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Edgar Winter band rocking it with
Frankenstein on the Old Grey Whistle
Test, a BBC music program that is
sadly no more. With a very funny
comment from "Whispering" Bob Harris
at the end.
Category:
Frankenstein on the Old Grey Whistle
Test, a BBC music program that is
sadly no more. With a very funny
comment from "Whispering" Bob Harris
at the end.
Category:
Edgar Holland Winter (born December 28, 1946, in Beaumont, Texas) is an American musician who had significant success in the 1970s and
1980s. He is a keyboard player, vocalist, saxophonist and percussionist, well-versed in jazz, blues and rock. He is the second son of John and
Edwina Winter, who were very much responsible for Edgar and his older brother Johnny Winter's early musical awareness. Both Edgar and
Johnny have albinism.
As teens Edgar and Johnny (who is two years older than Edgar) began performing together at local watering holes such as Tom's Fish Camp.
The two played in R&B and blues groups; Johnny and the Jammers, The Crystaliers, and The Black Plague. By the time he was of college age
Edgar had become competent on keyboards, saxophone, bass, guitar and drums. In 1969, Winter appeared with Johnny for two songs ("I Can't
Stand It" and "Tobacco Road") at the Woodstock Festival
.
1980s. He is a keyboard player, vocalist, saxophonist and percussionist, well-versed in jazz, blues and rock. He is the second son of John and
Edwina Winter, who were very much responsible for Edgar and his older brother Johnny Winter's early musical awareness. Both Edgar and
Johnny have albinism.
As teens Edgar and Johnny (who is two years older than Edgar) began performing together at local watering holes such as Tom's Fish Camp.
The two played in R&B and blues groups; Johnny and the Jammers, The Crystaliers, and The Black Plague. By the time he was of college age
Edgar had become competent on keyboards, saxophone, bass, guitar and drums. In 1969, Winter appeared with Johnny for two songs ("I Can't
Stand It" and "Tobacco Road") at the Woodstock Festival
.
| The New York Optimist February 2009 |
