No doubt!

what! they still haven't done that....that is incredibly wrong. The truth is that they don't deserve him.

He's too good for that. I put him on a par with Hendrix as a guitarist.

Yes, this man was inspiration for Stevie Ray and many others both famous and well known and also many many others not so well known including me! 🎸🧘🏼🙏

Fucking crime He is not🤯

He's not underated.People know he's one of the best!

& as a singer

Shit I sure do know he’s one of the greatest performers of all time.

Yes! Shannon was very underrated until Stevie picked him up.

This was Johnny's wish, to be known as a bluesman!!👍

Notice who the bass player is? Tommy Shannon went from sudden fame with Johnny Winter and playing at Woodstock to facing decades in prison on drug charges. After spending years in prison and nobody believing who he was he was released on parole/probation with the crazy stipulation that he couldn`t play in bands again. He worked as a bricklayer in west Texas for many years until he couldn`t take it anymore. He saw Stevie Ray Vaughan playing in a club and walked up to him and said, "I should be your bass player!" So he defied court orders that could have landed him in prison for 10 to 20 years, recorded the Texas Flood album, and the judge basically let him off easy. He had to. The rest is history, and Tommy Shannon went on to be famous in multiple hit bands including Arc Angels after Stevie`s death. What a crazy story!

Agree 👌

His tone isn't clean bro.hes amp is running hot.

This guy had come a looong way by this time,

@@PyraGizaif you can’t elaborate people will just assume you’re trying to sound cool😂😂😂😂😂

Same age as you and saw him at the Fillmore and a bunch of places and consider him the best blues guitarist of all time.

First time i saw him was in Paris and i was 16! Already had 2 albums of him. I saw him again with my 13 year old daughter in Canada where i live now, in 2007: she cried at the end of the show

Lucky guy been big fan for yrs only get to see him on utube great guitarist Rip ( belfast northern ireland)

I FEEL YA BRO 🎶🎸🎶

Played " johnny winter live and " .....until my parents went nuts back in the 60s !!! he is one of the super greats !!

Tommy Shannon on the Fender bass❤

Agreed

Clapton sucked

Clapton was Good SRV WAS GREAT. Mr Winter is GOD.

Crapton was shit same old basic blues licks no advancement or innovation unlike all the other greats that stepped up. He could never ever keep up with Johnny.

John Hitchen Amen!

A-fucking-men.

One of for sure.

Lol

He and Edgar both albino. Legally blind.

@@knowmusicman157 Legally?

@@sandragriffiths9692 In the USA we have this distinction. Legally can mean variations of blindness as opposed to total blindness. Legal blindness occurs when a person has central visual acuity (vision that allows a person to see straight ahead of them) of 20/200 or less in his or her better eye with correction. Legal in reference to being declared by the government as disabled thus qualified for assistance and other benefits. Monetary and otherwise.

@@knowmusicman157 Thank you. I think we call that tunnel vision in Britain, either way it didn't stop him or his brother becoming excellent musicians in their field. Both were/are exceptional.👌

Ya i know he gets put behind Srv . Its amazing how hot the texas blues are. Albert collins freddie king, albert king , srv , and the mighty johnny winter RIP

Ask any random stranger on the street if they know a Hendrix or Clapton tune. Ask those same people if they know a Winter tune. 9/10 times they’ll have no clue. Damn straight, Johnny was the man!

He was influenced by the blues.

He sounds like a black man.

He wasn't at the time...he played arenas for a decade and headlined woodstock 1969 on sunday night

Not probably...absolutely 🎶

I agree with you 100% everything about Johnny drips the blues. His first and second album had a 3 man sound that was amazing. Stevie ray Vaughn’s bass player was originallyJohnny’s bass player. Peace

you got that right. He's my fav musician of all time

For Real

he and Hendrix used to jam and there are tapes out there somewhere. He was a pall bearer at Jimis funeral.

@@j.dragon651 I have head that Jimi played bass on some of those jams - Amazing!

@@davidrpriest I have heard bootlegs of them both on guitar at the same time and Jimi is giving Johnny the leeway.

Jimi a dit aussi que Rory Gallagher était le meilleur, puis Billy Gibbons ... et Django

Went to see him at the Sunshine Inn in Asbury Park N.J. Me and a buddy climbed up one of the ceiling supports then made our way over the stage. We watched the concert from about twenty feet directly above him. He looked up a few time, probably wondering if gringos were going to start falling out of the sky.

The list is longer than that: Albert King; Freddie King; Mighty Joe Young; T-Bone Walker; Fenton Robinson & many more!

Yes, let's hear it for Roy, still the best unknown guitarist in the world!

Absolutely ❤️✊

yeah that

Yes he was an amazing vocalist as well as an A+++ AxeMan

Some would say Gatemouth is. So many good players have hailed from Texas till it's difficult to objectively pick a winner here, lol. They were, always have been and are still so good till one may as well just throw a coin up in the air to choose the winner. Texas and Mississippi have consistently produced some of the best blues guitarists ever walked the earth.

@@msaintpc I agree, and thanks for replying. Maybe the reason I separate Johnny Winter from the many fine Texan axe-men, is that he is,in a way, as is maybe Eric Clapton, a progressive player who interprets many older styles authentically, but also straddles the cusp of more modern pop-rock styles (ie as in Hendrix), a little more, or at least in a more rock-focused way than maybe Gatemouth does, for all his stylistic variety and eclecticism, and maybe is able to be a rock template blues/hard-rock mainstream artist, somehow more middle class AND blue-collar. It's all a point of view, but that's sort of what I meant, compared to Gatemouth or even Billy Gibbons. It's all relative...I remember Clapton saying that to him BB King was the first Universal Blues player, which I took to mean that he thought BB had taken what was essentially a local folk music, and developed a frameworkwith which to modernise and internationalise Blues. So to Clapton, even if you didn't like BB, he was largely responsible for crossing the blues to an even wider white audience than it began with. Most black audiences in the early record buying part of the 1900's preferred a more sophisticated R and B regimen, and apart from segregated nightclubs in major cities, blues music was a " discovered" folk music by people like Rslph Pear. I see Johnny as mire of a cross-over into middle class mainstream rock improvisation, in a more international flavoured blues/rock ( despite his awesome traditional repetoire,at which he excels) sort of approach, compared to the less progressive yet easily as talented and verstile players like Gatemouth Brown. That's the beauty of art, it's in the eye ( or ear ) of the observer!

You can't leave out Stevie Ray Vaughan in that category. Johnny and Stevie were two of the greatest blues guitarists and blues voices to come out of Texas ever.

@@douglasheath411 I sort of agree. Stevie played more smoothly and coherently than anyone, so you could say he's the best, but I think of him more as a co-ordinator of all the Texas blues players that came before him, rather than doing anything original, he recycles eclectic bits of earlier players. Maybe you could say that about anyone, but ,to me, rather than standing on the shoulders of giants and adding something mire to the pile, he was a stylist, and synthesised parts of earlier players typical licks in a most beautifully balanced way, so that it is all put together perfectly, combined better than any had done before; but he just formed a coherent style by frankenstiening together recycled parts into what is a more well rounded sound; he didn't really put anything original on top to contribute to the tree of blues in Texas, and although his style is not possible to fault, unlike Johnny Winter's, for instance, it was because his playing was so deliberate and reserved that he never stuck his neck out and crashed and burned. This is great to listen to, because it is so tastefull, but it shows no risk-taking or rawness in the moment. Whereas Johnny would keep taking chances 'til it all folded ( even on record) but occasionally sounding clumsy as a result of this nervous recklessness, but had the guts to try and fail, but occasionally do something no-one had ever done, thereby adding something, but Stevie NEVER sounded out of time or phrasing, and ever sounded clumsy. But maybe a little too perfect and unoriginal. But it depends what your opinion leads you to hear, and that's just my view. One thing for sure, if you wanted to listen to the best phraser and stylist No-one is better than Stevie. That's why I said Johnny was the most "important " blues guitarist to come out of Texas in the last years, I didn't say he was the "best" at turning out a phrase... that would be STEVIE! But Johnny paved the way by combining more rock feels along with the traditional... which Stevie also did, but after Johnny had laid the groundwork, and Stevie was happy to be a traditional, rather than progressive. All the best ( it's all up to the individual👍

T Bone Walker- West Texas blues genius

Really ! That comment gets thrown around too much . And who does the “ rating” ?

👉W I N T E R👈 🇨🇦

And he used a thumb pick!

If you like the blues check out Lightnin Hopkins. Legend

@@SkinnyorangemusicMerci !!

WOW! amazing. with all you Danes and albino Johnny just absolutely SHREDDING the blues it is a surreal thing to watch. I'll bet you had to pick your jaws up off the floor after that eh?

Was that the live recording concert from Pirates World? I was there man!!! Mean Town Blues, the best👍👍👍

WAIT... NO PICK?!?!?!

Travis picking technique...thumbpick & bare fingers

He's using a thumbpick, I do believe!

what a blessing!!!

Is that Uncle John Turner on drums Johnny is the greatest ♥️him

@@marryanne2221 It is

He's not the least bit "unsung." Everybody knew who he was back in the day. And he had a nice run in the early 70's in blues/rock before settling down to become a straight blues man in the late 70's.

@@positiveleanings3023 - He's not as revered as he should be.

Kids these days think SRV was the only great blues man from Texas. They just give me blank stares when I mention Johnny Winter and leadbelly.

@@gxtmfa - All I say, is: More fool them!

He makes love to the guitar

Tommy Shannon laid down the perfect backdrop for JW and SRV

Johnny is so great. I can’t even think of SRV listening to him?! Not that Stevie didn’t give it all he had. I’d just loved when Johnny hit that next gear!

SRV was a Johnny clone

Good point on Stevie Ray...first time I heard him I thought it was Johnny. Not that he wasn't really good, just had that same vibe.

Don't forget Uncle John Turner on drums.

Here I am with 38😅

I snorted horse and smoked weed with him in 1971. It was a bunch of us upstairs in my apartment above the Whisky during an after hours party. He knew every joke in the world and could spit them out faster than Rodney Dangerfield. He was a funny dude and the women loved him. When he'd be talking sht to the ladies (lol, he coulda gave a pimp lessons) I'd listen, memorize, and steal as many of his lines as possible.🙂

I think he is greatest ever. Pick hand and left hand in accord with each other.

In 1976 I bought my for the first times a record of Winter with Rick Derringer. Came from Sénégal, was living in Paris. Winter was a good bluesman.

Ken Wareham right on, Ken. Peace

You deserve more than 7likes

I was blessed to see Johnny three times in my life...all three shows blew me away... will always be on my Mt. Rushmore of guitar players...peace to your soul Johnny🎸

Super jealous. I graduated in May and the only concert we got was Waka Flocka Flame.

They were smoking hash. I'm sure they know how great he was.

Well to be fair...the're ..Swedish..

seems like they understood pretty well they’re all sitting quietly observing

I don't know how to describe it, but Tommy's "bass chording" is so **$$ing resonant, it just draws you in. It really sets the table. He displays it here and brought it to SRV, too.

Jon Said It all right bro. His bass lines in the first album of Johnny winter are pure Gold.

i wonder how Johnny felt when Tommy went to play in Double Trouble....missing an important staple.

And Captured live !

Yeh man I never ‘preciated him til now and he’s gone.... but I def respects him

I first saw him in '71, and lost count how many times since. And I would go see him a couple dozen times more if I only could! He is missed. All who saw him were blessed. RIP.

Me also at 70 😧💜🇦🇺

@@marilyntape508 You're checking out & listening to Johnny Winter at 70?!?... AttaGIRL!!! You rock!

Saw him once live. Unbelievable

paul calderone possibly...

How about the greatest Blues guitarist of all time ?

paul calderone it’s between him and Stevie for me. Both ridiculous. Both from Texas. I’m biased though in that they’re Texans.

@@joebauers8031 Both with Slut Shannon behind them!

@@joebauers8031 Johnny also from Texas

Even Johnny's singing is f-ing great!

Johnny referred to Muddy as "Father" in a old Rock and Roll magazine. A interview w/both of them. I believe it was CIRCUS.

Undeniable... Blues seeping from every pore🥰 Gotdamn

@@trombonemunroe It sure is. His slide playing will probably never be surpassed! I saw him 3 times + I'm still in total awe of his talent! That's Tommy Shannon on bass, he later played with S. R. V.

@@davidmartin7081 And Arc Angels as well.

you are a lucky fellow, he plays twice in Brazil, but i was short in money... so i never saw him...

Chris Merritt Wow how awesome that must've been

At the hockey arena?

not fortunate Chris, truly blessed. He's one of a kind and no one can touch him. God blessed the world with him that for sure :)

God on ya mate. "Magine me growing in the backlands of N.S.W. on a steady diet of bog standard country music. A mate of mine heard and understood my whining and returned from holiday with the "Together" album. Life began that day. I must say (though not the only one,I'm sure) Mr. Winter changed life for me.

I hear ya, I also have the screaming demon tattoo on my arm!!

I've seen him over 200 times. My favorite artist of all time.

I have a bootleg of him playing with Jimi Hendrix at a small club....

Edward Mendiola I've watched this video like a gazillion times and never knew that. Thanks for that little tidbit.

@@bryanbanks1966 😎 yeah, that's Tommy

I met Srv, Chris, and Shannon in 1981 here in Houston, Texas where I am from at the majority of our local club's. Fitzgerald's, The Hideaway, Continental Club, and at Antones in Austin, Texas. They were really good people. We remained friend's even after that tragic day in 1990, when Stevie passed away.

Using the same old Fender bass he used with SRV.

It's the same one alright.

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