5.0 out of 5 stars Henry Vestine was Awesome!!!

R.K.W. · 7 September 2009

This is in my opinion the best Canned Heat Album ever made. Yes "Boogie with Canned Heat" is great too, but this was their peak performance!!!I can't understand all those people who moan about the length of the "Refried Boogie"! Like the tracks on disc one "One Kind Favour" and "Parthenogenesis" you hear some of the greatest Solo Guitar playing that ever existed! Henry Vestine is in my opinion the second greatest Guitarist (After Jimi Hendrix) who ever lived!!!He was the only Guitarist that I know of who incorporated constant but controlled amplifier feedback into his play! Just listen to the "Refried Boogie": First you hear an amazing growling feedback for one second, then there is the tuning of some strings and then Alan Wilson's guitar agressivly slices down the Staccato Rhythm of the Boogie! After the amazing Bass Solo of Larry Taylor all hell breakes loose when Henry Vestine unleashes one of the most powerful guitar performances of all times!!! What a huge sound played only on an small valve amplifier with both the amp and guitar volume set to maximum!!!Yes the "Fried Hokey Boogie" is great too, but you can't loose the feeling that the time restriction on that Album prevented the players to go to their maximum performance abilities... Just compare the two Drum Solos of Fito de la Para!!! On Fried Hokey it soundsun-coordinated whilst on Refried you have a proper intelligently worked out Drum Solo!You have to look at this album with the view that it was recorded in 1968, a time where most bands smoked a lot of dope and used L.S.D., so inevitably there was a lot of experimenting with sounds.I wish I had a time Machine and journey back to '68 and see the "Refried Boogie" performed live!!!Well all that's left, as "The Bear" woud say, is:And don't forgett to Boogie...Boogie..Boogie...

5.0 out of 5 stars The Heat Turned Up High

C.D. · 30 August 2013

I had the original vinyl of this but like so many it went many years ago, so I was delighted to see this new copy with the second live album from the original vinyl present in its entirety!For me this album, their third caught the Heat at their peak as each of their first three albums improved with a decline setting in after number three. This album shows the band playing traditional style blues yet also experimenting within the format. Along with the song that for me will be forever associated with Woodstock, namely Going Up The Country, there is another excellent Wilson song in the form of My Mistake. Bob Hite is in good voice on Pony Blues Boogie Music, and of course there is the segmented marathon of Parthenogenesis with a couple of guest appearances. The second CD is the monster Refried Boogie which for me has always been amazing where each band member has their section to stretch out over 41 mins, with the shining star always being the Sunflower in my opinion who has a phenomenal solo - just as good as I remember it after all these years, (especially if the volume is cranked up to 95db or more!!!). One slight disappointment is that this live performance is still divided in to 2 tracks as it was on the original vinyl rather than uninterrupted.If you like this, then I am sure you will enjoy Canned Heat / Boogie With Canned Heat, their first two albums on a single CD. The saddest thing is how many of the this band are no longer with us.Packaging is a double CD in a slimline box with cardboard slipcase (!!!), and it contains 12 page booklet with some interesting information. I'm so pleased that I decided to repurchase this album so do yourself a favour and invest in one yourself.

5.0 out of 5 stars Great album featuring very talented blues legends

J.�. · 17 February 2025

One of the best albums remastered from some of their early recordings featuring some iconic & long gone legends of the resurrection of English Blues rock. 10/10

4.0 out of 5 stars Featuring the great Alan Wilson

I.W. · 25 March 2013

A double vinyl album released in late 1968, it's now on a 2-disc CD. Unlike the original vinyl, this allows you to listen to both sides of the live 40 minute Refried Boogie Parts 1 & 2 without have to leave your chair, unless it's to run screaming out of the room. Only joking; it's actually better than I was expecting, but I'll get onto their endless boogie later.The first seven tracks (side one) are a mix of blues covers, rewritten blues standards, and originals and in general it's pretty good. It opens with a good version of Pony Blues sung by Hite which is followed by My Mistake an original and haunting song written and sung by Wilson to terrific effect. Also included is their massive hit Going Up The Country. It's all very solid enjoyable stuff.Parthenogenesis, the final track (side 2 of the vinyl), is 20 minutes long and one of the most astonishing pieces of music to come out of the 60's rock and blues bands. Consisting of nine segments, it's mostly instrumental and begins with a couple of pieces with Wilson on jaw's harp (the polite name for the jew's harp) which are dark moody sonic pieces concluding with and unbelievable version of Rollin' and Tumblin'. Wilson's up front again with a jaunty piece where he overdubs his harp playing four times and accompanies himself on guitar. Then there's Hite singing accompanied by John Mayall on piano. Swiftly passing over the drum solo, Henry Vestine overdubs his lead guitar five times for a slow feedback-laden piece which segues into a melancholy instrumental with Wilson's expressive chromatic harp accompanied by a sitar. The penultimate track is the full band playing behind Vestine's Albert Collins-styled lead guitar and it all ends where it began with Alan Wilson's atmospheric jaw's harp. The whole thing is just amazing as it shows how much subtlety and variety the band could play with and how they could go places you'd never expect. Much to my surprise, it isn't the pretentious load of crap it's been accused of but is in fact highly accomplished and I just love it.Less than two years later Alan Wilson, who gave so much light and shade to the band, was dead and Canned Heat just wasn't Canned Heat any more. All that was left was endless endless boogie.

Don't Miss it.

M.M. · 24 November 2015

This is probably one of the more underrated bands of the 60's, I always thought Norman Greenbaum stole his riff from this groups "Fried Hockey Boogie" (which Canned Heat probably lifted from someone like Hooker) and it appears here on an extended version that goes on forever. And it has one of their biggest hits as well, "goin up the country"

perfecto

R.C.G. · 2 September 2023

todo en perfecto estado y antes de lo previsto ningun problema

The HEAT at it's best !

H. · 27 December 2016

Jaaa, time is a jetplane....+ ich war 1976 (so etwa) 40 Jahre jünger, als ich diese Lp (Doppel) zum erstem Mal kaufte. Jeder song ist ein Burner, das geht losmit der girrrdnen Leadguitar von the Owl Wilson beim Pony Blues, über My Mistake + Sandy's Blues eher schmachtend weiter zu Hippie Kulthit "Going up the country", dann die Welle wieder runter mit Walking by Myself, das alle großen Blueser gespilet haben zur Boogie Music....gefolgt von One Kind Favour, mit Robert Johnson influence zur PARTHENOGENESIS. Diese Seite ist ein MEisterstück der Blues Komposition, nie weider vergess ich das Intro mit der Jewish Harp......- Asdann: Don't forget to boogie ... with Canned Heat

Great CD

T.J.S. · 3 June 2025

Great CD

レコードも持ってます。

猫. · 24 January 2016

組曲ふうなのも斬新でいいです。「フライド・ホッキー・ブギ」のドラムソロはイマイチと思う＾＾でも持っているべきアルバムかと。