Editing Canned Heat (section)

=== Rise to fame and formation of the classic lineup ===
The first big live appearance of Canned Heat was at the [[Monterey Pop Festival]] on June 17, 1967. A picture of the band taken at the performance was featured on the cover of ''[[Down Beat]]'' where an article complimented their playing:

{{Blockquote|Technically, Vestine and Wilson are quite possibly the best two-guitar team in the world and Wilson has certainly become our finest white blues harmonica man. Together with powerhouse vocalist Bob Hite, they performed the country and Chicago blues idiom of the 1950s so skillfully and naturally that the question of which race the music belongs to becomes totally irrelevant.<ref>{{Cite magazine|title=Festival Issue|magazine=[[Down Beat]]|date=August 10, 1967|volume=34|issue=16|page=}}</ref>}}
[[D.A. Pennebaker]]'s [[Monterey Pop|documentary]] captured their rendition of "[[Rollin' and Tumblin']]{{-"}} and two other songs from the set, "Bullfrog Blues" and "[[Dust My Broom]]", found a place later in a boxed CD set in 1992.

Canned Heat also began to garner their notoriety as "the bad boys of rock" for being jailed in Denver, Colorado, after a police informant provided enough evidence for their arrest for drugs (an incident recalled in their song "My Crime"). Band manager Skip Taylor was forced to obtain the $10,000 bail by selling off Canned Heat's publishing rights to Liberty Records president Al Bennett.{{sfn|De La Parra|2000|pp=68–71}}

After the Denver incident, Frank Cook was replaced with [[Adolfo de la Parra]], who had been playing the drums in [[Bluesberry Jam]] (the band which evolved into [[Pacific Gas & Electric (band)|Pacific Gas & Electric]]). As an official member of Canned Heat, de la Parra played his first gig on December 1, 1967, sharing top billing with [[the Doors]] at the Long Beach Auditorium.{{sfn|De La Parra|2000|p=76}} This began what de la Parra refers to as the classic and perhaps best known Canned Heat lineup, which recorded some of the band's most famous and well-regarded songs. During this "classic" period, Skip Taylor and John Hartmann introduced the use of band member nicknames:
* Bob "The Bear" Hite
* Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson
* Henry "Sunflower" Vestine (and later Harvey "The Snake" Mandel)
* Larry "The Mole" Taylor
* Adolfo "Fito" de la Parra

Their second released album, ''[[Boogie with Canned Heat]]'', included "[[On the Road Again (Canned Heat song)|On the Road Again]]", an updated version of a 1950s composition by [[Floyd Jones]]. "On the Road Again" became the band's breakout song and was a worldwide success.{{sfn|De La Parra|2000|p=90}} The album also included a twelve-minute version of "Fried Hockey Boogie", (credited to Larry Taylor, but derived from [[John Lee Hooker]]'s "[[Boogie Chillen']]{{-"}} riff) allowed each member to stretch out on his instrument while establishing them with hippie ballroom audiences across America as the "kings of the boogie". Hite's "Amphetamine Annie" (a "speed kills" tune inspired by the drug abuse of an acquaintance and reminiscent of Albert King's "[[The Hunter (Albert King song)|The Hunter]]"), became one of their most enduring songs and one of the first "anti-drug" songs of the decade. Although not featured on the album's artwork, this was the first Canned Heat album to have featured drummer de la Parra.

With this success Taylor, Hartmann and new associate Gary Essert leased a Hollywood club they named the Kaleidoscope, in which Canned Heat essentially became the house band; [[Jefferson Airplane]], [[Grateful Dead]], [[Buffalo Springfield]] and [[Sly and the Family Stone]] also performed there.{{sfn|De La Parra|2000|p=93}} Also in 1968, after playing before 80,000 at the first annual [[Newport Pop Festival]] in September, Canned Heat left for their first European tour. It entailed a month of concert performances and media engagements that included television appearances on the British show ''[[Top of the Pops]]''. They also appeared on the German program ''[[Beat Club]]'', where they lip-synched "On the Road Again".