Canned Heat (first album) poll

Ironically, Fito wasn't on that first album, and he's been the only one left for years now.

 

Yes, great player.

 

It was the album that introduced the world to Larry Taylor. He (& we) enjoyed a further half century + of making great music.
Heres a short list of the albums that he appeared on over his lifetime.

These albums make an impressive buyers guide for anyone interested in this sort of music.

With The Monkees

• The Monkees (1966)
• More of the Monkees (1967)
• The Monkees Present (1969)
• Instant Replay (1969)
• Changes (1970)
• Listen to the Band (1991)
• Greatest Hits (1995)
• Missing Links, Vol. 3 (1996)
• Anthology (1998)
• Music Box (2001)

With Canned Heat

• Canned Heat (1967)
• Boogie with Canned Heat (1968)
• Living the Blues (1968)
• Hallelujah (1969)
• Future Blues (1970)
• Boogie Up the Country (1987)
• Reheated (1988)
• Internal Combustion (1994)
• Burnin' (1994)
• Canned Heat Blues Band (1996)
• Gamblin' Woman (1996)
• King Biscuit Flower Hour: Canned Heat in Concert (1996)
• Ties That Bind (1997)
• Boogie 2000 (1999)
• Turning Up the Heat (2000)
• Live at the Kaleidoscope 1969 (2000)
• Far Out (2001)
• Big Road Blues (2002)
• Friends in the Can (2003)
• Canned Heat '70 Concert Live in Europe (2004)
• Dimples (2005)
• Canned, Labeled & Shelved (2006)
• Instrumentals 1967–1996 (2006)
• Christmas Album (2007)
• Revolution Limited Edition Cd (2012)
• Songs From The Road (2015)

With John Mayall

• Empty Rooms (1969)
• USA Union (1970)
• Back to the Roots (1971)
• Memories (1971)
• Jazz Blues Fusion (1972)
• Moving On (1973)
• Latest Edition (1974)
• New Year, New Band, New Company (1975)
• Notice to Appear (1975)
• Banquet in Blues (1976)
• Lots of People (1977)
• Archives to Eighties (1988)
• Rock the Blues Tonight (1999)

With Harvey Mandel

• Games Guitars Play (1970)
• Baby Batter (1971)
• Electronic Progress (1971)
• Snake (1972)
• Mercury Years (1995)

With Tom Waits

• Heartattack and Vine (1980)
• Swordfishtrombones (1983)
• Rain Dogs (1985)
• Franks Wild Years (1987)
• Bone Machine (1992)
• Mule Variations (1999) Gold Record Award
• Alice (2002)
• Blood Money (2002)
• Real Gone (2004)
• Bad as Me (2011)

With others

• Test Patterns (Boyce & Hart, 1967)
• Slim's Got His Thing Goin' On' (Sunnyland Slim, 1969)
• Fiddler on the Rock (Don "Sugarcane" Harris, 1971)
• Lost Session (Albert King, 1971)
• Mudlark (Leo Kottke, 1971)
• Rock And Roll Forever (The Ventures, 1972)
• The Devil's Harmonica (Shakey Jake Harris, 1972)
• Cup Full of Dreams (Don "Sugarcane" Harris, 1974)
• Summit Meeting (Free Creek, 1976)
• I'm a Southern Man (Louis Myers, 1978)
• Hollywood Fats Band (Mike „Hollywood Fats“ Mann, 1979)
• Rock This House (Mike „Hollywood Fats“ Mann, 1979)
• Anthology Previously Unreleased Material (The Grandmothers, 1980)
• Rock Therapy (Colin Winski, 1980)
• The Other Side of Town (Chuck E. Weiss, 1981)
• Hard Line (The Blasters, 1985)
• Harpburn (Rod Piazza, 1986)
• Best (Leo Kottke, 1987)
• Kristen Vigard (Kristen Vigard, 1988)
• The Healer (John Lee Hooker, 1989)
• Keith Levene's Violent Opposition (Keith Levene, 1989)
• Mr. Lucky (John Lee Hooker, 1991)
• Got Love If You Want It (John Hammond, Jr., 1992)
• Trespass (Ry Cooder, 1992)
• In My Time (Charlie Musselwhite, 1992)
• Mother of an Anthology (The Grandmothers, 1993)
• That's Life (Kim Wilson, 1994)
• My New Orleans Soul (Ronnie Barron, 1994)
• Long Overdue (Junior Watson, 1994)
• Trouble No More (John Hammond, Jr., 1994)
• Martinis & Bikinis (Sam Phillips, 1994)
• Blues for Thought (Terry Evans, 1994)
• Closer to You (J. J. Cale, 1994)
• To Love (Randy Resnick, 1994)
• Working Girl Blues (Phillip Walker, 1995)
• 88th Street Blues (Smokey Wilson, 1995)
• Adventures at Catfish Pond (Bob „Catfish“ Hodge, 1996)
• Rough News (Charlie Musselwhite, 1997)
• Lost in America (Lynwood Slim, 1997)
• Mr. Blake's Blues (Al Blake, 1997)
• My Blues (Kim Wilson, 1997)
• Signifyin' (Fred Kaplan, 1997)
• Back to Back (Lynwood Slim, 1998)
• Lookin for Trouble (Edward Taylor, 1998)
• Jump Children! (Finis Tasby, 1998)
• New Depths (The Ventures, 1998)
• Soul Disguise (Cesar Rosas, 1999)
• Zero Zero Zero: The Best of Sam Phillips (Sam Phillips, 1999)
• Something Good for Your Head (Blackburn & Snow, 1999)
• I'm Going All the Way (Peggy Pruitt, 2000)
• I Can Tell (Junior Valentine, 2000)
• World Wide Wood (Lynwood Slim, 2000)
• Mo' Na'Kins, Please! (James Harman, 2000)
• Toughest Girl Alive (Candye Kane, 2000)
• West Coast House Party (Kid Ramos, 2000)
• There's a Song in There (Mark DuFresne, 2000)
• Fool's Paradise (Dale Hawkins, 2000)
• Wicked Grin (John Hammond, Jr., 2001)
• Smokin' Joint (Kim Wilson, 2001)
• "You Can Make It If You Try" (Gene Allison, 2002)
• Beggar's Oil (Kelly Joe Phelps, 2002)
• Harmonica Blues Orgy (Easy Baby, 2002)
• Magic Soul Elixer (Al Blake, 2002)
• Let It Rain (Tracy Chapman, 2002)
• Whole Lotta Love (Candye Kane, 2003)
• You've Never Seen Everything (Bruce Cockburn, 2003)
• Heart Trouble (Wanda Jackson, 2003)
• Villanelle (Paul Reddick, 2004)
• Fernando Ortega (Fernando Ortega, 2004)
• Think About It (Alex Schultz, 2004)
• Soul Sanctuary (Hollywood Blue Flames, 2005)
• Southern Jumbo (Colin Linden, 2005)
• Time Brings About a Change... A Floyd Dixon Celebration (Floyd Dixon, 2006)
• Hell Under the Skullbones (Graham Lindsey, 2006)
• Spooked (Marley's Ghost, 2006)
• Road to Rio (Hollywood Blue Flames, 2006)
• Can't Quit the Blues (Buddy Guy, 2006)
• Shower Some Love (Layni Kooper, 2007)
• Luminous (Chris Murphy, 2007)
• Big Plans (Mannish Boys, 2007)
• Like a Fire (Solomon Burke, 2008)
• Bluelisted (JW-Jones, 2008)
• Midnight Memphis Sun (JW-Jones, 2010)
• Definitive Albert King on Stax (Albert King, 2011)
• New World Generation (New World Generation, 2011)
• Driftin' From Town To Town (Barrelhouse Chuck & Kim Wilson's Blues All Stars (2013)
• Blues And Boogie (Kim Wilson) (2017)

 

Fantastic. What a resume. The Monkees and Tom Waits! That Mayall stuff floors me, like Full Speed Ahead. What a fat tone!

 

But do you like Canned Heat?

 

He really hit his stride when he got into the standup accoustic bass

He was not too complimentary about the John Mayall period.

BLUES JUNCTION Productions - A Conversation with Larry Taylor

 

I wasn't aware of that....any particular reason? He certainly was on a bunch of 'em

 

Very good. 4/5

 

I edited my post. Have a read of the interview on the link.

 

Hmmm.... interesting. Love his playing on Jazz/Blues Fusion and Moving On. Love those albums, actually. Great interview, thanks for posting.

 

I would sure love to see someone do a comprehensive box on Canned Heat. The albums, up to Hooker 'N Heat possibly, with demos, rarities, live stuff, etc.These guys were absolutely killer......

 

I have my own 'deluxe' version with alternates, earlier attempts, outtakes and some live Ash Grove stuff (with Frank Cook), so I really like it... but even I only give it a 4/5. Future Blues sets a high 5/5 among their albums for me. I think the Liberty LP cover is a total classic however.

 

Love it. Do not listen to it that often though. I thought the Blind Owl was one of the best players at that time. Sad he left this earth at such a young age. Love his playing and voice.

 

IMO the guitarist on those 2 albums is the best guitarist that has played in any of John Mayall's albums and that is not belittling the many other fabulous players.
Freddie Robinson is blues royalty.

 

Yes yes and yes!

 

Love how this basically started as a negative Canned Heat thread, but there's been nothing but love

 

Yes. Future Blues is top of the list for me too.
I'd love to see an expanded Live in Europe.

Some of their later albums are pretty good especially when the fabulous Junior Watson was in the band.

Larry Taylor here on upright bass !!!

 

Yeah it's funny when those more aligned to rock see it as ordinary and pedestrian when is more blues than blues/rock.
I guess they will never get to feel the thrill of hearing The Aces (Myers brothers & Fred Below) laying down thereal blues groove

 

The great psychedelic cover gave no hint as to what was on the record. I like this album but it focused on Bear and little of Alan Wilson. I think he only sang on Help Me. Second record much better.
4/5 first record, 5/5 second record.

 

Bob and Alan were a great pairing because they cover such different areas. Al was more comfortable I think bringing great slide and focusing on the guitar for many numbers and not being the central attention vocalist that Bob was. I'm still just starting to get into the post-Al recordings and performances (that 'Boogie With' DVD biography opened my ears) and there are some real treasures and majorly talented latter day members!

Bob Hite also put together some cool collections of R&B sides for Liberty/Imperial with Steve LaVerre and Henry Vestine under various titles like Goin' Up The Country, Down Home Stomp and Sweet N' Greasy with good liner notes (Bob had a major collection of 78s); have some on LP and some on CD...

Illustrated 1970s Imperial/Liberty Records 'Legendary Masters' series discography

 

Our host here at the SHMF has made no secret of his affection for the Heat!

 

I saw Canned Heat open for Cream at the Village Theater (soon to become the Fillmore East) way back in 1967. I was in junior year in high school. Great show. Tickets were $3, $4 and $5. Bought the album a few days later. A lot of times a studio album doesn't quite represent what a band can do live and this is album is one of those cases.

 

I borrowed a bunch of Canned Heat albums, including the debut, from a friend a while ago. I listened through them all but they very little impression at all. On that most cursory of introductions to the band, competent but dreary would seem to be the order of the day. 2/5