Music video by Johnny Winter performing Be Careful with a Fool (audio). Originally released 1969. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment vevo.ly/tCL84d
he's playing rhythm guitar, and lead at the same time while singing, and also adding little fills ...most guitar players can do one of those.... not all three at the same time . Incredible
I saw Johnnie at the Vulcan gas company in Austin Texas 1970. He played be careful with a fool. He continues to blow me away even today he’s a master he’s a genius and totally underrated rest in peace Johnnie
Jimmy Page is 100% studio. 100 takes. If you listen to him live it’s almost always awful. He is incapable of improvisation. He is the most overrated guitar player in rock history. He wrote some good riffs (the few he didn’t steal), but yeah, he is not great.
Fuck yeah,. Saw Johnny at Denver Pop Festival 1969, then sat and drank with him at the Bottom Line in New York 1977 while James Cotton and Matt Murphy played on stage.
@James Cox No doubt !! IMHO the only two white guys that could properly play AND sing the blues were Johnny and Rory Gallagher RIP it up in the next dimension Boys !!!
I am 67 years old and he was on the first bill that I saw at The Filmore East, billed as Winter. He blew me away. An incredible bluesman. I am still taken aback when he starts soloing on this song. RIP
You just can't play any better than this! Finally got a Grammy after he "moved on." He was the first white person inducted into the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame in 1988. Much better caliber of inductees than what's in Cleveland. Rest in Peace Johnny, your music and contributions will live on. The records you produced with Muddy Waters such as Hard Again are as good as any in the genre. Thanks for all of your wonderful work. Much respect! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blues_Hall_of_Fame
@@larryduvall9475 Yes, 3 albums that he produced for Muddy won Grammys. He won 1 for himself posthumously. Not that he needed an award to validate his guitar prowess. Take care.
And I'll add yet another comment. I have listened to this song over and over, and I've been listening to it for 57 years! And like someone else said, it gives me chills every time. I can't even listen fast enough to hear the notes that he plays? How about the tastefulness of his solo. Pure and clean!
I still remember buying this album in vinyl as a teenager when it came out on Columbia records. Also, The Progressive Blues Experiment on Imperial records. Great music. Joe I am in my 60s now. Still alive and well
I remember when I first heard this in my teens and it blew my mind, I had to go take a walk and reflect on what I just heard. Today it still has a powerful effect.
I got this record when I was 13 and it blew my mind then and it is blowing my mind again right now, almost 50 years later. I've been playing guitar that whole time and have listened far and wide and there is still no one who plays like this!!
Thank You to all the fantastic musicians from the 1950's to the 1980's for recording great music for us to hear today so we don't have to listen to a lot of the awful music of today.
Been a fan since 69’. Saw him in 70’ at a small club downtown. We’re we’re standing at the small stage when Johnny and his band walked through the bar to the stage. Rick Derringer was playing with the band too. It was awesome. 10 feet away from him. Had to see 5 more times after that. Once with Muddy Waters.
I saw Johnny play at the Vulcan gas Company in Austin Texas in the year of 1970. He played be careful with a fool. It blew me out the door!!. He was in a zone few have ever been. How sadly underrated he was. Rest in peace Johnnie!
One of the few Rock and Roll acts I regret that I have never seen . My bad. And I have seen Frank Zappa Pink Floyd and Albert Collins. Johnny Winters. I wish he was still alive and well.
I saw him in 1970 at a small venue in S.F. Event was billed as 3 Kings and a Winter. Things are hazy from then but I think the club was The Matrix and it was Albert, Freddy, and B.B King. All of them played far too loud for a small place, had to stuff my ears with paper. Johnny played last, they walked him out cause he was probably doing smack but once they hung his guitar around his neck he perked right up and played great. Sadly my only time seeing him.
Same thing happen to me, and btw it was the last show he did of his life and he was dead the day just after the show. However he was not playing like he did at his prime, but I'll regret all my fking life too
Like, if you’re listening to this on a friday afternoon at work where you have nothing to do, just to sit smiling behind your desk because of this glorius music , and want to go home to plug-in your favorite guitar and play some blues...
His was my mine and my best friend’s first ever concert in 1974. Almost 50 years and countless concerts we’ve still best friends. Music: the ties that bind. Thank you, Johnny! Incredible talent!
chris pucino Saw him in a town called Groningen just a couple of months before he died. Worst concert ever, but I did not care......there he was, my all time Johnny Winter in that cold Dutch town.
sküll düggery he was pretty much forced to comeback by Paul. I couldn't bear to see him like this... I saw him throughout his better years starting in the late 60's... the guy really went through a lot... should never have comeback.
Johnny Winters was the first rock and roller to get a $600,000 advance on his first album so he's definitely not overlooked one of my favorites one of the best!
What's driving people's reaction, IMO, is pure soul. Johnny Winter was truly one of the great blues/rock guitarists but he didn't play any "outside" or jazzy stuff, he stayed within the idiom. He didn't play any licks other guitarists hadn't played. It was the way it all flowed through him plus the tone, so pure & with no effects on the guitar that I could hear. This is honest, workingman's music, nothing fancy but so amazingly good & so deeply satisfying.
I saw Johnny Winter with this band ( Tommy Shannon-Bass, Uncle John-Drums ) at the Laurel Pop Festival in Laurel,Md. in July 11th. 1969. I was at the record store the next day buying this album.
Fastest and one of the most talented guitar slingers ever ever ever. Saw him 15 times in New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Texas if I saw him once.Always left with my jaw on the floor
Saw Johnny with Rick Derringer on loan from Edgar at SUNY Albany in early 70s. I was standing near the stage watching his fingers fly. A true great. RIP
Johnny winter is the best blues player no one will ever touch him he sure brought blues to a whole new level RIP Johnny your music will live on forever thanks for all that u have done for the blues...Johnny was the only white man the black folks allowed to play in there bars he sure was amazing
Saw Johnny Live at least a dozen times back in the 70s .. Never failed to play His ass off .. Love Tommy Shannons Bass lines too and they continued to be incredible through SRV !!
First album I ever purchased with my own $$ back in '69. Still listen to it often. This is my all-time favorite JW track. Vocal, guitar, bass, drums live in the studio, bum notes and all. No overdubs. Mind-blowing..
One of the most heart wringing, soul scorching blues tunes ever. It connects your belly button directly to the obdula oblongada, grips and rips like Predator on safari. My sac is aflame
Yes, in 1969 my cousin Neill said, you have to listen to this. I did the rhythm, and he cranked away a fine lead.... Me thinks we always aspired and linked into this deep driving ray.... We oft said this was the greatest lead guitar riff we'd ever hear..... and to this day.... still drives me onward!!! wow..... Got to see Johnny at Wadena Rock Concert in a field in Iowa in the summer of 1970.... missed him when he came by my hometown at the Filmore East.... but felt his full force out in Iowa. He and band seemed so wacked out behind the stage, I felt I could blow on him and he'd fall over. Didn't expect much, nor that he'd even make it to the stage, but when on stage and picked up that guitar, I felt the force rip through me and blow me across the field.... shockingly powerful. A year or so before he passed on, eagerly went to catch him at BB Kings. Unfortunately the sound folks had all the amps full out blasting and my ears despite putting tissue in them, were aching the entire show.... Johnny didn't pause whilst up there..... full out. Bless you, and thank you... this song carries to my next life.... "I believe that we're near the end. I want to tell my baby, please forgive me for my sin."
There is a word thrown around a lot today; mostly IMHO used too frequently ; ICONIC!!! This man alongside his brother Edgar are truly epitomize the term!
💈Now if your listing to this same song I am, and I was fortunate enough to see him play this live with Randy Jo Hobbs- Bass, and Bobby Caldwell , drums. - and you do not think this gent was one hell of a guitar player- than I guess you don’t know what it takes to play those leads, and use the slide so beautiful. To Good-
Beyond Hendrix, Albert King, Texas has such a unique Blues swag to it.Buddy guy used to laugh @ Texas blues, & the he heard Johnny & SRV.Absolute DemiGod Mr. Johnny Winter 💙 I salute you.
I was 14 years old and living in Alhaurín el Grande in southern Spain in the 60s. Bought this record for 395 pesetas at Disco's BBB in Málaga just because the cover was amazing. loved this man from that moment on.
