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June 28th 1969.
Ten Years After.

Alvin Lee - guitar/vocals
Leo Lyons - bass
Ric Lee - drums
Chick Churchill - keyboards

   Featuring the pyrotechnical guitar skills of Alvin Lee, TYA came to prominence in 1969 largely due to their blistering performance at Woodstock . There is no doubt that Lee was an excellent guitarist, but their lack of ability to write strong tunes was a distinct problem -one cannot forge a long term career on blindingly fast solos alone - the truly great musicians move on to develop their sound , something TYA did not really achieve. It is probably this factor that lead to led to their eventual fall into semi -obscurity, whilst many other 60s bands ,although defunct , have much larger followings.

Likely set list.
   The band played  I'm going Home at Woodstock so this was very likely to been played at Bath . The list below is from their album sssh released July 69, so their shows in June would probably have featured some of this material

Bad Scene
Two-Time Mama
Stoned Woman
Good Morning Little School Girl
If You Should Love Me
I Don't Know That You Don't Know My Name
The Stomp
I Woke Up This Morning

Hi, I saw Ten Years After at the Cheese & Grain Frome last Saturday (30/06/03), and that prompted me to search the net for The Bath Festival Of Blues"69. I remember the event well.
The sounds of Led Zep reverbarating all round the surrounding buildings, Ten Tears After coming on stage just as dusk was falling. I just thought I would let you know that I have an original orange programme of the event, price two shillings!!!!. I also went to the Shepton Mallet event in 1970 and, yes I have a programme for that too. Price three shillings. It's nice to see bands reforming and still playing incredibly well. TYA were on stage for two and a half hours at Frome, giving the fans pure 70s blues and rock non stop.

Regards,
Graham Peaple

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Bands in order of appearance.(l to R)
Just Before Dawn.
Deep Blues Band
Colosseum
Roy Harper.
Keef Hartley.
Edgar Broughton
Liverpool Scene. 
Champion Jack Dupree.
Chicken Shack. 
Blodwyn Pig  
The Nice
Led Zeppelin
Taste

John Mayall

Bands listed below most probably did not perform

 
Babylon 

Group Therapy.
Principal Edwards Magic Theatre. 

Bath 69 reviews

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