RIC LEE 'TEN YEARS AFTER' DRUMMER RELEASES NEW BOOK AND MUSIC: SPECIAL GUEST ON INTERVIEWING THE LEGENDS WITH RAY SHASHO BBS RADIO TV

 

TEN YEARS AFTER

legendary drummer

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NEW MEMOIR

“From Headstocks To Woodstock 

–A Drummer’s Tale”

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'A Sting in the Tale'

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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.

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A Sting

 in the Tale 

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by

Ten Years After

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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.

also

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of Ric’s Memoir

“From HEADSTOCKS 

To WOODSTOCK –

A Drummer’s Tale”

by Ric Lee

at www.ricleetya.com

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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 TEN YEARS AFTER DISCOGRAPHY

Ten Years After 1967

Stonedhenge 1969

Ssssh 1969

Cricklewood Green 1970

Watt 1970

A Space in Time 1971

Alvin Lee and Company 1972

Rock & Roll Music to the World 1972

Positive Vibrations 1974

About Time 1989

Now 2004

 Evolution 2008

A Sting in the Tale 2017

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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. 

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LEO LYONS TEN YEARS AFTER LEGENDARY BASSIST ON INTERVIEWING THE LEGENDS W/RAY SHASHO BBS RADIO

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Leo Lyons became a professional musician at the age of 16 and as a founding member of the band Ten Years After has been an on-stage eyewitness to some of the most pivotal moments in Rock and Roll history.

In 1967 Ten Years After held a residency at London's famous Marquee Club and a debut album out on Deram Records, and the band were soon to build up a huge following in Europe. Fillmore West and Fillmore East founder Bill Graham heard a copy of the band's first album and immediately sent a letter offering to book Ten Years After into his historic venues in San Francisco and New York. They were also one of the first rock groups to be part of the Newport Jazz Festival. At Newport and on tour TYA performed with Nina Simone, Roland Kirk, Miles Davis and other jazz legends barnstorming across the US.

Their now legendary encore " I'm Goin' Home" was captured on film at The Woodstock Music and Arts Festival, exposing their jazz blues rock amalgam to an even larger audience of movie goers who were blown away by the intensity of the band's performance when the academy award winning documentary was released. Their ten-minute appearance in the film is an acknowledged highlight and established Ten Years After a place in rock history. The band's albums are still available, and all have reached Gold or Platinum status.
Leo has produced records for such music legends as UFO, Procol Harum, MotorHead, and many more.
In 2003 Ten Years After reformed yet again, this time with new guitarist singer Joe Gooch replacing Alvin Lee, and for the past seven years, aside from writing and producing, Leo has recorded three CD's and toured the world with Ten Years After.
In the Summer of 2010 together with TYA guitarist Joe Gooch he formed 'Hundred Seventy Split'; a new, exciting, high energy Blues/Rock power trio showcasing their combined talents.

Leo and Joe resigned from Ten Years After at the end of 2013 and to celebrate a new beginning Hundred Seventy Split released a new CD, simply titled, HSS, followed by The Road, two years later.
Their live shows have already proved popular with TYA fans. HSS play TYA classics alongside new material in their shows.
'Hundred Seventy Split' was formed to play music 
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'MELANIE' SAFKA ONCE HAILED AS THE FEMALE BOB DYLAN INTERVIEWED ON BBS RADIO

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Melanie Safka (Melanie) was once hailed as the female Bob Dylan. Her awe-inspiring lyrical connotations were accompanied by her majestic voice and an acoustic guitar. She was a lone entity onstage but radiated a powerful force that became the voice and spirit to one of the most important generations the world will ever know.
When I asked Melanie how she developed her unique and sensational singing style she said …
“I went out to imitate Billie Holiday and Edith Piaf and got it wrong.”

Melanie was born in Queens, New York to a Russian-Ukrainian Father and an Italian Mother. Her musical career began in Greenwich Village and eventfully landed her first recording contract with Columbia Records. She released several singles on the label but retained greater success after signing with Buddah Records.
 Her debut album Born to Be (1968) was acclaimed for her independent music styles. It became clear that there was an exciting new singer on the block. In 1969, the single “Bobo’s Party” a track from her debut album reached #1 in France. Her second studio release Affectionately Melanie (1969) spawned the single “Beautiful People,” the song became a Top 10 hit in the Netherlands.

 Melanie’s songs began gaining momentum but she was still, for the most part, considered an unknown to the U.S. music scene until August 15th 1969. Melanie was invited to perform at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair held on a dairy farm in Brethel, New York. Her mother drove her to the event. She had been clueless to the size and significance of the concert until she witnessed Sly Stone walking around and Janis Joplin sipping Southern Comfort while being interviewed by reporters. After arriving at the hotel she was separated from her mother and rushed onto a helicopter. While descending towards the stage area, she was in total disbelief over the mass of people attending the three-day event. Melanie shared a tent with folk musician and composer Tim Hardin while she awaited her turn to perform at the most famous concert event in music history.
  

Several hours later, she was called upon to perform after Ravi Shankar’s set. Melanie was terrified … a lone woman performer with a guitar in front of a half a million people. Without a setlist to guide her, she opened with “Close to It All” followed by “Momma Momma,” “Beautiful People,” “Animal Crackers,” “Mr. Tambourine Man,” “Tuning My Guitar,” and concluded with “Birthday of the Sun,” a song she chose simply because it was raining.
Before and during her performance, concert organizers had distributed candles throughout the crowd. The lit candles during her performance while it rained inspired her profound composition, “(Lay Down) Candles in The Rain” (1970 #6 Billboard Hot 100 singles chart). She also inspired the etiquette of raising candles and cigarette lighters at concerts while portraying an audience of fireflies.

After Woodstock, Melanie became the concert festival queen, performing at such outdoor events as The Isle of Wight, Strawberry fields Festival and Glastonbury Festival. She was also asked to perform on numerous Television programs including Dick Cavett, Ed Sullivan and Johnny Carson.

“(Lay Dow) Candles in The Rain” was followed by “Peace Will Come (According to Plan)” (#32 Hit),” and her Rolling Stones cover, “Ruby Tuesday” (#52 Hit).

Melanie and husband/ producer Peter Schekeryk formed their own record label called Neighborhood Records in 1971. Also in 1971, Melanie landed her biggest commercial hit entitled, “Brand New Key” (#1 Billboard Hot 100 singles chart). A song inspired after a stop at a McDonalds fast food restaurant.Melanie also released “What Have They Done to My Song Ma’” which was also covered by The New Seekers and Ray Charles. The New Seekers also covered “Beautiful People” and “Nickel Song” composed by Melanie.

Melanie set a record for the first female performer to land three simultaneous Top 40 hits … “Brand New Key,” “Ring the Living Bell” and “Nickel Song.”

Melanie was awarded Billboard’s #1 Top Female Vocalist for 1972. She also became a UNISEF Ambassador that same year.

In 1973, Melanie spawned the hit “Bitter Bad” (#36 Billboard Hot 100 singles hit).
In 1989, she won an Emmy Award for writing the lyrics to “The First Time I Loved Forever” the theme song for the TV series 'Beauty and The Beast.'

Melanie’s songs have been covered by countless musicians over the years.
She has sold more than 80- million records to date.

You can purchase Melanie’s latest EP release Ragamuffin at amazon.com

For further information about Melanie Safka please visit

www.melaniesafka.com  …Official website

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‘Melanie’ Safka Exclusive: “My Mother Drove Me To Woodstock” (Part 2)

By Ray Shasho

Part 2 of 2:

Melanie Safka (Melanie) was once hailed as the female Bob Dylan. Her awe-inspiring lyrical connotations were accompanied by her majestic voice and an acoustic guitar. She was a lone entity onstage but radiated a powerful force that became the voice and spirit to one of the most important generations the world will ever know.
Here’s ‘PART 2’ of my interview with singer, songwriter, musician, Woodstock and 70’s legend … MELANIE.

Ray Shasho: Melanie, what happened to your mom, was she in the audience at Woodstock?
Melanie: “(Laughing) This is so sad, I don’t remember getting back from Woodstock. I guess we rendezvoused and she picked me up somewhere. I never got to ask her how I did.
Ray Shasho: I heard that you’re also a pioneer for concert etiquette … holding up a candle or cigarette lighter over your head at rock concerts began at a Melanie show? 
Melanie: “Most people don’t know that it was me.” Now you’ve got an application on your Smartphone that displays a candle (Laughing). The first time people ever lit candles was at a Melanie concert. Because those people would show me that they were there. This was even before the song “Candles in the Rain” and before it was on a record. So people would come with lighters, matches, and candles, and that was the signal that we were there at Woodstock. The place lit-up like fireflies. Then I would usually sing one of the songs I did in that set. When the record came out it became concert behavioral and what you do at a concert. Fire Marshalls actually tried to prevent me from singing “Candles in the Rain.” I tried to tell people not to light candles but it never worked. After Woodstock, I became a festival queen. I did everything … Isle of Wight, Glastonbury etc. In the state of New Jersey, the night before I was supposed to appear at an outdoor venue, usually owned by a bank, the Governor closed me down because they said I constituted a festival and festivals were illegal in New Jersey. So I wasn’t allowed to perform there.”
Ray Shasho: So “Candles in the Rain” was definitely written about your Woodstock experience?
Melanie: “Yes, I left the field with that “Candles in the Rain” anthem part in my head. I was a phenomenon; I didn’t last as long as The Rolling Stone, and again I didn’t play the music industry game, but I did have three records in the top ten at the same time. At one point, there wasn’t a person who didn’t know who I was. But I never wanted to take it to the next level. I may have also been on the list. I was not the angry protestor type, I wasn’t right or left, I had a humanist point of view that neither side would be real happy with. It was not pinning one side against another type of philosophy. Pro peace as oppose to anti-war and I don’t think that was a very popular posture and I got away with obscurity.”
Ray Shasho: I have always been a firm believer that musicians and actors should not come out and rant and rave for political parties. I think it ruins their demeanor as an artist and becomes hypocritical to what their writing and singing about.
Melanie: ‘I’m in total agreement. My job is to not tell people about what I think. I’m not running for office so you don’t need to know what I think, you just need to hear my music.”
Ray Shasho: Your music career took off after Woodstock?
Melanie: Woodstock was a catalyst for my career. From that moment on I was delivered to panel talk shows on the significance of Woodstock and I wasn’t well equipped to speak. I was very shy and wasn’t savvy in interviews and how to get out of a hairy situation. No experience just being thrown on these shows. Dick Cavett hated me. He must have gone to the hate Melanie school. He was just so ungracious. I was never loved by intellectuals, I’m entirely too cute.”
Ray Shasho: Melanie, I’m in the process of writing my second book entitled ‘When Heroes Become Voices’ which will feature ‘101 candid interviews with the greatest music legends of our time’ and you’ll be in it by the way. But the introduction will be talking about the state of the music industry and how it has especially affected the music legends. It’s like one day, somebody decided to pull the plug on our heroes in the mainstream …and I’m not talking about playing oldies.
Melanie: “This is what I remember happening when the 80’s occurred and clubs were opening based on a particular drug. The radio wall came down and it was unbelievable. I said in an interview that it was like a decisive battle and we lost. But nobody knows where and when it happened. But it did. A wall came down. That saying don’t trust anybody over thirty became a fact. Then it was don’t sign anybody over thirty and it became a doctrine between all the major record labels. It had nothing to do with the value of a young mind; it had more to do with an old person and philosophical attitudes and swaying people. They didn’t want anybody up there that could sway anybody’s opinion. Youth culture had done politically what they wanted to do and the manipulation began. Music is so powerful and so healing and that is what it was meant for.”

“But I really do believe that we are poised for the next great event. If it doesn’t happen we’re headed for supreme dark ages. But I can sense that something big and wonderful is going to happen and I want to be there.”
Ray Shasho: Melanie, are your children musicians?
Melanie: “My son is a musician and he’s amazing. There’s a track on Ever Since You Never Heard of Me which is the instrumental we wrote and did that one when he was 16. We put that on the album because it was so pretty and it kind of blended with the other songs. But he’s been writing with me and he plays his guitar. My two daughters also sing. One sings out in Phoenix, Arizona and she may be moving to Hawaii. The other one is a songwriter in Nashville.”
Ray Shasho: What was the origin behind “What Have They Done To My Song Ma”?
Melanie: “It was quite literal. I walked into the recording studio and my husband was consumed by the hits. We were so different, like day and night. It was probably why we were married for forty years. He’d hear a song and wanted to go make it a hit. I walked into the studio and was overwhelmed. I don’t read music and didn’t know how to talk in music terms to musicians, to communicate what I wanted. Peter could communicate with them and go at it his way. I don’t know what song it was but I knew it was being taken in a direction that I wasn’t thrilled about, and it was look what they’ve done to my song. It was literal, and again it could be an analogy to anything.”

“The New Seekers did it very much like my version, so I wasn’t thrilled about that. It wasn’t as exciting as when Ray Charles did it. He remade it as his own song. I thought, hey, I’m a writer! I never really thought of myself as a writer, just a singer. They didn’t have that term singer/songwriter .They used to call me the female Bob Dylan because he wrote songs and sang them. Most people didn’t know that I wrote the songs that I sang.”
Ray Shasho: You sang the French verse on the song perfectly. I always wondered if you spoke French fluently.
Melanie: “I had spent time in France. It sounded to me when I wrote the song that it had to have a French word, it sounded chanteuse. I speak menu French but that’s about it. I did take French in high school. We worked with these translators and tried to get a meaning that was at least similar.”
Ray Shasho: Melanie, what was your experience with Rolling Stone magazine?
Melanie: “Rolling Stone waged war against Buddah Records and unfortunately I was on Buddah Records. They absolutely massacred me! They said on the review of “Candles in the Rain,” the chorus was really good but when my voice came in it was kind of like a pencil scratch. But they always waged war with me. They never mentioned that I wrote the song or sung it with an all black gospel choir with one white girl, which was a pretty phenomenal thing for that particular moment in time.”
Ray Shasho: I don’t give bad reviews. If I receive a CD in the mail that I don’t like, I simply won’t talk about it. Why should I humiliate someone’s craft publically? So all my music reviews have been very favorable.
Melanie: “Well you would be fired from Rolling Stone because there was a girl that wrote for Rolling Stone that made too many good reviews and she got fired.”
Ray Shasho: Do you own all the rights to your music?
Melanie: “I don’t own my songs and the rights to my songs; I don’t own my performances, I don’t own my performance royalties and have been sold down the river. I receive not one penny from any song. I didn’t know my writers share was sold. Peter did everything. He was a wild and crazy eastern European gambling type person. I think he gambled my writers royalties, writers share and apparently at the moment stuck a piece of paper under my nose and I never read the piece of paper and I signed it. That was the end of that. I didn’t know I was signing away my writers share.”
Ray Shasho: Unfortunately I’ve heard a lot of similar horror stories.
Melanie: “This was a very odd story because we were married. I called ASCAP seeking their help and advice and they were very uncooperative. But I keep writing songs and it will be a matter of moments when somebody puts one in a movie or a commercial and then I’ll be able to survive.”
Ray Shasho: Melanie, thank you so much for being on the call today, you are such a delight to chat with. And thank you for all the beautiful music that you’ve given us and continue to bring. We’ll see you on November 22nd at the Carrollwood Cultural Center in Tampa, Florida.
Melanie: “Thank you Ray we’ll see you in November!”

Melanie will be performing on November 22nd at 8:00 p.m. at the Carrollwood Cultural Center (Main Theatre) in Tampa, Florida. For tickets visit here or call 813-269-1310.

JUST ADDED ... Melanie will also be performing on Saturday November 23rd at the Fogartyville Community Media and Arts Center in Sarasota, Florida. For tickets visit here or call 941-894-6469.

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