Hvem var de originale medlemmer af canned heat?
Bob Hite
Canned Heat er et amerikansk rockband, der blev dannet i Los Angeles i 1965. Gruppen er kendt for sine fortolkninger af bluesmusik og for sin indsats for at fremme interessen for denne type musik og dens oprindelige kunstnere. Det blev startet af to bluesentusiaster, Alan Wilson og Bob Hite, som tog navnet fra Tommy Johnsons "Canned Heat Blues" fra 1928, en sang om en alkoholiker, der desperat havde vendt sig mod at drikke Sterno, der i daglig tale kaldes "canned heat" (fra det oprindelige produktnavn Sterno Canned Heat fra 1914), Efter optrædener på Monterey- og Woodstock-festivalerne i slutningen af 1960'erne opnåede bandet verdensomspændende berømmelse med en besætning bestående af Hite (sang), Wilson (guitar, mundharmonika og sang), Henry Vestine og senere Harvey Mandel (leadguitar), Larry Taylor (bas) og Adolfo de la Parra (trommer).
Bob Hite
Canned Heat is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1965. The group has been noted for its interpretations of blues material and for its efforts to promote interest in this type of music and its original artists. It was launched by two blues enthusiasts, Alan Wilson and Bob Hite, who took the name from Tommy Johnson's 1928 "Canned Heat Blues", a song about an alcoholic who had desperately turned to drinking Sterno, generically called "canned heat" (from the original 1914 product name Sterno Canned Heat), After appearances at the Monterey and Woodstock festivals at the end of the 1960s, the band acquired worldwide fame with a lineup consisting of Hite (vocals), Wilson (guitar, harmonica and vocals), Henry Vestine and later Harvey Mandel (lead guitar), Larry Taylor (bass), and Adolfo de la Parra (drums).
Canned Heat