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Alvin Lee

"We used to play the underground clubs like the UFO, and Middle Earth, and they were great because they would have on things like a poet, string quartets, and then a rock band! It was kinda cool!"

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"We used to play the underground clubs like the UFO, and Middle Earth, and they were great because they would have on things like a poet, string quartets, and then a rock band! It was kinda cool!"

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"Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere."

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"It's only when you're flying above it that you realize how incredible the Earth really is."

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"Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems."

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"I am very down to earth and practical."

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"Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell."

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"Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth."

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"As our bodies live upon the earth and find sustenance in the fruits which it produces, so our minds feed on the same truths as the intelligible and immutable substance of the divine Word contains."

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"That's how it is on this bitch of an earth."

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"Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates."

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"Not everybody is absolutely stupid. Why on earth would I be racist, what would I be trying to achieve?"

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Alvin Lee
"It will be the first time I've played live with a double bass."

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Alvin Lee
"I think a lot of modern day guitarists start off playing like Eddie van Halen, and they don't take the time to learn the basics."

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Alvin Lee
"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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"It wasn't until the movie came out that it all changed for us. Some people say it was the start of Ten Years After, but in another way, it was the beginning of the end."

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Alvin Lee
"I just play to the people I can see. So it's almost like you are playing to the first few rows of the crowd. You can see the faces of the first hundred people, but then it becomes a blur as the crowds disappear over the hill."

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Alvin Lee
"The chances of a reunion now are less likely. I was thinking of having a 40th anniversary of the band, but now they are really another band, so it's all a bit weird."

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Alvin Lee
"There is a big age gap between my sisters Janice and Irma and myself so I didn't know them that well when I was younger although they have been very supportive in later life."

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Alvin Lee
"I went to see John Mayall at the Marquee, with Peter Green on guitar, and that was a particularly good gig."

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Alvin Lee
"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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Alvin Lee
"It was by listening to Goodman's band, that I began to notice the guitarist Charlie Christian, who was one of the first musicians to play solos in a big band set-up."

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