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Revered as a blues guitar legend, Johnny Winter through his career spanning over fifty years while experimenting with rock n’ roll and country music has produced an incredible amount of material not only as a recording artist but as a producer. Signing with Columbia Records in 1968 broke him into the spotlight and releasing his first album with the label the following year was met with great success. Having toured the world sharing the stage with artists such as Janis Joplin and Eric Clapton playing prestigious festivals like: Chicago Blues Festival, Sweden Rocks Festival and Rockpalast, Winter has built up an extraordinary live following. Now as a musician in their late sixties, a crowd of all ages eagerly awaits to see this guitar legend in all his glory. With his band already on stage, he’s introduced through an elongated instrumental before Winter emerges from side of stage, escorted to his seat and greeted by a round of applause as the crowd stare up in admiration. Wasting no time, this now frail looking Winter gets down to business as he shreds away so effortlessly that he could do it with his eyes shut and most definitely proving that he still has it.

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Johnny Winter: Blues Icon Of 2014

The world lost a blues legend this year with the death of Johnny Winter. Leslie West celebrates his fallen comrade.

Johnny and I first met because we had the same agent in New Hampshire. This was many years ago. So he always knew where I was playing and vice versa. We knew each other, we played with one another quite a bit, but it would be an exaggeration to say that we hung out together on a regular basis, because we didn’t.

It was well known that I had had a heroin problem and had got myself straightened out by taking methadone. Most people do a 28-day detox, but it just makes them realise that they need even less to get them high again. So that’s fucked up, it makes the problem worse. methadone is a horrible drug because it’s like a synthetic morphine. It stays in your bones.

My brother Larry [with whom West would form the pre-Mountain act, The Vagrants] had been on methadone for years. And then, in 1986, after he got clean, he helped me by finding a doctor in New York City. Instead of detoxing in 28 days, I did it over several years, at such a tiny decline [in dosage] that there were no symptoms. I would take just a little bit less each week. Later I realised that I was taking such a very low amount, I guess it was like a placebo.

Legally, though, if you take that path, you’re not allowed to ask the doctor about your dosage. They’ll say: “That’s none of your business.” One day when I asked my brother about how much I was taking, he turned to me and replied: “Les, you’ve been off methadone for six months.” It made me realise that besides the physical aspect, it’s just as much to do with psychological issues.

Cutting to the chase, many years later I was on tour with Johnny Winter, Edgar Winter and Rick Derringer, and we were playing Toronto. The year was 2009. Johnny’s guitar player and manager Paul Nelson came to my dressing room in private and asked how I finally got clean from methadone. Could I do it for Johnny? He was on a really, really high dose. So I told Paul the story, stressing that it was imperative Johnny couldn’t know how many milligrams he was taking. Give him his medication in the form of a wafer that can be dissolved in orange juice and he wouldn’t even know. Just take him down and down and down. Do that and he’ll never realise.

That night in Toronto I jammed on stage with Johnny on the Jimi Hendrix song Red House – it’s out there on YouTube if anyone wants to see it – and carried on with my life. I didn’t give the chat with Paul another thought. If they wanted to follow my path then that would be great, but I couldn’t make them do so, and unless they stuck to my advice, I couldn’t guarantee that it would work.

Anyway, a year or maybe 18 months later we did the same tour again. On the last night, Johnny and Paul came into my dressing room. Johnny said: “I want to thank you.” And I replied: “For what?” It had been so long, I had forgotten the original conversation. Paul told me he’d got Johnny clean. It was the exact situation that I’d gone through with my brother. When Johnny asked how much methadone he was taking, Paul told him: “None, you’re clean. You’ve been clean for months.” He’d opened up a box and shown Johnny all the wafers he hadn’t used.

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Johnny was incredibly grateful. Paul told me how, before getting clean, Johnny would just lie around in his hotel room before the show. He had no energy or inclination to do anything else. Now all of a sudden Johnny was up and walking around.

I wish we’d filmed that second conversation. My wife Jenny was there and so were my band, and Johnny and Paul rehashed the whole story of the process they’d gone through. It’s an amazing tale because usually what you’ll hear is a tale of a musician getting high, and here we were talking about cleaning up – twice over.

We stayed in contact through the years. Johnny played on my most recent record, Still Climbing [2013], and I was on his final album, Step Back [2014], which unfortunately came out posthumously. There were so many stars on that record – Eric Clapton, Billy Gibbons, Joe Perry – that it could really have enhanced his reputation. But at least we got to play together again at the end.

I felt that there was such a connection between the two of us as musicians, which usually wouldn’t exist. Johnny and I even discussed sharing our combined story in a book together. It would really have been something if Johnny had told his story and I’d told mine. I guarantee there are a lot of people out there taking methadone that don’t have a clue of how to get off it, and it’s much, much easier than they think. What I’d like people to take away from the stories of Johnny and I, and why I wanted to give this interview, is that it’s possible to get over that fear of being straight. But you can do it – I’m the proof.

Heroin is such a shitty drug. When it gets its claws into you, it won’t let go. When you’re clean, when you finally get there, it’s a whole other different world. You can see a glow in the sky. It’s such a shame that Johnny died, but at least I know he didn’t die from an overdose.

I’m really sorry that Johnny is no longer with us. Thinking about it… my bass player in Mountain, Felix Pappalardi, has been gone for more than thirty years, and now Jack Bruce, who I played with in West, Bruce And Laing, is dead too. Maybe that’ll put people off playing with me in the future.

But one thing’s for sure… I’ll miss Johnny Winter’s playing, and I’m happy that I helped to keep him on this planet for his final years. If I can share that secret, it would make me very proud. It’s like giving somebody a great stocks and shares tip. Even just talking about it again after all of these years, getting it off my chest, I feel so much better.

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Johnny Winter, Virtuosic Blues Guitarist, Dies at 70

By Ben Sisario

• July 17, 2014

Johnny Winter , a Texas-bred guitarist and singer who was a mainstay of the blues-rock world since the 1960s, died on Wednesday in his hotel room in Zurich. He was 70 and had been on tour in Europe.

Mr. Winter’s family was awaiting information about the cause, a spokeswoman, Carla Parisi, said on Thursday.

A virtuosic, high-energy blues guitarist, Mr. Winter was perhaps as well known for his appearance as he was for his playing. Tall and thin, with pinkish eyes and chalk-white skin and hair, he — like his brother and occasional collaborator, Edgar, a keyboardist and saxophonist — had albinism, a fact that commentators rarely failed to mention. “If you can imagine a 130-pound, cross-eyed albino with long fleecy hair playing some of the gutsiest, fluid blues guitar you ever heard, then enter Johnny Winter,” Rolling Stone wrote in a 1968 article that introduced Mr. Winter, then 24, to the wider public and the music business.

In less than a year he would sign a lucrative contract with Columbia Records, perform at Woodstock and be widely hailed and hyped as one of the most talented guitarists of his generation. Performing blues standards like “ Good Morning Little School Girl ” with a fiery touch, he became a fixture on the rock touring circuit and had solid record sales during his 1970s peak.

John Dawson Winter III was born on Feb. 23, 1944, in Beaumont, Tex., and took to music while still very young, playing clarinet, ukulele and eventually guitar.

When Mr. Winter was 11, he and Edgar, who is two years younger, performed Everly Brothers songs at local talent shows, and by 15 he had cut his first record: the Chuck Berry-esque “ School Day Blues, ” credited to Johnny and the Jammers, one of his many teenage bands. Around that time Mr. Winter also discovered the music of blues heroes like Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf, and their sound became his lifelong muse.

“I loved the blues,” Mr. Winter told Look magazine in 1969. “You can feel that nobody cares about you, and you sing, and it doesn’t make any difference and you don’t care. It’s not a happy feeling, it’s not sad. You can cry, and it’s good.”

His first album with Columbia, called simply “Johnny Winter,” arrived in mid-1969 on a wave of media attention. (An earlier LP, “The Progressive Blues Experiment,” released by a small Texas label, was hastily reissued to capitalize on the publicity.)

A second Columbia album, “Second Winter,” came out soon after, followed by “Johnny Winter And,” on which he introduced a new backing band featuring the guitarist Rick Derringer. That album included a Derringer song, “ Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo ,” that would become a Top 40 hit when rerecorded by Mr. Derringer as a solo artist a few years later.

Mr. Winter continued to record and tour prolifically in the ’70s, and he was also open about the drug problems that he developed along the way. In 1973, after taking a brief break, he released “Still Alive and Well,” one of his best-selling albums. In 1976 he released “Together,” a live album with his brother, Edgar, who survives him, as does Mr. Winter’s wife, Susan Warford Winter.

In 1977 Mr. Winter began a series of collaborations with Mr. Waters, producing his album “Hard Again.” That record, and two that followed in the late ’70s, won acclaim for their raw sound, and each won a Grammy Award. From there Mr. Winter’s own albums increasingly focused on the blues. His most recent, “Roots” (2011), features songs by Robert Johnson, Elmore James and Little Walter.

Mr. Winter has been ranked the 63rd greatest guitar player of all time by Rolling Stone, and throughout his career he and his musicianship have been particularly admired by other musicians.

“Roots” features guest appearances by the guitarists Warren Haynes and Derek Trucks of the Allman Brothers, the country star Vince Gill and many others, including Edgar Winter. His next release, “ Step Back,” scheduled for September, features the guitarists Eric Clapton, Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top and Joe Perry of Aerosmith.

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Johnny Winter was born in Leland, Mississippi. Johnny Winter and his brother, Edgar, grew up in Beaumont, Texas. Johnny learned to play the clarinet at five years old, followed by the ukulele at 8, and guitar at age 11.

Starting in his mid-teens and through his early twenties, Johnny was touring with Gene Terry and the Downbeats and working gigs in Texas and Louisiana with his own bands, Johnny and The Jammers, the Crystaliers, and The Black Plague. Winter would sometimes sit in with Roy Head and the Traits (another MOGC Hall of Fame inductee) when they performed in the Beaumont area, and in 1967 Winter recorded a single with the Traits: "Tramp" backed with "Parchman Farm." In 1968, he released his first album, The Progressive Blues Experiment , on Austin's Sonobeat Records.

Seeking a major music contract, Winter traveled to England in 1968 in search of a more receptive musical climate. When he returned home, he discovered that Rolling Stone had printed an article raving about an unknown albino blues guitarist from Texas. Nearly every major label was looking for him.

Winter signed with Columbia Records and quickly began to play major venues. He released the Johnny Winter album in 1969. His band included many local musicians; drummer "Uncle John" Turner (a Port Arthur native, singer, and bass player), Tommy Shannon (who would later play with Stevie Ray Vaughn), plus Edgar Winter on keyboards and saxophone. Winter recorded his second album, Second Winter, in Nashville in 1969. The two-record album only had three recorded sides (the fourth was blank). Woodstock's promoter wanted to give lesser-known acts some exposure, and Johnny Winter made the most of it. His performance at Woodstock forever established his rightful place as a guitar superstar. Johnny also had a short-lived relationship with Janis Joplin, culminating in a concert at New York's Madison Square Garden, where Johnny joined her on stage to sing and perform--two southeast Texas kids, the toast of New York.

After overcoming a heroin addiction in the early 70s, Winter continued to perform live, including at festivals throughout North America and Europe. Johnny was influenced by Muddy Waters and Willie Dixon. A producer of the first order, Winter produced three Grammy Award-winning albums for Muddy Waters; Hard Again (1977), I'm Ready (1978), and Muddy Mississippi Waters – Live (1979).

Winter was professionally active until the time of his death near Zurich, Switzerland, while on tour. Writing in Rolling Stone magazine, David Marchese said, "Winter was one of the first blues rock guitar virtuosos, releasing a string of popular and fiery albums in the late Sixties and early Seventies, becoming an arena-level concert draw in the process ... he made an iconic life for himself by playing the blues."

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Johnny Winter, a rail-thin blues guitarist known for his scorching riffs, flowing white hair and gravelly, hard-times voice, died Wednesday in Switzerland at the end of a European tour. He was 70.

His death in a Zurich hotel room was confirmed by John Lappen, his public relations manager. Winter, who had emphysema, was recently diagnosed with pneumonia, Lappen said.

Over the years, Winter had battled drug and alcohol addictions that made him appear prematurely frail. In 2005, he weighed 90 pounds, but with the help of fellow musician Paul Nelson he managed to shake his drug dependencies, gain 60 pounds, and resume a vigorous touring schedule.

“He’s stopped drinking and he’s talking to people and is more accessible,” Nelson told the Jerusalem Post in 2013. “He walks out on the stage unattended now — this is huge! He was sitting down for 15 years.”

Winter performed from time to time with his younger brother Edgar. Both were born with albinism, a disorder that keeps the body from producing the pigments that color the skin, hair and eyes. The condition also leaves albinos with severe vision problems.

In Beaumont, Texas, the brothers’ hometown, it left Johnny feeling isolated and angry. He later said it helped him identify with African American blues musicians, whose music was kept off mainstream radio stations at the time.

“We both had a problem with our skin being the wrong color,” he told author Mary Lou Sullivan in her 2010 biography, “Raisin’ Cain: The Wild and Raucous Story of Johnny Winter.”

In 1988, Winter became the first white musician named to the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame.

More drawn to jazz and rock, Edgar Winter became famous in his own right. Johnny was to have appeared with him on a U.S. tour next month, including an Aug. 22 performance at the City National Grove of Anaheim. However, Johnny’s July 12 show at the Lovely Days festival in Wiesen, Austria, turned out to be his last.

Bruce Conforth, a University of Michigan professor of American culture and a founding curator of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, said Winter blazed a musical trail by blending down-home blues and progressive playing.

“Johnny was playing this unbelievably fiery guitar, but he was trying to do it within this very traditional context, which was so mind-blowing to most young, white blues aficionados at the time,” Conforth said. “Any [blues artist] who picked up the guitar after 1968 was influenced by Johnny Winter.”

Born in Beaumont on Feb. 23, 1944, John Dawson Winter III grew up comfortably middle class, the son of a cotton broker-turned-building contractor.

He took music lessons and sang in the church choir. At 10 or 11, he was transfixed by what he heard on a black radio station that was a favorite of the family’s maid.

“It was real raw,” he recalled, “completely different than the music my parents and grandparents listened to. I started listenin’ to blues on KJET because I liked what I heard in the kitchen.”

Doing a ukulele act, Johnny and Edgar won a local contest that qualified them to audition in New York for “Ted Mack and the Original Amateur Hour.” The judges were unimpressed.

As he got older, Winter played clubs around his hometown. After two years at Lamar State College, he quit, heading for Chicago to sing the blues. Within a few months, he was back in Texas, performing at bars and recording on small labels.

Still an unknown, he drew the attention of Rolling Stone, which featured him in a 1968 story on the Texas music scene: “Imagine a 130-pound cross-eyed albino bluesman with long fleecy hair playing some of the gutsiest blues guitar you have ever heard.”

The next year, Columbia Records signed him to a $600,000 contract. That summer, Winter played at Woodstock, but his set was excluded from the epochal Woodstock film; his manager at the time refused to allow it because “he thought we wouldn’t make any money,” Winter later said.

By the late 1970s, Winter had released a string of popular albums combining classic blues and original compositions. A master of lightning-fast finger work, he was named 63rd on Rolling Stone’s list of the 100 greatest guitarists.

He also produced four albums for his boyhood idol, bluesman Muddy Waters.

With an on-again, off-again career, Winter appeared to be on at the end.

Set for a September release, a new album, “Step Back,” features Winter’s collaborations with legendary guitarists Eric Clapton, Billy Gibbons and Mark Knopfler.

In addition to his brother Edgar, Winter’s survivors include Susan Warford Winter, his wife of 22 years.

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Winter is pictured during a Feb. 1984 stop in Chicago.

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Guitarist Johnny Winter, pictured performing at a Valencia jazz festival in 2008, died this week in a Zurich hotel. He last performed Saturday at the Lovely Days Festival in Wiesen, Austria.

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The blues guitarist is pictured in July 1979, backstage in Nice, France, with his girlfriend, Christine.

GENEVA — Texas blues icon Johnny Winter, who rose to fame in the late 1960s and ’70s for his energetic performances and musical collaborations including with childhood hero Muddy Waters, has died. He was 70.

His representative, Carla Parisi, confirmed Thursday that Winter died in a hotel room in Zurich a day earlier. The statement said his wife, family and bandmates were all saddened by the loss of one of the world’s finest guitarists.

He had been on an extensive tour this year that brought him to Europe. His last performance came Saturday at the Lovely Days Festival in Wiesen, Austria.

Winter was one of the most popular live acts of the early 1970s, when his signature fast blues guitar solos attracted a wide following.

His career received a big boost early on when Rolling Stone magazine singled him out as one of the best blues guitarists on the Texas scene. This helped secure a substantial recording contract from Columbia Records and gave him a wide following among college students and young blues fans.

The magazine later named him one of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time.

Winter, who was instantly recognizable for his long white hair, worked with some of the greatest bluesmen, producing several albums for Waters and recording with John Lee Hooker. He paid homage to Waters on “Tribute to Muddy,” a song from his 1969 release “The Progressive Blues Experiment.”

Among the blues classics that Winter played from that era were “Rollin’ and Tumblin’,” “Bad Luck and Trouble” and “Good Morning, Little Schoolgirl.” He also teamed up with his brother Edgar for their 1976 live album “Together.”

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