A Visit to the Gravesite of Blues Guitarist Johnny Winter
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- A Visit to the Gravesite of Blues Guitarist Johnny Winter in Easton, Connecticut. Johnny and his brother Edgar Winter were both musicians. Johnny played at Woodstock in 1969.
Big fan since I was a little kid. Johnny is a Legend and his music/singing will be enjoyed forever.
RIP Johnny Amen 🙏
Great inspiration and entertainer. Missed.😊
One of the best guitar players ever. He played with his soul exposed.
and, one of thee best Blues/Rock SINGERS to boot
I visited Duane allmans' grave at Rose Hill with Johnny in 1990.
I played "little Martha" on my dobro, Johnny said "sweet".
We were sitting on the Tomb playing.
Johnny said, "he didn't think he wanted to be covered with 6' of dirt".
"Because I might want to get out".
He had the biggest most genuine smile.
He was my hero.
Amazing story. We all have an appointment with the grim reaper.
I first saw Johnny Winter at the Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music in June 1970. It was dark and Johnny was dressed in an all white flowing costume and was projected onto large screens. It was an incredible set, the best I've ever seen anywhere. Johnny was the best heavy/Texas blues guitarist of all time. God bless Johnny Winter!
I would expect Johnny to be buried in Beaumont... But thanks for sharing the video. Very nice
RIP. JW!!! He was awesome!!!!!!!! ☮️💟
Johnny is a great legend of blues rock music. RIP Johnny, thank you for the music and memories 🎸🕊️🙏🏻
Thank you. I'm disabled now but when I could play I enjoyed playing that Gibson firebird because of Johnny Winter... Changed my life... R I P.
I am not a guitar player but i learned that those guitars had the neck and body as one piece
One of my all-time favorite blues guitarist I seen him four times the fourth time it was winter oddly enough and he looked like hell. The band was playing trying to pick him up. It was kind of sad to see him so sick one of my all-time favorites RIP Johnny.
Edgar still has albinism…he’s still with most of us.
I lucked out and got to see johnny along with Edger, Rick Derringer and kim Simmonds in Tacoma Washington in july 2012. I won the tickets on a radio show. I hadn't even been aware that they were comming to town. Im 67 and J W was the first record album i ever bought which tells you how big a fan I am.
You were a lucky winner to get those tickets.
@@variousvisfineart it was in a venue that holds 1200 and it was almost an imeadit sell out. The radio commercial announcing it was only on for 1 day.
I was with my band at Tampa Stadium, i think it was. We saw all 3 of them together that day. Never to be forgotten show. I just turned 72 and I still play drums and a little guitar. I grew up at a time of the Greatest Music and Musicians. Thanks for this post.
THANK YOU ❤️
Nothing better than my buddy calling me saying " Get down to My Father's Place NOW , Johnnies playing " He'd show up unannounced all the time . RIP Johnnie .
one of the greatest to ever strap on an axe. .huge influence on SRV that many people don't realize.
When he was on Johnny Winter was one of the best slide players - incendiary duende fire came out of the that man through his fingers!!!!!!!!!!
'Be Careful with a Fool" Johnny Winter Forever!
That is a good JW song.
Great tune!
Thanks for sharing...
I saw Johnny play many times, in a bar, in arenas, and with 400,000 others at the 2nd Atlanta Pop Festival. Talked with him once in an airport - just a regular guy.
Miss you brother.
Just a regular guy…until you put a guitar in his hands‼️
Johnny was one of my earliest and most dominant influences on the guitar. I finally got to see him live in St. Louis, MO just after his stroke. He was absolutely amazing that night! RIP Johnny.
Hello from an fan outside of the USA. Love Johnny Winter since the seventies.
Best regards from Switzerland, Europe, the old world.
I am a swiss citizen, my first language is french.
Salute !;!
Ultimate bluesman.
RIP BROTHER!
May he Rest in Peace!
His ability to sing and play guitar was a True gift . My respect to him and I miss and appreciate him so much. . .
Yes, he had amazing talent.
It was no gift, he practiced his ass off 6 hours a day from age 9 to 16 he took guitar lessons for a very good guitar teacher that showed him the Pentatonic scale as well as the Blues Scale and he busted his ass off becoming the guitar player that he was - I know what your saying but it was not a gift he had to earn it and he did
RIP Johnny. Bass player here but I so loved Johnny Winters guitar playing. Nothing but a chorus pedal for effects if I remember rightly. Wild brilliant music from a gentle soul
Best guitar player I EVER saw live.Late 80's.Thanks for sharing hope you are well God loves you deeply Shalom 🤗🐼❤️✝️💐 Philippians 4:8
I was at the Captured Live concert in Oakland.. I’ve been a fan ever since! RIP Bluesman..
Such a brief video really moved me. I am 66 yo and listened to JDW my whole life. Saw him alot and styled my own rudimentary playing after him. RIP Johnny, you are sorely missed.
I first heard him when I was just a kid !
Now 65 !
This reminds me just how quickly time passes !
If that doesn't give you the blue's, you're likely still young !
R.I.P. !
Mr.Winter
❤️🥀❤️
Addendum :
I was brought here today as someone commented !
I looked at the date I posted my comment, and it was 3 years ago !
I did just turn 68 !
This is no joke !
It seems time moves more quickly with each passing second !
Crazy.....!
Being old is also a blessing .. you at least got to check things out and after you've see a movie once ... that's enough ..
The first time I got to see Johnny Winter I was 18 It was 1970 tomorrow I turn 71
I'm a big fan of Johnny Winter. My best live album is Johnny Winter and Rick Dillinger Live. R.I.P brother we will miss you.
Rick Derringer. He also lives in Connecticut.
Respectful. I saw him and James gang ! With Joe Walsh around 1970 or 71 at the Toledo sports arena in Ohio. Real good concert. Thanks for doing the video. I'm an old school bass playing ;; basement ;:; garage bandmate from the late 60;;s and ,70;;s. We played some good gigs tho. Johnny is 1 of my favorite guitarist along with Leslie west. Saw many concerts in the Detroit area around this time frame. Salute !;!
Glad you got to see him in concert.
I got to meet Johnny at bb kings ny .. Always been a big fan since a kid.. R.I.P
Johnny Winter. Best Rock blues slide guitarist
Johnny healed me one night…I had tickets to see him back in the early 90’s, but I got sick, bad flu like bug…I gave the tickets to a friend who talked me into going anyway…by the end of the second tune I was completely ‘healed’! His ‘trick bag’ had no bottom! Endless vocabulary of riffs! RIP Johnny!
Great story
Got to see Johnny Winter back in 2011. I got to meet him as well, I told him “Thank you for everything that you did for Muddy Waters”, he said, “I was happy to do it.” Awesome experience!☮️🎸
I started playing guitar when I was 12. I turned 13 and started my first year in Jr High. A good friend turned me on to Second Winter and John Mayall with the Blues Breakers. I’ve never stopped listening to either artist though Johnny was someone who influenced me to play everyday. I’m 65 now and still listen to the Master Bluesman. His style was unmatched, heard some tributes but never anyone with the lightning speed Johnny had. R.I.P Sir
I will definitely visit Johnny on my next trip north. I am no worshipper of celebrity , except for him!
The best guitarist ever ! I saw him many times...I sat with him in his trailer in Newport ri a year before he died....he signed my crossroads shirt, his shirt from that night...I got a great picture s him....he was the nicest guy...I would say he was a cool cat....he was so polite,nice he really loved his fans..,I didn't want to ask stupid questions or seem like I was digging...but he was just a normal down to earth guy...there were a few people there...he had a ham n cheese sandwich....he was so fkn cool...I said man johnny u rip like nobody ever did....he said thank you very much I'm glad you enjoy it ...I said I come see you everytime you play.he smiled and said well thank you very much....I put my had down on table and said johnny this is for you....it was a killer joint...he couldn't see to good because it was a white table....but he said wow,that's nice,thank you very much.....he was so nice to us ...I love listening to him......he was just incredible....jimi hendrix said johnny was the best....lightning on his fingertips....his last album is incredible..... incredible......never be another like him....he had it in his soul...he was muddy waters guitarist.......he did it better than anyone......
Johnny Woodstock set is one of my favorite performance
I saw Johnny play many times in Memphis and little rock he was a legend he played with Muddy Waters he should be buried down south
I regret never seeing him perform in person. Johnny's guitar playing was/is absolutely outstanding!!!
Johnny Winter was and always will be the Dude.
Peace.
I was blessed to see him a few times Philmore East NYC.....RIP Johnny see you soon
I think he moved to Connecticut to be closer to the NY music scene. It is great that you got to here him in person.
I loved the dude! Besides being a great, "fluid" guitar player, I think he had the best voice in blues. I still say he did the best version of, "Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo."
Raw. JW was the master.
Yes.........better then Rick Derringers I think even though Rick wrote it.
His licks had more of a blues element than ricks
The version from the And studio album with Rick is the best. NOT the Johnny Winter And Live! version.
My name is Gary Trew, I agree with you about JW. I saw him in Chattanooga TN at the Bessie Smith Strut , he was on about a 6"stage on the street. He played his heart out, wish I could I met him. I saw Edgar playing with Ringo Starr's All-star Band 2001 Atlanta GA , he was awesome, Frankenstein!!!! Rock and Roll. ✌️ and 🤘😎
Brother Gary
Saw him at Capital Theater, Passaic NJ. He tripped over cords on stage and kept playing solo. Roadie came out and stood him up, all the while her was ripping through solo. When song over there entire arena stood up and cheered him for over 10 minutes. AMAZING!
johnny winter and - one of my top vinyls of all time. rick derringer teams up and makes musical magic. so glad i saw him in his prime a couple of times in the mid 70's - and let's not fail to mention edgar
Johnny was one of the best to ever pickup a guitar. He may have been thinking about his wife Susie when/if he played Susie Q but Screaming Jay Hawkins wrote the song in 1957.
He was great.
I didn't know that Susan had passed too.
Was blessed enough to see Johnny twice.
Once i think in 73 and again just a few years before he left us. At the last show i felt sorry for him the way he walked off the stage . Still played great.
One of the best. He will always be remembered.
RIP Johnny &. Susan.
I like how simple the grave is ... I've visited Gary Moore's grave in the UK , very simple as well..
Damn I miss you Johnny.R.I.P.
He sure was amazing.
Thank you SO MUCH for this..!! I will go here & pay my respects,...Thank you...!!!
Thanks
Best bluesman ever
You would have thought he would be buried in Texas. An unremarkable grave for a remarkable musician. So sad. Was a hero to many . 😔🎸🎶
He didn’t like Beaumont, never lived in Texas, either, after his fame…likely do to memory pain.
I didn't know Johnny Winter was buried in Ct. He was also at the 'jam session' right after Jimi Hendrix's funeral in Seattle, Wa., fall of 1970. My late brother Charlie was there, too, and him and Johnny 'jammed' out on a few tunes!
Thank you for this information. I never knew John Dawson Winter III was buried in Ct. Thats less than an hour from me, so I will take my son one day soon and stop by with a small token, and a prayer. Thanks again, Johnny was one of my true favorites! One of the best shows I saw him play was at the Shaboo Inn , in Willimantic, Ct. People were literally hanging from the rafters, a total crazy fun blowout of a show. I actually met , and talked with Johnny's good friend and bandmate Rick Derringer at Shaboo on another occasion...Oh man, those were the days...
That’s where he lived, also had a flat on the lower Eastside of NYC.
@@loilt5091I am thinking he lived at the Dakota in NYC in the mid 70s. John Lennon wrote rock & roll people for Johnny
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Never heard that, but Johnny had a flat on the lower east side. Patti Smith was watching his place in the early ’70’s. Her then boyfriend, Allen Lanier, (guitar/keyboards), with Blue Oyster Cult, wrote one of their ‘72, debut tracks their.
Got to see Johnny at least 50+ times, maybe 60 ??? First time 1970. Johnny Winter And live tour. The last 20 years, I was the guy sitting right in front of him with my camera. Johnny & his manager, Teddy Slatus loved my pictures. I used to take JIMI'S dad, AL HENDRIX to the Seattle shows. GREAT MEMORIES !!!
Wow! That is devoted.
Teddy Status is a piece of sh*t‼️He & his posse used him, keeping him on the road hooked on painkillers, after he broke his hip. Thankfully, Paul Nelson rescued him from that 🤡, giving him due respect in his latter years.
Johnny Winter was a long ways from being a slow guitar player he was exceptionally fast…First play Johnny Winter and his band playing …good morning little schoolgirl.. then listen to Alvin Lee, Leo Lyons and 10 years after Play good morning little school girl
the difference in speed is insane ….NO ONE was as fast a guitar player …as Alvin Lee…. to see Alvin Lee and Johnny Winter together was like dying going to heaven
merci a vous pour cette video, j'adore Johnny.
Johnny was a true gentleman.
I never met him, but I will take your word for it.
Rest well Jonny
Being from Bmt area. I had a friend that knew someone that would drive Johnny around here in bmt when he visited..My buddy told his friend ,,Next time your in town with Johnny stop by,,One night he got a knock at his apartment door,, He looked out the peep hole and saw a white Mercedes parked in front .. He opened the door and their was his buddy who made good on his promise....He met Johnny..
RIP Johnny Winter
Good to see a guitar pick from a fan of the blues, yes while Johnny did use finger pickers to play others used a plastic pick to play his songs ! Cool Headstone Marker with Johnny Dawson lll and Susan W. Winter ....Thanks did not know his wife passed 5 years later ..!!!
he loved thumb picks the most.
I saw Johnny and Edgar together 1983. When they did Frankenstein I went crazy. Many years later I picked up a guitar because of his influence and haven’t looked back. Learning to play was quite possibly the best thing I have ever done.
That must have been quite a concert. I tried to learn guitar for about an hour. My fingertips said "no."
@@variousvisfineart you have to persevere. Once you learn how to play some simple songs you will be hooked. I have been playing for 12 years and it was the best thing I ever did in my whole life. I am a female rocker and when the band and I get together there is no other feeling that can compare. Why don’t you try again!’ Now I am playing all my favourite songs. ACDC, Judas Priest, Metallica etc.
Johnny Winter one of the greatest guitar players all time I’ve got to see him every time he came and played Vancouver British Columbia. The last time I got to watch Johnny play he played with my number one guitar player Alvin Lee to see Alvin Lee and Johnny were on the same stage was insane….Peace brother thank you very much for the memories
The song, "Susie Q" was actually written in 1957 about Susan Lewis, the newborn daughter of Shreveport, Louisiana record store owner, Stan Lewis. It was co-written and recorded by Dale Hawkins in Shreveport at KWKH radio station. Stan Lewis was a first cousin of D.J. Fontana, Elvis Presleys first drummer. D.J. was also a native of Shreveport. They were all members of the Italian-American community of Shreveport at the time.
Thanks for the detailed information.
okay not written by Johnny, probably still a better choice to listen to at the cemetary than "Still Alive and Well"!
I thought James Burton came up with the Susie Q Riff at age 15/16 -when he played with Hawkins @@variousvisfineart
Danke!
Thank you johnny i love south america of Peru ...... legend ¡¡¡
Peru is far away but music can travel anywhere
I saw him in 2010. So glad I went.
RIP Johnny. We LOVE you!
Thanks for watching.
R.I.P. Mr. JOHNNY WINTER
Rock In Peace ✌
My King after God!
Got to see Edgar never got to see Johnny, God Bless.
Thank you Johnny, r.i..p. 2024, keep working!
Loved Johnny Winter. I was surprised to find out he was buried in Connecticut. Evidently living there I guess. I would have thought Texas.
Same here! I will watch anything about Johnny. RIP bluesman
Susan was from Conn. They lived 5 minutes from the cemetery. I've been there...
Ciao Johnny Boy R.I.P
thanx for the vid
Johnny Winter music lives forever 💙
Thought Johnny would have Texas as his final resting place..Hey been there New England is Scared Ground to...Rest in Peace John Winter
Thanks for watching and commenting.
I saw this blues rock legend 11 yrs ago when he played in RIO
Sorry but Susie Q was written in 1957,had nothing to do with Winters wife.
Dale Hawkins
Haha, I was gonna say that too 😅 That man put 2 and 2 together and made 5 haha !
He didn't say Johnny wrote the song.
He only meant that maybe that was Johnny's affection for the song, not that he wrote it.
I saw Johnny Winter 1980 in Los Angeles the bass player broke a string while they were playing Susie Q so Johnny and the drummer just Rift on it until the bass string was replaced
he was the best!
I had older Step Brothers and the very first album I ever had was Johnny Winter second winter.. it's a double album but only three sides have music on it..
I still think it's the best album I have he's an awesome guitar player he played slide with banjo picks on his fingers on a 12-string Electric.. he's the only one I know of that played that way
never knew about 3 side albums
@@variousvisfineart one side is blank on one of the disks.
Johnny used a thumbpick because of Chet Atkins. I doubt he used fingerpicks. That Fender twelve string only had six strings on it.
My guitar 🎸 hero for ever best dam guitar slider.pro till the end of time.dearly miss.🌠🎶
I'm a big SRV fan, but Johnny was playing fantastic blues guitar years before, they were unbelievable talents
Easton, CT is my hometown.
I got to see Johnny in Memphis 2006. He looked so frail and he had to be pretty much carried on stage and had to sit in a chair. He looked like he weighed less than 80 pounds and I was worried that he wasn't able to perform properly. Boy was I wrong - that boy belted out the blues like a gospel singer!
music as power
Been there several times. I am a big fan.
Thanks. He has lots of fans.it is right off the highway.
One of my dad's aunts turned the front room of her house into a record shop back in the 60's & Johnny would come in from time to time looking for old blues records because she had older obscure stuff as well as some contemporary stuff. She said Johnny would hold the record covers real close to his face trying to read the liner notes because his eyesight was so poor. I bought his first release as a twelve year old when he got the huge Columbia Records deal & other kids couldn't understand why I liked that blues stuff.
Wow that is interesting to hear about those memories.
Saw him when he was an opening act and he usually destroyed the headliners
I never got to see him live.
I didn't know his wife passed away.
I rode my Harley from New York to the gravesite didn’t know where it was just turned the bike down the street and up the hill in the back listening to Highway 61. When I get to the top of the little hill I stop and put my kickstand down turn the breaker off look down and it’s right there next to me I could’ve gone in the other entrance but somehow I didn’t and then to have it right there when I got off the bike I knew it was Johnny pulling me in.
Amazing story. Glad you got to visit Easton.
why is Johnny buried in friggin' Connecticut ? He was a Texan, his entire life. One of the greats, without question.
Why is Johnny buried in Connecticut and not Texas? I saw him at least 3 times in his career from the 1970s on. He was one of the greatest guitarist who ever lived.
It must have been great to hear Johnny live. Why Connecticut? I made a video to answer that. czcams.com/video/I19iOSXh7ow/video.htmlsi=HOF_oEPZdu0PSQul
Ghost hunters Ed and Lorraine Warren said Union Cemetery is the most haunted cemetery in New England. They have on video an apparition of the the Lady in White who's been seen many times there. Now, Johnny Winter is buried there. I hope we get to see him play guitar again. Johnny, we miss you.
Maybe Johnny can blast those ghosts away with his guitar.
@@variousvisfineart- I know they'll be dancing in the aisles!
Then, I don't believe his resting place is a coincidence...an insider once told me, Edgar & his wife were into cats & Johnny was into ghosts.
@@variousvisfineart
GHOST BUSKER❗👻❗
RIP miss you 4ever /Sweden
I've been there before Susan passed... It was only Johnny buried. Haunted Cemetery. They lived 5 minutes away on Tranquility Drive. I left a guitar pic at his grave.
I carried that pic for 25 years... I have pictures....
I was wondering where they lived. Thanks.
RIP Johnny and Susan.
Johnny winter was a musician. His brother Edgar…..still is a musician. He’s still alive , 74 I believe.
I finally got to visit Johnny at his final resting place. It was a bit surreal, the cemetery didn't seem worthy of this legend. The grass wasn't mowed, stones degrading and falling over, kind of depressing.
Yes, several people agree that the monument and gravesite is less than he deserves.
@RDS Yes, now that you mention it there is a legend of a ghost in the cemetery known as "the Lady in White."
My favourite guitarist to listen to in my youth and adolescence. Just listen to "Highway 61 Revisited" and "Sweet Papa John" on his "Captured Live" album and you'll see why. Anyone knows what caused his death?
My King!
L.S..D. equals ten years less, keep working Johnny!
I can t believe there is no guitar on the grave.
Greg Mccurry. There's a flat Fender pick, a type he did not use. RIP Johnny Great Artist with the guitar.
Right. I saw that Fender pick and thought, "that is a nice thought, but he did not use that kind of pick."
@@Foxglove963 I get why that person left the pick, he probably started learning after he listened Johnny play, or something, that's tottaly a thing I would do as well, just a form of paying respect from one guitar player to a guitar god, i guess.
Would have thought he would be buried by Highway 61.