Classic Rock Gold
The Rock and Blues band, Ten Years After; paid their dues three times over, playing the dockside bars and dives all over England. Alvin Lee, the premiere Rock and Blues guitar player of his time often lamented how hard it was to get their third album cut. He often held that this difficulty was the primary reason that Ten Years After had not "made it" on the commercial music scene. In fact, the original album cover back side of "Ssssh" had Lee's comment on it, describing just how difficult it had been to cut that album. Caught between the "British Invasion" and the Haight Ashbury culture, Ten Years After finally found their niche within the Acid Rock crowd. Lee's comment about the material on the Shhhh album cover was indeed prophetic. It was Ssssh that launched them into their successful period. It cannot be ignored that their appearance at Woodstock might had a lot to do with their relative success
While they did experience success during the middle of their musical careers, the album "A Space In Time" went gold in a hurry. While some critics and fans sniffed that the band "sold out" to commercialism, the feature song of that album, "I'd Love To Change The World" made every one of them comfortably wealthy. And as unusual was the fact that fans also enjoyed most of the songs on that album, not just the feature cut.
That album was also the sign-off signature for the band, as Lee left to seek a solo career and the music public could only look forward to numerous "best of" albums the studios would release to line their own pockets. A reunion wasn't to be. But what can absolutely be said with authority is that A Space In Time cemented Ten Years After as Rock Music giants of their time. It's good to see this digitized CD being released. It is indeed a classic.
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