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04-13-2007, 05:32 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: From Aptos CA to Solon IA | | | Any Randy Jo Hobbs fans?
I stumbled accross my old Johnny Winter cd, "Still Alive and Well". Great stuff.....really like RJH's sound on "Silver Train" and "Rock Me Baby". I know RJH played P basses, but anybody know what strings and amps he used in the studio?
Thanks, p5
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04-13-2007, 06:00 PM
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Don't know any of his specs but whatta GREAT player!! Tastee
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04-13-2007, 06:11 PM
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Originally Posted by ryco  +1 zillion.
Don't know any of his specs but whatta GREAT player!! Tastee |
+1!
Kick@$$ player! |
04-13-2007, 09:45 PM
|  | C'mon man! | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Hawaii | | | Nice to see his name here, big influence on me as a kid. I used to see him a lot with both Johnny & Edgar's bands. I remember him having SVTs on stage.
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04-13-2007, 11:06 PM
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Originally Posted by jerry Nice to see his name here, big influence on me as a kid. I used to see him a lot with both Johnny & Edgar's bands. I remember him having SVTs on stage. | I saw him a couple of times with Johnny...but don't remember his amp setup (it was the 70's...what can I say).
Loved him as a player though...I believe he passed away back in the early 90's...I will see Rick Derringer at the Dallas Guitar show in a couple of weeks and ask him about Randy....I will post anything he tells me... |
04-14-2007, 01:45 AM
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Originally Posted by fishtx I saw him a couple of times with Johnny...but don't remember his amp setup (it was the 70's...what can I say).
Loved him as a player though...I believe he passed away back in the early 90's...I will see Rick Derringer at the Dallas Guitar show in a couple of weeks and ask him about Randy....I will post anything he tells me... | That would be great, Rick should know the dealio, him and Randy were playing together since they were kids.
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04-14-2007, 08:29 AM
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Originally Posted by fishtx I saw him a couple of times with Johnny...but don't remember his amp setup (it was the 70's...what can I say).
Loved him as a player though...I believe he passed away back in the early 90's...I will see Rick Derringer at the Dallas Guitar show in a couple of weeks and ask him about Randy....I will post anything he tells me... | Thanks fishtx! I'd love to hear about his studio practices/ techniques! I have seen Randy a few times on t.v. Playing a P with rounds (Rotos?) and a pick;. Playing thru a Marshall stack. It was back in '73, I went to a friends house after school, his older bro' was spinning "Still Alive and Well" at full volume........sounds funny, but it was at that moment I knew I had to be a rock musician. Since then I have played in numerous blues, metal and top 40 bands, and am currently playing contemporary gospel and jazz. To this day, my Johnny Winter cd's are at the top of my collection....good stuff! btw, last night I was checking out JW on YOU TUBE, I found a japanese gentleman giving a lesson on how to play Rock Me Baby; you gotta check this out!
p5
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04-14-2007, 08:46 AM
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04-14-2007, 12:32 PM
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I saw him with Johnny Winter.
He uses a P-bass through a Ampeg SVT.
Don't know what string he used, maybe Roto's.
Good groove player. |
04-14-2007, 03:28 PM
|  | Slush Machine Detritus | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Knox, Knox, who's there? | | | Thank you for remembering Randy Jo.
Randy was an intense rock player. I was very impressed with his playing on Johnny Winter's albums, also on the White Trash live album that Edgar did.
I saw Randy Jo with Johnny Winter And at Knoxville Civic Center back in 1973. I was blown away. Still am.
RIP Randy Jo Hobbs. |
04-16-2007, 08:12 AM
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He was a "McCoy" wasn't he? Hang on Sloopy? |
04-16-2007, 09:09 AM
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Originally Posted by bikertrash82 RIP.
He was a "McCoy" wasn't he? Hang on Sloopy? | YUP!
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04-18-2007, 04:48 AM
| | | | RJH also appears on a couple of tracks from the EWB's They Only Come Out At Night...is that him on "Free Ride"?
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04-18-2007, 08:47 AM
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Originally Posted by JimK RJH also appears on a couple of tracks from the EWB's They Only Come Out At Night...is that him on "Free Ride"? | not sure if he played on that track or not...Dan Hartman was on that record as well... |
04-18-2007, 09:33 AM
| | C'mon man! | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Hawaii | | | It didn't sound like Randy on Free Ride to me, and Dan Hartman also wrote it.
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04-18-2007, 06:33 PM
| | | | Album credits say RJH played bass on "Free Ride" & "We All Had A Real Good Time".
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04-18-2007, 09:37 PM
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Originally Posted by JimK Album credits say RJH played bass on "Free Ride" & "We All Had A Real Good Time". | Shows how much I know.  
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04-18-2007, 09:40 PM
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04-19-2007, 08:00 AM
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04-19-2007, 08:31 AM
|  | Fingers, pick, and a little bit of slap | | Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Maryland, between Bawlmer & DC | | | Put me down as well! I was a huge fan as a teen... he never got enough credit. I'm going to have to pick up those great Winter brothers albums. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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