You could listen to Leo Lyons all day. Firstly, there’s his playing: as co-founder of Ten Years After, the now 81-year-old-bassist has driven a thousand heavy-blues anthems since ’66, his fingers hammering like typewriter bars, neck-and-neck with the high-speed guitar playing of frontman Alvin Lee.
For evidence of the old pub argument that the Nottingham-formed band could even outgun Cream, track down the new Deluxe Edition of 1969’s career-high album Ssssh, its live disc featuring the four-piece jamming so hard in Helsinki that you feel the sweat and blisters vicariously.
