February 20, 1971
Sounds
Ten Years After must be seen

TEN YEARS AFTER are a band who've made it on the strength of their live appearances. It's on stage, playing supercharged rock 'n roll that they've made their name, coming across with a power that only a few groups can equal.

Stage appearance have always been vital to the group and festivals have played a major part in their success since they first reached a large audience at the 1967 Windsor Jazz Festival which they followed with a residency at the Marquee where they built a huge following.
After their festival debut, the group recorded a first album and in the summer of the following year they made their first tour of America.

They played with Canned Heat at Bill Graham's Fillmore West and Graham, certainly one of the most influential powers in the American rock scene, booked them to open his new Fillmore East in New York with Butterfield Blues Band.

The American reaction to the group was so strong that they suddenly found themselves one of the most popular British groups to tour the States only a little while after they'd first come to London from Nottingham where they started.

Individually, the members of Ten Years After -- Alvin lee, Leo Lyons, Ric Lee and Chick Churchill - had been playing around the Nottingham area for a number of years although Leo and Alvin played together in various groups at one time.

As Ten Years After the group has been together for nearly four years. They had, however, been working under other names - like the Jaybirds - for nearly two years before that. Organist Chick Churchill being the last member to join.

 IN THIS ISSUE:
New CD released


On The Road Again


Flashback 1971 - includes TYA's equipment


Spotlight on Chick Churchill's New Band
To date the group has made a total of eight tours of America. They returned to the Fillmore East to appear with Janis Joplin and have in fact spent over half of their time together working in the States where they are an enormous drawer capable of filling 6,000 capacity halls with thousands left outside.

The summer of 1969 proved to be another turning point in the group's history. It was the year they appeared at nearly all the major festivals including "Woodstock", which attracted half a million people and some of the best rock groups in the world.

The music that Ten Years After play is a contemporary mixture of blues, rock and roll and jazz that is definitely their own. Their music varies from a souped up jazzy version of Woody Herman's "Woodchopper's Ball", which became the stand out number of their Marquee stage act, to a wild, rocking version of "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl"

Its one of the strangest things about the group that none of their six albums - "Ten Years After", "Stonedhenge", "Sssh", :Undead", "Cricklewood Green" and "Watt" - have come close to capturing quite what Ten Years After are all about. Their records are good but nothing like their stage appearances.

As a group they're at their best when they're working on stage, they drive each other, working, moving and playing seventies rock and roll with a force and excitement that is impossible to ignore. - ROYSTON ELDRIDGE
Ten Years After Equipment (1971)
PA:
5 - 100 watt Marshall amplifiers
12 - 100 watt Marshall cabinets
1 Fender twin Reverb
2 Acoustic 360E bass amplifiers
2 Lashramme speaker cabinets each containing 36 - 4/12 in. speakers, handling capacity per cabinet 560 watts rms.
4 A7 Bass Reflex cabinets 1 - 15in speaker per cabinet, handling 35 watts per speaker.
10 SRO speaker cabinets 2 - 12in speakers per cabinet, handling capacity 60 watts per speaker.
2 SRO speaker cabinets 2 - 15in speakers per cabinet, handling capacity 65 watts per cabinet
1 Teletronix leveling amplifier LA2A.
3 Crown DC 300 amplifiers, each Crown has a stereo amplifier of 300 watts per channel rms.



 GUITARS:
1 Fender Stratocaster guitar.
2 Gibson 335 stereo (1 cherry red,
1 sand color) guitars.
1 Eko 12-string Ranger guitar.
1 Fender Telecaster bass guitar.
1 Rickenbacker bass guitar.

STRINGS:
fender/Gibson Sonomatic mixed strings.
Labella heavy guage bass strings.

ORGANS/PIANOS:
1 Hammond M102 organ
2 Hammond B3 organs
1 RMI 300B electric piano
1 Steinway grande piano

MICROPHONES:
6 ShureUnisphere 565
5 Shure Unidyne III
1 Beyer 260
1 Electro Voice
12 AKG microphone stands 		DRUMS:
2 Gretsch drum kits:
1 Gretsch Black Pearl drum kit consisting of:
1 - 24" x 14" bass drum
1 - 61/2" x 14" snare drum
1 - 13" x 9" top Tom Tom
2 - 16" x 16" side Tom Toms
1 Gretsch Maple Wood drum kit consisting of:
1 - 20" x 14" bass drum
1 - 5" x 14" snare drum
1 - 12" x 8" top Tom Tom
1 - 14" x 14" side Tom Tom

CYMBALS:
2 Avedis Zildjian cymbals
2 - 15" Avedis Zildjian Hi-Hats
4 - 16" Avedis Zildjian crash cymbals
2 - 19" Avedis Zildjian ride cymbals
1 Hi-Hat Ching-ring

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