1. Henry Vestine was with the group from its start in 1965 to July 1969.
22 Facts About Henry Vestine
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In 2003, Vestine was ranked 77th in Rolling Stone magazine list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".
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Henry Vestine married Lisa Lack, with whom he moved to Anderson, South Carolina.
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At Vestine's urging, his father used to take him to blues shows at which he and Henry were often the only white people present.
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Later Henry Vestine was instrumental in the "rediscovery" of Skip James and other Delta musicians.
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Henry Vestine became a familiar sight at many black clubs, where he often brought musician friends to turn them on to the blues.
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Henry Vestine was an early fan of Roy Buchanan and his favorite guitar players included T-Bone Walker, Johnny "Guitar" Watson, Sonny Sharrock, Freddie King, and Albert Collins.
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Henry Vestine was in the Mothers for only a few months and left before they recorded their debut album.
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Demo tapes from Mothers of Invention rehearsal sessions featuring Henry Vestine appear on the Frank Zappa album Joe's Corsage; posthumously released in 2004.
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Henry Vestine had introduced Al Wilson, whom he knew from Boston, to Vestine and Bob and Richard Hite.
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Bob Hite and Alan Wilson started Canned Heat with Kenny Edwards as a second guitarist, but Henry Vestine was asked to join.
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Henry Vestine had his own style and a trademark piercing treble guitar sound.
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Henry Vestine missed playing at the Woodstock Festival in 1969, having quit the band the previous week.
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When Taylor quit Canned Heat, Henry Vestine returned; their alternating membership in the band was to be repeated a few more times over the years.
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When Henry Vestine's marriage broke up in 1983, he moved to Oregon.
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Henry Vestine began playing with the Pete Carnes Blues Band and made his way to Eugene when the band folded in the mid-1980s.
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Henry Vestine played the regional club scene with a number of blues and blues-rock groups including James T and The Tough.
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Henry Vestine toured with Canned Heat in Australia and Europe, where the band had a popularity that far surpassed the recognition they got in the United States.
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Henry Vestine continued to record including sessions with Oregon bands such as Skip Jones and The Rent Party Band, Terry Robb, and The Vipers.
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Henry Vestine recorded the album Guitar Gangster with Evan Johns in Austin.
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Henry Vestine had finished a European tour with Canned Heat when he died from heart and respiratory failure in a Paris hotel on the morning of October 20,1997, just as the band was awaiting return to the United States.
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Henry Vestine's ashes are interred at the Oak Hill Cemetery outside of Eugene, Oregon.