1968 1st USA Tour
Alvin Lee – Ten Years After Gigography 1968
Concert promoter Bill Graham hears Ten Years After on San Francisco’s underground radio stations and invites them to the U.S. to play at the Fillmore West and newly opened Fillmore East. Before they embark on their overseas trip, they record their second album”Undead” live at Klook’s Kleek in London.
January 5, 1968 – Marquee Club/London, England with Skye Wine
January 13, 1968 – School of Economics/London, England
January 19, 1968 – Marquee Club/London, England with Spirit of John Morgan
January 23, 1968 – Klook’s Kleek Railway Hotel /London, England
January 30, 1968 – “Fishmongers Arms” Wood Green/London, England
December 3rd 1968 – Kulttuuritalo/Helsinki, Finland
February 6, 1968 – Marquee Club/London, England
February 10 , 1968 – Gladsaxe Teen Club/Denmark With Vocations & Shadderhands
February 10, 1968 – Pop Club/Brondby, Denmark
Day Of Phoenix is the opening act for Ten Years After and the Young Flowers.
February 11, 1968 – Klub Bongo/Malmo, Sweden
Rock Your Mama, Spoonful, I May Be Wrong But I Won’t Be Wrong Always, Summertime, I Can’t Keep From Crying Sometimes, Spider In My Web, Help Me. With Beefeaters, Day of the Phoenix, Eagles support
February 15, 1968 – Gyllene Cirkeln/Stockholm, Sweden
February 16, 1968 – Flower Pop Music Club/Holeby, Denmark
Parts of this show are subsequently broadcast on the Danish DR-TV “Top Pop” show on February 24, 1968. Three numbers were included, Love Until I Die” Spoonful , “I May Be Wrong, But I Won’t Be Wrong Always” With Money Makers & Anette Tholsted
February 26, 1968 – Zodiac Club – Eden Park Hotel/Beckenham, England
February 27, 1968 – Klook’s Kleek Railway Hotel – West Hampstead/London, England
March 1, 1968 – City of Westminster College/London, England With Elmer Gantry’s Velvet Opera
March 8, 1968 – Marquee Club/London, England With Spirit of John Morgan
March 9, 1968 – University of Kent/Canterbury, England With East of Eden
March 10, 1968 – Wooden Bridge/Guildford, England
March 13, 1968 – BBC Studios Maida Vale #4/London, England
TYA recorded “Rock Your Mama”, “Portable People”, “I Ain’t Seen No Whisky”, “I May Be Wrong, But I Won’t Be Wrong Always” for Top Gear broadcast on April 7, 1968, except “I May Be Wrong, But I Won’t Be Wrong Always” which was broadcast during the rebroadcast on May 12, 1968.
March 18, 1968 – The Cromwellian/London, England
March 20, 1968 – Grafton Rooms/Liverpool, England Supporting Pink Floyd and with Almost Blues
March 22, 1968 – Marquee Club/London, England With The New Nadir
March 23, 1968 – Corn Exchange – Chelmsford, England
March 26, 1968 – Fishmongers Arms/London, England
March 28, 1968 – Zodiac Club at Eden Park Hotel /Beckenham, England
April 1, 1968 – BBC Studios Playhouse Theatre/London, England
TYA recorded “Portable People” (8/4), “Rock Your Mama” (9/4), “Love Until I Die” (11/4), & “Hold Me Tight” (12/4) for the Dave Symonds Show for broadcast the week of April 8, 1968.
April 5, 1968 – Marquee Club/London, England With Tramline
April 11, 1968 – Club Liverpool House/Koge, Denmark With Powerhouse with T.D. Bachus, Dick & Freddie’s Loving, Kids, Beauty Fools
April 13, 1968 – Egegaard School Teen Club/Gladsaxe, Denmark With Tom, Mick & The Maniacs
April 13, 1968 – Klub Bongo/Malmo, Sweden
Rock Your Mama, Spoonful, I May Be Wrong But I Won’t Be Wrong Always, Summertime, I Can’t Keep From Crying Sometimes, Spider In My Web, Help Me.
April 1968 – Gladsaxe Teen Club/Denmark
April 15, 1968 – Fjordvilla/Roskilde, Denmark With Beauty Fools
April 17, 1968 – Cue Club/Gothenburg, Sweden
April 18, 1968 – unknown venue/Stockholm, Sweden
April 20, 1968 – Pop Club/Brondby, Denmark
With the Baronets, Tages and the Jeff Beck Group.
April 20, 1968 – Club Dynamite at the Hotel Stevens/Store Heddinge, Denmark with Lemon Line, Animators
April 21, 1968 – Sveriges TV in Sweden broadcast of the TV show “Popside” may have included “Spoonful” & “Rock Your Mama”.
April 21, 1968 – Pop-Puk/Copenhagen, Denmark with Jeff Beck Group, Tages
April 26, 1968 – Loughborough University/Loughborough, DEN With Marmalade, Alan Bown, Jethro Tull.
May 2, 1968 – Le Metro/Birmingham, England
May 4, 1968 – University of East Anglia/Norwich, England
May 5, 1968 – Palazzetto dello Sport/Rome, Italy Also on the bill are the Move and the Nice 1st International Pop Festival with Fairport Convention, Traffic, Roboti-Five Up, Grapefruit, The Samurai, Captain Beefheart
May 7, 1968 – Falkoner Theatre/Copenhagen, Denmark
Rock Your Mama ,Spoonful, I May Be Wrong But I Won’t Be Wrong Always, Summertime, Help Me, I’m Going Home. Ekstra Bladett Poll Concert with Fleetwood Mac and the Fugs also perform.
May 9, 1968 – Liseberg Konserthallen/Gothenburg, Sweden with Fleetwood Mac, The Nice and the Fugs
May 10, 1968 – Folketts Hus, Konresshallen/Stockholm, Sweden with Fleetwood Mac, The Nice and the Fugs
May 12, 1968 – Cat Ballou Club/Grantham, England
May 14, 1968 – Klook’s Kleek Railway Hotel – West Hampstead/London, England The show is recorded and later released as the “Undead” LP.
May 22, 1968 – Wigan Technical College Bolton, England
May 23, 1968 – St. Michael’s Hall/Oxford, England
May 24, 1968 – Marquee Club/London, England with Duster Bennett
May 25, 1968 – Redditch College/Redditch, England
May 26, 1968 – Wooden Bridge/Guildford, England
June 3, 1968 – Ten Years After visit Ireland to play at a festival.
June 7, 1968 – Marquee Club/London, England with Giant Marrowfat
June 13, 1968 – Ten Years After arrive in America to begin a seven week tour.
June 14 – 16, 1968 – Cheetah Club – Venice, California with Mint Tattoo & Gross National Product
June 22, 1968 – Travelodge Theatre/Phoenix, AZ Also on the bill: Grateful Dead, Thackeray Rocke
June 24, 1968 – Whisky A Go Go/West Hollywood, CA Alice Cooper opens! with Public Bubble
June 28 – 30, 1968 – Fillmore Auditorium/San Francisco, California
with Canned Heat & Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks
June 28 – First Set: Help Me, Rock Your Mama, Spoonful, I May Be Wrong But I Won’t Be Wrong Always, No Title Summertime/Shangtung Cabbage, I Woke Up This Morning
June 28 -Second Set: I Want To Know, Spider In My Web, Crossroads, Woodchopper’s Ball.
July 5, 6 & 7, 1968 – Fillmore West/San Francisco, California with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band & Fleetwood Mac
Also on the bill are Paul Butterfield Blues Band and Truth
July 10, 1968 – Santa Monica Pier/Santa Monica, California
Ten Years After perform “I Want To Know” for KHJ-TV’s The Groovy Show television program.
July 12-21, 1968 – The Golden Bear/Huntington Beach, California
July 26-28, 1968 – Cheetah Club/Venice, CA with Lee Michaels & Jose Feliciano (26/7 & 27/7 only)
August 2 & 3, 1968 – Fillmore East/New York City, NY
With Big Brother & The Holding Company and The Staple Singers.
August 4 & 5, 1968 – Steve Paul’s Scene Club/New York City, NY
TYA recorded “Woman Trouble”, “Woodchopper’s Ball”, “No Title”, “I’m Going Home” & “Spider In My Web” for broadcast on Top Gear August 18, 1968, except “Spider In My Web” which was broadcast during the rebroadcast on September 29, 1968.
Ten Years After spend the day in the studio on August 5th backing Guitar Crusher (vocal) and Jimmy Spruill (lead guitar) on “Hambone Blues”,and backing Garfield Love (vocal) and Jimmy Spruill on “Part Time Love”.
In the evening, TYA are joined onstage at The Scene Club by Jimi Hendrix, Mitch Mitchell and Larry Coryell for a jam!
Ten Years After’s second album ‘Undead’ is released August 10, 1968
August 10, 1968 – Kempton Park/Sunbury-on-Thames, UK
This is the eighth annual National Jazz and Blues Festival with Arthur Brown, Ginger Baker, The Nice, Jeff Beck, Ten Years After, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Joe Cocker and Deep Purple.
August 12, 1968 – Cooks Ferry Inn/London, England
August 14, 1968 – BBC Studios Playhouse Theatre/London, England
August 16, 1968 – Marquee Club/London, England with Tramline
August 17, 1968 – Klook’s Kleek – West Hampstead/London, England
August 18, 1968 – Hotel Leofric/Coventry, England
August 23, 1968 – California Ballroom/Dunstable, Scotland
August 24, 1968 – Winter Gardens/Malvern, England with John Mayall
August 24, 1968 – Free Concert/Hyde Park, London
with Fleetwood Mac, Family, Fairport Convention, Roy Harper, Eclection ,Family, Stefan Grossman, Peter Sarstedt,
August 27, 1968 – Klook’s Kleek – West Hampstead/London, England
August 30, 1968 – Marquee Club/London, England with Keef Hartley
August 31, 1968 – Middle Earth at The Roundhouse/London, England with Eclection
September 3-12, 1968 – West Hampstead Studios/London, England The “Stonedhenge” LP tracks are recorded.
September 14, 1968 – Tofts/Folkestone, England
September 15, 1968 – Black Prince Hotel/Bexley, England
September 18, 1968 – Toby Jug Pub/Tolworth, England
September 19, 1968 – Le Metro/Birmingham, England
September 21, 1968 – Alex Discotheque/Salisbury, England
September 22, 1968 – Britannia Rowing Club/ Nottingham, England
Sept 27 & 28, 1968 – Fillmore East/New York City, NY With: Procol Harum, Country Joe & the Fish
September 30, 1968 – Sheep Meadows Central Park/New York City , NY
Free concert with Ten Years After, Jefferson Airplane, Country Joe & the Fish, and Buddy Guy.
Sept 30 – October 3 – Steve Paul’s Scene Club, New York City
October 4-6, 1968 – Grande Ballroom/Detroit, Michigan with the Rationals, the Dave Workman Band (4/10), Orange Fuzz (5/10) and Stuart Avery Assemblage (6/10).
Other acts on the bill are the Rationals, the Dave Workman Band (4th only), Orange Fuzz (5th only) and Stuart Avery Assemblage (6th only).
October 10 – 12, 1968 – Tea Party/Boston, Massachusetts with The Listening
October 15 – 17, 1968 – La Cave/Cleveland, Ohio
October 18 – 20, 1968 – Kinetic Playground/Chicago, Illinois with Steppenwolf (18/10) & Moody Blues (19/10)
October 23, 1968 – State University New York Pritchard Gym/Stony Brook, New York
with Blood, Sweat & Tears, Rhinoceros and Soft White Underbelly
October 25 & 26, 1968 – Electric Factory/Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with Jeff Beck Group & American Dream
October 31, 1968 – Fillmore East/New York City, New York
Benefit for Biafra Children with McCoys, Buddy Miles, Cat Mother & The All-Night Newsboys, Jeff Beck Group, Cream, Big Brother & The Holding Company
November 2, 1968 – Action House/Island Park, New York
November 7, 1968 – Freeborn Hall – University of California/Davis, California Ten Years After opens for Harpers Bizarre. In support of Harper’s Bizzare
November 8 & 9, 1968 – The Bank/Torrance, California with The Collectors
November 14-17, 1968 – Fillmore West/San Francisco, California The other acts on the bill were Country Weather and Sun Ra.
November 29 & 30, 1968 – Shrine Auditorium/Los Angeles, California With Jeff Beck, Moody Blues
December 1, 1968 – KPIX Channel 5 in San Francisco, California broadcast of POW! television show with TYA performing “Spider In My Web”
December 13, 1968 – BBC Studios Maida Vale #5/London, England
TYA recorded “I’m Going Home” (23/12), “Hear Me Calling” (24/12), “Crossroads” (25/12) & “Woman Trouble” (26/12) for the Dave Symonds Show for broadcast the week of December 23, 1968.
December 13, 1968 – Sisters Club/Tottenham, England
December 13, 1968 – Hornsey Wood Tavern /London, England “Bluesville ‘68” Club concert
December 22, 1968 – Mothers/Birmingham, England
December 23, 1968 – Quaintways Wall City Jazz Club/Chester, England with Sinbad, Beryl Marsden, Kasper’s Engine, Wall City Jazzmen
December, 1968 – “Buesville 68” – Hornsey Wood Tavern – Manor House (AKA Bluesville R & B Club)/London, England
December 26, 1968 – Marquee Club/London, England with East of Eden
Ten Years After returns for a “Christmas Party” show at the club where it held a residency in 1967 With East of Eden
December 30, 1968 – BBC Studios Maida Vale #4/London, EnglandTYA recorded “Don’t Want You Woman”, “Speed Kills”, “A Sad Song”, “No Title” & “Woman Trouble” for Top Gear for broadcast January 5, 1969, except “Woman Trouble” which was broadcast during the March 2, 1969 rebroadcast
Scandinavian TV (1968)
On the audio tape of this show two numbers are included – Spider In My Web and Help Me – although the show apparently did include additional songs !
P.O.W. TV – San Francisco (1968 )
Ten Years After perform Spider In My Web.
