No auto-tune, no click track, no in-ear monitors...just pure f'in talent.

Edgar who is still with us is the nicest, most down to earth person you would want to meet. He won a grammy recently for a tribute album to his bro called _My Brother Johnny._

Edgar, and his Guitar playing brother Johnny Winter were both afflicted with Albinism, his hair is White not Grey. They were from Beaumont, Texas, so they both spent a lot of time indoors, out of the harsh Texas sun, practicing their musical instruments. Edgar veered towards Rock and Roll, and Johnny veered towards the Blues, both were damn good at what they did. Johnny passed in a Swiss hotel room on tour a decade or so ago, Edgar is still Rocking.

Saw the title of this video and raced to click on it. So glad you guys are watching this amazing classic from one of two musical genius brothers, Edgar and Johnny. They are pure talent. As are the other musicians playing with them.

SUCH an AWESOME PERFORMANCE!!! Ya'll MUST check out Edgar's vocals on Tobacco Road - he's playing, in that video, with his brother: Johnny Winter's band....AMAZING MUSICIANS!!! RIP to Johnny! YOU are MISSED! Great REACTION, YOU-GUYS!! HUGS!

This live version of this song is a total experience. It blew me away the first time I saw it. Edgar Winter is very talented & plays many instruments including keyboards, saxophone & timbales. The title "Frankenstein" refers he fact that the original recording of the song was much longer than the final version & it required numerous edits to shorten it. So they spliced together many different parts.

Chuck Ruff, drums, Dan Hartman, bass, Rick Derringer, guitar, and Edgar Winter on everything else, lol. This is why people had talent, used that talent, and passed into legend. I was only a little girl when this came out, but I grew up with THE best music experiences of my generation. Unless I'm cursed with dementia, I'll always have music in my heart & soul.

Free Ride & Tobacco Road are both great Edgar & Johnny Winter (brothers) jams. Both are albino multi instrument playing rock stars. 🔥🔥

So much talent. That’s Rick Derringer on guitar I believe. Listen to his ‘Rock-n-Roll Hootchie Coo’ sometime !

The keyboard that Edgar modified to be worn around his neck is, in fact, the trigger device for the very early ARP 2600 synthesizer he's playing through. Everything analogue-patched and played in real time (not pre-programmed nor sequenced). Raw talent. Saw them perform this in 1974 when I was 14 at an outdoor concert.

You should do the live version of Tobacco Road where he does the vocals. His brother Johnny is on the guitar for that one.

If you want to hear Edgar singing on top of everything else that he can do, then you need to check out the live version of “Tobacco Road!” You’ll also get to see his brother, Johnny, on guitar.

Edgar Winter is a M'Fin Musical Genius!! Multi instrumentals, and one of the sweetest human beings to walk the planet. I had the honor of working sound at one of his concerts in Minnesota, and even though I was just a "grunt" at that show, he still took the time to say hello, and thank us for the work we did to get the show up and running. The guitar was his late brother Johnny's thing...but I'm willing to bet he could play one too.

Edgar also had another incredible Soul/R&B band called White Trash with Jerry LaCroix. If you want to TRULY be amazed, though, check out the performance of 'Tobacco Road' he did with his brother (Guitar slinger Johnny Winter) it's absolute FIRE!!!

Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, author, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre.

Winter actually was the first who wore the electric piano that way, it’s called something else now. He was a very very early user of the synthesizer

Smokey and Hollywood thanks for the memories! I saw them when I was in my teens when they played at the local small town college in 1970 or ‘71. Frankenstein wasn’t on any albums as of yet but they played a version of it. It was mind blowing.

It was called frankenstien because it was a bunch of ideas Edgar had for songs and he just mashed them all together. This was a monster hit in the 70s.

Ronnie Montrose was the original guitarist in the studio on this song, but moved in to form his own group. Check out Rock Candy, Montrose.

They got the name Frankenstein while editing and having pieces of tape sitting all over the studio the drummer Chuck Ruff walked in and said looks like Frankenstein, also Edgar and brother Johnny Winter were legally blind, great reaction guys.

Fun Fact the guy on guitar is Rick Derringer who came to fame with a band named "The McCoys" with the #1 single "Hang on Sloopy" and then solo with the tune "Rock and Roll Hoochie Coo" (you guys should hit both tunes, the 1st is an early 60's garage band/pop rock song and the 2nd straight up 70's blues rock). He also obviously worked with Edgar Winter as well as lots of other prominent musicians doing session work and such. Anyway he grew up in small town Ohio near where I grew up and still live, and although he was a was a bit older the circle of people he ran with, overlapped with people my mom and her younger sister ran with, and mom grew up listening to all kinds of the great music of the 60's and 70's. It was her album collection is what got me heavily addicted to classic rock in the early mid 80's, when I was just in elementary school, part of the infatuation was because my mom talking about being in her early teens, getting to experience the small town garage band music of her friends, older siblings, which included Rick and some of his musician friends, and I remember thinking how cool it was that she new famous people ESCECIALLY famous rock musicians and being an amazing young kid. Those stories lit a fire and as I hit middle school starting reading anything and everything I could about the musicians of 60's and 70's rock and roll fame. That how I in my early mid teens I recognized Rick Derringer as we sat at a public picnic table at the edge of a small town street fair, eating buttered ears of roasted sweet corn from a nearby vendor. I found out later that he happened to be back in the area because he was the Grand Marshall of the fair that year as it was some significant anniversary for the small town. So after I'd finished my roasted sweet corn, and pushed past my apprehension I looked over at him and I said Hey Mr. Derringer I really your music, and told him about my mom being around when he was still playing in local garage bands in the early days of his career, and started rambling about the music I enjoyed, he chuckled at my nervousness and formally introduced himself and thanked my for the compliment and said I had great taste in music and just general platitudes before he had to go, he reached out to shake my hand and told me to and I quote "Stay Cool". I was on cloud nine I for a couple days after being told by a fuckin famous rock musician to "stay cool", and believe you me I retold that story to my buddies acting like I was the big dick in the locker room. I have also used that against my kids when they were angsty teens telling them that they may think I suck but I know for a fact I'm cool and would regale them with my brush with fame time and time again lol.

They are albino brothers... very talented... sadly Johnny passed in 2014. You now have to listen to Edgar AND Johnny Winter perform "Tobacco Road"... a slow dirty blues that has the wickedest vocals from Edgar!!!

Edgar and Johnny Winter were both brilliant musicians. Edgar played multiple instruments, all incredibly well, and Johnny was one of the greatest blues guitarists ever. On occasion, they played together, but they both had their own bands and style.

There is a version when he actually flies away riding his saxaphone ! That dude is beyond awesome !

The Swiss Army musician. Just keeps pulling tools out! One of the best riffs ever. Loved watching you guys react to this one. :D

The Edgar Winter Group had a huge hit with the song “Free Ride” off this same album. The song is sung by the bass player, the late Dan Hartman, who had his own smash hit solo songs “Instant Replay” and “I Can Dream About You”. Ronnie Montrose is a guitar wizard, whose band Montrose featured Sammy Hagar on vocals in his debut on the band’s debut album “Montrose”. A LOT of talent comes from this line-up. 😊

Now that you have seen that, please checkout him and his brother Johnny performing Tobacco Road.

Try his song “Free Ride”, another great tune!!

The lead guitarist is Rick Deringer. His "Rock n Roll Hoochie Qu" is one of my ATF top-5 songs of Edgar also can sing his ass Clean-Off. And his brother Johnny Winter is a guitar wizard who is also an Albino...

The Greatest Band You Never Knew...

You're about to behold a f--kin clinic in musicianship

Albinos spend a lot of time indoors, for obvious reasons. Johnny and Edgar Winter mastered musical instruments and we were blessed by it.

8:12 Keytars didn't come out til 1984. This song came out in 1972. He's playing an arp 2600 analog synthesizer.

Nicely played Y'all 👍👍 Please 🙏 you have got to check out Johnny and Edgar Winter - "Tobacco Road." Spread the love 🐶😎🇺🇸 And yes, the blonde guy is Edgar. He and his brother Johnny are albino. And Edgar sings his ass off on Tobacco Road 🤙

Their mother said they were talented as babies!! Edgar and his very talented brother Johnny!!

This is a rite of passage for all reaction channels.

What a talented group of musicians. Very entertaining.

I can't believe you haven't reacted to this yet!! Can't wait to watch your minds being blown. I hope you've recovered by now. Peace!

Had this Album in 1973 took it to school and played it at lunchtime and all the kids came out to listen to this record it was amazing! Those were the good ol days!

The Guitar Player on the right in all White was Rick Derringer, who had a hit of his own with "Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo", a couple of years after this.

"If he grabs a guitar I'm losing it!" Johnny Winter was the world class guitar player of the family. You should also react to him!

You nailed it when you said stitched together like Frankenstein. This song stitches together some great musicians with a concept and it really works. They are all having fun and just killing it on every instrument.

What an amazing version of this song! Great choice and reaction!!!!!!

That thing was called a keytar once they were invented, ten years later in the 80s. What he's using is a heavy ass keyboard strapped to him.

The Edgar Winter Group has a groovy song called "Free Ride". That one has lyrics and all.

Imagine being in a 1970 F100 .. no Internet no reactions just the radio and your driving and all of a sudden that shit comes on!

Dan Hartman on bass wrote and sang Free Ride! Later put out an album with Vinnie Vincent on guitar !! Then had a few huge hits in the 80's

that is what is meant by leaving it all on stage ! Bravo !

Now watch Focus doing Hocus Pocus on live TV. They told them they had four minutes to play a seven minute song. So they sped it up insanely and it includes yodeling.

Man this is reeeeaaalll close to being a live version that ends up being better than the studio track.✌️

😂😂😂😂 Edgar Allen Poe! 🤭😁😂😂😂😂 Love you guys! I stopped after that line, grabbed a blunt then pressed play. 🤗 Got the George Harrison question right because he secretly was my favorite Beatle. However didn't get the last one. I said Don too. 😍 Shout out to Momma Six! 😂 Smokey needs a new Insurance company. And 😌 welcome to the magic of the Winter Brothers, 2 creative geniuses that definitely left their mark on musicians world wide. Got to see Edgar do Frankenstein live because they frequently played nyc club dates. 🥰🐰

I'm pretty sure the term "sock it to me" was popularized by the 60's T.V. show Laugh In. They even got Richard Nixon to say it when he was on the show in 1968, while he was running for president.

Best stand-alone Instrumental track ever.

Best part of this treat - when you listen to the studio version - it'll be equally as tasty.

He's as great on vocals as he is an instrumentalist. Check out "Tobacco Road". His brother Johnny was an amazing guitarist, and their band included Tommy Shannon on bass, who later went on to play bass for Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble.

Edgar and his brother are both from my area of Texas, they are in a local museum, called The Museum of the Gulf Coast

I grew up in a classic rock household... When I discovered weed in the early 2000's, it was very natural for me to gravitate towards this. I remember I would rip a couple bong hits, and listen to this song on headphones... It absolutely caused a brain meltdown. I loved it.

Hollywood & Smokey Edgar here and late brother, Johnny Winter are as both of you see here, Albinos. Both of them born and raised in Texas. Because of lack of pigmentation in their skin, they were not able to go outdoors especially during Summers in Texas. They used their time indoors by learning and playing instruments to occupy their time. As they gotten older, Winter Brothers went on the road to play their music. Johnny Winter became 1st non-African American performer to be inducted into Blues Hall of Fame in 1988.

We loved this in the hood back in the day.

Great reaction! If you haven't heard of Edgar Winter or his brother Johnny Winter, you must be very young or have been living under a rock. ✌️❤

There are two Edgar Winter songs you’d probably recognize if you heard them: Free Ride & Dying To Live. There’s a live video of Edgar and his brother Johnny playing Tobacco Road that will blow your socks clean off. And as a bonus, it features a young Tommy Shannon on bass (who went on to play in Double Trouble with SRV). I’d love to see you react to that performance of Tobacco Road and a the studio version of Dying To Live.

That keyboard is hooked up to an early analog synthesizer. An ARP 2600 to be precise.

GA bros! Hey, Hollywood! As a fan, it was a joy to hear Big Momma! Every Southern boy of any color knows and feels that! God bless her! It put a huge smile on my face! 😁

What instruments can he play? ALL OF THEM. TOBACCO ROAD!

Classic cruising music of the 70s. Cruising Telegraph outside Detroit, nothing was sweeter than all the cars tuned to the same rock station, cranked up to this song on a summer night. Glad you appreciate it. :)

Edgar is in his 70s, legally blind, and currently out on tour with Ringo Starr. Legendary. He also played sax on Tina Turner's "Simply the Best".

You gotta check out their other popular song, Free Ride, as well as a song by the guitarist, Rick Derringer, called Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo.

This is one of the baddest jams in the land. Rock n Roll at its finest.

The guitarist is Rick Derringer (Rock and Roll Hotchie Coo - Rick Derringer Band and Hang On Sloopy - The McCoys) on bass was Dan Hartman. All of the musicians in the Edgar Winter Group were masters of their craft.

Such a kickass version of this song

Saw Edgar in 1972 perform this song in Jacksonville, FL. Memorable.

Great song and reaction! On a related note, check out "Rock n Roll Hoochie Koo" by Rick Derringer. He was the guitarist in this video.

I saw him in Balboa State Park back in the early 70's

Great reaction. The guitarist was Rick Derringer (“Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo”) the bassist was Dan Hartman (“I can Dream About You”). Edgar Winter was the best Texas albino musician of all time. Edgar also played sax on Tina Turner’s “Simply the Best.” RIP Tina.

The studio version in headphones is a dream. Without headphones, I used to shake pictures off the wall when I was a kid. Ah, to be young again!

If you want to hear him sing, watch the Winter Brothers Tobacco Road... his brother was the guitarist in the family... both Albanos

ALL TIME CLASSIC!!!!

From down the road from me in Beaumont, TX. Deep southeast Texas dirtfloor blues is what these boys (Edgar and Johnny) grew up playing! 🔥🤘✌

I loved this song by Edgar Winter. His brother Johnny and Edgar play on some songs you might want to listen to them . Anyways thanks for this awesome video. See you guys on the next one love ya both stay cool and real and awesome. Keep warm lol. Dueces ✌️✌️

Yaaaaaaasssss!!! That was the best rendition of 'Frankenstein' I've ever seen/heard.

You dudes will be blown away by this performance !!! Also, you will be so amazed that you may miss the fact that there are zero vocals!

Nothing else out there like this. One of a kind, genious, brilliant......can't touch it!

I saw in an interview where the name "Frankenstein" came from. The original recorded version of this song is incredibly long. When they decided to edit a shorter version for radio, there was tape all over the studio. One of the guitarists commented that it felt like they were putting together Frankenstein.

Edger Winter was an Albino and that was the name of his band,back in the late 60's or early 70's

Remember hearing this on the radio and it blew my mind and as a kid I knew what direction I wanted to follow musically, thanks guys

Edgar wrote this to showcase his abilities. Assembled from pieces just like Frankenstein. I saw them live in '75 Aerosmith opened. Killer show ! Rick Derringer on guitar. He was the first dude I saw who played guitar with his teeth.

No words needed! 😊

“If he grabs a guitar I’m losing it” lol. Funny line

Great reaction, guys! Edgar had dubbed the song "The Double Drum Song" but they had to cut it down for the album version (which went to #1). That meant literally cutting and splicing tape. The drummer walked into the studio and saw tape lying everywhere and said "It looks like you're making Frankenstein in here." On another note, Edgar actually does not play guitar. He left that to his Blues Hall of Fame brother Johnny. You need to check them out doing Tobacco Road live at kzfaq.info/get/bejne/l8xgpblnydLNj6M.html along with future Stevie Ray Vaughn bassist Tommy Shannon. Edgar's vocals will blow you away. (Yes, the lad can SING!) But you might also want to hear Edgar's Dying to Live (kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pdZ3iap83MXQdIk.html). It's not only the most beautiful song you've never heard, but it was sampled in the posthumous Tupac track "Runnin'" that Eminem put together. I'm guessing you'll be familiar with the chorus, but you really need to hear the whole song. And as long as I'm filling you in on things, a bit about the Edgar Winter Group: The guitarist is Rick Derringer, who also played with Johnny and had the hit Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo. Bass player is Dan Hartman who wrote many of the group's songs and had a successful solo career ("I Can Dream About You") in the '80s. And the drummer is the incomparable Chuck Ruff, who also drummed for Ronnie Montrose and Sammy Hagar. Enjoy your trip down the rabbit hole!

I was very lucky to see them in a small nightclub do this song and the other parts of The Edgar Winter group in greenwood lake, New York. That was practically the loudest and actually ear piercing in a small club

Very gifted musicians The Winter Brothers !! This is 🔥🔥🔥!! Both parents were talented musicians!!

THIS SONG WAS ALWAYS ON EVERY JUKEBOX IN MY AREA FIFTY YEARS AGO…!! GREAT REACTIONS GUYS 👏 N YES THAT WAS EDGAR WITH THE WHITE HAIR. N SURPRISE… HE HAS A TWEEN BROTHER JOHNNY, WHOS A GUITAR PLAYER IN A BAND… ROCK ON 👊🖖

we all had LARGE speakers back in the day & I cracked a few on the studio version

I was 14 in 1973 and my older brother put some headphones on me and cranked this song. Never forget it. And yes Edgar was the one with white hair.

One of the most recognizable opening guitar riffs in music.

Chuck Ruff, the drummer, always reminded me of Animal from the Muppets, both because he's a beast (saying this with great admiration) and he has cool hair for the job. Jokes apart, this was a lot of fun to watch you react to this one when I understood you did not know who they were or the song. Since Smokey is into blues, you definitely have to give their rendition of 'Tobacco Road' a listen, where you can hear Edgar singing and see his brother play guitar. Johnny Winter, Edgar's brother, is a blues guitarist legend. Many commentors have mentioned him already. Give him a listen (he sings too.)

Now you know why old people keep saying today's music sucks. Lol. We lived in a golden age of music.

Take a hit from the bong and put on the headphones and fire this track up, you will enter another universe.

Shout out the the guitarist Rick Derringer! You should definitely check "Rock n Roll Hoochie Koo" by him, along with Edgar Great reaction my boys, greetings from Mexico :)

The exact right reaction to this tour de force!! A standing O is also deserved!! ☮️❤️