John Dawson Winter III has passed, but I believe he played as long as he could. I remember seeing him perform when he looked like he should be in the hospital. He suffered from diabetes.
Johnny was born in '44 and Edgar was born in 1946. I owned some of Johnny's work, like "Still Alive and Well". I saw Johnny in Austin back in the 70's at the Armadillo World Headquarters and other local rock venues. He was a shredder. I never got into Edgar as much.
Registered: 10/16/01
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Yeah Mark, I had this album in vinyl when it came out on the EPIC label in '72. It was a hit with the guys in my first year at MIT, too (testing the waters).
GREAT cover of Chuck Berry's tune, and WHAT a solo by Derringer! Those vinyl albums had more snaps, clicks, and pops on them than my 'Machine Head' album. B.I.T.U.S.A was from 'SIDE TWO" "AL31251" (underneath it on the vinyl), second song.
Unfortunately, I never went back to pick up ANY of my vinyl collection from my first BIG D...She got them all (a LOT).
That live double album went certified Gold at the end of '74. I remember 'Tobacco Road' taking up the entire 'SIDE THREE' ('BL31251') of the original vinyl version.
Thanks for making my morning, man; since I'm off to Dr. Drill & Fill this afternoon to repair a small occlusion.
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Registered: 07/11/01
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Kind-of a funny story: so when I was in Afghanistan, I was drafted (in part because my band was playing) to deal with the PA system for the Embassy's big July 4th stuff. The July 4 events included a huge representational event on July 3 for government officials, other diplomats, aid workers, and other important people. You know, we give them hot dogs and hamburgers and make contacts and talk about stuff in a more party-like setting. We serve alcohol, which is not super available in Afghanistan, so that loosens people up a little bit, so we get more info from them, that kind of thing. It was a big deal, as it is at every Embassy around the world. In Kabul, the other president, Dr. Abdullah, was attending. So, you know. Lots of speeches, lots of important people. My band was playing, as were a whole bunch of traditional Afghan musicians.
Then, we were also going to have an event for just the Embassy personnel on July 4th, a party, since it was for us a rare day off. We got the leftovers. And the band I was in was performing at that too, and I needed to set up somewhat differently for all that.
PA for this pair of events was obviously really important. And I am not really a PA person, particularly – I know the basics, but I don’t really know much about how to throw sound out over a pretty big space without deafening people in the front and all that type of thing. It's one thing to play in a park, it's another thing to need to make sure everyone can hear the co-president of Afghanistan speak.
Fortunately, I had a great assist from motown59, who, because he does professional PA work, walked me through some of the basics and provided an answer in terms of how best to set it up so that speeches, music, and entertainment would all be able to be heard all over the embassy outside space.
So the 3rd comes, it’s the day of the official event. We have two sets of two 2x15 cabinets, each cabinet has its own 1000W power amp, which are set up on custom made stands about 15’ high, up above everyone to blast it across the whole embassy compound. Everything is finally set up.
I pull out my phone and go to my special July 4 playlist, called “50 Songs for 50 States”. It’s actually 75-80 songs, a lot of songs that mention USA or U.S. or America, in addition to at least one song which mentions every state in the title or the lyrics. I created it some years ago for events just like this, and usually get to play it as background music everyplace I've been posted. Lots of great stuff in there.
And this version of Back In The USA was the song I chose to test 4000W of public address system in the middle of Kabul, Afghanistan. I played it … LOUD. You could hear it – well, thank you Motown – across the street and in the housing compound, and down the streets beyond the walls.
And I just … it was kind-of awesome. I thought to myself, fuck you, Talibs. Take Edgar Winter.
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