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GAUSTAD University of California at Riverside Department of History will present a lecture on: RELIGION* CONSTITUTION, and the FOUNDING FATHERS Monday, April 14 Room 177 Lawrence Hall. 8:00 P.M. ********************** informal Reception for Pn>fcssor Cumstat! 4:00-6:00 P M Collier House (PantIt v Club) j|c $$ )|c $ ){i: $$*$*£$$** * t a-cl toe sponsored by the GpsUm Bequest Committee of College of Arts A Sciences and-the -Center for-the ' . ° Humanities 24” X 36” COPIES Bluesist Henry Vestine: The Sunflower shows i Hhotii by karrn Mtllwnwl Henry "The Sunflower" Vestine's 30-year career includes a stint as lead guitarist for Canned Heat. He has also played with frank Zappa and lohn Lee Hooker, and regularly plays with James T and The Tough and jams with other local blues artists when he's in Eugene. My persona! acquaintance with Hnnrv ' ’The Sunflower ’' destine is not of long standing, but it is very deep. Both Henry and I anf buried in the blues for life. That means we each have a lifelong commitment to the music, but it also means many other things. The blues touches many bases, such as disappointment, hard times beyond one s control, anger and fear of the unk down. Bath blues musician plays or sings from these bases, though time may have burned out the anger, or personal self-acceptance may have eroded the fear. . . Henry is one of those in whom the anger, if it ever existed, is burned out. and a personal dedication to his music has brought him a high level of self-accsplance At age 42. his face is deeply etched and his beard is graying in places. His eyes glitter fierce ly. with a hint of scorn for extraneities. To one who doesn't know him. Henry would appear formidable. To one who does he ap /xws triumphant, /' • • • 'v ‘\ v.-' His ■30-year carver, had brought him international acclaim as one of the best blues and rock guitarists around. Henry gained fame in the IWOs playing lead guitar as ' 'The Sunflower'' with C fanned Heat (one of the hottest boogie-blues bands to come out of LA I fit hasalso played with blues greats such as John Lee Hooker and Albert Collins and rock stars such as Trank Zappa, who led the Mothers of Invention and Mick Taylor, who played with British musician John Mavall's Blues BreakersCrusade. Bet wiwmfou ringwith the newly reformed Camm! Heat. Henry now calls Eugene his home base. When in town, he'gigs with hn.)i ^J^pMua^bma^J^ATand the Tough and jams regularly with fellow bluer artists in the area, particularly at the HIurs laipJafyfayJorys. Tg^rii oil Monday nights Mteimi^imEsat' down 'for some refreshments, as we often do. at the historic Whale House on Patterson Street, where he talked about hisdife'witft ihe blues. 'v- * .'.I-‘ ,-*■ Ho«an*: relLu0^iutfy6ur. musical life before Canned Heal \ eafine:;l gfew up in !jos”A’ni<eles and played parties on weekends as I went thwuBli^hlgK'^lHtolrWe made a couple of records, even Homans Ihllljj^schopl’ Vestine:'ln«jifnior.lHKh v hoof Then I went to college a little bit I was pliying'fixmilhty/ajamyt’.'aiuf I hail a seven o' clock philosophy class I jusi rauldn'Thandle it, soil quit, and decided. Tm gonna plav the guitar ■■ Homans: How long after you left college did Canned Heat come together? V •'; ' * Vesline: About three years. I was working with the Mothers, with Frank /ajtp*. 4hd I quit them Also. Bob Hite {known as The Hear." vocalist withCanned Heat I and 1 used to trade records. so I knew him. and he called me up to come hear this band playing at the Ash (.rove in uw Angeles So I came down and heard them, and one night I called him up and asked him, "can I play in your band’" He said yes Alan (Witson. known as "Hhnd Owl." guitar and harmonica player with Canned Heal! was with the band then Homans: And that was about 1965? Vestine: Yes lam (Taylor known as "The Mule." bassist with Canned Heat I wasn’t there yet. but he came soon thereafter The original Canned Heat was Bob. Alan me. Stuatl Brotman on bass, they had Kenny Kdwards who later worked with Linda Ronstadt. on guitar, and the drummer was another record collector named Pete Sawyer That was it Homans When did the group which recorded the first Canned Heal album — the orange cover — come together' Vesline: Pretty quick A couple of months after we started We had one other bass player. Mark Andes, who later worked with Spirit, and the drummer on that album. Frank Cook Banians: So w hen that first album was a hit in 1966 you were a big time, commercially successful group right? Vestine: Pretty muc h so. yes I’d been working steadily for several years though Homans: What did hitting the big time, being invited to Monterey and whatnot, do to you? Vestine; {smilingI Well, it made me think I’m gonna make some money . { Vestine picks up a midnight blue Ibanez electrk guitar and dreamily picks a few chords as we talk I Vestine: And our manager, this was his first problem This was when the Beatles were hot. and they were out of the William Moms agency, and they took acid and decided they wanted to be a rock n roll band He told ’em he would have them headlining in l/mdon in a year, and he kept his promise I wanted to get there too Homans: You went through several years of high-profile national success. "Boogie With Canned Heat,"and "Refried Hockey Boogie,'* (two of Cannnl Heat's many albumsI you went to Woodstoc k Vestine: I didn't go to Woodstock I had quit the week before, and came lack nine months later People are always coming up to me in nightclubs and saying. "Hey. I saw you in Woodstock." and I'll tell ’em. "No, you didn't. " All the others got two gold records, and I didn't get any. Homans: Tell us about Topanga Canyon {outside LAI and what about |ohn Mavall's connection with the band. Vestine: Well now. he wasn't part of the land, of course We did Walking by Myself, and he plays the bass, on one of the albums Bob us ed to have a house up in laurel Canyon, not far away from Topanga and Mavall used to hang out there I guess he lived there for a while This was after we left Topanga Canyon Homans: So why was Topanga Canyon significant? Vestine: Well, there was this kind of a little artistic, post-beatnik, early hippie kind of community up in the woods Now it's a big Yuppie area, costs a lot of money to live there, but it didn't use to And there was this great Hub there called the Topanga Corral, which was the only place around to get a drink of liquor besides the VFW It was a real good, loose place to play, so we played there a lot. It was like our home base club Homans: Did you notice a tail-off in the popularity of the blues after I he 1960a? Vestine: We were a progressive blues band, and so I never noticed any lailoff We were getting gigs with people like B B King and Otis Kush, and they were playing plates they had never played before B B plays Us Vegas now. even But there's been an upswing since the 70s Homans: What does Canned Heat mean today? Has playing with them changed? Vestine: Okay, now when we went to Australia (with /ames Thorn bun of lames T and the Tough) on our recent lour, of the five original recording members, there are three still alive (Henry . Uny Taylor, and drummer Adolfo "Fito"dela Cam) and we all went on the tour, so it's as much of the original as you're gonna get Homans So Canned Heat is still Canned Heat? Vestine: Well. Larry doesn't always go with us, so then it's just Filo I ami myself, just two-fifths Homans: Yes, I'm sure you all could account for at least two fifths. (laughterl What real unusual things have happened to you as you have lived the blues? Vestine: That's a strange question You should ask it again after we drink some more beer, then I can tell some weird stories I’ve lived a very unusual life; I don't think there's anyone who’s lived quite like I have I'd rather not go into specifics Here's one. though When I met (local dnimmerl Mac Singleton, we were at Moro Bay, California, fishing for tuna on a commercial boat for three months at a time Mac d»s ided to become a drummer w hile we were out at sea This was l%:» Homans What goes around, comes around Vestine: Yeah, he'd tie beating on the deck there; I vaguely j remembered him. but I was on LSD the whole time I was on the fishing I boat Homans: You're kidding Vestine: Lark at these eyes — would I lie? Let's go to another subject Homans: let's stop at laurel Canyon a minute Did the band ever live all together at laurel Can von. and was that where Alan died? Vestine: The Owl went down at Topanga Canyon I never lived in laurel Canyon One time. Bob Hite had this great house in Hollywood Hills, with our manager and several others Elvis Presley stayed there some, when he was in Hollywood I think Mayall may have lived there He may live there now His house burned down, and he lost his gigan tic porn collection_ Homans: Tell us about your times with |ohn Lee Hooker V estine: No. I won't tell you Homans: I II pour beer on you Vestine: Okay 1 met )ohn lee Hooker as a kid. when I was in LA. I went to a concert at UCLA, brought a record, and he signed it. Anyway, later we did the Hooker and Heat album, probably the best blues I ever worked on. and then we did a tour, played Carnegie Hall and whatnot, and a bunch of other gigs Recently I saw him in Corvallis, after I hadn't seen him for a good w hile He’s tremendous! 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