Alvin Lee who sadly passed away earlier this year age 68, was perhaps best known for his performance of 12 Bar Blues Going Home at Woodstock Festival in 1969 – a performance that caused some like Total Guitar to call Alvin Lee the Godfather of Shred Guitar – a style that would become popular years later in the 1980s through Guitarists such as Yngwie Malmsteen.
So at The June workshop, only two weeks away, with a full band, there will be an opportunity for students not only to play for multiple hours – something that might be hard to do on your own, or at home – but also to pay tribute to the Late Great Alvin Lee, with a rendition of Ten Years After Classic Going Home…
And here’s the BBC Session version of Going Home – originally broadcast around 1968 to 1969…
Til Next Time
Andre
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