Boogie-ing with Canned Heat.. Ho-hum !!

Greetings World's !!

How is your part of the Universe treating you this very fine, wet & windy day ?! The first day of a new year & it's started just as the old year finished !! Oh well - nevermind........ it's England & it's January - of course it's going to be raining !!

Ok... I'm home alone, at the moment. B has just gone out, to fetch her Dad.... he is coming down, to spend "New Years Day" with us...... altho' I do fall out with him, from time to time, he's not a bad old fart really !! She should be home again, in about 2 hours - give or take.... I think she is doing a bit of grocery shopping, while she is out - so, that will delay her a while.

As for the rest of the "Clan".... well, J is on holiday, with some of his friends, before heading back to Uni, over in Aberystwith, I'm not 100% sure exactly when his new term starts.... but, as long as he is happy, that is all I can ask really !!

That just leaves ME.... my special little girl !! I'm not sure if she will thank me, for calling her that... but, I love her & she is "little" - so anyways.... As far as I know - she is at work at the moment..... doing an early shift. I didn't really see her, before she went.... or, if I did, I don't remember it !!

Oh well.... apart from the 4 cats... who are all in the house, sheltering from the rain..... that's about it, as far as the family goes !!

As for my good self... well, I'm not doing anything at all, apart from writing these words to you guys & listening to one of the most important albums, in my old life !! To explain.... or try to. I know I've told this story before, but.... I'll run thru' it again - for any "new" readers !!

In 1967 - I went back to school - and most of my class mates (well, the ones who liked music) were going on & on, about how they had bought The Beatles 'Sgt Pepper' album.... and I - quietly - mentioned I had bought the first Canned Heat album !!

At the time, I didn't know it was their first album - I'm still not sure if it actually was - neither did I know, from buying that old Lp, that I would go on to buy another 30+ albums by The 'Heat !! As I've mentioned before - I'm still listening to this album.... I've wondered if any of my old class mates are still playing 'Sgt Pepper' and, if they are, if they are enjoying it as much as I am, playing this Cd today !!

For me - it was a very important album.... it pointed me towards so many other bands, as my Cd collection can testify !! So - because it means sooooo much to me, I've decided to try & list albums, this year.... albums that have been important to me, in so many different ways, not only when I bought them - but, have become..... have meant something to me, over the years !!

So - as it's January 1st - I'm starting with this one.... it wasn't the first ever Lp that I owned, but it certainly has meant a lot to me... the tracks are:

  1) Rollin' & Tumblin'
  2) Bullfrog Blues
  3) Evil Is Going On
  4) Goin' Down Slow
  5) Catfish Blues
  6) Dust My Broom
  7) Help Me
  8) Big Road Blues
  9) The Story Of My Life
10) The Road Song
11) Rich Woman

I want to give you some more tracks:

  1) Evil Woman
  2) My Crime
  3) On The Road Again
  4) World In A Jug
  5) Turpentine Moan
  6) Whiskey Headed Woman No. 2
  7) Amphetamine Annie
  8) An Owl Song
  9) Marie Laveau
10) Fried Hockey Boogie

Those tracks are from 'Boogie With....' - Canned Heats second album, which I'm playing now, as I type !! One thing about these early albums, they really were not very long !!

The first album was really an eye opener to me... this second album, well - it really was a fantastic piece of vinyl !! It has the bands first big "hit" single 'On The Road Again' also, for me - at that time - one of the longest tracks I had, by any group... the 11 minute 'Fried Hockey Boogie' !! Right - I know, by today's standards - 11 minutes is far from being a "long" track.... but, it was when I bought this !!

Something I also really liked on this album, was the few tracks that Allan Wilson took lead vocals on... his voice was so distinct, so different... it really is a fine album !!

When I got up, this morning, I didn't even think I was going to post anything... let alone write about two albums from the 1960's !! To actually play both albums, back to back - well... that was a completely off the wall thought...... something I didn't even dream of !!

Going back to yesterday.... I had to go back to my local Dr's surgery. The wound in my back is "killing me" as the phrase goes !! No really... I didn't know what to do with myself - I couldn't sit, stand or walk, without it hurting like crazy - so, I went back to the Dr's...... and then, we had the "told you so" moment !!

When I came out of hospital - back in August, I was taking a shed load of morphine, just to keep the pain in check..... At the time, my local Dr decided - against what my Consultant recommended - to reduce the morphine, by about one third. I wasn't happy about that - as I really am in shed loads of pain with whats going on......

Anyhoo - last evening, my blessed Dr decided that I should go back, on the full dose (of morphine) - just like I was, when I left the hospital......... hence the I "told you so" moment !! If he had left my med's alone - I probably would of taken more of the stuff, as my Consultant wanted, to keep the pain in check... but, at least, it wouldn't have hurt so much !! Oh well.....

Right - what else am I doing today....... bugger all really !! Apart from B's Dad coming to visit, I don't have any plans at all.... it's going to be a lazy kind of day really !! Infact - I'm going to be really "lazy" and head back towards the bed... then, I will be a little more "with it" when the Father-In-Law gets here !!

So - as always... I thank you all for logging in & reading my words, I do appreciate the time you take to read my words.....so ....... until next time

Bye Bye