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There was a fifth one called "tend the fire", released in the 1990s, only in Europe. The DBA recording, billed as "Blues rock" was slightly disapointing especially when compared to the other recordings I mentioned above , Jim

I saw Johnny Winter & Edger Winter group in concert at Murphy Center back in "73" or "74". It was my first rock concert & I'd never seen anything quite like it! They rocked the house down.
Good memories of my youth.

Theresa

Man, I would love to hear that DBA album. I was a huge fan of Cactus w/ Tim and Carmine.

Hey, does anybody remember the album that beck, bogart, and appice did? How about carmen appice playing drums on the video, do you think i'm sexy by rod stewart in the 70's? Hey where's my mirror ball and big patform shoes?

I got Rick's Sho~Bud Pro II from him in 1981.
I also ran into Rick when I was working at Prairie Sun, at the turn of the century, when he was working there. I snagged the bass player for my recording. Segovia Bader, a great bass player, who has since died.

The engineer was Gene Cornelius. Very nice and talented engineer.
This is the song and is kind of a R & R version of "Steel Guitar Rag", but differnent:
http://thetapper.bandcamp.com/track/small-world-rag with Segovia playing bass.

Bob Carlucci wrote:...not just hack away at it like some other rock guys.

HEY!!
I resemble that remark!

Nice music and picture too, Chris!

Wow Chris. Enjoyed that. Thanks for reviving this old thread too. All I ever knew about the Winter brothers was their popular radio rock cuts. Of course, I remember Rick all the way back to the McCoys, but I never knew about his steel guitar playing, the musical range explored by any of these guys or yourself.

Learn something every day. hopefully

Captain Beyond, Cactus, friggin VanDergraf Generator, Rick Derringer, where have all you folks been hiding, I'm overjoyed just hearing the names, thanks again forumites for making my day, count me way in !

Johnny's " Still Alive and Well" is one of the best rock n roll albums I ever heard . Around 1980 my band was splitting nights with Duke Root at the old Park Place in Asbury Park, and their drummer was Richard Hughes , who used to be Johnny's drummer. When I told Richard that "Rock me Baby " from that album was my all time favorite Johnny song , he started laughing. He told me the cut that made in onto the album was a levels-check. They spent the rest of the day trying to record the song, but that was the best version. Sadly, a few years later he hung himself in his mother's garage. Sorry about the hijack, but I felt like telling my story. Besides, this one has already drifted.

On a morbid note, I have long entertained the idea that if Johhnny Winter hadn't made it out of the 70's in more-or-less one piece, there would have been THREE demi-gods enshrined in the pantheon currently occupied by Duane Allman & Jimi Hendrix. I know, I'm terrible but think - "classic rock" radio used to have "Still Alive and Well", "Rock 'n' Roll Hootchie Coo" and "Silver Train" in the same rotation as six Rolling Stones Songs, six Zepp songs, the Who, several Hendrix songs, But Winter kind of got... extracted, just for the sin of BEING here.

Since this thread already deterioated:
I put on a blues album by Rick Derringer, tuned my guitar a half step down, because he did that too, smoked a little something and played happily along. When the last track "Texas" was playing I was realising that I was nowhere near as good as him. At the end of the track he gave a dirty laughter which I related to me. That's when I gave up playing Blues guitar

I have another Rick Derringer story. I was at Alex Music on W. 48th st. in NYC around '71 or '72. There was a guy there wearing a wristwatch that had a plain, blank dark face. I asked him what kinda watch it was & he pushed the button & the watch lit up the time with red LED numbers. Turned out to be Rick derringer with what was the very first digital LED watch I had ever seen. He said it was around $300; now you can buy 'em for 2 bucks. I was more fascinated by the watch than the fact it was Rick.