I was about 80 feet away when they played this. The cameraman who shot these closeups was picked up in one arm by Bob "The Bear" Hite in one arm and with the microphone in the other hand kept on singing. I wish there was video of that somewhere. This was Saturday night. Canned Heat brought a lot of energy to a fairly stoned crowd. A great memory.
RIP the four members of Canned Heat Larry “The Mole” Taylor (June 26, 1942 - August 19, 2019), aged 77 Bob “The Bear” Hite (February 26, 1943 - April 5, 1981), aged 38 Alan “Blind Owl” Wilson (July 4, 1943 - September 3, 1970), aged 27 Henry “The Sunflower” Vestine (December 25, 1944 - October 20, 1997), aged 52 You will be remembered as legends.
For two whole minutes a shy, unassuming slide guitarist named Alan Blind Owl Wilson had 400,000 people's complete, undivided attention as he played the blues. Magical
Yup isn’t that fantastic. A crowd who enjoyed music. They were into it so much. Unlike today’s concert goers who film on their phones and watch it through that instead of watching it with their EYES!! You don’t see that kind of stuff anymore. Neither do you see great rock bands like canned heat and many others.
@@eastwest42286 most modern music is bad, not to sound like a boomer but I hate how people have lost so many braincells to listen to the shit pumped out by pop singers (then again most pop has been shit since the 80s)
Blind Owl you were alone when you passed , We hear you , we feel your pain You are beautiful ...we need to know research these beautiful children of ours, they sometimes do not communicate with us ...they have walls around them ... we need to become more passionate, and PATIENT , they need us, thousands out there, autism/aspergen/ADHD/insular/unaproachable/masses of complexes , you can break the barriers, its called 'trust' and unadulterated LOVE PRAYERS
Labor Day 1969 I saw them at the Texas International Pop Festival just outside of Lewisville. Texas. I was 17 at the time and my mom put out a missing person on me. I went early, stayed late, and enjoyed. That was just two weeks after Woodstock.
When I was a kid, I got to watch this on television, some time in the early 1980’s. It was broadcast on Maryland Public Television, during one of their donation pledge drives. My parents invited a bunch of their close friends to our house, and had watch party for the broadcast. It’s a great memory from my childhood, and really kicked off my lifetime love of music. It came full circle when I attended the festival in 1994, and got to see some amazing performances at that one.
@@debbieanne7962G'Day Nice to hear from you .I've been visiting the Great Ocean Road and stay at Melbourne 15 days years back !(Brittany is West part of France ) At the moment i'mlistening Sue Foley "Pink's Blues ! i love Australia what a huge country !!! cheers André
@@ConcertGrande I've also been to France with a French friend. She lives in Barcelona, we drove 9 hours from there to Nice and I visited Eze. Caught the train to Monte Carlo Beautiful part of the world
@@debbieanne7962 G'day Nice of course but economic situation is very bad !!! i do like Apollo Bay ,Lorne etc... Very interested with Aboriginal civilisation and culture .regards André
That would be music, drugs, a war and sex, in no particular order. Then the damn drugs got more aggressive, as did the people. Now, there's no music scene.
same here .weekend fights..motor bike crashes..then acid to realy f,,k it up strawberry fields...moody blues ..and looking back some butiful birds..but i was more interested in my norton dominator...those wer the days..ho and lets not forget asking for a pint of beer.that gave the game away under age..lol
I was on Chocolate Chip...brown little patty with dark spots on it? I'm 71 now and living in France with a much younger wife and our twelve year old daughter who, sadly, simply doesn't understand why I like this music so much. At this age, all they're into is techno. Horrid techno to boot. And I totally disagree that children have always loathed their parents' music. I recall loving Sinatra and Count Basie as well as Joplin, Hendrix, Heat, and the rest.
Orange barrel sunshine, my first trip 1972 San Mateo California! I did get to see Johnny Winter at Winterland. I think you guys actually louder than Led Zeppelin when I saw them a few years later at Oakland stadium.
I was just returning from a year across the “Big Pond” and being from CA I couldn’t make it. I envy anyone who was there. But, I have enjoyed the recordings both audio and visual for over fifty years. Must be some real memories.
@Andy Gadd Jim was having a hard time in that era. Full blown alcoholic, uncertainty of the outcome of the upcoming trial for indecent exposure, wanting to shed the rock star image and be taken seriously as a poet and filmmaker. Probably was depressed under all of these circumstances
@Andy Gadd absolutely. She was clearly lost without him and went into full blown heroin addiction. There was an actor friend of Jim and Pam’s who wrote a very interesting article about his time with them from around 1966 right up to Pam’s overdose death in 74. The guy did some acting in one of Andy Warhol’s films. Very interesting if you can locate it. Yeah, Jim was damn interesting and the Doors were a transcendent band. A few years ago I was in LA and visited some of Jim’s old haunts including the motel and the place where they had admin offices and recorded LA Woman. The entire aspect of the band and Jim have always interested me
I was only 11 years old back in 69. Too young to see the show live but I'm sure happy I can listen to it now on UA-cam. Good old days! A lot of great groups back then. Sadly a whole lot of them are now just memories. To the ones still alive then rock on! And to the ones no longer with us then R.I.P. You are all missed.
1969. There will never be another Year like it! The Music, the Movements and the Magic it brought. Oh my God, how fabulous it was to be young and a part of it all in that moment in time was just amazing beyond words. Your music, Canned Heat, is to this day immediately identifiable to this then teenager!
I was a little kid in 69 but I remember watching the news and seeing reports on this concert . These were great times with no cell phones or internet just people coming together and being human beings ..Great days indeed !
yeah where did it all go wrong..maybe all this technocracy has killed the spirit in music and in humans..maybe mother nature will lend a hand via a coronal mass ejection and get rid of the lot
@@vivinm9640 My mom let us watch pretty much anything we wanted to watch on tv back in those days on the condition that we watched a few things that she wanted us to watch . Mom made us watch the national news at 6:00 pm our time and any other socially relevant programing ..me and my brothers had to watch the impeachment hearings for Nixon ..thats just how she was and she was very smart to do so . I remember Woodstock and the Manson stuff all in the news that year..I was 6 years old and I was the only 6 year old hippie on the block because of it ..lol
I was 10 in 69 and herd from Those that went. In reality it’s was one big disaster and overcrowded mess. Lack of toilets food water and prices sky high. Was not all that it was cracked up to be rain mud sickness etc.
The Spirit of that concert will live in us forever . We just cant remanufacture these sounds and atmosphere. The level of talent then was soooo Hip . Thanks Upstate NY . 😊
@@jatoms100 yes.....shortly before Hendrix and Joplin....same basic cause of death. It's almost as if the establishment didn't want people being free and tried to take out the people they perceived as the main players of this movement
@@jatoms100 Wow. That sucks. At least he got to put on one of the greatest sets of the entire festival. They definitely left their mark, slinging straight-up Mississippi Delta Blues, inspired by John Lee Hooker, and RL Burnside. The sound on this is really dialed in, and really enhances the performance. Al Wilson’s vocals have such an interesting, nasally sound to it, and it’s uniqueness makes it instantly recognizable. He also has one of the better, “that’s not what I thought he’d look like”, going on. His physical appearance doesn’t match his vocals.
I was 13 in 1968 when I first heard the "On the road again" and I bought this single and played it again and again, they had a great success in Europe, especially in France !
I will never grow tired of watching this clip. Alan Wilson feeling every note. the band completely into each other. Wonderful times. How could 2.5k people dislike this?
Poor Alan Wilson. I really don't think he realized how fucking good he was. He was an introvert who didn't think he was good enough for anyone. RIP Bro. I wish I could back to 1969 and warn him
Alan Wilson was an introverted poet, musician, and nature lover. Little understood in his time, he took refuge in music. A legend of the blues, great admirer of John Lee. He left early, leaving us 2 great songs, and leaving us indebted to his great talent. Rest in peace great blind owl.
I'm a huge gamer and when I hear old songs from bands like canned heat and creedence ect, makes me so happy that they're still being recognised and appreciated.
"The initial groove of the song is based on a traditional boogie blues rhythm used by John Lee Hooker in "Boogie Chillen'" and by Slim Harpo in "Shake Your Hips". A failed lawsuit by the copyright holder of "Boogie Chillen'" resulted in the court ruling that the rhythm was in the public domain.[6]" from Wikipedia.Allen and the boys played it in 1967. ZZ Top played it in 1969!
I met a women in 1993. She told me a story. When she was 9, her brother returned home from his first tour in Vietnam. He took her to Woodstock. She showed me the patch on her denim. He decided to do a second tour. Told her, he needed to go be with his buddies. He was killed in action on his second tour. God Bless ALL who Served.
Military people did Gulf of Tonkin, My Lai (plus all the ones kept quiet), agent orange napalm, white phosporous, cluster bombs, bombing back to the stone age, mines still there, ear necklaces, playing card kill icons, and all for Halliburton. Yep, it's all the style of the Holy Bible God.
Whenever I watch and hear Blind Owl I'm often saddened that we lost this great artist so soon. Can't help but wonder about the music that never was made in the past 52 years. Robbed we were.
Its like u could literally feel their musical cords connecting to your soul and moving you. I wish I lived in this era and got to experience this. To those who did you are blessed. I'm in my 40s now and I'm discovering and gaining more appreciation for these old time classics. The music of the 60s and 70s is unmatched. The talent and song writing is so deep and soulful
I LOVE Canned Heat. It is just a damn shame and injustice that they aren't in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. I met and talked to Larry Taylor and Phito DeLaParra a few years ago at a Blues Festival. Good guys. Blues Power. AND DON'T FORGET TO BOOGIE!! BOOGIE!!
Al Wilson's opening on this is a jewel; it was Al, about five years before this, who taught Son House how to play 'Son House' when he was found in Rochester NY and was convinced that there was an audience waiting to hear him play. Also, gotta watch Bob Hite rocking out at 3:02 and the camera focuses on the deck moving under him!
No it didn't. They were high as kites. They weren't all that good. In fact they're solidly mediocre. I like their music because it is SO BOILERPLATE GENERIC. It's like going to a beginner's class "Blues 101" for Freshman. You listen to this old stuff and it is SO BASIC. Maybe it sounds impressive to non-musicians, but it isn't impressive music. I like simple. I admire bands that can make good music out of basic stuff, like McGyver, but with guitars n' stuff. But "good" they weren't.
@@TheBsavage Its only seen as basic now because they helped create it. The concept of 0 as a number seems incredibly basic now, but revolutionized all of math, science and technology when it was popularized.
Just think about how so few of the people in the crowd had heard this style...and how iconic and ubiquitous it would become... To hear things for the first time...that was what made the late 60s and 70s so great...
So cool ... I got snuck into the drive-in to watch this movie when it first came out ... I was 8 and remember thinking that this was what i wanted to do when I got "old" like these guys ... now, I'm amazed by how young they actually were ... the guitar player had probably only been playing a couple of years - but what a tone out of that les paul! You could buy those for peanuts back then. So great to see young musicians just being themselves, completely unaffected by thoughts of "how will I look in the camera" ... it was about the band, the music and the audience - the cameras were a nevelty ....
I will remember that summer. It was so great that I was In the middle of an amazing trip and I don't really want the hassle of the drugs that were available. The dope here are the most dangerous drugs that have to be taken in. Love never felt so good 👍
My ex wife spent a couple of hours hanging out with Bob after a show where she was the opening act. I'd seen them play a million times, but never got to talk to any of them. She says he was the nicest guy in the world and she just adored him. The next day he died. She was just so sad when she heard. Terrible loss. That band was one of the absolute greatest.
oh no - the best I have ever heard and like fellow Fats Band member Dick Innes, a warm soul and student of blues culture - which like that of hippies is one of kindness beneath & above all
BROTHER OF 'THE VENTURES BAND' DRUMMER MEL TAYLOR, BASSIST LARRY OF CANNED HEAT WAS THE EPITOME OF WOODSTOCK. WATCH HIM ROCK IN THE ORIGINAL WOODSTOCK FOOTAGE... *`L|:.D
Did you smell pussy. I wasn't at woodstock but I used to follow the Dead around and there was a never ending supply of weed, acid, shrooms and pussy. Now I'm old and a bit fat. Id be afraid to trip. Might have a heart attack. still like the pinky though : )
There's no compassion too the quality of the music of the 1960's1975 to the music of today there was so much going on the Vietnam war the counter culture ,Civil rights movement ,Woman's rights,questioning authority like never before and the music was call too arms I was 15 then but the music was my voice I was a child of the 60's
I love this boogie blues. I was fortunate to see Canned Heat in those times and so many great gentle people and musicians and rainbow folks back then shared everything....everything. Bless each and every one who is still living from those days, and may all our young people know we love them and hope theyy heal the world asap. Musis and dance are such great curatives.
Saw them with Fever Tree in Houston, Texas back in 69 or 70, something like that at the Music Hall. I was backstage helping set up for the show. Mercy A long time ago. LOL
Growing up in the eighties loving Canned Heat/Woodstock it seemed like it was a million years earlier these times. Now in 2019 as an adult it seems like this was yesterday/timeless.
I was way in the back near the top of the hill and didn’t get to see them up close but I heard everything and they are one of the things I remember best.
@@tylerclaird Oh please, that argument is just silly. They give credit to the original writers unlike Zeppelin who just blatantly stole lots of stuff. Alan even retaught Son House to play the guitar in the early 60s. If you're saying white folks shouldn't play the blues, that's a bigoted approach. Where would any culture be if outside influence (especially by racial 'others') was not permissible? I mean alot of black blues was based on U.K folk songs, southern gospel is based on a european religion, the guitar itself is spanish... the list goes on in all directions. Plus many blues songs are like folk songs as they have no discernible origin and therefore no writers to steal from.
gasmaskboi..Man, you are SO correct ! AUDIO & VIDEO BOTH....".Hatsoff" to the technicians responsible !! WELL-DONE !!!! superb clarity for 1969 !! & To all my ole hippie friends ... Hold on to the memory... & E N J O Y !!
so much negativity ya all, goes against everything the 60's & 70's stood for. enjoy it, embrace it, share it - damn well don't criticize it. 62 year old Canuck still feels it.
Blind Owl and the Bear One of the GREATEST BANDS ...... PERIOD !!!! I DARE ANYONE to LISTEN and NOT JIGGLE WIGGLE or GET UP AND MOVE PURE CANNED GRAVY!
I saw these lads in an English service station way back in the 60s....we were hitchhiking back home from an EVERTON football match...they were buying coffees and sandwiches....they were obviously on their way to a gig....great band!...
As a young man well after the time of Woodstock and the music revival of the 60’s, and as a student of music, it’s always amazed me the art from this time period. One must be a student of history and the history of music to be influenced the way the men and women of the 60’s and early 70’s were. Early to mid century blues obviously had a profound impact, as well as bluegrass, and folk roots. It shines through in the many greats of the time period, even bringing the old blues men into the limelight to finally get their due and recognition. When the English joined in on the revival, you could see the influences heavy within their music as well. The writing, poetry, and singer-songwriting was absolutely out of this world.
True Christians say that Rock music is from hell. So You will know ,you are going to see that concert. The Arena is crowded and it is very hot. But , You will meet many of Your friends there! And all of them are screaming of Joy...
We were there , Yup this old stoner had a Great time , I remember Carlos Santana - Janis Joplin - Crosby stills & Nash - Arlo Guthrie - Pete Townshend -- And the best part is - We got pregnant there
Ah now that's better 😌 thanks man! Show up tune in and space the hell out of your minds please! A concert that never had to ask twice for it!! We already were man!!!
![Led Zeppelin - Boogie With Stu [HD] [MP4]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/_wCZOm0k8WQ/mqdefault.jpg)
Make sure to watch part 2
Where is part 2?
@@nacekozo at the description
Oh yes, got it :)
@@nacekozo it is in the description
will do
I was at Ruisrock 1971, they kept on playing until 3 hours, they played even one in audiance, I was there. About 2 am.
Inégalable canned heat, groupe fascinant, le blues le plus pur, le plus authentique,
I was about 80 feet away when they played this. The cameraman who shot these closeups was picked up in one arm by Bob "The Bear" Hite in one arm and with the microphone in the other hand kept on singing. I wish there was video of that somewhere. This was Saturday night. Canned Heat brought a lot of energy to a fairly stoned crowd. A great memory.
Fantastic, man! Those moments define your life.
Where , when ?
@@ezrabrooks7785
Upstate.
1969.
@@sharksport01 \m/
Thx , bruh..🥃
Very fortunate for u to have been there
RIP the four members of Canned Heat
Larry “The Mole” Taylor (June 26, 1942 - August 19, 2019), aged 77
Bob “The Bear” Hite (February 26, 1943 - April 5, 1981), aged 38
Alan “Blind Owl” Wilson (July 4, 1943 - September 3, 1970), aged 27
Henry “The Sunflower” Vestine (December 25, 1944 - October 20, 1997), aged 52
You will be remembered as legends.
how did blind owl die?
@@jeffoverton6023 Barbiturate overdose.
Wow. I knew Alan Wilson died at 27, didn't realise most of the members died so young
Fito is the last man standing. ❤
Thanx for that VIP info...
For two whole minutes a shy, unassuming slide guitarist named Alan Blind Owl Wilson had 400,000 people's complete, undivided attention as he played the blues. Magical
You couldn't handle my undivided attention!!
@@davincerica7232 lol good one Dwight
Incredible. He died so young
Wasn't just blind owl.the bear.adolpho de la Parra...
Ahem
Of one the members of the 27 Club
Back when the music was more important than how you looked.
Totally agree
Yup isn’t that fantastic. A crowd who enjoyed music. They were into it so much. Unlike today’s concert goers who film on their phones and watch it through that instead of watching it with their EYES!! You don’t see that kind of stuff anymore. Neither do you see great rock bands like canned heat and many others.
@@eastwest42286 most modern music is bad, not to sound like a boomer but I hate how people have lost so many braincells to listen to the shit pumped out by pop singers (then again most pop has been shit since the 80s)
have you seen Ed Sheeran, or Lewis Capaldi. they are still there man
@ntw98 the point was some people still make it without looks. Not if they are good or not
Blind Owl you were alone when you passed , We hear you , we feel your pain You are beautiful ...we need to know research these beautiful children of ours, they sometimes do not communicate with us ...they have walls around them ... we need to become more passionate, and PATIENT , they need us, thousands out there, autism/aspergen/ADHD/insular/unaproachable/masses of complexes , you can break the barriers, its called 'trust' and unadulterated LOVE PRAYERS
Labor Day 1969 I saw them at the Texas International Pop Festival just outside of Lewisville. Texas. I was 17 at the time and my mom put out a missing person on me. I went early, stayed late, and enjoyed. That was just two weeks after Woodstock.
I’ve watched this a million times and I never get tired of it. The energy is amazing.
When I was a kid, I got to watch this on television, some time in the early 1980’s. It was broadcast on Maryland Public Television, during one of their donation pledge drives. My parents invited a bunch of their close friends to our house, and had watch party for the broadcast. It’s a great memory from my childhood, and really kicked off my lifetime love of music. It came full circle when I attended the festival in 1994, and got to see some amazing performances at that one.
Even I watched this number many many times and still hungry, although I m a fan of Carlos Santana and Aldi Meola
At 15 I was listening to Cannead Head
At 71 I listen to them even more
The only regret is that I never saw them live
greetings from south brittany
Where's South Brittany? I'm from Melbourne, Australia
@@debbieanne7962G'Day Nice to hear from you .I've been visiting the Great Ocean Road and stay at Melbourne 15 days years back !(Brittany is West part of France ) At the moment i'mlistening Sue Foley "Pink's Blues ! i love Australia what a huge country !!! cheers André
@@ConcertGrande I've also been to France with a French friend. She lives in Barcelona, we drove 9 hours from there to Nice and I visited Eze. Caught the train to Monte Carlo Beautiful part of the world
@@debbieanne7962 G'day Nice of course but economic situation is very bad !!! i do like Apollo Bay ,Lorne etc...
Very interested with Aboriginal civilisation and culture .regards André
Getting close to 80 STILL LISTEN!
Sadly gone....never forgotten, one 73 yr old (me) male, watching this and remembering.
Me too, I'm 77 now.
What about me!! Saw them live a couple of times! 😊
This is what missing today...music brings people together.... this music promoted unity.
That would be music, drugs, a war and sex, in no particular order. Then the damn drugs got more aggressive, as did the people. Now, there's no music scene.
Yes, they united the left. And divided left and right even more. That's when the mess we're in today started.
Weak music, weak people.
To have lived back then was such a strange trip for so many. I'm 72 and sometimes wonder how I survived the 60s.
Youth & dumb luck
I went to canada.
We were brought up right..
I’m 57 and I’m still loving those
good vibes..🍃😜🍃
same here .weekend fights..motor bike crashes..then acid to realy f,,k it up strawberry fields...moody blues ..and looking back some butiful birds..but i was more interested in my norton dominator...those wer the days..ho and lets not forget asking for a pint of beer.that gave the game away under age..lol
The 2020's are going to make the 1960's look like the 1940's. I'm glad we're old.
I was in the middle of the crowd watching this live tripping on orange sunshine.... It was perhaps the greatest moment of my life..... Just brilliant.
I was on Chocolate Chip...brown little patty with dark spots on it? I'm 71 now and living in France with a much younger wife and our twelve year old daughter who, sadly, simply doesn't understand why I like this music so much. At this age, all they're into is techno. Horrid techno to boot. And I totally disagree that children have always loathed their parents' music. I recall loving Sinatra and Count Basie as well as Joplin, Hendrix, Heat, and the rest.
Actually, the above was written by Isabelle's husband Matthew. I'm on my wife's rig.
@@alebasi5550 you need to do a strawberry and a purple ohm and a white dove and put some BT on - love peace and grease 👍✌️
Orange barrel sunshine, my first trip 1972 San Mateo California! I did get to see Johnny Winter at Winterland. I think you guys actually louder than Led Zeppelin when I saw them a few years later at Oakland stadium.
I was just returning from a year across the “Big Pond” and being from CA I couldn’t make it. I envy anyone who was there. But, I have enjoyed the recordings both audio and visual for over fifty years. Must be some real memories.
I can understand why Jim Morrison really liked these guys and played on stage with them a few times. A mutual love of the Blues.
Ah, THAT'S where I've heard this before. Ol' Jim borrowed quite heavily from this tune.
@@delavan9141 yeah i’ve listened to the doors a lot before only now getting into canned heat. this sounds so similar to their songs
@Andy Gadd Jim was having a hard time in that era. Full blown alcoholic, uncertainty of the outcome of the upcoming trial for indecent exposure, wanting to shed the rock star image and be taken seriously as a poet and filmmaker. Probably was depressed under all of these circumstances
@Andy Gadd absolutely. She was clearly lost without him and went into full blown heroin addiction. There was an actor friend of Jim and Pam’s who wrote a very interesting article about his time with them from around 1966 right up to Pam’s overdose death in 74. The guy did some acting in one of Andy Warhol’s films. Very interesting if you can locate it. Yeah, Jim was damn interesting and the Doors were a transcendent band. A few years ago I was in LA and visited some of Jim’s old haunts including the motel and the place where they had admin offices and recorded LA Woman. The entire aspect of the band and Jim have always interested me
@@andygadd793Interesting !! Doors are unreal band. Innovative songs , Would have been great to see live , Cool blokes I reckon ,
That's soul . Can u see the anticipation on all there face. Ready to rock. Sun not even up. .only one dude standing up. Awesome I won't say it.
The driving power of these guys, vocals and that guitar, nothing else like it.
Blind Owl was a genius. He knew the history of the Blues, played a really mean harmonica too.
100% pure raw talent....No autotunes for these guys
Talk about a Great Vocalist. Guy made a huge impression on me.
I have to tell you something, I can sing that too, seriously, I don't have any talent
Bravo....I have this DVD from 1999, also this Concert on VHS, from 1992 ;)
I think Canned Heat the best blues band ever!!! So much talent so underrated and only remembered by a few of us diehards!!!!!!!
I'm one of the diehards🎸
They were great live
Fuck yeah ! Love it !
I was a bit young at the time. Love the music my brother taught me well 👍
Mind you Muddy Waters also had a rather good Blues Band.
A brlliant performance by a late 'stand in' ! 4 Years after my 1st comment, I stand by this as one of the greats of rock music ...
I was only 11 years old back in 69. Too young to see the show live but I'm sure happy I can listen to it now on UA-cam. Good old days! A lot of great groups back then. Sadly a whole lot of them are now just memories. To the ones still alive then rock on! And to the ones no longer with us then R.I.P. You are all missed.
Definitely great music then!
@@ericacalhoun5167 yes. Definitely
1969. There will never be another Year like it! The Music, the Movements and the Magic it brought. Oh my God, how fabulous it was to be young and a part of it all in that moment in time was just amazing beyond words. Your music, Canned Heat, is to this day immediately identifiable to this then teenager!
I was a little kid in 69 but I remember watching the news and seeing reports on this concert . These were great times with no cell phones or internet just people coming together and being human beings ..Great days indeed !
yeah where did it all go wrong..maybe all this technocracy has killed the spirit in music and in humans..maybe mother nature will lend a hand via a coronal mass ejection and get rid of the lot
Can relate, no violence wow, I missed it at age 12 ❤❤❤
@@vivinm9640 My mom let us watch pretty much anything we wanted to watch on tv back in those days on the condition that we watched a few things that she wanted us to watch . Mom made us watch the national news at 6:00 pm our time and any other socially relevant programing ..me and my brothers had to watch the impeachment hearings for Nixon ..thats just how she was and she was very smart to do so . I remember Woodstock and the Manson stuff all in the news that year..I was 6 years old and I was the only 6 year old hippie on the block because of it ..lol
@@steve-r-collier All this tech is killing the human spirt.
I was 10 in 69 and herd from
Those that went. In reality it’s was one big disaster and overcrowded mess. Lack of toilets food water and prices sky high. Was not all that it was cracked up to be rain mud sickness etc.
This is one of the best live sets of all time
The Spirit of that concert will live in us forever . We just cant remanufacture these sounds and atmosphere. The level of talent then was soooo Hip . Thanks Upstate NY . 😊
The STP sticker brought it all back!
Good vibes sent around the world by the Heat! The word PURE comes to mind when I hear Al Wilson's amazing guitar...just beautiful!
Al Wilson is one of the most underappreciated yet accomplished students and practitioners of the blues form that America has produced.
Sadly...he died the year after this performance from a narcotic OD..
@@jatoms100 yes.....shortly before Hendrix and Joplin....same basic cause of death. It's almost as if the establishment didn't want people being free and tried to take out the people they perceived as the main players of this movement
@@jatoms100 Wow. That sucks. At least he got to put on one of the greatest sets of the entire festival. They definitely left their mark, slinging straight-up Mississippi Delta Blues, inspired by John Lee Hooker, and RL Burnside. The sound on this is really dialed in, and really enhances the performance. Al Wilson’s vocals have such an interesting, nasally sound to it, and it’s uniqueness makes it instantly recognizable. He also has one of the better, “that’s not what I thought he’d look like”, going on. His physical appearance doesn’t match his vocals.
BLIND OWL LIVES ON IN US AND US IN HIM!!!!!!!!!!!
I was 13 in 1968 when I first heard the "On the road again" and I bought this single and played it again and again, they had a great success in Europe, especially in France !
Ugualmente
Canned Heat my first concert in Charlotte NC.
Probably 1970 or so.
14 million views so far! Excellent. Thanks.
Amazing. Watched it so many times. Can't have enough.
Always in our heart ❤️💖❤️...RIP...,🌹🌹🌹
Alan Wilson is simply amazing.... plenty of charisma; not to mention the song. Thanks for giving me such a great feeling.
I will never grow tired of watching this clip. Alan Wilson feeling every note. the band completely into each other. Wonderful times. How could 2.5k people dislike this?
2.5k are braindead
Poor Alan Wilson. I really don't think he realized how fucking good he was. He was an introvert who didn't think he was good enough for anyone. RIP Bro. I wish I could back to 1969 and warn him
@lil' pump Lead guitar, and lead vocal of their two most famous songs. Going up the Country, and On the Road again.
@lil' pump he was the absolute heart and soul of it.... 💪👌🙏
No Alan.... no Canned Heat, Especially after the passing of The Bear.... 😭
What an amazing slide guitar 🎸 player RIP❤️
Alan Wilson was an introverted poet, musician, and nature lover. Little understood in his time, he took refuge in music. A legend of the blues, great admirer of John Lee. He left early, leaving us 2 great songs, and leaving us indebted to his great talent. Rest in peace great blind owl.
I'm a huge gamer and when I hear old songs from bands like canned heat and creedence ect, makes me so happy that they're still being recognised and appreciated.
What does being a huge gamer have to do with that?
@@johancarlberg1530 I was wondering the same thing
@@johancarlberg1530they’ve had some songs in video games. “Going up the country” was a big one in skate 3.
What can you say just dripping with nostalgia. Speaks so eloquently of that wonderful epoch. Take me back please 🙏
Yes! Indeed. One of my favorite blues band. Saw them at a skating rink in
the lat 60’s.
St Louis
Never saw them, you two are lucky!!😎🥵
I was there just a 100 feet from the stage, as I were in 1936 when Robert Johnson headlined the Altamont Blues Festival.
Congratulations on using UA-cam at 110 years old
"The initial groove of the song is based on a traditional boogie blues rhythm used by John Lee Hooker in "Boogie Chillen'" and by Slim Harpo in "Shake Your Hips". A failed lawsuit by the copyright holder of "Boogie Chillen'" resulted in the court ruling that the rhythm was in the public domain.[6]" from Wikipedia.Allen and the boys played it in 1967. ZZ Top played it in 1969!
La Grange! Nothing new under the sun
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thanx for researched info!
I met a women in 1993. She told me a story. When she was 9, her brother returned home from his first tour in Vietnam. He took her to Woodstock. She showed me the patch on her denim. He decided to do a second tour. Told her, he needed to go be with his buddies. He was killed in action on his second tour. God Bless ALL who Served.
Military people did Gulf of Tonkin, My Lai (plus all the ones kept quiet), agent orange napalm, white phosporous, cluster bombs, bombing back to the stone age, mines still there, ear necklaces, playing card kill icons, and all for Halliburton.
Yep, it's all the style of the Holy Bible God.
amen
All who served have my respect but were used by the corporate warlords and all who died died in vain!
How’s Kim?
I remember this set so well, think Santana played that afternoon ,I was there on assignment as a photographer ,think I took all of 11 photo's .
Whenever I watch and hear Blind Owl I'm often saddened that we lost this great artist so soon. Can't help but wonder about the music that never was made in the past 52 years. Robbed we were.
Its like u could literally feel their musical cords connecting to your soul and moving you. I wish I lived in this era and got to experience this. To those who did you are blessed. I'm in my 40s now and I'm discovering and gaining more appreciation for these old time classics. The music of the 60s and 70s is unmatched. The talent and song writing is so deep and soulful
One of the best ever! Just turn the music up! Close your eyes... Open your heart and let these boys play!!!!
I LOVE Canned Heat. It is just a damn shame and injustice that they aren't in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. I met and talked to Larry Taylor and Phito DeLaParra a few years ago at a Blues Festival. Good guys. Blues Power.
AND DON'T FORGET TO BOOGIE!! BOOGIE!!
Saw them at the Miami pop festival Dec of 68! 3 days of music outside, beautiful weather, Omgosh what a memory!
This is such a theme song to the 60’s !! Love it!!
My very first concert was Canned Heat in 1970. I was ten. Can’t believe my parents let me go.
Did you go alone?
Beautiful
Thats pretty hardcore for a 10 yo
@James Clary did you smoke weed at the concert🤔
@@fastkarr8256
Contact high at the very least.
Al Wilson's opening on this is a jewel; it was Al, about five years before this, who taught Son House how to play 'Son House' when he was found in Rochester NY and was convinced that there was an audience waiting to hear him play. Also, gotta watch Bob Hite rocking out at 3:02 and the camera focuses on the deck moving under him!
Nois
Love me some Canned Heat!! Classic Woodstock Gold!
Amazing how good, and how quickly people got good back in the day... massive energy went into music.
No it didn't. They were high as kites. They weren't all that good. In fact they're solidly mediocre. I like their music because it is SO BOILERPLATE GENERIC. It's like going to a beginner's class "Blues 101" for Freshman. You listen to this old stuff and it is SO BASIC. Maybe it sounds impressive to non-musicians, but it isn't impressive music. I like simple. I admire bands that can make good music out of basic stuff, like McGyver, but with guitars n' stuff. But "good" they weren't.
@@TheBsavage Its only seen as basic now because they helped create it. The concept of 0 as a number seems incredibly basic now, but revolutionized all of math, science and technology when it was popularized.
Just think about how so few of the people in the crowd had heard this style...and how iconic and ubiquitous it would become...
To hear things for the first time...that was what made the late 60s and 70s so great...
The fact that Bob Hite was improvising the verse is stunning
So cool ... I got snuck into the drive-in to watch this movie when it first came out ... I was 8 and remember thinking that this was what i wanted to do when I got "old" like these guys ... now, I'm amazed by how young they actually were ... the guitar player had probably only been playing a couple of years - but what a tone out of that les paul! You could buy those for peanuts back then. So great to see young musicians just being themselves, completely unaffected by thoughts of "how will I look in the camera" ... it was about the band, the music and the audience - the cameras were a nevelty ....
As a millennium, I have the most respect for this generation. What a connection to the Instruments man. Wow
Er... they were ok generation before? jazz, watch Count Bassey , Oscar Peterson or miles davis etc
I will remember that summer. It was so great that I was In the middle of an amazing trip and I don't really want the hassle of the drugs that were available. The dope here are the most dangerous drugs that have to be taken in. Love never felt so good 👍
Even though the groups were the only ones who played an instrument. They really were the best 8
My ex wife spent a couple of hours hanging out with Bob after a show where she was the opening act. I'd seen them play a million times, but never got to talk to any of them. She says he was the nicest guy in the world and she just adored him. The next day he died. She was just so sad when she heard. Terrible loss. That band was one of the absolute greatest.
There will never be another 1969.
It was one of the most exciting moments in my life!
I was 3 at the time. Wish I was a bit older then. I would go back and stay there!
The world was at its peak in 1969, it all went backwards after that.
Saw them at the Bath festival 12 months later at 8.00 in the morning !
Rest in peace Larry Taylor 1942-2019
oh no - the best I have ever heard and like fellow Fats Band member Dick Innes, a warm soul and student of blues culture - which like that of hippies is one of kindness beneath & above all
BROTHER OF 'THE VENTURES BAND' DRUMMER MEL TAYLOR, BASSIST LARRY OF CANNED HEAT WAS THE EPITOME OF WOODSTOCK. WATCH HIM ROCK IN THE ORIGINAL WOODSTOCK FOOTAGE... *`L|:.D
RIP Larry. Don't forget to boogie.
Another Woodstock legend gone, that's so damn sad :-(
Rock In Peace!
I was THERE. At Woodstock! 12 Years too late but I swear I heard the Rock n' Roll and smelled the Dope. All right, to be honest, it was my Dope.
Thank You! I was in Hawaii when it went down...try to imagine you are living in Hawaii and wish you were in upstate New York when you are 14!
How was the acid compared to modern times? Seems the quality has gone to shit since Pickard got arrested.
👍🏼🤣👍🏼
Did you smell pussy. I wasn't at woodstock but I used to follow the Dead around and there was a never ending supply of weed, acid, shrooms and pussy. Now I'm old and a bit fat. Id be afraid to trip. Might have a heart attack. still like the pinky though : )
A year later my own neighborhood was like Woodstock.
May 1970
Temple Stadium
Philadelphia Pa.
Cactus
Steve Miller
Grateful Dead
Jimi Hendrix
👽 I need to build a time machine, anyone want to help?
They are going to be performing at the Indiana boogie festival this summer in July.
i can only make it go forward very slowly
yup i have one!!!!....just push the "play" button!!!
There's no compassion too the quality of the music of the 1960's1975 to the music of today there was so much going on the Vietnam war the counter culture ,Civil rights movement ,Woman's rights,questioning authority like never before and the music was call too arms I was 15 then but the music was my voice I was a child of the 60's
Me
Now that's a real '59 Les Paul. This is the only video I know of with a musician actually playing an original '59.
When your Two Front Men Die so young the Band is Lost to History. RIP Brothers.
Ain't that a shame. So talented. The ones we lost to soon, Janis Morrison Jimmy. I think the Lord wanted them with Him to form a heavenly band
@@deannaswarvar1726 now that sounds alright haha. Amen
I love this boogie blues. I was fortunate to see Canned Heat in those times and so many great gentle people and musicians and rainbow folks back then shared everything....everything. Bless each and every one who is still living from those days, and may all our young people know we love them and hope theyy heal the world asap. Musis and dance are such great curatives.
Saw them with Fever Tree in Houston, Texas back in 69 or 70, something like that at the Music Hall. I was backstage helping set up for the show. Mercy A long time ago. LOL
I was there. Shared a joint with Alan before this set.
Growing up in the eighties loving Canned Heat/Woodstock it seemed like it was a million years earlier these times. Now in 2019 as an adult it seems like this was yesterday/timeless.
Loved Canned Heat so much, still have to listen to them today, awesome band.
Just brilliant musicians 👌 how I missed this I don’t know ! Superb 👌
I was way in the back near the top of the hill and didn’t get to see them up close but I heard everything and they are one of the things I remember best.
i'm turnin 66, and i still love the bear, blind owl,the mole and fito best of all!!!"i do believe its a lovely evening for a boogie"
Oh my God, oh yes yes yes yes yes!!!!!! 🎸
Fourth of July 2020 - getting the sound of America pumped into my soul!
Wasn't that yesterday, life goes so fast
Fascinating that Jim Morrison morphed into something very close to Bear......and Roadhouse Blues sure sounds like Canned Heat!
You're right... Very reminiscent
So did ZZ Top a few years later with La Grange.
Jim Morrison loved Canned Heat and always went to their shows, they were both from California after all
they are all directly ripping from black blues musicians lol
@@tylerclaird Oh please, that argument is just silly. They give credit to the original writers unlike Zeppelin who just blatantly stole lots of stuff. Alan even retaught Son House to play the guitar in the early 60s. If you're saying white folks shouldn't play the blues, that's a bigoted approach. Where would any culture be if outside influence (especially by racial 'others') was not permissible? I mean alot of black blues was based on U.K folk songs, southern gospel is based on a european religion, the guitar itself is spanish... the list goes on in all directions. Plus many blues songs are like folk songs as they have no discernible origin and therefore no writers to steal from.
This is amazing quality for 1969.
+gasmaskboi19371945 áudio e vídeo...... fantástico !
Just like watchin an episode of the Big Valley
gasmaskboi19371945 the beauty of film reel my friend
gasmaskboi..Man, you are SO correct ! AUDIO & VIDEO BOTH....".Hatsoff" to the technicians responsible !! WELL-DONE !!!! superb clarity for 1969 !! & To all my ole hippie friends ... Hold on to the memory... & E N J O Y !!
35 mm and good color film
This band doesn't get enough love
Amen!
Man dont think anyone thought past life on that famous week let alone survive
Just discovered them. Ain’t that the truth. They got the sauce
My love for them covers it all...
Wrong , they were well loved
Imprinted on my brain..... .gets better every time I watch/listen
I've never seen someone enjoy the boogie as much as Larry "the mole" Taylor. Long live Canned Heat. Filthy swamp blues.
Flithy Swamp Blues, lmao.
Love it!!!! ❤️🏴
Great blues
so much negativity ya all, goes against everything the 60's & 70's stood for. enjoy it, embrace it, share it - damn well don't criticize it. 62 year old Canuck still feels it.
56 here same
I 67 and saw them in Houston Texas, It was Great.
+Bobby Hawkins what a dropkick comment
Im feelin' ya Chuck, that was our time bud, go with it and be proud!
@Bobby Hawkins you the ones thats been suckin just a mutherfuckin punk is all you are TRUTH
Blind Owl and the Bear One of the GREATEST BANDS ...... PERIOD !!!! I DARE ANYONE to LISTEN and NOT JIGGLE WIGGLE or GET UP AND MOVE PURE CANNED GRAVY!
Lancer X ..............“and don’t forget to boogie”............
Lancer X different Bisto 💪
Im born in ‘82 and this blows my mind every time i watch it. What an experience….
I saw these lads in an English service station way back in the 60s....we were hitchhiking back home from an EVERTON football match...they were buying coffees and sandwiches....they were obviously on their way to a gig....great band!...
Cool story! 👍
Rolled my first joint on the Canned Heat Boogie album, no regrets. 👍😎
what a guitar, what a bass, what a drum, what a voice, what a soul, what energy.... why i am living in this ERA :'(
There is a place in the Space Time Continuum where it is forever 1969
Is "era" capitalized for any particular reason Mehdi? Or do you just enjoy capitalizing random words in sentences?
As a young man well after the time of Woodstock and the music revival of the 60’s, and as a student of music, it’s always amazed me the art from this time period. One must be a student of history and the history of music to be influenced the way the men and women of the 60’s and early 70’s were. Early to mid century blues obviously had a profound impact, as well as bluegrass, and folk roots. It shines through in the many greats of the time period, even bringing the old blues men into the limelight to finally get their due and recognition. When the English joined in on the revival, you could see the influences heavy within their music as well. The writing, poetry, and singer-songwriting was absolutely out of this world.
Heck Yea!! 🤘❤
I would sell my soul again to just watch such wonderful thing live at the same hours of this concert!!
True Christians say that Rock music is from hell. So You will know ,you are going to see that concert. The Arena is crowded and it is very hot. But , You will meet many of Your friends there! And all of them are screaming of Joy...
I'm in.
You sold your soul before?
What makes this better is nobody's tryna record everyone is just watching and enjoying
@@perrtivrtsu6602 No, we really don't believe that garbage, but keep telling yourself that to justify your opinion.
We were there , Yup this old stoner had a Great time , I remember Carlos Santana - Janis Joplin - Crosby stills & Nash - Arlo Guthrie - Pete Townshend -- And the best part is - We got pregnant there
You're a bloke, and got pregnant? I love good acid.
You lucky bloke👍
@@Doog1958 - I remember drinking some Scotch and smoking a lot of joints and playing my invisible air guitar - Yup an old stoner
All are good ones
You speak for yourself
Omg This is no lie I woke up this morning and canned heat was in my head lol song was ON THE RD AGAIN LOL
Ah now that's better 😌 thanks man! Show up tune in and space the hell out of your minds please! A concert that never had to ask twice for it!! We already were man!!!
Such a great sound and I’ve always thought “Canned Heat” was one of the greatest names I’ve ever heard….
canned heat is an awesome name
Rest in Peace, Alan. You were the best.
Alan was a master of the harmonica, a master of blues guitar, a unique, original and blessed singing voice AND a great songwriter. A great great loss.
That intro after brilliant slide guitar 🎸 just awesome 👏 what a leg tapping rhythm 👌😍 very talented musicians
man ! those 'stp' stickers take me back !!!
His guitar has an amazing sound and looks so good all those scratches off the paint just shows how well he used his instrument
probably why it sounds good
Ummmm...wasn't that a 1954 Gold Top? He obviously wasn't the first owner stupid!
takin' the way-back machine back to 1969 to see and hear these guys at Woodstock first-hand !!! ... who else wants to go ???
Me!!!
Robert Walters I’m there
yes pleasssssssssssssssseeeeeeeeeeeeee
I saw canned heat at RAF Binbrook in the 70s, good stuff.