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Johnny winter albino3/2/2023 ![]() ![]() You know, you can be sittin' around talkin' to a bunch of people and not hearin' what's goin' on. "And I remember walkin' in the door, and I heard this guitar player. I went back to my old stomping ground, The Fog, where I'd played for so long, Shannon says. "I remember the day we flew back to Dallas. Shannon and Turner found themselves on a plane back to Texas. ![]() A prolific tunesmith, he also shared managers with Winter. Trouble was, despite the emotional power and speedball virtuosity of Johnny Winter's playing, it was becoming obvious after three albums that his songwriting ideas were limited. And Johnny was more the lowdown blues guy. Edgar was more intellectual and Zen-like, I guess, mathematical. Edgar was the jazz guy, and Johnny was the blues guy. But he was a very cool person to work with. He was just naturally wired, so to speak. "He was fun to work with he was great, Shannon says of the albino bluesman. They'll promise that until it gets down where there's this big pile of money, and then somebody gets greedy. That stuff just doesn't happen where somebody gives points to the band. He gave us points on the records and merchandising, and he looked at the band and everything as a family. ![]() "He was the most beautiful person I've ever known, Shannon said in a recent phone interview from his home. Even 14 years after Vaughan's death in a helicopter crash, his friendship and generosity still hold positive sway over Shannon's existence. Life has been brighter for the Austin-based bassman ever since Vaughan, a then-unknown young guitar firebrand, hired him in 1980 to complete a rhythm section with drummer Chris Layton known as Double Trouble. Mötley Crüe's Mick Mars in 1985: "Without groupies, I probably wouldn't have been a musician.Bassist Tommy Shannon has ridden high behind two of Texas' baddest blues-rock guitarists at venues from Woodstock to Montreux.Īnd somewhere in between those monumental stints with Johnny Winter and Stevie Ray Vaughan, he fell lower than the devil's basement from a drug habit that landed him in jail and left him broke and laying brick for a living.Rolling Stone can piss right off: here's the 100 Greatest Guitarists (that I've interviewed) and 50 that I haven't (yet). ![]()
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