Canned Heat - Parthenogenesis

Artist: Canned Heat
Album: Living The Blues
Year: 1968
Track: 8

[@crimsonwolf9099]

One of the most underrated bands of the era. Their music was based on stuff that spanned from the roots of 1940 - 50's blues and r n b, through the psychedelic 60's. Canned Heat are sadly and unfairly overlooked these days. Also, they were amazing LIVE performers. (Saw 'em twice.) They weren't anchored to studio wizardry. They were true dedicated students of their craft. This piece even, at times, swerves closely to what is called Krautrock!!

[@mrgordons]

They were definately not underated during their heydays.

[@robertlewis1875]

I, too, saw them a couple times; their live shows could be be uneven if they had their heads in the medicine jar. That's not to say they were anything but entertaining all the time. I was at one of those ubiquitous all-day outdoor concerts, this one at Aztec Bowl at San Diego State (May 11, 1969, "Spring Fling" w/Tarantula, Santana, Lee Michaels, Canned Heat, Grateful Dead, from Noon to Who cares? $2.50) and Bob "Bear" Hite (RIP) smoked a joint as he sang. During the set some loon ran onstage with a burlap sack full of freshly yanked weed plants and started pitching them into the audience. It was the first time I ate acid, an unintended double dose ("Wait! Oh shit... that was supposed to be for both of us! Oooh, man, you are gonna be _so-o-o_ high! 😳😀😂😬😵🤡⚡👁️🌋🚀and I was, too), but it was an indelible experience that's impossible to convey. I bought this album the next day. The newly released first Santana album, too.

[@crimsonwolf9099]

@@robertlewis1875 I can relate. Mind surfing the cosmos with live music accompaniment. Not for the timid.

[@curtzeek8818]

@@robertlewis1875 The first Santana album was not released until August of 69. They played at Woodstock before their first album was released. Bill Graham was their manager and was asked to organize Woodstock and he said he would as long as Santana was added to the lineup, and history began. Santana played Woodstock on Aug. 16th, the first album was released Aug 30.

[@robertlewis1875]

@@curtzeek8818 You're a helpful little guy, aren'tcha. What are you trying to say, that after 52 years a few months turned into the next day? If that's the case, you'd hate Hunter Thompson's work. How does that revelation affect the purpose of the anecdote? You must feel so fulfilled and proud of yourself. Back to your bridge, now.

[@ressurectionman]

sometime in the 80s, canned heat were doing the pub circuit in australia, saw them twice live.. first show was musical magic, everyone was spellbound every note , the tightness, the audience agasp. once in a lifetime experience

[@williammeier4534]

The blues passages in this medley are fabulous!

[@buriedverydeep]

Mindblowing Universal Psychedelic Symphony...Canned Heat Is an Eternal Legendary Band...

[@hans-edgargundlach7741]

Magical mystery tour of the best blues - band of all times CANNED HEAT

[@johncokos8253]

They were raw and un-pretentious, one of a kind just doing what they do. Not much like it today, the 60's style is gone for sure. The Bear was a larger than life character.

[@tp3922]

The term I seem to remember wasn't psychedelic, but "trippy" for some reason sound better when one is stoned. Years later, I listened to this album straight, and I couldn't believe that I was hearing something different than I remember: parts I found that I enjoyed more, but the parts I thought was great I realized was pure strange.

[@DAVYMAC]

Great comments from you brother! Keep it coming. The truth can come from ANY angle or direction.

[@fabiannunez4383]

Excelente grupo! No fueron reconocidos en su momento... Espero que hoy la situación haya cambiado... Y se les de el lugar que merecen y no tuvieron... Long live canned heat!!!

[@oliverfunk6606]

03:09 Mate, I go crazy about these triplets... fuckin' awesome!

[@guidogrube7241]

Gerade dieses Musikstück zeigt wozu die Musiler ihrer Zeit bereit waren zu gehen... Es ist der grouve der die immer wiederkehrenden Themen des Lebens in Rhythmus und Ton vereinigt... Unglaublich Poetisch aber so war auch die Zeit...

[@stevej.]

A must hear for psych/blues fans.

[@brianpage100]

Raga Blues? Outstanding!

[@foundation922]

Lord they had a good time with this! I still have the vinyl from way back when, Liberty records very thick album this first came out in mono and later in stereo if I'm not mistaken. I always enjoyed heat very good times. Its all good!

[@emilyoshiro]

I come back to this track, like, weekly! Wish I still had this lp, some of my old friends were kleptomaniacs!

[@paulmoncrieff3979]

Great piano too from Dr. John

[@UrbanHermit50]

Actually it's John Mayall.

[@leh3827]

Ok, what's the truth here? It doesn't seem to have doc John's decorations

[@scook1762]

Great boogie and head music.

[@brotherbob3569]

My son said what's that noise? I said it's feedback. Ain't it great

[@luiscarmona2487]

blues acido,totalmente adelantado a su epoca!!!!

[@canousi]

superb psyched out , blues !!!

[@dominicmarrano3949]

at about the 11 minute mark i enter into Sunflower space....

[@myrrhakerenko5553]

I have seen Henry Vestine in the nineties in Strasbourg (probably one of his last performances, alas). He was sitting during the concert but then, for his solo part in Refried Boogie, he stood up and it was... blinded by sound, folks. The man sculpted soli in the feedback.

[@isaacbarrow9155]

Seeing these guys in December. Can't wait!

[@projectmayhem6898]

Before the days of autotune, musicians had to rely on talent.

[@raceyboy]

It's REAL. And so nice to hear.

[@enkidude]

I know you aren't saying Zapp isn't talented

[@user-nz5ns6zk4q]

Progressive blues

[@curtzeek8818]

I would think the blind owl had something to do with the name of this. Parthenogenesis derived from Greek and means natural creation. It is a natural form of asexual reproduction and occurs in plants also. The blind owl was heavily into plants and environment.

[@calumtwigg9167]

Best of the best. ✌️

[@josivaldocampos7949]

O fino do blues com tendência de rock Progressivo, os "Calor Enlatado", são sensacionais !!!

[@jvz1970]

LOVE

[@stevenimeson902]

Sunflower power, henry Vestine playing five guitars to me this sounds like the birth of heavy-metal in a very bluesy way 10:39

[@eavitale055]

Guys, there is nothing to get. Stop reading into my words. This type of lengthy free form blues jam is fairly non-existent in today's music. This stretching out on record and live is fairy indicative of the Sixties.

[@williammeier4534]

Proof of this is in "Refried Boogie," which takes up all of BOTH sides of the second record of this LP!

[@DAVYMAC]

Right on brother. So true from you!

[@wimweender1306]

right😊

[@eavitale055]

You had to live in the 60's to truly get this stuff ...

[@WolfNamedJohn]

What he probably means is that you have to either be in touch with your inner self, involving deep thought and/or meditation/relaxation, or have had enough hallucinogenic experiences to know what this kind of music effects you like, and how to appreciate it. -.- Which is conditional not based on time, but our own individual natures and/or nurtures. It helps to have older figures in your life that showed you real Rock, Folk, and Blues.....

[@yuccablossoms]

Forgive me oh Lord for my ears deceive. I am a helpless and hopeless product of a calculated birth that occurred some time in the earlier Eighties. My Ears Know not what they hear and are inept for auditory intake beyond the spoken word.

[@WolfNamedJohn]

Agreed, it's pretty pretentious. The notion that we can't understand this because of our birth date is asinine. It also undermines most of the point of the hippie mindset, which is accept/love each other......

[@Film_Lab]

Edmund, if you can remember the 60's were you really there???

[@nitwitromney]

Geez, a guy makes a truly innocuous comment and gets totally clobbered! I was too young to have experienced this in the 'sixties (born in 1962), but I get you, Edmund! Peace, brother.

[@dominicmarrano3949]

Happy New Year

[@untitledfan3660]

I don't think this is one long song but rather its actually 6 or 7 different parts

[@mrgordons]

Nine actually.

[@untitledfan3660]

@@mrgordons oh yeah I forgot there was 9 so its actually 9 songs together

[@clairemarling7565]

like Mozart's Gran Partita except in blues;)

[@michaelprice1216]

Which makes me think, "As good as side one is (and it's perfect) side two could have had six or seven more killer and concise tracks and been white hot". As it is I agree. Disparate pieces thrown together for the sake of filling an entire side. Sides four and five are ok. But they accomplished that already and in a quarter of the time on Boogie With Canned Heat. I'm not looking for Canned Heat to be John Coltrane or Can.

[@bennyboyyonkers4649]

'This makes you want to go back to the Barrel House, man!'

[@HenryMulligan]

The intro is on par with Herbie Hancock Watermelon Man intro

[@rebelalliance171]

these guys played at the anti inaugural ball in the sixties with Jefferson Airplane and Steppenwolf and Quicksilver Messenger Service

[@TheKeefmaster]

Hiipie Blues Trip

[@howlinjay5046]

Fly away

[@jillsmcfarland2001]

Bear is showing you we are inside the ...most popculture albums show

[@SRodrigoAlberto]

04:45 that fucking 12 bar blues

[@FreeDanielLarson2025]

Man ive been looking for that song, if they would have released this separate it wouldve definitely hit up there high, but i guess it takes the whole point of parthogenisis away if they did ha

[@daviddavis3155]

Pandemic Boogie!

[@paulmorgan2948]

Yes

[@mrboombast1ck]

can someone tell me to musical chords belong beginning of this song? I think it is a classical piece (or written tradition), please someone tell me!

[@andrewpearson1903]

Tune a guitar to open D-flat-5 (Db-Ab-Db-Ab-Ab-Db), then play the harmonics (that is, rest your finger on the strings and pick without pressing them down to the frets) on the 12th, 7th, 5th, 7th frets. It's very simple. John Fahey, who plays guitar on this piece, used similar harmonics for his "Requiem for Russell Blaine Cooper" in 1967: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nHakiqWpj7KeZ9k

[@dominicmarrano3949]

and at 16 minutes i really go...

[@raceyboy]

12:09 for me

[@anthropod4]

love Canned Heat! yay! 555 turned to 556

[@anthropod4]

i had 8-track too

[@Williamottelucas]

Canned Heat's Abbey Road Medley?

[@geffcassuto]

fahey on guitar

[@rebelalliance171]

this band created blues prog...

[@onepoint22]

13:44

[@Grachtnakk]

Hell yes, bringt them Sitar Blues on!

[@luiscarmona2487]

completamente acido por momentos

[@wateriscoming71]

10:35 that parttt

[@crezznic4013]

Given Alan Wilsons relationship with the female gender, the title is brilliant.

[@steve-r-collier]

so al wilson died 2 weeks before hendrix both 27..anybody think that was sightly suspicious?

[@jamesm8132]

Both also died of a barbiturate overdose

[@julianperry1553]

I think this piece should definitely take its place next to other great 20-minute suites such as: Atom Heart Mother, Pink Floyd Ars Longa Vita Brevis, The Nice Nine Feet Underground, Caravan Tarkus, ELP A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers, Van Der Graaf Generator Echoes, Pink Floyd Just to mention a few ...

[@Lugh444]

I'm here for the jaw harp 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@johnlornie9741]

A compilation of disoriented blues jams which made sense to a lot of white teens I guess in the sixties, especially to Americans! Lol☺️