STELLAR PERFORMANCE // The Edgar Winter Group - Frankenstein // Composer Reaction & Analysis
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- Опубликовано: 6 авг 2024
- Bryan reacts to and talks about his thoughts on Frankenstein . Edgar Winters Group . 1973
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0:00 Intro
00:40 Reaction
10:02 Analysis - An Impressive Performance
19:15 Analysis - Using Sound
21:44 Analysis - Awesome Bass Work
23:09 Analysis - Great Drumming
27:04 Outro
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Edgar Winter using 1970's technology for all it's worth. Got to see Mr. Winter twice, once as an opener for The Allman Brothers Band in 1977, in an odd pairing, and once with his brother Johnny Winter in an alone and together show at a club in Philly in the the early 1990's. He played "Frankenstein" at both shows, along with his other big hit from the same "They Only Come Out At Night"album called "Free Ride". The song was called "Frankenstein" because it was made up of a bunch of different riffs and song parts that they cobbled together. BTW, the guitarist on the right was Rick Derringer, who had his own solo hit with "Rock and Roll Hoochie-Koo". A fun, catchy rocker.
You just opened up a time portal with this one. Hell yeah.
Hell yeah is right!
I used to beg my mother to play this record as a kid. This track in particular. This was my gateway to rock music at a young age.
Edgar is a virtuoso musician.
This is one of the finest live performances of all time.
It was actually pretty normal to dance to this song. When the electronica part happens people would do the robot and this jerky vibrating twitching stuff which looked super cool with fog machine, early lasers and of course, strobe lights. 😂
Oh man, that sounds like a blast!
Oh wow. I remember hearing this when I was young. Watching this today was a whole different experience. So very cool. Love 70s prog. 😁
Both the WINTERS were insane live.
Your stank face at the beginning said it all. : )
It's kinda the bleeding edge of music at the time - long, very jazzy progressive rock, extensive keyboard use(instead of a Hammond organ), EARLY synthesizer use(an "ARP 2600", apparently they came out 2 years earlier in '71), then you have a lot of elements of the different instruments interacting with each other at different parts, nevermind the technical proficiency. You're also looking at legitimately the 'invention' of the keytar, Edgar Winter is credited with being the first one to strap a keyboard around their neck.
Edgar's brother, Johnny Winter, also had his own extensive career as a guitarist too, solo and playing on(and even produced; Johnny has a couple Grammys for the albums from Muddy Waters he produced) a LOT of other musician's albums too. Crazy talented brothers, I don't know if 'savant' applies but by all accounts they were pretty gifted from a young age, and man they really made the most of it with their long careers, very accomplished musicians, a lot of famous names connected with them.
These guys were 🔥🔥🔥 back in the day! 🥰
Rick Derringer on guitar and Dan Hartmann on Bass!
I've heard this before and would be familiar, but never any of their other stuff, but it was great to see your joy and enthusiasm whilst watching. I wonder if this would have landed differently on another day if you were in another frame of mind, and yet you got to enjoy this the way you should have done, which was great! Someone probably missed an apostrophe before the s on Winter's
From my hometown Beaumont. TX. Two albino brothers - Johnny and Edgar Winters. Johnny made it first then people said. Have you heard Edgar? Check out We All Had a Real Good Time. Johnny was a Woodstock Era blues slide player. Unbelievable. Hendrix loved him. Thanks!
I believe the keyboard was a custom design and one of the first to be "portable". These kinds of keyboards were a thing in the 70s funk scene if my old brain remembers correctly. Excellent song with a monstrous groove.
It wasn't a custom design, it was the standard ARP 2600 keyboard, Edgar used a longer connector to the ARP and added the strap. So, semi customized I suppose.
I love songs that are just mostly impro and jam like that
Thanks for the fun trip in the way back Time Machine! I was only 10 years old when this happened and 50 years later I still remember going absolutely wild about this seeing this live after we had worn out the 45 and the needle playing the studio version, nonstop. And, this was a big driver of my never ending journey into more progressive type music……
I was always disappointed when the 45 edited version was played on the radio. AM radio typically played the edited version, FM stations would more often play the full studio version, depending on the station or possibly even time of day. I finally bought the album so I could play the full version anytime.
That array of knobs he was working was the actual synthesizer...an analog synth called an ARP 2600. The keyboard is just a controller that wound usually sit in front of the synth on a table or stand. E.W. just put on a long cord and a strap and basically invented the keytar. When he is doing the techno part, the synth is being triggered automatically at a set speed and he is opening and closing the filter to change the characteristics of the sound along with the beat to create the rhythm pattern that the drummer plays along with. Not to take away from Edgars inspiration and groundbreaking technique, but this is a pretty intuitive thing to do when you start playing around with these old synths and exploring what they could do. The guitar player is Rick Derringer (Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo), and the Bassist is Dan Hartman who had a big hit with I Can Dream About You in 1984.
Another trumpet man.
Some people have a hard time distinguishing between a alto saxophone and a trumpet.
Trumpet was my instrument as well (still have it) at least in the marching band. The competition was stiff and I was spread thin.
Concert season I played French horn.
Was fortunate to attend two years at a high school dedicated to music. So I did one semester of Music Theory and another of keyboard. Kind of regret not taking the guitar class but... I was also in the stage ( jazz / Blues) Band. Mixed chorus and barber shop. Barber shop and Stage Band shared the same van for different events. And in the stage band I played a mix of different instruments. And both also separately attended national competition out of state bringing home top honors. And our Orchestra actually made a record.
Those were the days.
Like I said I was spread then and then considering I graduated two years early with honors as well as having more than 6 years of credits in music.
Although I started Community College at age 16 I didn't want to miss out on music. We had moved that summer so I decided to attend the new Premier trade High School just to remain active in band and chorus and interact with those my age. Fortunately that second high school was as much a trade school. it didn't matter what you wanted there was a class. Everything from Bankers and secretaries to movie stuntman. I was in the agriculture departments. Everybody had their own plot of land to farm on a 20 Acre Site.
Oh the first High School instead of ROTC I joined Civil Air Patrol and became a licensed pilot at age 16 as well. Thought if I was going to get drafted into Nam I'd go in as a officer.lol
Ended up with my minors being in animal production and horticulture majoring in Aeronautics and Structural Engineering.
All have been put to good use as I've been ranching and farming since then.
And I had my career in Aerospace research and development.
And still fly with three airplanes in the stable. All designed and built by myself.
🤠🐂🏞️🛩️
I loved their song free ride growing up. You might recognize that song if you heard it
Yeah, they're a bit of a circus act but this was a huge hit in '73 (the radio edit, of course). Takes me back to 3rd grade. I remember how much a buddy of mine and I loved this song, but all the older kids were into Chicago for some reason. 😄 But how cool was it to grow up at a time when music like this topped the charts!
Taj Farrant....Crossroads mind blowing talent
Everyone missed the Frankenstein aspect. The building up to the giant lightning and thunder that made Frankenstein come alive
"Keyboard looks heavy " 😂 Keyboard Sounds heavy. Edgar Winter invented the strap on keyboard!
Gotta do Focus doing Hocus Pocus live Midnight Special 1973
I don't know how it's possible anyone hasn't heard this one, even if it was just in passing or in a soundtrack or something. Edgar Winter had a few of these "everyone's heard it songs but nobody knows who/what it is." I grew up with my dad playing this song on drums to classic rock radio all the time, but I haven't heard it in a long time. It's main riff even got ripped off by ZZ Top with their Cheap Sunglasses (the rest of the songs are completely different though). Great, fun track, and the live version definitely takes things up a notch in terms of the psychedelic freak-out. That part may date it a bit, but the blues rock grooves definitely hold up.
The band name is "The Edgar Winter Group", no Winters or Winter's as you correctly figured out. I got the proper band name from my vinyl "They Only Come Out at Night" album, which of course includes the full studio version of "Frankenstein".
You need to listen to the studio version, the analog ARP 2600 synthesizer crazy sound "solo" section is even better.
The shorter version is so much better.
Listen you should listen to the studio recording loudly with headphones on, it'll do something to you, I can't explain it, you'll just have to experience it for yourself. You'll know the part, it reminds me of a massive swarm of locusts. Listen to it and you'll see what I'm talking about.