King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents in Concert [Live]

Canned Heat | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 27, 1996)
• Original Release Date: 1979
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Label: King Biscuit Flower
• ASIN: B000005EIN
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #228,383 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Intro

2. On the Road Again

3. Bullfrog Blues

4. Chicken Shack Boogie

5. Stand Up (For What You Are)

6. Going Up the Country

7. Don't Know Where She Went (She Split)

8. Human Condition

9. Shake 'n Boogie

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars CANNED HEAT KING BISCUIT FLOWER HOUR, July 26, 2001

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"savdog" (encinitas, ca. USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents in Concert (Audio CD)

THIS CD IS A MUST FOR ANY FAN OF CANNED HEAT,WITH, THE ADDED BONUS OF "HOLLYWOOD FATS", AKA MIKE MANN, ON GUITAR. THERE ISN'T A BAD CUT ON THIS FABULOUS RECORDING.OF THE SMALL AMOUNT OF RECORDINGS BY THE LATE FATS, THIS IS A TRUELY GREAT FIND.THE TWO BOOGIE CUTS ON THIS CD ARE OUTRAGEOUS!TURN YOUR FRIENDS ON TO THIS CD.GLORIOUS!

9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Non stop boogie from start to finish!, November 16, 1999

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Warren Gammel (Ocala, Florida USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents in Concert (Audio CD)

Too bad this is just a one hour set made for radio play. I couldn't help but get up and boogie to the Heat's infectious foot stomping beat when I listened to this CD this morning. Canned Heat's studio work is great, but their live performances are legendary for pumping up the audience and this King Buscuit performance is no exception.

What is greatly needed - and long overdue - is a double CD of Canned Heat doing a full extended length set. What ever happened to their Woodstock tapes? The new Jimi Hendrix Live At Woodstock double CD is great - but can you boogie and dance to it?

Long live Canned Heat and long live boogie!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not that great....., March 8, 2011

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kireviewer (Sunnyvale, Ca United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: King Biscuit Flower Hour Presents in Concert (Audio CD)

This CD is from a Woodstock 10 year anniversary reunion show in 1979. It is 45 minutes long and has about 35 minutes worth of music (the rest is Hite jabbering to the audience). The sound quality is OK, but the mix is bad. The bass is way to up front in parts.

Cofounder, guitarist, singer and composer Alan Wilson had died the year after woodstock. The other cofounder, Bob Hite continued on with the band (until he died two years after this concert). In that time, the band sort of evolved from a blues and boogie band to more of a rockabilly southern band. They seem like a cross between Little Feat and Steve Earle.

For this show, the only original members of the band (to have played on the last album, Human Condition) are Bob Hite on lead vocals and little bit of harmonica and Adolfo de la Parra on drums. Bassist Larry Taylor is back in the band after leaving in 1971. I don't know how much he practiced with the band before the show. He bass lines seem pretty simplistic on a number of the songs. The band also has a new guitarist and keyboardist which do have some pretty good moments and others not so good. The guitarist seems to borrow from everyone.

The playing on some of the songs is not that inspired. The band just runs through songs like On the Road Again and Bullfrog Blues. There aren't any of the great boogies the band was famous for in the past. But, it is still fairly enjoyable in some parts. With a burner, I will rip about 20 minutes of pretty good music.

I am surprised to see that this is still available on Amazon. May of the King Biscuit CDs by other groups are out of print and only avialable on Wolfgangs Vault. There are other versions of this concert also floating around under different names.