Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" I went to see John Mayall at the Marquee, with Peter Green on guitar, and that was a particularly good gig. "
Alvin Lee
Guitar
Marquee
Gig
Related Quotes:
" Strangely enough, I wasn't into fast guitarists. I preferred Peter Green's subtle touch. I saw him with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers at the Marquee Club in London and was very impressed. He was the only guitarist I've ever seen to turn the volume control on his guitar down during a solo. "
Alvin Lee
Guitar
Control
Enough
" My favorite country blues player was Big Bill Broonzy. City blues was Freddie King, but I liked them all - Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Ralph Willis, Lonnie Johnson, Brownie McGhee and the three Kings, B.B., Albert and Freddie. Jazz-wise, I listened to Django, Barney Kessel and Wes Montgomery. "
Alvin Lee
City
Three
Kings
" I think I'll continue to work as a solo artist. "
Alvin Lee
Think
Artist
Work
" That's the kind of musical freedom I like: jazz, rock, blues, anything. You adopt different attitudes when you play different music. "
Alvin Lee
Music
Play
Freedom
" 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. "
Alvin Lee
Reunion
Anniversary
Weird
" I write and record all the time; it's my hobby and my passion. "
Alvin Lee
Write
Record
Passion
" 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. "
Alvin Lee
Day
Start
Time
" My all-time favorite rock and roll players were Scotty Moore, Chuck Berry and Franny Beecher, and I listened to the country playing of Merle Travis. "
Alvin Lee
Playing
Rock
Rock And Roll
" 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! "
Alvin Lee
Play
Rock
Great
" He saw us play a few times in fact. I did this song called I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes, and Jimi loved it. He paid me a huge compliment when he told me that he was thinking of doing something similar himself! "
Alvin Lee
Thinking
Song
Play
" 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. "
Alvin Lee
Blur
People
Hill
" 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. "
Alvin Lee
Seriously
Practice
Guitar
" 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. "
Alvin Lee
Know
Big
Life
" Strangely enough, through all those school years I decided at 13 or 14 I was going to be a musician and so school was just something to get out of the way, a waste of time and not to bother with it. "
Alvin Lee
Going
Enough
Way
" So if you see Ten Years After, it's not me anymore. I'm very happy with what I am doing now. "
Alvin Lee
Happy
Doing
I Am
" 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. "
Alvin Lee
People
Way
End
" We also did something called the Texas Peace Festival, which was actually a better gig both musically, and in the way it was organised. "
Alvin Lee
Musically
Way
Texas
" It will be the first time I've played live with a double bass. "
Alvin Lee
First Time
Will
Time
" 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. "
Alvin Lee
Listening
Musicians
Christian
" George Harrison was also a pleasure to work with. He was one of the most famous people I've ever known, but in spite of that fame, he was such a nice and friendly guy. "
Alvin Lee
Guy
Work
People
" I strongly encourage listening to the radio to hear something you haven't heard before. It's a very healthy thing to do. It's strange: unless you reload your iPods every couple of weeks, you're listening to and recycling the same music all of the time. I'm serious. Listen to your radio station. "
Alvin Lee
You
Healthy
Listening
" Back in those days we thought we could change the world. "
Alvin Lee
World
Change
Thought
" I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records. "
Alvin Lee
Playing
Started
Listening
" Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books. "
Alvin Lee
Books
Go
Make