“I think he is more into acting now,” Taylor says and mentions that Waits appears in Robert Redford’s latest film, “The Old Man & The Gun,” and “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs,” the Coen brothers project for Netflix. Waits hasn’t released new music since 2011’s “Bad As Me.” I could go into details, but I don’t want to get into that.”īeyond Canned Heat, Taylor has been a session bassist for Jerry Lee Lewis and The Monkees and also has been the studio and touring bassist for Tom Waits since 1980. “Different reasons, no particular reason,” Taylor says of why he left the band four times. Taylor has been in and out of the band and has been back in the lineup for the last eight years, along with guitarists John Paulus and Dale Spalding. Wilson, Hite and Vestine have since died.ĭozens of members have passed through Canned Heat through the years, with drummer de la Parra being the only constant. The classic lineup of Canned Heat included Taylor, Alan “Blind Owl” Wilson, Bob “The Bear” Hite, Henry “The Sunflower” Vestine and Adolfo “Fito” de la Parra. “There is nothing wrong with that.”Ĭanned Heat defined blues-boogie-rock in the late 1960s and early 1970s with hits such as “On The Road Again” and “Let’s Work Together.” “If they relate to the song because of that, that’s good,” Canned Heat bassist Larry “The Mole” Taylor says. Younger generations, though, may recognize the 1968 song as the soundtrack for a recent Geico insurance commercial.
People of a certain age might remember Canned Heat’s “Going Up the Country” as the unofficial anthem for Woodstock - the Top 20 single from the album “Living the Blues” was featured prominently in the 1970 documentary film of the music festival.
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