Name: Undead
Brand: Ten Years After

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

LPSUND5267C

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Colour

yellow

Colour details

Discogs ID

Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Indie Exclusive

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-04-22

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Proper

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

090771415417

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / yellow

Artist

Ten Years After

Genre GB

Classic

Label GB

Sundazed

'I'm Going Home' could also light up a room as small as Klooks Kleek in London, as heard on their second album, 1968's Undead. But while it was the first recording of the song (with wires running from Decca Studios next door to capture it), it hardly came from nowhere. Alvin Lee and bassist Leo Lyons learned the value of extended jamming as far back as 1962 while playing Hamburg in the Jaybirds, and not long after they began covering Gene Vincent's 'I'm Going Home (To See My Baby)' in Ten Years After, it was reworked into something entirely original. Or more specifically: stripped down, repainted, rebuilt and retooled into a drag racer that would scorch crowds for years to come.

Undead was the first recorded evidence of that live legacy. Condensed to the best five of the May 14, 1968, set, the album sees the band do further long bluesy jamming with 'I May Be Wrong, But I Won't Be Wrong Always,' 'Spider in My Web,' and pound Gershwin into submission (courtesy drummer Ric Lee) on 'Summertime/ Shantung Cabbage.' And on a killer cover of '(At the) Woodchopper's Ball,' the band's jazzy blues is hot enough to turn Woody Herman's classic into sawdust, replete with Alvin Lee and organist Chick Churchill trading solos. Rightly regarded as one of the best live albums of its era, Undead is reissued here in its rare mono mix from the original U.K. masters. Featuring primo sound and the beautiful negative- image original cover, Sundazed proudly presents the searing guitar of Alvin Lee and Chick Churchill's haunting organ textures as they were meant to be heard!

Undead

Music GB