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In reply to the discussion: R.I.P. Johnny Winter, blues legend dead at 70 [View all]DFW
(55,994 posts)24. He was a prince of a guy
I met him at a rock festival in France when I was 18. I had bought a cheap plastic electric guitar in Sweden to carry around just to keep my fingers limber. It was white with some gaudy blue glitter. Looked crazy. Johnny saw it and "had to have it." He said he might not ever play it onstage, but he wanted to hang it on his wall. I said sure--if he gave me back the $40 I had paid for it and let me take a picture of him with it. He immediately agreed to both. I wish I still had that picture!
He was always thin as a rail, but when he got out that firebird and his slide, he was like a dynamo turned up full blast.
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He was a really nice guy! My sister married one of his close friends and he and the whole band
Dustlawyer
Jul 2014
#54
Actually "Frankenstein" was an Edgar Winter (Johnny's younger brother) tune.
bluesbassman
Jul 2014
#41