Rick Derringer & The Edgar Winter Group performed November 2,1973 Follow us on Social Media: / themidnightspecialtvshow / themidnightspecialtvshow / themidnightspecialtvshow / tmstvshow
In 1984 I was a young guy working at Cherokee Studios in Los Angeles. One evening Rick Derringer walked in carrying a guitar case. I buzzed him in and he laid the guitar case on the front desk, opened it up and said, "Look at this ! " It was a beautiful blue brand new custom made guitar. Rick said, "I finally got it after waiting for months." He asked me if I play and I said yes. He actually let me hold it and play it for a little bit. That one gesture of kindness left such an impression on me that to this day Rick will always be a hero.
That's awesome! It's great to hear that he is as cool in person as he seems to be on stage. Have always loved this song and wore out the single I bought of it.
That's So CooL!I can Remember,asking permission to Play a guitar or bass,from non famous musicians and tell you,1 Word,Sacred!and giving you a better not touch,LooK!But did not mind jamming on your Instrument!So I Say!Rick is a Cool cat from back in the day,nah!Take care!
I saw Rick in the late nineties playing a tiny bar in Island park ny I couldn’t believe it Early 70s I saw Edgar winters white trash at the action house island park Loudest show i ever was at
Yeah, but doesn't looking at them make you feel old again? I mean, damn, I'm 69, I saw these guys live back in the day, and I don't remember thinking they looked like a bunch of gawky kids. :) :) :)
Forget about "how old you are" and just live every day to its fullest. You are very lucky to have lived during the best time in the USA, and there is still many wonderful things left out there. The best age to live are the 50s 60s and 70s, not the 20s and 30s. There are too many troubles and insecurities in youth. @@NSPIREGuru
my heart aches missing that era for the youth of today. While we had many issues. I think the individual and personal freedom was what it was all about. Now its all about group identity and what can you be mad at... just to be mad. 10-4, Keep on Rollin, Hang 10 baby, Peace! :) @@eugenefirebird8938
These guys look like kids in a garage band playing for fun except they are great. Rock and Roll was meant to be FUN and I doubt anyone ever had more fun playing than they did that night. Makes me happy.
How neither Edgar Winter or Rick Derringer have not been inducted into the Rock 'n Roll hall of fame is beyond me! I would have to say these guys are two of the most seriously underrated rock and roll heavy weights!
To be fair Derringer was a one hit wonder, and never really did much past the 70's, more of a footnote in rock history. And while he was considered a guitar god back then, he was surpassed by many much better players in the late 70's and into the 80's. He was pretty basic really.
That is very surprising. The HOF is full of useless "big-hair" headbangers and gansta rappers, while Edgar and Rick are the real deal, top-tier musicians.
@@greatunz67 Derringer was very good, if basic, and played his licks more cleanly than most. Edgar Winter is in a class by himself as an all around musician. The HOF has long since become a farce. Many greats not included while taking in the popular dregs of the day. Who cares anymore? I don't. The great music of the classic era is available for all to enjoy.
@@greatunz67Listen to Derringer Live.There's nothing"basic"about that album.His playing and sound is incredible!And it's intresting to hear how much Ed Van Halen stole/borrowed from Rick.Van Halen's Eruption would not excist without Rick Derringer period.
@@mattfoley6082 What were his ‘disco hits’? I danced to~loved both disco music & live rock n’ roll @ small clubs while growing up. Thanks in advance 😊.
I'm an "AFRICAN AMERICAN MAN" from "CINCINNATI, OHIO" & I couldn't agree with you more!! "YOU COULD ACTUALLY UNDERSTAND THE LYRICS BACK IN THE DAY"!! It was "ALL ABOUT TALENT"!! Now it's "ALL ABOUT NOISE & AUTO TUNE"!!
I had just graduated from high school that summer, 73. Damn we had some great music then, brings back great memories, fast cars, girls, drive in movies, drinking beer and raising hell! We never had it so good!🎸
I turned 18 the year Texas Leagallised 18 year old's to drink and the Nation allowed 18 year olds to vote. 1954 the year I was born. The Vietnam War went into a lottery style of draft and in 74 Nixon stopped the draft before he was forced to resign as president. I felt entitled. A year or two after I felt resentment that I didn't join the Army like my friend. He was never deployed to Vietnam he ended up in Germany and had a lot of fun. It really is a pretty good thing to have on your resume too.
My first concert was Edgar Winter, and Lynyrd Skynyrd. The guitar players for Edgar Winters band were: Rick Derringer, Dan Hartman, and Ronnie Montrose. It was the "They Only Come Out at Night" tour for Edgar, and it was at Cobo Hall, Detroit, MI, December of 1975. Skynyrd opened up. Damn! Whatta show!
@@StephanieJeanne Funny! I remember having a one piece pajama set with feet, was red~white stripes w/stretchy material & zipped up the front with a little flap in the back to “do business” without taking the whole thing off. It was in the 70’s & my older sister had one too, got them for Christmas from our parents, we loved them! I’d feel smothered wearing something like that now, especially to bed! 😂
Had the pleasure to open up for Rick in the mid 80’s. Super nice and an incredible player. He asked if he could use my Marshall. It never sounded better and the settings haven’t changed since. It will be out exercising twice this coming weekend.
Awesome performance! This was our version of RU-vid back In the day, The Midnight Special, Don Kirshner's Rock Concert, In Concert, etc. I'm so happy to have been around when I was!
Didn't get any better than midnight on a Saturday Night!!! Was Magic!!!! Parents asleep in bed, and laying on the floor in the den right in front of the TV. Yeah Man!!! Great memories.
I'd hold a mic for a cassette recorder up to the TV speaker and record those shows while watching. The next day, I'd listen back and learn the songs, with a pretty fresh memory of what I saw. How I learned to play rock guitar.
Rick Derringer was my first big-time rock concert, in the fall of 1965, when his band The McCoys performed at the Van Wert, Ohio County Fairgrounds (Rick was born and raised just 40 miles south of there in Fort Recovery, Ohio, before the family moved to Union City, Indiana after he finished the 8th grade). I was 14 and he was 18, and even at my young age I knew I was watching a guitar prodigy. Before this performance aired on "The Midnight Special" in Nov. 1973, Rick had already done some brilliant session guitar work on the Steely Dan song "Showbiz Kids," from their 2nd album, "Countdown To Ecstasy."
@@dr.know-it-all5148 Well, dr.knownothing, I grew up on a farm just 13 miles southeast of Van Wert, Ohio, and my mother's older sister lived in that city as well. Her son, Bob, was a music store guitar teacher and offered to take me to The McCoys concert, held inside the Junior Fair Building. Rick and The McCoys also performed the following summer at Indian Lake Resort in northwest Ohio.
@@dr.know-it-all5148 For starters, you ignorant troll, I grew up on a farm just 12 miles southeast of Van Wert, Ohio. Local radio made sure that we knew The McCoys' backstory. After I saw them in 1965, several of my high school classmates saw them the following summer when they performed at Indian Lake Amusement Park in Russells Point, Ohio.
I remember watching this on TV back then. They looked like the could have been my older brothers. Now they look like they could be my grandkids. The best time to live in the good old US of A.
ITs incredible that the same guy behind 'Hang On Sloopy' is also the guy behind several hard rock jams! Just a testament to his legacy, impact and the importance of music experimentation.
Very true. It's actually cool to hear them butcher certain parts of the song. I don't mean that to put them down... even Jimmy Page was known to muck things up on the regular when Zeppelin played live. It's impossible not to if your actually playing.
Saw these guys Sept. 6 1974 opening for Bad Company. They were great. Gotta love a Les Paul Custom through a Marshall. The neck pickup tone during the solo was butta!
1974. New Haven Coliseum, New Haven Connecticut. Tickets were 7 bucks. Bad Company opened. Paul Rogers was great. Then Foghat came on and really got the crowd amped up. Then these guys closed. Rick Derringer simply blew everybody off the stage that night. Went to many concerts in the 70’s but this one was one of the best.
I can't imagine how heavy that keyboard was around Edgar's neck in those days.....yikes. I saw EWG in the mid 90's at an outdoor classic rock festival, he brought down the house with an extended version of Frankenstein- amazing watching him switch back and forth between instruments. When I was in high school, we played it in pep band for basketball games. Our teacher did the music arrangement. We even had the 70's style moog keyboard on an amp that we used for those parts. It was just a fun piece of music to play, and it really got people wound up. We also did other 70's songs like Chameleon by Herbie Hancock, Bar Room Blitz, Dr. Love (KISS), and a bunch of others. Fun times:-).
God bless Rick! He's still alive and well. The live album "Roadwork" by Edgar Winter is a must listen for any fan of theirs! Rick's performances on that album are incredible!
Derringer is one of my favorite guitar players. Check out his work with Johnny Winter on the Johnny Winter And live album. One of the best live albums ever recorded!
Edgar Winter on keys (also sax & backing vocals & percussion); Rick Derringer on guitar & lead vocal; Dan Hartman on bass & backing vocals; Chuck Ruff on drums; Jerry Weems on guitar. Jerry took over after Montrose left. Edgar & Rick still with us in Oct 2023, but the other four are sadly gone.
@@NihongoGuy Yes. Randy Jo Hobbs, who was in Edgar's White Trash as well as the first version of the Edgar Winter Group is also deceased. Only Edgar and Rick are still with us.
Rick started with the McCoy's, and then was a member of the White Trash with Edgar and Johnny, and was also an esteemed producer and sessions musician. It's unbelievable all the stuff he has done. Edgar brought a unique sensibility to say the least.
I saw Rick in 81 or 82. He was opening for The Joe Perry Project at the Lowell Auditorium in Lowell, MA. Unbelievable concert. It was on one of those nights when Joe wasn’t at his best. Derringer and his band were awesome.
Another gem 💎thanks guys,keep em coming! I saw Rick with Edgar Winter's White Trash opening for Alice Cooper band and Black Sabbath 1972 at Cincinnati Gardens
@@markchoma9822 it was actually 1971, A.C. was touring in support of their lp Love it to Death, Sabbath was just releasing Master of Reality- tickets were 5 dollars and 50 cents
So darn lucky!! Wish I’d seen that show too! Saw Black Sabbath /w Ozzy, Van Halen opened on their 1st tour ‘78, my friend Angie & I left early as it was too ‘heavy’ our lil’ minds were blown. Guy friends we went with thought we were crazy~we must have been because I love their music now 😂.
We use to listen to it when we went fishing at folsom pond in Coalinga, California when I was 11 years old. This is the first time I saw him now. He looks like Bill, a guy who played guitar 🎸too. We use to have the eight track tape of Rick Derringer and one of Santana. That's when Saturday night fever was bumping. Disco inferno and the Bee Gee's
Cops gave me a disturbing the piece ticket cause I was cruising and this song came on and I turned up my sound all the way up jammin down the road !! IT WAS WORTH IT !! 🤘
Apart from this radio hit my first real experience with the Rick Derringer back in the mid 70s was the Edgar Winter and the White Trash Road Work album. OMG, the Derringer solo on Tobacco Road when he doubles the vocalist’s scatting.
Saw Rick as the backup band to Boston, on Boston's inaugural tour after their smash debut album. Late Spring 1977. Boston is in Montreal, while the Montreal Canadiens are playing the Bruins in Boston the next night. It was electric. Rick came out and energized The Forum. Played Hoochie Koo for 10 minutes. We were rockin' and rollin' with him. They ended up taking his guitar away from him, as he'd gone way over his set time. He had us all in his hands. One of the best concerts I've ever been to! I've been to a lot.
@@Cranedude666 Whatever. How many performers could you say that about? Many. He's been clean a long time and seems like a happy guy. I have seen him several times and he never disappoints.
Rick growed up a few miles from me.The first time I saw him was at aplace called The Triangle in Greenville Ohio. Six months later he opened for The Frampton comes alive tour.He is still a legend around this neighborhood.
Holy shit the real version!! Top tier performance, thank you so much for putting these out, preserving them so well, and sharing them with us!!!! As someone who didn’t get to grow up with these it’s a revelation watching them now. Live bands on tv???? Should have never stopped happening… thank you 🤘🏼🤘🏼
Oh hell yeah! They rocked the hell outta this performance!! Back when we made actually music with kick ass riffs and choruses. This song will live on forever ✊🏼🎸
Great video. Nice to see Dan Hartman in some of these old classic videos. Dude was legend writing (Free ride) playing with Edgar and went to a great career as a solo artist , engineer and producer. Just as versed in R and B as he was in rock.
If you don’t like this, you don’t like Rock n Roll! Damn what a Banger! I always rocked out to this song! And that’s the late great Dan Hartman on backing vocals and bass! Rick Derringer! He even has a cooler name than you or I. Most people don’t know he can shred on guitar 🎸. He’s an incredible guitarist! Rock On, Rick!
Loved this song as a kid in the 70’s! Played guitar in bands decades after that but somehow forgot about this song. We were playing Eagles back then, and went into metal, Scorpions etc, and about 10 years ago I saw an instructional video on “Rock and Roll Hoochie Coo”. Man, I loved that song. It’s a lot harder to play than most of what I did. Really fast chord changes with all those funky fills all over the neck. The lead was just as crazy. So well done I was humbled. None of the younger people I was playing with recognized it when I played it. (No sh*t) and thought I made it up. “Nope, that’s Rick Derringer back when I was kid. It’s the only song I remember by him but it was a serious hit in the 70’s.”
If Montrose was there, you'd have the lineup from the "They Only Come Out At Night" album, which was a supergroup lineup, but we didn't know it until after that. Ronnie, Rick & Dan all did big things solo afterward. That album also had Johnny Badanjek on drums for 2 cuts & Eagles producer Bill Szymcyzk was a technical director helping Derringer produce the album.
Such great stuff from Edgar and Co. First rock concert for me was Grand Funk with Edgar and the Roadwork band. Quite the double bill ! Saw this band a few years later. One of the most talented bands around. Lots of great music and shows from Edgar,Dan,Rick and Chuck. Missed them with Ronnie Montrose. Hope the Montrose clips are in the pipeline. The first show from 74 hasn't been seen since it aired.Keep on rockin !
Back in the 1970s, Friday night about 7:00pm K-SHE 95 in St. louis used to play this to kick-off the weekend. Many times we were cruising in my 68 Chevy Chevelle big block 396 4-speed. Passing a few joints and enjoying a few beers! Who says you can't drink a beer, smoke a joint and shift at the same time, LOL! Those were the days.... Now, I was just approved for Social Security and Medicare. Damn, time does fly!
"Derringer Live" is still one of my favorites. Even though it's poorly mixed and a bit rough, the tunes are still stellar. I've seen both Derringer and Edgar, but not back in the 1970's. That must have been a blast.
I saw Rick open for ZZ Top around 1981 at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona. Normally ZZ Top puts on a great show, but that night Rick and the boys were the best part of that concert. The following day he joined a local band playing at Shakey Drakes for Rock n Roll Hootchicoo.
Definitely one of my all-time favorites! Got to see him twice in '78 or '79. He was on his solo career then. It was the first time I had seen Wireless, and it was a transmitter pack on his back with antenna and red pilot light. I remember he was throwing his guitar up in the air, catching it, and timing it with the next verse up to the mic with strap back on! He was a total wild Man on stage, loads of energy. First discovered him with Edgar Winter and the White Trash "Road Work" album. That has remained one of my all-time favorite go to for killer Blues! Also had the Johnny Winter And albums! For those of you who may not know.... That is the original recording of Hoochie Koo with Johnny Winter! Of course the big hit version was on his first solo album "American Boy". He's penned a lot of great tunes, several for Johnny Winter over the years..... "Still Alive and Well", and "Cheap Tequila" being among them. Is later solo material dabbles with some jazz fusion and funk and lots of smokin' Blues! Great great player!!!
