Author Topic: Johnny! (Read 122 times)

David Houck · « **on:** July 22, 2006, 04:33:34 PM »

keith_h · « **Reply #1 on:** July 23, 2006, 09:40:41 AM »

With Steve Cropper on Rythm guitar no less.

paulman · « **Reply #2 on:** July 26, 2006, 08:56:48 AM »

Rock and ROLL!

I also spotted G.E. Smith (I always liked him) and Duck Dunn back there I think.

Oh JOHNNY!

billy_v · « **Reply #3 on:** July 26, 2006, 02:11:50 PM »

Yeah yeah, yeah yeah! That was from the Dylan tribute concert (Neil Young dubbed it Bobfest); Booker T. and the MGs were the house band. I just found out it's available on DVD--my wife is excited because, unlike the CD version of the show, the DVD includes Sophie B. Hawkins (yikes!) doing what I call her little striptease version of whatever Dylan song it was she sang.

bigredbass · « **Reply #4 on:** July 26, 2006, 06:27:32 PM »

There MUST be something better than slide guitar . . . I just can't think of anything right now.

Used to play with a truly terrifying slide player who played one of those 3-pickup ASATs with a spark-plug socket as a slide. Just wonderful, and ASATs would cut through anything.

I grew up in Beaumont, Texas, several years behind Edgar and Johnny. I always used to get their schoolbooks as our names ended commonly in 'W'. I'll never forget seeing Johnny walking through downtown one day in the late 60s in a purple tye-dye jumpsuit and that white hair in a ponytail down to his waist . . . 'normal' people were just parting on the sidewalk like the Red Sea. This was the summer after he'd scored big with Johnny Winter And on Columbia, he was a BIG deal. Though my favorite iteration was Edgar's White Trash horn band where Johnny and Rick Derringer were frequent participants. Lots of Boogie Kings, BarKays, influence, with that unique Texas/Louisiana blend of TBone meets The Meters.

J o e y

bigredbass · « **Reply #5 on:** July 26, 2006, 06:31:24 PM »

Just thinking about White Trash, that whole end of things . . . DAMN I'm stranded in a ProTools, can't sing, can't play, can't make a crowd dance, sampled, looped, quantized, digital world!

Ok . . . I feel better.

J o e y

David Houck · « **Reply #6 on:** July 26, 2006, 08:38:08 PM »

I've always felt that if someone wanted to learn how to play the blues, they should listen to Johnny.

I have a memory from the summer of '73. I was visiting with a couple friends who were both very good guitar players, and we were listening to Johnny Winter And. Both of these guys were fingering along with the record. I think they knew every lick on the album.