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I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes
and for that one moment I could be you.
Yes, I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes.
You'd know what a drag it is to see you.
-Bob Dylan
I'm pretty sure Alvin Lee and Ten Years After played with Savoy Brown at the infamous 1978 Halloween Ball at the Plaza of the Americas.
I had been at UF a month when I went, dressed as one of the Gumbys from Monty Python's Flying Circus. I saw things occur in public that night I've never witnessed since, and I've been to two Mardi Gras!
Don't think they played the Halloween Ball, but they definitely played at Lake Alice field. They were currently billed as "Ten Years Later."
Been on business in New Orleans and off the grid a couple of days so didn't read about this until now. I thought Alvin Lee's guitar solo on Going Home was one of the signature moments of the festival. I used to wear the grooves out on that record. My grandmother was the head librarian in Blountstown, FL and they had a room where you could listen to records with headphones on. I'd place both discs over and over again. Came to the blasphemous conclusion that Lee's solo was better than Jimi's. Don't know if there was ever anyone who played an electric guitar faster. Eddie VH might be, but he didn't fly up and down the fret board the way Alvin did.
For my Facebook tribute I linked Bluest Blues with the comment "RIP Alvin Lee, in your own little way you DID change the world"
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I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes
and for that one moment I could be you.
Yes, I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes.
You'd know what a drag it is to see you.
-Bob Dylan
Amazing song and film footage. Love the way those shots are composed, from face to pick hand to fret board. Didn't notice that all the times I saw that film. That was before I knew who the Director of Photography was for that film, a recent NYU grad named Martin Scorcese.
Amazing song and film footage. Love the way those shots are composed, from face to pick hand to fret board. Didn't notice that all the times I saw that film. That was before I knew who the Director of Photography was for that film, a recent NYU grad named Martin Scorcese.
Wow, had no idea Scorcese worked on that film. Seen it a bunch of times and it is this clip that always stood out to me, then Santana and The Who. Very cool.
RIP Alvin Lee
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