When Musicians Could Play
This is Edgar Winter and Rick Derringer playing Frankenstein. I had always heard that this song was created from scraps on the mixing room floor, but this video belies this. Rick and Edgar are little kids in this video. They're about the age of the Back Street Boys are younger. Can you imagine a modern pop group performing like this in one take on analog tube equipment without "sweetening" or computer synthesis?
Pop Quiz: How many of the old amps, synths and effects can you identify?
 

 

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I cleaned up my tab for Sonny Boy's Help Me and made it into a short book. There's a Kindle version for 99 cents, and if you buy the paperback you get the Kindle free.

Playing "Help-Me" In the Style of Sonny Boy Williamson II: A step by step, note for note analysis of some of Sonny Boy's Signature Riffs