Recent upload to the official Midnight Special channel.
That's Johnny's future wife Susan on stage. Randy Jo Hobbs on bass.
I'm sure there must be a Blackmore connection.
Your wish is my command, Dave:
“I knew that question (on Stevie Ray Vaughn) was coming. His death was very tragic, but I’m surprised that everybody thinks he was such a brilliant player when there are people like Buddy Guy, Albert Collins, Peter Green and Mick Taylor; Johnny Winter, who is one of the best blues players in the world, is also very underrated. His vibrato is incredible. Stevie Ray Vaughan was very intense. Maybe that’s what caught everybody’s attention. As a player, he didn’t do anything amazing.”If Cozy was awed by the possibility of working with his hero – check out the similarities between the pair’s barnets! – he didn’t let it show, and upon entering the audition room, legend has it that he told Beck: “Get rid of all the others – I’m your new drummer!” Cozy duly joined the new-look Beck Group for two albums – 71’s ‘Rough And Ready’ and the following year’s ‘Jeff Beck Group’.
“Jeff Beck was god in those days,” said Cozy 1995. “Everywhere he played was sold out and I’ve never seen that kind of adulation since. After two albums with Jeff, I left and went to the States where I was either going to join Johnny Winter or Spirit.”They actually jammed as a trio for a few days - with Rick Derringer on bass. Winter wanted Cozy Powell to join him, Cozy was up to it, but wanted Rick Derringer to stay on board playing bass - I guess he had a Beck, Bogert & Appice or West, Bruce & Laing setup in mind -, but Rick didn't see his future as a full-time bassist. Too bad,
Winter, Powell & Derringer might have really gone somewhere as an arena act trio. I would regard Powell as anything
but a laid-back Blues drummer (though he would later on play with Peter Green's Splinter Group), but 70ies Johnny Winter always had that very frantic energy which might have worked well with Powell's high energy drumming - with Derringer holding it all together on bass and doing these amazing unisono runs with Winter.
Cozy would later on meet Suzi Quatro in England and she played bass (and audibly also sang) on his first solo single.
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Given that Dave remains both adamant and very vocal about how Suzi Q and Rick D are one and the same person, this lends further credibility to his theory.