Very few people seem to talk about this band.
Maybe Deerhoof still does.
Band: Canned Heat
2I LOVE 'Going up the Country'. For such a bear of a man Bob Hite has such a sweet little voice.
Band: Canned Heat
3cjh wrote:I LOVE 'Going up the Country'. For such a bear of a man Bob Hite has such a sweet little voice.
I have a feeling that it's actually slim Alan Wilson that sings this song.
...at least, as far as I can remember.
Band: Canned Heat
4Cranius wrote:cjh wrote:I LOVE 'Going up the Country'. For such a bear of a man Bob Hite has such a sweet little voice.
I have a feeling that it's actually slim Alan Wilson that sings this song.
...at least, as far as I can remember.
Not-so-fat, somewhat Ozzy-lookin guy with terrible teeth, that's who sang that song. After watching the teevee infomercial for "Flower Power", the Time Life multi-disc retrospect of the hippie era, about thirty times, I had to bump this thread. Is this band any good aside from the one song? That song is too damn good, but I have a pessimism in me that tells me I might be let down if I check out their other stuff. Is it good? Are all their songs as silly and fun feeling as this kermit the frog sounding flute boogie thing? No, right?
"The bastards have landed"
www.myspace.com/thechromerobes - now has a couple songs from the new album
www.myspace.com/thechromerobes - now has a couple songs from the new album
Band: Canned Heat
6Not crap.
I always associate this band with Little Feat.
Each band had a frontman who died of a heart attack in his thirties.
Holy shit....a heart attack in your thirties.
NC for Canned Heat (and NC for Little Feat)*.
*Waffles for the heart attacks.
I always associate this band with Little Feat.
Each band had a frontman who died of a heart attack in his thirties.
Holy shit....a heart attack in your thirties.
NC for Canned Heat (and NC for Little Feat)*.
*Waffles for the heart attacks.
Band: Canned Heat
7Is this band any good aside from the one song?
Hell yeah.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiZXjHxg ... re=related
And many others.
The double lp Hooker And Heat is killer too, featuring John Lee Hooker playing on the real for one whole side w/out any other musicians.
Alan Wilson is probably my favorite slide AND harp player.
Start with Future Blues, Alan's last lp before he killed himself, and work backward from there.
Band: Canned Heat
8Redline wrote:The double lp Hooker And Heat is killer too, featuring John Lee Hooker playing on the real for one whole side w/out any other musicians.
Hooker 'N' Heat! I like this album. I like Canned Heat. Kind of like The Greatful Dead if The Greatful Dead weren't lame.
Alan Wilson, there's an interesting cat. I wish he hadn't killed himself.
Band: Canned Heat
9Tree wrote:Redline wrote:The double lp Hooker And Heat is killer too, featuring John Lee Hooker playing on the real for one whole side w/out any other musicians.
Hooker 'N' Heat! I like this album. I like Canned Heat. Kind of like The Greatful Dead if The Greatful Dead weren't lame.
Alan Wilson, there's an interesting cat. I wish he hadn't killed himself.
I have to say that I don't know any Canned Heat save for the Hooker n' Heat double album. That album, however, is great.
"Allright! ALAN! You feeel good!"
It's fucking magic, dude.
Band: Canned Heat
10On the double album Hooker 'N' Heat (1970), John Lee Hooker is heard wondering how Wilson is capable of following Hooker's guitar playing so well. Hooker was known to be a difficult performer to accompany, partly because of his disregard of song form. Yet Wilson seemed to have no trouble at all following him on this album. Hooker concludes that "you [Wilson] musta been listenin' to my records all your life".