I saw him jazz fest crescent city 1982. Entire population was at Steel Pulse stage. It was me and Jonnie Fkn winter. I could see the sky beind his bright white eyes. He looked down at me and said, “I hate to play the blues on such a sunny day” and crushed the opening chord. If there’s a God in heaven son ….
Johnny was more than a bluestringer. He played mandolin, drums, harp, bass ...who knows what else. He was also very intelligent. I had the pleasure of hangin with him several times. He was generous with his time and knowledge. A truly good guy. I miss him.
Yes Derrick wishes he could play like Johnny,notice all smiles from band members, they all know their playing with one of the greatest blues Legends that ever walked on this planet.&100% drug free! Finally!!!😊❤❤❤ One of my older guitar instructors played with Johnny Winter, Albert Collins, Albert King,& SRV. Johnny Winter paved the road...
I love how Mr. Trucks, who is a legend in his own right, just looks a Johnny like he's Superman... His real life hero right there on stage. That's love right there people! Rest in peace Johnny! Your spirit definitely lives on!!
Greatness???.... fucking legend... Johnny grew up in the blues, taught by the Masters... he was persecuted for being whiter than white as much as the Afro-Americans where persecuted fro being black... As far as I am concerned he is a better blues guitarist than Eric Clapton.
No...he just knows that he doesn't have to pollute the song like weekend warriors at a local blues night at the dive bar do. He is a pro. That is why he is just watching and playing. Less is best.
Johnny is legendary, but he was just a man and he knew it. I met him in 07. He had a gig at the Old Polk Theater in Lakeland Fl. After the show, a friend and I went to a little Blues Cafe, just up the street. In walked Johnny, alone and like he was just a local. He came over with his drink and asked if we would mind sharing the table. The next thing I knew, I was jamming with him and he was signing my strat! My moment of GLORY and a memory I'll take to my grave, with a smile.
You were so lucky to have had a drink with him. What a legend , and just a man with an extraordinary talent for playing guitar. I saw him 5 or 6 times , from 1970's to 2005 . He's my all time favorite.
You lucky Fuck ! So random ! Sometime in the early '80's, I was in Nashville, Tennessee at a Hotel, working on a Satellite system there, and during an off time, I walked into the Bar, which was closed, and set down at a piano I was told Elvis used to play, just to noodle around, and the bartender told me if I would have been a couple minutes earlier, I could have met George Jones, as he stopped in to have a drink ! The day before, a radio station was touting how great it was, that he was on the wagon, and had quit drinking ! Not as great s story as yours, but yours reminded me just how chance meetings can happen ! Great story ! Thanks for letting me share ! ✌️😎
Johnny’s Firebird should be enshrined at The Smithsonian. I saw him wailing on the old red SG many times in Detroit early on but most of the videos I’ve seen is with that trusty Firebird. Derek Trucks and the bass player were just in awe !! ❤️
He's old here, but in his prime, nobody could touch him. If you don't really know about Johnny and this video is your introduction, go check out some of his other stuff. He was a monster talent.
Losing Johnny Winter on July 16, 2014 was losing one of the last truly great blues guitarist. He joins that great jam session in the sky!! RIP Johnny!!
Derek and his wife Susan are truly the nicest people. Johnny mentions Derek in a interview as one of his favorite young blues players. Watch BB King at the Albert hall.. Susan and Derek are guests .
@@green323turbo I've seen Tedeschi Trucks Band twice and they were amazing both times. I was already familiar with how awesome Derek was after seeing him play with the Allman Bros but man Susan blew me away in concert.
I know this is an older video with a young Derek Trucks, there’s a TH-cam video with Playing for Change that plays Levee’s Going to Break that features John Paul Jones and Derek and his wife are in it. If anyone hasn’t seen it, check it out, it’s great.
That performance was priceless. One of the best ever. I can read lips enough to know Derek Trucks said wow at the end. That a guy that been around a lot of great guitar players.
Saw Johnny in his prime several times when he was still standing and playing and he tore the place apart. Torched many a Rock legends in that era, just blew them away. I won`t name names.
Johnny's got the slide hanging off his pinky , but such amazing control. Even with the slide angled , flopping around, it always sounds spot on . He must have had a fantastic ear , for not even looking at the guitar
No, the thing was, the angle of the slide favored the treble strings at the twelfth fret, so...they went slightly sharp. It is not sloppy or floppy at all!
I had the same guitar tech as Johnny, in Beaumont, and I had one guitar that I just never was happy with. My guitar tech said Johnny had played it while it was in his shop and he flat tore it up....I never looked at that guitar the same way again.
Saw him play at an obscure venue in London in 68 or 69. He had so much energy and pranced about the stage with that long flowing white hair. Fell in love with fingerslide that night.
I once had the great pleasure of seeing and hearing Johnny Winter perform with Janis Joplin at the Palm Beach Music Festival in 1969. Amazing performance!
That tone... so dirty and expressive! I watched this over 10 years ago and couldn´t get over the tone of his Firebird... i come back once in a while just to check if the sound in my head gets it right!
I saw Johnny several times, the first at a Fort Lauderdale Blues Festival, he was with Tommy Shannon. I saw hplay up close and realized he was using a three finger pick style like you play banjo. I was stunned. He had such speed and accuracy and was one of the best slide players at the time. Peter Green, Mick Taylor, Dickie Betts, Johnny Winter were the best white blues sidemen for decades. Though Johnny is gone, I heard him on a radio program live from Chicago Blues Festival years ago and his slide playing haunted me for years from that show. Real soul, real style and lightning speed or slow blues he never let you down especially on any solo. Johnny will be missed at the top of the list. His brother Edgar is an incredibly talented musician who played rock, jazz, blues and his ability was also staggering in so many styles. Long live Johnny.
My uncle owned a limousine company in New Orleans and I would drive on special occasions or in between oil company jobs. I think the last super bowl in New Orleans I picked up Derek trucks and his wife who did an album together I knew his uncle and the Allman Brothers fairly well as security at the warehouse in New Orleans where my guys I got in for free, and they always sold the Allman Brothers their cocaine and heroin as these guys were merchant marines. But Derek has played with everybody now, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Buddy Guy who he played with quite a bit and his jaw was down and he had a big smile when he played with him also. He's an incredible guitar player coming from his family and then really seasoned with the Old pros. He was so humble he and his wife. They gave me their latest CD and it was great because his wife could sing and play guitar. He's probably the newest talent around right now and one of the last rock and roll and Blues guitarist, God bless him and keep him as I believe he learned to stay away from the drugs after watching his uncle and the Allman Brothers. In one show they would do an ounce of cocaine and a bundle of heroin. Speedballing all the way there. I don't know how they stayed alive but I did the same thing so I'm a walking miracle at I was able to stop at 30 and surrender and say Jesus where are you I went out in the woods for 4 months with a Bible because I did not want to play religion. I can tell you my life has never been the same. But I still like my old blues and rock and roll and I don't play with the churches only study the Bible for 39 years and try to live by it. God is pretty good when you can stay awake for 4 days sleep one and go back out for four more for 8 months and he kept me alive but at that point I was at the end of my rope. I surrendered and any of my friends that did not are all dead. I should be I OD'd 10 or 15 times but came back between God looking out and the fact that I was a swimmer in high school and college but without God I'd be six feet under and burning in hell
Johnny Winters is a true phenomenon of electric blues!!! No one ever had surpassed him!!! I saw him many times in Detroit in the 1970's n to this day I still listen to his albums, especially Still Alive N Well n Saints N Sinners, which I grew up on and are part of me to this day!!! He was a great electric blues, rock, blues, guitar player, song writer, singer n showman!!!! I was a dancer for years in Detroit n I used his albums for my dancing sets!!!! RIP, Johnny, you are part of my musical soul!!!
Would have loved to have seen Johnny @ this show, the man was a fantastic guitar~slide slinger!! 😅 Love his hat & Derek’s just a pup here, the huge grin never left the bassist’s face, think he’s probably in awe!
I saw Johnny perform at my high school gymnasium when I was a sophomore, in 1969. His first Columbia LP was just out. An awesome show. I was just a 15 year old kid, I had no idea that he would become the legend he is now, but I did know then that he was something special.
No other blue's player sounds like Johnny winter a voice that was made for the blue's and a playing talent that was the best accompaniment that could possibly be Johnny his voice a slide and a firebird a combination that will never be matched and I believe everybody knows it. R.i.P. Mr. Johnny Winter no other blue's player or singer will.ever even come close.
The results of never giving up, playing something everyday. Here we see an absolute Legend carrying the music. The simple and the great in one chair, one guitar.
I was lucky enough to see Johnny play,not long before he left us...and,as toned-down as he was,by that time,it's still,easily,one of my most memorable shows...even in a nice,soft-seater auditorium,the man was FIRE.
Derek Trucks knows the right people to look up to, I mean look at him. This is a guy that’s very low key on stage and to see how much he revered Johnny Winter, says it all
So glad I got to see this legend play live about a year before he passed. At the time, he was quite frail and and to be helped to the stage. But once he sat down and started playing, he unleashed the fury!
Salute! I used to sit n chat with a fellow, Mr. C (aka Cutter) at his blues bar in Texas. He shared some hella cool stories about road adventures w Johnny,SRV,and Andy Gibb. His genuine love for all three was evident--he never said a negative word about any of 'em--but he made it plain and simple....Johnny was the original,Stevie was the student. When I admitted I had limited exposure to Johnny,well 'ol Cutter seemed offended and made me pay for my own beer for about a week,but he gave in and forgave me. AFTER I listened to nuthin' but Johnny for a week. By then,I was all in! Ashamed as a Texan for not knowing what I shoulda known but grateful Cutter put me in check. Thanks,Mr.C! Salute,Johnny Winter!
Fucking awesome Texan Johnny Winter! I loved how Derek and the band were getting kick out of playing with him. I would have had a permanent smile if I had gotten to play with him .
Agree except for the Smithsonian part. Things go into that place... history changing things, mind blowing things and they get put in the basement of the basement of the basement and hidden away forever. If not outright destroyed.
Absolutely fenominal!!, I am so greatful to have seen him play live here in Houston Texas so many times, and just missed him having my friend Kevin Karapata who knew him personally, he would visit him often when he came to town , say to me Jonny was here!!, But I did get to jam with his drummer, Uncle John he was so down to earth and cool!!,
@@jakemguitarist yeah, not his first guitar....1st Firebird... I think his first guitar was a ukelele 😉. I believe he started out on the clarenet.... apparently he liked the way it looked but loved that it played like a Gibson but sounded more like a Fender... because of the mini humbuckers... I'm not sure where I heard about the price... Some interview... but I could be mistaken... I just thought it was crazy cheap for the use it got....I do believe he picked it up at a pawnshop tho... maybe in St Louis?.... I should prolly shut up before my fountain spouts more misinformation.... Need a flashback to remember now days..
Used to see him in his hometown of Beaumont, TX before he was discovered. Late ‘60s, Beaumont was more of a soul music town than a rock/blues town - so I would go down and see him at this club called The Box where there might not be 100 people there. I would stand about 3 feet in front of him and listen to him tear it up. I figured sooner or later someone would discover him and he would be big.
I was so fortunate to see Johnny perform a month before he passed... what a talent! His style was so unique. His albums, and those with Muddy Waters, are on constant rotation in my music library... along with Jimi H., ABB, Gov't Mule, ZZ Top, George Thorogood, and a little Joe Bonamassa. Still gets these 64 year old feet tapping.
One of the most remarkable concerts I ever attended: Montreal Forum circa 1971 Johnny WInter opening for King Crimson WOW !! just WOW !! And I was chuffed to see JW at Woodstock in '69, wonderful performer & person, gracious, humble and absolutely superb OH YEAH !! Always wondered if Mr. Fripp would have hung out post Montreal soiree with JW and shuffled through the fretboards together.....mmmmmm tasty !! My 2 cents. { :>)
He's so cool. He was my favorite act at the Canadian World Music Festival.1979.l was 13at the time . In my opinion..e blew away the headlining acts. Arrowsmith ted Nugent nazereth and few others.. l didn't even know who he was... Lol.. he was so cool .. so real . I felt honored ...
One of highlights of my life was seeing him in person at Chicago House of Blues, my friend and I stood a couple inches from him, fabulous experience!!!
First saw this man at a Christmas concert in Denver in 1969. He was one of the backup bands for Fleetwood Mac. I had just gotten out of the US Army 3 months before and It was the first concert I ever went to. Awesome performance!
Highway 61 is a real highway. It runs from around Duluth, Minnesota, down to New Orleans. For decades it was a two lane. Today, most of it is four lane. Dylan grew up in Hastings, near Duluth. To him, 61 was the path south to the Delta and the Delta Blues. I have motorcycled every mile of it over my life, based out of Iowa.
Skmewhere on Hwy 61 is the (in)famous Crossroads where Robert Johnson supposedly sold his soul. (even though it wasn't really Robert Johnson). Some famous guitarists have a small vial of dirt from a crossroads on 61. Jimmy Page has been seen wearing one around his neck.
Seen Johnny so many times I can't remember. Day on the green in Oakland in 77 he headlined 6 bands. Skynard was third. Deringer Edgar then Johnny. With all three on stage for the encore. Last I saw him 2004 in Modesto in a small theater. Took my son and he tripped. Love Mr Winter...RIP JOHNNY
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I saw him jazz fest crescent city 1982. Entire population was at Steel Pulse stage. It was me and Jonnie Fkn winter. I could see the sky beind his bright white eyes. He looked down at me and said, “I hate to play the blues on such a sunny day” and crushed the opening chord. If there’s a God in heaven son ….
Johnny was more than a bluestringer. He played mandolin, drums, harp, bass ...who knows what else. He was also very intelligent. I had the pleasure of hangin with him several times. He was generous with his time and knowledge. A truly good guy. I miss him.
Ahhmen! RIP POPS
his brother is no slouch either...
@@lintelle2382 He has two brothers with Grammy’s.
@@charleswinters7129 wow! I knew about Edgar. Educate me on the other brother, please!
seems like a Great guy!
Derek Trucks is no slouch on the guitar, but he looks at Johnny with such reverence. Awesome stuff.
Derek watched J.J. Cale too with awe when Clapton played with him.
@@shaykatz5648Tulsa Sound Man! Love JJ Cale ❤
Yes Derrick wishes he could play like Johnny,notice all smiles from band members, they all know their playing with one of the greatest blues Legends that ever walked on this planet.&100% drug free! Finally!!!😊❤❤❤ One of my older guitar instructors played with Johnny Winter, Albert Collins, Albert King,& SRV. Johnny Winter paved the road...
I love how Mr. Trucks, who is a legend in his own right, just looks a Johnny like he's Superman... His real life hero right there on stage. That's love right there people! Rest in peace Johnny! Your spirit definitely lives on!!
He _is_ superman!!!!
FO, why don't we have a religion called Winter?
That's right he is the man that s how he got to play that slide because of him rip Jonny
@@SveinMBortne we should
Yeah. And you know you're a somebody when you got Derek as your sideman. No shit bro.
I love how Derek Trucks seems to just watch Johnny and smile. He knows he's in the presence of greatness!
It's that "I love how he does that"look of admiration"...Bitchen! ☮️🎸
Greatness???.... fucking legend... Johnny grew up in the blues, taught by the Masters... he was persecuted for being whiter than white as much as the Afro-Americans where persecuted fro being black... As far as I am concerned he is a better blues guitarist than Eric Clapton.
So did Johnny. Derek is my boy!
💗 💖 💘 💝 💟 ☮️
No...he just knows that he doesn't have to pollute the song like weekend warriors at a local blues night at the dive bar do. He is a pro. That is why he is just watching and playing. Less is best.
Johnny is legendary, but he was just a man and he knew it. I met him in 07. He had a gig at the Old Polk Theater in Lakeland Fl. After the show, a friend and I went to a little Blues Cafe, just up the street.
In walked Johnny, alone and like he was just a local. He came over with his drink and asked if we would mind sharing the table. The next thing I knew, I was jamming with him and he was signing my strat! My moment of GLORY and a memory I'll take to my grave, with a smile.
You were so lucky to have had a drink with him. What a legend , and just a man with an extraordinary talent for playing guitar. I saw him 5 or 6 times , from 1970's to 2005 . He's my all time favorite.
You lucky Fuck !
So random !
Sometime in the early '80's, I was in Nashville, Tennessee at a Hotel, working on a Satellite system there, and during an off time, I walked into the Bar, which was closed, and set down at a piano I was told Elvis used to play, just to noodle around, and the bartender told me if I would have been a couple minutes earlier, I could have met George Jones, as he stopped in to have a drink !
The day before, a radio station was touting how great it was, that he was on the wagon, and had quit drinking !
Not as great s story as yours, but yours reminded me just how chance meetings can happen !
Great story !
Thanks for letting me share !
✌️😎
LOVe it! those rare moments in life when we catch lightening in a bottle...
Fred Ziffel...he came walking in by himself ? Bullshit
What a memory you'll have to take with you Fred. Johnny was my guitar hero when I was a teenager. God bless you both.
I've never seen Derek Trucks so delighted as he is here. Johnny is a legend.
Johnny’s Firebird should be enshrined at The Smithsonian. I saw him wailing on the old red SG many times in Detroit early on but most of the videos I’ve seen is with that trusty Firebird. Derek Trucks and the bass player were just in awe !! ❤️
He's old here, but in his prime, nobody could touch him. If you don't really know about Johnny and this video is your introduction, go check out some of his other stuff. He was a monster talent.
Even the guys in the band can’t believe they’re playing with the legend
Losing Johnny Winter on July 16, 2014 was losing one of the last truly great blues guitarist. He joins that great jam session in the sky!! RIP Johnny!!
Whoa now, Buddy Guy is still alive & well. (hopefully for many years to come)
GBeret83 Always impressive to know your facts.
Another 6-stringer called HOME
💗 💖 💘 💝 💟 ☮️
Yes, he certainly do!
Two of the three greatest slide guitarists in history, on the same stage. Only Duane missing.
These kids were on stage with a legend
The smile on Derek’s face at the end is priceless. Sheer joy.
Derek can really play. He is always so appreciative and attentive when playing with the great ones.
Derek and his wife Susan are truly the nicest people. Johnny mentions Derek in a interview as one of his favorite young blues players. Watch BB King at the Albert hall.. Susan and Derek are guests .
@@green323turbo I've seen Tedeschi Trucks Band twice and they were amazing both times. I was already familiar with how awesome Derek was after seeing him play with the Allman Bros but man Susan blew me away in concert.
I know this is an older video with a young Derek Trucks, there’s a TH-cam video with Playing for Change that plays Levee’s Going to Break that features John Paul Jones and Derek and his wife are in it. If anyone hasn’t seen it, check it out, it’s great.
My first concert was a Johnny winter show in Fitchburg mass in 1980 it was a great show .
Watched him do Highway 61 on bob dylan 30th Anniversary . Class . At 70+ where have l been ?
Johnny in the prime years would torch everyone off the stage! A legend !
I saw that happen during the Captured Live shows.
REAL MUSIC by REAL ARTISTS, live, no bullshit, no auto-tune, just naked talent!
Damm straight 😎
DAMN STRAIGHT AGAIN!!!!! LOL
Little disappointed no wardrobe changes or choreographed dancers, though.
What? AUTO TUNE?? They have that now?
Johnny Winter is missed. I love how Derek Trucks seems so happy to play with him.
I first saw Johnny in 1970 and got to talk with him.
I keep coming back to this video to see him play that old Firebird one more time. RIP brother.
I to saw him in 1970
My next guitar was a Firebird
I've always said.... Praise the guitar GOD, but praise the drummer that keeps up with the guitarist!
He does kick ASS!!!
The drummer was excellent , and the groove was nice and slow. Johnny proved he can play like lightning , but he needed to slow down in his old age.
The drummer is in the driver’s seat!
That performance was priceless. One of the best ever. I can read lips enough to know Derek Trucks said wow at the end. That a guy that been around a lot of great guitar players.
The look on Derek's face says it all. What a dream that must have been
I thought the same thing.
I'm so used to people being in awe of Derek Trucks on stage, even legends like BB King. It was cool to see him just fawning over Johnny here
Saw Johnny in his prime several times when he was still standing and playing and he tore the place apart. Torched many a Rock legends in that era, just blew them away. I won`t name names.
I was lucky enough to see both Johnny and Edgar playing together.
Just a epic night to remember.
Johnny's got the slide hanging off his pinky , but such amazing control. Even with the slide angled , flopping around, it always sounds spot on . He must have had a fantastic ear , for not even looking at the guitar
He was almost blind when he played this gig
John had 1/800 in his
Right eye
No, the thing was, the angle of the slide favored the treble strings at the twelfth fret, so...they went slightly sharp. It is not sloppy or floppy at all!
There’s not many in this man’s class. Rest easy 🌞
A guitar player's guitar player. Fast w feel and never cornered
I had the same guitar tech as Johnny, in Beaumont, and I had one guitar that I just never was happy with. My guitar tech said Johnny had played it while it was in his shop and he flat tore it up....I never looked at that guitar the same way again.
JOHNNY WINTER - MY MOST INFLUENTIAL MUSIC MAN IN MY EARTHLY JOURNEY LIFE! YESSS!
Johnny was recovering from a miserable manager and Paul Nelson saved his life! My guitar hero!
Saw him play at an obscure venue in London in 68 or 69. He had so much energy and pranced about the stage with that long flowing white hair. Fell in love with fingerslide that night.
I love the smile on the bassist and Trucks is just looking over Johnny's shoulder trying to pick up some pointers from the legend.
Johnny Winter is why I started loving and listening to the Blues!
Same same here
Me too! Johnny Winter he is absolutely blues-genius!
Me too. Be careful with a fool, first song that hooked me.
I was there, watch Derek watching Johnny.
I once had the great pleasure of seeing and hearing Johnny Winter perform with Janis Joplin at the Palm Beach Music Festival in 1969. Amazing performance!
Derek learned from all the best players. He now carries the torch of legends.
That tone... so dirty and expressive! I watched this over 10 years ago and couldn´t get over the tone of his Firebird... i come back once in a while just to check if the sound in my head gets it right!
I saw Johnny several times, the first at a Fort Lauderdale Blues Festival, he was with Tommy Shannon. I saw hplay up close and realized he was using a three finger pick style like you play banjo. I was stunned. He had such speed and accuracy and was one of the best slide players at the time. Peter Green, Mick Taylor, Dickie Betts, Johnny Winter were the best white blues sidemen for decades. Though Johnny is gone, I heard him on a radio program live from Chicago Blues Festival years ago and his slide playing haunted me for years from that show. Real soul, real style and lightning speed or slow blues he never let you down especially on any solo. Johnny will be missed at the top of the list. His brother Edgar is an incredibly talented musician who played rock, jazz, blues and his ability was also staggering in so many styles. Long live Johnny.
The guys backing him are grinning like Cheshire cats. Love it
Tony Howell lol right!! 😂 Too cool!
Yes because Johny is GREAT...WOW...I'M SMILING TOO
That would be the Derek Trucks Band!
So am I!!!
Like that Cheshire cats comment… I had the same feeling…
Johnny is but one reason growing up in Houston,Austin was so good! Thank You Johnny (Edgar, TVZ,Guy, on & on) Billy G too
I watched Mr Winter in Madrid in 1988 in a dusty and old futbol stadium, full of people, I will never forget.
My uncle owned a limousine company in New Orleans and I would drive on special occasions or in between oil company jobs. I think the last super bowl in New Orleans I picked up Derek trucks and his wife who did an album together I knew his uncle and the Allman Brothers fairly well as security at the warehouse in New Orleans where my guys I got in for free, and they always sold the Allman Brothers their cocaine and heroin as these guys were merchant marines. But Derek has played with everybody now, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Buddy Guy who he played with quite a bit and his jaw was down and he had a big smile when he played with him also. He's an incredible guitar player coming from his family and then really seasoned with the Old pros. He was so humble he and his wife. They gave me their latest CD and it was great because his wife could sing and play guitar. He's probably the newest talent around right now and one of the last rock and roll and Blues guitarist, God bless him and keep him as I believe he learned to stay away from the drugs after watching his uncle and the Allman Brothers. In one show they would do an ounce of cocaine and a bundle of heroin. Speedballing all the way there. I don't know how they stayed alive but I did the same thing so I'm a walking miracle at I was able to stop at 30 and surrender and say Jesus where are you I went out in the woods for 4 months with a Bible because I did not want to play religion. I can tell you my life has never been the same. But I still like my old blues and rock and roll and I don't play with the churches only study the Bible for 39 years and try to live by it. God is pretty good when you can stay awake for 4 days sleep one and go back out for four more for 8 months and he kept me alive but at that point I was at the end of my rope. I surrendered and any of my friends that did not are all dead. I should be I OD'd 10 or 15 times but came back between God looking out and the fact that I was a swimmer in high school and college but without God I'd be six feet under and burning in hell
My dad loved Johnny so much it's all that was played at his wake❤
Absolute master at his craft.
We saw him in concert about 43 years ago and he rocked the Harrisburg Farm area a!!!
Johnny Winters is a true phenomenon of electric blues!!! No one ever had surpassed him!!! I saw him many times in Detroit in the 1970's n to this day I still listen to his albums, especially Still Alive N Well n Saints N Sinners, which I grew up on and are part of me to this day!!! He was a great electric blues, rock, blues, guitar player, song writer, singer n showman!!!! I was a dancer for years in Detroit n I used his albums for my dancing sets!!!! RIP, Johnny, you are part of my musical soul!!!
One of the greatest slide guitarist in Blues/Rock Music. RIP Johnny
Would have loved to have seen Johnny @ this show, the man was a fantastic guitar~slide slinger!! 😅
Love his hat & Derek’s just a pup here, the huge grin never left the bassist’s face, think he’s probably in awe!
I saw Johnny perform at my high school gymnasium when I was a sophomore, in 1969. His first Columbia LP was just out. An awesome show. I was just a 15 year old kid, I had no idea that he would become the legend he is now, but I did know then that he was something special.
I still got that lp. .
JOHNNY WINTER LIVE AND WAS THE FIRST LP I BOUGHT WITH MY OWN $,AND WAS PROUD OF!! THINK I WAS IN 7TH GRADE!
.....you got the most excellent taste........seriously.....
Second Winter for me, I think it was early '71. Loved it...
Great Album !
This never gets old. Saw Johnny just once in a club in the 80's. His hair was down to his knee. Blew the roof off. RIP
No other blue's player sounds like Johnny winter a voice that was made for the blue's and a playing talent that was the best accompaniment that could possibly be Johnny his voice a slide and a firebird a combination that will never be matched and I believe everybody knows it. R.i.P. Mr. Johnny Winter no other blue's player or singer will.ever even come close.
The results of never giving up, playing something everyday. Here we see an absolute Legend carrying the music. The simple and the great in one chair, one guitar.
It's nothing simple in this. It is magic.
One of the Blues statesmen of a era gone but certainly not forgotten, RIP Johnny Winter, Legendary
I saw Johnny in Montreal twice. Both times he blew the roof off the joint!
I was lucky enough to see Johnny play,not long before he left us...and,as toned-down as he was,by that time,it's still,easily,one of my most memorable shows...even in a nice,soft-seater auditorium,the man was FIRE.
Derek Trucks knows the right people to look up to, I mean look at him. This is a guy that’s very low key on stage and to see how much he revered Johnny Winter, says it all
J.W. made the world a better place.
You can almost see the band thinking “all we have to do is not fuck this up. Johnny’s got this!”
Lmao.....so true.....on stage with a living Legend. 🎸👍🎸🎸🇺🇲👍
A rocking blues man. I played his style back in the day. Not as good. But loved it.
So glad I got to see this legend play live about a year before he passed. At the time, he was quite frail and and to be helped to the stage. But once he sat down and started playing, he unleashed the fury!
Yeah me too...so glad I got to see him not long before he passed. Frail and obviously ill, hellfire could he still play that guitar. A true legend
Same here,and,even sitting down,with his lightweight Steinberger,in a nice soft-seater auditorium,the man was FIRE!!!
No one will ever be more closely identified with the Gibson Firebird than Johnny Winter !!!###
Truly the real deal...Johnny stayed true to his roots and brought us all along for the ride...awesome bluesman and musician
Salute! I used to sit n chat with a fellow, Mr. C (aka Cutter) at his blues bar in Texas. He shared some hella cool stories about road adventures w Johnny,SRV,and Andy Gibb. His genuine love for all three was evident--he never said a negative word about any of 'em--but he made it plain and simple....Johnny was the original,Stevie was the student. When I admitted I had limited exposure to Johnny,well 'ol Cutter seemed offended and made me pay for my own beer for about a week,but he gave in and forgave me. AFTER I listened to nuthin' but Johnny for a week. By then,I was all in! Ashamed as a Texan for not knowing what I shoulda known but grateful Cutter put me in check. Thanks,Mr.C! Salute,Johnny Winter!
The greatest of all the white bluesmen. A phenomenal guitar player, and much missed.
Music including blues does not care what color you are!
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@@lbcharlie05 Then why does it thrive so much more in white nations?
@@larebear1902 maybe "white nations" enjoy music, not racism.
@@lbcharlie05 - maybe someday white nations will enjoy no racisms and not have to endure anti white racisms every other post on social media.
God given talent...blessed to have this rocker during my day.
Fucking awesome Texan Johnny Winter! I loved how Derek and the band were getting kick out of playing with him. I would have had a permanent smile if I had gotten to play with him .
Saw Johny and Edgar play in a sidewalk in Port Washington NY. It was a street festival.
That is as cool as it gets. I went to 3 Johnny Winter shows back in the day. Wish I had gone to more. I listen to his music to this day.
That 64 firebird should go into the rock and roll hall of fame then final resting place the smithstonian
Roger that.
they destroy things that dont fit the narrative but yes it should be preserved
Agree except for the Smithsonian part. Things go into that place... history changing things, mind blowing things and they get put in the basement of the basement of the basement and hidden away forever. If not outright destroyed.
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Must be a time traveling guitar, because he's playing that same guitar at Rockpalast in 1979.
Iconic, you're right. Kinda like 'Lucille' with B.B., or 'Trigger' with Willie.
Unfortunately always forgotten when it comes to the best guitarists.
Absolutely fenominal!!, I am so greatful to have seen him play live here in Houston Texas so many times, and just missed him having my friend Kevin Karapata who knew him personally, he would visit him often when he came to town , say to me Jonny was here!!, But I did get to jam with his drummer, Uncle John he was so down to earth and cool!!,
They don’t make em like Johnny Winter any more. And that Firebird put out a super-gnarly tone
I saw Johnny interviewed once where he states that it was his first guitar....bought at a pawn shop for around 250 bucks...
@@themuttbucket8964 Not his first guitar, but it was his first Firebird. I remember it being more money, maybe you’re thinking of a different FBird?
@@jakemguitarist yeah, not his first guitar....1st Firebird... I think his first guitar was a ukelele 😉. I believe he started out on the clarenet.... apparently he liked the way it looked but loved that it played like a Gibson but sounded more like a Fender...
because of the mini humbuckers... I'm not sure where I heard about the price... Some interview... but I could be mistaken... I just thought it was crazy cheap for the use it got....I do
believe he picked it up at a pawnshop tho... maybe in St
Louis?.... I should prolly shut up before my fountain spouts
more misinformation.... Need a flashback to remember now days..
WHEW!...Bad to the Bone Tone!
The slide guitar heard round the world!
Used to see him in his hometown of Beaumont, TX before he was discovered.
Late ‘60s, Beaumont was more of a soul music town than a rock/blues town - so I would go down and see him at this club called The Box where there might not be 100 people there.
I would stand about 3 feet in front of him and listen to him tear it up.
I figured sooner or later someone would discover him and he would be big.
I was so fortunate to see Johnny perform a month before he passed... what a talent! His style was so unique. His albums, and those with Muddy Waters, are on constant rotation in my music library... along with Jimi H., ABB, Gov't Mule, ZZ Top, George Thorogood, and a little Joe Bonamassa. Still gets these 64 year old feet tapping.
One of the most remarkable concerts I ever attended: Montreal Forum circa 1971 Johnny WInter opening for King Crimson WOW !! just WOW !! And I was chuffed to see JW at Woodstock in '69, wonderful performer & person, gracious, humble and absolutely superb OH YEAH !! Always wondered if Mr. Fripp would have hung out post Montreal soiree with JW and shuffled through the fretboards together.....mmmmmm tasty !! My 2 cents. { :>)
I saw Johnny at the Cotton Club in Underground Atlanta years ago. Still one of the best concerts ever.
I saw Johnny Winter and crew in Memphis back in the 1970,s..............They kicked ass that nite
He's so cool. He was my favorite act at the Canadian World Music Festival.1979.l was 13at the time . In my opinion..e blew away the headlining acts. Arrowsmith ted Nugent nazereth and few others.. l didn't even know who he was... Lol.. he was so cool .. so real . I felt honored ...
The G.O.A.T. of blues guitar.
One of many, Bloomfield was already awesome well before Johnny. Roy Buchanan although Roy did not play slide.
Saw him at Warren Haynes Christmas Jam a year later and he literally stole the show, even Warren was dazzled by his brilliant licks!!!!!
Man that drummer just had that snappin' beat that let Johnny just run with it ....
Had to scroll down a bit, but I knew somebody would have felt the same.
One of highlights of my life was seeing him in person at Chicago House of Blues, my friend and I stood a couple inches from him, fabulous experience!!!
First saw this man at a Christmas concert in Denver in 1969. He was one of the backup bands for Fleetwood Mac. I had just gotten out of the US Army 3 months before and It was the first concert I ever went to. Awesome performance!
Highway 61 is a real highway. It runs from around Duluth, Minnesota, down to New Orleans. For decades it was a two lane. Today, most of it is four lane. Dylan grew up in Hastings, near Duluth. To him, 61 was the path south to the Delta and the Delta Blues. I have motorcycled every mile of it over my life, based out of Iowa.
Skmewhere on Hwy 61 is the (in)famous Crossroads where Robert Johnson supposedly sold his soul. (even though it wasn't really Robert Johnson). Some famous guitarists have a small vial of dirt from a crossroads on 61. Jimmy Page has been seen wearing one around his neck.
We stand on the shoulders of giants. Classical education or not Dereks expression says it all.
Edgar and Johnny winter put a whole lot of respect on their names 👏 👌 🙌
Johnny broke the mold. There wasn’t anybody like him, that’s for sure.
Everyone loved him and his brother but Johnny cas did the song the best, I think very sober and heart felt spare in orchestration.thanks @ one .
Grew up listening to Johnny Winter, Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison... music is a huge part of life... if you just take time to stop and listen. 🎶
Drummer playing over time to play with Johnny. 😊 Johnny so good.
Gotta be on EVERYBODYS top 10 of greatest Blues/ Rick guitarists of all time IMO
The God of Guitar Gods.
It became one of my favorite by him high way 61 love that Abraham of God true story.
Johnny, he just one with his guitar, he plays with heart, he's perfect for me
Seen Johnny so many times I can't remember. Day on the green in Oakland in 77 he headlined 6 bands. Skynard was third. Deringer Edgar then Johnny. With all three on stage for the encore. Last I saw him 2004 in Modesto in a small theater. Took my son and he tripped. Love Mr Winter...RIP JOHNNY
Last time i saw Jonny winters he was taking my date to the band room at a Rick Derringer concert at toads place in New Haven Ct in 76
I was at that show in oakland shook hands with bill gram
Great Great Great performance...my favorite slide blues guitarist since i was 14 years old....i'm 67 now....
NOBODY did blues slide like Johnny. NOBODY....
And one nod from Johnny at the end to let them know they are not coming around again. The master himself !
i loved that!