Remembering
Blues, Progressive Rock, and Jazz Fusion of the late 1960s and early 1970s
Canned Heat. "Blind Owl" Alan Wilson plays some great harp in this film footage of a 1968 concert. Harvey Mandel is the guitarist - within a year later Mandel would join John Mayall's Bluesbreakers. Wilson was a musicologist who helped rediscover Son House in 1965. He died of a drug overdose just prior to the release of Hooker and Heat in 1970. I saw the "Heat" at Edmonton's Kinsmen Field House on a cold April night many, many years ago.
Genesis - the great progressive rock band from the U.K. Here's a portion of "Supper's Ready" from their 1972 album Foxtrot. The line up on this album included Peter Gabriel, Tony Banks, Phil Collins, Steve Hackett, and Mike Rutherford. Genesis was worshipped in Montreal where they played many times.
I was never that big of a "Yes" fan, though this song ,"And You and I" from the album Close to the Edge, was with me over my high school years. Rick Wakeman is on keyboards.
The Mahavishnu Orchestra: John McLauglin, Billy Cobham, Jerry Goodman, Rick Laird, and Jan Hammer. Simply the greatest Jazz Fusion group of all time. The band was formed in 1970 and burned like a comet in the sky until 1974. I saw John McLaughlin a couple of times at the Montreal Jazz Festival.
Procol Harum, "A Salty Dog," from the 1969 album of the same name. I attended Procol Harum's 1972 concert with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra.