# R.I.P Johnny Winter **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 17, 2014, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-johnny-winter/693351 "2014-07-17T11:36:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2014, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-johnny-winter/693351/1 "2014-07-17T11:36:57Z")
Johnny Winter has passed away at 70. [Johnny Winter](http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/blues-legend-johnny-winter-dead-at-70/) ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2014, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-johnny-winter/693351/2 "2014-07-17T11:41:23Z")
Damn. ☹ Bye Johnny. I can go buy that copy of The Progressive Blues Project now. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2014, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-johnny-winter/693351/3 "2014-07-17T11:53:17Z")
I never heard much of his music, but I was never unimpressed by the stuff I did. R.I.P, Johnny. Truck on out and spread the news. ---
**Author:** ![DChord568](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@DChord568](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DChord568)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2014, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-johnny-winter/693351/4 "2014-07-17T13:05:51Z")
I didn’t follow Johnny’s career closely, but I did have that first album, plus _Johnny Winter And_. Both very good. His passing was noted on NPR’s 8:00 newscast this morning, and I was very chuffed to hear them play “Be Careful With a Fool” from that first album as background music for the story. I remember the guitar work in that one really turning my head around back in the day. R.I.P. Johnny. ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2014, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-johnny-winter/693351/5 "2014-07-17T13:08:22Z")
Dang. He was featured in Vintage Guitar magazine fairly recently. He seemed pretty happy and healthy. He was a great guitarist. RIP. ---
**Author:** ![CateAyo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@CateAyo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CateAyo)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2014, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-johnny-winter/693351/6 "2014-07-17T13:21:58Z")
He has a new “album” coming out in September. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2014, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-johnny-winter/693351/7 "2014-07-17T13:33:40Z")
> [@Crotalus](#): > > Dang. He was featured in Vintage Guitar magazine fairly recently. He seemed pretty happy and healthy. > > He was a great guitarist. RIP. And in the Classic Rock ([a British mag](http://classicrock.teamrock.com/)) that’s right now sitting on my coffe table, bought a couple of weeks back. I bought it mainly because of that article, having seen him once without previous knowledge of his work and thoroughly loved the show. I can’t remember whether he was due to have a show in Barcelona in the next few weeks or just had one. I’d wanted to go but couldn’t, bad dates. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2014, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-johnny-winter/693351/8 "2014-07-17T14:21:48Z")
R.I.P. Johnny. He was scheduled to do a tour with his brother Edgar later this summer. I saw him play in Chicago in the mid 80s, at the Aragon Ballroom. Roy Buchanan was the opening act. Great show. ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2014, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-johnny-winter/693351/9 "2014-07-17T14:26:56Z")
RIP to the whitest guy in blues. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2014, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-johnny-winter/693351/10 "2014-07-17T15:21:37Z")
Didn’t listen to him a lot, but I’ve always liked what I heard. And he did know how to rock a Gibson Firebird guitar (he also played this little guitar called a Lazer, I think - ugly as sin, but he made it work!). RIP Johnny. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2014, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-johnny-winter/693351/11 "2014-07-17T15:24:30Z")
> [@scabpicker](#): > > Damn. ☹ > > Bye Johnny. I can go buy that copy of The Progressive Blues Project now. Be sure you get the 2005 Capitol Records release; it was remastered and sounds much better than the original CD release. RIP Mr. Winter; thanks for all you done. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2014, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-johnny-winter/693351/12 "2014-07-17T15:29:12Z")
Had no idea he was 70 already, Godspeed Johnny! used to see him quite a bit in the Miami area, many times at the Agora Ballroom Hallandale Beach - he blew the doors off! ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2014, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-johnny-winter/693351/13 "2014-07-17T16:01:09Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Be sure you get the 2005 Capitol Records release; it was remastered and sounds much better than the original CD release. > > RIP Mr. Winter; thanks for all you done. Nah, I am gonna splurge and get the vinyl if it’s still in the store tomorrow. I didn’t get it before because I’d bought two quintessential albums in a row where their creator died soon afterwards, and I got spooked. They also had Second Winter, which I may grab if it’s still there. But if I end up with a CD, I will follow your advice. And in the grand tradition of corrections: It’s The Progressive Blues Experiment. I’m a nitwit. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2014, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-johnny-winter/693351/14 "2014-07-17T17:18:40Z")
I’ve got a tape somewhere of his first album, and also a Muddy Waters LP that he played on. I need to go dig those out and have a listen… it’s been years. RIP Johnny. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2014, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-johnny-winter/693351/15 "2014-07-17T17:24:49Z")
Ah, man - loved Johnny. [RIP](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsT8HGVnH2A). ---
**Author:** ![Lukeinva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lukeinva/32/17872_2.png) [@Lukeinva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lukeinva)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2014, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-johnny-winter/693351/16 "2014-07-17T17:38:13Z")
RIP Johnny. ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2014, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-johnny-winter/693351/17 "2014-07-17T17:47:31Z")
Damn! I saw Johnny perform three times, in '69, '71 and '89. All three times he was a consummate showman, delivering a powerhouse performance. Back when I was in college, in the golden age of vinyl, his three-sided album, “Second Winter” was the coolest package ever. And his cover of [“Highway 61 Revisited”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yclRjptWlW8) from that album remains, in my mind, the definitive version of the song. RIP - ☹ ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2014, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-johnny-winter/693351/18 "2014-07-17T18:06:16Z")
Only saw him once, June '69. Here’s a quick little “celebration of his life”: my very favorite of his performances. “Georgia Swing” from 1970, with James Cotton. Johnny’s two solos start at 1:06 and 3:54. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/QcRhx3zJnKA/hqdefault.jpg "Georgia Swing: James Cotton, Johnny Winter") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcRhx3zJnKA) ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2014, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-johnny-winter/693351/19 "2014-07-17T18:33:00Z")
Hadn’t seen this one before - a ~26-year-old Johnny ( somewhat atypically playing a Les Paul ), with a ~24-year-old Edgar backing on saxophone: [Fast Life Rider](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-L5UIS3sbVY). ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2014, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-johnny-winter/693351/20 "2014-07-17T21:09:01Z")
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