Canned Heat – '70 Concert: Recorded Live In Europe (LP Vinyl)
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Captured at the peak of their post-Woodstock momentum, Canned Heat in 1970 were one of the hardest-working live acts in rock, carrying the Delta blues tradition into massive festival crowds across two continents. Harvey Mandel's arrival brought a new psychedelic edge to the band's boogie foundation, and hearing that chemistry documented on a European stage offers a window into just how loose and powerful this band could get when the tape was rolling.
The history of Canned Heat is also a history of excesses, drug abuse, mental illness and pill addiction, combined with an affinity for internal band funerals. Drummer Adolfo 'Fito' de la Parra recently said in an interview: 'I'm still with Canned Heat after more than 55 years.
To still be alive at all is a triumph here'. After all, Fito had been with the band since their second official album 'Boogie With Canned Heat', which was released on the US label Liberty in 1968. - In 1970, 'Future Blues' was released, the first album with the new guitarist Harvey Mandel. With 'So Sad (The World's in a Tangle)', the album contains the band's first environmental protection song. It is about the constant smog over Los Angeles. 'Let's Work Together', a cover version of Wilbert Harrison's 'Let's Stick Together' from 1962, became a top ten hit for Canned Heat worldwide.
The concert recording '70 Concert: Recorded Live In Europe' followed in the same year. Recorded at various venues during the tour through Europe (including London's Royal Albert Hall), this is the band's first official live album and also the last audio document of Canned Heat with Alan 'Blind Owl' Wilson, who died of an overdose of pills in September 1970. - With 'Final Vinyl', Canned Heat recently released their last album; 'Future Blues' and '70 Concert: Recorded Live In Europe' are among their essential albums, when the band in it's key line-up with Al Wilson, Bob Hite, Fito de la Parra, Harvey Mandel and Larry Taylor had reached the zenith of their creative output at the end of the 1960s / beginning of the 1970s. Wilson's death left a gap that could no longer be filled, especially as Larry Taylor and Harvey Mandel had also left Canned Heat shortly beforehand to join John Mayall's 'USA Union' ban.
Tracklist
Side A
A1. That's All Right (Mama) (8:49)
A2. Bring It On Home
A3. Pulling Hair Blues
Side B
B1. Medley: Back On The Road / On The Road Again (6:05)
B2. London Blues (7:53)
B3. Let's Work Together (4:51)
B4. Goodbye For Now (3:24)
UPC: 885513031518
Label: Made In Germany Musi
Release Date: 1.10.25
Format: LP Vinyl