Chords for Rig Rundown - Johnny Winter

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_ _ _ _ _ _ Hey everybody, Jason Shadrick here with PremierGuitar.com and [N] we're on the bus with the legendary Johnny Winner
And he is going to walk us through
some of the very
Legendary guitars that you might have that you take out on the road with you so Johnny
Thank you a lot for taking the time to talk to us.
Sure, this will be fun
_ _ So tell me about this first one you have in here the laser and what
What you like about it, and what makes this kind of your main guitar from night to night
It's really a great guitar doesn't get out of tune.
_ [C] It's got a really nice
Trebly sound it always liked the way the fenders _
Sound and the way the Gibson's played and it does
[N] Plays like a Gibson.
It's got a nice thin neck
_ But it sounds more Trebly than most most Gibsons do it's not really like a fender.
It's got its own original
Sound that doesn't know what the guitar really sounds like it, but I got it in Austin, Texas
Come on, Mark Earlwine and Austin
Makes them and I started started using it on my first my first alligator record
I was using my firebird and the bass player Johnny B
Knocked the firebird off and tore it all up and I had the laser and hadn't used it
So I started using it and used it ever since so I really loved the way it sounded
_ Is it pretty stock you haven't modified it at all or is this kind of bit
No, it's just the way just the way it came.
It's perfect the way it came
I didn't want didn't need to change anything about it
And tell me a little bit about how the picks and strings that you use on this guitar
I use a fender thumb pick
_ [C] That I used to use Gibson's, but we couldn't find the Gibson's the fenders are just as good.
It's just
But always played with a thumb pick.
I can't play with a flat pick at all
Is that you've been doing that since you were a kid and first art?
I was about 12.
I started using the thumb pick my first guitar
Teacher played a lot of Chet Atkins stuff and he used the thumb pick
So I just started doing it because he did not like Chet Atkins
I like to play this stuff that we play the rhythm with your thumb and the melody with your finger
And I do still do a lot of that in the blue stuff I do
_ And tell me a little bit about the slide you're using is this this is they told me this is a slide you've had for a
Long time a long time.
It's made out of piece of drum hardware
_ _ Got SR studio instrument rentals in New York made it for me and I've been using that for years
Before that I had a piece of pipe
Wasn't near as good it rusted.
I had to
Clean it off with steel wool before I played it every night
And just wasn't near as good and this and doesn't rust on the outside
_ You've been holding on to that for a long time years and years.
Well, you actually the
Dunlap makes them now they're exactly the same you can't tell the difference
But I've still got the same one that's made out of drum hardware
But the new ones are just as good
[N] All right.
Let's take a look at your other more famous guitar the firebird or the guy from st.
Louis Ed Seelig that went around festivals
_ selling old guitars to
rock and roll people and
Originally liked it because it looked so different and
Well, I tried playing it so it played great and and sounded really cool.
So
I've got a whole bunch of them.
I got six or eight firebirds did all different colors
But this is the one the first one I got this is 64 firebird
And this is still my favorite
What is it about this one as opposed the other ones that you just really like the sound or the feel like the sound?
This just sounds cooler all of them sound different each one sounds a little different and this is the coolest one
I got a white one.
This is those pick pickups are a little bad a little microphonic
It looks cooler, but it doesn't sound as good
And then I know this the bridge on this guitar isn't the original bridge.
So do you remember why you switch that out?
I think you had to switch it out before I bought it
_ And then what what use this mainly for slide all slide.
So what tuning do you use on this one?
Open D soon down [D] to D
Not [F#] playing open G sometimes too, but not on not on the tour
_ Recorded a lot of songs in open day or open G
_ And it's great to know that even though this is a rare vintage guitar
You still take it out on the road and play it every night.
Yeah, that's been broken a bunch of times
We keep fixing it _ _ and then from your guitar you go out to what amp are you using nowadays a music man? _ _
410 120 watt and that one.
Where'd you first learn about the music man amps and who hip to do though?
I'll use a guitar player Bob Margolin was using one.
I love the way the hiss sounded
I was using fender twins before that.
Well, I liked I liked the music man better.
So I bought a couple of them
since about 77 or 78
And your guitar player Paul mentioned that you have some specific settings on on that amp as far as the treble and the bass
Just no middle no all treble treble all the way up and bass all the way down.
It's all we do no middle
_ And use one pedal and you have it on all all night.
So tell me a little bit about that pedal.
It's a chorus
Of course boss chorus pedal and what makes you want to wait?
What does that pedal give you that you just keep it on?
Oh for there's a little depth Paul
So mentioned you had a very good BB King story that we wanted to share with us
I'm at BB and I was 17 years of black club in Beaumont called the Raven and we heard he was gonna be there on
local radio station
went down to to see him I'd always loved BB and I
Really wanted him to hear me play
Plus I've never played for a black audience before I wanted to see how what they would think of me
You know and BB didn't know if I could play or not
He had no idea what I could play we were only white people there
So he said he thought we were from the IRS had been having tax problems.
He thought we were coming to
Try to collect his taxes.
So he I think he was just so glad that we weren't that he didn't care if I can play or not
_ So he let me let me play and I'm over real well _
_ Guitar, but I didn't bring my guitar with me, of course _
Excellent well Johnny, thank you so much for taking the time to talk to us about your guitars and your amp and good luck with
The door.
Thank you.
Appreciate it
This is Jason Shadrach with premiere guitar calm _ _ _ _ _