Customer Reviews

Live In Europe 1970

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The music is great! Al Wilson is all over the record on harp, guitar and vocal. A really burning version of Sonny Boy's Bring it on home takes the price for best song. The quality of sound is not that great. No mastertapes were used. This is pure vinyl to CD.

This is a fantastic CD, featuring Canned Heat at their best. A wonderful live album with all the improvisations that make 'boogie' better than the studio albums. Harvey Mandel, Bob Hite and Blind Al Wilson playing great stuff. I thoroughly recommend it!

By 1970 Canned Heat was at a peak of their performing powers with: Bob Hite, Alan Wilson, Harvey Mandel and the ever pounding pulsations of bassist Larry Taylor standing on the frontline with Fito De La Parra just a few feet behind beating a drumkit to death in a boogie fever that wouldn't and couldn't be topped by any other band on the planet.

The Heat had a featured role in the Woodstock movie and the soundtrack LP's that followed their amazing appearance at the summer 1969 festival. "Going Up The Country" and "On The Road Again" made their way to the tops of record charts and have become staples of American radio ever since. With Bob Hite and Alan Wilson there was a perfect ying/yang in contrasts that made Canned Heat even more special as this was blues-cranked-up-to-ten that could destroy cities and floor listeners with it's onslaught that never let up.

This set from Europe features blues chestnuts: "That's All Right Mama" and "Bring it on Home" and the huge fan favorite: "On The Road Again" that churns and delivers total Heat boogie bliss. "London Blues" is a jam that turns hypo-boogie for this crazy and oh so very happy European audience.

The new hit for 1970: "Let's Work Together" is found as a part of this set and it's Alan being Alan as nobody can fill his shoes as a croaky blues craftsman that leads this bunch of wildmen. At the last notes of: "Goodbye For Now" this look-see into the live show of Canned Heat comes to a close and it's all over just too soon as you will want more. Canned Heat, were the godfather's of a type of music that will never go away (ask: ZZ Top!) This is true first-rate red-hot music that gets the butts outta their seats at every show. There is a bit of magic here as this is wonderful sampler of one of America's best groups. Canned Heat were livin' the blues as nobody else could, they were on top of it!
Four Stars!

Not as good as some of their other live performances. When are they going to release an album of their Woodstock performance as Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Johnny Winter, Sly and the Family Stone, Jefferson Airplane, and Santana have done?

I'm a BIG TIME Canned Heat fan. I own most of their recordings and some of the available DVDs and VHS. This is a LIVE recording. It's pure Canned Heat, what else needs to be said.