TEN YEARS AFTER
legendary drummer
R I C L
E E
NEW MEMOIR
“From Headstocks To Woodstock
–A Drummer’s Tale”
and Deluxe Version release of
'A Sting in the Tale'
Exclusive ZOOM Interview!
Ric Lee has penned a new memoir called From Headstocks to Woodstock focusing on his long music career, including his adventures with the famous U.K. blues-rock outfit.
The 448-page tome is available now exclusively from
Lee's official website, RicLeeTYA.com.
"It was something I'd always wanted to do, and I actually started it more than 10 years ago, but kept stopping and starting for various reasons," Lee explains in a statement. "Then a chance conversation with a friend in Los Angeles persuaded me to get it finished."
Ten Years After was led by singer guitarist Alvin Lee and had a series of popular albums in the late 1960s and early '70s. In the U.S., the band is best known for their scorching performing of "I'm Going Home" at the 1969 Woodstock Festival and their hit "I'd Love to Change the World," which peaked at #40 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1971. Ric says some of the highlights in the book for him are "[m]y early days in bands in the Mansfield (my hometown) area, my stories about meeting people like Sir David Frost, Muhammad Ali, The Who, Led Zeppelin, Miles Davis and many others, and, of course, playing at Woodstock. "Lee adds that he hopes his memoir will "also be an inspiration to any aspiring young musicians to keep going against all adversity to finally win through."
While Alvin Lee died in 2013 at age 68 from heart
surgery complications, Ten Years after has continued on and currently is led by
Ric and founding keyboardist Chick Churchill. The band is working on
a new studio effort that's due out later this year and is planning to release a
deluxe version of its 2017 album A Sting in the Tale in March.
A Sting
in the Tale
(Deluxe Edition)
by
Ten Years After
at amazon.com
For fans of Alvin Lee, Ten Years After, and Classic Rock! Over fifty years since the release of their eponymous debut album in 1967, Ten Years After has returned with a new studio album containing twelve tracks titled “A Sting In The Tale”. This “Deluxe Edition” also contains 4 live tracks from the bands recent tour including an amazing rendition of the smash hit “I’d Love To Change The World”, which remains as relevant today as when first released in 1971. The beginning of their meteoric rise to fame can be pinpointed to their performance at The Woodstock Music and Arts Festival in August 1969. The audience were blown away by the intensity of the band’s performance and their unique combination of Jazz, Blues and Rock, and their enigmatic frontman Alvin Lee. This made them one of the biggest bands of the early 70’s. As well as original members Ric Lee (Drums) and Chick Churchill (Keys), the band now features Bass Icon Colin Hodgkinson (Peter Green, Spencer Davis, Chris Rea) and multi-award winning Guitarist/Vocalist Marcus Bonfanti (Van Morrison, Ginger Baker, Ronnie Wood). The title “A Sting In The Tale” reflects the same sentiment Ric & Chick wished to convey in the 2015 live album “The Name Remains The Same”. Although the band lineup has changed and the music continues to evolve and grow fifty years on, the sound of the band will always be heavily rooted in the way they paved the way during the late sixties and early seventies and will never forget its incredible heritage. This new record is the ‘Sting’ in the continuing Tale of Ten Years After.
Order your copy
of Ric’s Memoir
“From HEADSTOCKS
To WOODSTOCK –
A Drummer’s Tale”
by Ric Lee
and amazon.com
Following the Woodstock Festival in August 1969 and
the subsequent movie in 1970, Ric's band, Ten Years After, became huge on the
world stage. Ric's autobiography charts the journey from the coal mining town
of Mansfield in the UK to performing alongside the greats and in some of the
biggest venues of the music scene: The Newport Jazz Festival with Led Zeppelin,
Jethro Tull, Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention, Miles Davis and The Godfather
of Soul, James Brown all became part of Ric's life and enhanced the band's
burgeoning worldwide appeal. Other festivals: The Miami, Atlanta and Texas Pop
Festivals, 1970's Isle of Wight Festival (with Jimi Hendrix and The Who) and
headlining London's Albert Hall, New York's Madison Square Garden and Tokyo's
Budokan, further exposed the band's music to a global audience. It's thought
that Ric performed to almost 4 million people a year between 1969 and 1975, not
including the estimated 300,000 to 500,000 who saw their amazingly powerful
performance at Woodstock nearly fifty years ago. A must read for anyone who
wants to find out more about the music scene in the mid twentieth century and
at a time when revolution in music was in the air.
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The Rock Star Chronicles, by Ray Shasho, is a splendid book written by a music enthusiast who has poured their heart and soul into it. It’s a story of a boy who loved rock music, and his obsessive passion of it earned himself the name Rock Raymond. He went to school but instead was schooled in all matters of music while his peers were buried chin-deep in coursework. He then became a radio DJ and has now compiled a book on all interviews he held with Rock gods who raided the airwaves back in the 70s and 80s. It’s a compilation of interviews with outstanding vocalists, legendary guitarists and crazy drummers in the rock music scene. Each interview gives a reader an in-depth view into their personal lives and the philosophies that guide their lives which all serve to humanize these great icons. For readers who are old enough to call themselves baby boomers this book will bring old memories back to life. Millennials, on the other hand, may think of this book as a literal work of the Carpool Karaoke show.
The Rock Star Chronicles is a book I didn’t know I was waiting for. To come across a book that will talk me into trying something new. One brave enough to incite me to venture into new frontiers. This book made me a believer- I am now a bona fide Rock and Roll music fan.
Ray Shasho masterfully gets the interviewees talking. He smartly coaxes answers from them with crafty questions designed to get a story rolling out of them. The artists talk about diverse issues ranging from music, politics, and their social engagements. Having been on the music seen all his life, Ray Shasho knows the buttons to press, how to get them comfortable about talking about their lives.
The book’s cover is
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I recommend this book to rock music enthusiasts, aspiring musicians wondering what it takes and all readers curious to learn new things by going back in time.
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