EDGAR WINTERS GROUP - Frankenstein (Live 1973) | FIRST TIME REACTION

[@danamorrow8030]

Edgar and his brother Johnny are the two most underrated musicians of the late 60s early 70s. You should check out the live version of the brothers doing Tobacco Road. Edgar is a multi instrumentalist and Johnny is one of the greatest blues guitarists ever.

[@leeannfitch3596]

I saw Edgar Winter in concert in 1973. I was 17. Aerosmith was a no show. Thank you so much for not stopping the music to talk. It always ruins the mood.

[@jackiegerspachhas4237]

Edgar and Johnny’s mother said that they were born with talent were talented as babies!!!!!

[@meditationlifeskills9310]

A masterclass in 70's jamming techniques! Tobacco Road live is an absolute must listen!!!!!!

[@rhwinner]

Edgar has recently come out with an album, 'My Brother Johnny,' which won a Grammy. It's a tribute to his big brother, who passed several years ago. RIP.

[@mamaflush9945]

Hey brother, here's another suggestion, but this one is with Johnny & Edgar Winter, if interested. "Johnny Winter, Edgar Winter - Tobacco Road (Live)" (channel: JOHNNYWINTER VEVO) --Edgar Winter composed and performed songs of numerous genres including rock, jazz, blues, and pop. His recording of "Tobacco Road" propelled him into the national spotlight. He was brother to the late great Johnny Winter (both were highly talented musicians and great vocalists.)

[@woverby1963]

I was 10 or 11 when this first came out i used to sit with my tape recorder/radio and wait for a good sounding song to come on the radio so i could record and get a nice song playlist. First time i heard this on the radio i hit record right away and its been on my playlist since!

[@jackiegerspachhas4237]

Tabacco road is mind blowing!!!!!!

[@kevinmalone2218]

Two words "Tobacco Road" Johnny & Edgar Winter.

[@HRConsultant_Jeff]

can you imagine you are back stage and waiting to come on and they play this? You just pack up and leave.

[@KJ-4321]

Ha ha! Sooo true!!, lol

[@patticampana9458]

Yep. Dude with the white hair, played them all. Love the bass also✌️

[@jimtatro6550]

I first heard this song on the radio in 1976 when I was 9 years old and it immediately made me want to learn how to play drums, I joined the school band the next year and played drums for the next 30 odd years.👍

[@Sean-gj7vw]

I read somewhere that Edgar called this "The Drum Song" before renaming it Frankenstein. 🤘

[@mightyV444]

@jimtatro6550 - That's awesome! 😀👍 I'm a drummer myself but am unable to name one singular song as my inspiration. But I was heavily into The Police at the time (1980), and their album 'Zenyatta Mondatta' was among those I'd started to learn the drums to 😊

[@HRConsultant_Jeff]

I played drums until I realized you can't take them to the beach and impress girls and switched back to guitar. It was a good move.

[@clifton8929]

Johnny and Edgar Winter 'Tobacco Road' live - It's a must-see. Talent beyond Talent!!! You just can't find artistic flow like that today.

[@majorharper4087]

Tabacco Road live with his brother Johnny is amazing.

[@craigreid7178]

My band got to open for these guys back in the mid '90s. They blew the roof off the place.

[@KJ-4321]

That is so cool! 😀

[@ohfour-seven6228]

Wow, how cool!!!

[@48mastadon]

This was 50 years ago when synthesizers first came out and Edgar Winter had seemingly mastered it overnight. Forgive the Frankenstein pun but this song was a monster when it came out.

[@typoqueen9680]

First time I heard this was with some friends in 70s, it was played on an amazing quadraphonic stereo with big speakers and we were all on Mushrooms sitting in the middle of the speakers with laser lights bouncing around the room. It was an amazing way to experience the ‘They Only Come about At Night album for the first time. I’ve seen both him and his brother in concert a few times after that, very talented family.

[@bobschenkel7921]

The instrument Edgar Winter is playing is called a..wait for it...Keytar. He invented and developed it himself. Saw Edgar a couple of times, once as an opener for The Allman Brothers Band, a very odd pairing, and once with his brother Johnny Winter in an alone and together concert. Of course Edgar played "Frankenstein" at both shows, it was his biggest hit. He had another hit song, with vocals, called "Free Ride", from the same album. The song was called "Frankenstein" because it was cobbled together from various riffs and random song parts they had laying around. The Guitar player on the right, in the white outfit, is Rick Derringer, who had his own hit song with "Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo" a few years later.

[@mamaflush9945]

Great information thanks for sharing🤘❤‍🔥

[@mightyV444]

@bobschenkel7921 - Ultimately though, all he did was attach a guitar strap to the keyboard of his ARP synthesizer 😀 But still: It definitely _was_ the first keytar ever 😊 Mass-produced keytars (a.k.a. remote keyboards) showed up only from the late 70's and were most popular during the 80's; You hardly see them anymore today 🙂

[@bobschenkel7921]

Yeah, real musicians are getting harder to find. If I hear one more kid say "Gimme a beat", I'm going to puke. Hey Kid, make you own damn beat, get to work!@@mightyV444

[@bobschenkel7921]

Thank You mama.@@mamaflush9945

[@jonathansmith3742]

One of the Baddest Jams in the Land. Thanks

[@stevedahlberg8680]

Timbales is pronounced tim BALL ace Such a classic!

[@ed.z.]

The guitarist is Rick Derringer who’s 1960s rock band, The McCoys had an influential smash hit “Hang On Sloopy”. Which fuelled the craze for kids (like I was) to start working bands.

[@adamelliott18]

This performance is very hard not to love...for reactors or just anyone who hears it. The abridged studio version was a huge hit and played on all rock radio stations and school dances. 😊

[@dennisgschmidt6167]

Saw them in 73 when it was hitting the radio. Edgar opened for Alice Cooper, we saw this song played almost exactly like this, about 8 rows from the front. It was a sight to behold !

[@gpxo11]

Need to hear the album version as well due to the headphone sound effects-particularly the synthesizer break in the middle. Free ride was their other big hit although their ballad Autumn is a great tune as well.

[@ericstaton6896]

@Critical Reacts! Edgar Winter on Keyboard, Saxophone & Timbales. Chuck Ruff on drums, Rick Derringer on guitar, and Dan Hartman on bass. Rick Derringer was best known for his big hit "Rock 'n' Roll, Hoochie Koo"1973! Dan Hartman was best known for his hits "Instant Replay" 1978, "Relight My Fire (featuring Loleatta Holloway)" 1979, and "I Can Dream About You" 1984!

[@hlawrencepowell]

Great Reaction! Edgar was the white-haired genius. So, now, check out Johnny Winters who played blues/rock like nobody else. Highway 61 Revisited by Johnny is one of the best Bob Dylan covers ever.

[@jonathonleifer4817]

Same group, same show, ‘Tobacco Road.’ It will blow you away.

[@artkazyak3242]

ONE OF THE BEST LIVE PERFORMANCES EVER

[@lathedauphinot6820]

Edgar is the white-haired guy playing all the instruments. His brother Johnny was a famous blues guitarist who played with Edgar and every blues musician in the world, it seems. He helped Muddy Waters in his late-career comeback that might not have happened without him. They’re from East Texas.

[@ohfour-seven6228]

Edgar's group before this was called White Trash, and they were incredibe. It was a rock/blues, Texas funk band with horns and definitely worth checking out. Suggest Give It Everything You've Got, Keep Playing That Rock n Roll and Good Morning Music. Great stuff!

[@jeffking4176]

Gandolf the Musician ‼️ I remember when this came out. Completely innovative, especially for that time. 📻🙂

[@morbiouslenoir]

That was Edgar, playing everything. He played a lot more too, plus singing his ass off. He and his brother, Johnny, made some crazy music together.

[@ericanderson8886]

Edgar and his brother Johnny played at Woodstock '69, some of the sweetest blues you'll ever hear.

[@raymondregis6219]

I remember this being played on the radio as a new song. It was so different and refreshing. What a fun tune. The synth solo was very unusual for radio back then.

[@armandogarza6181]

Yea man, definitely a great jam. Fun fact: It was early 80s and was in Austin TX visiting family so a brother of mine, a friend and I walked into a bar/poolhall to play a little pool, but we heard Johnny Winter playing in the bar. Walking in the bar, there was Edgar sitting on a bar stool with two women on each side of him. Thought of going to say what's up, instead decided just to wave. Johnny was just tearing it up on stage and another famous fellow Texan, Bobby Keys was sitting in playing Sax, it was great. Peace.

[@KJ-4321]

Wow… what an experience!!!! 😀

[@melissakhalar1842]

❤❤❤❤

[@sfrjenkins]

The Winter Brothers are south Texas born and raised 😉

[@eirikasbjrnberg8753]

THis is on my top ten list of live performances .

[@aandpman]

Edgar can STILL throw down. My best friend whom I've known since about the year that record started playin' on the radio. That friend just saw Edgar a few weeks ago, along with Ringo Starr on the drums. Said he never dreamed he'd see that song played live by Da Man. cheers - fellow Texan.

[@pebblehilllane]

A lot of people who listen to this song, watch videos of it and react to it never realize how large of a part of it Rick Derringer played.

[@stevedavis5704]

The story that was told when I was younger that stuck with me was about the formation of the band. They were trying to find a name that had a catchy gimmick to it because it was felt that was the way it was done in the early 70’s (you know, like Bowie or KISS”). After some discussion and a little arguing, some one from the label just looked at Edgar and said “Dude you’re an albino what more do you need?” Might not be true but it was a common story and is a cool story.

[@gypsyrockchannel]

Hey bro, I grew up in the 70’s and watch a lot of reaction videos, thanks for introducing my music to your generation, I don’t subscribe to hardly any KZbinrs but l find you the best of the bunch and subscribed, not sure if anyone has already commented but if you liked this song you have to do a reaction to Johnny (RRHFer) and Edgar Winter doing a live version of Tobacco Road 1976 I believe, I promise you won’t be disappointed, I’m also a KZbinr “Gypsy rock channel” but I do travel videos. The thing that separates you from the rest is you have a better knowledge of music and I like that you don’t pause too much, and at the end you do a deeper dive and research the artist, can’t wait for your Tobacco Road live reaction. I promise you it will blow your mind, keep up the good work, lastly I love your Dylan reaction, if you want to hear his voice at its finest check out Blind Willy McTell studio version bootleg 1-3

[@longhairkev1]

A good suggestion of a song with both Edgar and Johnny Winter would be Tobacco Road which is awesome.

[@ivansavoie3190]

Good to finally hear someone comment on how good the guitarist and bass is , got the name when Chuck Ruff walked in and saw all the pieces of tape all over and said looks like Frankenstein is what heard

[@jamescofer3261]

When the studio version came on the radio in my youth, I would always crank it up gradually as the electronic wawa continued.

[@damienparis5377]

haha....you latched on to a hot potato with this!...was hoping someone would request...great request mate....peace

[@KevinRCarr]

I see that someone mentioned guitarist Rick Derringer and his solo song Rock & Roll Hoochie-Koo, great song, but someone should also mention that Derringer was also lead guitar and vocal for a band called The McCoys who had a hit song called Hang On Sloopy that I think you'd really like, as well. Also, Edgar has a brother named Johnny Winter, who was a phenomenal blues guitarist with a great band, early on, Edgar played and sang with Johnny's band sometimes. I'd recommend a cover recording by the two of them, of the song Tobacco Road, that might just blow you out of your chair.

[@Jude_196]

Just KNEW you were going to appreciate this performance: BEFORE I EVEN WATCHED IT!!! :) GREAT REACTION!!! This is still one of my favorite jams, after ALL THESE YEARS!! SO CREATIVE & SO GOOD!!!

[@KJ-4321]

Yay! Thank you!, 😀😀😀😀 Loved your reaction!! Thank you for diving deep into it! Excellent reaction to an amazing song along with super talent! 😀⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[@patticampana9458]

His brother Johnny Winters had aome awesome songs, also. You may want to check out Slow Ride.

[@jellyrollnorton]

Such a great earphone song, the studio version especially. What makes this live version great is seeing them give it their all, and live at that.

[@johnp8131]

Saw them a few years ago in Cambridge, England, on a double bill with Alvin Lee just before he died. We really went to see Alvin but, I must say Edgar and co were pretty impressive.

[@patticampana9458]

Love your reaction to this. Wish you could have seen them live. I think you would of really like it! Keep them coming✌️

[@kevinlundgren1169]

Edgar and his brother Johnny are albino , they couldn't play outside as kids , so they stayed inside and learned how to play instruments . They both know how to play all instruments , but Johnny mainly stuck to the guitar , but Edgar played everything else , and they played them very well as you can tell !! Just wait until you check out Tobacco Road !! Both brothers are jammin together !!

[@827dusty]

Edgar and Johnny Winter are brothers. They are both "Albino. From Texas. Johnny was (Died a few years ago) world renowned Superstar Rock/Blues guitarist, in the same class as Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton etc. These brothers were (Edgar died recently as well) so darn talented it's unbelievable. You need ro react to the video with both of them together called "Tobacco Road." Your jaw will drop after watching it. That's no Bull either. Thanks

[@ellet6560]

I believe Edgar is still with us.

[@ivansavoie3190]

You should check out Johnny Winter Highway 61 Revisited from Johnny Winter Captured Live, Johnny and Edgar Winter Tobacco Road also, great reaction

[@kimmomaki]

Johnny Winter and Edgar Winter have no 's' at the end of their names. Winter is the name.

[@scotttrainer9704]

I believe this was four different songs that Edgar was working on and they put them together to make this monster.

[@ralphpeed3596]

If you liked this you should check out Edger and Johnny Winter -Tobacco Road

[@cletushouse906]

I knew you were going to get a kick out of this.

[@Prone2Thrill]

Nice reaction and a must to have in your library of listened. Epic performance by all the guys. R.I.P. to Johnny Winter - they have a dobro style resonator guitar (like Oliver Anthony) at Republic Guitars called the Highway 61 (damn sweet) and it's a Johnny Winter design. I'd check out his Highway 61 song.

[@rossdownes4240]

Great reaction this was one of those rare pieces of music an instrumental that got to number one on the charts another one you should check out is Albatross by Fleetwood Mac.

[@bryanforis1839]

You have to listen to music and playing all instrumental great music song

[@lesblatnyak5947]

Next: Tobacco Road live with brother Johnny from the White Trash Roadworks tour. Great double album.

[@chrisbanks5925]

Genius.

[@jonthomson8392]

👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@chitownlee]

You need to check out Edgar with his older brother Johnny do Tobacco Road live.

[@lindasalaki9404]

Great song and video, your reaction is 👍

[@lorilxn1597]

Definitely watch Tobacco Road

[@MikeOstrowski-iq8wf]

……(1972) 70’s 70’s 70’s 🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥

[@kevinjennings238]

PLEASE React to the Album Version Now, the Studio Effects are Ear-Candy for your Headphones!!!! The Synth sounds create a UFO sound!!!

[@subwaygoddess1]

I think you'd have some fun with "Hocus Pocus" by Focus. Do the live Midnight Special video. Its a blast!

[@scotttrainer9704]

Do Tobacco Road by him and his brother Johnny.

[@craigreid7178]

Timbales pronounced tim-bah-lays

[@kimn9802]

Small but important detail. Edgar Winter Group not Edgar Winters Group.

[@dougca7086]

React to Free Ride and also to Tobacco Road by Edgar and Johnny Winter live the most talented albinos you'll ever see besides they are legally blind

[@mikemiller3069]

Timbales is pronounced, "tim-ba'-lays"

[@lorilxn1597]

Both brothers being albino took to music topass the time since they couldn't go outside during the day..

[@rodneygriffin7666]

Is anybody doing this shit anymore? Nope! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 What the fuck is wrong with today's music?!? Show me something like this, and I'll appreciate it. I'm waiting. I'll watch the the clock.....

[@xJRx77]

The studio original version is SO MUCH BETTER then this!