In short, he takes no prisoners, has a killer band behind him, and can get away with literally anything, including the long flute solo in “Too Much Seconal.” The Albino Rambo of Electric Guitar slays the covers, and he kicks keister on his originals, which are top-notch. I picked it because it’s one of the hardest boogieing rock LPs ever recorded. Naw, that’s not really why I chose Still Alive and Well. The choker Edgar sports on They Only Come Out at Night looks like a Versailles chandelier. And a less flamboyant taste in neck bling. I finally opted for the latter because (1) Edgar’s a Scientologist, and I’m a bigot and (2) while Edgar boasts one fantastic set of mutton chops, Johnny has better hair. In any case, I had a heckuva time deciding whether to review They Only Come Out at Night or Johnny’s 1973 classic Still Alive and Well. Edgar, an inveterate dabbler, has recorded pop, blues, rock, boogie, jazz-fusion, and whatever the hell you call “Frankenstein,” while Johnny has played his fair share of straight-ahead hard rock. And it hasn’t been all blues by any means. The Winter Brothers have given us so much great music over the years you’d need a fleet of dump trucks to haul it all away. And God bless dem low-down pink-eyed blues. That or he’d have amended his comments to say, “cretinous, undead goons.”īut to hell, says I, with Frank Sinatra. One look at Edgar Winter on the cover of 1972’s They Only Come Out at Night would have confirmed his every prejudice, and struck him dead with a coronary thrombosis as well. Good thing The Chairman of the Board never (I’m assuming) got a gander at the Winter Brothers, Johnny and Edgar. Famed music critic Frank Sinatra once called rock’n’roll the “most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.” The crooner who liked to eat scrambled eggs off the breasts of prostitutes added it’s the handiwork of “cretinous goons,” and called it a “rancid-smelling aphrodisiac… that fosters almost totally negative and destructive reactions in young people.” Wow! Sounds great! Where do I sign up?
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