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Live at the Fillmore East
With its devotion to '50s rock and blues coupled to a manic, if decidedly middlebrow performance tack, Ten Years After could seem positively Jurassic, even by late-'60s standards. This collection culls magnificently recorded performances (kudos to Hendrix/ELP engineer Eddie Kramer) from a February 1970 weekend stand at the Fillmore East, capturing the band at its post-Woodstock performing peak. The running times of most of the tracks (three-quarters of which clock in at seven-plus minutes) will tip listeners to the show's jam-heavy take on covers of Sonny Boy Williamson (an ominous, revamped "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl"), Willie Dixon (a slow, 16-minute burn through "Help Me"), and Chuck Berry (atypically economic romps of "Sweet Little Sixteen" and "Roll Over Beethoven"). But with the band's own primordial originals (the titles "Skooby-Oobly-Doobob" and "Extension on One Chord" speak for themselves) there's an elemental, effusive--and, dare we say it--Ramones-like stoopidity to the tracks. Even Alvin Lee's trademark fret-burner "I'm Going Home" is hard to resist. This set perfectly captures one of the era's hardest working bands in a concise, double-disc time capsule. --Jerry McCulley
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Tracks| 1 | Love Like A Man | | 2 | Good Morning Little Schoolgirl | | 3 | Working On The Road | | 4 | The Hobbit | | 5 | 50,000 Miles Beneath My Brain | | 6 | Skoobly-Oobly-Doobob/I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes/Extension On One Chord | | 7 | Help Me | | 8 | I'm Going Home | | 9 | Sweet Little | | 10 | Roll Over Beethoven | | 11 | I Woke Up This Morning | | 12 | Spoonful |
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