Johnny Winter, RIP

Watching some clips of him on the news tonight....man he looked like a wraith.

It was an effort for him to walk across the stage to sit down, I knew he'd played sitting for that past few years. Someone had to carry his guitar for him.

I guess those years of hard living caught up with him.
 
a friend of mine i hadn't seen in quite a while, named johnny, just died. he didn't play the guitar, but he raced cars like no other. this week takes the cake.
 
There's got to be a major jam going on tonight with Jimi ,Janis , Stevie Ray , The Lizard King , Johnny and a whole bunch of others . Party on..... RIP later .
 
I bounced at a dance club and met him and Leon Russell. They played a three-night gig.

:)

They were very nice people.
 
a friend of mine i hadn't seen in quite a while, named johnny, just died. he didn't play the guitar, but he raced cars like no other. this week takes the cake.

I am very sorry for your loss. :rose:
 
A one-off

He was a total one of a kind. The things he'd been through because of his appearance when growing up and as an adolescent was incredible..... reverse racism... he tried it all.

His autobiography "Raisin' Cain" is a hilarious, horrendous tale of managers keeping him doped to keep him from questioning the accounts and figures - and a testament to what a bitch the music business can be...
But also a tale of an incredible survivor beating the odds over and over....

R.I.P.
 
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