TEN YEARS AFTER 1. SOUNDS JULY 1, 1. ALVIN LEE in the Talk- in. Alvin. Lee had his producer’s hat on, in the studio doing. Ten Years After’s new album. It was. late at night when we finally got down to the interview and. What follows is basically what was on his mind that.
It was an. experiment really, an expensive experiment, but hopefully. We got the. house and the Rolling Stones Mobile Recording Truck. We. rehearsed for five days, and recorded for five. It was just. to see if we could get a sound out of England, because. Although we were going to. We’ve. got five tracks we’re considering using from there, and. It’s interesting, but it’s also a hustle.
I. can get into overdubs and put something here and something. The first track down is the one that counts. Steve. Do you find it difficult to change roles from musician to. Alvin. Not really. I’ve always been into the recording side. I. found that another producer puts your ideas into bags, they.
We try and keep. the basis of the jam and work on that. Alvin. Right. This way, it was the way the band interpreted the. Steve. Is that something you haven’t felt able to do before? Alvin. We’ve been able to do it before, but we’ve never. All our albums are experiments, but this.
Steve. With a much live- er feel to it. Alvin. Yeah, all these numbers we could play on stage, that’s the. Before, I’d play a rhythm guitar all the way. This way everybody has to be right at the same. Steve. Did you feel you’d gone as far as you could with that more. Alvin. Not really, but we all have different opinions on albums.
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It was. like our little splash of “Superstardom”, but we. The kind of hassles the. Rolling Stones get on tour are the kind of things we hope to. We’ve never gone full- bore to be a phenomenon, a. Quite honestly, that would break our band.
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That’s. what happens to a lot of bands, they just don’t want to. If it gets like that, the people don’t come to. We’ve done gigs in America where. Boston, we’d do one night at a bigger hall. And then. because the promoter has to sell 6. It never works. for us, because you get all the noisy ones down the front. Frisbees. In. the days when we were travelling around in the van, we could.
But with concerts in the States. Lines of police who usually aren’t in tune at. It just makes. you wonder what you’re doing it for. One gig we did. someone threw a bottle that hit my guitar neck, and I just. I just didn’t want to. After about an hour we went on again, and it was cool.
I thought “What for, why travel all this way to play. But. it’s just that state of mind you get going on the road, it. Also, before we go away on a tour. I’m ever going to come back, there’s that. Then when you do come back, and take some.
You get this kind of on/off relationship in your. But. if I take too long off, I find I get this intense urge to. I can do really. I can get into other things, but.
That’s why we’re. Daily Mirror or. anything. Steve. Do you regret that you made it as big as you did? Alvin. No, because now I think it’s in control. The last album we. I’m Going Home” frenzy, and. Steve. And yet there are a lot of bands trying to break through to.
Why do you think. Alvin. I don’t know. To me there’s a sadness in it all because. It’s not all like that I. I think. relative to what “Underground” was then, folk music is. It. wouldn’t surprise me if that emerged, but then again, it. Steve. It might be safe because some of it emerged about a year ago.
Alvin. Oh, that’s true, soft rock from the Americas. That’s. almost on the level of, not music, but easy listening. You. can’t be offended by all those soft rock kind of things. Alvin. There’s too many musicians that’ll jump. I mean I always used to think in. I had a very. black and white attitude, and I thought myself and a few.
But you get to meet. They start. realizing, that if they have the nerve to dye their hair. I’m sure with Alice Cooper going around. That’s great, and I. But then you’ve got Zappa, who appears to be. Entertainment is another thing entirely.
Four. people performing music on stage is entertainment in itself. It won’t happen. visually, and I think visually is the easiest way to happen. I think light shows were. I think that’s the nearest an observer can get.
When. someone says, “Here Comes Mr. Album Cover” or something. It’s the structure of the music that means something. I can gain a sympathy with an audience, an. I. couldn’t do that, and we try and avoid those, just keep it. I’ve. seen bands suddenly take off and mentally they’re trying. TIN. PAN ALLEY” side of the business.
It’s a very shallow. You can do that for so long, dress up and. Steve. So when there are a lot of people doing it, the whole scene. A. showbiz spiral. Alvin. Right, call it what you will, when the underground as such.
Underground”, I had a feeling that I was part of a. I thought it was great, Notting Hill was where it was. I went to the States, it was Greenwich.
Village. But what’s been happening is that the whole. I’m wondering whether it ever was there or not, or whether. But now, you’ve got. I’m an. opportunist, I’m not a power seeking ego- maniac or. I’m an opportunist, and if an opportunity arises. I take it. I consider I’ve been.
I can have some. freedom of thought and mind and on a physical level. But. your ideology falls through because you can’t live an. So. in the last year I’ve come down to earth again in my own. I haven’t. reached any answers at all, and I can’t do all these songs.
I really don’t know, I’m. Steve. Do you feel you really have got that freedom?
Alvin. To a degree. We go on the road and work very hard, and then. Work”! But. television really hampers me a lot, it’s always there and. I’d encourage that as much as I. But. then I can’t even switch off a T.
V. I always watch “Star. Trek”. But I went through a very disillusioned state where. I was waiting for some kind of explosion where everything. It. doesn’t come.
I don’t really believe in anything unless. I have proof, or anything relative to me, that it exist. I. don’t say there is no God, but until I’ve had any.
God. I met a guy who was. I could. possibly think of doing in his search for Nirvana.
Yet on an. animal level I could still relate quite normally to him, he. And you get this feeling that what you set. That’s why I like this. It makes. all the establishment and red tape and officials seem, not. If enough people get together and say. You Are Wrong”, They.
But surrealism I think is. I really dig. Salvador Dali paintings, and it’s an alternative to. I’ve ever known before.