Alvin Lee Quotes
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It's always been something I've been searching for - freedom. It's a very relative thing. It means different things to different people.
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My solos are more tastefully conceived now. But I still get going in places. It's just that I build up to it now. I don't race off on a solo. I take my time.
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So if you see Ten Years After, it's not me anymore. I'm very happy with what I am doing now.
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I just couldn't take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden under the desk. It had strings on it so I would practice my chord shapes under the desk and that's about all I did at school.
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My father was always playing this ethnic blues stuff around the house, and both my parents played. Then one day my father brought home Big Bill Broonzy, and there he was sitting in our living room playing, and blues was in my heart from the time I was 12 years old.
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That's the kind of musical freedom I like: jazz, rock, blues, anything. You adopt different attitudes when you play different music.
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I think I'll continue to work as a solo artist.
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I went to see John Mayall at the Marquee, with Peter Green on guitar, and that was a particularly good gig.