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bought the album "they only come out at night" back in the day when I was in high school...drive my dad nuts, I played it so much...I loved midnight special...came on Friday nights...but prior to that on Friday night was "in concert"...now that was kickass classic rock.
I'm closing my eyes thinking really hard. And I think Hanging Around was the flip side of Frankenstein on the 45 record. We loved it as kids. Many decades later. I'm loving it again.
I saw the Edgar Winter Group tape an episode of the ABC network show "IN CONCERT" at the AQUARIOUS THEATRE in Hollywood when the first LP dropped, saw the DOORS there as well, KISS BEFORE the first platter came out, the make-up was slightly different, and they had a more heavy, evil vibe, Bad Company as well there just as their first LP dropped, and ALL those shows were FREE, yes, that's right, you lined up and got in for NOTHING. Same held true when I watched Edgar Winter and Bad Company tape a "DON KIRSHNER" show at the Long Beach Arena they used a smaller room off to the side made for corporate gatherings, just awesome, free again, ditto for Peter Frampton when the first "Frampton's Camel" came out, folks too young to have been there can't grasp that Frampton was a heavy, swaggering guitarist, a FAR CRY from the rubbish that the live LP became, he just wailed with his Black Beauty Les Paul and FOUR half-stack Marshalls, it was a GOLDEN AGE for Rock/Hard Rock in Los Angeles, and as I said, many of the shows were GRATIS, one of the good things about living and rocking in the Entertainment capital of the world in that era, and even those shows we paid for were cheap, hell, I saw BLIND FAITH, DELANEY and BONNIE and FREE in 1969 with money from collecting coke bottles and taking them back to the store, $3.50 cents at the L. A. Forum, and it WAS a great seat! Now......Well, you pay more for a hot dog at a show now than when I saw utter GODHEAD LEGENDS like HENDRIX, CREAM or PINK FLOYD for less than FIVE DOLLARS, for 20 bucks you got a ticket, grub, gas, and something to tighten up your wig with, ah, the days of the TEN DOLLAR, three fingers LID! And that's NO stems or seeds!
The Winters brothers.......both of them so talented. I've seen both live separately at different shows. Johnny was a blues powerhouse, and Edgar could just bring down the house, he was a freak of nature with that keyboard strapped around his neck! I can see how "Frankenstein" got its title, Edgar is just a one man band up there, haha.
👨🏻🦱I think that's the second time I've seen that guy, he looks like he took a Time travel through a space loop from the late 90s into the early seventies. The typical guys in Rock at that time were "long hairs", that much I DO remember from my childhood at that time! He looks so outta place, I bet Edgar loved it that he was just doin' his own thing and not a "cookie cutter product" of the rock and roll look! 😄👌🏼
Edgar Winter got me through my junior year in high school. Saw them on the Shock Treatment tour in '74, standing on a chair on the front row. 50 years ago and I can remember it like it was yesterday.
I seriously haven't heard either of those songs since I bought the album, They Only Come Out at Night , back in Junior High School. I wore that album out. Hangin' Around was the first song on side one if i remember right.
Excellent performance! Would also love to see a EWG performance from Shock Treatment that includes Rick Derringer on guitar. IMO the Edgar, Rick, Dan, and Chuck version of the band was the best!
Same here..heading up to Winterland with my krew..this quad eight track on full blast accompanied by " many clouds of smoke " billowing out the window..when " Frankenstein " came on it was like traveling in a spaceship..It was albums and bands like these that made me the man I am today..A Rock-N-Roll Dee Jay.." LONG LIVE ROCK!! "
Hangin' Around was always a favorite of mine. I got those teenage vibes of driving around doing nothing, listening to tunes and looking for something to do and hopefully coming across some girls.
Whoa shit! I jus caught that guitar riff @ :50 in sho as hell sounds like the motor city madman's Cat Scratch Fever. Ol' uncle Ted didn't possibly five finger that riff did he? 😂 Not sure when CSF came out, maybe '76-77, but it wasn't B4 this tune. Same thing with Mother's Finest-Mickeys Monkey. That entire guitar riff was blatantly stolen from Zepplin's Custard Pie. Who knows maybe MF got permission to use. Jus rattling my jaws lol. Great tunes either way, all of them
