Canned Heat

Not in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Eligible since: 1993

First Recording: 1967

Previously Considered? Yes  what's this?

Canned Heat
HALL OF FAME INDICATORS
🔲Rolling Stone 500 Albums
🔲Rolling Stone 500 Songs
🔲Rolling Stone Cover
🔲Saturday Night Live
🔲Major Festival Headliner
🔲Songwriters Hall of Fame
🔲“Big Four” Grammys

Essential Songs (?)WikipediaYouTube
Going Up The Country (1968)
On the Road Again (1968)
Let's Work Together (1970)

Canned Heat @ Wikipedia

Will Canned Heat be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame?
"Musical excellence is the essential qualification for induction."
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If you did a Levi commercial you should be in!

Posted by Charlie on Sunday, 04/12/2015 @ 16:52pm


Rest in Peace Larry "the Mole" Taylor, 1942-2019.

Posted by Joe on Tuesday, 08/20/2019 @ 11:25am


Here's a list of Canned Heat Band Members.

Possible Final lineup

Larry "The Mole" Taylor – bass, guitar, vocals (1967–1970, 1978–1980, 1987–1992, 1996–1997, 2010–2019; Now deceased)
Adolfo "Fito" de la Parra – drums, vocals (1967–present)
Dale Wesley Spalding – guitar, harmonica, bass, vocals (2008–present)
John Paulus – guitar (2000–2006, 2013–present)

Past Members


Bob "The Bear" Hite – vocals, harmonica, guitar (1965–1981; died 1981)
Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson – guitar, harmonica, vocals (1965–1970; died 1970)
Stuart Brotman – bass (1965–1966)
Mike Perlowin – guitar (1965)
Keith Sawyer – drums (1965)
Kenny Edwards – guitar (1965; died 2010)
Henry "The Sunflower" Vestine – guitar (1965–1974, 1980–1981, 1985–1988, 1992–1997; died 1997)
Frank Cook – drums (1965–1967)
Mark Andes – bass (1966–1967)
Harvey "The Snake" Mandel – guitar (1969–1970, 1990–1992, 1996–1999, 2010–2014)
Antonio de la Barreda – bass (1970–1972; died 2009)
Joel Scott Hill – guitar (1970–1972)
Richard Hite – bass, guitar, vocals (1972–1977; died 2001)
James Shane – guitar, bass, vocals (1972–1974)
Ed Beyer – keyboards (1972–1974)
Chris Morgan – guitar (1974–1977)
Gene Taylor – keyboards, guitar (1974–1976)
Mark Skyer – guitar (1976–1977)
Richard Exley – bass (1977–1978)
Mike "Hollywood Fats" Mann – guitar (1978–1980; died 1986)
Ronnie Barron – keyboards (1978, 1987–1988; died 1997)
Jay Spell – keyboards (1978–1980; died 2010)
Mike Halby – guitar (1978–1984; died 2008)
Jon Lamb – bass (1980)
Ernie Rodriguez – bass (1980–1985)
Richard Kellogg – vocals, harmonica (1981–1985; died 2008)
Walter Trout – guitar (1981–1985)
James Thornbury – vocals, guitar, harmonica (1985–1995; died 2017)
Skip Jones – bass (1985–1987)
Junior Watson – guitar (1988–1990, 1992–1997)
Ron Shumake – bass (1990–1996; died 2014)
Becky Barksdale – guitar (1992)
Smokey Hormel – guitar (1992)
Robert Lucas – vocals, guitars, harmonica (1995–2000, 2005–2008; died 2008)
Greg Kage – bass (1996–2010)
Paul Bryant – guitar (1997–2000)
Stanley "The Baron" Behrens – saxophone, flute (2000–2005)
Dallas Hodge – vocals, guitars (2000–2005)
Don Preston – vocals, guitar (2005)
Barry Levenson – guitar (2006–2010)

Additional Members

Ron Holmes – drums (1965)
Clifford Solomon – saxophone (1974)
Jock Ellis – trombone (1974)
Stan Webb – guitar (1976)
Mark "Pocket" Goldberg – bass (1996)
Adam "Slutbugg" Heidenreich – bass (August 2012)
Jacob Montreal – keyboards (Grafton/Park River Supergig '96)
Tim "Bird" Pigeon – slapbass (Grafton/Park River Supergig '96; died 1997)

Posted by The Dude on Tuesday, 08/20/2019 @ 12:01pm


The classic
lineup of canned heat no doubt belongs in the hall of fame, but so do a lot of others left out by the curb so the hall can be politically correct

Posted by Rick Caldwell on Thursday, 07/2/2020 @ 13:53pm


Get serious. Canned Heat DEFINITELY belongs in the Rock and Roll HOF. Having played at Woodstock is enough, but they did so much more. I still often listen to their great music. I had the good fortune to meet Larry Taylor and Fito DeLa Parra. Good people. PUT THEM IN !!!

Posted by Gregg on Friday, 11/6/2020 @ 21:00pm


How can you consider putting Dolly Parton into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and not Canned Heat? C'mon Man. Don't forget about the Boogie and do the Right Thing. Canned Heat inducted in 2022. Thank you.

Posted by John Mellor on Saturday, 05/14/2022 @ 07:03am


Lets get the HEAT into the hall of fame....they deserve it!!!!

Posted by Dennis Bessette on Friday, 10/7/2022 @ 14:22pm


Canned Heat DEFINITELY should be in the Rock and Roll hall of fame! Why have they been so overlooked?

Posted by Suz on Sunday, 01/29/2023 @ 11:46am


Any band which featured Alan Wilson (1943-70) should breeze into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame..
'He was THE man, THE person…' said John Lee Hooker, of the man who taught Son House how to play his own material again after years of not playing.

Posted by Sean Kaye-Smith on Wednesday, 02/1/2023 @ 04:03am


Any list about rock that doesn't include Canned Heat is an unserious list. So much talent and so much musical wisdom in the hands of Alan, Bob, Fito, Larry, Harvey and Henry. Apart from Alan Wilson, few white guys could sit down to dinner as equals with Muddy Waters, JL Hooker, Howlin' Wolf or Son House.
"You hear that cat on the Harmonica? That's the Canned Heat, I know you'll dig it." "All right, Alan, you feel good, and you feel good like I thought that you would now. And you feel good, hey, hey, hey." If you listen to that and don't move your feet, you're dead.

Posted by Jorge on Tuesday, 02/7/2023 @ 05:48am


It is truly sad this band is not in the RR Hall of Fame. Perhaps they're waiting for ALL the original members to die off. Hard to imagine anyone doing a legit cover performance of their work but fingers crossed!

Posted by Buck Dashe on Friday, 02/17/2023 @ 09:44am


It completely baffles me why CH are not in the HOF. As Sean said above Alan Wilson alone was so musically brilliant that they should have been in decades ago. Does anyone have a clue why they have been excluded? I happened to be listening to them tonight and they are just so creative. On the road again? A complete shock in1968, no one had produced anything like that before

Posted by Chris gibson on Monday, 02/20/2023 @ 08:51am


No Canned Heat, no ZZ Top

Posted by jerry on Thursday, 09/21/2023 @ 12:59pm


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