My generation. My voice. My music. My harmonica. Everything in this song is also mine. It's me. Even with my 70 years old, I feel young when I heard this music in radio FM.
@@CarlosPT-hb6zb i am with out a 70+ male perent , due to very oldness and death, but i have a 70+ female perent - today is divorce calibration day / mothers day - we celebrate single mother hood - im a bit iffy about the advantage - but still got her a bunch of flowers
Everytime I see Alan Wilson I have an idea of a US highschool movie. The nerd with no interests in sport, no luck with girls sitting the whole day long in his dark room practicing blues guitar and became a rock star last but not least😊 Great song great blues' n boogie band.
RIP the four members of Canned Heat Alan “Blind Owl” Wilson (July 4, 1943 - September 3, 1970), aged 27 Bob “The Bear” Hite (February 26, 1943 - April 5, 1981), aged 38 Henry “The Sunflower” Vestine (December 25, 1944 - October 20, 1997), aged 52 Larry “The Mole” Taylor (June 26, 1942 - August 19, 2019), aged 77 You will always be remembered as legends.
What a wonderful unique bunch of kids brought together and they gave us this wonderful music. Thank you TH-cam! They will rest in peace and their music will live on forever!!
I took several guitar lessons from Alan Wilson of Canned Heat when he lived 2 blocks away from where I lived on Venice Beach. They called him the Blind Owl because he could not see 2 feet ahead of himself w/o glasses. I was 17 years old when he heard me strumming the guitar in a side room when I went over to his house to score some weed from whatever guys lived there. Alan heard me playing & said, "Who's that?" Walked into the room & saw a teenage blonde surfer girl [from New Orleans} who knew tons about the blues, so he offered me free guitar lessons on the spot. Alan was incredible sweet and so shy. He & Bob Hite had encyclopedic knowledge of all the "real deal" blues guys like Son House & John Lee Hooker [who is quoted as saying Alan was the greatest harmonica player he ever worked with] I cried so much when Alan died --- & shed many tears over the entire 27 club that died in those few years in the late 60's early 70s. Alan died about 3 weeks before Jimi Hendrix. It is still impossible for me to process how Brian Jones, Jimi, Alan Janis & Jim Morrison all died on one cluster as they did. I was so young & for me it was too much to comprehend.
What a wonderful story! I'm a huge fan of the Blind Owl. I think he was a true musical genius. His blues harp on Boogie Chillum #2 on the Hooker n Heat album is out of this world.
Yeah, he's been gone since 1970. He died super young and I think made the 27 club. Anyways, perhaps it's time to believe it. It's been 53 years after all...
Garbage Man by Muddy Waters (harmonica player Jerry Portnoy) is right up there as the best ever, in my opinion th-cam.com/video/L6njH8xIzvg/w-d-xo.html
This sort of sound is corruption to the youth of any generation 🔊😝, they should get a long term in the army cadets ☝️likes wot we did!!!, it'd be more betterer for the likes of them 😜👍
This is one of my top five blues numbers. It literally sends shivers up my spine, listening to the loneliness in Alan Wilson's voice,all the while tapping my foot.
LOl.Wasn`t really HIS voice.It was the voice of Skip James which Alan perfectly imitated.Alan & women?He had some money from Canned Heat`s successes.And he had the potential to make more.Money gets a guy women.Alan was deeply depressed in substantial part because of his strike-outs with women.I`ll never understand how and why Canned Heat management ddn`t take care of the problem.
What magical times these were - we were kids hitchiking home from surfing at the beach one day and a man in a van stopped and said " Hey you guys , I'll give you a ride if you'll help me unload all this stuff " We jumped in and unloaded Canned Heat's equipment and watched the concert from backstage maybe at the Anaheim Convention Center ,can't remember but it was stunning and wild !
The blind man would of wrote so many other good songs. He passed away to young I still blame Hite for not finding him till after he was gone. Hite was notorious for drinking other people under the table.
Suicide was never confirmed, died of an OD. He was depressed and had attempted suicide before though. Interestingly, he died 2 weeks after Hendrix and a month before Joplin.
Absolute, sheer music brillance. This is the best song I have ever heard in my life. Brilliance harmonics by Bob Hite. Alan Wilson's voice is off the planet. A brilliance musical genius like Bob HIte and the other musicians.
Absolutely classic song of the 60's. In fact, one of the best of the past 50-odd years. Remember it well when it first came out and just as brilliant today.
I remember this group well back in the late 60s and at woodstock they were sensational, one of the most underrated groups ever to come out of the USA and Alan Wilsons voice was the icing on the cake.
Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson was the man, incredible feeling through his voice, Bob "The Bear" Hite destroying the harmonica, Henry "Sunflower" Vestine making the guitar crawl and Larry "The Mole" Taylor kicking the bass. Wilson, who had always suffered from depression, was said by some to have attempted suicide by driving his van off the road near Hite's home in Topanga Canyon. Unlike other members of the band, Wilson did not have much success with women and was deeply upset and frustrated by this. His depression also worsened over time. On September 3, 1970, just before leaving for a festival in Berlin, the band learned of Wilson's death by barbiturate overdose; his body was found on a hillside behind Hite's home. De la Parra and other members of the band believed that his death was a suicide. Wilson died at the age of 27, just weeks before Jimi Hendrix, and then Janis Joplin, died at the same age. On April 5, 1981, having collapsed from a heroin overdose during a show at the Palomino in Los Angeles, Bob Hite was later found dead in de la Parra's Mar Vista home at the age of 38. On October 20, 1997, a tired and cancer stricken Vestine died in Paris, France following the final gig of a European tour. On August 19, 2019 Taylor died after a twelve-year battle with cancer. They were the incredible Canned Heat...
I was not alive during the 60's but been sharing this band with others.. AMAZING talented band! Wish I was there back then to let Alan how really special he was.. but glad for all these videos; hope to read Fido's book about them someday.
Thing is, that's Al Wilson on harp. They're lip syncing. Because Wilson is singing Bear is basically faking it. He could play too but he wasn't as good as Wilson.
Listen to this incredible vocalist and the dissonance in his voice. Absolutely brilliant. Well, I'm so tired of crying But I'm out on the road again I'm on the road again Well, I'm so tired of crying But I'm out on the road again I'm on the road again I ain't got no woman Just to call my special friend You know the first time I traveled Out in the rain and snow - In the rain and snow You know the first time I traveled Out in the rain and snow - In the rain and snow I didn't have no payroll Not even no place to go And my dear mother left me When I was quite young - When I was quite young And my dear mother left me When I was quite young - When I was quite young She said "Lord, have mercy On my wicked son." Take a hint from me, mama Please don't you cry no more - Don't you cry no more Take a hint from me, mama Please don't you cry no more - Don't you cry no more 'Cause it's soon one morning Down the road I'm going But I ain't going down That long old lonesome road All by myself But I ain't going down That long old lonesome road All by myself I can't carry you, baby Gonna carry somebody else
I don't miss those days. Even under a strong dictatorship (I'm Portuguese...) and under a tremendous and unfair colonial war, we could resist to fascism with these musics and radio semi - clandestine programs...
lots of people these days wouldn’t appreciate this kind of music like most of us did growing up in the 60’s n 70’s they don’t respect there selves let alone the great music back then I feel lucky to have grown up with this treasured stuff not most the crap they put out in today’s world !! 👍
I’m 14 and I adore this music and the 60’s and 70’s. The new stuff nowadays is terrible you can’t even dance to the garbage they play at school dances!
All the good times are gone But damn we have memories not one of them could I D with. Not really Gone but for now not forgotten. There are still some of us left.👍
This great band still send shivers down my spine like no other , RIP guys you were simply the best, miss those great days and times , life was so much better then than 2023
Look closer. Bob Hite is NOT actually playing it, he's faking it. (They all are in fact) Wilson pulls back from mic while vocals remain strong, etc. Lots of giveaways. You can see/hear him get off track at a few different points. In the actual recording it's Alan Wilson playing the Veena, guitar, and harmonica as well as doing the vocals. Track layering was big back then too.
Truly one of the most unique and haunting harmonica tones and blues voices and sounds ever recorded. RIP Blind Owl.. You were one of the greats and left us way too soon and could have went on to record so many more awesome tracks like that one and RIP Bear, you left too early as well and left your mark before you did too.
John Lee Hooker said that Alan Wilson was THE greatest harp (harmonica) player of all time. In it's original recording, it was Alan who opened with the harmonica, played the tamboura, and swapped lead guitar roles. He was a musical genius. He brought back original Delta Blues to the forefront and gave a new generation the chance to hear pure greatness. He left us entirely too soon. I can never imagine what could have been.
For some reason I never took much notice of this song even though I've known of it for decades. Looming at him I thought he looked 'out of it' so I looked on-line for information. I didn't know he is yet another member of the 27 Club. Alan Wilson's death (lead singer) came fourteen months after the death of Brian Jones, just two weeks before the death of Jimi Hendrix, four weeks before the death of Janis Joplin, and ten months before the death of Jim Morrison, four artists who also died at the same age. Wilson was cremated, and on September 13, 1970. 🇬🇧
I agree fully! i spent 7 long year's working on my album here in South Africa. It has got to be the only Christian American/South African music project out there and maybe even secular too. I was blessed to have some of the best talent on my album and where is it now? On itunes collecting dust. At least so far anyways... My album doesn't fit the norm and was totally produced by me, so I own all the rights to the songs and not some Music company. Hence.....no budget for promotion, but at least I've created spiritual magic in the world. Cheers!!!
Ogni volta che li ascolto immediatamente ritornano quegli anni favolosi. Ascolterei all'infinito quell'armonica. Rivoglio il mondo come era allora. Spero che questi artisti ovunque siano ora,siano felici. Vi amiamo ancora e x sempre. Grazie x questa musica eterna.
The more the years come and go the more I realize how irreplaceable Alan Wilson was. To think how much this masterpiece resonates over the decades and will until time immemorial and that Alan's life was so short by comparison is poignant to me. Rest in peace noble knight.
Saw them at Civic Arena in Dec 68 in Pittsburgh, with Iron Butterfly, and The Goodies. They did this then with an extended instrumental jam. Great harmonica .
I'm with ya ... 70 has caught up to me in the first of the year, but so far I've beaten it down and feel good again......and listening to the Heat playing this rejuvinates me even MORE !!!
very beautiful masterpiece, great music & memories of life, 100% pure talent, solid gold standard of excellence, absolutely magnificent masterpiece at its very best that touches your heart
Great song, by a really great, and I think underappreciated group. "Future Blues" is one of my personal all-time favorite albums, even though I have quite a few.
The lead singer by no means was ugly. Beauty/handsome has many definitions, as it is in the eyes of the beholder. What a sweet, pure voice, what rhythm!!!!!!
There's a moment at about 02:36, just after Blind Owl has finished singing "... carry somebody else." His eyes are almost closed, to me he just looks beautiful in that moment, just like he's absolutely just inside that massive, relentless, wonderful groove. Hmmm.... that sounds a bit silly. I'm sure I've explained it poorly. But I love this song, and I love that moment.
This was not my generational music so imagine how strangely i was looked at as a 15 year old playing canned heat at school on my CD walk man...today's music has nothing on real blues boogie bands like Canned Heat! I missed out. Born in the wrong era! Man I missed out!
This song and “goin up the country” welcomed me with open arms when I checked out in civvies after three brutal combat tours in Vietnam. I took them on the road with me. God I miss those days.
when blind owl wilson died in 69 it was basically over for canned heat. the band stayed together but when your singer/songwriter/guitarist/harmonica player is dead its kinda tough to move forward. died after hendrix and just before joplin. guy was an amazing musician.
Poor Alan Wilson, how could girls not like him? He was talented and charming! Like me: he suffered from anxiety and depression, and his unlucky luck with woman made him frustrated and upset and he went through a period of depression because of it… RIP to Alan Wilson and to the rest of band.
Fito(Adolfo de la Parra), the drummer, is 72 and says as long as he can still play & breathe, that he'll keep THE HEAT BOOGIE-ING ON!!! God Bless him! The rest of the band will always be missed. Kings Of The Boogie! I believe Fito is NUMBER ONE on greatest unsung drummers list!!!
Ils l'ont joué des dizaines de fois de fois mais jamais de la même façon, suivant leur ressenti, signe d'un super groupe de blues, certainement le plus grand, sans nul artifice,
My generation. My voice. My music. My harmonica. Everything in this song is also mine. It's me. Even with my 70 years old, I feel young when I heard this music in radio FM.
Oh man you are right on the money, this song this band take back to my 18 yr old self. Those carefree days.
Same here
Good for you old boy good for you chin up high never looking back no matter what the cause
First time I heard this song I just got done scoring with this beautiful new girl that came to our school man wasn’t she hot
GFY
Blind Owl's vocal and blues harp are a killer. Such a timeless song
I am now 76 but remember hearing this in 1968 ! Keep on Truckin !
I'm now 70 and I remember perfectely this group and this music.
I'm only 16 and this one of my favourite songs of all time. Shows you how the music ages like wine.
funny you say "keep on truckin" that was the thumb nail i used for mothers day / sperm day on twatter today
@@CarlosPT-hb6zb i am with out a 70+ male perent , due to very oldness and death, but i have a 70+ female perent - today is divorce calibration day / mothers day - we celebrate single mother hood - im a bit iffy about the advantage - but still got her a bunch of flowers
King
Fifty years on, we still celebrate them. R.I.P. Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson.
I loved Mr. Alan Wilson
Truth
harry styles who?
Indeed! 😌💙
RIP blind owl . This song is very sacred .
I remember listening to Canned Heat as a kid. I was 12 during Woodstock. Some of the greatest music ever.
Everytime I see Alan Wilson I have an idea of a US highschool movie.
The nerd with no interests in sport, no luck with girls sitting the whole day long in his dark room practicing blues guitar and became a rock star last but not least😊
Great song great blues' n boogie band.
Read “Weird Scenes Inside Laurel Canyon” and it might change your mind on some things.
Legendary band
RIP the four members of Canned Heat
Alan “Blind Owl” Wilson (July 4, 1943 - September 3, 1970), aged 27
Bob “The Bear” Hite (February 26, 1943 - April 5, 1981), aged 38
Henry “The Sunflower” Vestine (December 25, 1944 - October 20, 1997), aged 52
Larry “The Mole” Taylor (June 26, 1942 - August 19, 2019), aged 77
You will always be remembered as legends.
And Adolfo « Fito » de la Parra, the drummer, is still alive
What a wonderful unique bunch of kids brought together and they gave us this wonderful music.
Thank you TH-cam!
They will rest in peace and their music will live on forever!!
All passed away. HOW SAD!
I did NOT know that. Thank you for that.
Так точно👍👍👍
The Mole lived a very long life relatively speaking.
I was 18 when this song came out. I still listen to Canned Heat. Great band!!
Me too I believe . First time I have ever seen the band . Thanks to TH-cam .
Real musicians, Real talent, Amazing music. That was the 60's!!!!
Most underrated band. Such talent. Never gets tired
Yes true that
eat fart idiot 🗣🍑💨😩
Blues legends, Alan Wilson is one of my biggest heroes!
You know, when I hear this music I'd wish I grew up back then. No mobile phones, no social media. The only connection was music.
Thumbs up, but it's more like the most understated band.
Jammin at 6 AM with Canned Heat because there’s no better way to start your day for a 73 yr.old crone. 4/21/24
Me 69 and the lady, 64 still digging this music more than 55 years later. Enjoy while you can. 10/8/2024
I took several guitar lessons from Alan Wilson of Canned Heat when he lived 2 blocks away from where I lived on Venice Beach. They called him the Blind Owl because he could not see 2 feet ahead of himself w/o glasses. I was 17 years old when he heard me strumming the guitar in a side room when I went over to his house to score some weed from whatever guys lived there. Alan heard me playing & said, "Who's that?" Walked into the room & saw a teenage blonde surfer girl [from New Orleans} who knew tons about the blues, so he offered me free guitar lessons on the spot. Alan was incredible sweet and so shy. He & Bob Hite had encyclopedic knowledge of all the "real deal" blues guys like Son House & John Lee Hooker [who is quoted as saying Alan was the greatest harmonica player he ever worked with] I cried so much when Alan died --- & shed many tears over the entire 27 club that died in those few years in the late 60's early 70s. Alan died about 3 weeks before Jimi Hendrix. It is still impossible for me to process how Brian Jones, Jimi, Alan Janis & Jim Morrison all died on one cluster as they did. I was so young & for me it was too much to comprehend.
What a wonderful story! I'm a huge fan of the Blind Owl. I think he was a true musical genius. His blues harp on Boogie Chillum #2 on the Hooker n Heat album is out of this world.
Canned heat is something.
“Lord have mercy on my wicked son .”
Greatest blues line ever written .
Alan “Blind Owl” Wilson was such a musical genius, can’t believe he’s gone but thank you Alan for blessing us with your gift
I don’t know if I should say this but he’s been gone for quite a long time. Sorry to break the news.
Yeah, he's been gone since 1970. He died super young and I think made the 27 club. Anyways, perhaps it's time to believe it. It's been 53 years after all...
Yes he was a member of the 27 club
His voice and that wicked harmonica ...perfect counterparts. Badass jam!
Whatever happened to the harmonica? Awesome song!
@@billrobbins5874 R I P to Blind Owl ... and the Harmonica 🖐️🙏
A great group! A great song. Terribly underrated. This takes me back to my youthful days. I could listen to this over and over again. 👍
The harmonica was altered to achieve such a wickedly beautifully tone
It only took a file to make us all shiver
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Most badass harmonica intro to ever be recorded , ever
Hugh Jaynis The live version of Smokestack Lightning by Howlin Wolf also has a badass harmonica intro
That's not Bob Hite, that's the Owl playing that harp.
can't take anything away from Blackfoot / Train Train now really
Love how Wilson’s voice even sort of mimics the harp
Garbage Man by Muddy Waters (harmonica player Jerry Portnoy) is right up there as the best ever, in my opinion th-cam.com/video/L6njH8xIzvg/w-d-xo.html
Iwas at Woodstock in 1969 i was 15 when heard this banda what memories, god time flies
i was one year old at first Glastonbury
How lucky you are! Greetings from London, UK. April 2024
Ti invidio. Avrei voluto essere anch'io là. Siamo stati fortunati ad aver vissuto quegli anni favolosi. Ciao dall Italia.
That's awesome. I've spent my life wishing I'd been there. But I was born in '67 in the UK. I'd love to hear your stories of the experience.
For me, this songs groove is soooooo great! It pulls me right inside everytime.😊😊
This sort of sound is corruption to the youth of any generation 🔊😝, they should get a long term in the army cadets ☝️likes wot we did!!!, it'd be more betterer for the likes of them 😜👍
This is one of my top five blues numbers. It literally sends shivers up my spine, listening to the loneliness in Alan Wilson's voice,all the while tapping my foot.
This song is a masterpiece, but if this is in your top 5 Blues songs, then you really need to listen to more Blues.
@@Fire_Storm78 ...and you really need to start your own stubbed comment instead of fouling someone else's
You're too sensitive for the real Blues.🤣
@@jonnamechange6854 It's called a comment section. 🤣🤣 👋👋
@@Fire_Storm78 Go on then, give us your top five...
Amazing. I always come back to this beautiful song. it puts me in a melancholic relaxation, I feel it massaging my sadness.
Cheer up. Life gets a lot worse from here, and then you die.
One of the best grooves ever. You know they could play this for like an hour. No beginning. No end.
What a unique voice. Went perfect for their style of blues.
Yes, l agree,,,
Kermit the frog couldn't have sung this better
LOl.Wasn`t really HIS voice.It was the voice of Skip James which Alan perfectly imitated.Alan & women?He had some money from Canned Heat`s successes.And he had the potential to make more.Money gets a guy women.Alan was deeply depressed in substantial part because of his strike-outs with women.I`ll never understand how and why Canned Heat management ddn`t take care of the problem.
Agreed. And it sounds very much like the harmonica you hear in the song!
He's got a voice like ledbelly
What magical times these were - we were kids hitchiking home from surfing at the beach one day and a man in a van stopped and said " Hey you guys , I'll give you a ride if you'll help me unload all this stuff " We jumped in and unloaded Canned Heat's equipment and watched the concert from backstage maybe at the Anaheim Convention Center ,can't remember but it was stunning and wild !
Skyval that's so cool ur lucky to experience that😩🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾
Once in a lifetime.
Now
Skol!
That's awesome!
R.I.P Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson. We love you
Troy Crabb immage
He had that something !!.. so bloody sad he passed away so young !~! :(
The blind man would of wrote so many other good songs. He passed away to young I still blame Hite for not finding him till after he was gone. Hite was notorious for drinking other people under the table.
@@adamjordan8486 What happened?
@@carlsaganlives4141 just google his death.
The lead singer has one of the most distinctive singing voices that I have ever heard. A great song by a great band. Thanks for the memories! !!!!
+walter spaceman Amen, brotha!!!!!!
Suicide was never confirmed, died of an OD. He was depressed and had attempted suicide before though. Interestingly, he died 2 weeks after Hendrix and a month before Joplin.
Was 2 weeks before Hendrix and 4 weeks before Joplin fyi!
His voice was inspired by skip james
Churchill was always...spot on
Absolute, sheer music brillance. This is the best song I have ever heard in my life. Brilliance harmonics by Bob Hite. Alan Wilson's voice is off the planet. A brilliance musical genius like Bob HIte and the other musicians.
10 million hits. Canned Heat still cookin after all these years...........and years.
This and "going up the country"......MY 60's memories!
Heart and Soul! ❤❤
The Blind Owl, We miss you man!!
me to :(
One time at a wedding he accidently set his guitar down on the wedding cake lol he literally couldnt see without his glasses
Gregory Owen Could also be the social anxiety making him nervous and clumsy.
I was shocked too hear of his passing at just 27, OMG, what a sad loss.
@@constantdarkfog49 it was 2 weeks before jimi death
4 weeks before janis death
10 months before jim death
Absolutely classic song of the 60's. In fact, one of the best of the past 50-odd years. Remember it well when it first came out and just as brilliant today.
I remember this group well back in the late 60s and at woodstock they were sensational, one of the most underrated groups ever to come out of the USA and Alan Wilsons voice was the icing on the cake.
Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson was the man, incredible feeling through his voice, Bob "The Bear" Hite destroying the harmonica, Henry "Sunflower" Vestine making the guitar crawl and Larry "The Mole" Taylor kicking the bass. Wilson, who had always suffered from depression, was said by some to have attempted suicide by driving his van off the road near Hite's home in Topanga Canyon. Unlike other members of the band, Wilson did not have much success with women and was deeply upset and frustrated by this. His depression also worsened over time. On September 3, 1970, just before leaving for a festival in Berlin, the band learned of Wilson's death by barbiturate overdose; his body was found on a hillside behind Hite's home. De la Parra and other members of the band believed that his death was a suicide. Wilson died at the age of 27, just weeks before Jimi Hendrix, and then Janis Joplin, died at the same age. On April 5, 1981, having collapsed from a heroin overdose during a show at the Palomino in Los Angeles, Bob Hite was later found dead in de la Parra's Mar Vista home at the age of 38. On October 20, 1997, a tired and cancer stricken Vestine died in Paris, France following the final gig of a European tour. On August 19, 2019 Taylor died after a twelve-year battle with cancer. They were the incredible Canned Heat...
purplehazeperu wow brother you know your shit, I’ve known this for years I just thought nobody cared. But I do.
I was not alive during the 60's but been sharing this band with others.. AMAZING talented band!
Wish I was there back then to let Alan how really special he was.. but glad for all these videos; hope to read Fido's book about them someday.
😥
Thanks for the info. Amazing voice on this guy, unique.
Thing is, that's Al Wilson on harp. They're lip syncing. Because Wilson is singing Bear is basically faking it. He could play too but he wasn't as good as Wilson.
Listen to this incredible vocalist and the dissonance in his voice. Absolutely brilliant.
Well, I'm so tired of crying
But I'm out on the road again
I'm on the road again
Well, I'm so tired of crying
But I'm out on the road again
I'm on the road again
I ain't got no woman
Just to call my special friend
You know the first time I traveled
Out in the rain and snow -
In the rain and snow
You know the first time I traveled
Out in the rain and snow -
In the rain and snow
I didn't have no payroll
Not even no place to go
And my dear mother left me
When I was quite young -
When I was quite young
And my dear mother left me
When I was quite young -
When I was quite young
She said "Lord, have mercy
On my wicked son."
Take a hint from me, mama
Please don't you cry no more -
Don't you cry no more
Take a hint from me, mama
Please don't you cry no more -
Don't you cry no more
'Cause it's soon one morning
Down the road I'm going
But I ain't going down
That long old lonesome road
All by myself
But I ain't going down
That long old lonesome road
All by myself
I can't carry you, baby
Gonna carry somebody else
+davidhertzberg Absolutely great vocals, Canada loves the Heat.
+Mckessa King - France loves too............
+davidhertzberg Philippines represent!
+davidhertzberg New Zealand rocked to the heat!.
+davidhertzberg It's funny because he's not even their main vocalist but the two most well known songs of theirs are sung by him. xD
I was a teenager then. I miss those days. Great music.
I don't miss those days. Even under a strong dictatorship (I'm Portuguese...) and under a tremendous and unfair colonial war, we could resist to fascism with these musics and radio semi - clandestine programs...
Me too! Wish i could go back😢
Great Stuff! RIP Al Wilson and Bob Hite. Keep on rockin' in Heaven!
I love Al Wilson's voice!!
What talent this group had, Blind Owl a great musician, and a clear vision of the blues.
Masterpiece of Music History
in rock and roll history
It really is
lots of people these days wouldn’t appreciate this kind of music like most of us did growing up in the 60’s n 70’s they don’t respect there selves let alone the great music back then I feel lucky to have grown up with this treasured stuff not most the crap they put out in today’s world !! 👍
Michael Laughlin I love the music from my teenage years. I’m not just an old man trying to hang onto the past it’s just good music.
I’m 14 and I adore this music and the 60’s and 70’s. The new stuff nowadays is terrible you can’t even dance to the garbage they play at school dances!
All the good times are gone
But damn we have memories not one of them could I D with.
Not really
Gone but for now not forgotten. There are still some of us left.👍
This great band still send shivers down my spine like no other , RIP guys you were simply the best, miss those great days and times , life was so much better then than 2023
Bob Hite killing it on the harmonica! The greatest harmonica player of all time.
Strange enough , Wilson was considered one of the best blues harmonica players of his time . They're all legends to me though ! ❤️
Wilson played harmonica on this song I believe.
If you believe that, then you need to listen to Little Walter.
Look closer. Bob Hite is NOT actually playing it, he's faking it. (They all are in fact) Wilson pulls back from mic while vocals remain strong, etc. Lots of giveaways. You can see/hear him get off track at a few different points. In the actual recording it's Alan Wilson playing the Veena, guitar, and harmonica as well as doing the vocals. Track layering was big back then too.
This was done off the record, and it is actually Alan on harmonica, vocals, and guitar.
One of my favorite songs and band. The lead singer's voice was awesome.
It`s Alan Wilson aka The Blind Owl! May he rest in peace with his Friend Bob Hite!
I remember.
I was a young boy when I saw this clip on TV. I was literally fascinated
don't get better tempo than this - haunting and you can not deny that, born in the 50's owning this song man
Truly one of the most unique and haunting harmonica tones and blues voices and sounds ever recorded. RIP Blind Owl.. You were one of the greats and left us way too soon and could have went on to record so many more awesome tracks like that one and RIP Bear, you left too early as well and left your mark before you did too.
One of the most best rolling pieces of music of the age that I have ever heard. So smooth, so cool. Just a peace of smooth
If I was to make a list about my favorite songs ever, this would be number 1. Lovely Alan Wilson!
John Lee Hooker said that Alan Wilson was THE greatest harp (harmonica) player of all time. In it's original recording, it was Alan who opened with the harmonica, played the tamboura, and swapped lead guitar roles. He was a musical genius. He brought back original Delta Blues to the forefront and gave a new generation the chance to hear pure greatness. He left us entirely too soon. I can never imagine what could have been.
Thank you for sharing ~ and sincerely thank you for teaching about the finer details of the songs.
LOVE IT! ❤ 🎸 🩷
For some reason I never took much notice of this song even though I've known of it for decades. Looming at him I thought he looked 'out of it' so I looked on-line for information. I didn't know he is yet another member of the 27 Club.
Alan Wilson's death (lead singer) came fourteen months after the death of Brian Jones, just two weeks before the death of Jimi Hendrix, four weeks before the death of Janis Joplin, and ten months before the death of Jim Morrison, four artists who also died at the same age. Wilson was cremated, and on September 13, 1970. 🇬🇧
I was born in 1971. This stuff brings back images, smells and sounds of the 70's!!!! Thank you for this masterpiece!!!
This was from a time when they let the cream rise to the top. Now the music industry tries to push the shit out front.
Is that some kind of innuendo?
I agree fully! i spent 7 long year's working on my album here in South Africa. It has got to be the only Christian American/South African music project out there and maybe even secular too. I was blessed to have some of the best talent on my album and where is it now? On itunes collecting dust. At least so far anyways... My album doesn't fit the norm and was totally produced by me, so I own all the rights to the songs and not some Music company. Hence.....no budget for promotion, but at least I've created spiritual magic in the world. Cheers!!!
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They did, and the record label owners and execs licked off the cream and left the crumbs for the artists
You pulled that right out of my brain... Very well said.
Ogni volta che li ascolto immediatamente ritornano quegli anni favolosi. Ascolterei all'infinito quell'armonica. Rivoglio il mondo come era allora. Spero che questi artisti ovunque siano ora,siano felici. Vi amiamo ancora e x sempre. Grazie x questa musica eterna.
lord have mercy on my wicked son...his look after he sings that part really gets me.
OMG I never noticed that and now I'm heartbroken. Made me tear up. Bless his heart.
+Justin W He isn't even singing (obvious playback..)
Justin W ditto
JUSTIN W. - I've watched this vid so many times through the decades. But since you pointed out his expression after that line, now I'm affected too!
One of the best 60's songs and bands.
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I saw your comment in Focus Hocus Pocus :P
Was my favorite I'd pop in Canned Heat tape into my 4 track player with the reverberator in my convertabel and really enjoyed my sixteenth year.
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The more the years come and go the more I realize how irreplaceable Alan Wilson was. To think how much this masterpiece resonates over the decades and will until time immemorial and that Alan's life was so short by comparison is poignant to me. Rest in peace noble knight.
Ad oggi, il brano più ipnotico della storia del rock
Старый добрый блюз. Это на века👍👍👍
Alan Wilson never stood a chance.
Awesome song! His voice is amazing.
Nunca estuve en este desmadre pero como me hubiera gustado estar pues me gusta mucho la música de el canned hit chido por este cotorreo
RIP Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson. Your harmonica skills and signature voice will never be forgotten. Great Song. This and Going Up The Country.
Saw them at Civic Arena in Dec 68 in Pittsburgh, with Iron Butterfly, and The Goodies. They did this then with an extended instrumental jam. Great harmonica .
Wow. I have loved this song for over 44 years now.
Toute ma jeunesse, bercée par ces musiques qui étaient " hors normes " dans ces années 60/70 .
I'm with ya ... 70 has caught up to me in the first of the year, but so far I've beaten it down and feel good again......and listening to the Heat playing this rejuvinates me even MORE !!!
very beautiful masterpiece, great music & memories of life, 100% pure talent, solid gold standard of excellence, absolutely magnificent masterpiece at its very best that touches your heart
one of the best songs of past...and still is. great voice, big boogie.
Es un temon, fantástico, gracias You Tube ❤❤
Great song, by a really great, and I think underappreciated group. "Future Blues" is one of my personal all-time favorite albums, even though I have quite a few.
I love Alan's voice,its relaxing,and cool.
It is such a shame that he died so young, he was a massive talent.
Al Wilson's best song. On The Road Again. A very unique singer one if the best. And all those years ago. He is so missed. Remember him always. Valerie
He died too early 27 years young at ‘70 (1970)
The lead singer by no means was ugly. Beauty/handsome has many definitions, as it is in the eyes of the beholder. What a sweet, pure voice, what rhythm!!!!!!
Saw them at a live concert in Pleasnton, CA........at least i'm 90% sure that's where i was. Most of the 60's are a little fuzzy.
Alan Wilson is simply and incredibly charismatic. Amazing music, as well as the words. I am addicted.....
Song still rocks me!!❤️❤️❤️
There's a moment at about 02:36, just after Blind Owl has finished singing "... carry somebody else." His eyes are almost closed, to me he just looks beautiful in that moment, just like he's absolutely just inside that massive, relentless, wonderful groove. Hmmm.... that sounds a bit silly. I'm sure I've explained it poorly. But I love this song, and I love that moment.
I feel the same way actually
You got it right...
Perfect
This is not just music. O brothers, this is History... the one we need to remember every day to build a better future.
This vid is a great up close look at The blind Owl performing. That guy was a fucking musical genius who died way too young.
Uffff increíble.
Fue mi concierto en Barcelona.
Bonjour bonito.
Felis
Just found out I'm related to Robert Ernest "bob" "the bear" and I'm a musician in a 60s blues rock band lol never saw that coming
Anytime I hear this song I feel it deep in my bones! Timeless classic!
This was not my generational music so imagine how strangely i was looked at as a 15 year old playing canned heat at school on my CD walk man...today's music has nothing on real blues boogie bands like Canned Heat! I missed out. Born in the wrong era! Man I missed out!
This song and “goin up the country” welcomed me with open arms when I checked out in civvies after three brutal combat tours in Vietnam. I took them on the road with me. God I miss those days.
one of the best driving songs along with Mid- Night rider by the Allman brothers , open road , super B train truck and trailer , great stuff
the good old time ❤❤❤❤
these guys crashed and burned quickly, but they were true originals!! A seminal 60s band, and they brought me great joy!!! Great video...
when blind owl wilson died in 69 it was basically over for canned heat. the band stayed together but when your singer/songwriter/guitarist/harmonica player is dead its kinda tough to move forward. died after hendrix and just before joplin. guy was an amazing musician.
David Tucker They are all awesome musicians too, we just miss wilson so much!
agreed. john lee hooker said wilson was the greatest harmonica player ever. high praise indeed.
Jonesy Abelar
yes of course.
David Tucker
do you still do it?
what a fab intro to a splendid band ,this guys voice is something else xxx
The first time that I saw this band, I was shocked by the appearance of the band members. I listened out of curiosity. They were unique.
Piece of art, from both musicians and vocalist.
very beautiful song, real masterpiece, great music & memories of life
That is such a great sound. It doesn't get old.
I'd say it aged like good wine.
The amount of people who dislike this song I guess we should be angry with, but feel sorry for because they must be tone deaf!!!
Poor Alan Wilson, how could girls not like him? He was talented and charming! Like me: he suffered from anxiety and depression, and his unlucky luck with woman made him frustrated and upset and he went through a period of depression because of it… RIP to Alan Wilson and to the rest of band.
A masterpiece.
Fito(Adolfo de la Parra), the drummer, is 72 and says as long as he can still play & breathe, that he'll keep THE HEAT BOOGIE-ING ON!!!
God Bless him! The rest of the band will always be missed. Kings Of The Boogie!
I believe Fito is NUMBER ONE on greatest unsung drummers list!!!
What a great lose it was when Al Blind Owl Wilson joined the 27 club. The guy was SO talented.
Crazy cool voice
They are just to good for words.
Just wish that Blind Owl Wilson hadn´t overdosed. He would have had a great career singin´ the blues. I sure do miss him and his voice.
Ils l'ont joué des dizaines de fois de fois mais jamais de la même façon, suivant leur ressenti, signe d'un super groupe de blues, certainement le plus grand, sans nul artifice,
alan "Blind Owl" Wilson who is singing, was so near sighted he once laid his guitar on a wedding cake