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Alvin Lee, rock guitarist (Ten Years After), dies at 68
BBC News ^
| 6th March 2013
| BBC News
Posted on 03/06/2013 10:37:45 AM PST by the scotsman
'British rock guitarist Alvin Lee, a member of the band Ten Years After, has died aged 68.
His family announced on his official website that he unexpectedly died on 6 March following complications during routine surgery.
The Nottingham-born musician rose to fame after appearing at the Woodstock festival in 1969.
The band, who had eight Top 40 albums in the UK, had their biggest hit in 1971 with I'd Love To Change the World.
"We have lost a wonderful and much loved father and companion, the world has lost a truly great and gifted musician," said the statement from his wife and daughters.'
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: alvinlee; goinhome; tenyearsafter; unitedkingdom
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To: the scotsman
There are no ‘routine surgeries’...RIP, Mr. Lee.
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posted on
03/06/2013 11:00:54 AM PST
by
who knows what evil?
(G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
To: the scotsman
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posted on
03/06/2013 11:01:10 AM PST
by
ZirconEncrustedTweezers
(I'll stop being a cynic when the world stops giving me reasons to be cynical.)
To: phockthis
Yeah, those are prophetic lyrics in that song.
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posted on
03/06/2013 11:03:19 AM PST
by
TADSLOS
(The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
To: the scotsman
Holy crap I was just looking at a photo of that guy just last week and thinking how I didn’t recognize him.
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posted on
03/06/2013 11:03:25 AM PST
by
GrandJediMasterYoda
(Someday our schools will teach the difference between "lose" and "loose")
To: who knows what evil?
was it done in Britain? that could explain a lot.
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posted on
03/06/2013 11:03:25 AM PST
by
TurboZamboni
(Looting the future to bribe the present)
To: doorgunner69
A memory that has stayed with me for life. Awsome!! I remember the watermelon rolling up to him on stage. Lol.
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posted on
03/06/2013 11:03:36 AM PST
by
MotorCityBuck
( Keep the change, you filthy animal! ,)
To: llevrok
He's going home to meet his maker, Home to meet his maker!
He's going home to meet his maker, Home to meet his maker!
He's going home to meet his maker, Home to meet his maker!
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posted on
03/06/2013 11:04:48 AM PST
by
STD
( Intellectuals, they are a wrecking crew, dismantling civilization)
To: the scotsman
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posted on
03/06/2013 11:06:47 AM PST
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Here once the embattled farmers stood... And fired the shot heard round the world.)
To: the scotsman
He’s “Going Home”... RIP.
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posted on
03/06/2013 11:06:47 AM PST
by
maddog55
(America Rising.... Civil War II)
To: who knows what evil?
There are no ‘routine surgeries’...RIP, Mr. Lee. Especially with the NHS
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posted on
03/06/2013 11:11:19 AM PST
by
ChildOfThe60s
(If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
To: Drumbo
Ping.
I was in the Army at Fort Gordon when that song came out. It was the first time that I heard the words "dykes and fairies" used in popular music.
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posted on
03/06/2013 11:11:51 AM PST
by
Publius
To: the scotsman
I saw Alvin in Germany when I was stationed there in the mid 70’s. He’s one of my guitar heroes. I’m truly saddened by this.
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posted on
03/06/2013 11:12:11 AM PST
by
rochester_veteran
( http://RochesterConservative.com/forums)
To: the scotsman
What a shame! He was a huge influence on me 30 years ago when I was a young teen first picking up the instrument. He was a master. One of the first "shredders" and should have been every bit the household name that Page, Clapton, Hendrix and Van Halen would become. RIP Mr. Lee.
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posted on
03/06/2013 11:12:43 AM PST
by
Drew68
To: bmwcyle
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posted on
03/06/2013 11:13:06 AM PST
by
South40
To: the scotsman
Just last night I was playing the acoustic part of I’d love to change the world. I woke up this morning is one of my favorite songs to put on my workout playlist.
RIP Alvin
To: Mase
Same here. TYA was touring with Spooky Tooth and Humble Pie. Rockingest show I ever saw. Alvin Lee jumped off the stage, grabbed the joint out of my best buddie’s hand shouting “Gimme that f’n joint”, jumped back on stage and kept jamming. They weren’t wireless then. That was a really long cord.
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posted on
03/06/2013 11:15:57 AM PST
by
printhead
(Standard & Poor - Poor is the new standard.)
To: the scotsman
Goin Home...best riff evah!
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posted on
03/06/2013 11:18:14 AM PST
by
wxgesr
(I want to be the first person to surf on another planet.)
To: the scotsman
♪ RIP Alvin ♪
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posted on
03/06/2013 11:25:22 AM PST
by
ßuddaßudd
(>> F U B O << "What the hell kind of country is this if I can only hate a man if he's white?")
To: the scotsman
Par for the course for ‘routine surgery’ in socialist Britain.
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posted on
03/06/2013 11:27:12 AM PST
by
Track9
(hey Kalid.. kalid.. bang you're dead)
To: the scotsman
That’s such a shame. First saw this from a Kevin Shirley (producer, Iron Maiden) post on Facebook. Terrible to lose such a force in guitar playing.
I bet he and Stevie Ray Vaughan are already rocking out.
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posted on
03/06/2013 11:29:27 AM PST
by
wastedyears
(I'm a gamer not because I choose to have no life, but because I choose to have many.)
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