Frankenstein - Edgar Winter Group | The Midnight Special 

In my adolescence in my town in Mexico I just heard parts of the song on radio commercials. One day I tune the station and heard the whole song !!! Never forget that day, marvelous sounds and rhythm !!! Great Edgar Winter !!! The end is just fantastic !!!

So glad this was performed live to truly see the artist at work

Hard to believe there was a time when musicians in popular music were allowed to do more than just back up a singer.

i counted 5 ovations, ABSOLUTELY DESERVED

This channel never lets me down and makes me feel like every day is Friday.

UNREAL. 1970s Rock at its FINEST.

This song is pure prog metal. Edgar still killing it live until this day

Just 4 guys having a great time. RIP Dan, Chuck, and Jerry.

Good old days, we will never see again. Music just isn't the same anymore not like 60,70s rock

True musical magician. 🎩 🪄

I liked Frankenstein and especially Dan Hartman on bass, and Chuck Ruff on drums, great performance!

Its great to see this in great quality! Makes me feel like were back in 73!

The Midnight Special and Don Kirshner's Rock concert were must watch tv.

I just woke up, man... I feel like a teenager again. Thanks

Such cool looking guys! The 70’s looked awesome, it’s my favorite decade. Shame I was born in the 80’s 😢. My 16 yr old watches these old performances with me and she wishes she had gotten to be young person in the 70’s also.

Fantastic instrumental and what a killer bass line👍R. I. P. Dan😢❤From 🇫🇷 🌹

One of the greatest live performances! So classic!

One of the best concerts I ever went to was at the old Spectrum in Philly. On the bill was Edgar Winter's White Trash, Cold Turkey, and Black Sabbath. Fun times.

Edgar, which instrument are you going to play for Frankenstein? Yes.

Thank God I grew up in the late 60s and early 70s, we used to stay up until midnight on Saturday to watch all the performances by all the greatest artists of that period and of course Wolfman Jack as MC, great great music and memories!!

They Only Come Out At Night was the first record I bought with my own money as a 12/13-year-old in '73.

I was never a person to crank my radio but when this came on I would crank it up and try to blow my Kraco speakers in my gas guzzler Torino.

Absolutely amazing performance! What a funky band.

Fabulous! So glad someone is preserving rock history. 49 years later I saw him perform this with Ringo's band.

¡Excelente!... ¡Los hermanos Winter!... ¡Maravillosos!... 👍👍👍👌👌👌👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🌹🌹🌹🌻🌻🌻🌷🌷🌷💐💐💐

Synth noise and a bike horn? Truly ahead of the curve with that alone

I could watch Chuck Ruff play all day. I always wanted to look like him when I play drums

A masterpiece of Rock

Edgar Winter is a talent!!!!

This must have been one of the best performances of any artist that was ever on this show! They gave it there all! This is what concert goers want to experience when they pay good money for it. They did then and they still do!

The canned audience responses on this show always annoyed me. But it never kept me from really enjoying the performances. Midnight Special and Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert were the ONLY way to see the acts we loved to listen to on the radio. If you missed a show your only hope was to try to catch it in reruns. Recording or computer access wasn’t available just yet. Couldn’t just pull up whatever you wanted to watch on a whim. But now I can watch the shows I missed because I was too tired to stay awake back then.

This is the best video recording I’ve heard of this from that era! Very well done! Thank you Midnight Special from bringing all these bands alive again!!

An epic performance. Cheers! 👍🏻👍🏻✌️

Oh, to have been there!! What a mind-bending trip that song is! I loved all the colors on them, too! Fantastic performance!🤯🤩💜

I found this on a search. Jerry Weems. Chuck Ruff's guitarist friend from Reno. The most interesting fact about Jerry Weems is that he was AWOL from the Army Reserve during the They Only Come Out At Night tour. Quote from Edgar's drummer Chuck Ruff: Anyway, we were in Winnipeg and Jerry and I took a few days off to go back to Reno. And while we were in the airport, Jerry disappeared off the face of the earth. Nobody knew where he was. Turns out that for two weeks he had been held in solitary confinement in a military stronghold. The whole time he was on the road with us he was AWOL from the Army National Guard. So they cut all his hair off. Then he hooked up with us in L.A. and we did the Midnight Special." The Edgar Winter Group played Winnipeg in September 1973. The Midnight Special program was recorded in October 1973. Here's a picture of Weems after receiving his Army National Guard haircut.

I love a good synthesizer freakout. (:

excellent jam!

Thank you Master!

The fact they can do something this legendary in a live venue is a stunning codification of their excellence.

Far out man!!

Dan Hartman on bass. Almost as versatile as Edgar

Love ! One of the best songs to smoke weed to !

I love this song so much - that I have ever note, key, beat memorized like that of a Mozart Sonata :)! So cool! Love it!

Jerry Weems on guitar!

OMG what was that? Its called talent. Excellent performance! 😎

One of the All-time Greats

Wow! What a performance. Had heard this song a million times. Figured most of it was studio craftwork. Thanks for bringing this back. With so many great performances on these Midnight Special clips, this one for me is the best.

Estos 9 minutos me hicieron el día...espectacular!!✨️✨️✨️👌. Muchas Gracias The Midnight Special❤

Just can’t see U2 covering this one anytime soon 🥳

I can shut the internet off now that was GREAT

I watched him perform this song at a Memphis musical festival in the early 90’s. He extended the song to over 20 minutes and took turns going around the stage and doing solos on each instrument. Incredible performer.

As good a rock song as there ever was.

helluva song

HOLY SHIT!!!

Finally, one of my top three favourite Midnight Special performances. Keep'em coming.❤

I also watched the Edgar Winter Group. He Had On Dayglo Nailpolish on and He Played FRANKENSTEIN With His Syntasizer Strapped Around His Neck. That was At The Schaefer Music Festival Also in Central Park New York City. Just one of the many concerts that I have been to. 😮❤❤

Anybody else remember Alan 'Fluff' Freeman's Saturday afternoon Radio show where he used loads of clips from this between the tracks on his playlist?

I don't think one can fully appreciate the musicianship of this group unless you've played an instrument.

i remember this on the radio in heavy rotation, back in the day

Absolutely incredible performance!🤯😍

Multi-talented and LIVE... love it!

That was awesome

Incredible LIVE performance of the greatest all time rock instrumental

What an awesome live performance

Wow so glad footage like this still exists,way cool ,Edgar is musical genius

There used to be a show on Channel 56 out of Boston called Creature Double Feature. They should have played this performance of Edgar Winter Group Frankenstein as one of the movies. The hip kids would have gone nutz! Love this performance so much. This should be in a time capsule to space, just labeled JWG Frankenstein 70s Music.

Edgar is a freaking beast, man! He totally did a Frankenstein on that song...

Franken-STEEN or Franken-STYNE? 😳🌟👀⚡️🎷🎹🥁🎸💥

Yes. I am entertained.

So incredible, my all time favorite song, unreal!!

Great performance!!!

Amazing ❤

Astounding!

Saw Edgar play with Ringo's All Star Band, he hasn't lost a step.

I was 13. had just gotten my first drum kit. first record I ever bought. this brings tears to my eyes.

Thanks you Burt Sugarman, and The Midnight Special!

Amazing!

THIS SOOOOOOOOOOO EPIC AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH

Spectacular performance and that was just one song. Very talented band who should been the conversation of best rock band in their era.

Remember this like yesterday MOOG MOOG it!!

Awesome!!!

muy buena rola creativa y poderosa , para los amantes del buen rock.

This was played a lot for my first year of college in 1979. Edgar Winter born as an albino made him cooler.

By far the best sibling musicians to come out of Texas.

I used to have this as my ring tone it's a fantastic track!👍🙂

That was the most talented band, especially the lead!

To think this became a hit on AM radio. The 1970s was amazing how wide a variety of music could get air play. Like many OP, I love this song big time. P.S. Kudos to Jeremy Meeks, guitarist. Growing up I thought this incendiary playing must have come from Ronnie Montrose or Rick Derringer but clearly it was Jeremy ripping it up. Chapeau.

Boy them Winter boys sure could play! Is that young little Ricky Derringer on guitar? Funny how they clap everytime Edgar switches instruments. I saw Edgar do the same thing almost 50 years later in Pompano Beach Fl and sounded just as good!

Artists back then used to actually play their instruments live.

THANK YOU Midnight Special!! Winter’s in Ringo’s ALL STARR BAND playing Vegas bunch of dates end of May!! I’m going!

Holy Moly!

Just fucking wow!

I bet Edgar drives the van, sets up the equipment, and lays the backstage buffet, too.

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horrible sound for the first 1:50 on EW keys then the crap kicked into gear! Just as I remembered! Thanks TMS!

Wow 🤯🤯. Awesome. (Ronnie montrose like man in 2023)

Awesome

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Thank God you finally uploaded this! Is there MORE from Edgar to come forth? 💌💘💝💖💗💓💞💟❣❤‍🔥❤❤‍🩹💛💚💙💜💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥

Wow. Bobby Briggs on guitar.