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Ten Years After — 50,000 Miles Beneath My Brain
Album: Cricklewood Green
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Released: 1970
Length: 7:31
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I want to know you
I want to show you
I want to grow you
Inside of me
I want to see you
I want to free you
I want to be you
Inside of me
Love me 50,000 miles beneath my brain
Love me 50,000 times and then again

Can you love me with a thousand eyes?
Can you see right through my bones?
Can you kiss me with a thousand lips?
Can you melt a solid stone?

Can you hear me from a thousand miles
When you're screaming at the stars?
Can you pull me up to jupiter
When I'm all hung up on mars?
Burn my eyes with your flame
Let your world spin free
Let it go, baby
I'll do the same
All depends on me
Let it go
It's all the same
What with jewels that you can't see
Love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, babe
Bring it on home to me...
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 nutrod42 wrote:

Hope you guess my name.



Fortunate son?
 TheKing2 wrote:
born in 1964 I'm probably to young but I allow myself to state that, while I'm glad we had palestrina, monteverdi, tallis, byrd, tschaijkowski, hildegard von bingen, (or bach, beethoven and mozart) I'm glad that the 70ties are over and the (pop) music moved on to better places.

Some bands probably are best forgotten and I'm convinced this is one....
 
Nah. And I love Beethoven, Mendelsohn, Mahler, Tchaikovsky, etc, but a galaxy of lovelorn, depressive, romantic, yearning white Euro dudes should and must yield a lot of time to dynamic guitar rips.  Many of them, like this one, for example, from the fab Alvin Lee.  
"Pleased to meet you... hope you guess my name!"
My God! What a flashback! Haven't heard this for over 40 years. I had this album and saw them a couple of times live. Once at the Royal Festival Hall opening for ELP. What a night!

And in that vein, I saw Jeff Beck live on Friday night! (15 June 2018 at Chelsea Hospital in London) Stonking!! {#Bananajam}
All these years i thought the song title was "50,000 Miles Beneath My Brain"....oh wait, it is
Lite up another one!!
Pleased to meet you, hope you guess my name...
born in 1964 I'm probably to young but I allow myself to state that, while I'm glad we had palestrina, monteverdi, tallis, byrd, tschaijkowski, hildegard von bingen, (or bach, beethoven and mozart) I'm glad that the 70ties are over and the (pop) music moved on to better places.

Some bands probably are best forgotten and I'm convinced this is one....
 kkkkatie wrote:

Yes, Sympathy for the Devil and Fortunate Son - 68-69 were good years for that chord progression!

 
Perhaps, but it's a "V - IV - I" progression - it was around long before the 1960s.
 thewiseking wrote:
What came first, this or Sympathy for the Devil?

 
This similarity gets mentioned a few times a year in this thread. Just looked up exactly that. Stones '68. This album 1970. They probably toured with Jethro Tull and The Eagles writing songs together.
What came first, this or Sympathy for the Devil?
Hope you guess my name.
My band opened up for these guys a couple of years ago. This caused a flashback. They are a great group of guys / musicians. They broke up shortly thereafter, but leave us with some great tracks and memories.
{#Dancingbanana_2}still a solid groove rip Alvin
Double thanx for spinning this one!!
Thanks for playing, Bill!

Rated at 8 for most excellent, 100% fun
 dragon1952 wrote:

There's only so many ways a three chord progression using D, A and E can sound I guess  :^ /

 
Yes, Sympathy for the Devil and Fortunate Son - 68-69 were good years for that chord progression!
 mrhughsmith wrote:
am I missing something..is this not symphony for the devil by the Stones copied..who copied who?

 
There's only so many ways a three chord progression using D, A and E can sound I guess  :^ /
Well maybe two years after Fortunate Son. But still awesome.
Fifty years gone,this would still be a great festival song.



 


 ElCamoteLoco wrote:
Tragically underplayed band (apparently people in the business rated them very highly).

 
This album got 4.5 stars on Allmusic and is mostly critically acclaimed across the board.  Allmusic is pretty star stingy.
This entire album is worth having in the collection for us chi-dern of the 70s.  Well recorded and the material stands the test.

 
 mrhughsmith wrote:
am I missing something..is this not symphony for the devil by the Stones copied..who copied who?

 
This similarity gets mentioned a few times a year in this thread. Just looked up exactly that. Stones '68. This album 1970. They probably toured with Jethro Tull and The Eagles writing songs together.
am I missing something..is this not symphony for the devil by the Stones copied..who copied who?
 Bert7 wrote:

Except Keith can't play like Alvin...

 
Alvin couldn't write like Keith either.
Thanks Bill love this tune
 savwa4 wrote:
Wasn't any better 40 yrs ago.

 
Meaning?
 
Wasn't any better 40 yrs ago.
 hippiechick wrote:
I've known lots of hippies in my time, and none of them were dirty.
 
Early in the day, most came from privileged socio-economic backgrounds.   Same for the back-to-the-landers and all the other out there counter culture folks.

If you really want to dislike 'hippies', think of them as elitists.  {#Cheesygrin} 
This band grows on me more and more, almost 50 years after.
R.I.P Alvin
 BigIslandBlues wrote:
Let me please introduce myself...

 
That's it!  Was trying to figure out why this sounded so familiar. 
Let me please introduce myself...
Takes me back to parties at E-School with the TGI crowd. Pink windowpane; all night fun! I'd Love to Change the World and THIS jam!
Very good song
 Lowflyer wrote:
Sounds like Sympathy For The Devil. Even down to the out riffs. 

 
But it's sooooo much better because there's no "woo wooo" nonsense going on in the background.
 Jelani wrote:
Very cool. Very passionate.

  Well said



Very cool. Very passionate.
Tragically underplayed band (apparently people in the business rated them very highly).
Sounds just like "Sympathy for the Devil" by the Stones.  Get that Spirit lawyer on the phone!!!
 Lowflyer wrote:
Sounds like Sympathy For The Devil. Even down to the out riffs. 

 
Except Keith can't play like Alvin...
Sounds like Sympathy For The Devil. Even down to the out riffs. 

righteous


Takes me back.
Yes, the good stuff!
 kcar wrote:

dancing long haired people

Scrupulously clean and perfectly in sync! 

 
swat those little bitty floating fleks of unimportant drivel and rock on you silver-haired angels  : )
 pousso wrote:
Pleased to meet you!  Hope you guess my name...

 
Pleasure is all mine
Pleased to meet you!  Hope you guess my name...
 GeorgeMWoods wrote:
Love this stuff. Gotta go see if I can find some acid.....

 
Get me some too. It's been awhile.
{#Music}CRICKLWOOD GREEN WAS THE START OF A RUN OF BOUT 5 GREAT RECORDS THEY ALL SMOKE !
Love this stuff. Gotta go see if I can find some acid.....
First time I've heard this on RP, although I'm sure it's been played often. 
A 6.9? I think Alvin and 10 Years needs a bit more love. This is one of the great ripping blues guitar runs.  It's in my ipod ears often, and I never tire of it. 
 
ok Stones' are A1 awesome but Alvin is fuckin' A rockin' in this one man! light me up dude  : )
BUMPING TO AN 8 {#Bananajam}
 nicolewe wrote:
That thar' jammin' geeetar is downright elevating. {#Kiss}

 
you nailed it....awesome
Alvin Lee      that's all I have to say about that.
Did the Rolling Stones get royalties for ripping off Sympathy for the Devil?
Guess you had to be around to enjoy Alvin Lee and TYA. I was and a definite 9
Well that was just sublime wasn't it?
"50,000 Years Beneath My Brain"? Miles, no?
Thank Bill for PSD!
yay! psd rem and am rewarded with this, yippee!!!
Yes!  That's what I'm talking about.
That thar' jammin' geeetar is downright elevating. {#Kiss}
I love how this song contains precious essence of everything of The Times; hints of the experimental phase Music was in then — with bits that sound like they could be from The Stones, Jefferson Airplane, Allman Bros, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, and even, especially in the very beginning, shades of The Moody Blues. But whoah, there is no mistaking that Alvin Lee signature, is there?!
Nothing less than Godlike...timeless TYA rock/blues.  Love ya Alvin and those blessed, if not drugged, fingers
 porphyrius wrote:
my goodness, this excellent, isn't it?

 
Yup!  : )   woo-hoo
 WonderLizard wrote:
I once read where a "famous" guitarist dissed Lee, "Anybody can play in a pentatonic minor"—essentially the blues scale. Oh, yeah? I always admired Lee's dexterity and skill.

 
And considering the minor pentatonic scale is also the basis of most rock n' roll that's a pretty dumb statement. You could diss nearly every single blues and rock guitarist in history with that argument.
Yup, feels like The Seventies, all right! Bring it on home to me, baby! My Reptile Brain really digs me some smokin TYA guitar licks
I once read where a "famous" guitarist dissed Lee, "Anybody can play in a pentatonic minor"—essentially the blues scale. Oh, yeah? I always admired Lee's dexterity and skill.
Thanks! 
 hippiechick wrote:
I've known lots of hippies in my time, and none of them were dirty.
 
dancing long haired people

Scrupulously clean and perfectly in sync! 
I hope this gets played today.  this was always my favorite Album by TYA.  Rest in peace, Alvin....you were the best.  
tg3k wrote:
Cool song that I'd not heard before. I could recognize the Alvin Lee guitar immediately, though. Moreso than many other guitarists, he used a lot of the same riffs from one song to the next. His soloing on this song would fit right in on the live version of "I'm Going Home".
That's because everything he wrote was in the key of E....
rtkmusic wrote:
Nice! There probably are a few better Ten Years After tunes, especially from A Space In Time, but this is fitting into my Friday afternoon quite nicely.
"If You Should Love Me" from Shhhh......
Nice! There probably are a few better Ten Years After tunes, especially from A Space In Time, but this is fitting into my Friday afternoon quite nicely.
rah wrote:
it's almost like Sympathy for the Devil and Fortunate Son got trapped together in a plummeting elevator...
There are SO many 1 - flat 7 - 4 - 1 progression rock and roll songs that it wouldn't be possible to even list them, let alone determine who copied from whom.
rah wrote:
it's almost like Sympathy for the Devil and Fortunate Son got trapped together in a plummeting elevator...
I knew someone would've beat me to the Stones connection. Wouldn't have phrased it better though...
Now compare this to the utter drivel we heard two songs ago in New Order. A definite downward spiral between the late '60s and late '80s.
Gimmie, Gimmie some Fresh Garbage !
rah wrote:
it's almost like Sympathy for the Devil and Fortunate Son got trapped together in a plummeting elevator...
Inspired -- now that you've said it, I agree with you... Neil PS ...it fades away -- and then comes back for more...
Pouark...
This song doesn't really go anywhere, does it? Pretty generic sounding.
pleased to meet you, won't you guess where i stole this melody from?
rah wrote:
it's almost like Sympathy for the Devil and Fortunate Son got trapped together in a plummeting elevator...
Death_to_Clear_Channel wrote:
WTF is this garbage?!?!
Rock N'Roll baby, Rock N' Roll
Lensles wrote:
OK, did this come out before or after "Sympathy for the Devil"?
after, this was released in 70, sympathy in 68
I'd bet Sympathy came out first and this was about ten years after. Sorry, couldn't resist. Lensles wrote:
OK, did this come out before or after "Sympathy for the Devil"?
WTF is this garbage?!?!
OK, did this come out before or after "Sympathy for the Devil"?
WOOOOOOooooooHOOOOOoooooo re. that line about the guitar work being similar to Going Home...I don't hear it...perhaps it the phrase "bring it on home to me" in this song and "I'm going home...
...just call me Lucifer, and I'm in need of some restraint.
it's almost like Sympathy for the Devil and Fortunate Son got trapped together in a plummeting elevator...
"Pleased to meet you Won't you call my name.." Sorry. That's some other song...
anniebear wrote:
...........wierd, this song actually SMELLS like a "dirty hippy"
now that was a funny image for this song.
Yep, thats Ten Years After.....now lets hear some more!
fcatalao wrote:
excellent stuff. have most of their albums. leo lyons (spelling?) alvin lee was known as the fastest "guitarist" in the west.
Yes, that's Leo Lyons on bass. TYA was tasty for a while there. Alvin Lee issued a decent roots-rocker type CD in 2004. Called In Tennessee, and used some of the members of Elvis's old band, including Scotty Moore.
keenevision wrote:
I loved this song then- and I love it now! Who did the Bass on this? I forgot how bleedin' snappy it was- yes, and Alvin rocks!
excellent stuff. have most of their albums. leo lyons (spelling?) alvin lee was known as the fastest "guitarist" in the west.
I loved this song then- and I love it now! Who did the Bass on this? I forgot how bleedin' snappy it was- yes, and Alvin rocks!
Damn hippie crap! Do you have to be on drugs to enjoy this! Oh, that's right. I love that kind of sound and effect!
Cool song that I'd not heard before. I could recognize the Alvin Lee guitar immediately, though. Moreso than many other guitarists, he used a lot of the same riffs from one song to the next. His soloing on this song would fit right in on the live version of "I'm Going Home".
man, I loves me some TYA! Great to hear this track on RP, kinda surprised actually. glad to know our esttemed leader is a fan of Alvin Lee as well.
One of THE SONGS from way back,and I am still pritty clean!!!
Nothing wrong with a little retro fun... now let's hear from Mr Trower to complete this little acid trip...
This song doesn't do anything for me. 3
Wow! What a blast from the past! I always thought Alvin Lee was an immaculate guitarist. It's been way too long since I've heard him. Thanks, Bill!
Niiiiice backbeat there...and is that a Moog I'm hearing?
Whoo whoo! Whoo whoo! Whoo whoo!
Pleased to meet you! Hope you guess my name!
anniebear wrote:
...........wierd, this song actually SMELLS like a "dirty hippy"
Actually I agree. It is a typical doped-out, shoe-gazing, boringly repetitive ego-trip of a track. EDIT: Oh no!!! It's starting up again. The cliched false ending as well. Help!!!
anniebear wrote:
...........wierd, this song actually SMELLS like a "dirty hippy"
Of the ten posts, nine are positive. One is negative, and not just negative, but insulting. Wouldn't have expected this from you given your avatar.
Outstanding - real rock and roll.
anniebear wrote:
...........wierd, this song actually SMELLS like a "dirty hippy"
I've known lots of hippies in my time, and none of them were dirty.
Been listening for almost four years now and that's the first time I've heard Ten Years After Here. Thanks, Bill! Am really diggin' it.
WOW! Great song from an excellant album. Been years. Thanks for the memories(or lack of them)
Mari wrote:
... Brilliant Band, really far out hearing them on RP! ... ... You just don't get bass lines like this anywhere nowadaze ...
Yep you got that right - again... And let's not forget Alvin Lee - Guitar Hero.
Alvin Lee. One of the greats.
Wow--a great blast from the past. Ten Years After was a fantastic live group and Alvin Lee was an underrated guitarist. Anyone who saw them live back then can attest to this. I saw a "new" TYA CD in a local music store (came out in 2005 I think) and was dismayed to find that Alvin Lee was not involved. TYA without him? I think not. Rock on...