Johnny Winter is dead

 
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 17, 2014 10:00 am    Post subject: Johnny Winter is dead

One of my favorite guitarists is gone. Also a great producer, he produced Muddy Waters' "Hard Again". He actually looked very weak and sickly the last few years.

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Texas blues legend Johnny Winter, known for his lightning-fast blues guitar riffs, his striking long white hair and his collaborations with the likes of Jimi Hendrix and childhood hero Muddy Waters, has died. He was 70.

Winter was a leading light among the white blues guitar players, including Eric Clapton and the late Stevie Ray Vaughan, who followed in the footsteps of the earlier Chicago blues masters. Winter idolized Waters — and got a chance to produce some of the blues legend's more popular albums. Rolling Stone magazine named Winter one of the top 100 guitarists of all time.

His representative, Carla Parisi, confirmed Thursday that Winter died in a hotel room in Zurich a day earlier. The statement said his wife, family and bandmates were all saddened by the loss of one of the world's finest guitarists.

There was no immediate word on the cause of death.


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PostPosted: Thu Jul 17, 2014 6:07 pm    Post subject:

This just can't be true..

I just bought his album:

Still Alive & Well


He's jammin' with Jimi now...
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 17, 2014 6:26 pm    Post subject:

He made it a lot, longer than I thought he old in the early 70s. Still Alive and Well was indeed a classic.

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PostPosted: Thu Jul 17, 2014 6:58 pm    Post subject:

Damn, great player. He will be missed.
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 17, 2014 7:05 pm    Post subject:

There is a great interview with him on youtube from very recently.

He tells a story bout being a teenager, and when BB King rolled through his town he begged BB to let him play with him.

Johnny got a standing ovation that night.

We lost a giant today. RIP.
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