Live Bootleg Series Volume Three
by: Johnny Winter
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Like any life-changing, chromosome-rearranging event, all guitar fans remember their
first time seeing Johnny Winter perform live. For me, the year was 1973, at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Johnny was then embarking on his Still Alive and Well comeback tour. Appearing onstage all in white, his platinum-white hair flowing down to his elbows and playing a blinding white Gibson Firebird V, Johnny beamed with the unbridled energy of a force from some distant galaxy. His performance a combination of earth-shattering guitar playing, searing vocals and wildly energetic stage presence--was nothing short of brilliant. He rocked the Garden so hard that night, the entire building shook in rhythm with the music. During the barn-burning boogie track Rock & Roll, I literally believed that the Garden was going to blast apart at the seams.
In the ensuing years, I have seen Johnny perform countless times in arenas, amphitheaters, 1200-seaters, sardine-canned packed clubs (such as NYC s legendary Lone Star Café), rehearsal studios, and even Johnny s own living room. Seeing and hearing Johnny Winter play live is an experience like no other, because, simply stated, no other guitar player has ever entwined raw power, pure emotion, conviction, and virtuosity more effectively than he has.
Live Bootleg Series: Vol. 3 opens with Mojo Boogie. Johnny leads off the tune with some unaccompanied virtuoso slide work, his guitar tuned to open D (one of his favorite tunings for slide), before the band kicks in for a blazing extended intro solo, with bassist Paris offering some double duty by coping Johnny s slide melodies note-for-note on harmonica.
The second cut, Stranger Blues, is a killer Elmore James boogaloo that Johnny rips apart with more slide work in open D. This is the type of hard-rockin blues Johnny first introduced to the world back in 1969 with his seminal release, The Progressive Blues Experiment.
On the third track, I Smell Trouble Johnny displays the kind of mind-blowing speed and virtuosity that he usually reserves for long workouts over slow blues, while Boot Hill is a hard-driving mid-tempo shuffle on which Johnny effortlessly combines slide guitar with some of the fastest single-note work he s ever recorded.
Next up is a very rare live take of Robert Johnson s Stones in My Pass Way, played in front of a small but appreciative audience. Johnny performs the song unaccompanied with a slide on a National steel guitar tuned to open G. I learned about open tunings from listening to Robert Johnson's King of the Delta Blues, Johnny told me back in 1989. I picked up the concept of using open tunings just by using my own ears, and when I discovered how the open tunings worked with the slide, it was quite a revelation.
I m Gonna Murder My Baby, was written by one of Johnny s big guitar influences, Pat Hare. Says Johnny, I m Gonna Murder My Baby is the heaviest blues song ever written!
This collection rounds out with a smoldering version of Johnny s most well known track, his slide guitar tour-de-force arrangement of Bob Dylan s Highway 61 Revisited. Johnny Winter is regarded as one of the greatest, most original and most influential slide guitarists ever, and this track offers ample testament to that fact.
Today, Johnny Winter is still touring steadily all over the globe, playing and singing as only he can and bringing audiences to their feet wherever he goes. Until the next time you get to see him perform live, Live Bootleg Vol. 3 will keep you covered.
--Andy Aledort...........................................................................
Produced by Johnny Winter from the original source tapes
Remastered by Joe Reagoso (Deep Purple/Boz Scaggs/Canned Heat) at Friday Music Studios
Like any life-changing, chromosome-rearranging event, all guitar fans remember their
first time seeing Johnny Winter perform live. For me, the year was 1973, at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Johnny was then embarking on his Still Alive and Well comeback tour. Appearing onstage all in white, his platinum-white hair flowing down to his elbows and playing a blinding white Gibson Firebird V, Johnny beamed with the unbridled energy of a force from some distant galaxy. His performance a combination of earth-shattering guitar playing, searing vocals and wildly energetic stage presence--was nothing short of brilliant. He rocked the Garden so hard that night, the entire building shook in rhythm with the music. During the barn-burning boogie track Rock & Roll, I literally believed that the Garden was going to blast apart at the seams.
In the ensuing years, I have seen Johnny perform countless times in arenas, amphitheaters, 1200-seaters, sardine-canned packed clubs (such as NYC s legendary Lone Star Café), rehearsal studios, and even Johnny s own living room. Seeing and hearing Johnny Winter play live is an experience like no other, because, simply stated, no other guitar player has ever entwined raw power, pure emotion, conviction, and virtuosity more effectively than he has.
Live Bootleg Series: Vol. 3 opens with Mojo Boogie. Johnny leads off the tune with some unaccompanied virtuoso slide work, his guitar tuned to open D (one of his favorite tunings for slide), before the band kicks in for a blazing extended intro solo, with bassist Paris offering some double duty by coping Johnny s slide melodies note-for-note on harmonica.
The second cut, Stranger Blues, is a killer Elmore James boogaloo that Johnny rips apart with more slide work in open D. This is the type of hard-rockin blues Johnny first introduced to the world back in 1969 with his seminal release, The Progressive Blues Experiment.
On the third track, I Smell Trouble Johnny displays the kind of mind-blowing speed and virtuosity that he usually reserves for long workouts over slow blues, while Boot Hill is a hard-driving mid-tempo shuffle on which Johnny effortlessly combines slide guitar with some of the fastest single-note work he s ever recorded.
Next up is a very rare live take of Robert Johnson s Stones in My Pass Way, played in front of a small but appreciative audience. Johnny performs the song unaccompanied with a slide on a National steel guitar tuned to open G. I learned about open tunings from listening to Robert Johnson's King of the Delta Blues, Johnny told me back in 1989. I picked up the concept of using open tunings just by using my own ears, and when I discovered how the open tunings worked with the slide, it was quite a revelation.
I m Gonna Murder My Baby, was written by one of Johnny s big guitar influences, Pat Hare. Says Johnny, I m Gonna Murder My Baby is the heaviest blues song ever written!
This collection rounds out with a smoldering version of Johnny s most well known track, his slide guitar tour-de-force arrangement of Bob Dylan s Highway 61 Revisited. Johnny Winter is regarded as one of the greatest, most original and most influential slide guitarists ever, and this track offers ample testament to that fact.
Today, Johnny Winter is still touring steadily all over the globe, playing and singing as only he can and bringing audiences to their feet wherever he goes. Until the next time you get to see him perform live, Live Bootleg Vol. 3 will keep you covered.
--Andy Aledort...........................................................................
Produced by Johnny Winter from the original source tapes
Remastered by Joe Reagoso (Deep Purple/Boz Scaggs/Canned Heat) at Friday Music Studios
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Average Rating:
Rating: - more brilliant rock
Unfortunately, a society brainwashed by decades of pop culture have probably been rendered genetically incapable of appreciateing the intensity of Johnny's music, or anything else that is way above the common denominator. Still, I predict Winter will eventuallybe recognized as a Shakespear-like talent when some people in their field achieved greatness.
Rating: - Insert your own superlatives...
Not a bootleg in the usual sense of the word, this album is of course an official release, produced by Johnny Winter himself. And guess what? In many ways the four "Bootleg" albums which have come out so far are better than any of Winter's previous live albums, and better than almost all of his studio albums as well. Nowhere else are the talents of Mr John Dawson Winter III so well displayed (except, perhaps, on the phenomenal, underexposed "White, Hot and Blue" album), and nowhere else can his prowess ... Read More
Rating: -JOHNNY WINTER:THE LIVE BOOTLEG SERIES
YOU WILL NEVER BE DISSAPOINTED WITH A JOHNNY WINTER CD.THE LIVE BOOTLEG SERIES IS PERFECT FOR LONG TIME FANS,BECAUSE IT HELPS YOU RELIVE ALL THE GREAT CONCERTS YOU'VE SEEN OVER THE YEARS.IT ALSO HELPS NEWER FANS,BY LETTING THEM GET A TASTE OF WHAT IT WAS LIKE IN THE OLD DAYS.ALL AND ALL A GREAT CD..
Rating: - Johnny at his best
Being a fan of Johnny's and seeing him live many times from the 70's on, this bootleg volume 3 cd is typical of the virtuosity of the man. His playing is some of the best and the choice of songs on this cd are some of my favorites that he's done. This is definitely some of his best work. If you've never heard Johnny play before you're in for a real treat. He's also one of the top slide guitar players of all time and it shows on this cd. Buy it, you won't be dissapointed
Rating: - Johnny does it again
Johnny winter is 3 for 3 on the bootleg series, great playing again and again by a true master. It stand right up with 1 and 2.
- more brilliant rockUnfortunately, a society brainwashed by decades of pop culture have probably been rendered genetically incapable of appreciateing the intensity of Johnny's music, or anything else that is way above the common denominator. Still, I predict Winter will eventuallybe recognized as a Shakespear-like talent when some people in their field achieved greatness.
- Insert your own superlatives...Not a bootleg in the usual sense of the word, this album is of course an official release, produced by Johnny Winter himself. And guess what? In many ways the four "Bootleg" albums which have come out so far are better than any of Winter's previous live albums, and better than almost all of his studio albums as well. Nowhere else are the talents of Mr John Dawson Winter III so well displayed (except, perhaps, on the phenomenal, underexposed "White, Hot and Blue" album), and nowhere else can his prowess ... Read More
-JOHNNY WINTER:THE LIVE BOOTLEG SERIESYOU WILL NEVER BE DISSAPOINTED WITH A JOHNNY WINTER CD.THE LIVE BOOTLEG SERIES IS PERFECT FOR LONG TIME FANS,BECAUSE IT HELPS YOU RELIVE ALL THE GREAT CONCERTS YOU'VE SEEN OVER THE YEARS.IT ALSO HELPS NEWER FANS,BY LETTING THEM GET A TASTE OF WHAT IT WAS LIKE IN THE OLD DAYS.ALL AND ALL A GREAT CD..
- Johnny at his bestBeing a fan of Johnny's and seeing him live many times from the 70's on, this bootleg volume 3 cd is typical of the virtuosity of the man. His playing is some of the best and the choice of songs on this cd are some of my favorites that he's done. This is definitely some of his best work. If you've never heard Johnny play before you're in for a real treat. He's also one of the top slide guitar players of all time and it shows on this cd. Buy it, you won't be dissapointed
- Johnny does it againJohnny winter is 3 for 3 on the bootleg series, great playing again and again by a true master. It stand right up with 1 and 2.
