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I’m digging Wolfgang’s Vault. Free concert streams, you just have to sign up. Right now I’m listening to a Johnny Winter show from 1974.

Johnny Winter - vocals, guitar
Rick Derringer - guitar, vocals
Randy Jo Hobbs - bass, vocals
Richard Hughes - drums

Blues-rock guitarist Johnny Winter was coming off five solid years of hit albums and sold out tours when he did this show in San Diego for the King Biscuit Flower Hour radio concert series. Winter was promoting Saints & Sinners, and still carving his own legacy in rock when, at around the same time of this recording, his younger brother and former band member Edgar, hit platinum with the LP They Only Come Out At Night, and his own band, the Edgar Winter Group. Although it never got in the way of their personal relationship, the two brothers were suddenly competing with each other, and to boot, using a lot of the same material and band members. Rick Derringer, who was also trying to establish his own career with All American Boy, was serving duty as guitarist and producer for both.

# 1. Good Love
# 2. Bad Luck Situation
# 3. Stone County
# 4. Silver Train
# 5. Jumpin’ Jack Flash
# 6. Johnny B. Goode
# 7. Boney Maronie
#8. Be Careful With A Fool

You know, Johnny reached a point where he didn’t want to play the rock and roll stuff anymore. I saw him a couple of summers ago and he’s doing a completely different kind of thing then when I saw him many years earlier. I love what he’s doing now but, I also liked to hear his rocked up stuff. It seems like he used to do more of the slide boogie thing too and the “Silver Train” from this show is one of the best examples of it you are likely to hear.

And, oh yeah, Rick Derringer.

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Apparently……in Husavik, Iceland there is a Phallological Museum; a museum of the penis.

Open from May to September, it is housed in a plain brown building, the entrance marked by a tall brown phallus near the door and a penis-shaped sign over the front porch.

No doubt closed during to winter months due to shrinkage.

The joint, was the brainchild of Sigurdur Hjartarson.

His collection, which began in 1974 with a single bull’s penis that looked something like a riding crop, now boasts 261 preserved members from 90 species.

He said he began collecting penises 24 years ago, when working as a school administrator, with little notion he would one day be running a museum devoted to the subject.

“It was just a hobby,” he said, adding that the collection was relegated to his office until the inception of the museum.

“They were not on display in the sitting room.”

Yes…of course…a school administrator whose hobby is collecting penises. Probably wouldn’t fly here in fly over country but, Icelanders probably have a different feel for these kinds of things.

If you must know…

The largest, from a sperm whale, is 70 kg (154 lb) and 1.7 meters (5.58 ft) long. The smallest, a hamster penis bone, is just 2 mm and must be viewed through a magnifying glass.

Did you hear about the sperm whale that was having back pain?

The doctor told him; “You’ll be OK, just don’t lift anything that weighs more than 150 pounds”.

“How am I going to take a leak, Doc?”

Hjartarson says that number of visitors grows every year and 60 percent are women.

And, oh yeah…this.

One species conspicuous by its absence is homo sapiens, but that may soon be rectified since a German, an American, an Icelander and a Briton have promised to donate their organs after death, according to certificates on display.

The American, 52-year-old Stan Underwood, supplied a written description of his penis — which he purportedly nick-named “Elmo” — for display alongside a life-size plastic mould of the member as well as his pledge to donate it.

Nice going there Stan…and “Elmo”.

Have at it folks.

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From the Merriam Webster Online Dictionary.

rogue
Pronunciation: \’r?g\
Function: noun
Etymology:origin unknown
Date:1561

1 : vagrant, tramp
2 : a dishonest or worthless person : scoundrel
3 : a mischievous person : scamp
4 : a horse inclined to shirk or misbehave
5 : an individual exhibiting a chance and usually inferior biological variation

Davey Ray came up with The Rogues maybe, a couple of years ago. His idea was to have a danceable jam band with a revolving cast of characters.

I was over at his place one day, out in his garage where he has all the music gear and, there were all of these different phrases, written on sheets of paper and taped to the inside of the garage door. He was auditioning band names. The way he explained it, he had a list of choices that he compiled over the years and, he taped the best ones to the garage door and let them work on his subconscious for a couple of weeks. The Rogues evidently “spoke” to him.

Davey is a different kind of cat.

I will be playing with The Rogues at the Outback Pub this Friday and Saturday night. 9:30 start time both nights.

The Outback Pub
1914 W Hwy 76
Branson, MO 65616
417-334-7003

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