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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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!
THEY ONLY COME OUT AT NIGHT was released in late 1972.....I don't think a tour in 75 was still for that record...but...cool nonetheless. I'm from Detroit myself: Cobo is a very familiar old school venue.....is it still in use today?
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.
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.
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"!!
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 saw these guys in 72 - 73. ELO was the opener, Rick Derringer was the feature, and Edgar Winter was the headliner. All three had hits in the top forty, at the same time. Rick Derringer was just a kid.
@@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 😊.
@@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! 😂
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.
it is funky, and has a really strange groove. My band practiced this song for a couple of weeks, but we could never get in the right groove, and gave it up. It's trickier than you might think. Great performance....
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.
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.
Saw Edgar Winter Group a bunch as they used to play community college locally. Also the ‘other heavyweights’ from that time, Black Oak Arkansas and Brownsville Station. Finally saw Johnny’s Still Alive and Well tour (don’t remember if that’s what it was called but it was in support of that album). Loved at the end when Johnny B Good flashed in lights overhead!
I saw them play in T.O at MAPLE LEAF GARDENS what a show . I will NEVER FORGET . They definitely belong in the hall of fame . The 70's were the very best of times .THANKS FOR THE TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE .
Guess Rick hated his real last name of Zehringer. It's a great German name to be proud of. His uncle Bob and wife Barb, now deceased, were good friends of mine. Great people.
He didn't hate his last name - he used it when he was in the McCOYS with his brother, who went by 'Randy Z'. BUT, as a solo artist, it's important to have a name that captures the public's attention. I'm sure Rick's Tax Returns all still use the last name Zehringer.
You assume the worst! Deringer is also a great German name. Rick used the misspelling that usually referred to a tiny pistol designed by Henry Deringer Jr (son of Heinrich "Henry" Deringer Sr, born in the Holy Roman Empire), favored by gamblers in old westerns. It's what JW Booth used to assassinate Lincoln. Most Americans knew what a derringer was, and his name sounded kinda badass then (less so now, of course), which is important in the entertainment business.
I love Rick Derringer, he's like a hot, red firecracker. That guy with the black scarf tied around his neck looks like the guy in The Carpenter's Band.
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
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.
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!
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."
@@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.
@@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.
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.
A band actually playing LIVE and not lip syncing! No auto tune. THOSE WERE THE DAYS! I feel sorry for kids today. Why pay a fortune to see a performer lip sync? Stay at home and stream you favorite songs while looking at their photo. Save a FORTUNE!
My friends and I made our own weekly record charts out in the 70s, comparing our favorite songs. We considered anything that was on the radio: pop, country, rock, or soul. On May 11, 1974, “Rock & Roll Hoochie Koo" hit #1 on my list and stayed there for four weeks. I loved it.
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!
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.
@@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.
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 them 1975 or76 then early 2000's in Eugene ,Or. A year later while cleaning moss off my roof,they were playing 4 blocks away at Lane county fair. We got beers and sat on the roof forgetting our job.
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.
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!
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 !! 🤘
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.
Look how much they're having. Chuck Ruff in particular looks like he's having a blast. P.S. I love reading the comments from you older folks. Keep 'em coming.
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. 😅
Around 1990, I was in a dive bar in NYC to see Jon Paris an old bandmate of Johnny Winter. A guy with a guitar joined them onstage. My friend says, do you know who that is? It was Rick Derringer! In a no cover, dive bar on Second Ave in NY. 😅😅
@@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.
Edgar won 2023 Grammy's Best Blues Album for "My Brother Johnny", his all-star tribute to blues songs played and/or written by Johnny Winter. See it on Y.T.
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.
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:-).
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!
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.
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!!!
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
Rick Derringer is 76 years old now.
🤔if any of these Bless-id people make it past 69 it's a Miracle''' 🫡
Now I feel really old!😂
He was also a founding member of the McCoys. Anyone remember "Hang on Sloopy"?
@@alkholos That was a great video
And his pal, Edgar, is now a scientologist. Life is weird.
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.
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.
THEY ONLY COME OUT AT NIGHT was released in late 1972.....I don't think a tour in 75 was still for that record...but...cool nonetheless.
I'm from Detroit myself: Cobo is a very familiar old school venue.....is it still in use today?
Um Johnny Winter was probably around there too?
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.
Me too
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!!!
Why isn't Rick Derringer in The Rock n Roll
Hall Of Fame?
Because the hall of fame is a sham.
Because he didn't pay admission
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.
Did he set the volume at 11 ?
How's your loss of hearing these days?😅
@@AK-kf2mr Huh???
Wow! That is so cool!
Saw Rick and Edgar at Empire in Cleveland,, McCoys at La Cav,, Johnny at Agora in Columbus
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"!!
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 saw these guys in 72 - 73.
ELO was the opener, Rick Derringer was the feature, and Edgar Winter was the headliner. All three had hits in the top forty, at the same time. Rick Derringer was just a kid.
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 😊.
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
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.
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.
it is funky, and has a really strange groove. My band practiced this song for a couple of weeks, but we could never get in the right groove, and gave it up. It's trickier than you might think. Great performance....
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
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.
I saw these guys open for Bad Company and Alice Cooper . Yeah I was there for that , Wow 😊
I saw Bad Company on their first US tour opening for The Edgar Winter Group.
I’m sixty, as Rick or Johnny would say, I’m still alive and well!
I never thought those days would end. Was sure I'd never grow old, neither would they.
Played that song in a bar band, always filled the dance floor
Saw Edgar Winter Group a bunch as they used to play community college locally. Also the ‘other heavyweights’ from that time, Black Oak Arkansas and Brownsville Station. Finally saw Johnny’s Still Alive and Well tour (don’t remember if that’s what it was called but it was in support of that album). Loved at the end when Johnny B Good flashed in lights overhead!
I saw them play in T.O at MAPLE LEAF GARDENS what a show . I will NEVER FORGET . They definitely belong in the hall of fame . The 70's were the very best of times .THANKS FOR THE TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE .
Guess Rick hated his real last name of Zehringer. It's a great German name to be proud of. His uncle Bob and wife Barb, now deceased, were good friends of mine. Great people.
Show business governed his choice I'm sure...
He didn't hate his last name - he used it when he was in the McCOYS with his brother, who went by 'Randy Z'.
BUT, as a solo artist, it's important to have a name that captures the public's attention.
I'm sure Rick's Tax Returns all still use the last name Zehringer.
You assume the worst! Deringer is also a great German name. Rick used the misspelling that usually referred to a tiny pistol designed by Henry Deringer Jr (son of Heinrich "Henry" Deringer Sr, born in the Holy Roman Empire), favored by gamblers in old westerns. It's what JW Booth used to assassinate Lincoln. Most Americans knew what a derringer was, and his name sounded kinda badass then (less so now, of course), which is important in the entertainment business.
One of the Legends, not many can craft the tunes like this dude could, and when all three, Edgar, Johnny and Rick play, that's at the very top.
I love Rick Derringer, he's like a hot, red firecracker. That guy with the black scarf tied around his neck looks like the guy in The Carpenter's Band.
The Midnight Special rocks!!
I remember seeing Rick Derringer singing and playing his song at the Starwood Night Club in Hollywood back in the 70's! Time flies! 😁
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!
more like $5.00. I saw Kiss, with Cheap Trick opening for them, in 1977, and it cost me $5.00.
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.
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.
Takes me back to the good old days of rock. Grew up on this. Never be music again like we had in the 70’s.
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.
I met Rick in the mid 90s in Maine...had a drink with him...fown to earth cool guy...stands out like yesterday, Rock on Rick...
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
A band actually playing LIVE and not lip syncing! No auto tune. THOSE WERE THE DAYS! I feel sorry for kids today. Why pay a fortune to see a performer lip sync? Stay at home and stream you favorite songs while looking at their photo. Save a FORTUNE!
My friends and I made our own weekly record charts out in the 70s, comparing our favorite songs. We considered anything that was on the radio: pop, country, rock, or soul. On May 11, 1974, “Rock & Roll Hoochie Koo" hit #1 on my list and stayed there for four weeks. I loved it.
So much talent on that stage...
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!
Kick ass
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.
This is classic rock… like the best one…
What kids today don't realize was that some of the best music wasn't on the radio. You had to hear it at a friend's house.
And there was always that guy that knew and had them all. Miss those days 😢
This song is a fine example of how cool early 70s rock was, it totally kicks ass!!!
Rick can rip it up. Loved this work with "Johnny Winter And"
Saw Rick along with Edgar Winter Group and the James Gang in Nashville in 74’ Great show Someone said Frankenstein lasted 25 minutes 😳
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!
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.
Love watching the rhythm guitarist, he and his guitar are in their own world, feeling that beat and those guitars. 💕
This kids is real music!!
This was all over the radio back then. Those were the days. Many, many great memories.
The all American boy Rick Derringer………. Freaking great 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸
I saw them 1975 or76 then early 2000's in Eugene ,Or. A year later while cleaning moss off my roof,they were playing 4 blocks away at Lane county fair. We got beers and sat on the roof forgetting our job.
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.
One of the best guitarists ever!!
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 agree, those are my favorite Rick D live songs. He kills it on Back in the USA and Still Alive and Well!
@ exactly..."that's not good enough for me...DOES ANYBODY WANT TO ROCK AND ROLL?...that's *a little* better 🎸
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🎸🇺🇸💯
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!
That’s pure,raw rock n roll…..hootchie koo style🎸
Liked how he ripped the solo and went right back into singing!
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 !! 🤘
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.
Was a teen in that era... always wanted "big hair", but it just stopped at my collar! Of course we love it!
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.
Look how much they're having. Chuck Ruff in particular looks like he's having a blast.
P.S. I love reading the comments from you older folks. Keep 'em coming.
I had this song on a KTEL album. It changed my life.
There only certain radio statios that would play this and only a certain times of the day, so hearing this was a treat.
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. 😅
Thank you, Burt Sugarman, and The Midnight Special!! Say hi to Mary, for us!
Derringer became a touring monster in the late 70s. He played every festival in my area that I remember.
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Masterpiece of rock and roll music 👍👍🙏🥰🥰
Wow......51 years went by. Rock n roll!
Not only a great band, but a great audience too.
Every time I hear that song I can see Johnny floating around the stage playing his Firebird.
I'm 62 & still love this old rock!! Nothing beats it!! And with Dan Hartman is even better...on bass guitar!!
The expression of the drummer really captures the vibe.
Around 1990, I was in a dive bar in NYC to see Jon Paris an old bandmate of Johnny Winter. A guy with a guitar joined them onstage. My friend says, do you know who that is? It was Rick Derringer! In a no cover, dive bar on Second Ave in NY. 😅😅
Had this on 8 track. Derringer live. Worn that sucker out.
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.
Edgar won 2023 Grammy's Best Blues Album for "My Brother Johnny", his all-star tribute to blues songs played and/or written by Johnny Winter. See it on Y.T.
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!😂
The drummer is my spirit animal.
😂😂😂❤
I think it was Todd Rundgren
@@sl4983 Chuck Ruff
Great rock song. Watching Rick sing and play live is a real treat.
Love Edgar and Rick and the boys! God bless ‘em all and RIP Johnny!
So cool…..man I miss these days
I’m so glad I grew up when I did.
Cant stop watching this, incredible performance!
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:-).
As others here have said...thank God I was alive in a time when music was hard, real, and human. ;..)
The dude in the background at 0:19 looks like he's from the 1990's
I was thinking the same thing,like he got in a time machine in 93 and went back 20 years
3:39 Love the extra note
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!
Punishing groove!
Way back some 4+ decades ago, I saw Rick open for Heart. It was August 16th, 1977, the day Elvis died.
Rick Zheringer (Derringer) did things to and with a guitar long before Jimi. Saw him do it at the Forest Park Plaza in Dayton, Ohio.
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.
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!!!