#A space in time by ten years after pro#

We’ve done it ourselves on occasion.Īnyway, I show up and they tell me to play drums on this track they’ve already finished. Lars Ulrich is a fine drummer, but all he ever plays on the records is one bar and it’s lifted for the duration of whatever track they’re doing.

#A space in time by ten years after pro#

Nowadays, they want everything to a click track so you only have to play one bar and then they use Pro Tools to cut and paste. Now, you have to realize, there were no click tracks in those days. I loved the sound there because of its natural ambiance. Studio #1 was huge because they did film soundtracks and needed to get whole orchestras in there. We were in the same London studio where the Stones recorded. While I was away, they decided to lay down “I’d Love to Change the World.” Alvin strummed it on his acoustic. I put the drums on that track after they already laid the tune down.

But to do that we need a single.” So we do our sixth album, A Space in Time, in 1971, with that song and he turned it into a hit single making the album go gold just like he said. Clive sits us down in his office and says, “I’m going to give you boys a gold record for the first time. He signed us to Columbia after we had been on London Records at the time. GM: Funny, but when I was a teenager, Ten Years After was MY band, but then when you guys got super-famous and had your biggest hit, “I’d Love to Change the World,” everybody loved it but me. Chrysalis finally released it in 2018 on vinyl only. The reason it was never released is because we were plugging the Cricklewood Green studio album in 1970, so it got lost. Found a whole live album, recorded at the Fillmore on February 27 and 28, 1970, just sitting there collecting dust. Found some tracks that were never before released. I was getting fed up with them regurgitating all the old albums with nothing new for the fans. I never really realized how in sync I was with Alvin for all those years until 2001, when I found that album in the EMI vaults. I love the way Alvin and I were interacting. RL: You have got to get a copy of that! To my mind, that’s the band at its peak.