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Johnny Winter .... September 21, 1996
Clifton Park, New York, USA
Johnny Winter - guitar & vocals
Tom Compton - drums
Mark Epstein - bass
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Setlist:
01 Hideaway
02 Sen-Sa-Shun> Got My Mojo Workin'
03 She Likes To Boogie Real Low
04 Sick & Tired
05 Black Jack Game
06 Don't Take advantage Of Me
07
08 The Sky Is Crying
09 Baby What You Want Me To Do
10 Johnny Guitar (cut)
Great Johnny sites:
Francisco Silva's: http://zetatato.sites.uol.com.br and http://www.vnet.com.br/zetatato
Timeline, Bio, etc.: http://www.yee.ch/winter/winter_timeline.html
Concert Review / Memories from: http://www.yee.ch/winter/Timeline/winter_timeline_1996.html
Concert review of Johnny Winter in Park West, Clifton Park NV (21 Sep 1996)
Hearing Johnny Winter in concert allowed me to better appreciate how an anthropologist feels when he or she uncovers the remnants of some heretofore un-cataloged hominid, as I finally feel like I've heard that beautiful, elusive missing musical link between Australopithecus Bluesei and Homo Erocktus.
Seeing Johnny Winter in concert last Saturday allowed me to better appreciate why it's so critically important that life-time musicians have some corporate-style pension or relief fund that allows them to get off the road when they're not healthy enough to travel. I may be presumptuous in making such a statement, but Winter (who has always given Keith Richards a run for his money in the ridden-hard-and-put-away-wet department) did not seem at all well Saturday night while moving slowly about the Park West's stage like a man severely enfeebled or heavily sedated.
Yes, Winter's rock-meets-the-blues guitar playing remained absolutely magnificent; if he was enfeebled or sedated then I shudder to think what he could do on a full tank of gas. His guitar-style is rife with wild string bending (I know he uses an unwound G-string, but his fret-board frolics made me wonder whether he'd found some rare string-set featuring an unwound D-and a lightly wound A-string to boot) and copious soloing outside of the Widdly Zone (that rote-soloist's default finger location--above the fifth fret on the top three strings--where everything sounds like its going "widdly widdly widdly"); you had to constantly watch Winter's guitar and his bassist's five-string job to tell who was holding down the bottom on any given number. And yes, Winter's singing also remains (ummmm. . . ) distinctive, shall we say? His thin, tenor throat instrument sounds something like Neil Young's, but without all of Neil's unpleasant straining, and it's perfectly suited to the hard-luck music Winter favors.
So that all should have made for a swell musical evening, right? Well . . . I wish I could say so, but Winter's physical shape nagged at me throughout his ninety-minute performance. I kept feeling, somehow, like I was participating in the exploitation of someone too weak to defend himself. And I hope I'm wrong about that: I hope that Johnny was feeling fine, and that he was just taking his time 'cause he was in no rush to get anywhere, and that he's touring these days solely because he wants to, not because he has to. I'll feel better about having patronized this show if I keep telling myself that was the case.
Chuck D'Aloia's CD Blues opened the evening with a robust set of standards, all featuring D'Aloia's unique guitar dressings. Ray Charles' "Georgia on My Mind", as an example, wore a festive set of jazz-progressive chords around its waist, while Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" was all wrapped up in a skritchyscratchy skiffled guitar coverlet. Damn fine stuff, all of it--and CD Blues should have provided a great head of steam for their headliner to ride, but Park West allowed its stage to cool for an hour and twenty minutes before Winter mounted it. Chalk that up as an opening weekend error that (hopefully) club management will rectify in the future.
Copyright 1995-1999: J. Eric Smith.
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