- Included among the Record Descriptions of Favorite Albums (Part 1).
- Ten Years After is best known for their electrifying performance of “I’m Going Home” at Woodstock, one of the high points of the film Woodstock.
Ten Years After – The Classic Performances of Ten Years After (1977): Known for the lightning speed of bandleader Alvin Lee’s guitar, Ten Years After is a British blues-rock band whose name refers to their founding date of 1966, or 10 years after Elvis Presley created a rock and roll frenzy in 1956. Ten Years After is best known for their electrifying performance of “I’m Going Home” at Woodstock, one of the high points of the documentary film Woodstock that came out a year later. The Classic Performances of Ten Years After includes that song, but covering less than 3 minutes out of its total 10-minute length. No matter; most rock fans own the Woodstock triple-album that has the entire song.
Classic Performances includes the band’s biggest hit song in the U.S. that sounds completely different from “I’m Going Home”; called “I’d Love to Change the World”, it is a wry commentary on the political leanings of hordes of rock musicians (unfortunately, the song begins with an anti-gay slur): “Tax the rich / feed the poor / till there are no / rich no more / I’d love to change the world / But I don’t know what to do / So I’ll leave it up to you”. Also on the album is an 8-minute live version of Sonny Boy Williamson I’s classic blues song “Good Morning Little Schoolgirl” – “Good Morning Little Schoolgirl” is also memorably covered by the Yardbirds – along with other selections from their catalogue, notably “Baby Won’t You Let Me Rock and Roll You”, “It’s Getting Harder”, “One of These Days”, and “Positive Vibrations”.