The Concert in question..Dec 11, 1969.
Posted on 07/17/2014 5:06:17 AM PDT by 4yearlurker
AP is reporting that blues guitar great Johnny Winter has died in a Zurich hotel room.
I have the Muddy Waters album that he played on (Hard Again). Great stuff, and I’ve never really been a blues aficionado.
I had a front-row seat to see Edgar Winter in Cleveland in 1970. I didn't get my hearing back until 1975.
Yeah. good stuff.
Derringer is also a great guitarist and song writer. I saw him with Johnny Winter And then later with the Edgar Winter Group. When Johnny Winter And Live LP came out,me and my cousin would listen to it and laugh at how fast the JW could play.
Here's Johnny playing with some spare bass player.
Listen to “Rock Me Baby” on the Still Alive and Well LP. Just a three man band laying it down in one track.
Looks like Jimi is playing a right handed Fender Bronco bass upside down.
RIP bump
When Jimi defers to playing bass for you, you know you’re one damn good guitarist.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjaFWurTS1U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIpmUroL2D4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQPlU5q1CBI
Edgar, Rick Derringer, and Johnny playing Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo live. Never got tired of that album.
RIP Johnny.
A few unknown factoids about RD...
His real name is Rick Zehringer and he played on a number of Steely Dan tracks among other artists.
During the McCoy’s touring of “Hang On Sloopy”, they opened for Simon & Garfunkel in a small teen club here in Dayton. After their set, they stayed onstage and played behind S&G.
Hard to imagine how a “Hootchie-Koo” guitar could mesh with Paul Simon songs - great show, though!
I was at the record store the first day “All American Boy” came out. The store had a life sized cardboard cut out of Derringer from the album cover. “Hold” and “Jump Jump Jump” are great songs.
I saw him in Florida a couple years ago playing for beers. Seriously.
Sad.
My favorite stories involve johnny getting established. He asked to sit in with B B King and impressed B B King in the Beaumont days. One of my favorite recordings is the Bloomfield live recording in 1968 when he was discovered and landed the record contract. Incredible sound. Always cool when someone new comes on the scene and blows everyone away. Kind of like when hendrix was at the Marquis club and played to the beatles, clapton etc and blew them away.
Who was playing for beers? Winter or Derringer?
No wonder I don’t remember him. I had re discovered Willie Nelson.
Not my type.
I saw photos of Hendrix playing at the Marquis with The Beatles,The Rolling Stones,Clapton,The Who,Donavon,etc sitting in the audience. Some were even sitting on the floor because it was SRO!
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