RIP Johnny Winter

http://www.americanbluesscene.com/2014/07/johnny-winter-dead/

The blues/rock guitarist was 70. Not many details are known about his death.

 

Great guitarist, but man, the guy looked like death for decades.

 

Saw this performance live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvNUTqDJJaI

 

Have you ever been to a rock 'n' roll recital?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV9hs_Bls8s&feature=youtu.be

(Radio ad for 1973 concert starring Johnny Winter, the James Gang (post-Joe Walsh), Spirit, the New York Dolls and Brownsville Station.)

 

One helluva rock guitarist, and maybe a better bluesman.

A few years back at a weekend music festival I saw Winter, Doc Watson, Leo Kottke, and David Lindley. It was an embarrassment of riches, live guitar heaven.

R.I.P. Johnny.

 

Wow. I was a fan of Johnny (and Edgar). Saw him play maybe five or six times, the last time at Toad's Place in New Haven around 1985. Hell of a guitarist.

 

Johnny hadn't been well for a while, great, great guitarist, huge loss for the blues.

RIP

 

Many basketball insiders will say that Winters is the
real pioneer of The Triangle Offense and not Phil Jackson.

 

Saw him live just last year and he was helped onto the stage, sat and played his set with absolutely zero emotion, just went through the motions. The guitarist in his band was fantastic though, playing lead/rhythm swaps like 1970s Rick Derringer.
"Johnny Winter And Live" is an all timer rock classic with killer covers of "Good Mornin' Little School Girl" and "Jumpin' Jack Flash". "Still Alive and Well" was damn good, too.
RIP to a favorite.

 

That live album burns. The way he roared through "Jack Flash" was just unbelievably good.

 

When I was in college at Madison in the early 80's, Johnny was going to play at Headliners, a pretty good venue that had some great acts come through. My buddy worked there as a bouncer and when Johnny was nowhere to be found a couple minutes before show time we were sent out to neighboring bars to find him. Sure enough, about half a block away we found him at the legendary 602 Club, a great melting pot dive bar that hosted everyone from academics to aging hippies to homeless drunks that scrounged together enough coin for some beers. Johnny was hammered, slumped over the bar but it wasn't difficult to identify an albino guitar legend. We propped him up and got him to the show and some how he absolutely killed it. Of course I was so drunk and stoned that perhaps my memory of the night is a bit hazy. BTW I also happened upon Wendy O Williams and her band in the ally behind Headliners one night. Smoked a joint with her. Woke up the next morning and was scared shitless that I had contracted some hideous disease. So far so good but who knows what weird strains were coursing through her veins.

 

RIP Sluggo.