Canned Heat - August 30, 1969
skip to main |
skip to sidebar
Shibuya Live Inn, Tokyo, Japan 2nd March 1998
Here's some -Blues-Indian Classical-Underground-'60's amazing gems from long time ago...
WANTED:
Shibuya Live Inn, Tokyo, Japan 2nd March 1998
There are no longer 'dancers', the possessed.
The cleavage of men into actor and spectators
is the central fact of our time. We are obsessed
with heroes who live for us and whom we punish.
If all the radios and televisions were deprived
of their sources of power, all books and paintings
burned tomorrow, all shows and cinemas closed,
all the arts of vicarious existence...
We are content with the 'given' in sensation's
quest. We have been metamorphosised from a mad
body dancing on hillsides to a pair of eyes
staring in the dark.
J.D.M.
The cleavage of men into actor and spectators
is the central fact of our time. We are obsessed
with heroes who live for us and whom we punish.
If all the radios and televisions were deprived
of their sources of power, all books and paintings
burned tomorrow, all shows and cinemas closed,
all the arts of vicarious existence...
We are content with the 'given' in sensation's
quest. We have been metamorphosised from a mad
body dancing on hillsides to a pair of eyes
staring in the dark.
J.D.M.
1 comment:
the first Canned Heat record was 1 out of 12 lps I bought the first I ordered records through the Columbia Record Club. I had no idea who they were or sounded like. I first equated them with The Mothers of Invention and Fugs and the darker side of teen music as it was refereed to in magazines.They seemed authentic but I had trouble at first with the music. And then Henry Vestine kicked in finally and I was floored. The first Canned Heat album had some great performances by some very talented and troubled musicians especially Al Blind Owl Wilson but Henri Vestine's guitar playing on the incredible The Story of My Life changed how I heard blues guitar. That track blew my mind because Henry's playing was as perfect as any Clapton,Beck, Gallagher or Page blues based guitar solo out there.Every other Canned Heat album after always had something worth while and was included on many of my mix cassettes. When Harvey Mandel joined the band, he had a massive influence with that thick precise super distorted guitar sound that he had, it stuck out of every song. I have never heard these live recordings but I have heard others and as long as they don't get too blasted they can sound pretty good!
Post a Comment