![]() The brand new stereo mix is by original producer/engineer, Chris Kimsey, using transfers from the original two-inch multitrack tapes. The Quad Mix corrects the channels which were inadvertently switched (front to back) on the 2012 DVD (which came with a vinyl LP). The Blu-ray Audio is only available via SDE and is packed with great content, as follows:įlat transfer of the Original 1971 Mix (48/24) A Space in Time saw the band taking a more melodic direction from previous releases and showcased the band at their peak. It was the group’s sixth, and best-selling album, featuring their best-known track ‘I’d Love To Change The World’, which is used regularly on film and TV (most recently in David O. The 1971 album is being reissued (belatedly) for its 50th anniversary. To check it out, click HERE.A Space in Time, the 1971 album from British rock band Ten Years After, is #7 in the continuing SDE Surround Series of exclusive Blu-ray Audios with Dolby Atmos Mixes. * * * * * * “November and Other Tales” by Brian Arsenaultīrian Arsenault’s November and Other Tales is a collection of short stories exploring the way cold comes by degrees in winter and in the human heart. To read more reviews and posts by Brian Arsenault click HERE. And even if it is, this record in its best parts is as good a rocker as there is. ![]() The whole world isn’t programmed music on an iPad, you know. This remastered, reissued wonderfully vinyl album is worth finding your old turntable or hitting that good downtown music store (which is still there, at least online) and buying one. It’s a perplexing album that way throughout but don’t miss it. “Hard Monkeys” (draw your own conclusions) is so good, so true to the form, but somebody tell me what “Here They Come” is. Still, someone should have come in and said, hey, all the songs are going to be like “Hard Monkeys,” get it? And he did move off in other directions from what TYA had become. Getting back to “Over the Hill,” this is where Lee mournfully predicts “think I’ll leave the blues over the hill.” Still he also intones that “this stuff is killing me.”Īnd jumps right into “Baby Won’t You Let Me Rock ‘N Roll You,” pure hard driving rockabilly, which is only electric blues with a little white country on it.īoy that boy could play. I for one won’t patronize the song with Lee’s rippling, screaming guitar work wonderfully underlaid by Ric Lee’s ferocious drumming. Ten Years After did get their one giant hit record off this album, by the way - the hippie (I guess) anthem “I’d Love to Change the World.” Last I knew, the track was still getting FM “Classic Rock” play. Many thought that “progression” depressed Alvin but didn’t he have the industry muscle to stop it? “Who is (or was) this guy?” I found myself saying.ĭepending upon your level of generosity, Alvin and the band were broadening their musical style, trying to finally get a hit record, or leaving the blues for pop. There’s a sort of Traffic sounding angst poetry song and there are little pointless electronic effects that seem quaint now but were probably meant to be psychedlic, and maybe even a touch of the Kinks on “Over the Hill” (more about this tune later). The problem is the album moves off into a variety of stuff. Listen to the lead track “One of These Days” and tell me it wouldn’t be fine done by the Billy Boy Arnold Band. ![]() He didn’t just borrow it like most British and American rockers of the time, he got right down into it. He was also admirable for writing in the electric blues form of American artists of the 50s: Muddy, Howlin Wolf, John Lee. Page, Clapton, Townshend, any of that magnificent array of British rock guitarists of the era. But Alvin Lee in 1971 on A Space In Time - however uneven the album is - was the equal or better of any of his contemporaries. I mean I know he’s still out there and he probably still can. Ten Years After A Space In Time (Remastered) (Capitol)īoy that boy could play.
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