Who is Johnny Winter??! Johnny B Good Reaction 

The Winter brothers are undoubtedly master multi-instrumentalists. They've each had outstanding moments in rock history.

Johnny and his brother Edgar had the most extreme form of Albinism. As youths, if they got out at all in the daylight they would burn very fast. Like 2nd degree burns. So they spent a lot of their childhood in the basement of the house. Their parent bought them like every musical instrument you could think of, and both boys mastered all of them. They were two phenomenal musicians! Johnny went more Blues Guitar and Edgar went more Keys and Synth, but they could both play almost anything.

He and his brother Edgar are, to us old-timers, ROCK LEGENDS !!!!!!!!!!!

At one time he was the highest paid musician in the world! He and his brother were incredibly talented Texans!❤❤❤

You never heard of him?? Holy cow. Now.. listen to his brother and him doing Tobacco Road live. You will be blown away! Oh, his hair? he's albino.

Johnny Winter is an ALBINO

I was a buddy of Johnny’s for the last dozen years of his life. I produced shows for him numerous times in Canada. I’ve also got to play both his famous Firebirds! A guitar highlight for me, for certain! I did the same for his bro, Edgar, as well. I love those brothers out’a East Texas!

Johnny and Edgar, both extremely talented. Both showmen.

Highway 61 , slide guitar tour de force !

Check out Frankenstein by the brothers Winter😊

Johnny is as good as it gets. One of the all time best imo

Sebs, firstly than your sub for this. I was at that concert and I have seen him over 20 times in my life and he always put on a fantastic show. His true love was the Blues which he did later in his career. No one like him, you should listen to "3rd Degree" or "Sweet Poppa John" among many others . It's a crime that more reactors don't react to his music be it the Blues or his Rock stuff.

My husband just can not believe you have not heard Johnny Winter!! He loves Johnny!!

Johnny is the best I’ve ever seen and I’ve seen some of the best guitar players in the world live. Twice I saw him in very small venues and it’s impossible to take your eyes off his hands.

He was an awesome blues man. I saw him with ZZ Top in 1975 in Orlando and then again in 1993 in Jacksonville Fl, I could listen to him everyday. His Johnny Winter And Live album is amazing. His brother Edgar (Frankenstein) is also an excellent guitar player in his own right.

I saw him in concert! I also saw his brother Edgar Winter in concert around the same time. He is fantastic! A legend!!

His brother Edgar Winter is also afflicted with albinism, he is also a great musician. His better known tracks are Frankenstein and Free Ride. Sadly Johnny passed 10 years ago. He was friends with greats Eric Clapton and Buddy Guy and one of Johnny'saat performances was with them at a classic blues jam that you can find on RU-vid. Incredible player. RIP

Skipped my JR/SR prom in either 71 or 72 (can't remember if I was a junior or senior in HS) Anyway it was Johnny Winter AND featuring Rick Derringer as well as Johnny. Atlanta Municipal Auditorium. Awesome. BTW he is Albino...as his other famous well known brother Edgar. I didn't know he's not in the rock hall of fame....gross oversight!!!!!!!. Check out his work with his brother Edgar...Frankenstein...Tobacco Road. I have an early album by him "about Blues".......Leland Mississippi Blues...Be kind to a Fool.

Had the privilege of seeing Johnny and his brother Edgar together at Rich Stadium back in the 70’s. Incredible!!! You MUST SEE them together doing the LIVE VERSION of TOBACCO ROAD!!! It IS worth it!!! RIP, Johnny🙏 THANK YOU for decades of GREAT MUSIC!!!

Several years ago I shared a crosscountry flight with his brother Edgar. We had great conversations about varied topics. I didn’t recognize him at first. Later he invited me to join him and I became his guest at the Heart concert in Topeka for which he was opening. A very good man.

There were so many greatest guitarist in the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s.

I had a Blacklight poster in my bedroom back in 1969 of Johnny Winter and Jimi Hendrix. They were sort of Rock/Blues Guitar Super Heros. No doubt, Johnny and Brother Edgar are top shelf artists of any era.

I love Johnny Winter, he is one of the best guitarists! He is one of the best blues singers and guitarists ever! He is an albino, that's why his hair is so white. He is in the blues hall of fame and he should be in the rock n roll hall of fame.

I saw Johnny several times at the Bottom Line in NYC (It was a small club in the middle of Greenwich Village). As for Muddy Waters, he is one of the most famous OLD TIME blues players Look up "MUDDY WATERS - Mannish Boy (w Johnny Winter)" on RU-vid..

My town is right in the middle of the Handy Festival, our local festival celebrating the Father of the Blues, W.C. Handy. His birthplace is just a few blocks from my house. This entire week, different blues bands will be playing in restaurants, parks, and libraries all over town. We have parades and block parties and all kinds of events celebrating the blues.

Saw both brothers in the Detroit area in 1973 when I was19. Absolutely amazing!

Back in the 60s and 70s, Johnny was THE guitar guy. He was right at the top with Hendrix and maybe one or two others. He was also considered tops in blues guitar with the three Kings, too. Stevie Ray claimed he was a major influence on him as well. I can't believe that he's not in the HOF.

I have seen Johnny a few times in concert. He was amazing. A great American blues man.

I saw Johnny in 1969 at the Texas International Pop Festival. Play 1979 I saw him at a club called Old Man Rivers. It was about 20 miles south of New Orleans back in the bayou in the woods and the Evergreens.. so I saw him way back in the woods among the Evergreens. And when he performs Johnny B Goode that night the whole audience was screaming Go Johnny Go!!

In my mind, he actually WAS Johnny B Good!

Johnny Winter live 1970 Copenhagen...great set, also his performance at the Woodstock Festival, 1969, which I was lucky enough to be there for.

Johnny Winters version of Jumpin Jack Flash....👍

He was incredible. I got to see him perform live several times, including with Muddy Waters, Eric Clapton, at the first Chicago Blues Fest in the early 80's, and shortly before he died. He produced those 70's albums for Muddy Waters - Hard Again (aptly named), I'm Ready, and King Bee, plus Muddy Mississippi Waters Live, that helped recharge his career earning several Grammy awards. He was a blues/guitar master, and the older brother of Edgar Winter. One of the all time greats!

Saw him 1974 live concert. He ended the night with Bob Dylans song Highway 61 and brought the house down. People were going crazy. A night I'll always remember. Rock and roll at its finest. 😊

His brother, Edgar (an Albino also) is freaking awesome too....saw both play a concert together in the Scope, Norfolk Virginia. Johnny made a surprise visit, had just been released from prision on Herion charges and not only surprised us, his brother too...he had no clue....it was a super concert...Edgar Winter's White Trash band was great, the Group did....remember, They Only Come Out at Night...... Frankenstein folks!!!!! Johnny was amazing!

My favorite guitar slinger. I saw Johnny in 1975....1990.....2013. Thanks for the memory. PS: Johnny appeared at WOODSTOCK.

Johnny Winter ( And Brother Edgar) From 1967 To 2014 Time Span!! So Much History!! Check Out The 2 Grammy Winning Blues Albums He Oversaw/ Produced With Muddy( "It's Hard") WATERS And The Last One , With A Who, s WHO, Of GUITAR LEGENDS, FROM KENNY WAYNE SHEPHERD , JONNY LANG & To His Own Personal Favorite( SLIDE, Baby..😮) Derek TRUCKS, ETC... So Many, To Honor Johnny , Before He Left This Realm , Of Existence.. 😎🎸🔊🎶🎵🎶🎵 😁 👉😜 🎶🎵

Johnny Winter is in my top 5 of guitar gods ! Got to see him 3 times , the last time was 2 weeks before he passed away ! He still jammed up a good show ! Another good one is Johnny Winter , live at Rockpalest doing The Medley !

I think you'd also enjoy hearing Johnny's brother, Edgar (The Edgar Winter Group) doing Frankenstein, if you haven't heard it already. It's very unique and awesome. They're a talented family.

His hair is "blonde" because both he and his brother Edgar are albinos. 55 years ago, I used to listen to the 3 sided double album (yes it was a double album with only 3 sides. They didn't have any more to record and they didn't want to lose volume by squeezing it on one lb) where Winter plays the studio version of Johnny B Goode. I used to be into photography and I would spend hours in the darkroom as a teenager with Johnny Winter on full blast on my portable record player.

Mean Town Blues , he played this song at the original Woodstock . His video of Mean Town Blues, awsome!!

B.B.King , Indianola,Mississippi Seed ,The entire Album, produced by leon Russell ,Feat., Joe Walsh,Carol King. Hey ,What's not to like. Keep up the good work.

First saw Johnny Winter at the Roundhouse in 1970 six foot six albino with kickass guitar skills he blew me away.

Saw Johnny twice at Pirates World back in the early 70's along with Steve Miller. Great show!

The tone he is getting in this video is from a Phase Shifter pedal- very popular sound in he 70s.

Went to school with Johnny in 1961 in Hollywood Florida, couldn't play outside had to watch cartoons in the dark, speaking of a remake listen to "let it bleed" he and Rick derringer did a fabulous job

The album "Johnny Winter And..." is one of the great "lost" rock albums. He was backed up by the McCoys, featuring Rick Derringer, a fantastic one-two punch on guitar. Worth checking out.

He was really known for playing a firebird but he played others I saw him 7 times always brought it to a live performance.

In 1988, Johnny became the first non-African American inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame.

seeing johnny and edgar together with Rick Derringer on stage together in the late 70's was unforgettable.

Johnny Winters, Mean Town Blues, 1971 Copenhagen is some of the best slide guitar you will ever heard!!!

One of my favorite concerts was Johnny and Edgar Winter with BB King in Houston.

My personal favorite guitarist of all time. Play a firebird because of him.

Seen Johnny 2 times and it was rowdy!! Beer flying rowdy!

The loudest concert I ever went to was Johnny Winter. My ears rang for days.

Him and his brother Edgar were my first concert. 1976.

One of rocks best albums "Johnny Winter and" all tore down is great

As a guitarist I don't understand how any guitar player that doesn't know who Jeff Beck, Johnny Winters, Alvin Lee Robin Trower, Rory Gallagher or Roy Buchanan are ..... these are true guitar players ‼️👍

Had to join to shout: "Roadwork" album by Edgar Winter's White Trash--1972 is an excellent LIVE album with Rick Derringer and special guest Johnny Winter coming in for a song. The brothers are Albino with Soul! You probably won't find videos BUT the Album is well worth seeking out. My brother had it on LP back in the 1970's and I have it now on CD.

One of a kind!

I m so glad i saw him live in a small venu in Montreal !

he played that guitar like a machine gun, firing music into the audience!

Always been my favorite, saw him around 15 times once with Muddy Waters, great reaction

Johnny flirted w/becoming a rock star, but settled eventually back into his blues roots. He was a consummate blues man.

Johnny and his brother Edgar have albinism so they couldn't spend a lot of time outside in the sun. Their parents nurtured their love of music Check out their version of "Tobacco Road" and "Jumpin Jack Flash". Also check out "Frankenstein", it's an instrumental. All these songs are amazing!!

Now you need to hear his brother Edgar Winter and his band's musical piece called Frankenstein. Both Johnny and Edgar are albino and both have been playing since before school age. Edgar is proficient on keyboard, drums, sax and vocals.

Johnny and Edgar Winters were albino brother who due to their condition weren't allowed outside much growing up so they put all their energy into playing music Johnny was great with guitar where Edgar excelled playing the piano, sax and drums. Check Edgar playing "Frankenstein"!!!!!!

The ultimate texas blues man. Amazing. Boot Hill, Third Degree and many more.

🎉 I was a college student in 1974 and bought an album called, “John Dawson Winter III.” It blew me away‼️

one of the best blues/rock guitatists EVER

Johnny and his bro Edgar were albino and grew up in hot Texas. They didn’t go outside, instead they learned to play music .. very well. Frankenstein by Edgar is instrumental classsic.

I saw Johnny in concert in Germany back in the 80s while stationed there for the army. It was one of the best concerts I've ever been to.

Such fantastic memories! Was blessed to grow up in Cocoa beach Florida area during the great musical era of the 60, 70, 80’s era.

Saw him in 1977 with a new band 38 special my first concert

Man. I would love to talk to you. I’m a 72 year old southern kid. My playlist consists of over 60,000 songs. I can’t believe you haven’t heard of these people. I’ve been a music person since a baby. I want to send you some names to look up and play. Starting with a song called in-a-gada-da-vida by Iron Butterfly. It’s on RU-vid. It’s long but the drum solo will blow your socks off, but slowly.

I heard Johnny when I was about 12

Love Johnny Winter and great reaction. As a Stevie Ray Vaughan fan you should check Ally Venable, a young Texas (like Johnny Winter and SRV) singer guitarist who credits SRV as the reason she learned guitar. She does a tribute to SRV and has toured with and/or played with Buddy Guy, Joe Bonamassa, Kenny Wayne Sheppard among others. Ally is the next generation of blues guitarists. Her latest album spent three weeks at #1 on the Bliiboard Blues charts.

Johnny Winter was the first and only white guitarist inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame. There may be more now idk but he was the first. Here is my best Johnny Winter story - I was in Mystic Seaport, CT working at a wooden Boat Show. We heard about a blues festival where JW was the closer on the last day. We finally found the venue which was in the parking lot of a marina. We asked about buying a ticket for that day but we were told we had to buy the whole weekend package for $77. That was too much so we decided to hang outside the fence which was right behind the stage anyway. I noticed that people were going into the venue from a hall that a wedding reception was happening and got an idea. We walked around the reception hall along the waters edge past the hoists at the marina and found a rent-a-cop reading a book and people walking in and out. So we simply walked right in! $0! Long story short, we ended up 3 people back from center stage and Johnny was led in to a chair as he was mostly blind then sat down and killed for about an hour. We reveled in our good fortune. As it turns out that was his last US appearance - he died 3 weeks later in Europe.

Awesome. Tobacco road with Johnny and Edgar Winter is up next.

The Winter Brothers, Johnny and Edgar. Due to their albinoism, both are master musicians. Couldn't go out in the sun. Stage lights hurt their eyes so they kept them closed. Johnny was before SRV, and they are from texas too!

I saw most of the great guitar players, in my younger years. But about 35 years ago I saw Johnny Winter live in the Netherlands. I couldn't believe my ears,and my eyes. He was playing about 10 feet away from me. Never saw anybody do what he did. I really think Johnny was the best. Playing slide and finger style in the same song. Good reaction, thanks. 👍💪😁

Chuck Berry, wrote Johnny Be Good, need to check out his brother Edgar Winters Frankenstein

If you want to see an old Johnny Winter playing fantastic slide guitar check out Johnny Winter & Derek Trucks - Highway 61 at Crossroads ... the 9:41 length video. Sadly the video quality is bad. There used to be a much clearer video of the same performance but I can't find it anymore. There's shorter edited versions that are clear, but it's not worth losing some of the song. Derrick Trucks is no slouch when it comes to playing slide guitar but he's in awe of Johnny, and in the clearer video it's so much fun to watch the BIG smile on the face of the bass player. He's loving every second of playing with Johnny Winter. His smile is so big it looks like the night before the performance he must have slept with a coat hanger in his mouth. - Another pretty good performance of an old Johnny Winter is him playing Dust My Broom on The David Letterman Show. -- OH MY GOD! You don't know who Muddy Waters is! I guarantee that you have heard him before but didn't know it was Muddy. After Muddy Water's wife died he moved from Chicago to Westmont, Illinois. I grew up two towns east, in Hinsdale, Illinois. I had a friend who was a neighbor of Muddy's. We never did the annoying fan thing, when we'd see him we'd just smile and wave and Muddy would do the same. It was not at all unusual to see Johnny Winter or Eric Clapton and others at Muddy's house. Eric Clapton was the best man at Muddy's wedding. Muddy Waters is a true blued legend. As I said, I guarantee you have heard Muddy Waters and just didn't know it. There is no way you haven't heard "Mannish Boy" in movies and TV shows, and very possibly on the radio. If you watched "Goodfellas" .. you heard Muddy. If you watched the TV series "The Sopranos" .. you heard Muddy. "I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man" is another that I would guess it would be almost impossible for you to not have heard. "Champagne & Reefer" is not as well known, but it's a great short fun song. "Yeah bring me champagne when I'm thirsty. Bring me reefer when I want to get high. Yeah bring me champagne when I'm thirsty. Bring me reefer when I want to get high. Well you know when I'm lonely Bring my woman set her right down here by my side." The Rolling Stones, among others, covered the song. The Rolling Stones would come to Muddy's club in Chicago and join in the show, as did many other famous bands and individual musicians. --- One other GREAT guitarist you really should check out is Buddy Guy. I'd suggest almost anything from his Red Rocks performance. Buddy Guy was a big influence on Jimi Hendrix. Jimi used to go to clubs Buddy was playing at, sit as close to the stage as possible, watch Buddy play like a hawk watching a rabbit in a field and Jimi would bring a cassette recorder with him. Jimi studied Buddy Guy. - You mentioned checking out B B. King. You should check out "The Three Kings" -- B. B. King, Albert King and Freddie King. Albert King was a good friend of Stevie Ray Vaughan. The two shared a stage a number of time when Stevie was new and just breaking into the business. And if you like the blues you should also check out Albert Collins 'The Master of the Telecaster.' I'd suggest a live version of "If Trouble Was Money." The first one that pops up in a Google search is the best performance I have seen. There are different options of the same performance and some are better quality, but that would be the performance to check out.

Johnny is Texas blues rock royalty along with Freddy King!

Johnny was one of the best playin the slide guitar too

Johnny Winter And - live. Best live album ever.

If you go down this rabbit hole you better prepare yourself to be WINTERIZED!

Johnny Winter also did a cover of "Jumping Jack Flash" which you would do well to investigate. LIve 1970, Fillmore East.

You hear the slide. In Vancouver mid 70's they turned off his power sometime past midnight. He was cooking playing every rock song there was.

That driving bass in the background is none other than Tommy Shannon, who would later go on to play with SRV and Double Trouble.

You would totally enjoy his brother Edgar's tune called Frankenstein!

He was also one of the best slide players too

I saw Johnny Winter 2009 live in Germany < that was fun! :) *go He was the legendary albinistic, cross-eyed & legally blind musician! B.B.King -> check out "Blue Boys Tune" ♥

Cant believe you've never heard Johnny Winter. I have a really cool water color painting of him hanging in my living room right next to my lithograph portrait of Duane Allman.

See John Paris throw the pick at the end? I have one from seeing Johnny at a club in New York. Heard Johnny do this song that night. Johnny has some fast fingers.

As far as I know he always plugged straight into the Amp, no electronic devises altering the guitar.

Keep in mind that Johnny was pretty much legally blind when this was recorded. He was losing his sight, although he could still see his guitar neck clearly. I roadied for Johnny during this tour - Kim Mitchell was the warm-up act (solo after Max Webster broke up).

Johnny is an albino - only rock star that I know of that was so!! He did bring back alot of 51/60 type music!!!!!

Now that you’ve heard Jonny, you need to hear hi brother Edgar. Check out The Edgar Winter Group. Live version of the song Frankenstein!

As everyone else in the comments is saying, you also need to check out Jonny's brother Edgar. Sometimes they played together and sometimes they played in separate bands. But you also need to check out Rick Derringer who played with both Johnny and Edgar. Especially listen to Rick Derringers's playing on "Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo", "Frankenstein", and his guitar solo on Steely Dan's "Chained Lightning". And speaking of Steely Dan, check out Larry Carlton's solo on "Don't Take Me Alive" and check out Steve Gadd's drum solo over Wayne Shorter's sax solo in Steely Dan's "Aja".