I bought his solo album on a whim. It’s really great. Sad story; had he lived today he might have overcome the bullying and ostracism and sexual frustration that took a lot of “different” people down in past days. Obv I can’t do a 50 year diagnosis of a stranger but it sounds like classic spectrum disorder, which means he just saw the world differently. But his music lives forever so you did it Alan!
I knew the members of Canned Heat excepting Allen Wilson (he died from drug overdose) when they came and performed as an house band performing every other weekend at the Topanga Corral Nightclub (Topanga, California) back during the late 1970's. I and my boyfriend were hired as caretakers and ran an Mexican & American Cuisines Restaurant which provided the patrons and musical entertainment an excellent menu of delicious food. Bob Hite aka The Bear was the lead vocalist of the group and after the death of Blind Al (Wilson) his voice replaced the parts that Blind Al sang. The Bear dearly enjoyed an specialty pie I baked, Orange Custard, and I always had a fresh pie ready to go home with him at his request. I danced every weekend on the dance floor in front of the stage while they performed live this song "On the Road Again", and every once in a while Ronald Reagan's daughter Patti Davis would be there and she'd come to the kitchen and get me to boogie to the song. Neil Young lived in Topanga Canyon also would come in occassionally and quietly sit at the bar and listen to Canned Heat. Those were really good times. Was a bit spooky one day that Bob Hite the Bear asked for me and my boyfriend Don Massey to help clean up their old house in Topanga Canyon (they were living at Box Canyon at the time) which was where Allen Wilson died up on hill outside the house. It was interesting place and Bob gave me a bit of costume jewelry that I found while cleaning the house and he gave Don an old Airstream type Travel Trailer that we uncovered in the brush while weed eating clearing the property of fire hazard. Was a kind of strange feeling being there, but we enjoyed helping our friends "Canned Heat" that hot summer day in 1978.
You're right Hari, Spirit in the Sky and this song are both based on the late, great John Lee Hooker's Boogie style. John Lee was the idol for Canned Heat and they actually recorded an album with him called Hooker-N-Heat. If you take song recommendations from randoms give the song "Boogie Chillen #2" from that a listen. 9 minutes of hard driving boogie blues! It's the song that made me dive deep into the blues over 50 years ago. Peace!
And if you haven’t listened to JL talk about why Blind Owl was such an amazing harp player on Burning Hell, start there and work your way backwards. Any album that mics up the guitarists foot stomping out the beat can’t be subpar
@@dogman1967 Great stuff,wish I could see those pics. Friend of mine met him back in the day here in Toronto and said he was a real great,humble person.
Have always loved this group. Canned Heat is an American blues & rock band that was formed in 1965. Their two biggest hits were "On The Road Again" in 1967 & "Going Up The Country" in 1968. Also love their song from 1970 "Let's Work Together".
"Let's Work Together" " Bullfrog Blues" Canned Heat was such a great band. I think a lot of people heard them first at Woodstock which really boosted their populatity. The bass line and the haunting harmonica, along with the vocals makes for a addictive listen. Made me laugh Harri when it reminded you of a trip. I can't imagine how many joints have burnt to this song to the last note. Just a great trip down memory lane. Great reaction Harri. Thanks Harri and Miss Blondie. Absolutely thrilled with this choice. Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦
Canned Heat performed this at Woodstock, Harri. Great song. They had a great sound. Great harmonica. If haven't listened to Going Up the Country, I'm sure you'll like it, "Blind Owl" Alan Wilson did harmonica and vocals for this tune and other hits. That synth sound was a tambura.
They made a Woodstock reunion tour in 2010. I had the opportunity to see Fito, Harvey and Larry play together again with Dale Spalding, a new member. The place was packed and they played all the old hits. Fito is the only original member keeping the band together now. Larry is unfortunately gone and I believe Harvey hasn't been well.
Here's a cover of Going Up The Country, its kind of interesting if your interested in checking it out - its also a British family so Harri my like it - ruclips.net/video/Wn9I-6qlmj8/видео.html
One night we went to see Jr. Wells and ended up inviting him to my house.OMG we had so much fun his wife called every 15 min. The BS he told her was hysterical! We rolled on the floor! If you want to have fun invite a blues singet to your house!!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Actually you're talking of the same guy: Al Wilson. He sings, plays the harmonica, composed the song (from a Floyd Jones tune) and is the arranger of every detail of this incredibly clever song. He was one of the genius of the sixties and should have been more remembered but he died young (in 1970, he's in the sad club of the 27). Each song he sang and composed is heartbreakin'. Too bad he's not on the picture that illustrates the video.
Harri, an amazing song and the only song I can think of the rides the same note the whole song (E). A request? Quicksilver Messenger Service - Fresh Air
Guitarist/ harmonica player Alan Wilson (the Blind Owl) is featured, here as vocalist. Aside from playing harmonica on this song, he also added the tambura (an Eastern instrument) for the drone-strings effect.
Bob Hite, "The Bear" died in 1981. A brother of his had a radio program on a local volunteer station here in Memphis. I understand he had a massive vinyl record collection. Canned Heat was influenced by the old Mississippi blues players. Did an album with John Lee Hooker. The Bear burned out too soon.
Indeed. As I recall, he came of stage somewhere and a fan handed him a small plastic bag. Thinking it was cocaine, Bear snorted it. It was heroin and that was that. Such a talent.
According to Wikipedia, there is a tambura on this track. It's a Middle Eastern instrument that I believe is what creates the droning, "synthesized" sound you hear in the left channel.
Harri, so true about sounding like Spirit in the Sky. Same time period. So remember this group. Let's Work Together is another fabulous tune of theirs!😎
Boy, this brings back memories. I got my driver's license on my 16th birthday in January 1970. The first two concerts I ever saw were Canned Heat and Chuck Berry. I think Canned Heat was my first. I was a naive 16 year old in an auditorium full of pot smoking hippies! I remember the lead singer leaving the stage and walking around even into the upper bleachers taking hits off every joint he saw. Oh, those were the days...
It's a good psychedelic boogie, with a riff based around one chord, and a number of distinguishing features. Alan Wilson uses the Indian instrument called the Tambura, which is like a sitar. It was relatively common among psychedelic bands of the time. It is used to create a metallic droning noise in the background.
Yeah, the "boogie riff" that Norman Greenbaum used in Spirit in the Sky was inspired by this Canned Heat Song, as was ZZ Top's LaGrange. The "synthesizer" you hear was an Indian Sitar, which added an Indian "drone" sound to this song, which was so great & innovative at the time. I remember Canned Heat fondly for this one song in particular...
I could write pages about my love for this band, Alan Wilson (Blind Owl) in particular! I won't since so many have already commented on the same things. Alan Wilson was a brilliant guitarist, harmonica player and song writer, and I don't understand why he isn't pictured! He greatly admired eastern music, which is why he included the droning at the beginning and end. He was not only an amazing musician, but I feel like we are kindred spirits. He was kind, gentle, felt most at home in nature, and was very intelligent. I just hope that he has found the peace that he was always searching for but only found in the natural world or while playing music.
Al "Blind Owl" Wilson modelled his voice from his friend blues singer Skip James. Btw Alan's not even in the photo. Great share Harri. 👍👍🙏 One of the best blues songs of all time!!
Can you hear the the guy on the long road who picked up a harmonica he found and as the song goes on his good practice is getting fancier. This is a well thought out song that practice has no rules to what better sounds like to you personally. Enjoy your voice not interrupted... get better with it. Wave at cars smiling. Train your face to smile big with bugs in your teeth. On the road.
Excellent Miss B. I absolutely love this song and I actually have another Canned Heat song on my list for future days. Happy Thanksgiving to you. Enjoy the day tomorrow.❤🇺🇸🦃☮️
Hi Cynthia and thank you. I'm so glad you loved this. My uncle was at Woodstock and the stories he told ( the one's he remembered 😉) over the years in why my taste in music is mostly 60s and 70s. Canned Heat is indeed a special group and I'm looking forward to hearing your song. Love and Music Always 🎵💜🎶🇨🇦🇺🇲🥂
@@missblondie2393 I was supposed to go to Woodstock with some friends, but our drive fell through. Some great memories back in those days that’s for sure.🇺🇸🦃💜
Once again, you heard great stuff and loved it immediately. I was born 1958 and this was when I was 10-12. I latched onto it straightaway. If you went back to those times, you'd feel at home without problem. They were fantastic.
Great choice Blondie my dear! This entire album is wonderful! Harvey Mandel on the guitar, just delightful! His solo work is impeccable. Thanks Blondie loved this request. Our dear friend seemed to enjoy it. Happy Turkey Day!✌️❤️☺️
One died in 1970, (Wilson), one in 1981, (Hite), one in 1997, (Vestine), and the bass player, (Taylor), in 2019. The drummer is the only original one still around. And a later guitarist, Harvey Mandel. (Not Howie).
Many great songs I heard myself coming out on one speaker radios in the sixties of life as a travelling American loner with a harmonica or single ragged guitar It made my rough younger time childhood way more livable for a poor boy misunderstood for diminished hearing of 7 years in a crowded family all alone with me as friend. Music saved me on the daily... and that family dog SAM saved me...from dads undesirable mood.
We boogied to this listening to the Woodstock album & it carried on into the early 70’s! Love, love Canned Heat ☮️💟💜💎😻🇨🇦 They loved John Lee Hookers music & his blues boogie guitar !! It does have the Spirit In The Sky vibe( a big favourite of mine to be played when I leave this plane) it is sad to lose many of the group when young 😢 RIP It is sad and strange that Alan Wilson ( Blind Owl) died at 27 as did Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix. & Janis Joplin ?😢
It's ghostly psychedelic!!! Haven't heard this song in decades! Thank you for sharing and thanks to the person who requested it! Love your comments!!! Hello from Texas!
You might enjoy or react to (no real need to do on air) the John Lee Hooker song Burnin' Hell -- the opening verse really kinda says it all, but it's the manifesto of a man who refuses to be guilt-tripped and manipulated by social pressure, yet finds himself in limbo as a result
The guitar players--Alan Wilson and Henry Vestine--really had that drone thing goin' on in this tune. Alan sung the tune, and he was the first band member to die.
Harri my other favorite they do is "" Going up the Country "" the song you just played has such a heavy groove and that harmonica is cry8ng.These guys were at Woodstock and the crowd loved them.🎼🎹🎸👍
Have you ever heard the song "Alice's Restaurant" by Arlo Guthrie? It's a tradition on American classic rock stations to play it on Thanksgiving Day. You would want to listen to the original 18-minute long live version from 1967. If you react to it, you'll hear one word that should be bleeped out.
Instant recognition who was playing from the first notes whenever you heard them. Check out Going Up The Country too - awesome. I remember riding around in my first car, ‘55 Chevy, listening on 8-track tape. For some very cool John Lee Hooker (it’s all cool, really), listen to his duet with Van Morrison doing Van’s song Gloria. Best ever version of that song, in my opinion (some may differ, but that’s the great thing about music).
One time, I saw them at the Eastown Theater in Detroit, with John Lee Hooker... Almost nobody showed up for the show because there was a snowstorm going on outside... Because nobody was going to be able to get out, Canned Heat and John Le Hooker played until 4:30 in the morning... Incredible...
They were my first concert in 1971, in St Louis with Ted Nugent (and the Amboy Dukes). An example of how things have changed, I hoisted myself up onto the corner of the stage for Heat and never got kicked off! Watched the whole show from there!
Hi Harry, i have just done a dig this afternoon and so far only find one CD The Best Of Canned Heat let's Work Together And the first Track is On The Road Again 1968 and have 20 tracks so will play this album shortly. Chris Tredwell Birmingham UK
Love Canned Heat. Great Boogie band. Did an awesome set at Woodstock. Wonderful nicknames; Bear, Blind Owl, The Mole, The Sunflower. None of it was synthesized, just a raw, garage band sound. For more try "Going Up The Country", "Amphetamine Annie", "Fried Hockey Boogie" and "John Lee Hooker Boogie". You won't be able to sit still for the last one. They had more than one lead singer, so expect to hear different voices.
He doesn't sing in falsetto, that is his natural register. When he sings the line, "all by myself", he is hitting the bottom of his register. The Bee Gees sang in falsetto, they are a good example of falsetto.
THANK YOU FOR GIVING LOVE TO CANNED HEAT !! Another of the great bands from the late 60-early70's that seem to get more lost in the mist as time passes. Loved their boogie/blues/rock sound. You are right that their performing is hypnotic, especially if you were stoned as were so many of us of the Woodstock Generation. - lol ! Another great band from that era in a similar style that a lot of young folks have never heard is Humble Pie with their charismatic front man/singer/guitarist, the legendary STEVE MARRIOTT. You did react to "I Don't Need No Dr" and LOVED IT, but please try some more "30 Days in the Hole" is very popular as "Black Coffee", but I would prefer "Hot & Nasty" or "Road Runner", or my favorites "I Wonder" (very bluesy) or "I Know You're So Good For Me" (almost gospel like). I know you will love them. Sadly Marriott is another genius performer who died in tragic circumstance much too young. RIP Steve...
Alan Wilson aka Blind Owl on vocals and Harmonica... An amazing talent, Sadly died aged just 27
I bought his solo album on a whim. It’s really great. Sad story; had he lived today he might have overcome the bullying and ostracism and sexual frustration that took a lot of “different” people down in past days. Obv I can’t do a 50 year diagnosis of a stranger but it sounds like classic spectrum disorder, which means he just saw the world differently. But his music lives forever so you did it Alan!
A member of the 27 Club.
@@loadedorygun it makes me really sad that "The Bear" (singer) made fun of him because of it.
We lost many at 27, unfortunately.
They died from seconal overdoses
The great Blind Owl - Alan Wilson.
This song has played on the radio, 563,684,483,402 times since the 1970s. And yes, it is still fantastic.
I knew the members of Canned Heat excepting Allen Wilson (he died from drug overdose) when they came and performed as an house band performing every other weekend at the Topanga Corral Nightclub (Topanga, California) back during the late 1970's. I and my boyfriend were hired as caretakers and ran an Mexican & American Cuisines Restaurant which provided the patrons and musical entertainment an excellent menu of delicious food. Bob Hite aka The Bear was the lead vocalist of the group and after the death of Blind Al (Wilson) his voice replaced the parts that Blind Al sang. The Bear dearly enjoyed an specialty pie I baked, Orange Custard, and I always had a fresh pie ready to go home with him at his request. I danced every weekend on the dance floor in front of the stage while they performed live this song "On the Road Again", and every once in a while Ronald Reagan's daughter Patti Davis would be there and she'd come to the kitchen and get me to boogie to the song. Neil Young lived in Topanga Canyon also would come in occassionally and quietly sit at the bar and listen to Canned Heat. Those were really good times. Was a bit spooky one day that Bob Hite the Bear asked for me and my boyfriend Don Massey to help clean up their old house in Topanga Canyon (they were living at Box Canyon at the time) which was where Allen Wilson died up on hill outside the house. It was interesting place and Bob gave me a bit of costume jewelry that I found while cleaning the house and he gave Don an old Airstream type Travel Trailer that we uncovered in the brush while weed eating clearing the property of fire hazard. Was a kind of strange feeling being there, but we enjoyed helping our friends "Canned Heat" that hot summer day in 1978.
Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson = master of the mouth harp and the slide guitar. A unique talent gone way too soon.
You're right Hari, Spirit in the Sky and this song are both based on the late, great John Lee Hooker's Boogie style. John Lee was the idol for Canned Heat and they actually recorded an album with him called Hooker-N-Heat. If you take song recommendations from randoms give the song "Boogie Chillen #2" from that a listen. 9 minutes of hard driving boogie blues! It's the song that made me dive deep into the blues over 50 years ago. Peace!
Whiskey & Women is also great on that one. One of the first blues records I was lucky enough to stumble upon
Absolutely agree, great album and I still listen to it this day, makes me get the boogie in me going...lol.
Try the Woodstock Boogie by Canned Heat and think of ZZ Top while you're listening.
And if you haven’t listened to JL talk about why Blind Owl was such an amazing harp player on Burning Hell, start there and work your way backwards. Any album that mics up the guitarists foot stomping out the beat can’t be subpar
@@dogman1967 Great stuff,wish I could see those pics. Friend of mine met him back in the day here in Toronto and said he was a real great,humble person.
This song is perfect for the open road, in a muscle car.
Have always loved this group. Canned Heat is an American blues & rock band that was formed in 1965. Their two biggest hits were "On The Road Again" in 1967 & "Going Up The Country" in 1968. Also love their song from 1970 "Let's Work Together".
Check out also their longest offering, "Refried Boogie - Parts 1 and 2"; a 40+ minutes long epic from the album, "Living The Blues".
Beautiful, Beautiful, Beautiful👊❤
Say what?
BEAUTIFUL 😁👊👊❤
The very best of Acid Blues...!!!
Going up the country…. 👍
"Let's Work Together" " Bullfrog Blues"
Canned Heat was such a great band. I think a lot of people heard them first at Woodstock which really boosted their
populatity. The bass line and the haunting harmonica, along with the vocals makes for a addictive listen. Made me laugh Harri when it reminded you of a trip. I can't imagine how many joints have burnt to this song to the last note.
Just a great trip down memory lane.
Great reaction Harri. Thanks Harri and Miss Blondie. Absolutely thrilled with this choice. Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦
And Going Up the Country.
They were the opening act at the Monterey Pop Festival on Saturday in June ‘67! I was there!
@@custardflan An absolute given!!👍👍🎶🇨🇦
@@TheDivayenta That must be a amazing memory. 👍✌️🎶🇨🇦
Don’t forget Amphetamine Annie
Canned Heat performed this at Woodstock, Harri. Great song. They had a great sound. Great harmonica. If haven't listened to Going Up the Country, I'm sure you'll like it, "Blind Owl" Alan Wilson did harmonica and vocals for this tune and other hits. That synth sound was a tambura.
I agree "Going Up The Country" another great song with that same great sound and vocals.
They made a Woodstock reunion tour in 2010. I had the opportunity to see Fito, Harvey and Larry play together again with Dale Spalding, a new member. The place was packed and they played all the old hits. Fito is the only original member keeping the band together now. Larry is unfortunately gone and I believe Harvey hasn't been well.
Here's a cover of Going Up The Country, its kind of interesting if your interested in checking it out - its also a British family so Harri my like it - ruclips.net/video/Wn9I-6qlmj8/видео.html
Right on man, I am 74 and love this classic.
Canned Heat is the most underrated and forgotten 60's band. Only real one know who they are.
That makes two of us!!😂😂🇬🇧
One night we went to see Jr. Wells and ended up inviting him to my house.OMG we had so much fun his wife called every 15 min. The BS he told her was hysterical! We rolled on the floor! If you want to have fun invite a blues singet to your house!!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Actually you're talking of the same guy: Al Wilson. He sings, plays the harmonica, composed the song (from a Floyd Jones tune) and is the arranger of every detail of this incredibly clever song. He was one of the genius of the sixties and should have been more remembered but he died young (in 1970, he's in the sad club of the 27). Each song he sang and composed is heartbreakin'. Too bad he's not on the picture that illustrates the video.
He was credited by Son House for teaching him how to play his own songs again after a long hiatus.
Harri, an amazing song and the only song I can think of the rides the same note the whole song (E).
A request? Quicksilver Messenger Service - Fresh Air
Tommy Johnson's 1928 "Canned Heat Blues" is a great song, they took their name from it. A great blues band.
Have known this song since I was a teenager ❤❤❤ Love it 🎉 Great reaction ❤❤❤ Thank you Harri 👍😇🤗😀
One of my favorite bands. I love the harmonica and you just don't hear enough of it anymore.
Guitarist/ harmonica player Alan Wilson (the Blind Owl) is featured, here as vocalist.
Aside from playing harmonica on this song, he also added the tambura (an Eastern instrument) for the drone-strings effect.
Bob Hite,
"The Bear" died in 1981. A brother of his had a radio program on a local volunteer station here in Memphis. I understand he had a massive vinyl record collection. Canned Heat was influenced by the old Mississippi blues players. Did an album with John Lee Hooker. The Bear burned out too soon.
Indeed. As I recall, he came of stage somewhere and a fan handed him a small plastic bag. Thinking it was cocaine, Bear snorted it. It was heroin and that was that. Such a talent.
According to Wikipedia, there is a tambura on this track. It's a Middle Eastern instrument that I believe is what creates the droning, "synthesized" sound you hear in the left channel.
Great choice, this is one righteous tune.
See their Woodstock performance.
Harri, so true about sounding like Spirit in the Sky. Same time period. So remember this group. Let's Work Together is another fabulous tune of theirs!😎
Boy, this brings back memories. I got my driver's license on my 16th birthday in January 1970. The first two concerts I ever saw were Canned Heat and Chuck Berry. I think Canned Heat was my first. I was a naive 16 year old in an auditorium full of pot smoking hippies! I remember the lead singer leaving the stage and walking around even into the upper bleachers taking hits off every joint he saw. Oh, those were the days...
🎉16th birthday 1/05/70.
What a great band and song. One of my favourites by them.💞
Blind Owl!! Rest in peace man.
Ace reaction. And what a song... greetings from Gothenburg, Sweden. Take care brother.
"The blues ain't nothin' but a good man feelin' bad" ~ Willie Brown, "Crossroads"
Great work dude 😀
It's a good psychedelic boogie, with a riff based around one chord, and a number of distinguishing features. Alan Wilson uses the Indian instrument called the Tambura, which is like a sitar. It was relatively common among psychedelic bands of the time. It is used to create a metallic droning noise in the background.
Yeah, the "boogie riff" that Norman Greenbaum used in Spirit in the Sky was inspired by this Canned Heat Song, as was ZZ Top's LaGrange. The "synthesizer" you hear was an Indian Sitar, which added an Indian "drone" sound to this song, which was so great & innovative at the time. I remember Canned Heat fondly for this one song in particular...
Indian instruments give you the Shivas - Sitars make great sounds
It's a Tambura not a Sitar.
I could write pages about my love for this band, Alan Wilson (Blind Owl) in particular! I won't since so many have already commented on the same things. Alan Wilson was a brilliant guitarist, harmonica player and song writer, and I don't understand why he isn't pictured! He greatly admired eastern music, which is why he included the droning at the beginning and end. He was not only an amazing musician, but I feel like we are kindred spirits. He was kind, gentle, felt most at home in nature, and was very intelligent. I just hope that he has found the peace that he was always searching for but only found in the natural world or while playing music.
Al "Blind Owl" Wilson modelled his voice from his friend blues singer Skip James. Btw Alan's not even in the photo. Great share Harri. 👍👍🙏 One of the best blues songs of all time!!
Can you hear the the guy on the long road who picked up a harmonica he found and as the song goes on his good practice is getting fancier. This is a well thought out song that practice has no rules to what better sounds like to you personally. Enjoy your voice not interrupted... get better with it. Wave at cars smiling. Train your face to smile big with bugs in your teeth. On the road.
Yes! "going up the country" is another great song from them. Bringing forward that free spirit emotion in you😎🏞
grew up in utah. bless harri
Such an underrated band glad to know people still listen to them. Time was …….. lol another great tune
Great driving song
Great reaction Harry. I love the way a harmonica sounds in a rock song. I have loved this song since first hearing it in the early 70s.
Definitely a solid groove. The vocals almost sound like a harmonica in their own right.
Excellent Miss B. I absolutely love this song and I actually have another Canned Heat song on my list for future days. Happy Thanksgiving to you. Enjoy the day tomorrow.❤🇺🇸🦃☮️
Hi Cynthia and thank you.
I'm so glad you loved this.
My uncle was at Woodstock and the stories he told ( the one's he remembered 😉) over the years in why my taste in music is mostly 60s and 70s.
Canned Heat is indeed a special group and I'm looking forward to hearing your song.
Love and Music Always
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@@missblondie2393 I was supposed to go to Woodstock with some friends, but our drive fell through. Some great memories back in those days that’s for sure.🇺🇸🦃💜
@@Cynthia... thankfully there is so much footage of Woodstock for us all to enjoy always.
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Once again, you heard great stuff and loved it immediately. I was born 1958 and this was when I was 10-12. I latched onto it straightaway. If you went back to those times, you'd feel at home without problem. They were fantastic.
mi piace la passione che metti nell'ascoltare la musica, tutta di cuore e poco di testa
,that sound is a Tambura..a stringed instrument derived from India
a trip down memory lane ;0
Great choice Blondie my dear! This entire album is wonderful! Harvey Mandel on the guitar, just delightful! His solo work is impeccable. Thanks Blondie loved this request. Our dear friend seemed to enjoy it. Happy Turkey Day!✌️❤️☺️
Yo! So the rumors are true. You are back from wherever you find your bliss. I have to go now (to find your submissions😎) Happy Thanksgiving
@@davebzen795 I'm back to stay my friend! Happy Thanksgiving brother Dave!
So happy to have you back Mr. Music Man.
I'm glad you enjoyed this one
Happy Thanksgiving my friend 🍁🍂🎵🎶🥂
Henry Vestine was still in the band for this one, The Snake replaced him for Future Blues. Both fine fine players.
Yeah, the groove is intoxicating. Well said!
Such an amazing song!
One died in 1970, (Wilson), one in 1981, (Hite), one in 1997, (Vestine), and the bass player, (Taylor), in 2019. The drummer is the only original one still around. And a later guitarist, Harvey Mandel. (Not Howie).
Wow, another great one courtesy Miss Blondie! :D
Why thank Cosmo. 🎶✌️🎵
Many great songs I heard myself coming out on one speaker radios in the sixties of life as a travelling American loner with a harmonica or single ragged guitar It made my rough younger time childhood way more livable for a poor boy misunderstood for diminished hearing of 7 years in a crowded family all alone with me as friend. Music saved me on the daily... and that family dog SAM saved me...from dads undesirable mood.
This song makes me want to get out my blacklight and blacklight posters and zone out (legally zone out)!
I was at Woodstock in spirit as I was only 7. Maybe in another life. Great, great song. Peace, love and music. ✌🏻🌼☀️☮️
Awesome underrated band...if Blind Owl hadn't died so young, they would have been huge.....
We boogied to this listening to the Woodstock album & it carried on into the early 70’s! Love, love Canned Heat ☮️💟💜💎😻🇨🇦 They loved John Lee Hookers music & his blues boogie guitar !! It does have the Spirit In The Sky vibe( a big favourite of mine to be played when I leave this plane) it is sad to lose many of the group when young 😢 RIP
It is sad and strange that Alan Wilson ( Blind Owl) died at 27 as did Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix. & Janis Joplin ?😢
Canned Heat was the very first concert I went to at 14. Had to ride the bus to get there. This was way back in 1969! 😎😎😎😎
Super groovy! “Going up the Country” is another great Canned Heat song.
It's ghostly psychedelic!!! Haven't heard this song in decades! Thank you for sharing and thanks to the person who requested it! Love your comments!!! Hello from Texas!
A classic. Always on my road trip playlist.
Alan wilson's voice sounds like a harmonica. That's what makes canned heat so great :)
Although they are not nearly as well known as they should be, Canned Heat is one of the groups that truly capture the vibe of the Late Great Sixties.
One of my all time favorite groups.love you Harry!
You might enjoy or react to (no real need to do on air) the John Lee Hooker song Burnin' Hell -- the opening verse really kinda says it all, but it's the manifesto of a man who refuses to be guilt-tripped and manipulated by social pressure, yet finds himself in limbo as a result
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I love this band
Seen them a time or two on Lansdown St @ The ARC
Nice choice Harri.
A real sixties song, I grew up with this music, a great number! 🎶🎶🎶👍👍
Best Damn Bar Band, the sound you heard is a Harmonica, they were just inducted into the California Music Hall of Fame
The guitar players--Alan Wilson and Henry Vestine--really had that drone thing goin' on in this tune. Alan sung the tune, and he was the first band member to die.
Harri my other favorite they do is "" Going up the Country "" the song you just played has such a heavy groove and that harmonica is cry8ng.These guys were at Woodstock and the crowd loved them.🎼🎹🎸👍
Have you ever heard the song "Alice's Restaurant" by Arlo Guthrie? It's a tradition on American classic rock stations to play it on Thanksgiving Day. You would want to listen to the original 18-minute long live version from 1967. If you react to it, you'll hear one word that should be bleeped out.
Love your channel Harri...Happy Holidays from Michigan, U.S.A.
Perection!
OMG I have not heard this in years used to listen to this as a young girl thank you
Good comparison of the two songs similarity
Instant recognition who was playing from the first notes whenever you heard them. Check out Going Up The Country too - awesome. I remember riding around in my first car, ‘55 Chevy, listening on 8-track tape. For some very cool John Lee Hooker (it’s all cool, really), listen to his duet with Van Morrison doing Van’s song Gloria. Best ever version of that song, in my opinion (some may differ, but that’s the great thing about music).
Canned Heat adapted their other hit "Goin' Up the Country" from a 1928 song by Henry Thomas. Check it out!
True but it is based on Sippie Wallace from 1923 Up the Country Blues
Thank god for us they existed when they did; they were all talent and zero image and the industry wouldn’t have it today.
Sadly it's the truth
Love Canned Heat...some great music...
One time, I saw them at the Eastown Theater in Detroit, with John Lee Hooker... Almost nobody showed up for the show because there was a snowstorm going on outside... Because nobody was going to be able to get out, Canned Heat and John Le Hooker played until 4:30 in the morning... Incredible...
The biggest dude in the photo, Bob Hite, was the lead singer!
Not on this song
This was huge back in the day.
great song Harri WOW
They were my first concert in 1971, in St Louis with Ted Nugent (and the Amboy Dukes). An example of how things have changed, I hoisted myself up onto the corner of the stage for Heat and never got kicked off! Watched the whole show from there!
One of my favorites from Canned Heat. Now that is music.
Super Groovy Cut.
Hi Harry, i have just done a dig this afternoon and so far only find one CD The Best Of Canned Heat
let's Work Together And the first Track is On The Road Again 1968 and have 20 tracks so will play
this album shortly.
Chris Tredwell Birmingham UK
That instrument used in the background throughout the song is an Indian instrument called the Tambura, like a sitar
Love Canned Heat. Great Boogie band. Did an awesome set at Woodstock. Wonderful
nicknames; Bear, Blind Owl, The Mole, The Sunflower. None of it was synthesized, just
a raw, garage band sound. For more try "Going Up The Country", "Amphetamine Annie",
"Fried Hockey Boogie" and "John Lee Hooker Boogie". You won't be able to sit still for
the last one. They had more than one lead singer, so expect to hear different voices.
Canned Heat was one of my favorite groups back in the late 60's. Checkout Bullfrog Blues and Dust My Broom. Nice selection Harri.
He doesn't sing in falsetto, that is his natural register. When he sings the line, "all by myself", he is hitting the bottom of his register. The Bee Gees sang in falsetto, they are a good example of falsetto.
Thank you for explaining this.
It feels so genuine and this is why
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I would like to hear this two songs mixed in a good way: spirir in the sky and on the road again. I think, it would be very interesting to hear!!
THANK YOU FOR GIVING LOVE TO CANNED HEAT !! Another of the great bands from the late 60-early70's that seem to get more lost in the mist as time passes. Loved their boogie/blues/rock sound. You are right that their performing is hypnotic, especially if you were stoned as were so many of us of the Woodstock Generation. - lol !
Another great band from that era in a similar style that a lot of young folks have never heard is Humble Pie with their charismatic front man/singer/guitarist, the legendary STEVE MARRIOTT. You did react to "I Don't Need No Dr" and LOVED IT, but please try some more
"30 Days in the Hole" is very popular as "Black Coffee", but I would prefer "Hot & Nasty" or "Road Runner", or my favorites "I Wonder" (very bluesy) or "I Know You're So Good For Me" (almost gospel like). I know you will love them. Sadly Marriott is another genius performer who died in tragic circumstance much too young. RIP Steve...
One of the coolest bands. Love them.
The Blind Owl. Gone too soon like many others. He was Canned Heat IMO.
Let's Work Together!!!