Ten Years After - Help Me (Live)

[@peterqvarnstrom45]

So many years ago. This is the ever best blues ever played. Alvin Lee, Ten Tears After. A so underestimated group. The best guitarplayer ever. Just listening. Say no more.

[@rickheras5871]

Very true

[@Mainrollman]

Good grief....GOOD GRIEF!!!!!!! This solo is just the sickest guitar solo i've ever heard!!!! And the vocal is amazing also! The fact Alvin Lee was in the shadows of Hendrix, Page, Clapton, and Beck is down right shameful, because Lee was every bit as good as they were.

[@japonaliya]

If you like this type of solo listen to Johnny Winter ESP. a slow blues like It's My Own Fault etc. Or listen to Cream Live alb. version of Sleepy Time Time. Prob. The best the best classic slow blues live solo because the timing is other worldly. Fast isn't what makes your heart go into your throat. BTW I was at this concert.

[@PatrickBurns-g7y]

Absolutely Alvins ultimate live Help Me , Unbelievable blues and crescendo outstanding just Simply enjoy!!!!RIP Alvin

[@johnxnyc]

I saw them at woodstock, met alvin lee several times and saw them at the fillmore east about 10 times. and i have all the photos to show.

[@peterqvarnstrom45]

A winterday, 20 years ago. Driving from Kiruna, north of Sweden. This record on, live from 1970. Alvin is, is, the best guitarplayer ever.

[@fabiocollina]

Lee going wild and crazy here...great performer, one of the diamonds of his age. Pay my respects to him, may the Lord give him a guitar

[@ehdmojica9664]

This song gets me high.everytime.thanks for helping me ALVIN LEE..RIP..

[@stevemann3080]

VERY WELL SAID BROTHER 🎧🎸🔊🤘🤘 💔

[@badellA86]

Glad there are people here who understand my taste in Music. This is the real thing, isn't it ?

[@gastonserrini738]

+badellA86 When you have ambition you do things like this, and big mistakes too, thats why is not for everyone.

[@peterqvarnstrom45]

Yes it is. No one ever played the guitar like Alvin Lee.

[@rickheras5871]

GOAT....IMPROVISTIONALIST

[@johnrice355]

part of it 😁

[@donnydanger2263]

what a solo. he was fast as all hell. I'm 60 now & I'm thankful I grew up in this era.

[@luisperez7634]

When I first heard Ten Year After without a doubt as its name reflects, it is a rock band whose music was ahead of its time, well focused sounds, and strident and powerful sticky rhythms indicated that they seemed not to be from this world. Topics such as help me, Good Morning Little School Girl, I´m go Home, I love to chance the world show Alvin Lee's skill and mastery in the Guitar both in accelerated rhythms and in ballads. a great phenomenon! He will always be remembered as a strong pioneer of rock and heavy metal

[@peterqvarnstrom45]

Its fun, that younger people, like him. Warm love to you. search fot a song on youtube, help me, from 1970. Then you realize how good he was on the guitar. He was able to play whatever he wanted to. He is the best ever guitarist ever played.

[@marioskleidoniaris2490]

The best solo of all time!

[@7883titi]

one of the greatest songs... perharps the greatest!!! RIP ALVIN...

[@kevinwingo1685]

Thierry Lagarde gonna have this played at my funeral

[@kozuchiosu9603]

Schooling my neighbors on Mr, Lee's greatness and real rock blues as I type rattling floor-walls.

[@rockblue2129]

pure brilliance, R.I.P Alvin ...

[@jvs333]

Alvin Lee and the band have yet to receive the their credit due in music history. Amongst the greats

[@peterqvarnstrom7510]

Alvin Lee, Ten Years After. Sitting in my car, 2006, never heard, this live record. I heard all of the other records, This is magic. Help me, Alvin Lee. Thx to you all other people who like this, we are the same, this is magic. Alvin Lee is the greatest guitar player ever. Love to all you people who think the same. Alvin show this on this song. Who can do this? Alvin did.

[@andrasczehlarik9180]

ALVIN WAS A GIFT FROM GOD. R.I.P. TYA FOREVER. CHEERS.🍉

[@snwizzard]

9 minutes solo,f...g crazy guitar solo.Lee rules!!!

[@matmazy8378]

The master of guitar

[@latawie]

R.I.P. Alvin Lee...A Rock God if ever there was one....youth shouldn't be so fading...

[@Lynjupiter1]

No shit......right. A guitar GOD that no one ever heard of.

[@HerDoctor]

I simply cannot understand why I hadn't heard anything by Alvin Lee before. It's like Alan Wilson, a sick psychedelic blues guitarist that no one seems to know and both of them kick ass wildly.

[@brianleete5736]

o my god just amazing

[@joseangelhernaiz-cotrina3461]

Thanks for the upload. There are other extraordinary versions of "Help Me" by TYA, for instance the one at The Marquee but IMHO this onenis even better. It is hard to say when Alvin Lee and TYA reached their peak musically speaking but at the end of the 1960s and the early 1970s they were sublime. It'd be great to get the actual videoclip of this performance at Filmore East (1970).

[@MrGiovannigiogio]

What a guitar solo !!!!!!!

[@eurositi]

Without question the most extravagant and powerful live version of "Help Me" by TYA. Alvin Lee's performance combines a true feel for jazz and blues rock with some incredibly fast guitar work. ;) The 9-minute guitar solo that everyone in here talks about begins at 3:19, it intensifies at 6:23, and it gets completely distorted at 9:29... But, alas, at 12:37 it's over! Original song credits goes to Sonny Boy Williamson II., Willie Dixon and Ralph Bass.

[@croughsjacques8088]

Repose en paix Alvin, mes plus fortes émotions dans le rock et le blues, c'est toi qui me les à données...Je n'oublierais jamais les 3 fois que je t'ai vu sur scène.

[@joeshepmusic]

Thanks dear haven't heard that since the night of the show. TYA were the real deal

[@lakefield2112]

fan-freaking-tastic just ridiculously amazing

[@vadifukk]

15 minutes of pure awesomness

[@clautani75]

Legend! Legend! Legend !

[@bigthunder2860]

My favorite kind of music ,you know how it is when your down even your dog dont love you anymore

[@mhooshidar]

I still love this as much as I did when I first heard heard it for the first time in 74 or 75....

[@eurositi]

This performance actually contains a 10 minute guitar solo... And WHAT a solo! :P

[@giovannilazzeri2497]

Miss you so much Alvin

[@pauldundas4836]

I remember a review in NME years ago which had TYA as a high speed freak show. Very disrespectful. This shows that Lee's feeling for the blues was spot on. Excellent.

[@manoftheworld1000]

Yeah, great performance - although my personal favourite version is from the Frankfurt concert, recorded in 1973 (from that good old vinyl album).

[@mrallcz]

Alvin SpeedGuitar Lee. Outstanding.

[@89peterjohn]

alvin was brillient, no doubt, but what about the amazing leo lyons on bass, must be one of the finest bassists ever!

[@wizgan4160]

Yes indeed

[@wizgan4160]

And thanks a lot cuz i didn't knew his name

[@tonyischotter3360]

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[@younglion71]

Guitar God = Alvin Lee ... \m/

[@paulstanding8445]

This does not get any better the legend the late great Alvin Lee at his very best still to me the best live band ever perhaps pretentious idiots who go on the X Factor and think they have talent or the so called lip sinking idiots today should watch listen and learn from the true artists

[@Catssandra13]

Rock In Peace Alvin Lee.

[@japonaliya]

I saw this and another show at the Filmore. The show prior in 69 was BEFORE Woodstock, and the frantic Going Home...Help Me was the closer for his shows before the film came out.

[@johnnyfrantzvag1402]

AWESOME..

[@kimhatswell4151]

Thanks for this upload, Saira, absolutely love this long version x can't believe only 50k views, think it should have some more 000s on that number lol

[@stephanetestart9546]

superbe, sublime, stratosphérique!

[@daytonacharger21]

Bloody Amazing !!!!!!!

[@stirlwm]

RIP Alvin...

[@mikeervin3147]

Brother we always have

[@sandrocantini8062]

fantastica versione forse la più' bella di sempre alvin srepitoso alla voce e stratosferico alla chitarra

[@daytonacharger21]

Another Red hot smoking track from this Bloody Brilliant album !!!!!

[@gutierrezfabrice]

merci d'avoir posté cette version .

[@MANHARAHADASHI]

awesome

[@moudiwort]

i know this one by heart. thank you so much for uploading it. cheers serge

[@Trower22]

Dommage c'est juste un peu coupé avant la fin, Mais ce morceau est extraordinaire. Alvin Lee qui est pour moi un des 10 meilleurs guitaristes de tous les temps, un des plus technique et des plus rapide et Help me qui est une des 10 plus grandes reprises de tous les temps!

[@grm3549]

praised the women that obligates him to grew up the force that allowed him to composed and play like he did. it would lack of porpuse other way.

[@0urSYNCHRONICITY]

For my b-train driving angel….❤

[@gioconda43]

I like the bass line and Alvin guitar of course. The bass player was great too don't you think?

[@70goldtop]

8:44 he probably started with the "mic stand as a slide" trick.Fucking lunatic.Better live performer than most...including Clapton for sure.

[@67bruinsfan]

i hear ya.....woodstock ended on my 2nd b-day.....be darned 2 remember it......really think was born @ wrong time.....

[@jeffthrow6892]

Umm.......wow.....just amazing.

[@laurentgosset51]

UN PURE MOMENT DE VRAI MUSIQUE

[@lapazsaltocuantico916]

Geniales wow

[@sabpeloco]

gracias por subirlo es excelente :D

[@donlang7964]

Alvin Fukin Lee!! Thank You LedHeadTillDeath!!

[@catalinaescobar7633]

clasicos con vivenciias vividas

[@tariksba]

oh ma it sounds so clear ,you can't believe this was recorded in 1970....

[@fy_pool_day2]

God motherfucking damn it. Too good

[@timokeefe2948]

too bad there is no video of this show

[@gastonserrini738]

+Tim O'Keefe really

[@paultaylor2130]

F... ME!

[@brucejurdy1763]

Jimmy Who?????

[@tracykrajcik8407]

OH YEAH!

[@polymath7]

Search "Rory Gallagher, 'Messin With The Kid', German television" or "Rory Gallagher, live at he Marquee, 1968".

[@ThePowderfinger71]

See when you need that extra......edge you know?..........You can always turn it up to 11 ;o)

[@jrzmac]

Eric who????

[@LedHeadTillDeath]

@666gravity Alvin was born on fire ;-)

[@Zoso-z6t]

!!!!!

[@Napoleon4778]

Good news: They were there at Woodstock too Bad news: I wasn't there

[@520215ful]

!!

[@robertlavorna2968]

why arent they at the so called top of the heap...i love many, many groups of that extrordinary time ., but they are right at the top....were they blackballed for some reason?....as good as anybody.....

[@michaelalbertson7457]

They were my 4th favorite band, but they didn't have enough outstanding songs, a lot of really good ones. They needed to do more songs like this like Stevie Ray Vaughn did to make it big in other places besides England. Alvin was really into 50s music and even jazz, but that doesn't cut it in the 60s and 70s, and this genre was his best sounding one, yet it seems he wasn't as convinced.

[@robertlavorna2968]

@@michaelalbertson7457 cant agree, they have tons of great music....its endless!!!

[@michaelalbertson7457]

@@robertlavorna2968 I can understand that, they did have enough great songs, but not enough to make me listen to the whole albums often enough. I think I like heavier and melodic songs as a rule, Status Quo was my favorite, and through the album called Status Quo in America, "Blue For (the rest of) You" everywhere else, their sound was almost always heavy and melodic, music to my ears. But they still were my 4th favorite band for the outstanding songs I liked were among my favorites. Status Quo, Nazareth, Foghat, Ten Years After, and then a tie for 5th, with about 5 bands. Lol.

[@danbenbow4790]

I'm with @Mainrollman. This sh!t is just ridiculous. Few guitarists ever could solo this long and keep it interesting and intense. Hendrix. Stevie. Johnny Winter in his prime. Not many others. I had to listen to this twice today just to reconfirm how bad-a$$ it is. RIP.

[@francescoyle6850]

LP p

[@guillermoortega4119]

AWESOME