His voice is permanently in B standard

He looks like a wizard and sounds like one.

The power of the riff compels him.

"Planets Collide" is such an amazing song, among my faves from Crowbar.

I would kill for a podcast with Kirk Windstein, Phil Anselmo and Matt Pike. They could read a phonebook, I wouldn't care.

Kirk Windstein is an incredible guitar player and great songwriter. Crowbar is a killer band.

For some reason I really want to hear him say "Hey kids, want some weed?"

In any of the times I’ve been around Kirk in both professional and social settings over the last 20 years he has been nothing but a friendly dude and a kind soul. Much respect to him for pushing through the times, line up changes and other pressures of being a touring musician. Class act.

Kirk is the biggest sweetheart of them all. I remember watching crowbar in 2014 and he threw dozens of custom guitar picks to everyone in the first row lol

Inspired many modern bands. Crowbar is the reason I started playing the guitar. Good to see the riff lord!

I didn't know Santa was this cool.

It's encouraging to hear that even a metal great like Mr. Windstein sounds like me playing riffs off the top of my head on a practice amp. 😉 Nothing but respect from me, been a Crowbar and Down fan for many years. Together with Type 0 and Paradise Lost the biggest influence on my style of playing. I already knew he is a UFO fan, one of my all time favourites as well.

Kirk came from the same place as the rest of us. Sabbath/UFO/Kiss/ Accept....and even the Trouble "The Tempter"... Awesome stuff

Drank with him and dimebag in 1998 and 2000. I still have flashbacks and liver damage

Met him in 2016 at the Rev Room in Little Rock Arkansas. Told him I was a huge fan. He said thanks man and shook my hand. He was so nice. He was just walking around the crowd, watching the opening bands play. I've been privileged to see Crowbar twice and it's always a good show. If I hadn't have been so nervous and being such a fanboy I would have remembered to ask him for a pic with me. Really enjoyed this episode.

He has played 0 3 5 the prophecy has been foretold

The first riff I ever played was Smoke on the Water on the low E just like him! Then learned it later the right way. Weird

I got to meet Kirk when my band supported Crowbar a few years back. Great guy, no pretensions about him at all. Plus he bought one of our t-shirts. Bribery will get you everywhere. 😁

I dont understand why you never hear him in any interviews ever pay homage to the Crowbar, Crowbar album? Easily one of the best metal albums ever. Not a single bad track from start to finish.

Love Kirk! Great guy and very emotional, deep, soulful riffing. He captures the soul and pulls at the heart strings. Then he punched you in the face. Legend in my book.

Agreed on him looking and sounding like a wizard.It's great to hear him talk as well as show his influences and also play some of his own riffs while he goes on about what it was like growing up & playing guitar in the 70's.I being younger did not start playing until 1988 but I was into KISS,DEEP PURPLE and BLACK SABBATH long before I started playing guitar so I can really relate to what he was influenced by.Awesome video,thanks Loudwire!!!!!

No one: Kirk Windstein: Yeah so basically *does rly sick riff* then there’s black sabbath

Good to see some love for Trouble!!

Wow!! TROUBLE, I love.Well done, Kirk Windstein!!

By far the most underrated metal god

Kirk is the best!! he's very genuine and honest. He reminds a lot of Lemmy! Thanks for doing this video!!

Kirk playing Black diamond was all I needed to start my day. I absolutely love this man.

So nice he mentioned TroublE ! best doom metal band ever.

Got super lucky and met him at the recent crowbar show with municipal waste and he was beyond awesome and down to earth!!!

My wife and I met him recently at a Crowbar show in Tulsa. He is such a living legend and badass. His wife Robin is a sweetheart too.

Amazing!!!!!! . It's Like hanging out with kirk for 10 minutes... he's such a genuine guy... we go to every show in ontario canada. Love ya big dog the planets collide riff was amazing. Was biting my lip waiting for a little high rate extinction. Hit the bottom of my first beer hours ago. Thank-you for everything you do. This Bud's for you!!!!

Love this guy and Crowbar. Forever underrated.

I just saw crowbar last month this man right here is a true riff lord.🤘🏻

He looks like a wizard but is half as tall and twice as badass. Luv Kirk.

As soon as he starts going in to those slides for the TROUBLE material, alarms started going off. And then he mentions their influence. Really neat.

His voice is nearly as deep as Phils lol

I fucking love this dude. I could listen to him talk theory and throw riffs all day.

Kiss has inspired so many musicians man. They’ll always be my inspiration

Very cool dude and I really enjoyed just listening to him explain everything in this craft that he loves. Would be a cool dad/grandpa.

He Looks like a Harry Potter teacher with metal Flair (the modern Professor Dumbledore)

Much love for Kirk!

I remember sitting in your van in front of Zeppelins listening to Accept on cassette. I always liked your guitar style but it was the voice and Craig on drums that made Crowbar my favorite.

Kirks new solo album chilling right beside him!!

Met Kirk and Pepper after Down show in Kansas City back in like 2007. Kirk was wasted and I could barely make it his signature on the set list he signed for me. Awesome show

I love this guy.

Kirk's accent is so distinct. To my ears, some New Orleans accents sound almost East Coast with a dash of Southern.

This is awesome...Kirk is a class act...🤘🤘

Crowbar is criminally underrated. They’re 100% in my top 5 favorite bands. Every now and then they’ll even be #1. My favorite band is constantly changing. Lol

Met Kirk a couple years ago when they opened for COC. Couldn't be a nicer dude.

Sludge metal rules and Crowbar is king 👑

Smoke on the water on the E string was also my first riff

Met Kirk before a Down show in Atlanta. Great guy!

He's awesome.

WOW!! Watching/listening to this interview was really cool for myself because Kirk’s youth & how he got into music & how he learned on guitar & what not was pretty much %100 the same as myself with learning by ear except i was learning on bass guitar with my 4&5-string bass guitar & i remember trying to learn songs & i’m from the no internet era as a kid & young teenager & learning songs for myself was with my little ghetto blaster that had two tape decks & there was a lot of stop… rewind… pause… see if i got it correct lol & then fast forward to another piece & do the same thing all over again lol, but looking back as frustrating as it was to learn by ear like that was an incredible talent to have as i later found out instead of learning to read sheet music in which i did try to learn after learning by ear for years as I thought learning to read sheet music would be a huge asset to learn as well + being able to learn by ear but that didn’t last long as i got frustrated with it & just settled on learning by ear or by watching someone playing it. & normally people join or form a cover band to start out with which is a good thing to do obviously but i was to impatient to learn songs as well as my two other buddies who i would jam with & then finally my other buddy joined who was a drummer & instead of us doing the cover band thing we started to write our own music in which turned out to be a good thing as we practiced & practiced until gaining enough confidence to play at our high school talent show where we played 3 of our own songs & 1 cover song which was by the Canadian rock band called,”54•40” & the song is called,”crossing a canyon” which was only 1 of 3 cover songs we ever did. Anyways enough blabbering from me lol & listening to Kirk here like i said really hit home with me as Kirk learned pretty much the same way i did & Kirk is roughly 10yrs older than me so we pretty much grew up on the same kind of music etc. Kids nowadays have it much easier with learning songs with KZfaq & many other options such as paying a guitar,drum or vocal etc teacher on line & learn over the internet by a web camera. I use KZfaq all the time to learn songs or practice methods. Kirk is also one badass dude & a very down to earth guy just like my favourite band(s) which is “Carnivore” & “Type O Negative” which i know Kirk is a big fan of both bands & it's so cool that Kirk has the green “Type O Negative” tattoo logo on the top of his left hand \m/

The Riff Lord. Planets Collide is my favorite Crowbar jam. Hollow Dying Man is my fave off the new solo album.

About damn time!!! What's up kirk

An Icon ❤

Big love for crowbar 💙🤘🏻

The new album Is fantastic!

Wish I could see him live again.

Man I could’ve listened to that for an hour

It doesn't get any better than this Guy

You Da Man Kirk.

Fuckin, love that dude. He is the Riff Lord of Sludge and pure southern metal.

the first time I even heard of Kirk was through the pantera home videos 😝🤣 didn’t even know he was a badass musician 😅🤘

Kirk is awesome!!!!!!

Awesome 🎸

That explorer is sick! 🤘

My partner just pointed out that he sounds like Micheal Keaton in Beetlejuice, and now I can't not here it.

I love Crowbar

Can't wait for the live show with Down end of month!

I initially read the title as, "Cowboy Kirk Windstein" and now I can't get it out of my head.

Freaking sick rift bro 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽just subed✅✅✅

Awesome musician

I haven’t seen Kirk in a while, Did he get into the beard hall of fame yet?

Legend🤘

Awesome musician.

His set at the Holiday Inn on Thursday's during happy hour is good. Seems down to earth and drinks are half price

My explorer looks just like his. Wine red with gold hardware. Except mine has gold top hat knobs and his has black speed knobs. Pretty cool.

Dude. One of my first songs was the “Tonight” riff as well

Liked before he even played a note.

I want this guy to say "Hey, Hey come on over and have some fun with Crazy Taxi"

I would love to jam covers with him. Me playing bass or drums. Especially Black Diamond by KISS. That would be so awesome

That tone is pretty killer

HFS!!! - "Turn Me On" by ACCEPT!!!!!! Thanks for your constant accessibility Kirk!!! - Bodydomelight from The "Sip

Strong play!

He’s the man

Crowbar!!!

570 represent 🤘🏻🙏

Alot of good info here. 🍻

Riff master!

Kirk is a much better player than this would suggest. He's a killer. Maybe just a little off here. Matt Pike's episode was the same. He is a crushingly good player but was super shaky on his. The low budget practice amp does not service tho these either.

Kirk!

Beautiful explorer

Yes hearing he likes the one string the amount of people that say don't just play one string. I fukin do and it keeps it connected

Louisiana boy right there he'll yeah

That guitar is freakin sick

Sweet guitar man.

does anyone not notice that the albums words is in the style of type o negative? just me?

Love Kirk, all these hipsters dissing KISS but loving Crowbar, love the fact that Kirk really loves KISS like i do. And also loves Motörhead and St Vitus like i do. Loves all the good stuff not only the popular stuff. Also down to earth guy, with more heart than his voice or rawness of playing makes it appear