@sexymonkeydecoy I do too, and so do several of my girlfriends. Evidently Wilson was repellent to women and we are baffled. We've sort of concluded that he had a vulnerability that was scoffed at during the sixties but is accepted now, and even treasured by some. As is often said of the Blind Owl: Genius, ahead of his time.
ALAN ALAN ALAN. One of a kind in so many ways. And yes his harp playing is inspirational - great sound, rare style and fabulous technique. Singing much the same.
Taylor's one the all-time greats, & 1 of the few who've kept improving. Look how he leads the rhythm section: Fito knows: Watch Larry, follow Larry, & everything will groove. Sometimes Fito plays fills that lose the groove, but Larry's so strong that it's "fixed" immediately. CH wasn't the same w/o Alan, but it surely wasn't the same w/o Larry, either. Fito's the leader now: Too bad: Fito needs a bass player who leads -him-.
@unvarontierno A, pero Alan era conocido por afinar sus armónicas unos semi tonos y tonos más de lo normal, haciendolos más agudos o graves segun la celda de la armónica. Hay un tutorial en youtube donde enseñan, pero esta en en inglés. Espero que te haya ayudado en algo.
@unvarontierno la mayoría allá en USA siempre ha preferido las Hohner Marine Band, que son las mejores armonicas diatónicas del mercado, hechas a mano. Estan algo de 20$ c/u, pero yo tengo unas hohner blues harp que son un poco más pesadas pero suenan casi igual de bien que las otras. Es cuestion de probarlas y cual te gusta mas. Hay otras marcas como Lee Oskar tb.
Wish this version had the temura.alan`s voice in this-and other songs-was meant to imitate the voice of Skip James.But Alan was far above the earlier bluesmen in all around music talent and knowledge.And Alan was such a kind and compaassionate person
@j: I bow to Evans expertise, & other lyrics that Wilson sang further indicate that "fairo" means "lover". Nonetheless, considering the way Alan accents it, I more enjoy "fairo" as possibly an intentional double-meaning: "... no FARE, oh..." : No money to get anywhere, no girlfriend, & nowhere to go.
There is a dedicated site to Alan and FB sites if you want to discuss Alan and his music.If you do some research you will find that Alan never sang the word payroll.Always Fairo
Alan wrote to his mother shortly after meeting Bob, "don't trust him or believe a word that he says".I have read that interview and that is Bob being Bob and saying what suits him to say.I t suited certain people to portray Alan ansdhis death in a certain way for reasons I wont go into here.Yes Alan was shy and had difficulties relating to people in social situations.He may have had Aspergers but he did have a few relationships and his family remember him having girlfriends.
Have you read Alan's biography Blind Owl Blues ? In it are the police reports and Alan's death certificate.Since the publication of this book Fito has distanced him self from the "story " that Skip tells regarding Alan's death and in Fito's latest edition of his book he has put a foot note in acknowledgement that Alan's death was not suicide,Alan had 4 "reds" left in his pocket, no alcohol in his blood and a recent head injury.I
Didn`t know that this song is that old. Actually deam wierd that I see this because I listened and played along Status Quo`s `On The Road Again` from `Riffs` 2003 couple of hours ago and wasn`t searching for this.
But sadness and depression stalked Wilson.Even here-even in this video-you can see his lack of joy.In time, the demons cornered The Blind Owl.Alan Wilson took his own life.
@joycejnn Death certificates often have an incorrect cause of death.Often.It`s true that Alan did not leave a suicide note.But the overcall circumstances,in my view, weigh in favor of the suicide theory.Fito(the drummer) believes it was a suicide.His book says this.On the other hand, Rebecca Winters(author of "Blind Owl Blues") doubts it was a suicide.No question though that Alan sufferred from serious depression.
@1994g0 Alan took "reds" to help with insomnia.It is reported that the effects of these were exacerbated by his head injury causing him to slip into a coma develop pneumonia and die.His body was found 36 hours after he was last seen alive yards from Bob's house.Who knows if the stoned out hippies had gone looking for Alan earlier he may still be alive.
@1994g0 As for Fito's book a lot of information in that book is incorrect and he gets the time lines wrong for some of the events.It was very distressing for Alan's family to see how Fito had portrayed Alan in his book and the things that Fito wrote about Alan have been proved wrong or exaggerated.The London girl ? Henry wrote she didn't have a big effect on Alan.Inspired a song and Alan changed the words to Sugar Mama
Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson was an absolutely great harp player with a lot of soul and a unique vocal style similar to Skip James. Harvey Mandel on guitar here. This kind of degenerates into a bit of a semi-psychedelic jam once Harvey starts taking a lead, but then again, it WAS the 60's!
Take it from me if this lad had of lived to his alloted three score years and ten he would have been the greatest harp player of all.Of that there is no doubt.
@GangstaGTV Alan didn't use distortion or any effects.He usually played brilliant rhythm guitar.Alan played in the traditional Delta style and was brilliant at this.He took his inspiration from John Lee Hooker and The Mississippi blues..Have you heard any of his solo stuff on acoustic guitar ?
@sojournearth Arite man I've never "thumbed up" a comment before, but this time I actually have to do it. You wanna know why? Because you fucking deserve it. You're so right, I've been searching for those words. They have their heads up in Lady GaGa's ass.
I know I may be controversial here but I don't think there can be any question that Harvery Madel was better that Vestine. I think he gave the heat a fresh sound!
@mortonareno1 I agree with you. I do appreciate very much Henry Vestine's playing (how not?) but I prefer the band in the brief time that Harvey Mandel played lead guitar. The solos are generally more focused and cohesive (yet brilliant) and then I love Mandel's sound.
Wow....42 years ago! Memories of cruising the California foothills in my Sunbeam Rapier with a 4-speed on the column and Canned Heat blaring from my 4-track!
"It is a solo album...except for the backing by a 21 year old white boy from Cambridge named Al Wilson....he is good" Dick Waterman, Manager of Son House, on Son House 1964 Rerecording "The white man stole the black man`s music....but Alan Wilson paid the black man back..with interest" Eulogy to Alan Wilson 1970
@1994g0 As a black man I can say with all sincerity I am tired of this "white man stole the black man's music" stuff. C. Heat didn't "steal" John Lee Hooker's boogie beat b/c John Lee's still got it (or did). The worst that can be is they made it somewhat more palatable for a white audience which, by virtue of a circumstance for which they obviously could not be held responsible, was/is roughly 9x larger than the black audience. Nobody claims Bach's music is stolen by being performed by others.
@dantean Then focus, my friend, on the second part of the statement.Nobody was more knowlegable or sympathtic as to the old black bluesmen than Alan wilson.He literally retaught Son House music that Son had forgotten.Hooker himself called Alan the greatest living harmonica player.The high tenor voice of Alan you hear in "On the Road Again"?Alan borrowed it from Skip James.Alan had a nourishing relationship with black blues music.One lived off the other while Alan was alive.
@1994g0 I did read it. I wasn't making the point that THIS quote was a "the white man done stole our music again," but rather the long history of that sort of thing being said which this quote refers to parenthetically. The post I'm responding to REFERS TO people going around saying that, but is not itself intended to make such an argument. I actually read rather well.
What lost & forlorn blues: "And my dear mother left me when I was quite young; she said "Lord have mercy on my wicked son" -- that's a hard lyric, denoting a lifetime of sin, ruthlessness, & wreckage - it's one thing to be down because one's woman has left - but to be down because one's life has gone irreversibly wrong, that's a whole 'nother thing - I always like to sing that couplet when this plays, it keeps the curl in my lip - :)
I love the story about where they got their name,,it's sorta like where I got my radio name years ago. themojoman which is Trademarked since 1959 (reg.ustm) number 2 343 775 and you can check that out if you want. I heard ANN COLE singing the ORIGINAL version of Got My Mojo Working in a car commercial in LA in 1959. She later toured with Muddy Waters hence he started doing the song. He did not write it as is believed by some. However I love Muddy Waters.
I love the story about where they got their name,,it's sorta like where I got my radio name years ago. themojoman which is Trademarked since 1959 (reg.ustm) number 2 343 775 and you can check that out if you want. I heard ANN COLE singing the ORIGINAL version of Got My Mojo Working in a car commercial in LA in 1959. She later toured with Muddy Waters hence he started doing the song. He did not write it as is believed by some.
Listen to Alan (Blind Owl) Wilson play the harmonica on Boogie Chillen on the "Hooker 'n Heat album if you think he is playing good on this song. He really rocks and John Lee Hooker loves him.
Thanks for the video, I love this rendition of this song. Love the film noir. Very fitting.
wish I was older so that I could have had the pleasure of seeing CH perform live. Thank god for you tube, that's all I have to say, I listen to CH but never knew what they looked like. I was like 15 at the time of Woodstock.
I feel sorry for the 35 people that disliked this. They have no heart. I never got to see CH. Just one of a long list of others where I was about 5 years too young. I am 53.
I saw CANNED HEAT at The RAITH BALLROOM, Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland in 1971, I fuckin' loved it - these guys I'd read about in Melody Maker - all the way from America - playing live in my Hometown. The Raith had in one year, Canned Heat, Stone The Crows, Peter and Gordon, Fleetwood Mac, The Sleaze Band, Marmalade and quite a few bigger names....glory days!
This is plain and simple good work. This is a performance , a band doing it's stuff. This is raw and clean. And the vocals are lije the voice of every man. Determined , wouldn't you agree ?
Good morning, do you like sixties? Listen and pod cast my program " great sound of 60' s " on the site plumfm. Greeting and made blooper in rock and roll. Salut, vous aimez les sixties ? Ecoutez et podcatez mon émission "le super son des sixties" sur plum fm. Salut et faites gaffe au rock'n roll
bad quality sound but with this type of music it just makes it a whole lot better. im 18 im mexican maybe i shouldnt like this music but with great classic music there is just no borders.
Oh yeah, he sounds pretty much like a 13 year old wanker :-)) probably the worst singer to ever sing a rock band. His voice was just delusional. His harp playing was mean on the other hand.
@deconblue1 Yeah,,now I'm so glad we have a president that runs all over the world apologizing for AMERICA and bowing to the King Of Saudia Arabia an others.
@jezmundberserker They were the ones that voted for ZEROBAMA,,,betcha he never heard of CANNED HEAT. hell he's so DUMB he had BEYONCE singing AT LAST at the inaguration instead of ETTA JAMES everyone knows THAT'S ETTA's SONG like FOREVER.
@THEMOJOMANsince1959: I used to support him, but now I think he's an ass. But no matter how we feel about him, his last name is still Obama, not Zerobama. With regards to Beyonce singing "At Last" WTF were they thinking? It would be like if Ray Charles were still alive and Obama had invited Kanye West to sing "Georgia On My Mind."
@jezmundberserker You got it right. Like the CASH FOR CLUNKERS. My son sells cars at a dealership and he told me it was a nightmare. PLUS all they did was raise the "real' price up to compensate for the $4500. He's got a bunch of Nerds and Geek types giving him Ideas NOT REAL PEOPLE. He's the formula for an ECONOMIC BOOM. Have a tax payer only lottery give 10 million people a MILLION DOLLARS with the stipulation you must BUY A NEW HOME and all furnishings,,A NEW CAR an RV or BOAT.
@lovelyflares ALL THIS was meant for the 35 ding dongs that put a thumbs down on CANNED HEAT not you. I just get REALLY PISSED when anyone puts down a great sound like this. One well known company (can't think right now) is using it in the background of their commercial WHICH IS SO GREAT.
If anyone out there has a video of the song Future Blues by Canned Heat please post it so people can see what a really good rocking blues band they were. That song will set things straight for all of the naysayers who try to cut them down. Canned Heat was awesome in there hey day. "Retro Ron"
If anyone out there has a video of the song Future Blues by Canned Heat please post it so people can see what a really good rocking blues band they were. That song will set things straight for all of the naysayers who try to cut them down. Canned Heat was awesome in there hey day.
Wait, people compare this guy to Kermit? That's a great compliment... is all you should say to people like that. I absolutely love that voice, and he's a true bluesman all the way!
@atzenanu the song was released in '68, this performance is likely '70, the guitar player in this is Harvey Mandel, who joined the band in the summer of 69,
Alan knew more about diff. forms of music than anyonre ever on the pop scene."On The Road Again" is a unique blend of great vocal and harmonica work dressed in Eastern mysticism.Williamson, Horton or Little Walter could never have created such a song.
I also think that Wilson`s tone on the harp was fuller than the other harp greats.
@1994g0 I think, that there is a difference, between "Eastern mysticism" and "Eastern music". Klezmer, and Oum Khoulthoum are Eastern music, but are not mysticism.
I related to Alan as a teen and now 35 years old he still makes me feel better bout things,just wish he would have found happiness on earth,long live the music!!!Jason
@hippieman128 No.Wilson sounds like Skip James-the man Alan intentionally modelled his singing voice after.Hooker called Wilson the greatest harmonica player ever.
@1994g0 I know about Skip however, if you think Wilson wasn't a combination of many influences then you are naive Alan Wilson was a blues "Historian", I had said that Alan sounded almost ghostly with his high notes which are of a pitch slightly higher than James and equally as emotive, very similar in many respects to Robert Johnson as far as pitch and tone. and while Wilson was a phenomenal call and response player which hooker does give him credit for, The wiki claim of the greatest is...
@1994g0 unsubstantiated, trust me I AM a harmonica player I am unsure if you are, and while Wilson was amazing (I have everything Canned Heat and Alan Wilson solo ever Recorded from 1965-1971 (Hooker n' Heat was released in 71) ) Alan Wilson is among my favorite Harp players but he wasn't the best, but probably the only harp player that was ever able to follow John Hooker (again Call & Response genius) which is what influenced the claim that hooker stated him as the greatest in the world...
Still Hippieman here, I felt I needed to ellaborate further, Very few Harmonica players ever played with John Lee Hooker most didn't feel up to it or felt Hooker was best unaccompanied however, wilson was never intimidated by anybody as far as music was concerned.
it's not featuring Alan Wilson, it IS Alan Wilson.
MagicalSix 3 days ago
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MagicalSix 6 days ago
Un pensiero a Blind Owl....
GianniALBORE 1 week ago
ugh :( i find him so talented and so sexy. rip alan
sexymonkeydecoy 1 month ago
@sexymonkeydecoy I do too, and so do several of my girlfriends. Evidently Wilson was repellent to women and we are baffled. We've sort of concluded that he had a vulnerability that was scoffed at during the sixties but is accepted now, and even treasured by some. As is often said of the Blind Owl: Genius, ahead of his time.
PolarSkua 2 weeks ago
@PolarSkua According to the Bear, his personal hygiene was an afterthought.
TheAzmountaineer 1 week ago
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jillianrossi 1 month ago
DAMN HE DIED SO YOUNG WHAT A HARP
TheA8markmwb 2 months ago
ALAN ALAN ALAN. One of a kind in so many ways. And yes his harp playing is inspirational - great sound, rare style and fabulous technique. Singing much the same.
brentebut 2 months ago
Taylor's one the all-time greats, & 1 of the few who've kept improving. Look how he leads the rhythm section: Fito knows: Watch Larry, follow Larry, & everything will groove. Sometimes Fito plays fills that lose the groove, but Larry's so strong that it's "fixed" immediately. CH wasn't the same w/o Alan, but it surely wasn't the same w/o Larry, either. Fito's the leader now: Too bad: Fito needs a bass player who leads -him-.
lazur1 2 months ago
I'm with #sojournearth. Up #Gaga's ass if you can't dig this? CAN you dig it?
Medusarants 3 months ago
That big guy in back isn't doing shit except smoking and saying "thank you" at the end. Normally he plays an instrument in the other songs.
hollywoodjay09 3 months ago
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unvarontierno 3 months ago
@unvarontierno A, pero Alan era conocido por afinar sus armónicas unos semi tonos y tonos más de lo normal, haciendolos más agudos o graves segun la celda de la armónica. Hay un tutorial en youtube donde enseñan, pero esta en en inglés. Espero que te haya ayudado en algo.
IsaacRnR 3 months ago
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unvarontierno 3 months ago
@unvarontierno la mayoría allá en USA siempre ha preferido las Hohner Marine Band, que son las mejores armonicas diatónicas del mercado, hechas a mano. Estan algo de 20$ c/u, pero yo tengo unas hohner blues harp que son un poco más pesadas pero suenan casi igual de bien que las otras. Es cuestion de probarlas y cual te gusta mas. Hay otras marcas como Lee Oskar tb.
IsaacRnR 3 months ago
MõnitAV!
SuurJuht 4 months ago
Without our beloved Blind Owl, there's no more Canned Heat ...
MrsTopangaMusic 4 months ago
Wish this version had the temura.alan`s voice in this-and other songs-was meant to imitate the voice of Skip James.But Alan was far above the earlier bluesmen in all around music talent and knowledge.And Alan was such a kind and compaassionate person
1994g0 4 months ago
David Evans book Big Road Blues delineates the etymology of the word Fairo.He was also a very close friend of Alan's.
joycejnn 4 months ago
@j: I bow to Evans expertise, & other lyrics that Wilson sang further indicate that "fairo" means "lover". Nonetheless, considering the way Alan accents it, I more enjoy "fairo" as possibly an intentional double-meaning: "... no FARE, oh..." : No money to get anywhere, no girlfriend, & nowhere to go.
lazur1 2 months ago
There is a dedicated site to Alan and FB sites if you want to discuss Alan and his music.If you do some research you will find that Alan never sang the word payroll.Always Fairo
joycejnn 4 months ago
Alan wrote to his mother shortly after meeting Bob, "don't trust him or believe a word that he says".I have read that interview and that is Bob being Bob and saying what suits him to say.I t suited certain people to portray Alan ansdhis death in a certain way for reasons I wont go into here.Yes Alan was shy and had difficulties relating to people in social situations.He may have had Aspergers but he did have a few relationships and his family remember him having girlfriends.
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joycejnn 4 months ago
Have you read Alan's biography Blind Owl Blues ? In it are the police reports and Alan's death certificate.Since the publication of this book Fito has distanced him self from the "story " that Skip tells regarding Alan's death and in Fito's latest edition of his book he has put a foot note in acknowledgement that Alan's death was not suicide,Alan had 4 "reds" left in his pocket, no alcohol in his blood and a recent head injury.I
joycejnn 4 months ago
mexican manson on drums! kill it fito!!
putdownan8dude 4 months ago
Didn`t know that this song is that old. Actually deam wierd that I see this because I listened and played along Status Quo`s `On The Road Again` from `Riffs` 2003 couple of hours ago and wasn`t searching for this.
Dalsir1 5 months ago
on the radio station, they called Alan The Blind Owl Wilson, the best harmonica player of all time.
HardDaysNight44 5 months ago
@HardDaysNight44 He was indeed one of the best.Right up there with Little Walter1
1994g0 5 months ago 2
Them dirty toe nailed van driving hippies rocked
drunkinneworleans 6 months ago 2
@drunkinneworleans still do if they weren't all dead
huskerrock1 5 months ago
@gittahfiend you have no idea what drumming is !!!!
zelenious 6 months ago
Agree w luteplayer80 about voice and harp sounding the same...
minotauresse 6 months ago
The blind owl gives me an earorgasm man,
the dude couldn't fuck any women but he sure could fuck that harmonica like a real man
on top of the club 27 list for sure
ZigZagZabba 6 months ago
@ZigZagZabba Not strictly true he did FxxxK a few women
joycejnn 4 months ago
But sadness and depression stalked Wilson.Even here-even in this video-you can see his lack of joy.In time, the demons cornered The Blind Owl.Alan Wilson took his own life.
1994g0 6 months ago
@1994g0His death certificate states his death as being accidental
joycejnn 4 months ago
@joycejnn Death certificates often have an incorrect cause of death.Often.It`s true that Alan did not leave a suicide note.But the overcall circumstances,in my view, weigh in favor of the suicide theory.Fito(the drummer) believes it was a suicide.His book says this.On the other hand, Rebecca Winters(author of "Blind Owl Blues") doubts it was a suicide.No question though that Alan sufferred from serious depression.
1994g0 4 months ago 2
@1994g0 Alan took "reds" to help with insomnia.It is reported that the effects of these were exacerbated by his head injury causing him to slip into a coma develop pneumonia and die.His body was found 36 hours after he was last seen alive yards from Bob's house.Who knows if the stoned out hippies had gone looking for Alan earlier he may still be alive.
joycejnn 4 months ago
@1994g0 As for Fito's book a lot of information in that book is incorrect and he gets the time lines wrong for some of the events.It was very distressing for Alan's family to see how Fito had portrayed Alan in his book and the things that Fito wrote about Alan have been proved wrong or exaggerated.The London girl ? Henry wrote she didn't have a big effect on Alan.Inspired a song and Alan changed the words to Sugar Mama
joycejnn 4 months ago
Holy Sh**! It's hard to tell harp from his fuck**g voice! They sound just the same!
And he could play terrific slide guitar as well......
luteplayer80 6 months ago in playlist Musica 2
lets boogieeee!!!!
waaltaar 6 months ago
RIP Alan Wilson, died too soon. Maybe there are some cool gigs in heaven with Janis Joplin, Hendrix and friends:)
Spoutnik1957 6 months ago
I was a pretty young guy at the end of the 60ies, but I remember very well to that music!
Ixtulu 6 months ago
they shoulda kept frank cook.fito sucked.
gittahfiend 6 months ago
Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson was an absolutely great harp player with a lot of soul and a unique vocal style similar to Skip James. Harvey Mandel on guitar here. This kind of degenerates into a bit of a semi-psychedelic jam once Harvey starts taking a lead, but then again, it WAS the 60's!
snertster 6 months ago
@snertster imagine if vestine was at woodstock. woulda made it sound like jefferson airplane.
putdownan8dude 6 months ago
Take it from me if this lad had of lived to his alloted three score years and ten he would have been the greatest harp player of all.Of that there is no doubt.
curleyteeth 7 months ago
@curleyteeth Amen.
1994g0 7 months ago
Man! Can that sunflower guy get alot of distortion out of that Fender guitar, while Wilson gets hardly any from his goldtop.
GangstaGTV 8 months ago
@GangstaGTV Alan didn't use distortion or any effects.He usually played brilliant rhythm guitar.Alan played in the traditional Delta style and was brilliant at this.He took his inspiration from John Lee Hooker and The Mississippi blues..Have you heard any of his solo stuff on acoustic guitar ?
joycejnn 4 months ago
GO BEAR!!!!!!!!!!
HirundoRustica 8 months ago
great man!
BlueSJay300 8 months ago
Great band live saw them uk dunstable one of about 100 audience .They still rocked though
julyarchives 8 months ago
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IF YOU CAN'T TAKE THE HEAT - STAY OUT OF THE CAN !
HEARTHEANGELSVOICES 8 months ago
GREAT Babsanfredrik in Sweden
babsanfredrik 8 months ago
nice musik.....yeahhh.-) 70er Rulez greetz
Acidwarrior78 9 months ago
This singer sounded like Kermit The Frog.
NickB1967 9 months ago
@NickB1967 I must admit he does sound like Kermit but Kermit couldn't play harp like Blind Owl Wilson.
daviemcf 8 months ago
Great days 60s~70sGreat songs
roy4067 9 months ago 5
Those were the cats :D
FunkySkunk90 9 months ago 2
dornstadt woostock open air 2011 germany
thequeen583 9 months ago
Take the road man
fissbakalaky 9 months ago
Are there any Hooker N heat videos? Wilson was at his best there.
andy131481 10 months ago
I'll be damnned but my old Blind Owl was born in the wrong skin
antejutronic 10 months ago
Groovily relentless,fantastic
almoothie 10 months ago
Alan Wilson -best blues harmonica ever !!!!! Don't bellive?? Ask John Lee !!!
MrBLHarp 10 months ago 11
@MrBLHarp
"That's the cat on the harmonica" damn right!
DiamondSoul 9 months ago 3
Alan Wilson -best blues harmonica ever !!!!!
MrBLHarp 10 months ago 5
The ones that voted this down can't hear good, Cause they have their Heads UP Lady GAGA's ASS !!!
K I'm off the soapbox !
sojournearth 11 months ago 14
@sojournearth Arite man I've never "thumbed up" a comment before, but this time I actually have to do it. You wanna know why? Because you fucking deserve it. You're so right, I've been searching for those words. They have their heads up in Lady GaGa's ass.
Alex4uall 11 months ago
I know I may be controversial here but I don't think there can be any question that Harvery Madel was better that Vestine. I think he gave the heat a fresh sound!
mortonareno1 11 months ago
@mortonareno1 I agree with you. I do appreciate very much Henry Vestine's playing (how not?) but I prefer the band in the brief time that Harvey Mandel played lead guitar. The solos are generally more focused and cohesive (yet brilliant) and then I love Mandel's sound.
PolarSkua 8 months ago
Love it, just not the same without Alan Wilson
shestalou 11 months ago 3
Wow....42 years ago! Memories of cruising the California foothills in my Sunbeam Rapier with a 4-speed on the column and Canned Heat blaring from my 4-track!
nicheprof 11 months ago 4
This video is like crack.
Bigpolak57 11 months ago
Thank you for posting this! I could watch/listen to it a hundred times!
laurab1950 11 months ago
"It is a solo album...except for the backing by a 21 year old white boy from Cambridge named Al Wilson....he is good" Dick Waterman, Manager of Son House, on Son House 1964 Rerecording "The white man stole the black man`s music....but Alan Wilson paid the black man back..with interest" Eulogy to Alan Wilson 1970
1994g0 11 months ago
@1994g0 As a black man I can say with all sincerity I am tired of this "white man stole the black man's music" stuff. C. Heat didn't "steal" John Lee Hooker's boogie beat b/c John Lee's still got it (or did). The worst that can be is they made it somewhat more palatable for a white audience which, by virtue of a circumstance for which they obviously could not be held responsible, was/is roughly 9x larger than the black audience. Nobody claims Bach's music is stolen by being performed by others.
dantean 11 months ago 2
@dantean Then focus, my friend, on the second part of the statement.Nobody was more knowlegable or sympathtic as to the old black bluesmen than Alan wilson.He literally retaught Son House music that Son had forgotten.Hooker himself called Alan the greatest living harmonica player.The high tenor voice of Alan you hear in "On the Road Again"?Alan borrowed it from Skip James.Alan had a nourishing relationship with black blues music.One lived off the other while Alan was alive.
1994g0 11 months ago 3
@1994g0 I did read it. I wasn't making the point that THIS quote was a "the white man done stole our music again," but rather the long history of that sort of thing being said which this quote refers to parenthetically. The post I'm responding to REFERS TO people going around saying that, but is not itself intended to make such an argument. I actually read rather well.
dantean 11 months ago
What lost & forlorn blues: "And my dear mother left me when I was quite young; she said "Lord have mercy on my wicked son" -- that's a hard lyric, denoting a lifetime of sin, ruthlessness, & wreckage - it's one thing to be down because one's woman has left - but to be down because one's life has gone irreversibly wrong, that's a whole 'nother thing - I always like to sing that couplet when this plays, it keeps the curl in my lip - :)
SupernalOne 1 year ago
I love the story about where they got their name,,it's sorta like where I got my radio name years ago. themojoman which is Trademarked since 1959 (reg.ustm) number 2 343 775 and you can check that out if you want. I heard ANN COLE singing the ORIGINAL version of Got My Mojo Working in a car commercial in LA in 1959. She later toured with Muddy Waters hence he started doing the song. He did not write it as is believed by some. However I love Muddy Waters.
THEMOJOMANsince1959 1 year ago
I love the story about where they got their name,,it's sorta like where I got my radio name years ago. themojoman which is Trademarked since 1959 (reg.ustm) number 2 343 775 and you can check that out if you want. I heard ANN COLE singing the ORIGINAL version of Got My Mojo Working in a car commercial in LA in 1959. She later toured with Muddy Waters hence he started doing the song. He did not write it as is believed by some.
THEMOJOMANsince1959 1 year ago
Great song, but why is he singing his own background?
ltdpro4life 1 year ago
Listen to Alan (Blind Owl) Wilson play the harmonica on Boogie Chillen on the "Hooker 'n Heat album if you think he is playing good on this song. He really rocks and John Lee Hooker loves him.
1woodnut 1 year ago
@1woodnut Hooker called Alan W ilson "the greatest harmonica player who ever lived".
1994g0 1 year ago
Thanks for the video, I love this rendition of this song. Love the film noir. Very fitting.
wish I was older so that I could have had the pleasure of seeing CH perform live. Thank god for you tube, that's all I have to say, I listen to CH but never knew what they looked like. I was like 15 at the time of Woodstock.
rockatophat 1 year ago
Great video. Thanks for sharing.
dtterry1958 1 year ago
35 people must have a hole in there soul.
713eric 1 year ago
I saw them in september 2010. They were awesome!
They connected with the poeple, and they still have fun, after all theese years!
For Canned Heat! (raising a pint*)
akselboss 1 year ago
I feel sorry for the 35 people that disliked this. They have no heart. I never got to see CH. Just one of a long list of others where I was about 5 years too young. I am 53.
birdmanphil4 1 year ago
I LOVE his voice. Anyone who doesn't lacks a "music gene".
fayeroe1009 1 year ago
Brlliant all time classic, never to be repeated!! so sad
carpmad1969 1 year ago
where was bob hite sneaking off too at 1:03
420BOYStv 1 year ago
I saw CANNED HEAT at The RAITH BALLROOM, Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland in 1971, I fuckin' loved it - these guys I'd read about in Melody Maker - all the way from America - playing live in my Hometown. The Raith had in one year, Canned Heat, Stone The Crows, Peter and Gordon, Fleetwood Mac, The Sleaze Band, Marmalade and quite a few bigger names....glory days!
billyconnearly 1 year ago
temazo.
COBRE1975 1 year ago
That isn't Sunflower playing lead. That is someone else. Anyway I grew up in the boogie of Cleveland! Canned Heat Land!
jazzynet1 1 year ago
@jazzynet1 ...Harvey Mandel , They kicked out Vestine for doing too many drugs !!!
lovelyflares 1 year ago
This is plain and simple good work. This is a performance , a band doing it's stuff. This is raw and clean. And the vocals are lije the voice of every man. Determined , wouldn't you agree ?
waxdcrump222 1 year ago
Saw this same lineup and song in '68 at the Syracuse University home coming at the War Memorial. They were there with Al Kooper's band.
holzg01 1 year ago
A real gem.
Hihanskala 1 year ago
Stunning!
hansjalv 1 year ago
Great video. Thanks for sharing.
dtterry1958 1 year ago
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squeegeepogo 1 year ago
Alan was strongly influenced by Skip James in his singing style.
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supersondessixties 1 year ago
No one can play like Alan Wilson.
rdcoddington 1 year ago
bad quality sound but with this type of music it just makes it a whole lot better. im 18 im mexican maybe i shouldnt like this music but with great classic music there is just no borders.
639426 1 year ago
@639426 I've been thinking of uploading a restored version but maybe taking this video would be ignorant.
spikew10 1 year ago
Just as great today as 40+ years ago
mikdeeps 1 year ago
Let's boogie!
jenniferjuniper97 1 year ago
@jenniferjuniper97: Amen, sister. Send my epistle to Dippy.
jezmundberserker 1 year ago
@jenniferjuniper97 RIGHT ON !!!
THEMOJOMANsince1959 1 year ago
Man, can Wilson sing or what? I love his unique voice! 60's rule!!!!!
axty56 1 year ago 55
@axty56
Oh yeah, he sounds pretty much like a 13 year old wanker :-)) probably the worst singer to ever sing a rock band. His voice was just delusional. His harp playing was mean on the other hand.
ezekielwahwah 6 months ago
When music was Kewl......
lizzynrufus1 1 year ago
@lizzynrufus1 KEWL ?? EXPLAIN PLEASE.
THEMOJOMANsince1959 1 year ago
Haunting voice.
20cigarrosconfiltro 1 year ago 4
What the hell is wrong with the 35 people who voted this video down?
jezmundberserker 1 year ago 2
@jezmundberserker The song's so awsome they cant handle it. It's like ultra-sonic sound to them!
spikew10 1 year ago
@jezmundberserker There's DIPSHITS everywhere,,just look who they voted to be in the WHITE HOUSE.
THEMOJOMANsince1959 1 year ago
@THEMOJOMANsince1959 yeah putting bush in was really dumb
deconblue1 1 year ago
@deconblue1 Yeah,,now I'm so glad we have a president that runs all over the world apologizing for AMERICA and bowing to the King Of Saudia Arabia an others.
THEMOJOMANsince1959 1 year ago
@THEMOJOMANsince1959 Like Bush did for 8 years while holding their hands and pretending that the 9/11 hijackers where not Saudi?
Philtration 1 year ago
@jezmundberserker They were the ones that voted for ZEROBAMA,,,betcha he never heard of CANNED HEAT. hell he's so DUMB he had BEYONCE singing AT LAST at the inaguration instead of ETTA JAMES everyone knows THAT'S ETTA's SONG like FOREVER.
THEMOJOMANsince1959 1 year ago
@THEMOJOMANsince1959: I used to support him, but now I think he's an ass. But no matter how we feel about him, his last name is still Obama, not Zerobama. With regards to Beyonce singing "At Last" WTF were they thinking? It would be like if Ray Charles were still alive and Obama had invited Kanye West to sing "Georgia On My Mind."
jezmundberserker 1 year ago
@jezmundberserker You got it right. Like the CASH FOR CLUNKERS. My son sells cars at a dealership and he told me it was a nightmare. PLUS all they did was raise the "real' price up to compensate for the $4500. He's got a bunch of Nerds and Geek types giving him Ideas NOT REAL PEOPLE. He's the formula for an ECONOMIC BOOM. Have a tax payer only lottery give 10 million people a MILLION DOLLARS with the stipulation you must BUY A NEW HOME and all furnishings,,A NEW CAR an RV or BOAT.
THEMOJOMANsince1959 1 year ago
@THEMOJOMANsince1959....Whats all this crap got to do with Canned Heat ??? .....
lovelyflares 1 year ago
@lovelyflares ALL THIS was meant for the 35 ding dongs that put a thumbs down on CANNED HEAT not you. I just get REALLY PISSED when anyone puts down a great sound like this. One well known company (can't think right now) is using it in the background of their commercial WHICH IS SO GREAT.
THEMOJOMANsince1959 1 year ago
wow
fonbets 1 year ago
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dtterry1958 1 year ago
That my friends is some great stuff. Thanks for the video.
dtterry1958 1 year ago 2
35 people have never been on the road...ever...
THEREBEL56 1 year ago
35 people have never been on the road...ever...
THEREBEL56 1 year ago
Where was th Bear running to behind the band?
harmonicajohn 1 year ago
@harmonicajohn went to "light one up"
dtterry1958 1 year ago 2
retroron5053. it's a very good version on youtube. Search it.
philou017 1 year ago
If anyone out there has a video of the song Future Blues by Canned Heat please post it so people can see what a really good rocking blues band they were. That song will set things straight for all of the naysayers who try to cut them down. Canned Heat was awesome in there hey day. "Retro Ron"
retroron5053 1 year ago
If anyone out there has a video of the song Future Blues by Canned Heat please post it so people can see what a really good rocking blues band they were. That song will set things straight for all of the naysayers who try to cut them down. Canned Heat was awesome in there hey day.
retroron5053 1 year ago
Alan Wilson offin' himself; tragic.
twinsmm1 1 year ago
@twinsmm1 Sad
BananaJSSI 1 year ago
I would go back in time just so I could meet alan wilson!
spikew10 1 year ago 4
I like JOE Cokker !
ScOopeTwo 1 year ago
attention ATTEntion ! Wer ist my MOUNNEYA ! MErkel. ?? A:C:A:) B
ScOopeTwo 1 year ago
This is a wonderful performance. Alan's light voice combined with the heavy boogie and bass is terrific. God bless this band!
mi55coo 1 year ago 2
Wait, people compare this guy to Kermit? That's a great compliment... is all you should say to people like that. I absolutely love that voice, and he's a true bluesman all the way!
VonSaxenCoburg 1 year ago 5
@VonSaxenCoburg Agree!
BananaJSSI 1 year ago
@1994g0 you know it !!!
zelenious 1 year ago
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love the guy with the long hair !
Pommesishot 1 year ago
love the guy with the long hair !
Pommesishot 1 year ago
skibeiltabortz!
9onaeb 1 year ago
Goosebumps.
dolina64 1 year ago
This is '68, not '70 the video says so...
atzenanu 1 year ago
@atzenanu the song was released in '68, this performance is likely '70, the guitar player in this is Harvey Mandel, who joined the band in the summer of 69,
OopsIDidItAgain30 1 year ago
Alan knew more about diff. forms of music than anyonre ever on the pop scene."On The Road Again" is a unique blend of great vocal and harmonica work dressed in Eastern mysticism.Williamson, Horton or Little Walter could never have created such a song.
I also think that Wilson`s tone on the harp was fuller than the other harp greats.
1994g0 1 year ago 3
@1994g0 I think, that there is a difference, between "Eastern mysticism" and "Eastern music". Klezmer, and Oum Khoulthoum are Eastern music, but are not mysticism.
howtoplanaparty 1 year ago
Blind Owl Forever!!
hippieman128 1 year ago
Saw them at Mothers, Birmingham in September 1968. It was so hot in there people were passing out left, right and centre.
walshamsupporter 1 year ago
RIP alan wilson 40 years.
Does anyone know any good films or books about canned heat and alan?
spikew10 1 year ago
@spikew10
1994g0 1 year ago
@spikew10 The definitive book on Alan Wilson is "Blind Owl Blues" by Rebecca Winters.Easily obtainable on the Web.
1994g0 1 year ago
this must be close to his death. great banD!
3waystopcock 1 year ago
Total Favourite this one ,it never ages
fiannaboy 1 year ago 24
@fiannaboy too right! I probably listen to this every day
spikew10 1 year ago
RIP Owl
slimjim506 1 year ago
The bass player is enyoing every second of playing in his band.
Check all tem vid's
That guy is on fire.
3984ja 1 year ago
i'm born way too late :S
TheMelli1996 1 year ago 2
40 years since. R.I.P.
AssassinHoop 1 year ago 2
I related to Alan as a teen and now 35 years old he still makes me feel better bout things,just wish he would have found happiness on earth,long live the music!!!Jason
JLShafferArt 1 year ago
Wilson almost sounds like Robert Johnson when he sings, And as always a fantastic harp player.
hippieman128 1 year ago 2
@hippieman128 No.Wilson sounds like Skip James-the man Alan intentionally modelled his singing voice after.Hooker called Wilson the greatest harmonica player ever.
1994g0 1 year ago
@1994g0 I know about Skip however, if you think Wilson wasn't a combination of many influences then you are naive Alan Wilson was a blues "Historian", I had said that Alan sounded almost ghostly with his high notes which are of a pitch slightly higher than James and equally as emotive, very similar in many respects to Robert Johnson as far as pitch and tone. and while Wilson was a phenomenal call and response player which hooker does give him credit for, The wiki claim of the greatest is...
hippieman128 1 year ago
@1994g0 unsubstantiated, trust me I AM a harmonica player I am unsure if you are, and while Wilson was amazing (I have everything Canned Heat and Alan Wilson solo ever Recorded from 1965-1971 (Hooker n' Heat was released in 71) ) Alan Wilson is among my favorite Harp players but he wasn't the best, but probably the only harp player that was ever able to follow John Hooker (again Call & Response genius) which is what influenced the claim that hooker stated him as the greatest in the world...
hippieman128 1 year ago
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hippieman128 1 year ago
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Still Hippieman here, I felt I needed to ellaborate further, Very few Harmonica players ever played with John Lee Hooker most didn't feel up to it or felt Hooker was best unaccompanied however, wilson was never intimidated by anybody as far as music was concerned.
hippieman128 1 year ago