This video begins with Alan Wilson captivating almost half a million people for two whole minutes using nothing but his guitar. Of course the lack of crowd noise on the recording means nothing but it's hard not to believe the whole place was absolutely pin-drop quiet until the boogie started.

one of the things I love about these videos is seeing how these guys were not performers, they just played the music and shared it with us. They felt the music like we did. This was authentic stuff, not orchestrated entertainment.

Once upon a time in a magical place the Bear loved the Owl and they played together beautifully.

How can you not love a guy that has an STP sticker on his guitar .....

Right time, right place, right look, right style, and many have spent the last 50 years trying hard to copy it, but will never succeed

Kids? You aint never gonna hear music like this again!!!!

So late in life...at age 64 I'm just now finding out how magnificent this band really is. Without Alan Wilson, there is no comparison. Wilson was among the greatest and so few knew who he was. Fascinating performer, grossly underrated, sorely missed and taken WAY too soon. When I find myself having a bad day, turning on Canned Heat performing live is medicine for the soul. How can you NOT be happy after watching this video! Thank you very much for posting this video.

Nothing flashy , no gimmicks , just great music

I could listen and listen to it millions times without getting bored. Alan Wilson... simply such a charismatic frontman. I am addicted to it!!!!

RIP Alan Wilson, forgotten member of the 27 Club. And The Bear, hugely underrated singer. Great performance

My 11 month old can’t get enough of this song. He will stop everything he’s doing to rush towards the TV & watch Alan Wilson slide away

These performances have gave me so much nostalgia to when I would watch them with my uncle, they never get old. I gotta see a band perform just like this before im gone!

wilson's style of play is so awesome in the fact it's not hitting a bunch of notes, but hitting each one perfect. a truly magnificent guitar player and highly underrated.

I'm 65 years old, and still love this.

Thank God this was filmed!

When I look at Woodstock footage, it reminds me of what we all left behind when we needed to get jobs to earn a living. We didn't realize what we had.....

Old videos like this, is what makes KZfaq great 🔥

Alan's opening speaks volumes, that guitar is communicating better than words.

What a time to be alive.

I saw Canned Heat two weeks before Woodstock sitting in the second row at the Fillmore East as well as at Woodstock. One of the greatest concert bands of the era. Between Alan Wilson on rhythm guitar and Larry Taylor on bass with Bob the bear Hite singing they were just amazing.

The brother standing up dancing flipping his hat and token is priceless love it.

Easily one of the best performances at Woodstock!

Love it when they all start bopping

Thank God for u tube and for whom so ever filmed this great performancemay they rest in peace who is no longer with us.

My Uncle Mark introduced me to the Canned Heat in 1972, I was 13 and my life changed right then

Good to see Grace and Janice back stage having a good time with Canned Heat too! What a great performance.

Woodstock really was a blues festival more than anything. With one or two exceptions, and the blues acts were the best, the tightest and the smoothest. These guys don't get enough credit, they were one kickass blues act.

Still one of my favourite bands. I never tire of listening to Canned Heat. I wish I could time travel back in time to witness this magical moment in music history. It is fantastic that it available to watch in my life time.

Tell me why at 80 yrs. old I'm still over the top in love with their .. ❤️🎶🎵🎶❤️💥👌

I'm born in 1985 and I'm loving to hear old music. One night i woke up in a dream and canned Heat were playing on the radio "meet me in The bottom" with John Lee Hooker and I was so excited about that song. The next day I was searching for this band and what I found was that Video, what makes me more excited. Then I found another Song from them and I remebered hearing it, at the age of maybe 8, with my best friend in that days from his fathers record collection and it was our favorite song. How wonderful music is : D

I was there at Woodstock and Canned Heat had a great energy. Just down home blues. Luckily this was before its started raining that night.

His intro absolutely brilliant - so much sound on so little equipment - greatest music time of all time

We are talking GREATNESS right here. They sure can jam.

love how this performance starts in the light of the evening and slowly darkens into night in the ending...classic!

What a fantastic blues group, one of the best to come out of the USA, to say they were underrated would be an understatement and there will NEVER be another Woodstock.

I love the fact that Alan starts out without glasses and then In the end puts them on. Blind Owl forever ❤️❤️❤️

Alan Wilson was a musical genius

What a phenomenal band! I never knew how fantastic they were until I watched this video. Just wow.

Nothing will ever beat Canned Heat with this line up!

People sometimes forget how unique you had to be if you were playing music like that in America when they did. Noboby played like that - except old black guitar players, and a few really hip white guys like Johnny Winter, Alan Wilson, and Ry Cooder. These guys are legends.

Now THIS is what you call a jam session 💗

Absolute fucking classic. I’m back in ‘69. This is how you time travel dudes.

Alan Wilson is a fret master. He doesn’t play a bunch of notes at a time he just plays the ones he plays correctly.

they had no real equal. may God bless Al Wilson.

Has that ZZ Top La Grange vibe. You know, back in the day I ignored this band since I was more into the harder rock music. I have now come to appreciate the Blues and also these original rock/blues based bands that came out of that era including this band, plus Janis, Rory Gallagher, Johnny Winter, etc. Genius musicianship.

When a musician can feel the vibrations from the strings and turn it into facial expressions. Buy that man a beer 😎

Absolutely brilliant.Cant stop watching ,no one to match this today.

Aaaaaa man..... So flippin wonderful..... Classic and wonderful and just beautiful ❤️❤️❤️❤️

When music was really, really great ; an era never to be repeated 👍

OMG! I can’t tell you how many times I jam to this in 2020 . And I’m not even from the sixties

Ich höre es mir immer wieder an und bekomme jedesmal wieder eine Gänsehaut. So etwas wir es leider nie wieder geben. Einfach genial. 👍😊

Real music played by real musicians. I'd call it refreshing, but it's waaaaaaaaaay more awesome than that!!! Boogie on forever.

This video is witness to the durability of Larry Taylor, the bassist getting into it. 53 years later, he is still performing, playing stand up bass in Kim Wilson's band!

Watching this for the 30th time or so and I can't help but wonder how much wonderful music never got made for our pleasure. This genius virtuoso Alan Wilson left us way too soon. Another one at 27.

Man the way the sun sets throughout the whole thing… literally the perfect performance

A masterpiece of the best boogie/blues group forever !!!!!!!

Never knew this until today but blind owl Wilson was from the town right next to mine, never knew these blues legends came from the northeast, always figured the blues were a southern thing but canned heat proved it didn’t matter where you came from the blues is a feeling that anyone can feel and god damn did they feel the blues in their soul these boys

I was 16 working at a burger restaurant along route 7 Danbury Ct "Val's Hamburgers" summer 69. I remember a VW bus pulled into the parking lot. Sprayed on the side was "Woodstock or Bust". Side note. Its unreal what those old VW buses are worth now.

This music is so infectious and yet it's the cure for everything and everyone 🙏❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 KEEP ROCKIN KEEP IT CANNED HEAT 👍😎👍Jul twenty four

Alan was such a fantastic guitarist and even more so as a blues artist. He had SOUL

You got to love this guy with his pack of Marlboros in his pocket and stomping out the jams...

If someone told me I could go back in time and see this live, but they had to kill me after the set was over, I would do it in a heartbeat.

I was thirteen in 1969 and had an STP sticker on everything!

I can't get enough of this, when the music dies down and he goes into the slide at 5:12, then it cuts to the silhouettes dancing at dusk...I would give anything to have been there!

"Blind Owl" and "The Bear", I'm sure are Jamming in the WOODSTOCK in the Sky !

The Heat were the real thing. I remember listening to "Collage" in my basement bedroom around 1970 and my mom coming in the room saying "Big Fat, why do you always sing a sad, sad song". I played that record so much even she knew it by heart.

Grateful that my mom and dad shared this music with me ! I was only 3 but the music stuck in my head :) !!

I'm 54, I just discovered Canned Heat. I can't stop watching this video. Just mesmerizing.

No cell phones, social media, video games back then but we knew how to have a good time and listen to soul soothing music.

Larry The Mole Taylor is my inspiration on bass. This performance was what made me take up the bass 20 years ago.

Awesome era of the best original musicians ever. stayin' alive in those times with no parameters on anything wickedly good was really something else. The 27 Club.

Watch Alan's face on slide..feeling each and every note.

Absolutely love this band! Great music! I can listen to them all day

Bob's beard should be in the rock and roll hall of fame...

If you were alive back then to experience this incredible music, consider yourself one of the luckiest people on the planet!

My grandpa died last couple months and I showed him a couple songs from canned heat he was born in 1951 it brought him brought him back good memories that’s why I’ll always will listen to canned heat till I die

You know there are so many talented and great bands and singers! I don’t know how anyone could possibly keep up with them all!!!

The way this starts up at the magical Blue Hour.... the lone guitarist...just so tranquil...everyone takes up their positions,&.........here we go!!!!! This actually makes me so happy, my heart hurts! 🙏🏻💔🙏🏽

Heavenly intro, RIP Owl and Bear, what a performance!

The more I listen to this song the more I'm thinking it's one best songs I've ever heard with the quitar opening maybe the best.

What a time to be alive. To all those who experienced this i just want to say I envy you

Those were the times worth living. The strong believe we could change the world with love. So sad now.

Canned Heat used to play at our local club on a fairly regular basis when I was in high school in the late 70’s. All the local kids would go and dance and groove to the boogie jams of Canned Heat at the Topanga Corral. I had no idea what what a lucky little fucker I was not get to listen to this timeless music by legends!

Manchmal denke ich, ich wurde 20 Jahre zu spät geboren. Was gab es für tolle Musik vor meiner Zeit (Jahrgang 1970)

Keep coming back to this ! So addictive ❤️ toes and leg tapping! Does it for me 👌

The record Canned Heat did with John Lee Hooker is just WOW!!

The unmistakable sound - you can recognise them from miles away! Love this band!

Incredibly good how both guitarists play together

The groove is unreal - can't image how the crowd must have felt!! Amazing!

Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson!! He died too young, at least he played in the BEST era... Monterey Pop festival & Woodstock!! That's something I would pay to have on my music resume! Lol 🎸🎵🎶🎶🎶🎵✌️😁

3 glorious days and nights of love ❤️, peace ☮️ and rock n blues…never before never after…. Woodstock is legendary!!!!

Amazing footage ...Al Wilson playing a 50's Gold Top Les Paul , new guy Harvey Mandel playing a cool black Stratocaster ..BTW , I was at this "gig" , 8/15 /69 or 8/16/69..

His voice. On the road again. Brilliant.

Those p90s with that slide, is the sound right there

I only got to see Canned Heat once, as a matter of fact it was my first concert ever. Sunflower was with them them as well. The Bear and I shot peace signs at each other. I'll never forget! And I'll tell you what. I was never the same! I'm a Bluesaholic.

28 years old, grew up in Belgium, 100% Rap listener. And yet, these nerds have been giving me a crazy vibe since I was 16 when I discovered them with "On the road again". Fucking hell, you guys must have lived the best years of your life back then. #TooMuchBoogie

What an awesome riff 👍 what a groovy event Woodstock was 🌼✌️🌻 peace out ....

Back to this again ! just wonderful in every area of the band - love what they do❤️

My father was at Woodstock and he had Woodstock recorded and always would watch him sliding down the hill on Rain mudslide 😉✌🏻RIP PEACE POP I Always have you and Joey close to my heart ❤💙💯❤💯❤👍✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻

R.I.P. The Bear and The Owl. You guys were just too good.