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Always Loved Going Up Country  thinking of Canyon ( what a great Zoner ! )

 

and

Time Was

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eQMA_noRYQ

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEeqy625jYU

I'm going up the country, baby, don't you wanna go?
I'm going up the country, baby, don't you wanna go?
I'm going to some place where I've never been before

I'm going, I'm going where the water tastes like wine
I'm going where the water tastes like wine
We can jump in the water, stay drunk all the time

I'm gonna leave this city, got to get away
I'm gonna leave this city, got to get away
All this fussing and fighting, man, you know I sure can't stay

Now, baby, pack your leaving trunk, you know we've got to leave today
Just exactly where we're going I cannot say, but
We might even leave the USA
'Cause there's a brand new game that I wanna play

No use of you running or screaming and crying
'Cause you've got a home as long as I've got mine

 

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I miss Henry Vestine, he lived here in the Corvallis area for many years, was always tearing it up w/ James Bradshaw, Ramblin' Rex, Mike Rosso Sr and the likes. (RIP to all).  

I saw Canned Heat at the High Times festival at Buckeye Lake (Legend Valley) in July 1999.

They rocked

Henry was a great guitarist, he lived with a buddy of mine in the 80s & 90’s. His favorite album was live at the topanga corral. I was always partial to boogie. Great blues band

The first smoking pot concert I went to was Canned Heat and Humble Pie.  Bear was wearing a vest with no shirt on. He said, this is dedicated to the police.  

He did a huge jelly belly shake, took  a hit off a bottle of whiskey and fell into the drum set.  Then got up and continued to boogie woogie.

Wow!

Then Humble Pie.

That's the way I remember it.

 

Playing in NYC 4/19@ Iridium

 

Death

On April 5, 1981, during a break between sets at The Palomino Club in North Hollywood, Hite was handed a drug vial by a fan. Thinking it contained cocaine, Hite stuck a straw into the vial and snorted it. The drug turned out to be heroin and Hite turned blue and collapsed. A group of roadies put Hite in the band's van and drove him to a nearby home, where he died.

 

James, how did Jerry do the Persian? Pipe? 

Yep.  Chased the dragon.

Damn fucked up way to go.

 

     ...the drummer lived in the deep woods of Northern California, or so I've been told.

     https://youtu.be/Hf0Dm-OaTNk

     

Larry "The Mole" Taylor, their bass player, was great.  He's on some really nice John Mayall records with Don "Sugarcane" Harris, and appears on a lot of Tom Waits albums.  Great player we lost this past August.

Thanks for the link ,Slacker.

Cool band. Sorry about your pain brother.

How about Harvey Mandel?

The Snake.  Harvey was lights out.

Down in Monterey --https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBpu3ia7Lwo

 

Harvey Mandel & Al Wilson on geetars

 

Larry Taylor - great blues bassist - played with Mayall for a while.

Vestine was in the original Mothers for a short time.

 

Wilson suffered from depression at a young age --finally did himself in one night in Laurel Canyon.