Ya i know he gets put behind Srv . Its amazing how hot the texas blues are. Albert collins freddie king, albert king , srv , and the mighty johnny winter RIP
Ask any random stranger on the street if they know a Hendrix or Clapton tune. Ask those same people if they know a Winter tune. 9/10 times they’ll have no clue. Damn straight, Johnny was the man!
Johnny Winter is arguably the finest American Bluesman of the postwar period. He is pure, authentic, uncompromising, naturally soulful, and most of all fanatical about technique. His blues runs are faster, cleaner, and more satisfying than anyone else in his time period, if ever. For me he will always be the King of the Blues, and this video clearly demonstrates why.
Why else would a truly great bluesman like Muddy Waters collaborate with him? Hard Again is the album I use to introduce newcomers to the blues, if they're coming from a rocking background. John Mayall's Jazz Blues Fusion for those more mellow. Small wonder why in the late 60's and early 70's Johnny Winter was one of the highest paid guitarists at the time. It's only right for one of the greatest to ever live. I remember having Still Alive and Well on 8 track tape, back in the day. Wore it out.
You bet he is underrated, I've saw him at least 30 times. The first time I heard memory pain I think I was 16 years old and I couldn't stop listening to him, I'm 67 now and still need my Johnny fix.
First time i saw him was in Paris and i was 16! Already had 2 albums of him. I saw him again with my 13 year old daughter in Canada where i live now, in 2007: she cried at the end of the show
I gave a younger person a ride one day and was listening to Memory Pain. He climbed in to the truck and said who’s that like he’d just found a new toy and I said, “you probably haven’t ever heard that have you! I told him Johnny Winter, Second Winter 1969! His eyes lit up a he listened! He said he played guitar and I told him now you can take it in a whole different direction. But here it is 52 to years later after it was first recorded and another different generation is digging the liven ---- out of it. It’s truly time less! RIP Johnny Winter!
This is the real blues. Clean sound, no hiding behind overdriven distorted sound. Just pure skill and playing an amazing slow blues with variations, call and response and also showing of his singing skills. This is the deep blues.
Notice who the bass player is? Tommy Shannon went from sudden fame with Johnny Winter and playing at Woodstock to facing decades in prison on drug charges. After spending years in prison and nobody believing who he was he was released on parole/probation with the crazy stipulation that he couldn`t play in bands again. He worked as a bricklayer in west Texas for many years until he couldn`t take it anymore. He saw Stevie Ray Vaughan playing in a club and walked up to him and said, "I should be your bass player!" So he defied court orders that could have landed him in prison for 10 to 20 years, recorded the Texas Flood album, and the judge basically let him off easy. He had to. The rest is history, and Tommy Shannon went on to be famous in multiple hit bands including Arc Angels after Stevie`s death. What a crazy story!
@@sandragriffiths9692 In the USA we have this distinction. Legally can mean variations of blindness as opposed to total blindness. Legal blindness occurs when a person has central visual acuity (vision that allows a person to see straight ahead of them) of 20/200 or less in his or her better eye with correction. Legal in reference to being declared by the government as disabled thus qualified for assistance and other benefits. Monetary and otherwise.
@@knowmusicman157 Thank you. I think we call that tunnel vision in Britain, either way it didn't stop him or his brother becoming excellent musicians in their field. Both were/are exceptional.👌
Crapton was shit same old basic blues licks no advancement or innovation unlike all the other greats that stepped up. He could never ever keep up with Johnny.
I agree with you 100% everything about Johnny drips the blues. His first and second album had a 3 man sound that was amazing. Stevie ray Vaughn’s bass player was originallyJohnny’s bass player. Peace
I met Srv, Chris, and Shannon in 1981 here in Houston, Texas where I am from at the majority of our local club's. Fitzgerald's, The Hideaway, Continental Club, and at Antones in Austin, Texas. They were really good people. We remained friend's even after that tragic day in 1990, when Stevie passed away.
Went to see him at the Sunshine Inn in Asbury Park N.J. Me and a buddy climbed up one of the ceiling supports then made our way over the stage. We watched the concert from about twenty feet directly above him. He looked up a few time, probably wondering if gringos were going to start falling out of the sky.
if Johnny gets called underrated, there again, it's probably because he was a blues man that had managed to get airplay on rock stations up until the 80s, at least, when he went straight ahead blues. his bassist here, said johnny changed his life when he met him because his knowledge of blues was amazingly vast. some superb 70s footage. winter, along with Clapton and some others have kept blues alive.
One of my very favorite memories is....Fox theater.....Johnny Winter pulled his little stool out center stage and played for an hour straight......so fine....
You guys know the deal, I , isn't he amazing? If you are a player, you can learn enough just from this short clip to keep you busy for the rest of your life, that's how good he was.
I remember when I first heard Johnny Winter back before Woodstock and how his sound actually changed my world. It was his second album, which was his first on the Columbia label, leading off with "I'm Yours and I'm Hers". I was dumbstruck, and still am anytime I hear it. This song, and "Going Back to Dallas" was also on that album. I still have it now on CD. But I think his finest recording ever, which is also on that same disc, was his cover of "I'll Drown in My Own Tears', the most powerful, heart-rending, gut-punching version that I have ever heard. You owe it to yourself to hear it. I promise you will never forget that one. His first album which had "Mean Town Blues", was on the Imperial label. I was lucky enough to catch him live in the 70s, playing blues before he started playing rock. I feel that JW was THE most genuine blues man of my time at least, with more depth than anyone else. The cat played with his idol, Muddy Waters, when he was age 11.
Some would say Gatemouth is. So many good players have hailed from Texas till it's difficult to objectively pick a winner here, lol. They were, always have been and are still so good till one may as well just throw a coin up in the air to choose the winner. Texas and Mississippi have consistently produced some of the best blues guitarists ever walked the earth.
@@msaintpc I agree, and thanks for replying. Maybe the reason I separate Johnny Winter from the many fine Texan axe-men, is that he is,in a way, as is maybe Eric Clapton, a progressive player who interprets many older styles authentically, but also straddles the cusp of more modern pop-rock styles (ie as in Hendrix), a little more, or at least in a more rock-focused way than maybe Gatemouth does, for all his stylistic variety and eclecticism, and maybe is able to be a rock template blues/hard-rock mainstream artist, somehow more middle class AND blue-collar. It's all a point of view, but that's sort of what I meant, compared to Gatemouth or even Billy Gibbons. It's all relative...I remember Clapton saying that to him BB King was the first Universal Blues player, which I took to mean that he thought BB had taken what was essentially a local folk music, and developed a frameworkwith which to modernise and internationalise Blues. So to Clapton, even if you didn't like BB, he was largely responsible for crossing the blues to an even wider white audience than it began with. Most black audiences in the early record buying part of the 1900's preferred a more sophisticated R and B regimen, and apart from segregated nightclubs in major cities, blues music was a " discovered" folk music by people like Rslph Pear. I see Johnny as mire of a cross-over into middle class mainstream rock improvisation, in a more international flavoured blues/rock ( despite his awesome traditional repetoire,at which he excels) sort of approach, compared to the less progressive yet easily as talented and verstile players like Gatemouth Brown. That's the beauty of art, it's in the eye ( or ear ) of the observer!
You can't leave out Stevie Ray Vaughan in that category. Johnny and Stevie were two of the greatest blues guitarists and blues voices to come out of Texas ever.
@@douglasheath411 I sort of agree. Stevie played more smoothly and coherently than anyone, so you could say he's the best, but I think of him more as a co-ordinator of all the Texas blues players that came before him, rather than doing anything original, he recycles eclectic bits of earlier players. Maybe you could say that about anyone, but ,to me, rather than standing on the shoulders of giants and adding something mire to the pile, he was a stylist, and synthesised parts of earlier players typical licks in a most beautifully balanced way, so that it is all put together perfectly, combined better than any had done before; but he just formed a coherent style by frankenstiening together recycled parts into what is a more well rounded sound; he didn't really put anything original on top to contribute to the tree of blues in Texas, and although his style is not possible to fault, unlike Johnny Winter's, for instance, it was because his playing was so deliberate and reserved that he never stuck his neck out and crashed and burned. This is great to listen to, because it is so tastefull, but it shows no risk-taking or rawness in the moment. Whereas Johnny would keep taking chances 'til it all folded ( even on record) but occasionally sounding clumsy as a result of this nervous recklessness, but had the guts to try and fail, but occasionally do something no-one had ever done, thereby adding something, but Stevie NEVER sounded out of time or phrasing, and ever sounded clumsy. But maybe a little too perfect and unoriginal. But it depends what your opinion leads you to hear, and that's just my view. One thing for sure, if you wanted to listen to the best phraser and stylist No-one is better than Stevie. That's why I said Johnny was the most "important " blues guitarist to come out of Texas in the last years, I didn't say he was the "best" at turning out a phrase... that would be STEVIE! But Johnny paved the way by combining more rock feels along with the traditional... which Stevie also did, but after Johnny had laid the groundwork, and Stevie was happy to be a traditional, rather than progressive. All the best ( it's all up to the individual👍
Johnny and I had the same guitar tech in Beaumont (Chip) and I had a guitar that Chip just could not get to where I was happy with it. He said, "Well, Johnny came by yesterday and tried it out. He tore the hell out of it...." Nuff said.
First concert ever, 1973 Hollywood Paladium. Watching him play different guitars early in his career and then he blossomed when he found his Firebird. One of the best blues guitarists. Slide master.
He's not the least bit "unsung." Everybody knew who he was back in the day. And he had a nice run in the early 70's in blues/rock before settling down to become a straight blues man in the late 70's.
At the invitation of a friend I went to see this artist I had not heard of in 1976 named Johnny Winter. Needless to say I was blown away and a fan for life!
This is one of the rare views of JW at the peak of career. I'd suggest you pour up a double shot of JD and take 7 minutes to watch one of the best guitarist who ever played.
Had never really dipped into Johnny Winter until a couple weeks ago. Seriously can’t get enough of this track, some of the most phenomenal and soulful blues guitar I’ve ever heard.
I first saw Johnny Winter at The Fillmore East in 1968. There was a lot of underground grapevine talk about this wild, albino bluesman from Texas. All the talk was justified. Johnny blew the jaded Fillmore crowd away. It was intense, and he had New York in the palm of his hand. Some memories from 50+ years ago are clear as a bell, and he is one of them. That's also the year I saw Jeff Beck with Rod Stewart on the same stage. I saw Hendrix play 3 times that year, and met him at a night club. What a year, and I was only 16!!!
damn.... I listened to this song about a million times through my parent s big old Magnavox stereo console back in the 70s as a blues loving 16 year old. Finally learned how to play a little bit of blues guitar RIP Mr Winter
Just discovered Johnny, heard of him my entire life and finally just listened to him. This man was without doubt one of the greatest guitarist of all time.
Saw Johnny many times in Austin in his early days, the late 60s. At that time, no one alive could play like he did. We will miss you JW, see ya again one of these days.
Johnny is so great. I can’t even think of SRV listening to him?! Not that Stevie didn’t give it all he had. I’d just loved when Johnny hit that next gear!
I was fortunate to see him o in a small bar near Poughkeepsie on a winter night when huge storm was shutting down the area so only a few people were out. My friends and I stood about 7 feet from the man and watched 4 hours of FLAWLESS, incredible play on his Lazer. It was pretty obvious that Johnny "felt like playing." So steady, so smooth, so intense without fatigue. He didn't miss one note. I never saw anything like it.
God on ya mate. "Magine me growing in the backlands of N.S.W. on a steady diet of bog standard country music. A mate of mine heard and understood my whining and returned from holiday with the "Together" album. Life began that day. I must say (though not the only one,I'm sure) Mr. Winter changed life for me.
Dude was plugged straight into amp. Clean as can be. Nobody would do that today even at a backyard party. What a player JW was! Any guitar hero types out there that get bored with Box 1 of the minor pentatonic scale...have some fun with this beauty...and I'll talk to you next year on your progress.
Johnny Winter...in my opinion...was the "king of kings of blues." That is my opinion as I've seen him 6 times over the years. All blues guitarists should be "learning from Johnny...period!"
@@trombonemunroe It sure is. His slide playing will probably never be surpassed! I saw him 3 times + I'm still in total awe of his talent! That's Tommy Shannon on bass, he later played with S. R. V.
Johnny didn't play a song the same way twice, and that's what i loved about him. I'm Danish, and I was at the concert he gave in 1970. He gave one set of RocknRoll - one set of blues and one set of country/rock. That var the greatest event for me as a 16 y.o. kid - loving the blues
WOW! amazing. with all you Danes and albino Johnny just absolutely SHREDDING the blues it is a surreal thing to watch. I'll bet you had to pick your jaws up off the floor after that eh?
I'm SO glad I got to see him live just once before he passed. He was weak, frail, had to be escorted to and from the stage. Sat and played for 90 minutes and changed my life. Died the year after.
A white (and albino) blues guitarist, who plays with soul and with very fast black fingers ... Amazing! Beautiful and very fanciful phrasing. R.I.P. Johnny
I first saw him in '71, and lost count how many times since. And I would go see him a couple dozen times more if I only could! He is missed. All who saw him were blessed. RIP.
I was blessed to see Johnny three times in my life...all three shows blew me away... will always be on my Mt. Rushmore of guitar players...peace to your soul Johnny🎸
I'm from Brazil, my older brother brought one of his albums home in the seventies when when I happened to be a teenager, I heard it and fell in love with his guitar playing: I kept asking people what they thought of him but NOBODY in Brazil ever knew Johnny Winter, it's a shame
I think it was 1967 in south Florida. I had just turned 15 and there was a concert called “ Seminole Indian Rock Festival’ a 3 day event. I had gone the second day. At night, the announcer said... we’ve got a guy who’s not scheduled to play tonight but he wants to get his name spread around so here he is...Johnny Winter. Can you imagine... ? It was a history making night for me
Well it is great that you discovered him!!!! Check lut him albums -they are great too. He made a lot of albums but they are all different & worth checking out.
I don't know how to describe it, but Tommy's "bass chording" is so **$$ing resonant, it just draws you in. It really sets the table. He displays it here and brought it to SRV, too.
Im so thankful that i saw and met Johnny a few years before his death, he talked with me and signed an old album of his. Truly one of the best, will miss him. The night i saw him, he played the 71 firebird :)
This man totally engulfed me EVERY Time I stood at his feet. I INHALED EVERY note saw him 6/8 times-- Baton Rouge & New Orleans. Got all his albums still.... Love you Johnny--- best ever when paired with the legend BB King
I snorted horse and smoked weed with him in 1971. It was a bunch of us upstairs in my apartment above the Whisky during an after hours party. He knew every joke in the world and could spit them out faster than Rodney Dangerfield. He was a funny dude and the women loved him. When he'd be talking sht to the ladies (lol, he coulda gave a pimp lessons) I'd listen, memorize, and steal as many of his lines as possible.🙂
I'm 62. I've been a fan of Johnny's for a long time. We should consider ourselves fortunate that someone had the foresight to record this, and so many other early performances, by ANY performer. I FUCKING LOVE IT! :)
Johnny Winter belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
No doubt!
what! they still haven't done that....that is incredibly wrong. The truth is that they don't deserve him.
He's too good for that. I put him on a par with Hendrix as a guitarist.
Yes, this man was inspiration for Stevie Ray and many others both famous and well known and also many many others not so well known including me! 🎸🧘🏼🙏
Fucking crime He is not🤯
Johnny Winter is criminally underrated
Ya i know he gets put behind Srv . Its amazing how hot the texas blues are. Albert collins freddie king, albert king , srv , and the mighty johnny winter RIP
Ask any random stranger on the street if they know a Hendrix or Clapton tune. Ask those same people if they know a Winter tune. 9/10 times they’ll have no clue. Damn straight, Johnny was the man!
He was influenced by the
blues.
He sounds like a black man.
He wasn't at the time...he played arenas for a decade and headlined woodstock 1969 on sunday night
Johnny Winter is arguably the finest American Bluesman of the postwar period. He is pure, authentic, uncompromising, naturally soulful, and most of all fanatical about technique. His blues runs are faster, cleaner, and more satisfying than anyone else in his time period, if ever. For me he will always be the King of the Blues, and this video clearly demonstrates why.
John Hitchen Amen!
A-fucking-men.
One of for sure.
Second only to Albert Collins...
Why else would a truly great bluesman like Muddy Waters collaborate with him? Hard Again is the album I use to introduce newcomers to the blues, if they're coming from a rocking background. John Mayall's Jazz Blues Fusion for those more mellow.
Small wonder why in the late 60's and early 70's Johnny Winter was one of the highest paid guitarists at the time. It's only right for one of the greatest to ever live.
I remember having Still Alive and Well on 8 track tape, back in the day. Wore it out.
You bet he is underrated, I've saw him at least 30 times. The first time I heard memory pain I think I was 16 years old and I couldn't stop listening to him, I'm 67 now and still need my Johnny fix.
Same age as you and saw him at the Fillmore and a bunch of places and consider him the best blues guitarist of all time.
First time i saw him was in Paris and i was 16! Already had 2 albums of him. I saw him again with my 13 year old daughter in Canada where i live now, in 2007: she cried at the end of the show
Lucky guy been big fan for yrs only get to see him on utube great guitarist Rip ( belfast northern ireland)
I FEEL YA BRO 🎶🎸🎶
Played " johnny winter live and " .....until my parents went nuts back in the 60s !!! he is one of the super greats !!
Discovering Johnny Winter at 35, what the hell !? Better late than never !
Here I am with 38😅
Yep
I gave a younger person a ride one day and was listening to Memory Pain. He climbed in to the truck and said who’s that like he’d just found a new toy and I said, “you probably haven’t ever heard that have you! I told him Johnny Winter, Second Winter 1969! His eyes lit up a he listened! He said he played guitar and I told him now you can take it in a whole different direction. But here it is 52 to years later after it was first recorded and another different generation is digging the liven ---- out of it. It’s truly time less! RIP Johnny Winter!
Memory Pain. I pretty near wore the vinyl out on that one. Recorded with this trio. Man.
One of the greatest blues guitarists of all time ! Very underrated .
He's not underated.People know he's one of the best!
& as a singer
Shit I sure do know he’s one of the greatest performers of all time.
Yes! Shannon was very underrated until Stevie picked him up.
This was Johnny's wish, to be known as a bluesman!!👍
Johnny said that rock made him money, but the blues was where his heart was, and when he played the blues.....he played the blues. 🔥❤️👍💯%
Killer blues , makes me forget the modern times we live in. True music lives forever
you got that right because he’s the most talented traditional bluesman of his generation.
This is the real blues. Clean sound, no hiding behind overdriven distorted sound. Just pure skill and playing an amazing slow blues with variations, call and response and also showing of his singing skills. This is the deep blues.
Notice who the bass player is? Tommy Shannon went from sudden fame with Johnny Winter and playing at Woodstock to facing decades in prison on drug charges. After spending years in prison and nobody believing who he was he was released on parole/probation with the crazy stipulation that he couldn`t play in bands again. He worked as a bricklayer in west Texas for many years until he couldn`t take it anymore. He saw Stevie Ray Vaughan playing in a club and walked up to him and said, "I should be your bass player!" So he defied court orders that could have landed him in prison for 10 to 20 years, recorded the Texas Flood album, and the judge basically let him off easy. He had to. The rest is history, and Tommy Shannon went on to be famous in multiple hit bands including Arc Angels after Stevie`s death. What a crazy story!
Agree 👌
His tone isn't clean bro.hes amp is running hot.
This guy had come a looong way by this time,
@@PyraGizaif you can’t elaborate people will just assume you’re trying to sound cool😂😂😂😂😂
He is compelling to watch and an authentic musician.
Saw him at the Texas International Pop Festival and immediately afterward bought his albums up to that time. So amazing!
Johnny Winter was The Original ""Slow Hand."" Shown here, at his BEST, that nite in Denmark.
Johnny Winter, one of the best blues guitarists ever, and one one of sunscreens greatest challenges. R.I.P
Lol
He and Edgar both albino. Legally blind.
@@knowmusicman157 Legally?
@@sandragriffiths9692 In the USA we have this distinction. Legally can mean variations of blindness as opposed to total blindness.
Legal blindness occurs when a person has central visual acuity (vision that allows a person to see straight ahead of them) of 20/200 or less in his or her better eye with correction. Legal in reference to being declared by the government as disabled thus qualified for assistance and other benefits. Monetary and otherwise.
@@knowmusicman157 Thank you. I think we call that tunnel vision in Britain, either way it didn't stop him or his brother becoming excellent musicians in their field. Both were/are exceptional.👌
I have a great appreciation for anyone who loves to play the blues. Clapton is great, SRV was great. Johnny Winter was EPIC.
Tommy Shannon on the Fender bass❤
Agreed
Clapton sucked
Clapton was Good SRV WAS GREAT. Mr Winter is GOD.
Crapton was shit same old basic blues licks no advancement or innovation unlike all the other greats that stepped up. He could never ever keep up with Johnny.
Voice, guitar, presence. Legendary. Quintessential bluesman.
I agree with you 100% everything about Johnny drips the blues. His first and second album had a 3 man sound that was amazing. Stevie ray Vaughn’s bass player was originallyJohnny’s bass player. Peace
My very good friend. Who I Deeply miss forever. God bless Johnny's soul. He was so good to me....
I'm happy to be reminded what an awesome blues vocalist Johnny was!
Absolutely ❤️✊
yeah that
Yes he was an amazing vocalist as well as an A+++ AxeMan
Can you imagine being in that small venue/ room? Wow!!
Johnny Winter was probably one of the top guitarist musicians and singers in the last million years!
Not probably...absolutely 🎶
I dunno....the original blues revival of 36,000 B.C.E. produced artists like Nunglunk the Clonker and Rawhide Thong Rider.
The bass player is Tommy Shannon. He played with SRV later on in his career.
Edward Mendiola I've watched this video like a gazillion times and never knew that. Thanks for that little tidbit.
@@bryanbanks1966 😎 yeah, that's Tommy
I met Srv, Chris, and Shannon in 1981 here in Houston, Texas where I am from at the majority of our local club's. Fitzgerald's, The Hideaway, Continental Club, and at Antones in Austin, Texas. They were really good people. We remained friend's even after that tragic day in 1990, when Stevie passed away.
Using the same old Fender bass he used with SRV.
It's the same one alright.
Who can dislike this? Johnny Winter is one of the best guitarists of all time. Even Jimi Hendrix said that he is the best!!!
he and Hendrix used to jam and there are tapes out there somewhere. He was a pall bearer at Jimis funeral.
@@j.dragon651 I have head that Jimi played bass on some of those jams - Amazing!
@@davidrpriest I have heard bootlegs of them both on guitar at the same time and Jimi is giving Johnny the leeway.
Jimi a dit aussi que Rory Gallagher était le meilleur, puis Billy Gibbons ... et Django
Went to see him at the Sunshine Inn in Asbury Park N.J. Me and a buddy climbed up one of the ceiling supports then made our way over the stage. We watched the concert from about twenty feet directly above him. He looked up a few time, probably wondering if gringos were going to start falling out of the sky.
if Johnny gets called underrated, there again, it's probably because he was a blues man that had managed to get airplay on rock stations up until the 80s, at least, when he went straight ahead blues. his bassist here, said johnny changed his life when he met him because his knowledge of blues was amazingly vast. some superb 70s footage. winter, along with Clapton and some others have kept blues alive.
Tommy Shannon.
The great Johnny Winter, what a player! And a true gentleman R.I.P. Johnny.
Johnny on guitar and vocals, The great Tommy Shannon on Bass, and on the drums Uncle John Turner ! Nothin but wow man !
One of my very favorite memories is....Fox theater.....Johnny Winter pulled his little stool out center stage and played for an hour straight......so fine....
You guys know the deal, I , isn't he amazing? If you are a player, you can learn enough just from this short clip to keep you busy for the rest of your life, that's how good he was.
Love the Music of Johnny Winter 💙🎸💙🌟💙🌟💙🌟💙🌟💙🌟💙🌟💙🌟💙🌟💙
I remember when I first heard Johnny Winter back before Woodstock and how his sound actually changed my world. It was his second album, which was his first on the Columbia label, leading off with "I'm Yours and I'm Hers". I was dumbstruck, and still am anytime I hear it. This song, and "Going Back to Dallas" was also on that album. I still have it now on CD. But I think his finest recording ever, which is also on that same disc, was his cover of "I'll Drown in My Own Tears', the most powerful, heart-rending, gut-punching version that I have ever heard. You owe it to yourself to hear it. I promise you will never forget that one. His first album which had "Mean Town Blues", was on the Imperial label. I was lucky enough to catch him live in the 70s, playing blues before he started playing rock. I feel that JW was THE most genuine blues man of my time at least, with more depth than anyone else. The cat played with his idol, Muddy Waters, when he was age 11.
I am very pleased I got to see him live. Absolutely outstanding.
He's responsible for my hearing loss and tinnitus.
I’m 24 years old and thanks to my father I now know Winters. Greatest blues guitar player ever
If you like the blues check out Lightnin Hopkins. Legend
@@SkinnyorangemusicMerci !!
I sawboth Johnny and Edgar, 1971. Truly great blues musicians of all time!!!
For me, Johnny Winter is the most important Texan guitarist of the last 50 years.
Some would say Gatemouth is. So many good players have hailed from Texas till it's difficult to objectively pick a winner here, lol. They were, always have been and are still so good till one may as well just throw a coin up in the air to choose the winner. Texas and Mississippi have consistently produced some of the best blues guitarists ever walked the earth.
@@msaintpc I agree, and thanks for replying. Maybe the reason I separate Johnny Winter from the many fine Texan axe-men, is that he is,in a way, as is maybe Eric Clapton, a progressive player who interprets many older styles authentically, but also straddles the cusp of more modern pop-rock styles (ie as in Hendrix), a little more, or at least in a more rock-focused way than maybe Gatemouth does, for all his stylistic variety and eclecticism, and maybe is able to be a rock template blues/hard-rock mainstream artist, somehow more middle class AND blue-collar. It's all a point of view, but that's sort of what I meant, compared to Gatemouth or even Billy Gibbons. It's all relative...I remember Clapton saying that to him BB King was the first Universal Blues player, which I took to mean that he thought BB had taken what was essentially a local folk music, and developed a frameworkwith which to modernise and internationalise Blues. So to Clapton, even if you didn't like BB, he was largely responsible for crossing the blues to an even wider white audience than it began with. Most black audiences in the early record buying part of the 1900's preferred a more sophisticated R and B regimen, and apart from segregated nightclubs in major cities, blues music was a " discovered" folk music by people like Rslph Pear. I see Johnny as mire of a cross-over into middle class mainstream rock improvisation, in a more international flavoured blues/rock ( despite his awesome traditional repetoire,at which he excels) sort of approach, compared to the less progressive yet easily as talented and verstile players like Gatemouth Brown. That's the beauty of art, it's in the eye ( or ear ) of the observer!
You can't leave out Stevie Ray Vaughan in that category. Johnny and Stevie were two of the greatest blues guitarists and blues voices to come out of Texas ever.
@@douglasheath411 I sort of agree. Stevie played more smoothly and coherently than anyone, so you could say he's the best, but I think of him more as a co-ordinator of all the Texas blues players that came before him, rather than doing anything original, he recycles eclectic bits of earlier players. Maybe you could say that about anyone, but ,to me, rather than standing on the shoulders of giants and adding something mire to the pile, he was a stylist, and synthesised parts of earlier players typical licks in a most beautifully balanced way, so that it is all put together perfectly, combined better than any had done before; but he just formed a coherent style by frankenstiening together recycled parts into what is a more well rounded sound; he didn't really put anything original on top to contribute to the tree of blues in Texas, and although his style is not possible to fault, unlike Johnny Winter's, for instance, it was because his playing was so deliberate and reserved that he never stuck his neck out and crashed and burned. This is great to listen to, because it is so tastefull, but it shows no risk-taking or rawness in the moment. Whereas Johnny would keep taking chances 'til it all folded ( even on record) but occasionally sounding clumsy as a result of this nervous recklessness, but had the guts to try and fail, but occasionally do something no-one had ever done, thereby adding something, but Stevie NEVER sounded out of time or phrasing, and ever sounded clumsy. But maybe a little too perfect and unoriginal. But it depends what your opinion leads you to hear, and that's just my view. One thing for sure, if you wanted to listen to the best phraser and stylist No-one is better than Stevie. That's why I said Johnny was the most "important " blues guitarist to come out of Texas in the last years, I didn't say he was the "best" at turning out a phrase... that would be STEVIE! But Johnny paved the way by combining more rock feels along with the traditional... which Stevie also did, but after Johnny had laid the groundwork, and Stevie was happy to be a traditional, rather than progressive. All the best ( it's all up to the individual👍
T Bone Walker- West Texas blues genius
Best white bluesman ever....my favorite....we were lucky to have heard him..,..
Best sly guitar l ever heard! Iseen Johnny live once in a small bar like 40 yrs ago in Tampa Fl. Sadly missed.
Johnny and I had the same guitar tech in Beaumont (Chip) and I had a guitar that Chip just could not get to where I was happy with it. He said, "Well, Johnny came by yesterday and tried it out. He tore the hell out of it...." Nuff said.
Your so right. Just listen to this track. I bought this lp when it came out. He's a legend in my eyes. and that's all that matters to me
Still sounds amazing 👏 thank you for sharing your talents with us ❤ ✌️
How could anyone play this fast and still make sense?? Unbelievable performance by the greatest guitar player I’ve ever heard… RIP Johnny Winters
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And he used a thumb pick!
Remembering Johnny Winter on his birthday today
First concert ever, 1973 Hollywood Paladium. Watching him play different guitars early in his career and then he blossomed when he found his Firebird. One of the best blues guitarists. Slide master.
Johnny was one of those rare artists who never repeated a rif from one song to the next he always changed it up and it flowed so perfectly.
Man this guy has the blues stitched right in his soul
Sittin and listening to some Johnny Winter videos. This one has incredible sound quality
In Johnny’s prime , he couldn’t be touched ! Amazing licks with NO PICK ! ❤️
WAIT... NO PICK?!?!?!
Travis picking technique...thumbpick & bare fingers
He's using a thumbpick, I do believe!
Johnny Winter is another unsung hero of blues music and of guitarists in general.
He's not the least bit "unsung." Everybody knew who he was back in the day. And he had a nice run in the early 70's in blues/rock before settling down to become a straight blues man in the late 70's.
@@positiveleanings3023 - He's not as revered as he should be.
Kids these days think SRV was the only great blues man from Texas. They just give me blank stares when I mention Johnny Winter and leadbelly.
@@gxtmfa - All I say, is: More fool them!
Pure blues played by a genius guitarist
This video should have 20 million views...nectar of the gods
Always loved the Winter Brothers. I love his blazer 🥰
You better believe that.. 😢 I love Johnny Winter.. He Is the Top 5 of remarkable Guitarist and Singers.. He makes Me WET !! ❤😂🎉
When the guitar becomes the extension of a human soul.
Johnny is one of my favourite guitarists of all time ever
you got that right. He's my fav musician of all time
For Real
I have been fortunate enough to see Johnny live 5 or 6 times and he was the real deal! RIP johnny were still listening, thanks for all the music
At the invitation of a friend I went to see this artist I had not heard of in 1976 named Johnny Winter. Needless to say I was blown away and a fan for life!
This is one of the rare views of JW at the peak of career. I'd suggest you pour up a double shot of JD and take 7 minutes to watch one of the best guitarist who ever played.
Scot Duke Best 7 minutes EVER!!!! ☺️🥰
I had over a dozen Johnny winter albums but I wore that captured live album down razor thin that you could shave with it....
I've seen a number of killer JW vids....but this one really rattled my senses. Fantastic.
Had never really dipped into Johnny Winter until a couple weeks ago. Seriously can’t get enough of this track, some of the most phenomenal and soulful blues guitar I’ve ever heard.
No one ever better!!!
I first saw Johnny Winter at The Fillmore East in 1968. There was a lot of underground grapevine talk about this wild, albino bluesman from Texas. All the talk was justified. Johnny blew the jaded Fillmore crowd away. It was intense, and he had New York in the palm of his hand. Some memories from 50+ years ago are clear as a bell, and he is one of them. That's also the year I saw Jeff Beck with Rod Stewart on the same stage. I saw Hendrix play 3 times that year, and met him at a night club. What a year, and I was only 16!!!
Man, every time I hear this, I get goosebumps, such a awesome and underrated guitar god🎸🎸🎸🎸
damn.... I listened to this song about a million times through my parent s big old Magnavox stereo console back in the 70s as a blues loving 16 year old. Finally learned how to play a little bit of blues guitar RIP Mr Winter
Ken Wareham right on, Ken. Peace
You deserve more than 7likes
Just discovered Johnny, heard of him my entire life and finally just listened to him. This man was without doubt one of the greatest guitarist of all time.
I was lucky enough to meet the Winter Brothers. Real deal
Saw Johnny many times in Austin in his early days, the late 60s. At that time, no one alive could play like he did. We will miss you JW, see ya again one of these days.
He makes love to the guitar
one bass,one drum,one guitar....a winning combo later re-perfected by Stevie Ray Vaughan...and with Tommy Shannon...WOW!.
Tommy Shannon laid down the perfect backdrop for JW and SRV
Johnny is so great. I can’t even think of SRV listening to him?! Not that Stevie didn’t give it all he had. I’d just loved when Johnny hit that next gear!
SRV was a Johnny clone
Good point on Stevie Ray...first time I heard him I thought it was Johnny. Not that he wasn't really good, just had that same vibe.
Don't forget Uncle John Turner on drums.
One of the GREATEST blues guitarists EVER .
I was fortunate to see him o in a small bar near Poughkeepsie on a winter night when huge storm was shutting down the area so only a few people were out. My friends and I stood about 7 feet from the man and watched 4 hours of FLAWLESS, incredible play on his Lazer. It was pretty obvious that Johnny "felt like playing." So steady, so smooth, so intense without fatigue. He didn't miss one note. I never saw anything like it.
you are a lucky fellow, he plays twice in Brazil, but i was short in money... so i never saw him...
Chris Merritt Wow how awesome that must've been
At the hockey arena?
not fortunate Chris, truly blessed. He's one of a kind and no one can touch him. God blessed the world with him that for sure :)
God on ya mate. "Magine me growing in the backlands of N.S.W. on a steady diet of bog standard country music. A mate of mine heard and understood my whining and returned from holiday with the "Together" album. Life began that day. I must say (though not the only one,I'm sure) Mr. Winter changed life for me.
Johnny Winter has a great "feel" for the Blues, and with his great guitar and musical artistry, he's got it going on.😎
Wow.amazing.thank you😁👍🌟🎸🎼👍
Omg! This sounds so Good!
Stunning performance... Indonesia 👍
Wow 🎧 just found this! Gr8 Jam!
could study this video for a lifetime and still find a new blues lick to play on your last watch
It's a beautiful thing when fingers are connected to such a talented mind. Life is good.
Mind bending. Only found him few months ago. A dream is to do a USA trip finding places playing blues like this
Every "ahhh " is awesome, every note is awesome because Johnny is awesome.
Dude was plugged straight into amp. Clean as can be. Nobody would do that today even at a backyard party. What a player JW was! Any guitar hero types out there that get bored with Box 1 of the minor pentatonic scale...have some fun with this beauty...and I'll talk to you next year on your progress.
+golfalot1 Amen.
+golfalot1 Amen +1
It's been a year now.. I can almost play the intro of the studio version lmao
+Poliphodiles UniteI Well thats better than most of us ; )
Johnny Winter...in my opinion...was the "king of kings of blues." That is my opinion as I've seen him 6 times over the years. All blues guitarists should be "learning from Johnny...period!"
I want to think that the audience is so astounded by Johnny's playing, that they are frozen into immovability.
He could be on that stage alone and it would still be great. There's nothing between his emotion and that guitar.
Man that guitar tone! So soulful!!
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Muddy Waters claimed Johnny Winter as his "lost son."
Even Johnny's singing is f-ing great!
Johnny referred to Muddy as "Father" in a old Rock and Roll magazine.
A interview w/both of them.
I believe it was CIRCUS.
Undeniable... Blues seeping from every pore🥰 Gotdamn
@@trombonemunroe It sure is. His slide playing will probably never be surpassed! I saw him 3 times + I'm still in total awe of his talent! That's Tommy Shannon on bass, he later played with S. R. V.
@@davidmartin7081 And Arc Angels as well.
Johnny didn't play a song the same way twice, and that's what i loved about him. I'm Danish, and I was at the concert he gave in 1970. He gave one set of RocknRoll - one set of blues and one set of country/rock. That var the greatest event for me as a 16 y.o. kid - loving the blues
WOW! amazing. with all you Danes and albino Johnny just absolutely SHREDDING the blues it is a surreal thing to watch. I'll bet you had to pick your jaws up off the floor after that eh?
Was that the live recording concert from Pirates World? I was there man!!! Mean Town Blues, the best👍👍👍
I saw Johnny in a small bar back in the mid-seventies. He instilled in me a love of guitar blues which I still have today.
My fave Johnny Winter track. The LP version is phenomenal.
And it is in my favourite JW LP too. I love it 👍
And it is in my favourite JW LP too. I love it 👍
Rest In Peace Johnny ,. I always loved watching you play
I'm SO glad I got to see him live just once before he passed. He was weak, frail, had to be escorted to and from the stage. Sat and played for 90 minutes and changed my life. Died the year after.
In 1976 I bought my for the first times a record of Winter with Rick Derringer. Came from Sénégal, was living in Paris. Winter was a good bluesman.
Great Video. I got to see him live when I was in my teens' many many yrs ago.
A white (and albino) blues guitarist, who plays with soul and with very fast black fingers ... Amazing! Beautiful and very fanciful phrasing. R.I.P. Johnny
This man has so much talent. While I'm happy I just found out about him, I'm also sad that I JUST found out about him.
Yeh man I never ‘preciated him til now and he’s gone.... but I def respects him
I first saw him in '71, and lost count how many times since. And I would go see him a couple dozen times more if I only could!
He is missed. All who saw him were blessed. RIP.
Me also at 70 😧💜🇦🇺
@@marilyntape508 You're checking out & listening to Johnny Winter at 70?!?...
AttaGIRL!!! You rock!
Saw him once live. Unbelievable
" And " will always be my Favorite album
This is I call a GUITAR MAN RIP Johnny.
This crowd had no idea of the greatness in front of them. I saw him at Clemson University in the early 90's. It was one the highlights of my life.
I was blessed to see Johnny three times in my life...all three shows blew me away... will always be on my Mt. Rushmore of guitar players...peace to your soul Johnny🎸
Super jealous. I graduated in May and the only concert we got was Waka Flocka Flame.
They were smoking hash. I'm sure they know how great he was.
Well to be fair...the're ..Swedish..
seems like they understood pretty well they’re all sitting quietly observing
I'm from Brazil, my older brother brought one of his albums home in the seventies when when I happened to be a teenager, I heard it and fell in love with his guitar playing: I kept asking people what they thought of him but NOBODY in Brazil ever knew Johnny Winter, it's a shame
Blessed to have seen him live twice
I think it was 1967 in south Florida. I had just turned 15 and there was a concert called “ Seminole Indian Rock Festival’ a 3 day event. I had gone the second day. At night, the announcer said... we’ve got a guy who’s not scheduled to play tonight but he wants to get his name spread around so here he is...Johnny Winter. Can you imagine... ? It was a history making night for me
I had the pleasure of seeing Johnny Winter 3 times. Each time I was blown away!
Why isn't this man considered one of the greatest guitarist/musicians?
He is, by people who know music.
@@marine4lyfe85 He is, by people with functioning ears.
I'm really sad I did not connect with him earlier in my musical journey. He's fantastic.
Well it is great that you discovered him!!!! Check lut him albums -they are great too. He made a lot of albums but they are all different & worth checking out.
Tommy Shannon later played with Stevie Ray & DOUBLE TROUBLE 'til the end. Great bassist!! Johnny Winter is the MAN here, and that never dies.
I don't know how to describe it, but Tommy's "bass chording" is so **$$ing resonant, it just draws you in. It really sets the table. He displays it here and brought it to SRV, too.
Im so thankful that i saw and met Johnny a few years before his death, he talked with me and signed an old album of his. Truly one of the best, will miss him. The night i saw him, he played the 71 firebird :)
what a blessing!!!
Is that Uncle John Turner on drums Johnny is the greatest ♥️him
@@marryanne2221 It is
Edgar Winter and Johnny Winter are two awesome BLUES brothers.👍
This man totally engulfed me EVERY Time I stood at his feet. I INHALED EVERY note
saw him 6/8 times-- Baton Rouge & New Orleans. Got all his albums still.... Love you Johnny--- best ever when paired with the legend BB King
I snorted horse and smoked weed with him in 1971. It was a bunch of us upstairs in my apartment above the Whisky during an after hours party. He knew every joke in the world and could spit them out faster than Rodney Dangerfield. He was a funny dude and the women loved him. When he'd be talking sht to the ladies (lol, he coulda gave a pimp lessons) I'd listen, memorize, and steal as many of his lines as possible.🙂
I'm 62. I've been a fan of Johnny's for a long time. We should consider ourselves fortunate that someone had the foresight to record this, and so many other early performances, by ANY performer. I FUCKING LOVE IT! :)