Rating: 
Summary: disappointed!
Review: I'm a big Alvin Lee fan, but was somewhat disappointed with this DVD. Video and audio quality are average at best, and what happened to Choo Choo Mama? It's like the first 30 seconds of the song was cut off! I guess I'm just so deperate to see some good, old, live stuff that maybe I was expecting too much from this DVD. Surely there must be some good Ten Years After footage out there somewhere. This DVD just leaves a little too much to be desired.........
Rating: 
Summary: BRIGHT PERFORMANCE!!!
Review: If you're a fan, this video will be great fun for you. If you're interested in rock & roll (the real one), this is a document. If you're an electric guitar player, you'll be amused and amazed!
This guys really rock!!! People tend to focus in Alvin Lee, who's without any doubt a great GUITARIST (yes, with capitals), but the whole band is first class.
Tom Compton has been a favorite drummer for great names such as Johnny Winter, Kim Simmons' Savoy Brown, and Robin Trower. Mick Haksworth, an amazing bass player comes from the legendary european jazz-rock band Andromeda, and latter on part of The Flying Pigs.
The power of pure high-voltage rock & roll, and the performance of these guys, not only raises your pulse, but leaves you with yelling for more.
PS: Mr Fine's commentaries are disrespectful by all means. His review doesn't seem written by a rock music authority, and even less by someone who loves rock & Roll. An obscure reviewer?
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Summary: dig alvin lee
Review: my favorite guitarists aern't pretty boys hoppin round distacting you from the chords they may miss Alvin stands in one spot and runs aka Eric, BB,Jimi
Rating:
Summary: MUCHA ENERGIA CON LA GUITARRA
Review: SE PUEDE APRECIAR UNA PRESENTACION COMO POCAS, CON LA ENERGIA
TIPICA DE JIMMY HENDRIX.
ALVIN LEE ES SIN DUDA UNA LEGENDA DEL ROCK.
EL UNICO DETALLE QUE NO FUE DE MI TOTAL AGRADO ES LA CALIDAD
DE LA CINTA YA QUE APARECEN CIERTAS LINEAS HORIZONTALES QUE OPACAN TAN EXCELENTE EJECUCION.
Rating: 
Summary: Great stuff
Review: This is an example of a guitar player who gets better and better each time he appears in front of an audience. Alvin has'nt gotten older, HE'S GOTTEN BETTER. This music is'nt Ten Years After, similar but a little heavier in it's sound. One day Alvin and TYA will definetley be in the R&R Hall of Fame. Right at the top of the list, where they belong.
Rating:
Summary: Great, but should have been longer
Review: We all surely remember Alvin Lee as the warp-speed guitarist in "Woodstock." Doubtless, we also remember him for perhaps the widest vocal range in history, from a charming baritone to a scream to break windows, to make use of the old tape ad. Lee brings us all to this video. However, I hate to inform the true Lee fan that his vocal range decreased substantially from 1969 (Woodstock) to this German taping (1978). I suppose he just wore out his vocal chords, the price you pay for that incredible singing. Instead of back-up from his traditional band, Ric Lee, Chick Churchill, and Leo Lyons, of Ten Years After, for this recording, he's backed by Tom Compton on drums and Mick Hawksworth on bass. Compton is spectacular. He has more drums and cymbals in front of him then there are people in Utah, but he still plays them well! I say that because too often I've seen drummers with an enormous set acting as if their drum geography will make up for their lack of playing ability. He has an extensive set, but beats them mercilessly and skillfully, while sitting, and standing, and during a spectacular solo. The drums don't play themselves like a drummer or two I've seen, but his style is closer to Ginger Baker or Mitch Mitchell than that of the others I refer to, not violent, but, shall I say, dramatic. Hawksworth is probably underplayed. I'm not sure how he gets as good a sound out of his basses as most of the times he seems to be beating, rather than picking, the strings. But he gets a sound reminiscent of a good Hofner or Rick bass while playing three of them none from those brands. (All right, I have no idea why he switched basses a couple of times. Maybe it's to bring a little attention to himself when so much is going to Alvin!) I wish he'd been given the opportunity for a bass solo. They're rare, yet I like them. You may recall that in Woodstock, Lee used the strings of his guitar as a beat instrument: he taped them with his fingers and just kept beat, a novel use of the strings. In this video, he used a drumstick on the strings in one of the tunes. That demonstrates something of the electronics of the guitar--one couldn't get much of a sound from an acoustic guitar that way--but also provides another sample of Lee's novel showmanship. During "I'm Goin' Home," the Ten Years After classic in which the dwindling of Lee's vocal range was most conspicuous, he didn't tap the strings but did on the microphone. It's a little less charming but still novel. The taping was good, enough movement, plenty of close-up on Lee's amazing fingerwork and his face which gets hyperdramatic during those wild solos. But it still showing plenty of the other musicians to make it exciting without inciting motion sickness. And you even get to see the security people holding back the crowd before the encore, a testament to the dedication to Alvin Lee fans. If you're an Alvin Lee fan, I recommend this, especially if you collect his stuff. Again, I wish it were longer, but this will still do. It provides more than just Woodstock to remember Alvin Lee by.
Rating:
Summary: Just ** for the production of this DVD,not for the content!
Review: Well, the sound is supose to be Dolby Digital 5.0 but is only kind of stereo: the rear speakers are not used almost at all.
The IMAGE...what a HORROR...sometimes is like a bad TV broadcast with lines and bad pixels all over!! Sometimes is just OK. The content is amazing, one of the best concert I saw of Alvin Lee:) a must have for any fan!! I realy don't know how they could produce such a bad DVD, shame that this is the only Alvin Lee DVD available(beside the Woodstock DVD)!!
Rating:
Summary: Really, Really Impressive.
Review: You will never forget this guy/Alvin Lee. Way over the top in musical ability. Stunning, jaw dropping chops. No gimics, this guy is the real thing. I never get tired of watching this concert and wish there was more. Don't lend it to friends, you'll have a hardtime getting it back.
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