By the way, there are still some of us young 'uns out there who love Canned Heat. Your fantastic music is not lost to the younger generations.

Alan Wilson was one of the very few players who played and sounded like the old bluesmen way before his time. Not only that his voice is absolutely haunting, the first time I heard him play and sing I thought he was black. His death was a tragic loss to the music world. But in his short life his accomplishments are incredible. Alan wasn't just a master blues guitarist, he WAS the blues and it came through him. He was also a troubled soul who wanted to rest so he left us. Rest In Peace Alan.

All Alan ever wanted was love. Like Vincent Van Gogh, Alan was just too good for this here world!!!

I love the songs where Alan Wilson sings.

Mr. Alan Wilson, one of the most beautiful humans to have ever graced this planet! Here's a guy that is so amazing and talented that women should have been lining up to just sit at his feet. Sometimes i wonder what kind of crummy world we have going here

Just beautiful RIP Alan ❤️ blues man through and through 👌 real deal - amazing talent

Extremely talented and taken far too soon He is missed

This song gives me the chills... RIP Blind Owl and Bear

What a guitarplayer... And such a great one of kind voice.

What an absolute talent Alan Wilson was. Good chance he did not realise how good he was ! Sadly missed !

Alan's talent is so sublime that seems supernatural

This has always been a favorite. Blind Al understood so much better than almost all the musicians of his generation that blues is a living thing. Learn from the masters and then use it to express what's happening in your life, use that structure to say what you need to say your way. Don't imitate the records, be honest. He was a really, really fine musician.

Alan Wilson...wow.

canned heat is beyond words, i'm so glad i have this vinyl *rip* owl, bear and sunflower

And we wound up at your home but you ran away and hid left me walking the Streets of London ALL ALONE !! - Poor Alan !!!

This was their best line up and this concert performance was brilliant. Remember it well

Great number that reminds me one of Peter Green solo song while the other guitar player broke a string ! Alan Wilson is one of the rarest performer to capture the essence of low down blues !

When he sings, Al Wilson sometimes sounds like Skip James--the high and haunting style. Then, listen to a few more cuts and he does so much that ol' Skip didn't get around to, like playing such synced harp and understated slide.

@1994g0

6 жыл бұрын

LOL.This is no coincidence.Steeped in blues music, Alan knew all about Skippy.Alan Intentionally imitated Skip James .

This song features their best line up.

To this day Alan Wilson remains, in my opinion, one of the best harmonica players ever. His work on 'Hooker 'n' Heat is sublime. Hooker didn't usually play with a harp player but with Wilson he really gelled. That's the first time I ever heard him.

@goatboy420

7 жыл бұрын

Couldn't agree more, man... And to be so complimented by John Lee f'n Hooker... Holy shit!!!

@green323turbo

7 жыл бұрын

" Hear that Cat on the Harmonica ?.. thats the canned heat"

@1994g0

6 жыл бұрын

Wilon was a great harp man along w his many other music talents.Why was he so unsuccessfull w womem?

Wow. It's taken 48 years for me to hear this!

Listen to the drummer. Is Adolfo "Fito" de la Parra from México City. The pride of Narvarte neighborhood !.

Alan Wilson and Bob Hite on stage together was about as good as it got. Sadly, I did in Blitz Magazine the very last interview that Bob ever gave. Three days after we spoke, he passed away suddenly.

@JoshCapamagian

6 жыл бұрын

MikeBlitzMag Hi Mike. Have you released a copy of that interview with Bob?.

@obbor4

6 жыл бұрын

I attended one of the Bear's last performances, at a club off Gulf to Bay Boulevard, in Clearwater, Florida, about a week, or two, before he died, in 1981. A great loss, and a pox on the "fan" who handed him the dose of smack that killed him. What the hell was that asshole thinking?

Harvey Mandel is on Guitar with Alan Wilson on this recording. To set things straight Harvey was in CANNED HEAT With Alan about 8 Months.

God I wore this LP out ....so many good songs, thanks for posting a live version. Alan playing slide and Sunflower paying heed to the blues, laying off when the vocals or the slide is playing. Right on! A harp players dream even tho Alan doesn't play blues harp on this cut. Everyone knows their place.

@madmexart - She Proberbly did not even realised what she had done to Poor Alan - I mean FITO Spent ages getting him Clean Clothes and Everything Ready for this Date - Alan said to Fito "This Chick really digs me" So Fito helped Alan.Fito came back to the Hotel Late and Found Poor Alan sitting Alone in the Foyer looking real sad !!

Great recording!!

ESTO YA NO SE HACE MAS, Q LASTIMA!!! MUY BUENA MUSICA!! AHORA PURO POP SIN ALMA

I love the way Harvey Mandel "The Snake" plays. Thanks for sharing this.

Alan Wilson...he was "Mister Guitar Blues"! I miss him really, really... THX for the upload! Cheers Row...

blues is a big part of ( my) life

"All I should be feeding here is you". Anyone else notice the undertone here? Love it. Best Canned Heat Song in my opinion. Also, there are a few versions of it and they are all quite different in my opinion. Check out the live video one posted by ISB, it's fantastic! Thank you for the upload.

Totally agree- still about my favourite LP, and period for them, 'cept I was about 16 and got to see them a coupla times. Whatta band.

I needed a taste of the blues....and hot damn, I just got it. Thx to uploader

I went to that concert at the end of january, which was good. deep purple and renaissance were also on the bill.

dont forget to boogie woogie

Blind Owl was a genius - Damn he was a blues white boy artist - Robert Boggs

Their best lineup, featuring Harvey Mandell on lead.

My favorite Harvey Mandel solo!

Harvey Mandel shows his stuff on the lead guitar. Thanks for sharing.

alan was like a bluesy neil young with better guitar skills theres no telling what he would have become had he taken care of himself:( rip blind owl

@dezertfox3130

5 жыл бұрын

I wonder the same thing about Hite.

Fantastic song and montage. Kudos!

Very good early Canne Heat

@maxaronow712

8 жыл бұрын

+Thom Teresi this is actually late Canned Heat. Alan Wilson died 9 months after this was recorded.

Canned Heat rocks!

Thanks for setting me straight!!!

Forgotten, to remeber. Bluesi Musi. It sounds good! Realy good. To get grown, it's not my own.

3rd September 1970 Alan "The Blind Owl" Christie Wilson Died.

Oh Yes I notice all these things I'm glad you do Diamond Soul

Yes!!! Then, When went to the music show....when we went to the music......

FITO was there and YES it's in LIVING THE BLUES fito's GREAT BOOK

I love this song! This live version is better than the studio version on the "Future Blues" album. The "´7o Concert (Live In Europe)" album is the best Canned Heat live album, I think. Not that the live album from King Biscuit Flower Hour is´nt great too.

LONDON BLUES is the Name.

HAAKIE - I mentioned USA Union because you wrote Larry and Harvey joined Mayall. Maybe the context was´nt clear on my part. Sorry! As for the "On The Road Again" video, I might have been too enthusiastic in my rating, probably because it´s my favorite CH song and the first CH song I heard so it has a special place in my heart.

The great ones it is marbless.

Similar Heartbreaking thing happened to me. Girl I liked just walked off as I was fixing my bike. Dont know what to do next. So I went to Al Wilson for comfort.

@MsKimmerlimmer True.And the Boston folk blues scene exerted a real influence on Alan.As did his musical studies-brief though they were-at Boston University.

He sounds like Hopkins and Skip James.

Interesting!What else do you know about her?How old was she?Was she pretty?What was she doing in London?Where is she now?

Harvey Mandel Joined CANNED HEAT in AUGUST 1969 just before WOODSTOCK Concert. On MAY 26th/27th 1970 HOOKER & HEAT was recorded with HENRY "THE SUNFLOWER" VESTINE back on Guitar & Tony de la Barreda on Bass - Larry Taylor and Harvey Mandel Joined JOHN MAYALL.

alan sounds like skip james.high vocals

I thought Alan Wilson was from outside of Boston, not LA.

@HAAKIE48CannedHeat

3 жыл бұрын

Alan was from Boston

Good idea! I never thought of that. I did´nt know you could create your own channel out of videos you find on KZread. I usually just keep them as "Favorites". I do subscribe to the official videos though.

I have an album of their's on vinyl called 'Living the Blues'. I have the live recorded half which has 'Refried Boogie' on side one and two. I believe it was issued as a double album. Anyway what I'm asking is if anyone knows of a good and accurate guitar tab of the solo guitar intro on side one. I know it's in 'A' and I think Alan Wilson plays it. Could be open tuning too. I've got a a lot of it down but I still need help with some of it. Anyone ?

@casperguylkn

5 жыл бұрын

Check online for guitar tabs archive

That's definitely his voice. Can't you recognize it?

@Mangosunsplash A BOOGIE Thank You for your comment you can get LIVING THE BLUES from our Webpage Link on KZread & Don't Forget To Boogie

Can anybody upload "canned heat on tour" ? one of their best which I am not able to find

bientôt 43 ans ...............

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Oh yeah OK. My bad. "The Blind Owl" was so cool.

Right! Mayall´s "USA Union" project, I believe.

@Bukfan1 Ok I understand you Loving "ON THE ROAD AGAIN" but why don't you save Our Official Videos for your Channel in your favorites ? - The Whole Reason I built these Videos in the first place was because of bad quality with Only One Picture or Faded or just awrful Mobile Phone Videos !! -

Al thought a Coricidin (glass back then) bottle was perfect, weight- and tone-wise, I've heard. Whether he's using one here or not, who knows.

How does Alan get that effect on his guitar?

@MsKimmerlimmer On Facebook Ive added that this is the "Official" Liberty Records Press Release that got the Fact Wrong - Whoever you are I think your being a bit fussy.

@putdownan8 this is a billion times better than any simple "go to hell bitch" would ever be man.

I made a New Video to the one on My Space Page.

@Bukfan1 - Mayall's USA/UK Union was recorded on 27/28th of July 1970 in Los Angeles not sure why you have written this BukFan and that ON THE ROAD AGAIN Video on your page with Faded pictures is Bad - Who would rate that 5 times !!!

Anyone know where the picture at 1:44 is from?

@Albertanator

6 жыл бұрын

That is Canned Heat performing at Woodstock.

@HAAKIE48CannedHeat

5 жыл бұрын

Atlanta Pop Festival

@HAAKIE48 It was the result of A lan`s acute sensitivity.The girl?a harmless but pretty London teeny bopper.I don`t think she meant to hurt Alan so.But Alan was awkward with women-and he was ever so sensitive.The result?To use the parlance of the day, she took Alan on a very bad trip that night.

Nothing except she was a real Bitch !