TODAY IN ROCK AND ROLL HISTORY - 09/03/1970

While his band mates wait for him at Los Angeles Airport, Canned Heat’s vocalist and harmonica player Al Wilson committed suicide in Topanga Canyon, California when it turned out that he couldn’t save a redwood forest from being cut by a timber company. The 27-year-old sang lead on the band’s hits “On The Road Again” (US #16 in 1965) and “Going Up The Country” (US #11 in 1969).