Anyone Remember Canned Heat? John Mayall? The Doobie Brothers?

[Swirling Snow]

Lessee.... I saw Canned Heat at the Club 47, maybe in '65. First time we'd heard a fuzztone, so that was memorable.

We went to see John Mayall at Clark University. Got there early, and while having a smoke on the lawn beside the auditorium this truck pulls up and a guy in a leather fringe jacket gets out. He sits with us for a while, then asks if we'd help him carry his organ inside, as "his boys" seem to be running late. Yay! Free show! (Mick Taylor, since I know you'll ask.)

The Doobies.... you wouldn't think someone like me would have anything to do with them, but as it happens...
their drummer's parents got me banned from TGP!

 

[posttoastie]

John Mayall did a live album in 1969 called "The Turning Point" and we wore out the grooves on that album.
"Room to Move" was a crowd favorite.

 

[Mike Eskimo]

Doobies are in a way different strata than the other two .

The average white office worker drone knows at least two or three Doobie Brothers songs.

They probably have never even heard of the other two bands.

 

[maxvintage]

Someone is seriously suggesting TDPRI does not have enough discussion threads about Boomer era rock bands?

 

[telemnemonics]

I mention John Mayall fairly often, he was pivotal in my new to guitar playing years.

Every time somebody goes on about the PRS Silver Sky I mention John Mayall never playing a Strat copy, just to be a troll...

 

[Mike Eskimo]

So was Jeff Beck. Didn’t seem to help him in the end.

Cheers,
Geoff

And that guy who was famous for writing "The Complete Runner", Jim Fixx, died in his 50's, while running.

As someone brilliant once said: "No one knows how long we have here Don't become healthy to live longer; become healthy to live better while you are here".

Bacterial meningitis .

Look it up.

Reductive to the nth degree.

Have a charred burger and a smoke - on me !

 

[kuch]

too many pages TLDR

I can't speak for anyone else but it seems that anyone who grew up in the 60's know who these prople/groups are

 

[telemnemonics]

Someone is seriously suggesting TDPRI does not have enough discussion threads about Boomer era rock bands?

Mayall had a Rock band?

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

Though I admire the man's tenacity I've never heard of John Mayall. . . .

Yeahbut. How old are you? The three acts we're talking peaked a long, long time ago. If you're Gen X or younger, there's no reason why you should know them.

To be fair to you, you've probably heard the Doobies piped into supermarkets, hardware stores, bars, and restaurants thousands of times, but no one told it was the Doobie Brothers.

Mayall and Canned Heat were a lot more fun, in my humble, but they didn't chart as high or often.

 

[telemnemonics]

And that guy who was famous for writing "The Complete Runner", Jim Fixx, died in his 50's, while running.

As someone brilliant once said: "No one knows how long we have here Don't become healthy to live longer; become healthy to live better while you are here".

Fair enough but are you suggesting self created obesity and diabetes is a good life path because "no one knows"?

Not knowing the future is an oh so common and bad bad excuse for lazy hedonism.

Plus obesity and diabetes is known to be a life shortener...

 

[HaWE]

I remember them all and also still listen to their albums , they are all part of my musical influence.I saw John Mayall several times in concert in the 80/90s (but my favorite Bluesbreaker lineup is still with Eric Clapton on guitar ) and I am a great Canned Heat fan, recently had the Hooker `n Heat - album on my turntable.And "Going up the Country" always brings a smile to my face, as soon as I hear that flute.
Talking of the Doobie Brothers , I have two or three albums and my favorite song was and is "Listen to the Music".Hearing that song always brings memories of the time when we were going out to dancehalls in the 70`s , there were live bands playing ( we nowadays would call them "coverbands" ), and one of this bands always started their first set with "Listen to the Music".

 

[radtz]

I remember all three and even after all these years I can still recall the first time I heard "Long Train Running". The opening rhythm guitar to that song was indelibly stuck in my head forever! As a young aspiring guitarist I had to learn that intro! Also Tyrone Porter was no "slacker" when it came to his approach to playing bass!

Now that I think about it.... China Grove was the first song I heard that inspired me to learn to play other people's music on guitar. Bear in mind I was exclusively a bass player at the time.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

On this forum and others, I rarely read posts mentioning these artists (and others, but this is the opening salvo). . . .

Yup. It's like the T-shirt says: "I might be old, but I saw all the good bands!"

I feel sorry for Gen-Xers and younger who don't know Laura Nyro, Sam and Dave, Richie Havens, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Long John Baldry, Jesse Winchester, Phil Ochs, Buffy Saint Marie, Odetta, Ten Years After, Martha and the Vandellas, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen, Love, the Doors, Josh White Jr., Joe Cocker, Van Morrison, Gil Scott Heron, Traffic, Dave Mason . . . .

I have a niece in her forties who's never heard Carole King. In the immortal words of a mortal president: So sad!

 

[ping-ping-clicka]

When living and working in N.Y.N.Y. the citie one dark and freezing night I saw John Mayhall and the band playing in a small 1/3 capacity club .
The sets were intimate and there was a lot of improvising.
The guitarist with the band was a very baby faced Mick Taylor,
who got and very long solo while the rest of the band sat back and drank beers. This kid was so amazing at times he reminded me of Harvey Mandel, at times , Clapton or Peter Green,to other times. He had a Hugh vocabulary and certainly had something to say well worth listening to. 50 year later his solo is still memorable.

Though he performed with various groups in his teens, Taylor's first big break into music was when he was called upon to replace Peter Green in John Mayall's Bluesbreakers in 1967. His tenure with the band would be short-lived, appearing on two records with the group and touring with them in the United States.

 

[LeftFinger]

Every time I hear canned heat I think of this for some reason

 

[richiek65]

All 3 get mentioned reasonably regularly on here, and they are all extremely well regarded as far as I'm aware. I've seen Mayall 3 times, the Doobies once but haven't seen Canned Heat at all.

It will be a sad day when Mr Mayall leaves us..

 

[fjblair]

The Doobies toured last summer... Excellent show. I'm not sure if that was a farewell tour. But I think they, and many others, aren't mentioned much is that musical styles have changed and they're just not fashionable anymore.

They have been touring for years now, I saw them about ten years ago.

 

[oldunc]

Hm- I was mostly stuck with AM top 40 radio until '69 or so, augmented by what records I could find in suburban stores. Canned Heat I remember only from "Going Up The Country", a song I kind of liked but lets face it, a ripoff of Henry Thomas' 1928 recording sung by one of the weakest voices in music history. Mayall was really more of a sideman, appearing in any number of combinations. From Alexis Korner on Brittish musicians were heavily into American blues; they did the US a service by reminding us of our own music, but as far as actual performance were not really anything special. Doobie Brothers, like most big time rock, never made any impression on me, though I liked the name.

 

[Mike Eskimo]

Yup. It's like the T-shirt says: "I might be old, but I saw all the good bands!"

I feel sorry for Gen-Xers and younger who don't know Laura Nyro, Sam and Dave, Richie Havens, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Long John Baldry, Jesse Winchester, Phil Ochs, Buffy Saint Marie, Odetta, Ten Years After, Martha and the Vandellas, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen, Love, the Doors, Josh White Jr., Joe Cocker, Van Morrison, Gil Scott Heron, Traffic, Dave Mason . . . .

I have a niece in her forties who's never heard Carole King. In the immortal words of a mortal president: So sad!

As one of the oldest/1st line, Gen X’ers - I feel sorry for myself!

For listening and chasing after too much of my older sisters record collections .

I liked a lot of that stuff and one sister in particular had the entire smorgasbord of 1965 to 1975 rock in her record collection.

And I was too preoccupied with the music that was occurring when I was between the ages of two and 10 that I didn’t fully immerse myself in all the fantastic contemporary bands that were happening, and just starting to happen when I was of age to start going to gigs.

I remember very distinctly in 1982 going to see a reunion of the Bluesbreakers and the band was John McVie, Mick Taylor , Mayall , and some drummer.

Cool, fine…

Why in the hell was I not at the Grand Circus theater in downtown Detroit seeing The Clash on the combat rock tour?

I loved The Clash starting in ‘79 and yet I remember in that year going to see Robin Trower instead of them. !

Why why why ? Dumb dumb dumb !

Why ? because I didn’t let go of the past - someone else’s past, and forge on full bore into my generations music. And I listen to the clash to this day, and every maybe two-three years I’ll put on the Beano record and kinda dig that or maybe blues from Laurel Canyon but - that’s it.

It’s my fault, but the influence of the boomers was like a big blob that swallowed up everything in its way…

Who gives a crap about mountain!? Country Joe and the F-ing fish ?!

Now I’m really getting fired up !

 

[Scoutbag]

Doobies never went away, they do a shed tour almost every year, last season they had Michael McDonald with them....there's no backing tracks, lip syncing or wheel chairs, just F*cking R&R, Doobies still have it. No nostalgia act there.