I know from various reports that Canned Heat were the last act of the first night. That meant they were a big deal, since they got an even more prized spot than Janis Joplin, who already was a big star. And they certainly were a very popular band by this time. They had two hit songs in 1968, "Going Up the Country," and "On the Road Again." They also made an impact performing at the Woodstock festival two weeks earlier.
The good news is, this is a soundboard recording, so the sound quality is excellent. The bad news is that it's incomplete, being just a little over half an hour long. Although no songs are cut off, there are several reasons I'm sure this is only about half of their performance. One is that they played for about an hour and ten minutes at the Woodstock festival, and a similar amount at the Atlanta festival, so it stands to reason they played a similar amount of time here. Also, this recording doesn't include versions of their two hit songs, "Going Up the Country" and "On the Road Again," but we know they played both of them at Woodstock. Finally, I found a mention that they didn't leave the stage until about 4:30 in the morning. The previous act, Janis Joplin, started shortly before one A.M. There's only half an hour recording of her set and half an hour recording of this one, and that isn't nearly until music to fill up three and a half hours.
It's likely this was the first half of the set, with their more popular songs coming towards the end, and thus missing here. I have no idea why a soundboard recording of some parts of some sets have survived and other parts are missing, but we should be grateful we have at least this much. Most of the other big festivals of 1969, like ones in Atlanta and Atlantic City, have been almost totally forgotten because of a lack of recordings, including bootlegs. (There are official live albums of Jimi Hendrix and the Allman Brothers at the Atlanta festival, but the 1970 festival, not the 1969 one.)
This album is 31 minutes long.
01 talk (Canned Heat)
02 Bullfrog Blues (Canned Heat)
03 Rollin' and Tumblin' (Canned Heat)
04 talk (Canned Heat)
05 Blind Owl Blues (Canned Heat)
https://pixeldrain.com/u/BBab7mrP
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https://bestfile.io/en/4CjV5Bq6OpiH3RT/file
The cover photo is from this exact concert. It shows Bob "Bear" Hite, one of the band's two lead singers. The original was black and white, and blurry and low-res. I colorized it using the Kolorize program. Then I ran it through the Krea AI multiple times, filling in a lot of detail.
Obrigado!
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