I was at this show! Johnny always puts on a rockin show! This show was cut short because people were standing on top of the cushioned chairs and were told to sit down by management! So Johnny gets up and says" ain't nobody gotta sit down at my shows" and everybody just jumped and danced! After that song, they pulled them off the stage! There was a near riot.....I got dragged out by the cops myself just a few minutes later! Good old 70s!
Thought that was a thing of the '50s, mayby early '60s. I only started seeing concerts in mid '70s. Never had to sit down ;•) hell, we would've burned the place down. 🚀🏴☠️🎸
Loved this era. Johnny Winter and Rory Gallagher were great guitarists who put on unbelievable shows - no special effects - just musicianship and showmanship. The highlight of my musical life was opening for Johnny a year before he died. My band lobbied hard for that spot!
I grew up near Rick Derringer stomping ground and he would always bring Johnny and Edgar Winter with him every chance.... everybody agrees I was very fortunate to live near there!!😎
Randy Jo Hobbs made this work as a trio!! The guy just never quits...RIP. Hughes on drums is fantastic.... sadly took his own life RIP. Johnny I have seen live with Amazing Floyd Radford in 1975. Than with Muddy Waters , Than SRV opening for johnny in NJ early 80's right before SRV passed. Oh, also johnny at Stone Poney mid 80's. Where he signed my denim jacket. A few years later had Derringer sign the same jacket! Still have that jacket. Peace
Great memories, I also saw Johnny back in 79 at a big festival in Toronto and saw him again around 1989 era and finally in 2006 but at that show I was shocked at how much he deteriorated. Wish I could have seen that 75 show with Floyd Radford, that was the tour that spawned the Captured Live album which I bought as soon as it hit the racks in January 76. Check out the Stockholm show from Feb 71 with Rick Derringer, It's a bootleg and that may be Winter's peak era for playing. By the way also saw SRV back in March 85 here in Canada, historic show for sure.
The way this trio keeps it together while Johnny is going solo is fantastic! Without Hobbs and Huges in the zone it would be a train wreck. Johnny definitely picked two great players.
One of his concerts in San Diego at the coliseum, He and Edgar got into a guitar solo battle that lasted at least a half hour! It ended when Johnny cut his hand on a string and continued to play spraying blood all over his white fringe leather jacket his hair, his guitar, and the stage! Edgar unhooked his guitar strap and let his guitar fall to the stage and walked out! What a finale!
Edgar was playing keyboard but while Johnny was doing an extended solo, Edgar was handed Rick Derringers' Guitar and he matching Johnny riff for riff, and it just evolved into a contest to see who got the loudest reaction from the audience. 1969 or 1970 I think.
It's hard to believe that these three of these tremendous musicians are no longer with us. Johnny Winter, Randy Jo Hobbs, and Richard Hughes, thanks for the great music!
Was fortunate enough to see Johnny Winters back in the day ! Now that's a real band , no 50 guitarists on stage etc. nothing is fake about the performance..things were real back then !!!
Johnny was one of my favorite concerts I cant count how many times I saw him if he was under a hundred miles from me I was trying for front row. Thank you for this nostalgia, I love it.
I saw Johnny in concert a year or two before his death. They walked him onto the stage. He just moved back and forth. But at one moment he jumped up and did a 360! Crowd went crazy. One of my favorite concerts ever. RIP Johnny
I was at this show. - They really had those amps cranked up to eleven !!! Johnny and his brother Edgar put on some awesome concerts. Great days my friends .. great daze !!! 🎸 🎶 🎤🎷 🎙 🥁 ~
One other thing I love about Johnny, besides his awesome playing is his image. The 70s was a great era for great music and Johnny's albino looks sure fits right in.
Johnny was a visually stunning guy to look at on stage. That beautiful.hair of his was perfect on stage. He always came across so Happy GO Lucky! Quick to smile , very friendly guy, Johnny Winter. He'd sign autographs after the show and take photos with fans..no one has ever said anything really bad about the Winter brothers, aside from Johnny's life long battle with drugs and alcohol later on..they were never sued and always had a good and professional reputation! Those were some great times. When the MUSIC MATTERED!!
This is how I remember Johnny the one and only time I got to see him. The cat was slim and tall and those platforms and the stovepipe hat just made him larger than life. He had his own style gliding on that stage. When I saw him a band just breaking out called REO opened. Haha! Man the 70s were great.
This was my very first concert. Waterbury Palace theater was one of the best venue.s at that time! Johnny was always my guy !! YEEEAHHH!!!!! Another fact about that show that.very few know. The Ramones opened that show!!! They're set lasted 7 min. The police were forced to get them off the stage because Johnny's fans were going to riot!!!! Johnny and the band were most defiantly on top of they're game then! REALLY MISS YA JOHNNY!!!!
Right on the same thing happened at the Canadian Rock Music Festival @ Exhibition Stadium , Toronto Ontario 1979 ~ The Ramones played only 15 minutes due to the Johnny Winter fans rioting throwing things at the Ramones....Plus with the raucous deafening boos forcing their exit stage right ! Huge applause for when Johnny Winter takes stage and smoking set of blues n rock / roll....Tough enough for the rest of the bands to follow with Nazareth , Ted Nugent and Aerosmith...!
Rob, my first concert was Edgar at the Waterbury Palace, 72 I believe. The Palace, the Warner in Torrington & the Bushnell in Htfd were my favorite venues. I still have most of my concert ticket stubs! So many great times...
@@savage22bolt32When you look back at those years, it’s like it was a different world. Rock and roll at its finest. The best. A few brief years of just pure fun. Then gone like the wind. 50 years. Half a century. Hard to believe. Johnny and his brother were always about the music and the fans. We loved them like family. Wanted to party and rock out with them. They were just down the street. The Palace, New Haven Coliseum, Colt Park, Dillon Stadium. Springfield Arena, Hartford Civic Center. Tickets $5.99. 3 bands. Ounce of Colombian Gold $45.00. Six pack $3.00. And here we are. Just reminiscing.😊🎸✌️
I first heard Hughes drumming on a live "Silver Train"..I believe it was Wolfgangs Vault. He could work the double bass..very little is available as far as information that I can find other than suicide at 35...such a shame
CALM DOWN. Nice drummer, but when there are drummers out there like Ian Paice, John Bonham, Mitch Mitchell, Bill Bruford, Keith Moon, etc., etc., etc., that's just a silly statement. And he'd be the first to tell you so.
@@brianhammer5107some drummers know how to play to a song better than others this dude is a fucking master. Just because he's not considered a god by mainstream? Please
@@blakewhittington4336 1) express yourself without foul language - just makes you look like a simpleton 2) no, Hughes was never a "master drummer" - solid drumming for Winter's 2nd solo band, nothing more
When I was 10 years old, I purchased my first album and it was Johnny Winters. My parents freaked out. My second album was Black Sabbath paranoid. They really freaked out. Rock ‘n’ roll never dies.
Give it up for Richard Hughes and Randy Jo Hobbs, who comprised one of the greatest, but least-appreciated, rhythm sections in rock. These guys were way ahead of their time, especially Hughes. So sad that their drug demons claimed them both. Senseless waste of two incredible talents.
I totally agree, that's what I say all the time, a stunning pair and one of the greatest in rock history. Hugues drumming was dynamic as possible, and Hobbs lines always punchy and perfect counterpoint to guitar in a trio formula. And what a tone !
Richard was a local friend from Mantoloking NJ. He played in many local Jersey Shore bands before and after his years with Johnny. He played many of our local house parties and bars.. My favorite local band that he played with was called "Days". Johnny would show up from time to time.. I see his sister in town all the time. I surf with his nephew. Richard played the drums like a lead guitar. Sad ending. RIP
@@99jic Was that after Richard did not play in Johnny`s band he would show up to "DAY`s" Band shows??? I thought Cobalt was the band Richard and Doug were in together. Doug was great with Johnny also.
@@classicrockarchives7077 Not sure if Colbalt was before or after Days... Things area bit fuzzy from back then. I remember Doug coming to our outdoor jam parties in his tour bus playing his double necked guitar. I talked to Doug on FB about those days a year or so ago. Man did us Point Pleasant/Bay Head/ Mantoloking people have some great rock parties!!! How lucky we were!!!!!
Yes after Richard left Johnny when he was playing with Days is when I saw Johnny a couple times.. There was talk of Johnny recording and producing Days music but it never came about
Love Johnny Winter, never gets mentioned as one of the best. He used to play in a couple of hundred person club that was about 10 minutes from my house and I was 15 and snuck in I was under age, that was about 1976. Threw out the years must have seen him 10 times. Last time I saw him he played the whole show sitting in a chair, he was always thin and believe he had a bit of a habit, but this time looked like he could barley hold his guitar up, it was sad but 50% of Johnny was good enough for me. A little less then a year later he passed. Cried that day but was glad to see him that last time. I am 60 and know I will never see Johnny and musician with his talent.
I am 62 now and saw Johnny 3 times and the last time was in 2006 and he had to sit for most of the show back then too, I was shocked, had not seen him since the late 80;s and he was great then but in 2006 I almost had tears in my eyes, he walked on to the stage with 2 guys, one on each arm to escort him and frankly his playing was a shadow of the past, sad indeed, saw him for the first time back in 1979 at a big festival in Toronto along with Ted Nugent (wonderful) and Aerosmith ( they were stoned out of their mind and played terribly) Johnny was great at that show but really wish I could have seen him back around 1970,71 era when he was at his peak. Had a huge poster of him playing a flying V guitar on my wall back in 1974 when I was 13.
@@austinhageman6148 Yes, I know Rival Sons. I found about them about 4-5 years ago. I'm just to lazy to listen to there music in which you have reminded me of them. I saw them on a show on some music Television channel. If I remember correctly the lead guitar player even plays a Firebird like Johnny. They have a bit of a Zeppelin, Free and maybe a little Sabbath sound. They just don't get the airplay they should get. Hard Rock unfortunately isn't what the kids are listening to and it's a shame. I don't talk down about Greta Van Fleet either, sure they sound a bit like Zeppelin but what hard rock band has not taken cues from Zeppelin. Kingdom Come, Fastway in the 80's had that Zeppelin sound. I think Greta Van Fleet sound a little like Rush. That's for the reminder.
This venue a gem! old time theater built in 1929. Living 20 min away saw him there in 75 which I think was the John Dawson Winter lll tour. When he did “Stranger” it definitely gave me goose bumps. Was still in High School at this time and all the seats were general admission, so we would head to Waterbury as soon as last class got out. The best we could do is Lou Reed 4th row also in 75 and Skynyrd 9th row in 76. RIP JW still and always my favorite of all time!
Just a great place to see rock and roll. We lived 20 minutes down the road in Meriden. Much better seats than the New Haven Coliseum. Actually a pretty classy venue. Sound was awesome. Great memories. Place is still there. Have to go see it one of these days. The Skynard show you saw, was that the show where their tour bus was absolutely trashed?
I saw Edgar in Long Beach. Some small beachfront built to hell clubhouse .The timber was massive in this place. That albino Leon ? Front and center but it was Edgar's show. Free Ride. He finally broke out his keys and hit it in that cool down section of the song(lead/reprise?) he had to scramble for the volume to turn the damn thing down. It shook the place like a monster. Subsonic loud. Monstrous! Good show too.
This basically the is the same concert I saw at Veterans Colisseum Forte Wayne, Indiana in 1973. Foghat warmed them up. Still in my TOP 5 live shows, ever!!! It was a hockey arena and not a bad seat in the house. The lights went down and the joints lit-up. All you had to do to get stoned was breathe.
I totally agree with that comment Richard Hughes was one of my favorite drummers of Johnny's nobody else sounds like him during the still alive and well tour Johnny use two drummers I don't know who the second one was I only saw Richard three times but but in the mid-70s I was still in high school and it was hard to get to concerts all the walls in my room when I was a teenager was covered with Johnny Winter posters and pictures and album covers I'm 64 years old now and I still have a couple Johnny pictures on my wall that I took at the Hollywood palladium in 1975
Thanks for this! This is my favourite lineup (with all due respect to Floyd Radford). With this killer three piece Johnny has to work harder and the sound is great. Sounds like the same gear as used for still alive and well. Richard and Randy Bless em on fire. Johnny on the money, those years and years of gigging showing in his hard ass chops.
I saw Johnny Winter And in 74 at the Spectrum in Philadelphia. My 2nd concert after Chicago one week earlier. I was 14. There was a delay getting inside and the crowd got rowdy. I climbed up the wall by the door and with everyone pushing I never returned to the ground until the doors opened and I got in! I will never forget that and the fantastic show that night … although there was a lot of pot smoking going on. 😎😉🎸🎙🥁
Johnny was friends with the owner of a small vintage guitar shop a few miles from my house growing up. Named silver strings. That's who sold him his main firebird guitar. I use to go in there and look at photos of Johnny hanging out there. Been a huge fan ever since. Rip Johnny.
After seeing some prime Johnny Winter on RU-vid - I kept thinking 'Why wasn't this guy a MASSIVE SUPERSTAR?!' Yes, he's known in the Music World, BUT with this amount of talent and ability, he should be at the top of the List for 'Greatest Guitar God' Later, I learned about Johnny's long time drug problems and manipulative Managers (and his own prickly personality) - which pretty short-circuited his Rock career and probably made him return to his Blues Roots.
@@chrisghiardi117 I read Johnny's Autobiography and interviews with his bandmates like Rick Derringer - It's plainly obvious that his drug addictions short-circuited a potential Mega-Career.
Johnny can't get in the RR HOF but Flaver Flave is in and Missy Elliot just got nominated. Please, at least change the name of that place and get rid of the Rock and Roll name.
I had Rick Derringers Lp Joe Walsh plays on it. Johnny winter is also on it I had almost every Copy of Johnny winter & Edgar Winter Lps... His best song is Tobacco Road .
Yes, Johnny Winter and Rory Gallagher were not recognized as the guitar masters. But there are the ones who humbly understand and feel their mastership. Those who not, are darkened by money, prejudices and etc. We know well.
Johnny. He totally isolates his shoulders hikes his guitar up (unlike a lot of "rock" guitarists slinging low). Eddie Van Halen hiked his up. Rick Derrenger hiked his up. Heck Edgar hiked his keys up. Its somthing propper. So here is Johnny kind of swaying kind of swinging. Tossing a spin in ocasionally sliding not stomping. In order to operate that gitbox. Its a hell. But these things do help in proficiency. I wish i saw him live. Honestly i would probably swoon...for some damn reason.
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Most of that crowd seems to have had too much Seconal for the first couple of tunes... lol. (I suppose, being a TV taping, they were told to tame it down.)
My first concert 1974 in San Diego < Johnny was and always will be the fucking best electric blues , I love Hendrix , SRV , Rory < Buchanen , and a whole mess of blues guys but this was the real thing , its amazing how there is no more talent in music , there are talented people but no more creativity , I laughed the other day I heard they tried to do a tribute to johnny with other players , come on ! really ! joe Bonam who , there's only one guys and you can't touch him.................just sayin
