Johnny Winter plays a scorchin' version of Johnny B Goode at Roskilde, Denmark in 1984. Someone throws a bottle and he stops playing and walks off. Quite Right Too!
At show in Atlanta in the early 80's Johnny had just come on stage with the Firebird and stepped up to the microphone only to get beer thrown all over him. Naturally he left the stage. The perpetrator was right in front of me, I grabbed him and threw him to the ground while several others piled on. By the time security got to him he was bloody rags. One guy wearing colors of some MC club had a knife to his throat screaming about how he was going to cut the guys face off when security yanked him away and collected the bleeding jerk. The story got to Johnny and he came back saying we were his kind of people. Played a 2 hr set with 2 curtain calls. Even if he hadn't come back I would have understood. No performer deserves that, ever.
Johnny Winter is wonderful and he’s marweles band.......»this cat can play» they dont deserv that OMG, and nowbody else either! So good you get this badass! THANK YOU, GOOD WORK 💪👊👍
Why would someone want to hurt Mr. Winter . He gave us so much beautiful guitar playing. Hope who threw the bottle heals very slowly. They should have stood him up on stage and had Johnny throw darts at him. It would serve him right !
I was at the concert.., sort of! A mate and I went on bicycle from Copenhagen (about 30 km) just to hear Johnny Winter. We didn't buy tickets to the festival, we just sat outside the fence and listened and drank a bottle of wine. So we never knew what happened until we got home and saw it on the news. This gets better, so read on ;) A few years later, Johnny Winter opened a new venue in copenhagen, Saga, and during that concert someone again threw something up on the stage. JW just saw something flying thru the air and spontaneously stopped playing and was about to walk of the stage, when his bassplayer, Jon Paris, showed him - it was a rose. So he just said: You people amaze me, and carried on playing. The Roskilde festival incident caused beer only to be sold in plastic cups at concerts in Denmark (not as easy to handle as bottles, but fine by me since some people are that stupid) and yet, at a later concert at Amar Bio,I think it was, another stupid, managed to throw (in a really drunk and ill-targeted manner) a plastic cup of beer at him again. Someone, I think maybe a stage hand, helped him with a towel, and luckily he carried on playing. I saw him at a few more concerts, until his last here in Denmark, when he almost couldn't play anymore. He merely did sort of a boogie woogie thing, but great to see, how the audience accepted that, and realized that this might be a farewell-concert from one of the great spirits of our time. Long live the memory and music of Johnny Winter.
I got the first LP Johnny released when he signed with Columbia records when I was 12 & most people my age couldn't wrap their little minds around his music, but I loved it first time I heard it. One of my dad's aunts turned the front room of her house in Houston into a small record shop back in the 60's. She carried a lot of stuff that was generally hard to find such as early blues recordings & Johnny would come by to see what she had from time to time even after he became more widely known & his extensive record collection was pretty well known. I'll admit, it was tough seeing him there near the end, but I admire him for soldiering on doing what he loved. There will never be another one quite like him & he made the world a little bit better place.
So sad to hear that johnny has passed away!!!what an incredible talent!! He'll be hugely missed!!!he brought so much pleasure to so many!! He can jam with jimi again!!R.I.P Johnny!
I seen Winter back in the late '80's in Santa Cruz, Ca and some drunked up A-Hole threw a bottle at him and Johnny was about to leave the stage, but the crowd around the idiot grabbed him and muscled him right on out of the venue. Jon Paris & Johnny saw that and decided to stay...but he did let us all know not to be fuckin' around or he would leave. Things settled down and we all rocked out the rest of the show. That was a close one.
While it is true that bottles and other objects are thrown at performers quite often, and I'm sure Johnny has dodged his share, if you watch carefully he dodges several of them during this number before the last and most obvious one. Eventually a man reaches his limit and can no longer tolerate the disrespect. Rock On Johnny Winter!!
A guy threw a large glass of beer at my band - it hit the ceiling above my head and a sliver of glass very faintly sliced the edge of my nose. They threw the guy out and I said to the crowd. '' I didn't think we there that bad - he must be a serious music critic.''
Jackle61 a friend attended Beaumont High School with the Winter brothers. She said that they were abused by classmates, probably because they were albino. People can be cruel, young people the cruelest.
David Dorrell Ohh Yes their mother took them out of school, she was learning them at home.......Johnny is the greatest blues-guitarist EVER.....love him ♥️
I hope the crowd found that guy and beat the livin crap out of him. I'd have stopped too. I mean c'mon, the guy is a living legend and traveled probably a long distance to get there and then while workin his butt off, kills it with some great licks, only to have basically trash thrown at him BY trash.
Legend or not - anyone who throws a bottle should be beaten with a flagpole. Don't like the band, then just go away. One person ruined it for about 50-100.000 people.
Check out the damage done to Toots Hibbert of Toots and the Maytals after he was hit with a vodka bottle on stage.Throwing a bottle is assault with a deadly weapon.
Went to a J. Winter concert in Fort Lauderdale in around 1987 at "Summers On The Beach" nightclub / bar. . Someone threw a few long stemmed roses at Johnny! He didn't stop the show (Thank God) but he said to the crowd "Don't throw stuff onto the stage. I don't care if it's joints or money or whatever, if you throw stuff on stage at us I'll kill ya!" . Then he continued the show.....
DON'T FORGET CHUCK BERRY ! " JOHNNY B. GOODE " WAS ONE OF CHUCK 'S INSPIRATION CONTRIBUTIONS TO ROCK &ROLL NO DOUBT, JOHNNY IS A MASTER IN HIS OWN STANDING, BUT DON'T FORGET ABOUT WHO INSPIRED JOHNNY! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉!
And the one in every crowd,,, Needs to be tackled down... Until security arrests the bum... Passivity and Mindless comments, R The Problem. The Puritans would have put them in a stockade at the most visited spot in town for 3 days with a sign saying stupid... We need to bring the Puritans back!
Same thing happened here in Austin ,a number of years back .Great show ,Gregg Allman ,Edgar Winter and Johnny. The bottle actually hung up in the rigging above him and spilled all over the place .He stopped the show and the crowed converged on the guy who threw it .Don't know what happened to the guy ,but Johnny came back on in about 15 mins,and said '' Man ,we just wanna play for yall, '' then commenced to tear the place apart ..
Don't blame him one bit for walking off . It happened to me . A band i was playing in had just started playing a dance and we were only about 2 songs into the set when some idiot walks across the front of the stage about 20 feet away from us and does like a hook shot with a bottle of beer that was about three quarters full and hit our bass player in the shoulder . We all just stopped playing immediately and our singer pointed right at the guy and says " thanks to that guy , the dance is now over . We packed up our gear and went home with no discussion with the people at the dance .
Saw an asshat bothering the bass players girlfriend/wife/whatever.. she got as close to the stage as possible.. guy walked towards her.. she backed up.. AXE ATTACK.. guy was busted right down the middle of his face.. nice gash..lol.. bass player continued on.. crowd cheered.,.
Woah... I can't believe some crazy person threw a bottle at the GREAT Johnny Winter. Well, I think it was a good enough excuse for Johnny to quit doing the show and walk off the stage, man! RIP Johnny Winter.
Yeah...there will always be stupid assholes throwing bottles at the performers...just because they're stupid drunk assholes. How do I know? I was at a concert with Ten Years After at the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds somewhere in the mid-seventies...some stupid prick threw a bottle at Alvin Lee...just after the third song. Alvin stopped playing...TYA walked off the stage...came back on after about an hour and finished the concert. There are stupid drunken pricks...everywhere! I wish I could smash their stupid heads.
Same thing happened here in Austin ,a number of years back .Great show ,Gregg Allman ,Edgar Winter and Johnny. The bottle actually hung up in the rigging above him and spilled all over the place .He stopped the show and the crowed converged on the guy who threw it .Don't know what happened to the guy ,but Johnny came back on in about 15 mins,and said '' Man ,we just wanna play for yall, '' then commenced to tear the place apart ..
Believe it or not I was there at the concert, and everybody was really angry with the guy who did it. Until that day the mood at the Roskilde Festival had always been very relaxed, but after this incident there was a reaction from the guys in charge of the festival. Already the next day the area in front of the stage, until maybe 60 m away, was cordoned off with a metal fence and everybody who wished to get close was subject to inspection and no bottles allowed, only plastic/paper cups. And it has been like that ever since on the Roskilde Festival. That guy....... ruined it for everyone even now 35 years later. Best regards from a Dane who vividly remembers this concert, mostly for the good...
I saw something similar long ago at a Taj Mahal concert. Taj came onstage and played three or four songs and the crowd was rockin' with him all the way. Then after the end of one song some a-hole yelled out something negative. Everyone was stunned. Taj just bowed and walked off. I'm still pissed about it today! PS: I saw Johnny play too, love the music of both of them.
Kinda off topic but I've been a Johnny Winter fan since '69. My first Winter concert was '73 Still Alive and Well tour in Chicago. Johnny Winter concerts back then through the 80's were hands down the rowdyest f---ing shows! It just brought out the worst in some people? Either they were too high, drunk, or worse on "Ludes"? It must of been the intensity of his kick ass blow the roof off performance that fueled the lightweight knuckleheads? RIP Johnny, thanks so much for blowing our $hit away!❤
I don’t blame him for walking off stage. Not to mention it’s extremely insulting, but also a safety issue. What satisfaction do some people get from ruining a great performance like this? Unreal!
what amased me was his response usually all the rock stars scream and curse sayin the will kick your ass and he just was disapointed af and i think that shows alot more
I remember this vividly. It was a disaster to us. All of a sudden he stopped and we didnt know why. The newspapers next day revealed the truth. All mighty what a disgrace to my favorite guitarist.
bkktuktuk I’m from Beaumont. Born - raised etc Trust me bottle throwing didnt happen. We actually LOVED AND LOVE BOTH THE WINTERS BOYS and I can promise you in Beaumont people weren’t throwing crap at him
I read somewhere that Johnny once knocked a fan out with his guitar. Story has it that the guy was drunk and huge, and wanted Johnny to play a song again he'd already done, "or I'll come up there and kick your ass." Johnny refused to do the song over, the guy charged, Johnny popped the strap on his guitar, grabbed it by the neck and swung for the fences---knocked dude smooth out with one good blast to the face. Could have been worse---Axl Rose might have waded into the crowd swinging, especially back in the day. In any case, I hope the other fans stomped a mud hole in this bottle-throwing clown and walked it dry. Throw a bottle at *JOHNNY WINTER*? Dude deserved to get stomped!
Tony Jones Someone commented in Spanish that this concert was in Mexico. I don't remember the JW doing international venues. All the same, this was too serious. Promoter had to pay Winter or get sued for it, I assume.
I was there with a friend, we had been sitting in the rain for several hours waiting for him, it is the shortest concert I have been to. I think the person who threw the bottle was beaten up.
Back in the 80' & 90's Livin up in Vancouver, B.C. Canada EH!! ...we used to go see the BeatFarmers band outta Sandiago Cal. ...whenever they came to town, Their they would come out in big trench coats and everyone would go wild spraying beer everywhere and at them. The last time I saw them was at the Vancouver Commodore on Grandville...Its a big place with a very big floating dance floor that goes right up to the stage with lots of seating down the sides and the back where the bar is ... You can order up bottles of beer or wine and walk/dance around swailin the swill and get a little out of control ...after a while, the band was rocking and the beer was flyin ... It was a constant spray people were shaking up full bottles and soaking down the band and everyone even near the stage ...towards the end of the night full bottles of beer were wizzing by the band and they just kept a rockin .. didn't even miss a beet .. It reminded of the Blues Brothers movie but without the chicken wire ...Never seen anything before or after to match that ... The Lead Guitarist & singer, The frontman was "Country Dick Montana". In 1995, He suffered a heart attack and died on stage playing "The Girl I Almost Married" during a Beat Farmers show at the Longhorn Saloon in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada. The band disbanded shortly thereafter. ................................................................................................................................................................... ++ This is Johnny's thread so I'll tell ya another story ~ (I'm 65 us old guys like to tell stories). ++ I WENT AND SEEN JOHNNY AT THE COMMODORE BALLROOM in Vancouver, ~ It was Both Tuesday & Wednesday nights October 14th & 15th 1980' ~ So long ago ... Friday nite I shot 35 mm with 100 ASA and a flash I stood just left of centre stage right up to the stage .. Johnny hated the flash and would not come near me.. Saturday nite I shot 35 mm with 400 ASA and no flash and was dead centre and bellied up to the stage. Johnny's Mike stand was right in front of me and he would come and play right in front of me. I wish I brought my 8 mm movie camera ...But anyway I'm sure he remembered me from the night before. It was Awesome when Johnny came out to do his Encore, He comes right up to the mike standing like 3 feet in front of me, grabs his mike and says: "" AND NOW WE WANNA DO A LITTLE SONG"" at that moment I yelled up to him ~ "" BONY MORONIE "" ~ JOHNNY looked down at me, makes eye contact, and yells into his mike ~ ~ ""BONY MORONIE"" .And they played the hell outta that song..... I gotta say that brief moment in time, interacting with my life long idol has stayed with me all my life. I started going to concerts in the 60's ..I seen 3 dog night back then I could make a massive list. Oh and all the photos I shot both nights ...I have only one single photo of Johnny with his eyes open (He played with his eyes closed almost all the time). In that one photo he's looking up and his eyes are glowing A beautiful Albino "Guitar Slinger" Pink... ........ ~ ~ + OK got to end this comment It's turning into a book + ~ ~ ........
As I recall, they checked us for bottles. But I had drunk a little. And I did not remember the bottle that interrupted the show. Lou Reed was there too. It was my second time there, 1977 was the first. with Ian Gillan band (Deep Purple). 77 were cold and 84 were wet.
On this day in 1964 {August 22nd} "Johnny B. Goode" by Dion entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart for a four week stay, peaking at #71... It was sandwiched between two Top 10 records by Dion; "Drip Drop" {peaked at #6 in 1963} and "Abraham, Martin, and John" {#4 in 1968}... Of course, the original was by Chuck Berry; his version reached #8 on Billboard's Top 100 chart in 1958 and #2 on Billboard's R&B Singles chart... In 1970 Johnny Winter took his covered version to #92 on the Top 100...
Saw Charlie Daniels in late '70s in Charlotte NC original Coliseum. We had great seats in permanent seating. Floor was standing only. About half way through concert some guy on floor and about four rows from the stage threw a flat, pint size bottle and hit CD in center of his chest. Instantly the show stops and CD points at the guy and says "that son-of-a-bitch right there...he is gone". And so he was. This was when stage security was like all of the local bar bouncers, no playing around. CDB finished a great show like nothing had happened.
yeah im talking about Chuck Berry s 1965 Belgium TV Appearance full concert, watch it it will BLOW YOUR MIND Chuck plays with such Style and class he was Truly one of a kind performer, The King of Rock N Roll .
I’ve stopped shoes to kick someone’s ass for throwing shit or being disrespectful but would get back up and play but in johnnys case, he’s Johnny fuckin winter he don’t need that shit
While other artists would have stopped, found the guy, beat his ass, threw him out and got on with the show. But that was probably the encore, so all's well that ends abruptly.
I hope that the crowd turned that bottle thrower into a bloody pulp. Winter was a fantastic player and performer and he always gave everything he had. I hope the jack wagon that threw that bottle sits around today and relives the guilt of that idiocy.
I was nearby, but didn't see the bottle on that Friday evening (June 29, 1984). But it didn't hit him. During the night, they built a fence in front of the canopy stage, and this year was the last one you could bring your own beer into the festival area...because of one asshole. Well; I got to see him twice more after that... //J, Sweden
When is Johnny Winter finally going to be in the R&R hall of shame?He should have been in the hall a long time ago.The hall is a joke anyway.I'm still surprised that RUSH finally got in.
The R&R HOF has become a joke, all u have to do is sell a million records and be popular for a time, like Blondie...c'mon man, Humble Pie isn't in. Johnny still(?) isn't in. Who needs it, we know who the real legends are. RIP J.W.
That is so awesome… Love you Johnny forever… You tried to give them music and they threw shit at you… Fuck them and get off stage… That was an awesome move… Johnny Winter RIP
I was at a Jethro Tull concert in the late 70's when someone threw an egg during Aqualung and a direct hit on Ian and his guitar. He said something really bad and kept on playing with raw egg on him
@@stephenpain9236 no that’s just fuckin mental health issues. Why the fuck would you bring up gg allin in a comment section with blues fans. That guy was a talentless prick and died the way he was. Full of shit and blood and stinking like ass. I love white folks but sometimes you guys take it to far and start idolizing these sick fucks.
They forgot to put in the sequence with the close-up in living color of where the crowd hunts down the idiot who threw the bottle and then slowly rips that fool apart! My apologies, please avoid that! Just kidding, here, folks. But seriously-- Please, just point someone out like that to the security people when someone does something ignorant like throw a bottle at a stage and let the security people handle the situation, pretty please. That's what they are trained for and they have a hard enough job with dealing with a huge mass of fans at a concert this size. You couldn't pay me enough to do THAT kind of security work like that--I'll take some other job, please. Thanks and Peace.
Whoever thrown the bottle at Johnny Winter was totally disrespectful, I didn’t think Johnny should had stopped the show and carry on, anyone that did this should had been asked to leave, if you don’t the band, if you don’t like the band then don’t watch them but throw stuff at them, I think it’s sad that Johnny Water is no longer with us, I thought he was excellent musician and had great albums, I always liked his version of Johnny b. Goose, R.I.P Johnny Winter
Remember the chicken wire on the blues brothers movie? Hell's angels security at rolling stones? might be an asshole's way of showing affection. However, i would hope a band would be safe on stage
Johnny was rocking the place. Everyone in the crowd was having a great time. And some asshole throws a bottle and messes it up for everyone. They should have knocked him out as soon as it left his hand. And maybe he would have kept playing.
Robin Trower, this other fabulous guitarist, has only played in France ONCE in 44 years. Uh.... only ONCE in 44 years ?!? But why such an absence ? Because the 11/18/76 at the "Pavilion of Paris" in front of 10.000 people, a scumbag threw him a FULL can of beer ! In shock, Robin fell back against his Marshalls then gone backstage, his face bleeding. (That bastard had damn well aimed, because Robin got the can right in the face...) While he had barely played three quarter hours, he came back ten minutes later for a last tittle, dropped an icy "Thank you..." and left for good. My High School buddies and I, who've been waiting for this gig since months, were mad with rage as if we'd been punished for something we hadn't done ! If I've never forgotten the only time Robin Trower came to play in my country, it's not only due to the metallic bolt that I saw gushed to the right of the crowd and the way he fell back against his amps, but thanks to the too short moments of pleasure that he gave us before.... (R.I.P poor Johnny, my other favorite guitarist with Jeff beck !)
At show in Atlanta in the early 80's Johnny had just come on stage with the Firebird and stepped up to the microphone only to get beer thrown all over him. Naturally he left the stage. The perpetrator was right in front of me, I grabbed him and threw him to the ground while several others piled on. By the time security got to him he was bloody rags. One guy wearing colors of some MC club had a knife to his throat screaming about how he was going to cut the guys face off when security yanked him away and collected the bleeding jerk. The story got to Johnny and he came back saying we were his kind of people. Played a 2 hr set with 2 curtain calls. Even if he hadn't come back I would have understood. No performer deserves that, ever.
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Johnny Winter is wonderful and he’s marweles band.......»this cat can play» they dont deserv that OMG, and nowbody else either! So good you get this badass! THANK YOU, GOOD WORK 💪👊👍
Hey man cool story I'm glad the story got back to him and he was able to continue the show :-) Peace
that's wild and it wasn't even NEW YORK!!
Why would someone want to hurt Mr. Winter . He gave us so much beautiful guitar playing. Hope who threw the bottle heals very slowly. They should have stood him up on stage and had Johnny throw darts at him. It would serve him right !
I was at the concert.., sort of! A mate and I went on bicycle from Copenhagen (about 30 km) just to hear Johnny Winter. We didn't buy tickets to the festival, we just sat outside the fence and listened and drank a bottle of wine. So we never knew what happened until we got home and saw it on the news. This gets better, so read on ;)
A few years later, Johnny Winter opened a new venue in copenhagen, Saga, and during that concert someone again threw something up on the stage. JW just saw something flying thru the air and spontaneously stopped playing and was about to walk of the stage, when his bassplayer, Jon Paris, showed him - it was a rose. So he just said: You people amaze me, and carried on playing.
The Roskilde festival incident caused beer only to be sold in plastic cups at concerts in Denmark (not as easy to handle as bottles, but fine by me since some people are that stupid) and yet, at a later concert at Amar Bio,I think it was, another stupid, managed to throw (in a really drunk and ill-targeted manner) a plastic cup of beer at him again. Someone, I think maybe a stage hand, helped him with a towel, and luckily he carried on playing. I saw him at a few more concerts, until his last here in Denmark, when he almost couldn't play anymore. He merely did sort of a boogie woogie thing, but great to see, how the audience accepted that, and realized that this might be a farewell-concert from one of the great spirits of our time. Long live the memory and music of Johnny Winter.
That's a beautiful telling! Thank you
I got the first LP Johnny released when he signed with Columbia records when I was 12 & most people my age couldn't wrap their little minds around his music, but I loved it first time I heard it. One of my dad's aunts turned the front room of her house in Houston into a small record shop back in the 60's. She carried a lot of stuff that was generally hard to find such as early blues recordings & Johnny would come by to see what she had from time to time even after he became more widely known & his extensive record collection was pretty well known. I'll admit, it was tough seeing him there near the end, but I admire him for soldiering on doing what he loved. There will never be another one quite like him & he made the world a little bit better place.
So sad to hear that johnny has passed away!!!what an incredible talent!! He'll be hugely missed!!!he brought so much pleasure to so many!! He can jam with jimi again!!R.I.P Johnny!
went to school with him and drove him to gigs . a great musician
@Lil' Wayne's guitar teacher I believe that he was talking about Bieber
@Lil' Wayne's guitar teacher Not for their whole school career.
@Lil' Wayne's guitar teacher haha
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I seen Winter back in the late '80's in Santa Cruz, Ca and some drunked up A-Hole threw a bottle at him and Johnny was about to leave the stage, but the crowd around the idiot grabbed him and muscled him right on out of the venue. Jon Paris & Johnny saw that and decided to stay...but he did let us all know not to be fuckin' around or he would leave. Things settled down and we all rocked out the rest of the show. That was a close one.
R.I.P. Johnny, you're sorely missed !
While it is true that bottles and other objects are thrown at performers quite often, and I'm sure Johnny has dodged his share, if you watch carefully he dodges several of them during this number before the last and most obvious one. Eventually a man reaches his limit and can no longer tolerate the disrespect. Rock On Johnny Winter!!
We give you music and you throw things.. great^^
Good night..
Don’t blame him I would have walked also was in my teens listening to him back in the day. R . I . P. Johnny
A guy threw a large glass of beer at my band - it hit the ceiling above my head and a sliver of glass very faintly sliced the edge of my nose. They threw the guy out and I said to the crowd. '' I didn't think we there that bad - he must be a serious music critic.''
Why would anyone throw a bottle at Johnny,,, Beiber I can understand, but Johnny? NO!
no, not even bieber ...NOBODY deserves that
Jackle61 a friend attended Beaumont High School with the Winter brothers. She said that they were abused by classmates, probably because they were albino. People can be cruel, young people the cruelest.
@@TheMichaelseymour Beiber deserves worse
@@daviddorrell5819young people suck
David Dorrell Ohh Yes their mother took them out of school, she was learning them at home.......Johnny is the greatest blues-guitarist EVER.....love him ♥️
the bass and drummer end it with such class too; the drummer throwing in those final couple of beats...lol.
My first and no. 1 guitar hero.RIP
I hope the crowd found that guy and beat the livin crap out of him. I'd have stopped too. I mean c'mon, the guy is a living legend and traveled probably a long distance to get there and then while workin his butt off, kills it with some great licks, only to have basically trash thrown at him BY trash.
Legend or not - anyone who throws a bottle should be beaten with a flagpole. Don't like the band, then just go away. One person ruined it for about 50-100.000 people.
Check out the damage done to Toots Hibbert of Toots and the Maytals after he was hit with a vodka bottle on stage.Throwing a bottle is assault with a deadly weapon.
punished everyone for one. sad.... could have warned them....
Went to a J. Winter concert in Fort Lauderdale in around 1987 at "Summers On The Beach" nightclub / bar. . Someone threw a few long stemmed roses at Johnny! He didn't stop the show (Thank God) but he said to the crowd "Don't throw stuff onto the stage. I don't care if it's joints or money or whatever, if you throw stuff on stage at us I'll kill ya!" . Then he continued the show.....
Johnny was the epitome of Rock and Roll. You have to be one major ass-hat to piss off one of the coolest rockers of all time.
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There is one in every crowd.
And the one in every crowd,,,
Needs to be tackled down...
Until security arrests the bum...
Passivity and Mindless comments,
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The Problem.
The Puritans would have put them in a stockade at the most visited spot in town for 3 days with a sign saying stupid...
We need to bring the Puritans back!
Same thing happened here in Austin ,a number of years back .Great show ,Gregg Allman ,Edgar Winter and Johnny. The bottle actually hung up in the rigging above him and spilled all over the place .He stopped the show and the crowed converged on the guy who threw it .Don't know what happened to the guy ,but Johnny came back on in about 15 mins,and said '' Man ,we just wanna play for yall, '' then commenced to tear the place apart ..
Johnny did the right thing by walking off the stage.
Don't blame him one bit for walking off . It happened to me . A band i was playing in had just started playing a dance and we were only about 2 songs into the set when some idiot walks across the front of the stage about 20 feet away from us and does like a hook shot with a bottle of beer that was about three quarters full and hit our bass player in the shoulder . We all just stopped playing immediately and our singer pointed right at the guy and says " thanks to that guy , the dance is now over . We packed up our gear and went home with no discussion with the people at the dance .
I'd love to have a Bass player like that LOL
Saw an asshat bothering the bass players girlfriend/wife/whatever.. she got as close to the stage as possible.. guy walked towards her.. she backed up.. AXE ATTACK.. guy was busted right down the middle of his face.. nice gash..lol.. bass player continued on.. crowd cheered.,.
I saw him in Stockholm a week earlier. Fantastic!
right at 3:42 you can see the beer spray. Johnny is blasting his heart to these people and one drunk ruins it for the night.
I love how the bass player, Jon Paris I think, gives the crowd a quick "Johnny Winter!" And vamooses the stage.
Woah... I can't believe some crazy person threw a bottle at the GREAT Johnny Winter. Well, I think it was a good enough excuse for Johnny to quit doing the show and walk off the stage, man!
RIP Johnny Winter.
Yeah...there will always be stupid assholes throwing bottles at the performers...just because they're stupid drunk assholes. How do I know? I was at a concert with Ten Years After at the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds somewhere in the mid-seventies...some stupid prick threw a bottle at Alvin Lee...just after the third song. Alvin stopped playing...TYA walked off the stage...came back on after about an hour and finished the concert. There are stupid drunken pricks...everywhere! I wish I could smash their stupid heads.
Same thing happened here in Austin ,a number of years back .Great show ,Gregg Allman ,Edgar Winter and Johnny. The bottle actually hung up in the rigging above him and spilled all over the place .He stopped the show and the crowed converged on the guy who threw it .Don't know what happened to the guy ,but Johnny came back on in about 15 mins,and said '' Man ,we just wanna play for yall, '' then commenced to tear the place apart ..
I don't blame Johnny one bit; I would've walked off stage as well!
Believe it or not I was there at the concert, and everybody was really angry with the guy who did it. Until that day the mood at the Roskilde Festival had always been very relaxed, but after this incident there was a reaction from the guys in charge of the festival. Already the next day the area in front of the stage, until maybe 60 m away, was cordoned off with a metal fence and everybody who wished to get close was subject to inspection and no bottles allowed, only plastic/paper cups. And it has been like that ever since on the Roskilde Festival. That guy....... ruined it for everyone even now 35 years later. Best regards from a Dane who vividly remembers this concert, mostly for the good...
I heard from a friend of mine who does security for Roskilde and Northside that the reason for the "pit" was becuase of the Pearl Jam incident?
Its sad, Johnny was on fire and this guy spoiled a real guitar clinic!!
I saw something similar long ago at a Taj Mahal concert. Taj came onstage and played three or four songs and the crowd was rockin' with him all the way. Then after the end of one song some a-hole yelled out something negative. Everyone was stunned.
Taj just bowed and walked off. I'm still pissed about it today! PS: I saw Johnny play too, love the music of both of them.
Kinda off topic but I've been a Johnny Winter fan since '69. My first Winter concert was '73 Still Alive and Well tour in Chicago. Johnny Winter concerts back then through the 80's were hands down the rowdyest f---ing shows! It just brought out the worst in some people? Either they were too high, drunk, or worse on "Ludes"? It must of been the intensity of his kick ass blow the roof off performance that fueled the lightweight knuckleheads? RIP Johnny, thanks so much for blowing our $hit away!❤
The bass player politely says " Johnny Winter ". How great was that walk off....lol
I don’t blame him for walking off stage. Not to mention it’s extremely insulting, but also a safety issue. What satisfaction do some people get from ruining a great performance like this? Unreal!
I was there in the crowd... what a shock it was to crash down from the heights Johnny had us lifted.... so
sad, it was like flashing hangover
A+ reaction from Johnny .
what amased me was his response usually all the rock stars scream and curse sayin the will kick your ass and he just was disapointed af and i think that shows alot more
why would u throw a bottle at JW? he aint nothing but rockin' good music!!
Legend has it that Keith Ferguson inspired Johnny to get tattoos Telling him his light complexion was a perfect canvas.
One of the best Johnny B Goode"s I ever heard yes too bad didn't finish it
Nothing more comforting than having 30 thousand enemies in a split second. I think there was an unloved murder at that concert.
Great drummer.
I remember this vividly. It was a disaster to us. All of a sudden he stopped and we didnt know why. The newspapers next day revealed the truth. All mighty what a disgrace to my favorite guitarist.
That just made me cry someone did that! John was a great guy.!
Seems the bottle hit his left arm. That must have stung a little. He was right in walking off. God bless you Johnny. Rest in peace.
@BBQFanNo1
Johnny Winter started from playing roadhouses, where flying bottles were part of the scene. Must have been like a scary flashback!
bkktuktuk I’m from Beaumont. Born - raised etc Trust me bottle throwing didnt happen. We actually LOVED AND LOVE BOTH THE WINTERS BOYS and I can promise you in Beaumont people weren’t throwing crap at him
I read somewhere that Johnny once knocked a fan out with his guitar. Story has it that the guy was drunk and huge, and wanted Johnny to play a song again he'd already done, "or I'll come up there and kick your ass." Johnny refused to do the song over, the guy charged, Johnny popped the strap on his guitar, grabbed it by the neck and swung for the fences---knocked dude smooth out with one good blast to the face.
Could have been worse---Axl Rose might have waded into the crowd swinging, especially back in the day.
In any case, I hope the other fans stomped a mud hole in this bottle-throwing clown and walked it dry. Throw a bottle at *JOHNNY WINTER*? Dude deserved to get stomped!
RIGHTLY SAID, Mr. Jones, rightly said!! Freeking felony assault with a bottle, I would concur !!! Or what?
Richard Folkman Throw in *blasphemy and sacrilege* for throwing anything other than cash or flowers at one of the greatest bluesmen of all time....
Tony Jones Someone commented in Spanish that this concert was in Mexico. I don't remember the JW doing international venues. All the same, this was too serious. Promoter had to pay Winter or get sued for it, I assume.
I was there with a friend, we had been sitting in the rain for several hours waiting for him, it is the shortest concert I have been to.
I think the person who threw the bottle was beaten up.
My homeboy Johnny Freakin' Winter... God I miss this guy.
What a GREAT guitar player..
JW Legend
Why somebody would throw a bottle to Mr JOHNNY WINTER A LEGEND. I WOULD HAVE LOVE TO BE IN THAT CONCERT LISTENING TO HIS GREAT MUSIC. !!!
there’s an ass in every crowd - we put up with that in early days. that’s why there’s a pit in front of every stage today!
Back in the 80' & 90's Livin up in Vancouver, B.C. Canada EH!! ...we used to go see the BeatFarmers band outta Sandiago Cal. ...whenever they came to town, Their they would come out in big trench coats and everyone would go wild spraying beer everywhere and at them.
The last time I saw them was at the Vancouver Commodore on Grandville...Its a big place with a very big floating dance floor that goes right up to the stage with lots of seating down the sides and the back where the bar is ...
You can order up bottles of beer or wine and walk/dance around swailin the swill and get a little out of control
...after a while, the band was rocking and the beer was flyin ...
It was a constant spray people were shaking up full bottles and soaking down the band and everyone even near the stage ...towards the end of the night full bottles of beer were wizzing by the band and they just kept a rockin ..
didn't even miss a beet ..
It reminded of the Blues Brothers movie but without the chicken wire ...Never seen anything before or after to match that ...
The Lead Guitarist & singer, The frontman was "Country Dick Montana".
In 1995, He suffered a heart attack and died on stage playing "The Girl I Almost Married" during a Beat Farmers show at the Longhorn Saloon in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada. The band disbanded shortly thereafter.
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++ This is Johnny's thread so I'll tell ya another story ~ (I'm 65 us old guys like to tell stories). ++
I WENT AND SEEN JOHNNY AT THE COMMODORE BALLROOM in Vancouver,
~ It was Both Tuesday & Wednesday nights October 14th & 15th 1980' ~ So long ago ...
Friday nite I shot 35 mm with 100 ASA and a flash I stood just left of centre stage right up to the stage ..
Johnny hated the flash and would not come near me..
Saturday nite I shot 35 mm with 400 ASA and no flash and was dead centre and bellied up to the stage.
Johnny's Mike stand was right in front of me and he would come and play right in front of me.
I wish I brought my 8 mm movie camera ...But anyway I'm sure he remembered me from the night before.
It was Awesome when Johnny came out to do his Encore, He comes right up to the mike standing like 3 feet in front of me, grabs his mike and says: "" AND NOW WE WANNA DO A LITTLE SONG""
at that moment I yelled up to him ~ "" BONY MORONIE "" ~ JOHNNY looked down at me, makes eye contact, and yells into his mike ~ ~ ""BONY MORONIE"" .And they played the hell outta that song.....
I gotta say that brief moment in time, interacting with my life long idol has stayed with me all my life.
I started going to concerts in the 60's ..I seen 3 dog night back then I could make a massive list.
Oh and all the photos I shot both nights ...I have only one single photo of Johnny with his eyes open (He played with his eyes closed almost all the time).
In that one photo he's looking up and his eyes are glowing A beautiful Albino "Guitar Slinger" Pink...
........ ~ ~ + OK got to end this comment It's turning into a book + ~ ~ ........
Your first story seems like a great band/bar owner ruse to make a killing on beer sales....
As I recall, they checked us for bottles.
But I had drunk a little.
And I did not remember the bottle that interrupted the show.
Lou Reed was there too.
It was my second time there, 1977 was the first. with Ian Gillan band (Deep Purple).
77 were cold and 84 were wet.
I were there.. sorry for the fans who had come there from far away to see him.
Yes it was some acehole in roskilde denmark very sad to see this.
Thoroughly understandable.
On this day in 1964 {August 22nd} "Johnny B. Goode" by Dion entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart for a four week stay, peaking at #71...
It was sandwiched between two Top 10 records by Dion; "Drip Drop" {peaked at #6 in 1963} and "Abraham, Martin, and John" {#4 in 1968}...
Of course, the original was by Chuck Berry; his version reached #8 on Billboard's Top 100 chart in 1958 and #2 on Billboard's R&B Singles chart...
In 1970 Johnny Winter took his covered version to #92 on the Top 100...
UMBELIEVEABLE
Saw Charlie Daniels in late '70s in Charlotte NC original Coliseum. We had great seats in permanent seating. Floor was standing only. About half way through concert some guy on floor and about four rows from the stage threw a flat, pint size bottle and hit CD in center of his chest. Instantly the show stops and CD points at the guy and says "that son-of-a-bitch right there...he is gone". And so he was. This was when stage security was like all of the local bar bouncers, no playing around. CDB finished a great show like nothing had happened.
yeah im talking about Chuck Berry s 1965 Belgium TV Appearance full concert, watch it it will BLOW YOUR MIND Chuck plays with such Style and class he was Truly one of a kind performer, The King of Rock N Roll .
If Johnny got a look at them, they'd be in a fix. Mr Winter was a pretty tough character.
@james crowe James, it's not 'what you look like'...... it's how far you're prepared to go.
@james crowe I'm not interested in what you think.
I’ve stopped shoes to kick someone’s ass for throwing shit or being disrespectful but would get back up and play but in johnnys case, he’s Johnny fuckin winter he don’t need that shit
Who would do that? What a jerk,,,RIP Johny
While other artists would have stopped, found the guy, beat his ass, threw him out and got on with the show. But that was probably the encore, so all's well that ends abruptly.
I hope that the crowd turned that bottle thrower into a bloody pulp. Winter was a fantastic player and performer and he always gave everything he had. I hope the jack wagon that threw that bottle sits around today and relives the guilt of that idiocy.
I was nearby, but didn't see the bottle on that Friday evening (June 29, 1984). But it didn't hit him. During the night, they built a fence in front of the canopy stage, and this year was the last one you could bring your own beer into the festival area...because of one asshole. Well; I got to see him twice more after that... //J, Sweden
I saw him at Madison Square Garden with ZZ Top and the crowd was bad- drunks, fights everywhere, firecrackers, bottles thrown, it was dangerous.
When is Johnny Winter finally going to be in the R&R hall of shame?He should have been in the hall a long time ago.The hall is a joke anyway.I'm still surprised that RUSH finally got in.
I don't know how he stayed out
Honestly, maybe it's a bigger honor not to be in the RHOF?
too white... they have fuckin RAPPERS IN IT THOUGH!!!
The R&R HOF has become a joke, all u have to do is sell a million records and be popular for a time, like Blondie...c'mon man, Humble Pie isn't in. Johnny still(?) isn't in. Who needs it, we know who the real legends are. RIP J.W.
It's in Ohio what do you expect? LA or NY should open up a real one.
he made a crazy playing!! !! wonderful guitar solo but very bad end, good decision to leave the stage
That is so awesome… Love you Johnny forever… You tried to give them music and they threw shit at you… Fuck them and get off stage… That was an awesome move… Johnny Winter RIP
Another reason we cannot have nice things.
I was at a Jethro Tull concert in the late 70's when someone threw an egg during Aqualung and a direct hit on Ian and his guitar. He said something really bad and kept on playing with raw egg on him
I saw Rory Gallagher and an idiot threw a shoe on the stage....gallagher took the shoe and played slide guitar with it...that' rock'n roll...
I saw GG Allin and an idiot threw some shit on the stage...Allin took the shit and ate it...now THAT's rock 'n' roll...!!
@@stephenpain9236 no....that's stupid !
@@stephenpain9236 no that’s just fuckin mental health issues. Why the fuck would you bring up gg allin in a comment section with blues fans. That guy was a talentless prick and died the way he was. Full of shit and blood and stinking like ass. I love white folks but sometimes you guys take it to far and start idolizing these sick fucks.
@@rolandkobelbauer8280 No shit!
the only thing Johnny was on was Johnny B. Goode, until 1 danish puff showed up..
South Texas version of Johnny B. Goode.
the dannish have been called of to ruin the fun for many I think johnny did the right thing there
Such shame because this was the best performance of this song that I ever seen
HE should have just kept playing its a concert not a funeral. someone shouldn't throw bottles
Yep...
Best live version ever!!! Listen to riff in 2,55 min,,,
I don't blame him for walking off. All it takes is 1 asshole to ruin it for everyone.
Thumbs up for JW, thumbs down for the bas---d who threw the bottle at JW.
Why throw a bottle at a bluesman? Hasnt he suffered enough?
Exactly!
They forgot to put in the sequence with the close-up in living color of where the crowd hunts down the idiot who threw the bottle and then slowly rips that fool apart!
My apologies, please avoid that! Just kidding, here, folks. But seriously--
Please, just point someone out like that to the security people when someone does something ignorant like throw a bottle at a stage and let the security people handle the situation, pretty please.
That's what they are trained for and they have a hard enough job with dealing with a huge mass of fans at a concert this size. You couldn't pay me enough to do THAT kind of security work like that--I'll take some other job, please. Thanks and Peace.
If I was at that show, and saw WHOEVER therw that bottle, I Would have kicked their punk their ass!
Rock on forever, Johnny Winter!
Whoever thrown the bottle at Johnny Winter was totally disrespectful, I didn’t think Johnny should had stopped the show and carry on, anyone that did this should had been asked to leave, if you don’t the band, if you don’t like the band then don’t watch them but throw stuff at them, I think it’s sad that Johnny Water is no longer with us, I thought he was excellent musician and had great albums, I always liked his version of Johnny b. Goose, R.I.P Johnny Winter
Just throw the ducking bottle already!
Beiber threw it!
3:40 the sad bottle history
Who is zat mutha fucka playin' the drums ?
He is super good !
That's Tom Compton. One of the best.
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Johnny is flying and you throw shit at him...good-night.
Remember the chicken wire on the blues brothers movie? Hell's angels security at rolling stones? might be an asshole's way of showing affection. However, i would hope a band would be safe on stage
Johnny was rocking the place. Everyone in the crowd was having a great time. And some asshole throws a bottle and messes it up for everyone. They should have knocked him out as soon as it left his hand. And maybe he would have kept playing.
I saw Mr. Winter live several times in the '70s. No show was complete without a slug fest on the floor and flying bottles.
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Robin Trower, this other fabulous guitarist, has only played in France ONCE in 44 years. Uh.... only ONCE in 44 years ?!? But why such an absence ? Because the 11/18/76 at the "Pavilion of Paris" in front of 10.000 people, a scumbag threw him a FULL can of beer ! In shock, Robin fell back against his Marshalls then gone backstage, his face bleeding. (That bastard had damn well aimed, because Robin got the can right in the face...) While he had barely played three quarter hours, he came back ten minutes later for a last tittle, dropped an icy "Thank you..." and left for good. My High School buddies and I, who've been waiting for this gig since months, were mad with rage as if we'd been punished for something we hadn't done ! If I've never forgotten the only time Robin Trower came to play in my country, it's not only due to the metallic bolt that I saw gushed to the right of the crowd and the way he fell back against his amps, but thanks to the too short moments of pleasure that he gave us before.... (R.I.P poor Johnny, my other favorite guitarist with Jeff beck !)
Leftovers from a Hank Williams Jr. concert?
Jonny should've kept on playing instead of letting that scumbag get his way. The best version of JB GOODE ...r.i.p. Jonny.
And that's why you need chicken wire