Happy 73rd birthday, Adolfo De La Parra, drummer for Canned Heat.

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Hat tip, This Day in Music:

1946, Born on this day, Mexican drummer Adolpho De La Para with American band Canned Heat who had the 1970 UK No.2 & US No.26 single 'Let's Work Together'. He has also played with some of the greatest blues singers of our time including, Big Joe Turner, T-Bone Walker, Albert Collins and John Lee Hooker.

Canned Heat

Canned Heat is an American rock band that was formed in Los Angeles in 1965. The group has been noted for its interpretations of blues material and for its efforts to promote interest in this type of music and its original artists. It was launched by two blues enthusiasts, Alan Wilson and Bob Hite, who took the name from Tommy Johnson's 1928 "Canned Heat Blues", a song about an alcoholic who had desperately turned to drinking Sterno, generically called "canned heat" (from the original 1914 product name Sterno Canned Heat),[1] After appearances at the Monterey and Woodstock festivals at the end of the 1960s, the band acquired worldwide fame with a lineup consisting of Hite (vocals), Wilson (guitar, harmonica and vocals), Henry Vestine and later Harvey Mandel (lead guitar), Larry Taylor (bass), and Adolfo de la Parra (drums).

The Wikipedia page does not show an entry for Adolfo de la Parra. He does have one, but it's at Adolfo de la Parra. I tried adding the link, but Wikipedia doesn't recognize that as another Wikipedia page. It sort of bungles the link.

Adolfo de la Parra

Adolfo "Fito" de la Parra (8 de febrero de 1946 en Ciudad de México) es un baterista de origen mexicano, popular por su trabajo con la agrupación Canned Heat.1

Biografía

Fito de la Parra comenzó tocando profesionalmente la batería a la edad de los 14 años. En 1958 fue miembro de una banda Mexicana llamada "Los Sparks". Además tocó con algunas de las bandas más importantes en la escena del rock mexicano como Los Sinners, Los Hooligans y con Javier Batiz. De la Parra reemplazó al baterista original de Canned Heat, Frank Cook, y tocó su primer concierto con la banda el 1 de diciembre de 1967. Participó en la grabación del segundo álbum de la agrupación, Boogie with Canned Heat y ha tocado en cada producción discográfica de la banda desde entonces.2

Durante sus más de 40 años de carrera con Canned Heat, Fito tuvo la oportunidad de compartir su talento con grandes cantantes de blues como Big Joe Turner, T-Bone Walker, Albert Collins y George "Harmonica" Smith. Su brillante técnica, bases bateristicas sólidas y sus solos fantásticos lo llevaron a grabar sesiones con John Lee Hooker, Memphis Slim y Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown. También escribió un libro llamado "LIVING THE BLUES" donde relata su historia personal y con Canned Heat.
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Enlaces externos

• Sitio Oficial de Canned Heat

Here's one of the two Canned Heat songs everyone knows:

And thanks to the Geico commercials, here's the other Canned Heat song everyone knows, with period footage: