The Johnny Winter Story

Johnny Winter in 1973 Month by Month

Wednesday, 7 March 1973 - Capital Center, Washington DC

Los Angeles, Hollywood Palladium, a recording of this concert is available as "Live 1973 Hollywoord Palladium"

Setlist:
1. Rock me baby
2. Can't you feel it
3. Rock'n'roll hoochie koo
4. Black cat bone
5. Rock & roll [12+ minutes version, with slide guitar jam]
6. Too much seconal
7. Jumpin' jack flash
8. Johnny b. goode
9. Crossroads
10. Talk to your daughter [with a saxophone solo! By the second guitarist???]
11. Roll over Beethoven

Paris, France Le Palais Des Sports

Hamburg, West Germany

Quinnapiag college.

Tuesday, 3 April 1973 - Palace Theatre, Waterbury (not Westbury)

Johnny Winter at the Palace Theatre in 1973 has been released on a bootleg CD

Johnny Winter at the Palace Theatre in 1973

Setlist:
1. ROCK ME BABY
2. INTRO OF SUSAN WARFORD
3. THE GOOD LOVE
4. AINT NOTHING TO ME
5. ROCK & ROLL HOOCHIE KOO,
6. TOO MUCH SECONAL
7. ROCK & ROLL
8. JUMPIN JACK FLASH
9. JOHNNY BE. GOODE
10. SILVER TRAIN

This bootleg contains two additional songs from 1975 Palace Theatre: SWEET PAPA JOHN, PICK UP ON MY MOJO

Tuesday, 24/25 April 1973 - Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Canada

This concerts has been released on the bootleg: Alive and Well in Toronto

1. Rock me baby
2. Can't you feel it
3. Rock'n'roll hoochie koo
4. Black cat bone
5. Rock'n'roll
6. Jumpin' jack flash
7. Johnny b. goode
8. Rollin' & tumblin'
9. Roll over beethoven
10. Let it bleed

Thursday, 26 April 1973 - Cobo Hall, Detroit

Saturday, 28 April 1973 - Coliseum, Ft Wayne

Sunday, 29 April 1973 - Convention Center, Louisville

Tuesday, 1 May 1973 - Amphitheater, Chicago.

Thursday, 3 May 1973 - Boston

Friday, 4 May 1973 - Spectrum, Philadelphia

Saturday, 5 May 1973 - Montreal Forum

Johnny Winter at the Montreal Forum with King Crimson (Fripp, Wetton, Bruford, and Cross) as supporting act. Johnny Winter's band had two drummers and a female singer (Susan?)

With special guest: Rick Derringer and Rocky Hill

Setlist:
1. Rock me baby
2. Can't you feel it
3. Rock'n'roll hoochie koo [with Rick Derringer]
4. Great balls of fire [with Rick Derringer. Very similar rendition to the one on the "And Live" official release;
5. Black cat bone
6. Jumpin' jack flash
7. Let it bleed
8. Everyday I have the blues [with Rocky Hill on guitar]
9. Back door friend [with Rocky Hill on guitar]

Thursday, 10 May 1973: Cumberland County Coliseum, Fayetteville

Friday+Saturday , 11-12 May 1973: West Palm Beach Auditorium, West Palm Beach

Sunday, 13 May 1973: Curtis Hixon Hall, Tampa, Florida

Setlist:
1. Rock me baby
2. Can't you feel it
3. Rock and roll, hoochie koo
4. Black cat bone
5. Rock & roll [great version, Randy Hobbs shines]
6. Jumpin' jack flash
7. Johnny b. goode
8. Honky tonk women [rare]
9. Roll over beethoven
10. Long tall sally

Wed-Thu 16+17 May 1973: Fox Theater, Atlanta

Friday 18 May 1973: Rickwoodd Field, Birmingham, Alabama

Opening act: Brownsville Station, followed by Foghat, followed by Johnny Winter

Saturday 19 May 1973: Hofheinz Pavilion, Houston

Friday, 25 May 1973: Hollywood Palladium

Foghat opened the show for Johnny Winter. It seems that Johnny was using two drummers during this concert

Johnny Winter at the Hollywood Palladium 1973

Sat-Sunday, 26-27 May 1973: Winterland

Johnny Winter, Foghat, Frampton's Camel at Winterland

Monday, 28 May 1973: Palladium, Los Angeles

Wednesdy, 30 May 1973: Coliseum, Denver

14 June 1973 - Hampton Coliseum in Hampton, Va

Johnny Winter with Foghat

Saturday, 16 June 1973 - Madison Square Garden

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Setlist:
1. Rock me baby
2. Can't you feel it
3. Rock and roll, hoochie koo
4. Black cat bone
5. Black cat bone [complete version]
6. Rock & roll [superb rendition, almost 15 minutes]
7. Jumpin' jack flash
8. Johnny b. goode [first encore; 8 minutes plus]
9. Crossroads [second encore]

Review: (Author unknown)

Alive and well, but still working at high temperature.
Yes, folks, Johnny Winter is still alive and well, and he proved his recuparetive abilities by selling out Madison Square Garden and thoroughly galvanised the crowd, despite the fact that while people kept yelling "rock and roll", Winter just kept on laying down his own brand of bluesy rock. Foghat were the opening act, and they got off a truly flash variation of British hot rocks.

Winter won over the crowd immediately when he swept onto the stage in the same black velvet gown with shocking pink sleeves that he wore when he sat in at Max's Kansas City with Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys, and went "Nashville".

But there was nothing Country about his music, no sirree. They opened with Bill Broonzy and Arthur Cruduo's "Rock me baby", from the new (Still Alive and Well) album, and a shower of silver squares cascaded down from the Garden ceiling - just like Alice Cooper's funny money did. Sashaying across the stage with the lights turning his hair bright gold and his black gown fluttering, Winter looked like a witch riding a magic guitar.

And with him was this Femal beatting on a tambourine with a stick - and she wore this fantastic silver jumpsuit which plunged to the navel - and lower - with multi-fringe, like a bopping neon cheerleader. Johnny capered up the scales of his guitar as though he had the mid-night creep. He stripped cutely out his fown down to the same kind of junpsuit as the tambourine lady, bumping and grinding with purpose as he did so, to delighted applause.

He twirled his fringe like and exotic dancer, extricating his guitar strap and working the stage. You could call him a perfectionist, but even his search for perfection has its limits. He changed his guitar in about just every song, and once, he even did it in the middle of a number.
Every word out of his mouth was "rock and roll" from his lyrics to his one-liners or more extended raps. Still although the pretended to go along with the great boogie rock mystique, Johnny's music was not so much rock as the songtitles suggested. His guitar style has lost none of its forcefulness, and my ears crackled from the decibel level.

He played opposite his bass player Randy Jo Hobss, once of the McCoys and alsa a member of the Johnny Winter And band. The long exaggerated solos were self-indulgent, altough technically clean and gilt-edged. Image BB King at speed, dressed up like a witch doing a strip act, and you've got the picture.

"Jumping Jack Flash" finally brought things to rock and it was about time. The folks wanteda another chance to leap up and release tehri energy, and they seem to get to it no matter who performs this great rock classic. Johnny ahd'em going and reached for more, thrusting the head of his guitar between the legs of the tambourine playing sex-object. There was no way he could escape without doing several encores, and the smell of sulhpur dioxide swept the mammoth hall as matches we ignited as a love offering.

He threw in some bravura guitar playing, on his knees on the floor and the ultimate over-head, behind-back, every possible angle. All this brought rauceous brayings for more, but I cut out before the last encore.

Wed 19 December 1973 Municipal Auditorium, New Orleans, LA

Johnny Winter 19 December New Orleans