Ten Years After - 'I'd Love To Change The World'

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1. That was big in my day.

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2. My day also. 🫡 🤭

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3. Yet another brilliant band that flashed in this moment.

Alvin Lee was a really interesting dude.

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6. There were lotsa memorable tunes produced back in the day.

[Martin Eden]

4. I saw Ten Years After in 1975 at the old Chicago Stadium

Alvin Lee was a fantastic guitar player. They put on a great show. After two encores the lights came on, but we wouldn't leave or stop cheering. The lights were turned off, and they came back for a third encore.

I'd Love to Change the World is among the greatest classic rock songs of that era. It used to get a lot of airplay, but I have not heard it on the radio in a very long time -- possibly because of the lyric "dykes and fairies."

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5. I know, that line...I tried considering it in a non-negative way.

Perhaps it's meant to be tongue-in -cheek and not critical?

We enjoyed seeing Jefferson Airplane twice at Fillmore East back when. 🫡

[Martin Eden]

7. I think Alvin Lee was presenting two different sides, not his own views with the first two sets of lyrics

Cultural conservatives were shocked by the hippie counterculture (freaks & hairies) and open homosexuality (dykes & fairies), while young folks and the wanted to (tax the rich, feed the poor, till there are no rich no more).

Lyrics after the kick-ass solo can leave little doubt about where Mr. Lee stood:
World pollution
There's no solution
Institution
Electrocution
Just black and white
Rich or poor
Them and us
Stop the war!

Jefferson Airplane at the Fillmore East??!!!
You go further back than me. I still have the Surrealistic Pillow album and played the hell out of it, but my first rock concert in June 1973 was the last day of my sophomore year in high school. My buddies and I took the bus to the Chicago Amphitheater on Halstead to see Derp Purple. I think it was the last tour with Ian Gillan, and was very much like the Made In Japan double live album. They were backed up by a newer band called ZZ Topp.

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8. Yes, how you explained those phrases.

One fella in our circle had a humongous crush on Grace Slick!

He accompanied the rest of us to both concerts, but we naturally had to keep an eye on him.