Like the two musical acts I just posted from this festival, Ten Years After was a band on the rise at this time in 1969. They were formed in 1967, and put out their first album that year, which didn't make the charts anywhere. They put out their second album in early 1969. It made the Top Ten in Britain, but didn't dent the U.S. charts at all. Then, in August 1969, they performed a well-received set at the Woodstock festival. That was a big breakthrough for them in the U.S., especially once the Woodstock movie and album were released.
However, at this point, I imagine they still were largely unknown by the audience at this festival, though some may have heard of the buzz from the Woodstock performance. Just like at Woodstock, the audience loved their energetic jamming. When they finished, they got one of the longest standing ovations from the festival.
The recording is another "good news, bad news" situation. The good news is, this is either all of their set, or at least nearly all of it. The recording ran out partway through the last song here, so it could be they played a song or two after that. But at over an hour, they played longer than most acts, so there probably wasn't much more. The bad news though is that this comes from an audience bootleg, not a soundboard one. That means lower sound quality. And that's especially the case because their style of loud and electrified music demands good sound quality. (Acoustic recordings, for instance, are much more forgiving.) I did my best, using the MVSEP program to reduce the crowd noise during the songs, and using the UVR5 program to boost the lead vocals relative to the instruments. But still, one can tell this doesn't sound as good as the soundboards from the festival.
Also, I found a different live recording from 1969 for their last song, "Help Me," and used that to patch in the missing section. And I did more extensive editing work on the songs than usual, for instance sometimes boosting specific lines in songs when they were extra quiet. But still, I could only do so much. So beware this doesn't sound fantastic.
This album is an hour and nine minutes long.
01 Good Morning, Little Schoolgirl (Ten Years After)
02 talk (Ten Years After)
03 I Can't Keep from Cryin' Sometimes (Ten Years After)
04 talk (Ten Years After)
05 Hobbit [Instrumental] (Ten Years After)
06 Spoonful (Ten Years After)
07 I'm Goin' Home (Ten Years After)
08 Help Me [Edit] (Ten Years After)
https://pixeldrain.com/u/XhZtux42
alternate:
https://bestfile.io/VaLh49Fd1WqHrZ1/file
The cover photo is from this exact concert. It shows lead guitarist and vocalist Alvin Lee. The original was in black and white. I used the Kolorize program to colorize it.
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