a little Saturday morning Johnny for you
Johnny Winter Woodstock
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rickthescot
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Spectacular!
Dan R
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I never get tired of it.
I just got the Edgar Winter ( and all-stars guests) tribute to Johnny Winter and it is very good.
Lots of guest players singers and wonderful bio/ song descriptions booklet by Edgar. A real gracious work in itself...
* the FIRST song is this one " Mean Town Blues" with Joe Bonamassa on guitar, Edgar singing ( plus bass and drums only) - and they did a heck of a job.
Joe's intro is scary authentic to the original!
The music overall is a little to 'hard-rocking' modern production to me - but the playing by the guests is just fantastic overall ( some real Who's Who of blues guitar players here)
I don't wanna give too much away, but if you love Johnny and Edgar Winter, get this CD !
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I will have to check that one out!
I saw Johnny about a year before he passed , he stood for the whole encore and played Hwy61 ending with Castles made of sand (hendrix) spectacular
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We saw Johnny Winter at the Lewisville Pop Festival, a couple weeks after Woodstock, and were blown away. For my birthday in December of '69, my bandmates gave me Second Winter.....the three-sided two-disc vinyl record.....pretty odd we thought. Still have it, of course.
The first 3 Johnny Winter albums are 'must haves!'
And Johnny's electrics on these records are an Epiphone Wilshire ( or Coronet or Crestwood- I forget which is which),
a Fender Mustang ( or Duo Sonic), and the Fender Xll ( strung as a 6 and 12 string),
and songs like " Memory Pain", " Be Careful With a Fool" , " I'm Yours and Hers", " Johnny B. Goode" , " Mean Town Town Blues" have some of the best blues guitar ( albeit, amped-up, hyper) ever recorded.
Long Live Johnny!
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loco gringo
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Tommy Shannon on bass.
I did NOT know that! Thanks.
I did NOT know that! Thanks.
Here's Johnny, Edgar, Tommy, and the drummer ( who's name escapes me) doing Tobacco Road- but this was Johnny's band for those first records
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^^^ Same show as above, but just the trio- and Johnny is so slippery fast! Not perfect , but he played like breathing...
It always saddened me that these outragiously talented players never had the foresight to video more of their shows, so much golden music that we cant share again.
SnidelyWhiplash
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The drummers name is Uncle John Turner. He & TS was JWs rhythm section before being unceremoniously dropped by Johnny's management for one that was more " rock " .
Big mistake...
johnb
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Saw him the month before at the 1st Atlanta Pop festival.
His 8 Twin Reverbs kept blowing the power out (just kidding - not really the Twins fault).
His sound and timing was incredible that night. Besides the Fender XII (with only 6 strings), he played a Mustang a song or two.
I still remember that night like it was yesterday rather than 53 years ago.
His 8 Twin Reverbs kept blowing the power out (just kidding - not really the Twins fault).
His sound and timing was incredible that night. Besides the Fender XII (with only 6 strings), he played a Mustang a song or two.
I still remember that night like it was yesterday rather than 53 years ago.
A little after dinner saturday Johnny for you
when I saw him I had front row seats , then I looked on stage there were 4 super reverbs behind him , I moved back 10 rows ,My ears still thank me !
I've decided JW is my favorite white guy Blues guitarist, bought his first three or four albums when they came out, saw him live in the 80's in a small club. He came out and opened with an instrumental that featured all the Blues Guitar Greats styles, it was so fantastic I wondered what he could follow it with.
I'll spin JWs Greatest Hits on the way to a gig in the car these days. I love the grab it and go attitude, the immediacy,.. I love the "imperfections".
I'll spin JWs Greatest Hits on the way to a gig in the car these days. I love the grab it and go attitude, the immediacy,.. I love the "imperfections".
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