Back in Time and Base less without the base guitar player
Current mood: calm
Category: Music

WDR's Rockpalast aired two concerts from the Edgar Winter Group and the Johnny Winter Group yesterday night. I know it is ancient music for the most of you but for me it was a ride back in time I didn't know I could survive to see again.

It was at least 20 or 25 years ago when Rockpalast aired this the first time, Both Johnny and brother Edgar Winter and after them on stage my all time favourite guitarist Rory Gallagher. It would have sooo awesome to see the three of them perform and maybe from his seat in heaven Rory was there and enjoying him self.

Johnny has been very ill and almost didn't make it, he had to be carrried on stage and on a chair. But he was hot! His brother has always intimidate me by the enormous reach of his vocals. The way he creates riffs with his voice and his guitar player and his base guitar player echoes them is absolutely mind smashing.

The brothers still are virtious and I would have given anything to see Rory there too. But then again, I would also have loved to see the Allman Brothers Band and Lynyrd Skynyrd, the old version, back again. But that would be like a gathering of angels, all though I doubt if they would switch from guitars and Base guitars to harps

What suprised me the most, besides these veterans still enjoying their music and Johhny and Edgar playing together for the first time since I don't know how long, was the way I felt during this TV concert myself. You know when I watched them perform for Rockpalast the first time I was still drinking. And I drank a lot. Every night, but especially during the wee hours of the Rockpalast Nights, Rock am Ring Nights included. They would do three bands a night and I have seen the sun coming up so many times. By then I crawled to bed and slept till it was time for diner. I did not need any alcohol at all during this night and boy, did I enjoy this one. It was again near to daybreak.

It took Edgar to play his concert and Johnny did two songs before I did realize I had so much fun without one drop of alchohol at all! I was suprised at first because I didn't think that was possible. But it is! I celebrated my sobriety of 18 years on may 6th and I feel like this kid is of age now and should be send free. I know some people think that once you were addicted you stay addicted for the rest of your life, but I know that is not true. Once you chose to clean up you do that with all your innerstrength and it is that innerstrenght you are doubting, or that person him/herself you don't trust when you keep saying I am a recovering addict. It is just not true. As long as you have that innerstrength you're clean and sober for the rest of your life and you should never be doubted or judged by others, because it can happen to them too.

I enjoyed this concert very much and the best part was the enlightement of not needing any other substance then your own love for music to enjoy it thoroughly!

On another note, a young man I happen to see occasionaly on another website, is a base guitar player. We fell out once about his brother (that's a completely different story so I won't go into that here and now), and now he doesn't want to talk to me anymore because he probably thinks it is pointless, but he has concoured my musical heart. I have listened to some of his works and boy, he IS good! I doubt if he will ever read this and I haven't got the guts to go to his MySpace profile to approach him, but ,BB, if you do read this: Music without base is heartless. I need the base guitar to climb into the music and to lose myself into it as I use music for my meditation. We need you! We need base guitar because the sounds would be base less.(in all meanings of that word.).