Johnny Winter Blues Band W/ Sonny Terry &Amp; Willie Dixon
Pier 84
New York City
August 19, 1981


1. [Intro] 2:26
2. Hideaway 9:47
3. Messin' With The Kid 6:20
4. Mississippi Blues > Sweet Sixteen > Baby What You Want Me To Do 15:59
5. The Crawl > Johnny B. Goode 9:58
6. Rock And Roll, Hoochie Koo 6:08
7. Okie Dokie Stomp 7:44
8. [Special Guest Intro] 3:34
9. I Think I Got The Blues 4:08
10. Sonny's Whoopin' The Doop 3:24
11. Ya Ya 6:00
12. Hooray, Hooray, This Woman Is Killing Me 3:31
13. Roll Me Baby 7:58
14. Jumpin' Jack Flash 5:22

Johnny Winter - g, voc
Jon Paris - b
Bobby Torello - dr
? special guests on Tracks 9-13
Sonny Terry - g, voc, harm
Willie Dixon - b
Styve Homnick - dr

Here is my live souvenir of the great Johnny Winter?s Pier 84 show in NYC. My recording of openers, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, was posted by me a couple of years ago but I had resisted posting the Winter set because of a torrent available on DIME which featured superior audio quality. However, my recording features the complete performance (including the Jumping Jack Flash encore) and thus may be of interest to Winter freaks and completists. The audio is decent and typical of audience recordings made on mono equipment from that era.

Pier 84 was a great summertime outdoor venue in NYC during the 80s that featured General Admission seating. I often showed up at the venue early in the afternoon after school and had my pick of seats when the gate opened. This is how I got to see artists such as Miles Davis, Weather Report and The Plasmatics up close and I wish I?d taped those shows. Ironically, the Winter show is the only one to which I brought a tape deck and that day I got to the venue a bit late and settled for a seat in the bleachers, a bit further back than I would have liked. Thus the sound is a bit distant but certainly listenable.

Contrast clause: this recording is an alternate source and features the complete set including the encore which is missing from the other recording.

Lineage: Panasonic Slimline Recorder with Mono Condenser Mic > TDK Normal Bias C90 > Nakamichi 680 > Apple Logic (EQ, Compression) > AIFF > FLAC8

This one goes out to that great archivist of Pier 84 shows, StPatric.

Don�t sell or buy this recording! Enjoy.