BronzeWailer
1345 posts
Jul 17, 2014
4:05 AM
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Sad day.
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Frank
4837 posts
Jul 17, 2014
4:38 AM
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The legend continues from here on out RIP Johnny ...
I got to see him live in the 90's and he his solos where some of the most beautiful phrased blues I had ever heard and they effortlessly floated from his fingers :)
Willie Dixon on upright bass and Big Walter Horton on harmonica.
With Muddy and James
Last Edited by Frank on Jul 17, 2014 5:11 AM
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SuperBee
2120 posts
Jul 17, 2014
4:56 AM
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I'm sad to hear that. His music was a soundtrack for many of my fond memories. The opening bars of I'm yours and I'm hers feel like they're part of me
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nicewrk
53 posts
Jul 17, 2014
4:59 AM
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Aw shit! Another blues stringer gone
home. The heavenly band will rock harder
from now on! Much love Johnny.....
Family and all.....
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Frank
4838 posts
Jul 17, 2014
4:59 AM
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Last Edited by Frank on Jul 17, 2014 5:07 AM
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Goldbrick
537 posts
Jul 17, 2014
5:06 AM
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Very sad. I know supposedly his health was improving and he was on a long tour.
He was supposed to play here in Florida in august with his brother.
Another great player gone
Rare cut where he is playing an Epiphone Wilshire
Last Edited by Goldbrick on Jul 17, 2014 5:14 AM
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Frank
4839 posts
Jul 17, 2014
5:14 AM
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Larrystick
81 posts
Jul 17, 2014
5:29 AM
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I saw Johnny a year ago in a little place on Salisbury Beach New Hampshire. He was just rippin!
Wish I was aware of the blues when I was 17. I could have seen this show 15 miles from my house. With Muddy and Cotton in 1977, Boston Massachusetts. Full Bootleg.
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Last Edited by Larrystick on Jul 17, 2014 5:34 AM
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atty1chgo
997 posts
Jul 17, 2014
7:07 AM
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Saw him three times, the best one was with Muddy Waters in that famous concert at Chicago Fest. RIP
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Buzadero
1201 posts
Jul 17, 2014
7:25 AM
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Sad day, indeed.
I've seen Johnny Winter many, many times. There was a period on my life when I literally wore out his "Johnny Winter And" album and had to buy a second one.
When I was a youngster, my playing along with Cotton on the "Nothin' But The Blues" album -- windows wide open in the sweltering heat of the first house I ever rented on my own on the West Bank -- was the trigger that caused my neighbor to come introduce himself.
That meeting was a significant milestone event in my life's road of musical discovery. From that meeting, that neighbor and his family became my portal and introduction to a whole new world of the south, music, food and culture. Like another planet for a surfer kid from Southern California.
To this day, hearing "Nothin' But The Blues" triggers waves of fine old memories.
Rest in Peace, Mr Winters. Thanks for the memories.
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Underwater Janitor, Patriot
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teahika
1 post
Jul 17, 2014
3:35 PM
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Yes Sad day. He gave the world his Texas blues and I for one, can not live without hearing Johnny's music.RIP John Dawson Winter
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jbone
1690 posts
Jul 19, 2014
4:22 AM
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Saw him in Binghamton NY in the mid 70's. He and the band did a big set and then he let those guys go chill out and he stayed on by himself for at least an hour, just him and a guitar. It was an amazing show and very intimate in its way.
Frankly I found a lot of his stuff to be loud and brash and grating, but I look forward to his latest work, I respect his contribution to blues/rock, and I know we are forever in his debt for working with Muddy Waters and producing some of Muddy's best- and last- music.
Johnny learned to play slide by listening to Muddy on the radio. He did now know Muddy used a slide and he learned to play WITH NO SLIDE!!
Johnny and Edgar were hard put in their hometown as kids, and they rebelled. Years after they were ridiculed and vilified by townspeople, they returned to town and held a concert there, to show their success in the face of small mindedness.
I say this with respect and appreciation: There goes a real blues man.
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Ted Burke
75 posts
Jul 19, 2014
6:18 AM
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I first saw Johnny Winter at the Detroit Rock and Roll revival at the Michigan State Fair Grounds in Detroit at about 1969, and what he did was transcendent; vicious, slashing slide guitar, fast, fluid , wickedly insinuating slow blues, manically accelerated boogie and shuffles where his swarming notes attacked from all sides and showed a musician who had learned his lessons from the master guitarists he learned from--T Bone Walker, Freddie King, Elmore James--and combined it with the volume and electronics of rock and roll and in doing so made it his own. Winter was singular in his devotion to blues and roots music, he had an aesthetic that basically to serve up music that was raw, honest, unadorned, the basic elements for his guitar work, which was, often times, simply stunning its speed, it's rawness, the occasional bit of delicacy , and always, its ability to channel emotion , to lift the spirit from the greatest pain, to make you want to dust yourself off and pick up a guitar, a harmonica, to sit behind the drum set and get into the groove. Yes, Johnny Winter could play the guitar, that was all he had to do. Few ever did it so well and I doubt very much few will ever match him as a distinct voice in a genre where duplication of traditional licks is the norm. Johnny, thank you.
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