Undead – TEN YEARS AFTER****

I May Be Wrong But I Won’t Be Wrong Always/Woodchopper’s Ball/Spider In Your Web/Summertime/Shantung Cabbage/I’m Going Home

Undead was a live follow up album from blues rock band Ten Years After. It reflected more of a team effort before guitarist Alvin Lee came increasingly to the fore. (US:115 UK:26)

"Although Undead is their second album, it's one of their strongest. This live record is simply a perfect example of how the British blues scene sounded in those days. The band plays tight, fresh and is in form. The blues/rock songs sometimes have jazzyinfluences, and have a good tempo, Alvin Lee is playing really nice, in control without overdoing himself."

"If you don't like guitar solos avoid. If you like a band at the top of their game playing a tight set of blues rock then buy it."

"Don't let the psych cover fool you, this is a mix of live, hard and fast blues rock with some instrumentals, and a few slower cuts. Notable primarily for the inclusion of the original version of I'm Going Home."

"Here they are caught on stage doing excellent numbers from the tasty Spider In My Web to Alvin Lee´s show-off I´m Going Home. Five songs here and every one a perfect highlight. It's glad to hear every band member doing solos, not just Alvin. Awesome. Ten Years After offers much much more than just Alvin Lee´s furious guitar solos. Undead is maybe the greatest one-disc live-record of all time."

"Smokin' live album from a band at the peak of their powers. Woodchopper's Ball is flat out stunning in it's virtuosity, and the whole album captures the band well before they fell into the blah state of much of their later work."

"What makes Alvin Lee and Undead exceptional is the warmth and almost joyousness of the music, when so much blues derived music was dour and gloomy. Secondly he is not confined to blues scales, but strays into more melodic and complex modes common in jazz, jive and swing from the 1940s and early fifties - a sophisticated and melodically richer area incredibly neglected by blues rockers, that still sounds fresh and unexplored. This is a seamless jazz-rock hybrid that sacrifices none of the vitality of rock."