{"id":24119,"date":"2026-02-16T15:28:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T15:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guitarmadrid.com\/?p=24119"},"modified":"2026-02-16T15:28:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T15:28:46","slug":"the-rock-n-roll-forrest-gump-how-leo-lyons-built-the-foundation-of-ten-years-after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guitarmadrid.com\/es\/2026\/02\/16\/the-rock-n-roll-forrest-gump-how-leo-lyons-built-the-foundation-of-ten-years-after\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rock \u2018n\u2019 Roll Forrest Gump: How Leo Lyons Built the Foundation of Ten Years After"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the ego-driven world of rock royalty, Leo Lyons remains an anomaly. At 82, the bassist whose frantic, &#8220;over-the-top&#8221; lines defined the sound of Ten Years After is more interested in the craft than the fame. Known to some as the &#8220;Forrest Gump&#8221; of rock for his knack for being at the center of history, Lyons\u2019 journey didn\u2019t start with a spotlight\u2014it started in a tent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the early days, Lyons was so committed to his craft that he slept in a tent to save money, eventually pitching it in a stranger\u2019s garden just to afford his first Precision Bass. From the grueling seven-hour sets at Hamburg\u2019s Star-Club\u2014where the band learned to jam out of pure necessity\u2014to the mud-soaked immortality of Woodstock, Lyons was the engine room for guitarist Alvin Lee\u2019s &#8220;Captain Speed Fingers&#8221; pyrotechnics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, he still plays the same 1962 Fender Jazz Bass he traded for decades ago, a road-worn icon that has been played by Jimi Hendrix and survived 50 years of life on the road. For Lyons, the music isn&#8217;t a career\u2014it\u2019s a drug he can\u2019t quit.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the ego-driven world of rock royalty, Leo Lyons remains an anomaly. At 82, the bassist whose frantic, &#8220;over-the-top&#8221; lines defined the sound of Ten Years After is more interested in the craft than the fame. Known to some as the &#8220;Forrest Gump&#8221; of rock for his knack for being at the center of history, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guitarmadrid.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guitarmadrid.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guitarmadrid.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guitarmadrid.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guitarmadrid.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/guitarmadrid.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24121,"href":"https:\/\/guitarmadrid.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24119\/revisions\/24121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guitarmadrid.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guitarmadrid.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guitarmadrid.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guitarmadrid.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}