alvin at first and his guitar didn't have that Peace sticker. A bit too melodic to be considered shredding, but holy smokes he had the fire alarms ringing.
If you listen to Steve Howe's live solo on "Your's is No Disgrace" on the "Yessongs" album, he definitely sounds influenced by Alvin Lee now that I see this video. I wonder ??
I saw this and immediately I thought they were playing together. I was wrong. I still appreciate but was dissappointed. Only dissappionted because I thought they were on stage together.
He's definitly one of the greatest Guitar-Players. R.I.P. Mister Alvin Lee
What makes Alvin Lee even more impressive is the fact that his solos were pretty much done with 3 fingers on the neck. His pinky barely got involved. Those quick little slides up and down covered a lot of ground. RIP Alvin. One of the greatest.
he decided on that style after learning from Django R.
Most blues/blues based players use this approach because it better facilitates string bending.
Simply two of the greatest guitarists in our life time!
I am watching Alvin Lee play and I have gotten the chills just listening to him play with so much soul
I still think that I'm going home is still one of the best live Rock song's of all time.
If you have not listened to it in a while it will blow you away.
I haven't heard anything from him in a long time and I forgotten how much of a awesome guitarist he is.
What a great show this must have been.
Steve Howe and Alvin Lee on the same bill.
Steve Howe is my favorite guitarist in the world and I felt that way since I first heard him play.
My favorite Yes album with Steve is Relayer.
The most original and creative guitarist to have ever picked up a guitar.
And he certainly has been around creating music the whole time.
My second favorite guitarist is Mick Talyor from the Rolling Stones.
I still cannot get over the fact that he left the band in the most creative period time the band has ever had.
Greetings from Atlantic City New Jersey USA
James Farrell I had understood that Mick was kinda 'vibed' out of the Stones by Keef. Wanted Ronnie Woods instead, something like that. I always thought Mick Taylor sounded and played better (I was at Altamont, audience-right light-tower) but Ronnie 'looks' like a Rolling Stone should look, like Keith and Mick's brother...
I have recently read that Mick Talyor was using heroin with Keith and wanted to totally distance himself from the whole situation. He also wasn't given credit on some of the songs that he wrote and was getting frustrated with that situation.
Greetings from Atlantic City New Jersey USA
+D M only by people that know nothing about guitar. He's well respected by the people whose opinion matters.
Eddie Galon
Piss off
always loved how S.H. threw in country licks into Yes's progressive rock, along with jazz, rag time, blues, ect.. Such a fearless guitarist.
My 2 very favorite bands of all time are Ten Years After and Yes.
Steve Howe ;I always admired his work great musician he can play all styles from classic to rock etc etc , a master !....🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸 five stars 1...♥1!.......Alvin Raw Concrete 👍
If you become acquainted with Alvin's body of work you will find that he also is an extremely versatile guitarist as well.
RIP Alvin LEE Great guy
Alvin was an absolute monster on the guitar. R.I.P
Lee was The Fastest bullet of the West !!!!!
Steve Howe MASTER of the masters !
Steve Howe, Alvin Lee absolute greatness on guitar 🎸 Rock and Roll!
To be quite honest...imo...the best guitar player at Woodstock wasn't Jimi Hendrix but Alvin Lee.
totally agree! I would put Woodstock players Alvin Lee, Leslie West and Carlos Santana above Hendrix.
I still listen to Alvin Lee and Jimi Hendrix 50 years later. We must be blessed to have lived in this era. Honestly JIMI is unique. Hopefully they have Gibsons and Fenders up there.
@@TheCream14 Alvin Lee’s Performance at Woodstock was always my favorite
Absolutely agree 100%
Everybody's different it's about music not always who's better
Alvin Lee..... the best....
Alvin Lee...the best!!!
TYA at the first Bath Blues Festival summer 1969. Was back stage waiting for a ride back to London with Clouds but they didn't show up. Watched Jimmy Page compose Led Zep II on an old Danelectro. Final act was TYA about midnight they finished with Goin Home through a massive PA. Lights and incredible sounds echoing off the hills surrounding Bath. A night to remember. The 2 Steves, Howe and Hackett, the best and McLoughlin the fastest I've ever seen and really pissed because I missed his farewell tour when in Smashville Thanksgiving week. John back to his Mahavishnu days!
McLoughlin was the fastest I've ever seen and he had the most finger-aching stretches in his chord patterns. That said, All the guys you mention are brilliant.
there is no second to "Clap". by far the greatest acoustic guitar tune of all time.
Nah 'Jorma Kaukonen Embryonic Journey' already has it with 'Al Stewart - A Small Fruit Song' just behind
Listen to WATCHTOWER by Nils Lofgrin
Very hard to play!
@lisazack6459 no chet or merle. no jorma, just ask him . rev gary davis inspired him as well
I love that song!
Really great Steve Howe and really great Alvin Lee!
Excellent posting!
Thanks for sharing this!
Alvin always use to say that his fans though he played super fast but he humblely say that he thought John Mc'laughlin was faster. Different styles. I don't think John was much faster. Alvin liked jazz and, would play some and a bit of everything. He no doubt is one of the great all-time guitar heros of rock n' roll and, one of my big heros on the guitar. I'll never forget at woodstock on 'GOING HOME'. He stold the show and, man, there were alot of great performers there. When they asked Jimi Hendrix who he listened to, he said 'ALVIN LEE'. God rest his soul, I got a friend who name his first son after Alvin Lee.
Good call on Steve Howe, he is one of the greats... as is the late Allan Holdsworth.
Alvin was fine at Woodstock... but he sounds the exact same or worse than he did there. He's like that other dude... Wango Z Tango Ted Nugent, 40 years in the key of A. You DARE try to compare Alvin to John McLaughlin? ROFL! They're not remotely close to in the same league. John PLAYS the guitar (amongst many other instruments... a TRUE musician... he also has perfect pitch). Alvin just goes for speed and mucks it all up. I loved what he did at Woodstock. I saw the whole thing, not just the movie. :P Yes I'm an OLD man now. I was there for the final show as well... Jimi Hendrix. Ayway, for as good as Alvin WAS, he lost it later on... and trying to compare what he did to some of this world's true greats... is just awful and pathetic. It's like trying to compare Susan Boyle with some of the world's best Opera singers. Or Mahler to Bach. LOL
and got to love the fan that gives him a big watermelon at the end. That is a highlight from that great film.
Alvin was no slower than John, but John McLaughlin had more note in his vocabulary - Alvin was 5 note pentatonic Blues Based.
McGlauglin imo had no melody in him. Like listening to a pistol range
and just in time a special edition Alvin Lee's performance at Woodstock a colored vinyl set due 55 years later
Style like Brooks Robinson, guitar virtuoso... Picker extraordinaire!
Alvin Lee. Wow.
Awesome Jam man
There's not a style or stringed instrument Steve can't play. He's amazing.
but boring
Steve is a master of masters.
@@fredflashfishNo way is Steve's playing boring. Go watch him perform on Les Paul's show.
@user-qc9sz5ux2d are you deaf ?
My first concert May 31, 1974 - Ten Years After
Yo no los compararia, en su estilo los dos son excelentes guitarristas. QPD Alvin Lee.
Unos dé los mejores del mundo del Rock puro Dios te Guarde donde quiera que estés
A LEE=BLUES ROCK MONSTER GOD.
Steve is so underrated or unheralded.ALVIN was my guitar hero from the ist time I heard him play in 1970.Only other player that did that was SRV..I'm from Texas and I can still remember walking into a music store in 1983 and they had Texas Flood playing in the store..Who the hell is this?I can't remember what I went in there to buy but I came out with Texas Flood
Alvin rules!!!!
Both great players
Alvin Lee = God...
God made the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, and Alvin Lee.
The Best Alvin Lee !
Steve Howe is great, never a doubt about that, but I didn't recognize Alvin at first and his guitar didn't have that Peace sticker. A bit too melodic to be considered shredding, but holy smokes he had the fire alarms ringing.
RIP Virgil H another Great guy
If you listen to Steve Howe's live solo on "Your's is No Disgrace" on the "Yessongs" album, he definitely sounds influenced by Alvin Lee now that I see this video. I wonder ??
Such a FUCKIN awesome player!
Greeeeaaaat ... players!
Its great to see Steve Howe play Chet Atkin guitar style, he totally gets it
If I could play guitar, Steve Howe would be my greatest influence.
One of a kind huge influence
Alvin lee played faster than most in the late 60's
He was the fastest player back then. Got to see him at woodstock but Jimi was insane
@edwinmartinez9787 the blind owl wasn't too shabby, delta blues on an old les paul gold top
Jimi page watched him play at clubs and tried to emulate him.Page came out sloppier when he tried to play leads like Alvin.
👍Robert
Why is Alvin Lee never on the lists of the greatest guitarists? He rivals anyone out there
picture this..if u can Alvin and Stevie ray..
Alvin genial.
Bakersfield, CA style. Not bad. Has Steve been to the Kern River?
thank you for regognizing chet atkins
Jimi wow
Fuck yeah!
ua-cam.com/video/ln6RiAp2XXw/v-deo.html click for some more from the show Sherrie....
they were not on stage together though...lil misleading
Just think if Alvin used his pinky also on leads!
I saw this and immediately I thought they were playing together.
I was wrong.
I still appreciate but was dissappointed.
Only dissappionted because I thought they were on stage together.
Fah-kin amazing end of story
This is not a fair comparison, get some of Steve electric in this video!!!!!!!!!
How many bum notes does he think is acceptable?
???
Alvin Lee
# imo
Alvin would have had the contest in Gary Moore- a well Gary Moore
now you know who did it first, not EVH
puedo tocar el rock de alvin el de howe es mas tecnico y complicado
Alvin Lee ist so viel besser als Howe
Howe is Great of course. But Alivn is so damn fast!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
not too shaggy
Alvin superrrrrrrrrrrrrr