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September 5, 1978
location: The Bottom Line, New York City
source: excellent soundboard recording
length: 72 + 75 + 42 minutes
comment: by Steven Pearl: "... Johnny at the Bottom Line in NYC on September 5th, 1978 where Edgar jammed with him and it's a great one! It's most of the show and it's right off the soundboard. I was at that show and it was a KILLER! (...) Other than that it's a great show and the sound quality is real good. HOT STUFF!!! (...) Jon Paris sings 2 songs and plays guitar while Johhny plays bass. (...) I know they did "It Hurts Me Too" while Johnny went backstage to take a pee or something (he drank a lot of Blue Nun wine that night). (...) I remember the show as if it were only 26 years ago. Whatta night! Actually it seems more like a few weeks ago. Johnny played 2 nights at the Bottom Line, both shows were sold out and I didn't know him then so I had to think fast. I called up the Bottom Line and told them I wrote for a Rock & Roll magazine called ROCKET (long out of business now) which I did but I was a cartoonist for them. I told them I was writing an article about Johnny so they got me in on the VIP list! I guess they didn't check too carefully back then. I went to the show and the next day I called them up again and they got me in again! I don't think I could get away with that today (thank God I don't have to!) but it worked beautifully then."
Set List:
CD1
1. intro
2. hideaway [w/ tone fluctuations on the very first seconds & a brief cut after the first minute]
3. divin' duck [Johnny firstly announces EZ Rider, then "changed my mind" into the actual song]
4. last night
5. walking by myself [after this song Johnny shouts "it's time to rock'n'roll!", then there's a cut on the recording, missing the rock'n'roll song]
6. Mississippi blues
7. wipe out
8. drum solo by Bobby T. [Johnny calls him as "the Missing Link from New Haven"]
9. wipe out [closing section; Johnny on bass and Jon Paris on guitar]
10. I'm ready [Johnny on bass and Jon Paris on guitar & vocals]
11. New York, New York [Johnny on bass and Jon Paris on guitar & vocals; "by a special request earlier before we got the stage" says Jon]
CD2
1. come on in my kitchen
2. rollin' & tumblin'
3. highway 61 revisited [after many requests along the show by an audience member, although he asks for "highway 51"]
4. look on yonder wall
5. it hurts me too [briefly cuts in; first part sung by Jon Paris, the song starts out while Johnny was on backstage]
6. brown eyed handsome man
7. back at chicken shack [after the initials chords, Johnny lets Jon & Bobby playing alone for a minute. Jon played the "steppin' out" riff, then Johnny returns and introduces Edgar Winter]
8. tobacco road [Edgar on vocals & sax]
9. everyday I have the blues [Johnny & Edgar on vocals; Edgar sang some verses of "drinkin' muddy water" by the end of the song]
CD3
1. got my mojo working [Johnny & Edgar on vocals; some scat singing with guitar & sax solos were cut out, on the end of the song]
2. one step in the time [Johnny on vocals, Edgar on sax, Jon Paris on harmonica; by the end Johnny sings verses of "you don't have to go" and "baby what's wrong with you"]
3. wildwood flower [Edgar on sax]
4. honest I do [Johnny on vocals, Edgar on sax, Jon Paris on harmonica]
medley [vocals by Johnny & Edgar]:
5. slipping & sliding
6. long tall sally
7. back at chicken shack [with band members introduction] |