The Anthem Challenge originated from my Jemtunes blog and was inspired by a fellow blogger from Jersey. It's all about posting ten anthems over ten days (or so) that mean something to you with a few words about each and why.
Anthem #4 - Ten Years After: I'm going home
This is from the Woodstock festival and, to my mind, one of the best performances of the song the band ever did. The late Alvin Lee's fretwork here is simply stunning and, when you consider the fact that he'd only just got over a nasty bout of flu, is even more amazing.
I've had a love affair with Woodstock and everything about it since I first saw the film version in a seedy little cinema close to where I live back in the early 1970's. I'd heard of Ten Years After before then, so I already knew the song. But this ten minute version quite simply blew me away. It still does.
