Saturday, March 12, 2016

Edgar Winter



This is just something worthwhile to mention notably no one ever talks about.

Edgar Holland Winter (born December 28, 1946) is an American rock and blues
musician. He is known for being a multi-instrumentalist keyboardist, guitarist,
saxophonist and percussionist as well as a singer. His success peaked in the 1970s
with his band, The Edgar Winter Group, and their popular songs
"Frankenstein" and "Free Ride".

Winter was born to John Winter II and Edwina Winter on December 28, 1946,
in Beaumont, Texas. Both he and his older brother Johnny were born with albinism,
and both were required to take special education classes in high school.
Winter states, "In school I had a lot of friends. I wore a lot of white shirts to, like,
blend in I guess. No one really gave me a hard time about being albino or taking
special education classes. Then again, I wasn't really popular."
By the time Edgar Winter left his hometown of Beaumont, Texas in the 1960s,
he was already a proficient musician.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Winter

There has been many musicians that just jump in to that they do out of the blue. Edgar Winter for one was known to just jump in to what he was doing. A lady I respectfully liked in the 90's she was the banquet manager at the time, she dated Edgar back in the 70's. One day I was setting up a video projector, VCR, amp system for the banquet once because the Audio Visual guy was out for lunch so my boss asked me for help and me like being her partner helped. She said I gave her a flashback of Edgar because I was right in there just plugging things away like Edgar would do when he played. I reminded her of Edgar by that. Me I am adaptable like having Neuroplasticity in my personality.

To note she said the part of Frankenstein on that video for The Old Grey Whistle Test when Edgar went wah, wah, wah it freaked her out. "It was like he was a alien coming out of the ground wiggling like a worm." It bugged her. She was behind the camera and walked out on him  at that moment. I can see that being Edgar must of been a trip when you are tripping out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8f-Qb-bwlU

But being not about me I just had to pass on this info being
I never hear anyone saying much about him and I had
some info so I passed it on being it's cool!