Blues legend Johnny Winter dies in Switzerland

[Miles Archer]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2014/07/17/blues-legend-johnny-winter-dies-in-switzerland/12771833/



Guitarist, singer and music producer Johnny Winter has died at age 70.

Winter, older brother of Edgar Winter — also a music legend — rose to fame in the late 1960s and '70s with his performances and recordings that included producing his childhood hero Muddy Waters.

"I love blues. I don't mind a little rock and roll, too, as long as it's blues-based rock and roll," he told Guitar World in 2010.

Winter's representative, Carla Parisi, confirmed Thursday to AP that Winter died Wednesday in a hotel room in Zurich. A Facebook note says "his wife, family and bandmates were all saddened by the loss of one of the world's finest guitarists."

[Tom_Foolery]

1. RIP...

[cyberswede]

2. Too bad. :(

[ailsagirl]

3. It's always sad to lose someone you "grew up with"

A great musician

[Miles Archer]

4. Yep. My favorite Johnny anecdote...

...was a comment from some rock journalist during the peak of Johnny's "Johnny Winter And" period with Rick Derringer, when he was red hot and EVERYWHERE. He said something like "He's the kind of guy who yells "YEAAAAAAH!" at the drop of an "E" chord." And it was true, that's what made him so cool. He'd yell during his solos. Fun to listen to, fun to watch, greatly missed.

[ailsagirl]

5. Greatly missed nt

[Bluzmann57]

6. R.I.P. Johnny Winter

One of the all time greats. The world is worse off today than it was yesterday because Mr. Winter is gone.

[Kali]

7. heard on the radio this morning

[panader0]

8. Been learning this one lately