Alan Wilson: Woodstock, the Environment, & the California Redwoods

[@nanreynolds9351]

Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson,......... Known and christened so by his vision problems, as well as his roots in the blues. When you think of the customary words of wisdom, you cannot help but be reminded of the teaching that reminds us that some people need not use their eyes to see, their vision comes from their spirit. Alan was one of those lucky enough to see the truth and beauty of life and the wonder in what it offered. Musically and spiritually gifted, yet often misunderstood. A true scholar of earth and the concept of what mother earth gave us and the ability to express his feelings through his music. Listen to his music and you will hear his soul, shared by all that care to hear. Shooting stars shine brilliantly, but only for a brief moment,........... Then they are gone. May the light of his vision shine on forever.

[@jonprosise7162]

That’s the blues

[@jimschleich8753]

Alan was an incredible talent and a great human being. Rest In Peace.

[@WarKid-ut8mx]

Canned Heat one of the best bands ever. Often never given enough credit. Rest in peace Alan. One of the forgotten members of the 27 club.

[@msoiseth3419]

He was indeed one of the forgotten members of the 27 club. He was an interesting character in music history.

[@outfield1988]

Love Blind owl he was so dang talented and just a good person.

[@nickhare1720]

Thanks so much for this wonderful tribute. Alan was a gift.

[@bobyoung1698]

Music and Nature have long been quiet soul mates. Thank you, Blind Owl, for bringing them even closer together.

[@robertfitch310]

I love his music and Canned Heat. 30+years sober from crack/ alcohol, lost it all at one point. Recovered my marriage,family and career, ended up living in a log cabin amongst the coastal Redwoods. my front yard is a beautiful grove of about 60 giant redwoods and in the back by the barn is one second growth with a base about 25’ around. Bluetoothing music through my hearing aids with my trees,doing chores is my life now in retirement.🌲⛰👨‍🌾

[@dontworrydon]

The best Harmonica player I have heard........and a fine slide player as well.

[@gerrylavelle8433]

Back in the day in the late 60's when I was in high school me and my friends climbed through a window at a concert venue -- The Blue Law -- in Torrance California to try and sneak into a concert. I was an athlete so I boosted my friends up to the window so they could climb in. Then I jumped up and pulled myself up and through the window. When I dropped down on the other side I turned around and there were my friends standing with some guys whom I immediately recognized as the Canned Heat band. We'd snuck into their prep room at the venue. The band was super cool and casual and they even smoked some doobies with us. Then they opened a door and let us out into the concert area.

[@KayEl58]

Great story. It sounds quite typical of them.

[@gerrylavelle8433]

@@KayEl58 They thought it was a trip that high school surfer dudes were sneaking into a concert to experience Canned Heat -- and we just happened to drop in from a high window into their prep room.

[@zachham1949]

After a quick search, concert history for the 'Heat indeed shows them playing at The Blue Law in Torrance, CA. on December 15, 16, and 17, 1967. Sound correct? Two other bands apparently played (a band named The Hook and another band named Love) on all 3 dates. Do you know what I'd give to be able to relive your experience from that night? What an amazing and pivotal time and place in history you found yourself in after jumping in that window....! (You do realize this, don't you?) Any other details you can remember?

[@alukuhito]

I would freak out if I saw Blind Owl.

[@crestonperry2891]

Groovy man ! Totally groovy.

[@lindahandley5267]

Oh wow. I wasn't expecting him to have died so young. I'll never look at a tree the same again. Alan certainly had a purpose on this earth. RIP sweet young man.🌲

[@Thekokomoslim]

He will never be forgotten!! RIP

[@kmg3733]

This is a wonderful video with everything fitting together perfectly! His environmental efforts are as important as his music. He was really a genius on so many levels.

[@davidmorrison2368]

Gosh, I've missed him so much these past 50 years. Canned Heat was one of my favorite bands in the 60's and they got me 'hooked' on John Lee Hooker. Don't forget to boogie!

[@steve-r-collier]

excellent ,thank you

[@theyrekrnations8990]

Alan was a blues purest. Never knew he was into the nature thing

[@tokk3n-hj4xg]

Alan was an underated guitarist, he had an amazing tone when he played.

[@AnneTraynor-n6s]

Although I loved Canned Heat as a teenager I never knew what happened to Alan Wilson. So sad to just have found out how he died. RIP Alan and thank you for the music that I will always listen to. What a genious you were. Nancy T

[@leebowens2631]

The Blind Owl truly understood the Blues .

[@dancingtrout6719]

his name Al wil SON HOUSE... Right .. CHUCKLE

[@jeanettewaverly2590]

He lived them.

[@dancingtrout6719]

@@jeanettewaverly2590 he ate them

[@JayDaNoob]

That’s my Uncle :D (My grandma is Janye Wilson who is the sister of Alan Wilson)

[@dancingtrout6719]

The Blind Owl had Hidden Sight ,, Conserve the world

[@johnwatkins343]

What really happened to Alan I was told he was found beaten up ? Back in the day guess weal never know did you see the body also told that he was cremated and big bear always wanted to be the leader and no one from the band showed up? Is this true ?

[@dancingtrout6719]

@@johnwatkins343 who told you he was beat up

[@alirioforero9778]

Alan Wilson a prophet and visionary

[@ホーエンアーン]

Rip alan blind owl wilson ! Love from belgium !

[@eric7922]

Love the man, love his mind...trying to live his dream. Content, but so angry we cashed in the peace symbol for the Mercedes symbol. Blind, out of control consumerism, Mother Earth, what have we done? ☮

[@joycejnn]

Great video

[@gnosticash9604]

True autist genius will again be valued. His insight was brilliant and globalists cannot allow it.

[@michaelschwartz6834]

Great Job! Thank you!

[@spoookytooth]

Thank you so much!!

[@frankiedunham6678]

Good job

[@edmundedmondedmontonedmunb7071]

The drummer should donate a lot! He has been using Alan’s music for 40 years or more.

[@rockville34]

He has carried the band since Day One and still is. Read his book about the band.

[@edmundedmondedmontonedmunb7071]

That’s bullshit as Fito has said, in his own words, his book is a bunch of lies. The book shows what or how Fito gives a shit about the Woodstock spirit, he was there for the money and the girls. He didn’t care about Alan, just that he wrote and made hits, and money for the band. Really don’t believe what the fake book says.

[@randyjimmiejamesbowles]

He has kept alive, and has kept Canned Heat alive. Something no one else was able to do. He's in his late 70s, and is literally giving his life for Canned Heat and for music. Find someone else to pick on.

[@randyjimmiejamesbowles]

Where's ya face, you big brave robot Anyone or anything can hide behind and avatar and lob insults.

[@edmundedmondedmontonedmunb7071]

You better pick other asshole, you really don’t know this Demond. The only genius was Alan nit this “user” …keep alive hohohoho

[@scottmcintosh2988]

Canned Heat one of the best blues rock bands ever Hooker in Heat With John Lee Hooker !!! Double album the Blind Owl on harp !!!

[@richardarmstrong2788]

Good video!

[@smesui1799]

WOODSTOCK, SAN FRANCISCO, and the movement !

[@mimivege3245]

❤

[@m-l7127]

Thank you for this,

[@LivingmusicRomania]

GOD BLESS ALAN WILSON, !GOD BLESS OUR PLANET!I LOVE YOU ALAN, ,I LOVE MOTHER NATURE MORE THAN EVERYTHING! GEORGE ROMANIA

[@perrysar5954]

Those black and white photos of smiling men amongst the slaughtered Redwoods is PAINFUL TO LOOK AT...YOUR SPIRIT LIVES WITH THE REDWOODS AL...PEACE AND LIVE!

[@anthonyfoutch3152]

Canned Heat played the USAF base I was stationed at in 1973. Sadly Alan has died earlier. We also got Dobie Grey but it was at the airmans club which was a big soul club and white males weren't welcome. Alan was depressed because girls weren't attracted to him but living in the woods he seldom bathed plus he was very shy.

[@kmg3733]

He did have some girlfriends. Also, friends of his say girls were attracted to him but he was somewhat shy. Also don’t think he liked the road lifestyle. I think he would have eventually met someone. According to some his depression the months before he died was with the band.

[@anthonyfoutch3152]

@@kmg3733 At Eglin AFB they got a flatbed trailer for a stage. I was working security. The Bear kept jumping up and down and I swear he was so big he was bending the stage. I was afraid he was going through.

[@marybeasley8219]

A friend, sibling of a band member, told me that Alan was deeply depressed about the future. According to this friend, Alan didn't overdose on drugs. He chose to kill himself. He couldn't bear to witness the destruction of the world of nature he loved.

[@kmg3733]

The report said accidental od. From what I’ve read he was depressed about the environment but also the band. But there’s no evidence that it was a suicide. There are a lot of contradictions in what’s out there about him.

[@msoiseth3419]

The biography of Alan called "Blind Owl Blues" by Rebecca Davis is a good read. Alan was an interesting person.

[@johnwatkins343]

I was told back in the day that alan was found beaten in the woods be hind the house. And that big bear always wanted to be the leader of the band and he was cremated and that no one from the band showed up at the funeral vary sad and then told he had a sister

[@FlintyCobblestone]

Alan Wilson was the preeminant musical genius of the 20th century.

[@killapilla6343]

💎

[@saraerikagoyritabe2754]

Excelente toca bien chingón ALAN WILSON, de canned heat

[@francoisvillon371]

You forgot: ''Let's Work Together 1970''

[@theyrekrnations8990]

Harmonica guy sang it

[@irvingr.fatback886]

@@theyrekrnations8990bob hite

[@jillsmcfarland2001]

Pretty owl sitting in the great tall redwoods

[@veronique8748]

Pendant qu il chantait moi, je plantais des pins résineux !!!! J avais 16 ans !!!

[@kaymuldoon3575]

I never realized he belonged to the 27 club. 😭

[@alukuhito]

Thanks for the video. The USA needs less Taylor Swifts and Lil Waynes and more Blind Owls.

[@robertkreiling1746]

The planet is just fine but we are screwed !

[@Diggerdog2nd]

Yet another member of the 27 club.

[@raymondfryar1533]

To bad Redwood Trees aren't resistant to chainsaws.

[@robertclifton2986]

OUR GENERATION GREW UP WAR WEARY HIPPIES THAT SAW RICH MEN PROFIT OFF BOTH SIDES OF THE WAR! OUR DEAD LOVED ONES MADE US HATE WARS , OF ANY KIND. I REFUSE TO PARTICIPATE IN VIOLENCE OF ANY KIND. LOVE IS THE ANSWER!!! NOT HATE AND WAR!

[@Mourinho335]

Alan aNd Pete Ham (BADFINGER) another forgotten 27 club member

[@outfield1988]

Shameful how those redwoods were destroyed.

[@deannaholst9275]

Whats tbe reason ,Dud he have any children? Whi was hus family and any surviving brothers and sisters?

[@CitizenBeep]

If you really loved Alan's music you wouldn't talk over it.

[@kellykma71]

Maybe you should make a video yourself then…

[@deannaholst9275]

Were is the firmwr band ,why arent they dinating and still using his music is illegal.

[@CaptainRon1913]

"rising levels of pollution would effect plant life on earth", then goes on to show steam cooling towers which spew water, not pollution... lol

[@kellykma71]

And?

[@RC-et5bl]

Loved his external environment yet polluted his internal with drugs...whacked idea. Pockets filled with leaves... Peyote? 😎

[@davejones5745]

No. He really was into trees

[@thomasmagee5644]

Peyote don't have leaves,ya big kabloona!