The Johnny Winter auction

[Dave W]

Coming soon, for those of you with disposable income.

Here's a splashy .pdf with more info, but it says 35 guitars and there are pics of fewer than half of that. It does show his Firebirds and and his T-Bird II.

Then there's this item, which will probably go for crazy money. No kidding.

[Rob]

Well without armpit hair I'm out

[Dave W]

Well without armpit hair I'm out

 

[66Atlas]

I like the 1968 Rolling Stone quote: "A 130-pound, cross-eyed albino with long fleecy hair playing some of the gutsiest, fluid blues guitar you ever heard" 

Some of those posters are pretty cool, but I'll pass on the beard (or armpit) hair.

[lowend1]

Well without armpit hair I'm out

They really should sell the drapes and carpet as a set.

[Dave W]

They really should sell the drapes and carpet as a set.

 

If any carpet was removed, let's hope his widow kept it.

[Rob]

If any carpet was removed, let's hope his widow kept it.

Over and out Capt

[uwe]

With 16 CDs of his or so, I've contributed sufficiently to the estate already! After a long hiatus, I've been listening to him a lot lately. Some British guitarist with a band I forgot qualified him as "one of the most underrated blues guitar players".

To me, he was sort of the American Rory Gallagher. They both had that hefty percussive attack in their playing and didn't let accuracy get in the way of feel. 

[Dave W]

Another thread Blackmored!

[uwe]

Blackwho?   

This being a bass forum, we of course need some Johnny on bass, here at 01:24:45 ...



Plus some very risque (given the prevailing sodomy laws in Texas, but this was a German gig) interplay between bassist and guitarist at 01:34:00.

Last but not least: An unknown overenthusiastic female fan from NYC at 00:55:50, returning for some refreshing free jazz contributions at 01:18:15. Having shot up heroin backstage a couple of hours before, she was in a good mood that night. But apparently, from interviews many years later, she was a great Johnny Winter fan at the time and remained it.

[FrankieTbird]

Last but not least: An unknown overenthusiastic female fan from NYC at 00:55:50, returning for some refreshing free jazz contributions at 01:18:15. Having shot up heroin backstage a couple of hours before, she was in a good mood that night. But apparently, from interviews many years later, she was a great Johnny Winter fan at the time and remained it.

She's from Jersey.

[uwe]

Sigh, any rock star "from New York" who isn't from the Garden State? I should have assumed as much ... Springsteen, Billy Joel, Bon Jovi, Southside Johnny, Joe Lynn Turner ... that whole Jersey music Mafia. 

Waitaminnit! Kiss are NYCers (if not from Manhattan), right? And what about Lou Reed and The Ramones? Please don't tell me that the New York Dolls, of all bands, were from NJ too!!! At least The Dictators are hopefully true Big Applers?

[FrankieTbird]

Waitaminnit! Kiss are NYCers (if not from Manhattan), right? And what about Lou Reed and The Ramones? Please don't tell me that the New York Dolls, of all bands, were from NJ too!!! At least The Dictators are hopefully true Big Applers?

Yes, them are all NYer's.  And at least half the members are Jewish.

[uwe]

With names like Ross Friedman (Ross the Boss), Richard Blum (Handsome Dick Manitoba), Andy Shernoff, Scott Kempner (Top Ten), Stanley Eisen (Starchild) and Chaim Witz (The Demon), I'm not that surprised! They all probably only played unplugged on Friday evenings.

Count in Eric Bloom and Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser of the magnificent BÖC.

Jewish content in music equates quality!

Even without their names, The Dictators made no bones about their ethnicity:

The lyrics

I knocked 'em dead in Dallas
And I didn't pay my dues
Yeah, I knocked 'em dead in Dallas
They didn't know we were Jews

 
from this song here



captioned an article in the summer of 1976 in the Brit New Musical Express raving about this new NYC band set to be "the new MC5". It was the first time I heard about them, but I knew (and loved) "Kick out the Jams" from Deeetroit's finest and that was enough for my curiosity. I bought Manifest Destiny (and later on Bloodbrothers, that "Warriors" (movie) gang look sleeve epitomized NYC for me) and immediately fell in love with their tongue in cheek comic book "Masterrace Rock":



And when it comes to tongue-in-cheek macho rock with intelligent lyrics, I count this as a timeless classic:



The part at 4:30 where Shernoff (reverting to bass after Mark "The Animal" Mendoza had become a Twisted Sister and took his Grabber with him) switches from quarter notes to eights still makes me cream in my pants.

[slinkp]

Sigh, any rock star "from New York" who isn't from the Garden State? I should have assumed as much ... Springsteen, Billy Joel, Bon Jovi, Southside Johnny, Joe Lynn Turner ... that whole Jersey music Mafia. 

Waitaminnit! Kiss are NYCers (if not from Manhattan), right? And what about Lou Reed and The Ramones? Please don't tell me that the New York Dolls, of all bands, were from NJ too!!! At least The Dictators are hopefully true Big Applers?

Now hold on a minute!  Don't you go stealing my local guy. Billy Joel is a NYer born in the Bronx and raised in Long Island.  And nobody on Long Island will ever let you forget it. He's like Springsteen out where I come from.