Today, was the first time I heard Frankenstein. My mind is totally blown. This is approximately the coolest thing I have ever heard.

Music teacher to young Edgar: "What instrument do you want to learn to play?" Young Edgar: "How many do ya got?"

There's something so funny to me about the other three band members doing their thing, jamming out, and then Edgar just running around the stage grabbing different instruments to play. Absolute madman.

As a bass player, this mix makes me very happy

I heard Edgar also worked the concession stand for a few minutes during this performance.

As a kid I waited for hours and hours for this to play on the radio so I could record it with my cheap ass tape recorder. Worth every second.

This is a prime example that the 70s had the greatest era of music grew up with this jam decades later it STILL packs that punch and rocks

Who's listening in 2024?

Tour manager: "there's no way you'll pull this off live" Edgar Winter: hold my keyboard, sax, drums, beer

This is one of my favorite Karaoke songs of all time. Nobody can mess up the lyrics or sing off key.

I turned my 2year old grandson on to this video, he is absolutely mesmerized every time we watch it.

Edgar Winter: keys, alto sax, percussions Rick Derringer: guitars Dan Hartman: bass; also a great guitarist and had a huge disco hit, "instant replay" Chuck Ruff: drums (R.I.P.) Saw this lineup live and was blown away!

Every Musician on that stage was a freaking genius at their craft.

72 years young and I still get a rush every time I hear this! Geezers in my age group know for a fact we had the best music of all time!

I love it how Edgar and Chuck are so in tune with each other on their drums that they just naturally anticipate what the other will do next. It’s seems so effortless for them to have that level of communication.

"The reason Johnny and Edgar stopped playing music together is because they started to cause a vortex of riffdom that theatened to destroy the planet everytime they got together" - Professor X

Fun fact: Edgar was also the camera man.

Edgar! Keith Emerson! These were my guys! I was 20. Now I'm 70. They're STILL my freekin guys!!! 🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹✌️✌️✌️🥰🥰🥰

I’ve played with Edgar at a beach club in Buffalo NY about 20 years or so ago and he is every bit of crazy talented as anyone out there. He plays every instrument out there like a true virtuoso. He was playing a gig next door to us and came over to watch us then just jumped right in and never missed a beat. He is the master of all trades and second to none.

"so what instruments do you play?" "yes"

Música incrível! Em 1973 tive um compacto simples 45rpm importado dos EUA com esse clássico. Um primo meu que morava no Kansas trouxe e me deu de presente! Eu tinha 12 anos e adorava!!! Até hoje gosto muito desta música!!!🙌👏👏👏🤘

Much more respect knowing Winters was playing multiple instruments during that time. What a revelation, I never knew until now. He was all over the place acting as three musicians by himself. Wow, that really blows my mind, I can’t give him enough credit for that. Thanks for sharing this video a real eye opener for me. I always love and enjoy this song but to now realize the secret to their madness watching this video is priceless.

this could not be accomplished without long hair!

I'm 62 this year. This performance takes me back to my youth, when me and my running buddies would all pitch in for gas money so we could pile into one of our cars and and just cruise...listening to Edgar Winter, Johnny Winter, Zeppelin, etc...no cell phones, no internet, just buds hanging out, smoking a little weed, laughing, talking about girls, cars, loving music and loving life. Jesus, what a great time that was.

I saw Edgar Winter at Berkeley Community in 1974. Towards the end of the show… Johnny Winter runs on stage 🤩! It was like no other show stopper. Rick Derringer and Johnny dueled it out! Life was good!

"They Only Come Out at Night" is one of my favorite albums. And, I just love this video. It's a classic performance of Frankenstein...😮

I saw this group live in the mid-1970s. On this cut while EW was dancing around the stage, he got so Fucked Up, he had to stop and start again. The crowd went wild!

Rick Derringer is so underrated, he deserves a better place in the rock universe.

I never realized that Edgar Winter was such an amazing musician. I'm in awe of what he did in 1973.

The most spectacular rock performance ever. End of story. Period.

At age 59 here in 2023, I consider myself so blessed that I'm old enough to have enjoyed this incredible musicianship when it was first released, and how well it has stood the test of time. Those of my generation were fortunate to experience the absolute best period of music-the mid 1950s through the very early 1990s...everything from rockabilly (Eddie Cochran, Link Wray) to the British Invasion (Beatles/The Kinks/Rolling Stones) to early hard rock/metal (Jimi, Cream) to prog rock (ELP, Yes, Jethro Tull, early Genesis) to mainstream hard rock (AC/DC, Van Halen, Def Leppard) to Southern rock (Skynyrd, Marshall Tucker) to electric blues (Stevie Ray Vaughn, Jeff Healey) to hair metal (Whitesnake, Warrant, Ratt), and so on. We were also gifted with phenomenal musicians like James Taylor, David Bowie, Carole King, Peter Frampton, and countless others...to paraphrase a famous line from "The Blues Brothers", "Y'know so much of the music we hear today is pre-programmed electronic trash, we never get a chance to hear master musicians practicing their craft anymore"...truer words were never more applicable to the garbage that's been thrown at us for the past 25 years...for example, consider the disgusting, talent-less junk that is modern hip-hop, and put that next to Suzanne Vega's "Tom's Diner"...in 2 minutes and 6 seconds, she paints an accurate, vivid picture of modern life-no AutoTune, no filler, no gross "lyrics". It's truly sad that 99.9% of the stuff passing as modern music these days will not have the same staying power 50 years from now.

I was 10 in '73. My Mother yelled, WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO THAT RADIO?

I should be ashamed of myself...I'm 56 years old and this is the FIRST TIME I have seen this! This is freakin' GOLD.

What a monster! All over the stage, all the instruments, the synth effects, first guy to hang a synth keyboard around his neck with a guitar strap... just WOW!!!

This performance just drops my jaw every time. Possibly the greatest rock instrumental ever. The main hook is simple and catchy, the b section with the sax is gorgeous then he dazzles you with breathtaking skill at everything he touches. Who the hell is THIS good at THIS MANY instruments??? Not many.

Went to an outside concert in Oklahoma, was raining and lightning cracking all around, after Robin Trower played, many left thinking the show was over, then out came Edgar Winter and the show had just begun, he said if we were brave enough to stay, then he would play, then FRANKENSTEIN with lightning flashing all around...Wife and I will NEVER forget the incredible show they put on for us....ONE OF A KIND MUSICIAN!

There were only a few television shows that dared to allow a group to perform live, and then show it in it's entirety. This is one those amazing moments in television. And, yes, the Edgar Winter Group was AMAZING!

I just saw Ringo and His All Starr Band last month and Edgar played this and was super energetic jumping around the stage

Must have been so much fun being apart of this band. They all look so enthralled with what they’re doing, and they’re just smiling away at each other.

In 1973 I was in the airforce and stationed in mountain home afb and I traveled 50 miles north to Boise Idaho and went to a club called snoopies and I was blown away by edger winter doing a show playing Frankenstein with acid blotter screens. It was amazing to see I never heard of them before and what A experience ❤

Edgar also drove the equipment truck there, setup all the stuff, tore it down, and drove it back. They had a catering table there too, and yep, Edgar cooked all the food and set it up. I love this extra long version. So damn good.

This was a badass song when I heard it for the first time in 1973, still today it makes me smile when I hear it, thanks Edgar.

Just saw him with Ringo Star, at 75 years of age he still has it, still plays and sounds awesome a real treat to watch, I can only hope I have his energy at 75.

I was fortunate , when I lived in California 1980 near San Jose I got to spend a week with Johnny Winter and his Band from Santa Cruz to San Francisco. Talking with him was like talking to an old friend. RIP Johnny

Jesus. What a performance. Back from an era when artists played their instruments. Outstanding.

This is live, kids. To be able to replicate something live, that you created in the studio after hours upon hours of trying to get just so, is utterly amazing.

Never saw this live til now, had no idea Edgar Winter was such a multi-instrumental virtuoso !! Blown away !!! Wow just Wow !!!

Glad I can say that I'm old enough now to have been able to enjoy it then, when it first came out!! Now: 10/31/2023 Then: May 1973. !! ✌♥️

Edgar and his late brother Johnny are stone cold geniuses... I love them both!

I just saw Edgar perform this tonight at a casino near me. If he’s tired of playing that song after 50 years it doesn’t show.

I was 23 when this came out & after 50 years it hasn't lost one second of it's hypnotic & musical magic... bravo👏

I'm 69 and man did we have great music back in those days

This is probably the best Rock instrumental ever made

Many years ago I worked as a painter for the Physical Plant of a university. I was the new guy on the crew and so was given the job of painting the interior of the morgue and anatomy lab because no one else wanted it. I was alone in the place. To force myself to get over the creeps I turned on the local classic rock station and then started to unzip a body bag on a gurney to make myself look at a cadaver. Just then this came on the radio. Made my day.

I was kept away from this at time, now,no one in the world can stop it, hope it never ends😊

I was 12 years old with my portable record player and a stack of 45's I took with me almost everywhere I went. For the guys I would play this, Doobie Bros, Elton John, Golden Earing, etc... For my girlfriend I spun Donny Osmond, Tommy Roe, Jackson 5, and The Stylistics singing You Make Me Feel Brand New on the porch swing with my arm around her. This music takes me back in a real way.

I heard this band with Johnny Winter @ the Felt Forum in NYC. They blew the roof off. My first concert. Johnny played Johnny B Goode after this and the entire place went completely apeshit. I was standing on my seat with both fists in the air screaming for a third encore--- and so was everybody around me.

Both Edgar and Johnny were such incredibly talented musicians. RIP Johnny.

It was music like this that made me wanna play drums. Edgar Winter, Cream, Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Montrose, Thin Lizzy, Sabbath, Grand Funk…….. the list goes on and on and on and on. This is when talent ruled the music scene.

Still gives me the chills every time I hear it! Fantastic 😊

Everyone: "How many instruments do you play?!" Edgar: "Yes."

I was a kid in elementary school in Beech Grove Indiana and the p.a. announced that we were all to go to the gym. These guys were set up and played Frankenstein for us! I was a music buff already but that pushed it over the edge. I have never gotten tiered of playing music. Thank you Edgar Winter Band. It was very thoughtful and generous to give that time and effort to our elementary school.

Edgar is truly a wizard. I mean he is TRULY a real wizard. Just watch! Ungodly talented!

Wow absolutly fantastic,so glad i grew up with such great music,unlike today,it all gave me my calling card go be a musician,thank you the 60"s and 70""s for all the great music,

I saw them live in 1973 and I have to say that it was probably the best live show I saw in the 1970's. The Edgar Winter Group's musicianship was astounding.

Was about 6 years old back in the early 70s when my older sister took me to the town square to our local record store. The clerk was getting a 45 out of a file cabinet for my sister when I recognized the word “Frankenstein” being a horror fan as most little boys were. Thought it was one of those audio/story records and nagged her to buy it for me. Been a rock fan ever since

Those were the days my friend we thought they'd never end! PEACE

Edgar making synth noise with a cape is my spirit animal

Edgar also catered the party after, ran security, booked the tour and drove all the trucks at once on the tour. He had a strong everything game

I had never seen the video before. Watching the whole song performed is mindblowing. That drummer was a beast.

MIND-BLOWING PERFECTION!🤯THEY DON'T DO IT LIKE THIS ANYMORE💕👍🏽

77 yrs old, and remember riding in the back of a pick up listening to Frankenstein! Always loved Edgar Winter Group!

Chuck Ruff was a excellent drummer. The guy could flat out play, Just Wow!!!!! Perfection!!!!!

Edgar Winter, absolute genius! So much talent in a man! His band, superb too. Teens of today should be compelled to listen to ( and watch) videos like these for them to learn what music really was. Long life to Edgar!

Still an all time favorite i was only ten years old at this time now that is music that stands the test of time thank you

I saw it on broadcast...classic! 50 years OMG

Watching this in 1973 must have been mind blowing. They’re using actual circuits like old school techno producers making that space tech sound. Amazing performance!

I nearly cried when he started playing the sax. That tone is so damn good.

Legend has it that the band is still playing this song, and has been continuously since 1973. 🎹 🎸 🥁 🎷 KZfaq just had to cut it off after 9 minutes and 18 seconds because…well, I don’t know why. 🤷🏻‍♂️🤪🤣

STAGE WAS SO HOT I STARTED TO CALL THE FIRE DEPT.

This is the correct amount of rock and roll.

Happy birthday Dan Hartman. December 8 1950. RIP

wow. Always loved this tune but had no idea how insanely talented Edgar Winter is, amazing performance.

Early 70s, my siblings and I had records of Disney soundtracks, Peter and the Wolf, Dr Suess, and Edgar Winters "Frankenstein". This is the one I go back to the most 😄👍 Thanks for sharing!!

I literally cried because I find that much talent so beautiful.

Wow, he can play all those instruments and all I can play is the radio.

Fantastic! I remember seeing this as a young 'un when it was shown on the Old Grey Whistle Test late one evening in the UK. And it's still exciting. Classic 70s rock stylings by milking the last drops out of the ending too. Of course, this is back when UK TV had three channels - BBC1, BBC2 and ITV - and closed around midnight, ending every night with the National Anthem (hard to believe but true). The whole country would stand to attention in their living rooms and salute (not true). Thanks so much for your time and work on this video. Nine minutes of sweet pleasure, thoroughly enjoyed.

Dan Hartman on bass. He ended up leaving a huge legacy in music. Big hits & produced & played on a bunch of records for some heavy hitters. Amazing musician

The really good part starts at 0:00 and ends at 9:18.

This is the absolute best version of this song I've heard. Thanks spiderslegs99's channel for posting it. This level of Rock-N-Roll is seldom if never achieved in our day and age. Brother Johnnie Winter is as well, damn bad ass.

WTF…OMG this has to be seen again and again…heard this so many times but forget it’s a four man band and Winters is just killing it… he is the mad scientist!!!

Magic!! Time gone by! Some of us have not forgotten!! Great!!!

So much talent displayed in one song. Watching it live gives me chills and so many fond memories of my youth. Thanks!

I clicked and this and saw it was over nine minutes long. Eh, I figured I'd watch for a bit and then go on. Next thing I know it's done and I'm left thinking "I want more!" Being old as dirt, I've seen shorter versions of this song back in the day. I'm glad I found this one!

1977 Lo vi en vivo en concierto aquí en el Coliseum de Houston ( ya no existe este lugar ) Edgar orgullosamente Texano.

Edgar Winters was one of favorites! 🙂

I think that I have viewed this video a 100 plus times and still can't get enough of Frankenstein

Totally mind blowing - this is one of the mile stones in rock music. a monster performance that has yet to be beaten. EDGAR WINTER is AWESOME!

Who needs Words..... when you have a Super Cool "Jam Session " like this ??!!👍🎸😎

Wow!! I amazed this band was into making Dub sounds back when i was only 3years old.... These guys were ahead of their time... Dub music is my passion and Dub sounds brought me this way.... Totally amazing sounds back then.... Bravo