Canned Heat — Playboy After Dark

Here’s one of the great overlooked bands of the 1960′s and 1970′s, Canned Heat. Comprised of Bob “The Bear” Hite, Alan “Blind Owl” Wilson (guitar), Larry “The Mole” Taylor, Fito de La Parra & Henry Vestine. The band suffered its first blow in 1970 when Alan Wilson commited suicide. Wilson was responsible for the unique tenor voice on the two of the band’s biggest hits, “On The Road Again” and “Up The Country”. The band played at the Newport Pop festival, Woodstock recorded several great albums including one with the blues great, John Lee Hooker entitled, Hooker-N-Heat. Lineup and personnel changes throughout the 1970′s typified life for Canned Heat, until “The Bear” died in 1981. Canned Heat still plays today, lacking its founding members, but still imploring those who come to see them, to not “forget to boogie”.

Here’s a bonus clip of Canned Heat at Woodstock: