And a poet he's not just listen to his attempt at a tactful metaphor in the horrendous "Over the Hill": "Like a cripple and his crutch/I have learned a bit too much/Seems that doubt (?) should never touch again." This song, incidentally, features a grating string quartet arrangement behind Alvin's singing and easily rates as the group's worst studio track.įans of Ten Years After will undoubtedly receive A Space in Time with wide open arms, but others may find the weak material and electronic leger de main too much to bear.Ĭolumbia has added to its prestige and profits by luring one of the best English rock & blues bands to its labels. When Lee sings "Got no streetcar named desire/And I'll never light her fire" in "Hard Monkeys" you know that he doesn't know what he's talking about. The best piece on this album is a Chuck Berry whitewash called "Let Me Rock 'n' Roll You." Ten Years After is quite adept at playing this quasi-Berry stuff, but I with they hadn't tacked on many banal sound effects to spruce the song up.Īlvin Lee's lyrics have always served as merely adequate vocal companions to his instrumental pyrotechnics, but the words on this album border on the senseless and inane. "Hard Monkeys" and "I'd Love to Change the World" contain intriguing guitar riffs, but nothing much else of any distinction. "One of These Days" is a compelling opening track with good all-round instrumentation, even if it does drag on a bit. There are some worthwhile exceptions, however. Although bassist Leo Lyons and drummer Ric Lee provide the band with a foundation that is both workable and firm, Ten Years After does not use this rhythmic support to the best possible advantage. Chick Churchill's potential as an additional soloist, for example, is stupidly wasted by having him play only rhythm accompaniment on piano and organ behind Lee's numerous leads. Vocal melodies and guitar lines are virtually indistinguishable from one song to the next and few arrangements highlight anything besides Alvin Lee and his two, three or four guitar parts. The original material and arrangments are terribly lame. The record is an improvement over the disastrous Watt, but hardly a sufficient one. There are a couple of Alvin Lee guitar specials, several low key attempts at relevant social commentary, and a lot of underdeveloped unsuccessful music. A Space in Time, the group's first album for Columbia, re-hashes most of the material on the last four Ten Years After releases.
Winner of 30 Public Relations awards.Like a hamster running on a treadmill, Ten Years After is expending energy without moving. Placed 2nd (1st among radio participants), 6th, 10th (twice), and 21st in the five competitions.Īwarded 14 gold & platinum records and an international sales award from various record companies. Placed as a winner in five Active Industry Research Contemporary Hit Radio "Pick the Hits" competitions from 1983 through 1987. Beeman Dissertation Award for Outstanding Research in Communications and Marketing for Higher Education Advancement and was the 2008 Leo and Margaret Goodman-Malamuth Outstanding Dissertation Award for Research in Higher Education Administration. Graduate of Marshall University, West Virginia University, Southern New Hampshire University, Kentucky Christian University and Mountain State University.ĭissertation on institutional rebranding (see ) was the 2009 international winner of the Alice L. Stax Records: Everybody Wants To Go To HeavenĪssociate Provost and Professor of Mass Communication at Alderson Broaddus University and an adjunct faculty member at Southern New Hampshire University.Steve Hillage: Palm Trees (Love Guitar).Michael Hanly & Mícheál Ó Domhnaill: Bríd Óg Ní Mh.Fairport Convention: My Love Is In America.
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