Still Alive And Well

Original - Edgar Winter & White Trash
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0aqPjnrosA

Cover - Johnny Winter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osvDo1lqBxQ

Heh, trying to find a good version by Carolyn Wonderland, here is one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wT4YvjXssrs

Johnny's version is better. The drums are more pronounced and funkier. Johnny's guitar playing also dominates and this song needs that. Even though Rick Derringer is more than capable as a guitarist as evidenced on his solo projects and he does back up Johnny on his version of the song. Seeing as Derringer wrote the song here's a link to his version. And because it's Musical History time, here's some early Derringer when he was still a teen - Hang On Sloopy. and lastly, check out the genius of Derringer doing a dueling guitar solo well before it became fashionable with Judas Priest's guitarists - At the 4:20 mark this song totally goes all kinds of crazy.

I also like the Johnny Winter cover better.

Did not know Rick Derringer was a Real McCoy. Loved Hang on Sloopy when I was a kid.

VG9-Boy howdy, do I enjoy your musical interludes. Very knowledgeable and well informed.

The same could be said about readyeddy?, soxolas, AlienFlanders and the lot of you. To a lesser extent, DrFate98.That's for attempting to call me stupid, but ultimately failing.

Johnny Winter.

Someday, you'll recognize my genius.

By the way, which insult did I get caught for this time? As mean as I am, I sometimes lose track!!

Here's a Corolyn Wonderland version I like a little better. Her voice seems stronger.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAfw2Hom_tY

I have to go with Johnny on this one.

If you're losing track of your cantankerous actions, maybe you should tone it down or write it in down in a pamphlet.

drfate's greatest hits...and misses.

Johnny Winter for me.

I like the sound on Edgar Winter's original personally. Maybe it's his voice, maybe it's the horns in the instrumentation, but it's just more fun.

Hang on Sloopy!! Why do I love that song?

Anyway I go With Johnny's version on this tune.

Gonna go with the landslide here - Johnny Winter.

Holy Crow, how doubly weird is this for me?!?

I just cited Johnny Winter while posting on the "Peter Gunn" O vs. C thread and it left me wondering if you would or have done a "Rock & Roll, Hoochie Koo" O vs. C involving Johnny and Rick Derringer (which would mean another of those strange matchups in which the song's composer did not do the original recording***).

Holy Crow indeed.

That said...

The Cover -- Johnny Winter, please!

*** Rick Derringer wrote "Rock & Roll, Hoochie Koo," which originally appeared on the "Johnny Winter And" LP. Rick performs on that album -- so, in that respect, he's on the original -- and later recorded his own version of his song, under his name.