"(somehow)" -- that would be his shirt.
― Three Word Username, Thursday, 17 July 2014 15:09 (ten years ago) link
No one made the Firebird cooler, RIP
― Master of Treacle, Thursday, 17 July 2014 16:10 (ten years ago) link
Johnny Winter was cool. All his 70s records are worth hearing if you like blues rock. Only knock you could really say is that he was not as good at songwriting as he was at playing guitar and singing, but the guy was a really great at interpreting other people's material. Really his later records are still pretty good too, it's just they are more blues than rock and just don't have the manic intensity of the earlier bands. Those late period Muddy Waters records he produced are great and a couple of those tracks are probably among the most known by Muddy, as they have been used on TV and in movies so much (especially Mannish Boy).
The guy had a hard life. From what I have read, he lived through more than a few harrowing times. It's good he got out of his last daze with his old manager, got a bit more healthy and got to go play out quite a bit in his last few years. Johnny Winter lived to write the song "Still Alive and Well" in the early 70s after surviving Heroin, so getting to age 70 considering all of his other health problems is notable. I'm sure now there is a pale guitar slinger out on Highway 61. RIP Johnny.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdB3msFJWyM
― earlnash, Thursday, 17 July 2014 21:34 (ten years ago) link
RIP Johnny winter. Any Allmans fans out there have to listen to the Mountain Jam from the Atlanta Pop Featival 1970 (disc 2) where Winter sits in with the Brothers. It absolutely slays. This guy could really bring it.
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Friday, 18 July 2014 03:57 (ten years ago) link
http://blogs.houstonpress.com/rocks/2014/07/billy_gibbons_others_remember.php
― Incident At Spanish Harlem (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 18 July 2014 14:21 (ten years ago) link
RIP, whitest of the white bluesman
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Friday, 18 July 2014 14:31 (ten years ago) link
I kind of wish Johnny Winter had done some more of this total Dylan pastiche type pop songs. In a weird way it reminds me a bit of Malkmus in the way it's sung too on the title lyric line.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue-4XF8NQ9I
― earlnash, Wednesday, 19 August 2020 10:53 (four years ago) link
There's a wild, 'throw everything at the wall' quality to those mid-'60s Winter recordings: Swamp Pop balladeering; Rascals/Mitch Ryder-style white boy R&B bangers; straight-up Nuggets Garage; and Folk Rock Dylan pastiches like that song. Unfortunately, there isn't many of any of those, as they were all cut as singles, the failure of each determining a new approach (or even stage name) for the next one.
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 19 August 2020 14:36 (four years ago) link
was "avocado green" actually released at the time, or did it just appear later on compilations ?
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 19 August 2020 19:08 (four years ago) link
It looks like it was cut in '66, and first appeared on a cash-in comp in 1970.
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 19 August 2020 19:28 (four years ago) link
yeah seems like it. i thought maybe there was a chance it saw a release on 45, like as The Pink Walrus Certainty or something
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 19 August 2020 19:50 (four years ago) link
"Avocado Green" by Brownie Pitts & the Guac Party
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 19 August 2020 19:54 (four years ago) link
The Guacamole Conservatory
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 19 August 2020 19:58 (four years ago) link
Cicadelic put out a fairly exhaustive Winter '65-'68 anthology a few years ago: http://www.cicadelic.com/Byrds%20Can't%20Row%20Boats.htm
Here's a good piece from '94 on Winter's producer during that mid-'60s period, the notorious dirtbag & rip-off artist Roy C. Ames: https://www.houstonpress.com/news/a-hard-case-of-the-blues-6572947
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 19 August 2020 20:16 (four years ago) link
cool, thanks for that
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 19 August 2020 20:43 (four years ago) link
here's a roy ames joint with johnny on lead guitar. and dig the fuzz bass !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq1KW4z9kVU&feature=emb_titlethe great believers - comin' up fast pt. 1 (cascade 1970)
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 19 August 2020 22:48 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq1KW4z9kVU
The collection I have is this 2 CD collection called Texas Blues.
https://img.discogs.com/AzRaycYhe-euVHb1f0jH72jtIjE=/fit-in/500x500/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-7482736-1442393818-2489.jpeg.jpg
https://www.discogs.com/Johnny-Winter-Texas-Blues/release/7482736
I'm guessing it is of obscure origins.
― earlnash, Thursday, 20 August 2020 01:06 (four years ago) link
I've got the Winter Essentials '60-'67 2-disc on Fuel. I was even able to get it signed at in-store he did one of the last times he was in town (maybe <the> last time). He was in pretty rough shape, hunched over in a chair behind a table, a little wizened longhair albino in a big black hat, looked like he came straight from Lord of The Rings.
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 20 August 2020 01:47 (four years ago) link
Glam-ass Johnny in '74.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxLTZMIJtmw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqhrIXj0wEI
Everything that is right and wrong about Classic Rock is in this footage
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 20 June 2023 20:46 (one year ago) link
^new borad description
― Holly Godarkbloom (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 20 June 2023 20:48 (one year ago) link
Everything that is right and wrong about Classic Rock
...would have required a guest sax or synth solo from brother Edgar.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 21 June 2023 02:56 (one year ago) link
Why not both?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8f-Qb-bwlU
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 21 June 2023 03:51 (one year ago) link