Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo - Rick Derringer & The Edgar Winter Group | The Midnight Special
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- Rick Derringer & The Edgar Winter Group performed November 2,1973
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In 1984 I was a young guy working at Cherokee Studios in Los Angeles. One evening Rick Derringer walked in carrying a guitar case. I buzzed him in and he laid the guitar case on the front desk, opened it up and said, "Look at this ! " It was a beautiful blue brand new custom made guitar. Rick said, "I finally got it after waiting for months." He asked me if I play and I said yes. He actually let me hold it and play it for a little bit. That one gesture of kindness left such an impression on me that to this day Rick will always be a hero.
Cool!
That's awesome! It's great to hear that he is as cool in person as he seems to be on stage. Have always loved this song and wore out the single I bought of it.
Right on! Kindness like that is truly great, even hearing about it second hand. Thanks for sharing.
That's So CooL!I can Remember,asking permission to Play a guitar or bass,from non famous musicians and tell you,1 Word,Sacred!and giving you a better not touch,LooK!But did not mind jamming on your Instrument!So I Say!Rick is a Cool cat from back in the day,nah!Take care!
I saw Rick in the late nineties playing a tiny bar in Island park ny
I couldn’t believe it
Early 70s I saw Edgar winters white trash at the action house island park
Loudest show i ever was at
Who's still here listening 50 years later .. I was 10 😮
This guy right here my dude. I was 11! God, I miss the 70's.
@markjohnson1020 Rick's blistering solo on Edgar Winter's Roadwork, "Livin in the USA" is iconic!❤
Me, was14! Best music ever in the '70's🎶
Rocked out to it in the 70's, still Rocking. I was 16. What a time to be alive in the 70's!!! Great music!!
July 2024
How neither Edgar Winter or Rick Derringer have not been inducted into the Rock 'n Roll hall of fame is beyond me! I would have to say these guys are two of the most seriously underrated rock and roll heavy weights!
To be fair Derringer was a one hit wonder, and never really did much past the 70's, more of a footnote in rock history. And while he was considered a guitar god back then, he was surpassed by many much better players in the late 70's and into the 80's. He was pretty basic really.
That is very surprising. The HOF is full of useless "big-hair" headbangers and gansta rappers, while Edgar and Rick are the real deal, top-tier musicians.
@@greatunz67 Derringer was very good, if basic, and played his licks more cleanly than most. Edgar Winter is in a class by himself as an all around musician. The HOF has long since become a farce. Many greats not included while taking in the popular dregs of the day. Who cares anymore? I don't. The great music of the classic era is available for all to enjoy.
@@greatunz67Listen to Derringer Live.There's nothing"basic"about that album.His playing and sound is incredible!And it's intresting to hear how much Ed Van Halen stole/borrowed from Rick.Van Halen's Eruption would not excist without Rick Derringer period.
@@leestamm3187 Rick was "basic" enough for the Dan.
I grew up during this era. I'm 66 now and hearing this makes me feel like a teenager again. Just gets better.
Yeah, but doesn't looking at them make you feel old again? I mean, damn, I'm 69, I saw these guys live back in the day, and I don't remember thinking they looked like a bunch of gawky kids. :) :) :)
Forget about "how old you are" and just live every day to its fullest. You are very lucky to have lived during the best time in the USA, and there is still many wonderful things left out there. The best age to live are the 50s 60s and 70s, not the 20s and 30s. There are too many troubles and insecurities in youth. @@NSPIREGuru
my heart aches missing that era for the youth of today. While we had many issues. I think the individual and personal freedom was what it was all about. Now its all about group identity and what can you be mad at... just to be mad. 10-4, Keep on Rollin, Hang 10 baby, Peace! :) @@eugenefirebird8938
Rock n Roll brother Rock n Roll 👍
Right there with you man!
These guys look like kids in a garage band playing for fun except they are great. Rock and Roll was meant to be FUN and I doubt anyone ever had more fun playing than they did that night. Makes me happy.
Have seen Edgar in concert in TO many times, but missed seeing Derringer. Brother Johnny was one of my all time faves and lives on in my dreams.
Beats the hell out of Todays Taylor Swift BS.....Garth Brooks sucks too
Some people slam poison for being glam but that's what was big when they were trying to make it. It's not fair to hold success against them. I think CC Deville is possibly the most underrated guitarist of the 20th century. I was a tween with a huge crush on Bret but I also liked the music. Glam was popular but was never respected or taken seriously.
Whether you like the music or not, no one can deny that they are having fun. Watching Poison live, you can feel that they KNOW how lucky they are to be doing what they are doing for a living. You feel the gratitude to towards fans, and they just love it.
I saw them not long ago in a big line up with bands like Def Leppard & Motley Crue. No one was having half as much fun as poison.
I've seen a few people convert to being Poison fans after seeing them live. They already know a lot of unmisssable songs. Most at least like every rose. Then they see the band live. They love performing the music & the fans, and you can see just plain joy on their faces. through every song.
They are excited like a kids garage band getting it's first club gig. Every. Single. Time. I think everyone who retains that attitude after success hits deserves some credit.
One of the best guitarists ever!!
I’m a 54 yrs old Black gentleman from Texas and when I first heard this song back in the late 70s, I thought it was a all black R&B group of musicians laying down those grooves. Ha! I always loved this song. So funky.
I loved The Midnight Special as a kid growing up in the 70s!
It was live! Not overdubbed and lip sinched. This song here absolutely jams.
Loved it! We were young kids and would just sprawl in front of the TV set :)
Man, if they played reruns today it'd be my go to show.
THIS is 1970s Rock N Roll at its VERY BEST.
I'm an "AFRICAN AMERICAN MAN" from "CINCINNATI, OHIO" & I couldn't agree with you more!! "YOU COULD ACTUALLY UNDERSTAND THE LYRICS BACK IN THE DAY"!! It was "ALL ABOUT TALENT"!! Now it's "ALL ABOUT NOISE & AUTO TUNE"!!
Gotta love Rick in his onesie
... and he wears it so well!
😂 I was thinking it looked like pajamas!
@@cockula776Sure Does 😋
@@StephanieJeanne Funny! I remember having a one piece pajama set with feet, was red~white stripes w/stretchy material & zipped up the front with a little flap in the back to “do business” without taking the whole thing off. It was in the 70’s & my older sister had one too, got them for Christmas from our parents, we loved them! I’d feel smothered wearing something like that now, especially to bed! 😂
LMAO
RIP Dan Hartman -talented vocalist and multi instrumentalist
Yes!
He sure was!🕯️🕯️
I wonder how many rockers know he had disco hits. LOL.
@@mattfoley6082 and wonder how many disco and 80's pop fans know he was a rocker?
@@mattfoley6082 What were his ‘disco hits’? I danced to~loved both disco music & live rock n’ roll @ small clubs while growing up. Thanks in advance 😊.
The drummer was having way too much fun!
Legend has it he's still smiling
Coke freak.
This is right before he spontaneously exploded
He's cracking me up😅
Chuck Ruff was the drummer. He passed in 2011. Was a great drummer and did most of those early Edgar Winter hits like Free Ride and Frankenstein. Whether or not he was actually having a good day, he made sure YOU knew he was! Great attitude. Great drummer.
I had just graduated from high school that summer, 73. Damn we had some great music then, brings back great memories, fast cars, girls, drive in movies, drinking beer and raising hell! We never had it so good!🎸
I turned 18 the year Texas Leagallised 18 year old's to drink and the Nation allowed 18 year olds to vote. 1954 the year I was born.
The Vietnam War went into a lottery style of draft and in 74 Nixon stopped the draft before he was forced to resign as president.
I felt entitled.
A year or two after I felt resentment that I didn't join the
Army like my friend.
He was never deployed to Vietnam he ended up in Germany and had a lot of fun.
It really is a pretty good thing to have on your resume too.
Class of '73 also, you speak truth!
Few people ever lived so well as people in the USA during those years.
@@eugenefirebird8938
I agree.
Before Reagan.
1973 was a magic year for seniors in high school!!!
Had the pleasure to open up for Rick in the mid 80’s. Super nice and an incredible player. He asked if he could use my Marshall. It never sounded better and the settings haven’t changed since. It will be out exercising twice this coming weekend.
That's fantastic!
Did he set the volume at 11 ?
How's your loss of hearing these days?😅
@@AK-kf2mr Huh???
Wow! That is so cool!
Back when the artists were actually capable of playing live in front of a TV camera 🔥
Very true. It's actually cool to hear them butcher certain parts of the song. I don't mean that to put them down... even Jimmy Page was known to muck things up on the regular when Zeppelin played live. It's impossible not to if your actually playing.
My first concert was Edgar Winter, and Lynyrd Skynyrd. The guitar players for Edgar Winters band were: Rick Derringer, Dan Hartman, and Ronnie Montrose. It was the "They Only Come Out at Night" tour for Edgar, and it was at Cobo Hall, Detroit, MI, December of 1975. Skynyrd opened up. Damn! Whatta show!
To be able too go back to that night in time! Other than the cold it must have been amazing! Thanks for sharing! ✌️❤️🌝
Larry my man, you are indeed one lucky dog! Keep rocking brother.
I never thought those days would end. Was sure I'd never grow old, neither would they.
This was all over the radio back then. Those were the days. Many, many great memories.
What a great performance, love how Rick Derringer manges to smile through almost the entire song!
I always liked that same thing about Dave Murray. The happiest guy in rock and roll.
Rick is beautiful.
Awesome performance! This was our version of TH-cam back In the day, The Midnight Special, Don Kirshner's Rock Concert, In Concert, etc. I'm so happy to have been around when I was!
Didn't get any better than midnight on a Saturday Night!!! Was Magic!!!! Parents asleep in bed, and laying on the floor in the den right in front of the TV. Yeah Man!!! Great memories.
@@scotabot7826 yes, that was precisely what I did. Right on the floor in front of the TV when everyone was asleep, you couldn't beat it!
Man, you ain't NEVER lied 😊
I'd hold a mic for a cassette recorder up to the TV speaker and record those shows while watching. The next day, I'd listen back and learn the songs, with a pretty fresh memory of what I saw. How I learned to play rock guitar.
@@jfo3000 I did the same. We made the best out of whatever we had, and it was good enough.
As others here have said...thank God I was alive in a time when music was hard, real, and human. ;..)
The expression of the drummer really captures the vibe.
I’m so glad I grew up when I did.
ITs incredible that the same guy behind 'Hang On Sloopy' is also the guy behind several hard rock jams! Just a testament to his legacy, impact and the importance of music experimentation.
Badass. RIP Dan Hartman, Chuck Ruff and Gerry Weems.
I can dream about you.
Chuck Ruff, Killer drummer with a deep, deep pocket!!!
So, are you saying that Edgar and Rick are the only ones of the five still with us?
@@NihongoGuy Yes. Randy Jo Hobbs, who was in Edgar's White Trash as well as the first version of the Edgar Winter Group is also deceased. Only Edgar and Rick are still with us.
Forgot about Ronnie Montrose. Who was also in the first version of the EWG and played on "They Only Come Out At Night". RIP also.
We were so spoiled with the best of music back in the day. These guys playing live for national TV. Would have been cool to be at that gig!
Next to the last decade for good music .
Those were great days when you got to see double and triple bills like Rick Derringer & The Edgar Winter Group, The James Gang and Jo Jo Gunne all on the same night for $7.50
AMEN!
The Midnight Special was amazing!
Great memories if you’re Mom let you stay up that late.
Can you believe it?
No autotune.
No lip synching.
They actually play their instruments.
Music today truly stinks.
I’m with you, I hate frauds like The Foo Fighters who don’t play their own instruments. And that Dave Grohl guy has probably been lip syncing since Nirvana. 😅
Saw these guys Sept. 6 1974 opening for Bad Company. They were great. Gotta love a Les Paul Custom through a Marshall. The neck pickup tone during the solo was butta!
I saw them in Toronto with Bad Company opening in 1974
@@dougjarvie12 Hey, it was '74 and I'm not sure. But it was a great gig. I certainly remember Frankenstein! They played it great.
1974. New Haven Coliseum, New Haven Connecticut. Tickets were 7 bucks. Bad Company opened. Paul Rogers was great. Then Foghat came on and really got the crowd amped up. Then these guys closed. Rick Derringer simply blew everybody off the stage that night. Went to many concerts in the 70’s but this one was one of the best.
Rick Derringer is also responsible for the careers of Cyndi Lauper& weird Al Yankovic of all people lol
@@jamesstafford62That’s crazy ! I did not know that!
Edgar Winter on keys (also sax & backing vocals & percussion); Rick Derringer on guitar & lead vocal; Dan Hartman on bass & backing vocals; Chuck Ruff on drums; Jerry Weems on guitar. Jerry took over after Montrose left. Edgar & Rick still with us in Oct 2023, but the other four are sadly gone.
Thanks, I was wondering who the kid playing the white SG was. He looks like a Emo style player circa 2005- 2007.
Thanks for the line-up👍
thanks for mentioning whole line-up
This kids is real music!!
Not only a great band, but a great audience too.
the music from the 60s and 70s is so awesome,
Everyone just having a blast. Love it! Have a great weekend fellow classic rock fans.
That’s pure,raw rock n roll…..hootchie koo style🎸
I remember watching this on TV back then. They looked like the could have been my older brothers. Now they look like they could be my grandkids. The best time to live in the good old US of A.
Played that song in a bar band, always filled the dance floor
The early days of classic rock! Sure was a great era to grow up! Fast cars, girls, drive in movies, drinking beer. Thank You Rick Derringer for the memories!🎸
Rick can rip it up. Loved this work with "Johnny Winter And"
Wow......51 years went by. Rock n roll!
Thank you, Burt Sugarman, and The Midnight Special!! Say hi to Mary, for us!
Holy shit the real version!! Top tier performance, thank you so much for putting these out, preserving them so well, and sharing them with us!!!! As someone who didn’t get to grow up with these it’s a revelation watching them now. Live bands on tv???? Should have never stopped happening… thank you 🤘🏼🤘🏼
Rick Derringer was my first big-time rock concert, in the fall of 1965, when his band The McCoys performed at the Van Wert, Ohio County Fairgrounds (Rick was born and raised just 40 miles south of there in Fort Recovery, Ohio, before the family moved to Union City, Indiana after he finished the 8th grade). I was 14 and he was 18, and even at my young age I knew I was watching a guitar prodigy. Before this performance aired on "The Midnight Special" in Nov. 1973, Rick had already done some brilliant session guitar work on the Steely Dan song "Showbiz Kids," from their 2nd album, "Countdown To Ecstasy."
Looks like a cut and paste from Wikipedia. Excuse me if I don't believe you were anywhere near Rick.
@@dr.know-it-all5148 Well, dr.knownothing, I grew up on a farm just 13 miles southeast of Van Wert, Ohio, and my mother's older sister lived in that city as well. Her son, Bob, was a music store guitar teacher and offered to take me to The McCoys concert, held inside the Junior Fair Building. Rick and The McCoys also performed the following summer at Indian Lake Resort in northwest Ohio.
HANG ON SLOOPY!!!M.O'B
Rick was born in Celina Ohio his family did live in Fort Recovery Ohio Mercer county moved to Union city Indiana after the eight grade
@@dr.know-it-all5148 For starters, you ignorant troll, I grew up on a farm just 12 miles southeast of Van Wert, Ohio. Local radio made sure that we knew The McCoys' backstory. After I saw them in 1965, several of my high school classmates saw them the following summer when they performed at Indian Lake Amusement Park in Russells Point, Ohio.
The all American boy Rick Derringer………. Freaking great 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸
Rick is one of the original guitar shredders. Invented along with just a few handful of others.
The guy plays so good!
Too bad he put half his life up his nose. Brilliant guitarist who never got past opening act status…. 😢
@@Cranedude666 Whatever. How many performers could you say that about? Many. He's been clean a long time and seems like a happy guy. I have seen him several times and he never disappoints.
Saw this group in 1973 maybe 74 they rocked
They're all clearly having a ball doing this rock and roll piece.
It's exceptional in appeal and Rick shows how talented he is.
God bless Rick! He's still alive and well. The live album "Roadwork" by Edgar Winter is a must listen for any fan of theirs! Rick's performances on that album are incredible!
I saw Johnny Winter and Rick Derringer play this together at The Fillmore East!!
Oh damn.. I loved the Fillmore East. I spent so many evenings there. I also saw Johnny Winter there. Would be funny if it was the same show.
Derringer became a touring monster in the late 70s. He played every festival in my area that I remember.
(:
The drummer is my spirit animal.
😂😂😂❤
I think it was Todd Rundgren
One of my favorites, Rick started out with the "McCoys". Edger Winter had some greats too, Frankenstein and free ride kick ass.😎
Ahhh, the good ole days, when the band didn't have an army of back up dancers💯
They just played rock and roll 🔥
Another gem 💎thanks guys,keep em coming! I saw Rick with Edgar Winter's White Trash opening for Alice Cooper band and Black Sabbath 1972 at Cincinnati Gardens
What an awesome concert.
@@markchoma9822 it was actually 1971, A.C. was touring in support of their lp Love it to Death, Sabbath was just releasing Master of Reality- tickets were 5 dollars and 50 cents
So darn lucky!! Wish I’d seen that show too!
Saw Black Sabbath /w Ozzy, Van Halen opened on their 1st tour ‘78, my friend Angie & I left early as it was too ‘heavy’ our lil’ minds were blown. Guy friends we went with thought we were crazy~we must have been because I love their music now 😂.
Love Edgar and Rick and the boys! God bless ‘em all and RIP Johnny!
Rick just looks like he’s so goddam happy playing. Always was good energy. Good to see Edgar, too. Those Winters boys cranked out some great music!!
I had my haircut like Rick’s in high school. They were the best times! I loved those long hair musicians. ❤
Cops gave me a disturbing the piece ticket cause I was cruising and this song came on and I turned up my sound all the way up jammin down the road !! IT WAS WORTH IT !! 🤘
Masterpiece of rock and roll music 👍👍🙏🥰🥰
RICK DERRINGER
WROTE THAT SONG
WHILE AS A MEMBER
WITH JOHNNY WINTER
Weed Me
And Johnny's version is still the best!
Rick growed up a few miles from me.The first time I saw him was at aplace called The Triangle in Greenville Ohio. Six months later he opened for The Frampton comes alive tour.He is still a legend around this neighborhood.
So cool…..man I miss these days
Liked how he ripped the solo and went right back into singing!
Saw Rick as the backup band to Boston, on Boston's inaugural tour after their smash debut album. Late Spring 1977. Boston is in Montreal, while the Montreal Canadiens are playing the Bruins in Boston the next night. It was electric. Rick came out and energized The Forum. Played Hoochie Koo for 10 minutes. We were rockin' and rollin' with him. They ended up taking his guitar away from him, as he'd gone way over his set time. He had us all in his hands. One of the best concerts I've ever been to! I've been to a lot.
Boston should have opened for him!
He was already a rock legend by the time they came along!😂
If you don’t like this, you don’t like Rock n Roll! Damn what a Banger! I always rocked out to this song! And that’s the late great Dan Hartman on backing vocals and bass!
Rick Derringer! He even has a cooler name than you or I. Most people don’t know he can shred on guitar 🎸. He’s an incredible guitarist! Rock On, Rick!
God loved him then and God loves Rick now! ✝️
Back in the 1970s, Friday night about 7:00pm K-SHE 95 in St. louis used to play this to kick-off the weekend. Many times we were cruising in my 68 Chevy Chevelle big block 396 4-speed. Passing a few joints and enjoying a few beers! Who says you can't drink a beer, smoke a joint and shift at the same time, LOL! Those were the days.... Now, I was just approved for Social Security and Medicare. Damn, time does fly!
it sure does
Amen brother
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Sweet Meat
I could shift an MG Midget while holding an ice cream cone on LA freeway entrances and exits. Dont ask me how.
This was so good it didn't even matter That Rick messed up the very first line. Never missed a beat.
I'll take a band playing live on TV - mistakes and all - to bands faking it to their recording, any day. You just don't see this kind of thing anymore.
Rick started with the McCoy's, and then was a member of the White Trash with Edgar and Johnny, and was also an esteemed producer and sessions musician. It's unbelievable all the stuff he has done. Edgar brought a unique sensibility to say the least.
Just a couple things... I love Rick Derringer, he always looks like he's having such a good time playing, fantastic guitarist, great ear, on and on. And the poor guy playing rhythm is so low in the mix that when Rick accidentally hits a G# instead of A at 39 seconds, it just totally clanks. Warms my heart to see even pros screw up on national TV and it gets preserved for eternity lol.
I heard that! 😂😂😂
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I had this song on a KTEL album. It changed my life.
Saw him in New Haven great show he looked so young then
Nothing like that now
He is an underrated guitarist on of the greats rock on🎸🇺🇸💯
Great rock song. Watching Rick sing and play live is a real treat.
Punishing groove!
I'm 62 & still love this old rock!! Nothing beats it!! And with Dan Hartman is even better...on bass guitar!!
Way back i saw Rick Derringer in Montreal open for Boston. What a great night. Two great bands.
Oh hell yeah! They rocked the hell outta this performance!! Back when we made actually music with kick ass riffs and choruses. This song will live on forever ✊🏼🎸
Hell Yeah!!!!! I got this Music 🎵🎶!!!!!!! Takes me Back!!!!! I'm 70 still Rock n Roll!!!!!!
Every time I hear that song I can see Johnny floating around the stage playing his Firebird.
Love this song, classic
Great memories here !
🔥 Rick Derringer 🔥 This song was rockin' ! Loved him back in the day (great hair too).
I can't imagine how heavy that keyboard was around Edgar's neck in those days.....yikes. I saw EWG in the mid 90's at an outdoor classic rock festival, he brought down the house with an extended version of Frankenstein- amazing watching him switch back and forth between instruments. When I was in high school, we played it in pep band for basketball games. Our teacher did the music arrangement. We even had the 70's style moog keyboard on an amp that we used for those parts. It was just a fun piece of music to play, and it really got people wound up. We also did other 70's songs like Chameleon by Herbie Hancock, Bar Room Blitz, Dr. Love (KISS), and a bunch of others. Fun times:-).
Derringer is one of my favorite guitar players. Check out his work with Johnny Winter on the Johnny Winter And live album. One of the best live albums ever recorded!
I saw Rick in 81 or 82. He was opening for The Joe Perry Project at the Lowell Auditorium in Lowell, MA. Unbelievable concert. It was on one of those nights when Joe wasn’t at his best. Derringer and his band were awesome.
Dynamite entertainers right here. A very rare breed nowadays.
Apart from this radio hit my first real experience with the Rick Derringer back in the mid 70s was the Edgar Winter and the White Trash Road Work album. OMG, the Derringer solo on Tobacco Road when he doubles the vocalist’s scatting.
Classic rock and roll.
Just subscribed, nice to see non lip sync TV performances from this era. Appreciate this!
That is what I thought when I first subbed. It turns out a lot of their shows _are_ lip synced.
Flubbed notes, strained harmonies and everything. Ain't nothing like the real thing.
@@AFloridaSon "a lot" is a bit of an exaggeration. i've found those performances to be in the minority.
Can't play this loud enough 💥
So much musical genuis in one place, bravo !
Rick Derringer was always underrated. The guy is a legend man! And his chops equally legendary!!👍🎼
Some random White Guy commenting using the token 'underrated' word about a band again. Sigh.
great guitar work with one of the greatest musicians edgar winter
Saw Rick with Edgar back in the 70's
Great song!! 🤘
We use to listen to it when we went fishing at folsom pond in Coalinga, California when I was 11 years old. This is the first time I saw him now. He looks like Bill, a guy who played guitar 🎸too. We use to have the eight track tape of Rick Derringer and one of Santana. That's when Saturday night fever was bumping. Disco inferno and the Bee Gee's
I saw Rick at a small venue in WA state. I stood right in front of him 2 feet away. At the end I fist bumped him. He wears a bunch of rings so it hurt a bit but it was worth it!!!
Was a teen in that era... always wanted "big hair", but it just stopped at my collar! Of course we love it!
"Derringer Live" is still one of my favorites. Even though it's poorly mixed and a bit rough, the tunes are still stellar. I've seen both Derringer and Edgar, but not back in the 1970's. That must have been a blast.