Bob Hite is on harmonica, yes, but Alan Wilson was known for playing both harmonica and guitar. He did both on a Son House album in 1965. Wilson is the harmonica player on the studio recording of "On The Road Again" but is being spelled here by Bear so he can focus on guitar.
He was so versatile when they played on there record with John lee hooker he moved over to harmonica and even John lee comments on the recording (I didn’t know how this kid keeps up with me but he do) that’s how talented he was.alan died at 21 ,the album was hooker in heat probably the greatest boogie album of all time.
Will NEVER be a concert to compare to Woodstock ❤️. The players were masters of music, words and history!!!!! 62 yrs old and still to this day they play daily in my mind!
1969 was a Cosmic Year. I was both a civilian in the first part of it and a soldier in the second part of it. I was at the Atlanta International Pop (Pot) Festival on July 4th, 1969 on a 3 day pass from the U.S. Army. They announced from that stage an "Aquarian Music Festival" being held in the next month of August 1969 in upstate New York. A low tone of some kind of blues note of hopeful awe conveying "further, Man!" came out of the crowd of 130,000 people at the Atlanta International Race Track infield where the concert stage was set up. It had been very hot. But the announcement was at dusk in falling, cooling, gold purple light. Things were cooling. The announcement was like a kind of water in the outer thrust of the day but, more mystically, cool, crystal water in the inner thurst of those times. The month of August 1969 came in that same but now more purple light. The rest is history. But I was soon to be overseas. I lived to survive. I am now hard at work on my book. "I'm go'in up the country, babe don't you want to go?" still applies to everyone now moving on into the next world beyond. Best to you!
Alan Wilson and Bob Hite were both enormously talented. The whole classic era line-up was just a pure, no nonsense approach. Just great, honest music with zero BS to get in the way of enjoying it. I will queue up my Woodstock anniversary edition Blu-ray in a few weeks and celebrate the 50th anniversary of this amazing performance. Peace & Love.
Great music from so many years ago, I didn't make it there, wish I had (I was 17 at the time). Canned Heat was always a great group, and kudos also to Ted Churchill & crew for their wonderful film coverage!
johny lee hooker is quoted as saying blind owl was one of the best harp players EVER! Thats good enough for me....besides that fact, he was also brilliant..... so yes
RIP Bob and Alan. I knew Bob’s brother, Richard. He played bass in the band when Larry left. Richard was at this gig. He has the gold Woodstock album on the wall of their living room in Memphis. But I was most impressed with their collection of blues 78s. They had all of Robert Johnson’s in mint condition, in the original sleeves. He had every blues 78 you could think of. It rivaled Jim O’Neal’s collection. I helped Jim move his once. Whoa! 🙀🙀
@@krankenstyn we took large fishing umbrellas with us you know the green ones .and yes it was fantastic 4 days. I wish I could see it all again there was no trouble there everyone was very friendly
Mike Bruce I believe you're the first person I encounter - online - who's actually been there ! A singularity on the face of earth and in history, that congregation.
Blind Owl - gets the vocal set based on "Skippy James" a great blues man himself. Blind Owls slide has plenty of Mojo. Canned Heat, just a great band, thanks for uploading this. I'll come back often to watch again.
Totally feel blessed to be a part of that time!!! Love those guys!!! I'm 69 still smoke a ton of weed. People have gotten so stupid they don't even know how to grow weed. Millennials think they do.
I used to overlook Canned heat until I read all about them. Once you do that and then go back to their music, you have a whole new appreciation. Blind Owl was a very interesting, although tormented soul.
Can't take my eyes off of Wilson in every Canned Heat's Woodstock videos, find him purely fascinating, as a dark misunderstood sweaty man mid-child mid owl flood by the blues's soul
The lyrics are heartbreaking, and I never really understood that before ...." I didn't have nobody, not even no place to go. " Viewing from this point in the future that he would never reach, knowing how young he was when he died, it is sad. Don't rest in peace, Blind Owl, keep playing, somewhere....
I remember meeting these guys at the Harvest Festival in Canaan NH way back when,,, Partied all day with Big Bob!! Best memory was when we were cookin dinner,,somebody spilled out the bacon onto campfire,, Bob dug right onto coals,, dont waste bacon!!!
@@harvey1954 Larrys bass made the Canned Heat songs good. Its very easy to destroy a song with the bass... The bass should be much single note playing and some walking bass.. Larry did this. on Going up The Country
I REALLY love this performance of this song! For some reason it sounds more psychedelic and tighter than the studio release. RIP Owl, Bear and Mole. Boogie Chillun'!
All the old vinyl records I listened to with equally stoned friends so many years ago thanks toRUclips and lots of folks is wonderful, the hash replaced by scotch now but transports me to a world once living in again.
whomever put together all of the musicians, bands, soloists n their entourage, better be in the rock n roll hall of fame!! for not only pulling together big name bands n soloists but bringing in new acts who killed it at woodstock n couldn't have had a better jumping off point to start their careers!!!
He sure should be. Wilson was a blues scholar, I can't think of another artist who has matched his love and dedication to the blues. I enjoy his style of guitar... especially the live stuff. Nothin else like it. One things for sure, when he died, Canned Heat was never the same.
Blind Owl couldn't see very well, but he could damn sure hear. Notice in the intro how his voice tuned right in to those notes he hit. I think about how he would have progressed if he had not have checked out. There are three or four songs that made me pull my car over and turn the radio up, and really listen the first time I heard them. This is one of those. RIP "Blind Owl" Al Wilson. You left too soon.
I may have gone crazy over the last 60 years, but I was there for Canned Heat and I remember it being broad daylight, Bob Hite WAS wearing a yellow shirt tho...I was so far away but you could see that shirt.....
Thank you, thank you for posting Part 1, Stick Chess! I love this video so much. It shows Alan's expressiveness, how he was really and thoroughly into the music--HIS music that he created. I love this elongated kind of jam session of "On the Road Again"...although I doubt any of it was spontaneous. Alan arranged everything meticulously. I will always be his most ardent fan and groupie. Thank you for bringing this video back. It brings back so much to me!
I was 13 when Woodstock was happening, but didn’t live that far from that farm hillside. Couple of hours drive away (Montreal), and if I ever invent time travel (at 66) , that’s where I’m going.
Blind Owl, was an absolute 'Treasure' His death was 'calling out' he needed support, a lost soul in the wilderness ... every single human /animal on this planet, needs a comforting soul ......no man is an island .. Reach out, OUR LORD ALMIGHTY GOD will show you how .
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underrated...blues-rock doesn't get any better than this
False.
They were not, I repeat not, underrated by any means
I don't think they were underrated
@@johndeer4545 well they were very unique and talented
@@richardconnelly7141 And stoned to the limit lol
The glorious Rock and Blues of the 60's and 70's will NEVER be beaten for every genre of music. Those of us who lived it knew it was a special era.
No words can describe how good this is and how good Canned Heat were. ❤🎤🎼🎹🎶
Alan Wilson was a tortured soul and a master harmonica player that absolutely belongs in the Blues Hall of Fame.
Mark Tucker isn't that Bear on Harmonica..Al on Guitar
Bob Hite is on harmonica, yes, but Alan Wilson was known for playing both harmonica and guitar. He did both on a Son House album in 1965. Wilson is the harmonica player on the studio recording of "On The Road Again" but is being spelled here by Bear so he can focus on guitar.
Alan has been inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame as a "Legendary Blues Musician".
@@njmcd Cool
I agree. The harmonica is certainly a true lost art in the beautiful music world
The Blind 🦉 has been inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame as a Legendary Artist. R.I.P. You are greatly missed and loved.
loved them, still do 55 years later, seen in miami 1969 thank you
Still one voice that still stands alone, in the history of blues and rock and roll. Nuff said 😎 ✊ 🌋
When they sang let's get together, they were referring to the glue revolution man, 👍😛, they were prophet the glue baggers 🙃💨
It's a pity he didn't go on that diet, but yeah the 60s will always be unbeatable 👍&the people then, now too many people are 👽🤖
Uhhh..Yep..."Stands Alone" is a nice way to describe it...Always wondered where that amazing voice came from?😶
That voice.
His voice is perfect for this song. Such a great song
Alan 'Blind Owl' Wilson, One of the greatest most underrated musicians ever. The guy was a musical genius. Him and Bob Hite went too young.
that's a fact, jack
I wish I was at Woodstock, I mwas a senior in high school in Houston., I did see JIMITWICE WHILE MY BEST FRIEND WAS IN NAM;. he survivved.
He was so versatile when they played on there record with John lee hooker he moved over to harmonica and even John lee comments on the recording (I didn’t know how this kid keeps up with me but he do) that’s how talented he was.alan died at 21 ,the album was hooker in heat probably the greatest boogie album of all time.
Makes me wanna strap a shotgun across my back, and just go on a shooting spree on my Harley through the badlands of Wyoming
Heroin OD at the Topanga Corral, supposedly the same dope that Janice od'd on. Remember hearing that thre were several at the same time.
College days and Vietnam
Great song and unique band
Thanks
Shaun in Wimauma Florida
Will NEVER be a concert to compare to Woodstock ❤️. The players were masters of music, words and history!!!!! 62 yrs old and still to this day they play daily in my mind!
1969 was a Cosmic Year. I was both a civilian in the first part of it and a soldier in the second part of it. I was at the Atlanta International Pop (Pot) Festival on July 4th, 1969 on a 3 day pass from the U.S. Army. They announced from that stage an "Aquarian Music Festival" being held in the next month of August 1969 in upstate New York. A low tone of some kind of blues note of hopeful awe conveying "further, Man!" came out of the crowd of 130,000 people at the Atlanta International Race Track infield where the concert stage was set up. It had been very hot. But the announcement was at dusk in falling, cooling, gold purple light. Things were cooling. The announcement was like a kind of water in the outer thrust of the day but, more mystically, cool, crystal water in the inner thurst of those times. The month of August 1969 came in that same but now more purple light. The rest is history. But I was soon to be overseas. I lived to survive. I am now hard at work on my book. "I'm go'in up the country, babe don't you want to go?" still applies to everyone now moving on into the next world beyond. Best to you!
I recall my late friend sent me this as he was always on the road again.
I miss him sending me songs.
Rest in peace John Corcoran
The Owl totally killed it, one of the best of all time
Blind Owl's solo on this gives me chills EVERY time I hear it!! One of my all time favorite live performances/solos ever!
He's playing real Blues, not that psychedelic mess Harvey is playing. Loved Alan's harp playing as well!
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Alan Wilson and Bob Hite were both enormously talented. The whole classic era line-up was just a pure, no nonsense approach. Just great, honest music with zero BS to get in the way of enjoying it. I will queue up my Woodstock anniversary edition Blu-ray in a few weeks and celebrate the 50th anniversary of this amazing performance. Peace & Love.
wonderful! timeless performance RIP Alan and Bob ❤️
and after all those years since i saw this live, this video still gives me goosebumps!!!
Año Nuevo del 69 bailando este tema con mi sra cuando éramos niños llegue a mi infancia y a dolencias de un golpe saludos de ny
Absolutely top! The bands from this period were beyond any measure. Unsurpassed.
Well I first saw Canned Heat perform in Manchester UK in the early 1970's. Left a lasting impression. One of the best blues ever I.M.H.O.
When people talk about guitar players you never hear Allen Wilson , but damn could he play !
God i love this music and everything 60s and early 70s......please take me back in time , when america was normal
i was 18 for Woodstock what a great Band Sadly missed what could have been
I absolutely love this band! And especially Al Wilson. Can't get enough of this line up.
This old Hippie still likes this groove music. 🌼
The good old days.
PEACE ✌
LOVE ❤
Rock-n- Roll 🎵🎶
✌😎
I was in high school in 74-76. We used to get high and DRUNK listening to this! Rock and roll!
I call it cookin'.
Geezer!! How ya doin' Man!!?? Late 60,s myself!! Too young to see Woodstock!! But snuck in the theater
To see it pop a few Benny's and enjoyed it, but I loved the Director s cut also!!
Canned Heat, what can I say except for
WOW WOW WOW !!!
Makin that guitar smoke !!!!!!🎸🎸🎸🎸
I saw their next to last concert. This is a gem of a clip. Great band. Wilson's voice is something else
Really dig the lead singers voice. Brings back sweet memories of days past. 😌
Man this takes me back. I loved canned heat, still do. I remember Woodstock. I was 15 in 1969.
Canned Heat definitely had a unique sound in the vocals department. Amazing band!
Love these jamming songs nothing like this concert one in a life time event love it
Liking this even more now, than then. Canned Heat is a perfect name for these musicians. Blues in a pressure cooker.
One of the greatest blues bands ever, period.
So astounding,after all these years Love❤️❤️❤️👍
wonderful , to have been there ,seen it live , what a song ,what a band
Great music from so many years ago, I didn't make it there, wish I had (I was 17 at the time).
Canned Heat was always a great group, and kudos also to Ted Churchill & crew for their wonderful film coverage!
This is the song of my youth that made me like the Blues period .
Mi papá siempre me platicaba de esta gran banda! El tenía el disco en acetato de Woodstock, dice que lo escuchaba casi a diario en la secundaria.
johny lee hooker is quoted as saying blind owl was one of the best harp players EVER! Thats good enough for me....besides that fact, he was also brilliant..... so yes
The bear unfortunately is not... ^^ still a great gig
Alan Wilson was taken by the fairies aka Club 27. Epic, eternal. Hi and Love from Germany.
He had a unique voice and I liked the Bears voice too! One of the best blues boogie bands of all time!
He continues to mesmerise! - truly a magician of his talent and skill
Excellent
RIP Bob and Alan. I knew Bob’s brother, Richard. He played bass in the band when Larry left. Richard was at this gig. He has the gold Woodstock album on the wall of their living room in Memphis. But I was most impressed with their collection of blues 78s. They had all of Robert Johnson’s in mint condition, in the original sleeves. He had every blues 78 you could think of. It rivaled Jim O’Neal’s collection. I helped Jim move his once. Whoa! 🙀🙀
Use to hit Val Shivley's store in Philly when they were there.
I LOVE canned heat one of..Best Bands in Woodstock
This group of misfits nailed the blues. Love it...….
Misfits are my favorite people. More interesting usually.
Great performance, very underrated blues rock group.
i was there, and remember the day like it was yesterday, fantastic 4 days,,,,
hendrix, the who, and canned heat of course,,,,,
Must have been amazing, where did you guys sleep? In tents or you didn't sleep for four days?
@@krankenstyn we took large fishing umbrellas with us you know the green ones
.and yes it was fantastic 4 days. I wish I could see it all again there was no trouble there everyone was very friendly
You Sir are a fortunate man...I wish I could pick your brain!
Woodstock without a doubt was the greatest concert ever performed in all time. Every group or singer was at the top of their game. It was special.
Mike Bruce I believe you're the first person I encounter - online - who's actually been there ! A singularity on the face of earth and in history, that congregation.
Love this group and style and sound takes me back
Absolument fabuleux! Quel talent!
Stopped me dead in my tracks. I have seen Canned Heat many time. I have not seen much of this footage before, Thanks !
Blind Owl - gets the vocal set based on "Skippy James" a great blues man himself. Blind Owls slide has plenty of Mojo. Canned Heat, just a great band, thanks for uploading this. I'll come back often to watch again.
What a soulful voice
Just dug my best of canned heat cassette out and was playing it. Always liked them. Unique voice.
Wow music 🎶 amazing good Ole days . It was a spiritual experience.
GREAT GROUP AND GREAT PERFORMANCE FROM ALAN WILSON AND BOB HITE!
still great 50yrs later
Wow! This brings back great memories!
Technology is moving Forward and Man as we know it is getting more stupid, I'm so glad I lived in this special time
Me too, Willie.
Amen brother.
definately, even more...we're probably living in the dumbest period in human history.
Exactly bro.
Totally feel blessed to be a part of that time!!! Love those guys!!! I'm 69 still smoke a ton of weed. People have gotten so stupid they don't even know how to grow weed. Millennials think they do.
I used to overlook Canned heat until I read all about them. Once you do that and then go back to their music, you have a whole new appreciation. Blind Owl was a very interesting, although tormented soul.
Wow, this is beautiful. I didn't know this film existed. I was there.
Love in the shade of blues. Old southern black men in their graves along the tracks are tapping their toes and smiling,
Such talent left us too soon
So glad I went to Woodstock. We were just having g fun and didn't realize how legendary it would be!
What was it like being deep in the crowd at night during the woodstock 69 festival ?
Fantastic....i love this footage...Al Wilson was so great....Thank you for the excellent music.
Can't take my eyes off of Wilson in every Canned Heat's Woodstock videos, find him purely fascinating, as a dark misunderstood sweaty man mid-child mid owl flood by the blues's soul
The lyrics are heartbreaking, and I never really understood that before ...." I didn't have nobody, not even no place to go. " Viewing from this point in the future that he would never reach, knowing how young he was when he died, it is sad. Don't rest in peace, Blind Owl, keep playing, somewhere....
@Laverne Johnson don't be mean.
I remember meeting these guys at the Harvest Festival in Canaan NH way back when,,, Partied all day with Big Bob!! Best memory was when we were cookin dinner,,somebody spilled out the bacon onto campfire,, Bob dug right onto coals,, dont waste bacon!!!
What was Alan like??
Hi guys and galls don’t hide your faces any race . Love this band. I’m only 55 years young. My brother got me into this band .
Fabulous song, still a world's best,🎶
La época de los buenos músicos 🥰
Never gets old.
Obra maestra. Son excelentes. Muy jóvenes y ya con esa destreza. Merece ser compartido y que los conozcan todos.
R.I.P. BLIND OWL
R.I.P. BIG BEAR
ROCK IN PEACE ✌
And now we lost the mole
@@carlhaydock1787 The Mole rocks hard on this
..God bless him...
RIP Larry Taylor.Amazing bassist.
And his brother, Mel, was an amazing drummer for The Ventures.
@@harvey1954 Larrys bass made the Canned Heat songs good. Its very easy to destroy a song with the bass... The bass should be much single note playing and some walking bass.. Larry did this. on Going up The Country
I play bass and he was one of my main influences..WARM Round Sound.
I REALLY love this performance of this song! For some reason it sounds more psychedelic and tighter than the studio release. RIP Owl, Bear and Mole. Boogie Chillun'!
This is what happens when you play from the soul. Your world can change.
Me too!
All the old vinyl records I listened to with equally stoned friends so many years ago thanks toRUclips and lots of folks is wonderful, the hash replaced by scotch now but transports me to a world once living in again.
Larry The Mole Taylor...RIP! Great Band Of the 60's
whomever put together all of the musicians, bands, soloists n their entourage, better be in the rock n roll hall of fame!! for not only pulling together big name bands n soloists but bringing in new acts who killed it at woodstock n couldn't have had a better jumping off point to start their careers!!!
Love the slide guitar. ❤️🎵
He sure should be. Wilson was a blues scholar, I can't think of another artist who has matched his love and dedication to the blues. I enjoy his style of guitar... especially the live stuff. Nothin else like it.
One things for sure, when he died, Canned Heat was never the same.
I never tire of Canned Heat, their music will be with me forever
Yes, I agree. Never the same without Alan. He was Canned Heat for me. I loved him.
Blind Owl couldn't see very well, but he could damn sure hear. Notice in the intro how his voice tuned right in to those notes he hit. I think about how he would have progressed if he had not have checked out. There are three or four songs that made me pull my car over and turn the radio up, and really listen the first time I heard them. This is one of those.
RIP "Blind Owl" Al Wilson. You left too soon.
Returned to my YOUTH for 2 minutes. To be FOREVER YOUNG. THANKS.
Que banda sensacional!
One of the few bands that were better live . Outstanding performance
thank god someone recorded it all for us
I may have gone crazy over the last 60 years, but I was there for Canned Heat and I remember it being broad daylight, Bob Hite WAS wearing a yellow shirt tho...I was so far away but you could see that shirt.....
❤️canned heat man!!!!!!!!!! Grooviest times them times and them times will never be repeated. So lucky and so glad I lived it☮️❤️🙂
These are very legendary recordings on rock`n`roll history..
Thank you, thank you for posting Part 1, Stick Chess! I love this video so much. It shows Alan's expressiveness, how he was really and thoroughly into the music--HIS music that he created. I love this elongated kind of jam session of "On the Road Again"...although I doubt any of it was spontaneous. Alan arranged everything meticulously. I will always be his most ardent fan and groupie. Thank you for bringing this video back. It brings back so much to me!
Little late baby,, he needed you....
I was there..... the classic of all classics
1 of the all time spooky radio songs, rite up there w Spirit In The Sky
I was in vietNam when this happened but DAMN we had some good music-eat your hearts out kids
takes me back to good times, love it
I was 13 when Woodstock was happening, but didn’t live that far from that farm hillside. Couple of hours drive away (Montreal), and if I ever invent time travel (at 66) , that’s where I’m going.
I hear you, I was 10 for Woodstock. Time travel to that and Monterey Pop ‘67☮️
You can never help but think about how troubled of a person Blind Owl really was when listening to a song like this
He wasn't troubled. He was Autistic like many of us. Society is cure to those of us who are different.
Man , I wish I could of been there. I was in 8th grade only, but I was digging all these musicians!!!
Blind Owl, was an absolute 'Treasure' His death was 'calling out' he needed support, a lost soul in the wilderness ... every single human /animal on this planet, needs a comforting soul ......no man is an island .. Reach out, OUR LORD ALMIGHTY GOD will show you how .
this have not been outdated... never will be
It's great Alan 'blind ' Wilson. ...💋
A greatly-re-arranged live version of this song! I love the recorded version; but this is something else!
Wish I could have been there