"Frankenstein" is a rock instrumental by The Edgar Winter Group from their … Read Full Bio ↴"Frankenstein" is a rock instrumental by The Edgar Winter Group from their album They Only Come Out At Night. In live performances of the song, Edgar Winter further pioneered the advancement of the synthesizer as a lead instrument by becoming the first person ever to strap a keyboard instrument around his neck, giving him the on-stage mobility and audience interaction of guitar players. The song topped the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart for a week starting in May 1973, and sold over one million copies. It was knocked out of the #1 spot by Paul McCartney's "My Love." Frankenstein reached #18 in the UK the following month

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@Captain.Calcium

5y↑1.9K

After all these years... I still have all the lyrics memorized!

@shaggydogg3786

5y↑55

Jason Caslin I’ll bet you do ! Lol..... had this album on 8 track back in the glorious 70’s

@alansomach7920

2y↑32

Hey now !! ......did you come up with that all by yourself !!💯👍😂😂😂😂😂

@chrisalley6282

2y↑73

Pretty sure the lyrics are the same as Green Onions and the theme from Beverly Hills Cop but I can't tell

@bippu_lexo

2y↑14

Lmao

@christanner3761

2y↑12

Good one Jason

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@ralphcantrell3214

25w↑46

This is, without a doubt, the greatest hard rock instrumental of all time. I've been listening to it regularly for 50 years, and it never gets old.

@user-mc9po7pp8x

4w↑3

The only #1 hit rock instrumental to hit the #1 spot in Rock history.
All the others were from movies.
Win a free beer on that one mate!
Cheers.

@ralphcantrell3214

@@user-mc9po7pp8x Hellyeah! I didn't know that. Thanks for the tidbit of interesting information.👍

@jkitto2008

They don't make them like this anymore
😢

@tillitsdone

It got old in as much time as it took me to type this sentence.

@BigDawg369

2y↑450

One of the funkiest, most underrated, rock jams from the early 70’s!

@Crazytownmetal6

1y↑5

I know, I love the lyrics too.

@Crazytownmetal6

1y↑5

Kim Mitchell, Go For a Soda is a good 70s jam too.

@jasonsmith8300

1y↑4

Although it did get to #1

@kennethldawsom7923

1y↑2

Wild Frankenstein man! Be thankful for this fact!

@VCBird6

1y↑6

BS my dad says they played it so much that everyone yelled to change the channel and find something else lol
Love it tho

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@debbiefulton1001

18w↑43

I got to see Johnny and Edgar Winters, preform this live in 1976. I had just turned 16, and had only been to one other concert. These guys were playing at a music Festival in my hometown of Birmingham Alabama. Along with, Jethro Tull, Allman Brothers Band, KISS, Lynyrd Skynyrd,CCR, were all playing this Festival. I was flabbergasted by all the talent. But Johnny and Edgar Winters, are the ones I remember most. They were Amazing!

@coloradoman11

13w↑7

Wow! That was an amazing lineup!!!

@michaelbirke6050

9w↑1

What was the name of the festival? Was it 2 days? It almost sounds like a mini Woodstock with all those incredible bands. What a memory.🎸✌️😊

@chicha7880

8w↑3

Its CRAZY HOW
WHEN YOUNG WE NEVER REALIZE OR KNOW
WHAT AWESOME TIMES WE ARE LIVIING IN.
I HAVE SO MANY YOUNGER PEOPLE TODAY TELL
ME THEY WOULD DO ANYTHING TO HAVE GROWN UP IN 70'S AND
80'S.

@arnienelson6415

5w↑1

Rick Derringer also...........

@christinfranklin1333

3w↑1

I'm a Birmingham native myself (unfortunately a 90s baby) it really sux that we no longer get these kind of lineups anymore they even took out amazing crawfish bowl away😢😢 the city just isn't the same

@raulreyna932

4y↑128

This group was definitely ahead of their times. I remember when it hit the radio. They said either you love it or you hate it, there is no in between. I’m 73 years young by the way.

@rommix0

2y↑3

I don't understand the people who would hate this song.

@coryroberts7519

50w↑2

I'm 38 years young and it was a staple growing up for me as well! Who can dislike this song?!?

@signalfirefly

46w

Eh... it's pretty good. I like it.

@dylanoo376

42w

And you most definitely know your music!!!!....F'Love this jam forever...!!!

@aliciachristopher6506

18w

Love it!

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@ProfessorSinister22

2y↑62

This was THE HARDEST song to learn on tenor sax in highschool marching band. But once I got it down, I was JAMMING. We won the state band championship with this song, 25 or 6 to 4, and another I don't remember. This song was our last one and we ended it by playing the end note and then stepping back, looking at the judges, playing it a little louder, then snapping our instruments away from our face and walking off the field. One of the members of the drum line knew we nailed it cuz afterwards you could see her in the video celebrating as we walked off the field lol.

Man I miss that. Class of '06! Good times!

@FigureFarter

35w

I hope your parents still have the tape if they recorded it

@KenLieck

35w↑1

My hs choir teacher let me do a duet of Alice Cooper's Millie & Billie with the most popular girl in school at a recital. At the end we abruptly stabbed each other in the back and he kicked an amp so it made that explodey sound they make. Scared the living shit out of the parents.

@davebruneau6068

34w

Well shit...now i gotta go listen to some Chicago....

@gwinters6847

34w↑1

Any school years were the best.. at nearing 70, I remember most of those days like last week.. miss it all . so support any high schoolers you can, alumni..

@michaelstephens1808

3y↑144

I’m 67 now and marveled over this song. We are all old but remember when music were cool

@1954shadow

3y↑8

It rocked then, and it still, rocks now.

@DaisyAnnabelle6

3y↑4

This song was badass when I was 14 and now at 64 it’s much more than I ever thought or knew ! …..it’s one badass production taking you to the outer limits of the universe! 🔥☄️💥

@lizardKingCDXX

2y↑3

i,m 38 and I'm here for it.

@carlesfarrasiroca3765

Mikel Stevens.
Fa un any en tenía 64...Estic amb tú...T'entenc germà.
Es genial tornar a sentir aquest tema.

@KairuHakubi

@@lizardKingCDXX yeah some of us had cool parents :D
Or just, yknow, watched the simpsons.

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@michaelulbricht9438

4y↑540

Yes, this track always was, and still is, an absolute "monster."

@gagsgsgsbdhshsh1700

4y↑7

hell yeah man

@susanclifford1094

4y↑6

Yup ! 😁

@George-zk4nv

4y↑5

I heard this in Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2!

@Yrr666

3y↑5

Simply a mind blower back then. Good days. I miss them.

@manueltubens535

3y↑6

A monster of a classic song

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@purplehaazebee1649

3y↑139

I had a kitty cat named Edgar. He was pure white with a black streak in the middle of his forehead. He was beautiful and badass. He passed away prematurely but he made my heart happy. RIP Edgar Winter

@glitterknightnewrockbandfr1743

1y↑10

I think Edgar is still alive.
It was Jonny who passed away.

@rickyhiemstra9993

1y↑4

BY NOW YOU PROBABLY KNOW THAT YOU GOT THE WINTERS BROS. MIXED UP. R.Í.P. JOHNNY🎸❤😢

@xoxshawnaxox92

49w

I was actually in love with Sam Gerdy

@kawhead2678

41w↑4

RIP Edgar. The loss of a pet is traumatic. Pet are proof there is God. There's no way colliding subatomic particles in space can create the love a pet gives to it's human. May God comfort and bless you during your grieving. ✝

@dxm375

33w↑1

@@kawhead2678 how do you know that love isn't just a chemical reaction do you think that you just know everything about how reality works or something

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@frankbellproductions832

2y↑17

I haven't heard this on the radio in 40 years. Lost classic.

@johnricci7264

2y↑91

Saw Edgar Winter do this song last night with Ringo Starr and his All Star Band. Edgar played synth, sax, and percussion. He is still awesome!

@tommitchell8425

43w↑4

Lucky 😊

@jmpsthrufyre

20w

It HAD to be slower eh?
Ennit

@gambler143

15w↑13

Perhaps, the greatest instrumental ever recorded. Edgar Winter played synthesizer, saxophone, and percussion on this song.

@antonioporras2038

6y↑491

1 of the greatest instrumentals of all time.

@mikereiss4216

5y↑20

Very adventurous for a classic rock song.

@natelengi8475

4y↑2

Also Pearl Instrumental by Janis Joplin. Nobody knows about it, but it’s seriously one of the most beautiful songs I’ve ever heard

@demosthones4425

4y↑6

@@natelengi8475 It's not unheard of, but To Live Is To Die by Metallica is a great relatively lesser known instrumental. All of Metallica's instrumentals are masterpieces.

@srfrider1973

3y↑2

@@demosthones4425 so are Black Sabbaths ones

@patricktraichal9287

3y↑8

I submit YYZ by Rush as another classic rock instrumental.

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@theredjediknight

27w↑16

Christ, why have I only just come across Edgar Winter? I've been listening to Rock for 40 years...
Thanks to Johnnie Walker's Sound of the 70s for unleashing this amazing song on my ears!

@CRAllen083A

3w↑4

It was in 1972 when this came on the radio. We were rolling into Los Vegas from NY. Car was a "70 Challenger RT. I was headed for LA. This was the stuff dreams were made from....

@chickey333

1y↑16

Got to see this guy in concert. He played every instrument in the place and really connected with the crowd and he was just warming up for somebody else. He's quite an entertainer.

@arcturusbbqsausagemaking2435

5y↑373

Without a doubt the best song to test speakers and stereo equipment this song will definitely put the nuts to your woofers

@mikey_suzefour

5y↑6

Try this in 2.0 speed and it'll really freak you out...@ARCTURUS

@bellavia5

4y↑4

For sure ~~but~~ Jackie Gleason 's MUSIC FOR LOVERS blew out my tweeters.

@johnbuschman7966

4y↑7

Used it to test a pair of Large Advent speakers in June 1973.

@entitlementkid

3y↑1

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@monkeykidd420

3y↑3

Test my new headphones with this song

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@wilfredowaltermayetgonzale9478

3y↑269

I am 61 year of age and was one a former Cuban underground law-breakers that risked falling in jail for listening to American radio broadcasts in Cuba in the 70´s.
Frankenstein was played by us with our mouths. Really amazing. All the effects without seeing performers!
Greetings a lot from Havana, Cuba

@glitterknightnewrockbandfr1743

1y↑4

Wilfredo WOW!!

@LitteLoneSparrow

1y↑12

That’s awesome. I’m sure the Winters brothers adore these types of testimonies.

@BaseballPlayer0

1y↑1

no entiendo, explicalo, por favor

@todyoung6858

51w↑4

Greetings from Mobile Alabama

@wilfredowaltermayetgonzale9478

51w↑5

@@todyoung6858 Thanks. The same from Havana.

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@bigdogmom-oz4mi

11w↑38

When musicians were musicians. This is great!

@kodykindhart5644

We are still here
What am I dead 💀
🤣
Go listen to super secret band🤫🤫🤫

@kamsteele

1y↑17

This jam is as funky today as it was when it was first released, and you know you’re bad as hell when you have a radio station that plays a totally different genre playing it.

@josephinecarcia4576

8y↑609

This is an incredible piece of music, a true classic...

@CorneliusJefferson

5y↑6

Right? This song is incredible.

@Carlostherocker084

5y↑8

Yes..A MEGA CLASSIC..EDGAR WINTER IS ABUNDANTLY TALENTED...HOW THE HELL DID HE COME UP WITH WITH THIS BLAZING AZZ SHIT?!?!

@tuckercfoxito9866

Did Keith Emerson have any connection to any of this?

@geico15minutes

4y↑3

If the quarantine ends around Halloween, I'm playing this song like there's no tomorrow.

@gooch2353

Bahnahnahneww Bahnahnahneww!!!

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@PhilAndersonOutside

4y↑83

Edgar Winter Group was absolutely stacked with talent. Ronnie Montrose, Dan Hartman, Chuck Ruff, Rick Derringer. Edgar too of course.

@markplatt8357

4y↑103

One of the greatest rock instrumentals ever written.

@mark6414

14w

I can't come up with any others that even come close (but I would love suggestions)!

@shirleymattingly5137

3w↑4

I am 63 years young. My oldest son said to me in the 90s.. mom you've blown the speakers in every car you've ever owned ... I believe it was from playing this song 💗

@Bob-yl9pm

Nah, it was the summer heat and that sunlight that did your car speakers in! 😄

@johnduvalier1657

26w↑7

No words can say how classic this song is

@tacheasesino

4y↑323

its like someone somehow managed to condense the 70´s on one single song.

@DebbieTomkoSUNSHINE

2y↑4

Thank you...;-)

@chazwyman8951

2y↑8

You would have had to be alive in the 1970s to say that.

@DonnaLoveProductions

2y↑1

@@chazwyman8951 p

@carlostherocker6822

2y↑8

Not to mention afew different genres. Rock, Funk, and, Jazz. Incredibly innovative arrangement!

@Crazytownmetal6

1y↑7

That someone is Edgar dude.

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@ashliemartinez4841

1y↑25

Best memories of my Dad picking me up from school on his Harley to this song and I would play the drums and guitar in the back of him! Trust and reassurance was built during this song and I had no clue other than this was it for me and my Dad! ❤

@billybob1723

27w↑8

I was 12 when I first heard this. Now I'm 61 and no less mesmerized, every time I hear it. The all-time heavyweight champion of rock music.

@johnfields747

6y↑766

The song was called frankenstein because thye had to make so many cuts to the master tape to incoporate all the changes, as it was conceived oroginally as a brum solo. Every time this song played I drive my car too fast...damn it is a classic.

@weebunny

5y↑18

Really? Pretty seamless! Nice production work!

@JaceHarnage

5y↑19

Thank you for the information! It's a masterpiece because each segment is a movement much like classical music!! I get loud every time I play it!!

@JoeMilllionaire

5y↑5

@@JaceHarnage each segment is like a centipede.

@nthgth

5y↑6

I had no idea, that's really interesting!

@enigma9971

5y↑13

That's right! I remember a radio dj saying that they looked at how cut up and reattached it was and were like, "whoa, it's like Frankenstein." hahaha

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@georgerhody7804

8y↑393

I had this 45 ....when it came out , im now 59 , and it still kicks ass.👍

@billanthony7896

7y↑3

george rhody Class of 75?

@kellydoub9462

7y↑2

Class of 78 here.

@kitsubreasts

7y↑15

22 here, this is one of the most insane songs i ever heard.

@danieltenoriobaker2581

7y↑9

Plz guys I am 15

@markh6413

7y↑4

I was 4 foot 5 when this came out, now I'm 5 foot nine. , oh yeah it does still kick ass!

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@KarlMiller-DjKarl

4y↑87

Killer synth, drums and no stupid vocals... This song rocks... ☮️🔥

@briane173

48w↑4

And Edgar Winter on keyboards, guitar, sax, AND drums. All in one song. The man was pure talent.

@grantgrove6800

34w

Not a Focus fan then? 😆

@jessicaholmes852

3w↑1

This is the coolest song I ever heard!

@F1fan56

6y↑202

Beautiful. And incredibly well recorded for 1973.

@emenveeuk

6y↑12

I believe Bill Szymczyk was at the controls. Incredible engineer producer for Joe Walsh & The Eagles.

@patrick7775

5y↑4

For any time .

@rickwingate9266

5y↑5

1972

@DaisyAnnabelle6

3y↑1

Yes for 1973 I remember it well! This song is Genius!

@User-jk8wq

1y↑1

Those drums still sound punchy as hell 50 years later

@KimonoFlareonGX

3y↑11

One of the greatest instrumentals ever.

@jerardnorgren3411

I had forgot about the horns in this song. Kind of a Chicago vibe there. This song goes through many vibes, I hear E L.P, Manferd Mann, Yan Hammer, Jeff Beck, Zappa & B.O.C.

@davidfleuchaus

3y↑110

THIS was a number ONE song!
The SAME week Hocus Pocus by Focus and Wildflower by Skylark were in the top ten.
Reeling In The Years by Steely Dan was number 11.
I was so lucky to be 11 years old then.
It’s no wonder I’m a guitarist.

@charlesevans9204

50w↑1

Great Era loved Casey Kasom Top 40 countdown recording all the songs on my Panasonic cassette tape recorder ah those were the days

@bqkmg2037

48w↑2

1973 was a very good year for music being the last year of the early 70s.

@joedeangelo3032

22w

I still have the Focus vinyl. Alas, no longer this album.

@69adrummer

2y↑16

As a drummer, I approve this song.

@Bothrops_Asper_89

7y↑1.4K

Quadraphonic sound, a waterbed, and now a strobe light. Gentlemen, say hello to the second-base mobile.

@irishbeeyotch

7y↑64

Sunstrider Wicked!

@smokesletsgo2374

7y↑41

holy shit I just realized it was second base, as in with a girl...I thought it was bass mobile as in sound

@sitdowntwice

7y↑7

Yes

@rossbabcock3790

7y↑47

A black light, posters, shag carpet and a bong!

@sitdowntwice

7y↑31

We're through the looking glass here people

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@daniellamaria5887

5y↑141

As someone who is obsessed with drums, this song is an eargasm although tbh it's not just the drums, it's the way everything comes together 🎶

@nathanhoffman701

3y↑5

An eargasm holy moly out of controly

@newdykung6775

3y↑1

Eargasm for Synthesizer enthusiastic people too 2:50 part's took to next level

@DaisyAnnabelle6

3y↑1

Yes the drums are everything! YES!

@gboard17

Great song. I'm a one man band on youtube. Hope you can enjoy one of my songs.

@laurahall3094

2y↑2

Which is how it got called Frankenstein, it was a bunch of pieces and parts put together.

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@misspriss13pink

47w↑9

Good lawd I heard this in my truck the other day and about hit a tree as I was dazed by how awesome it came out of my sound system. Fantastic song!!! More please! 💕💕💕

@whenwhen2284

2y↑26

It sounds like there was 10 of each instrument. 10 synths, 10 guitars, 10 drum kits, and 10 basses. It sounds awesome

@JoeMilllionaire

5y↑824

If I was a professional wrestler, this would be my entrance music

@patrick7775

5y↑7

Which part 😁

@PaulTheSkeptic

4y↑7

How about Crush Kill Destroy by GWAR. Intimidating yet humorous.

@cathystruska1558

4y↑3

Right on my man....TJ STRUSKA

@Juliamiller56

4y↑3

Understandable

@gr4V3l

4y↑2

Oh boy do I have news for you: https://youtu.be/isuOSPky9cI

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@donalddoucette2017

5y↑81

I saw Edgar Winter along with Focus of HOCUS POCUS fame in May 1973 at the Augusta, Ga. high school gymnasium. I was stationed at nearby Ft. Gordon. My army buddy and I could touch the stage even though the place was packed... We were deaf for days and it was a GREAT concert.... And yes... I am an antique at 66 today.

@briane173

5y↑4

Boy there's a combination -- Edgar Winter and Focus. That must've been a jam for the ages.

@cm-pr2ys

5y↑1

They probably didn’t piss test in those days! Did you smoke a fat j?

@mannyradzky493

4y↑2

Donald Doucette I’m 62, buddy, you are not an antique. They don’t make them us anymore...lol

@georgeb.wolffsohn30

4y↑1

Geezers rock.🤘

@terrellholmes2726

4y↑3

So let me get this straight, Donald. You heard "Frankenstein" and "Hocus Pocus" at the same concert--and survived?

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@tonybe4726

3y↑8

I was all of 13 (1973) when I heard this song for the first time. It was summer and at a friends house he brought the album out because his parents weren't home so we played it on their Magnavox High Fidelity Stereo Cabinet. Sweet Jesus Lord we cranked the hell out of it!!! I know we about blew the speakers out. Now almost 50 years later every time I hear this song, still want to crank the shit out of it... some things just never change!

@CowbodyDane

4y↑358

I grew up on classic rock radio. When I was a small child I thought this was the most kick ass thing I’ve ever heard.

I don’t think my opinion has wavered much.

@pamelasallee1729

4y↑15

Yeah they just don't make them like this anymore do they it's sad 😔

@kevinoconnor1912

4y↑2

Pamela Sallee , unfortunately , they do Not!! ✌️

@whoyoukidding1

4y↑10

I was around 10, maybe 11 when this song came out. It was a big hit and was played all the time on the radio. I loved it then, and I love it now, and all the years in between!

@nickmitsialis

4y↑5

@@pamelasallee1729 Not only that but there are fewer and fewer 'classic' stations to hear them on..oh well, at least there's Pandora.

@belyndamorris2236

3y↑11

This was one of about 6 songs I would have listen to every night before I went to sleep when I was about 12 or 13! Frankenstein, Smoke on the Water, Nights in White Satin, Stairway to Heaven, Space Oddity and later Freebird! The AM station would play Rock starting around 11 pm. Lol!💖🎶

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@vaughnmiller3896

5y↑39

One of the baddest jams ever by one of the most gifted musicians ever..

@floraleone7651

2y↑4

MONSTER TRACK DUDE

@drbluzer

8w↑1

I remember when this album came out in 1972. At midnight one of the FM radio stations played the entire album and
this was the very last song . I thought that this song would be a smash hit and it was !

@emily-sl6oq

3y↑5

This song was ahead of its time.

@peterhefele

Nope, that eas the Time. Hopefully, you didn't miss it. I sure didn't. Kids today wouldn't know what to make of it

@Demonizer5134

7y↑93

This is the definition of MUSIC

@pamelasallee1729

4y↑1

Well this and Pink Floyd of course

@JohnPrepuce

1y↑5

Best song on the album. I just wish the entire album was composed of music like this.

@carolyndarley1045

2y↑2

Me too!! Especially when he says, "_____"!! Yeah, that part really hits!

@Timmy-il1hb

29w↑1

My favorite song EVER!!!!!

@neub4321

5y↑11

Such a rare thing that a freaky instrumental this long made it to number 1 on radio. Great music!

@charcole5768

5y↑32

1:30 The saxophone solo is such an eargasm.

@dkehrerproductions

32w↑1

Back in third grade I thought this song was the greatest ever . Its still great and I am 59 now.

@drive5050

2y↑7

I'm so proud I've got all the words memorized!

@nuts0on0a0plane

7y↑38

I remember this....i was chilling at Santa Cruz beach boardwalk late at night in 1978 and the solo was pouring through some dude's ghetto blaster as he passed by

@tobywebb248

43w↑10

I’m thinking this might be my favourite track ever. It still gives me goosebumps ❤

@randybarnett2308

4y↑8

Somewhere Lurch is jamming to this!👍💪😎❤

@SheilaPhipps-fi9ds

24w↑3

I remember my brother had this album and I loved this music the first time I heard it. I still rock to all my tunes!

@epii3503

3y↑5

Frankenstein is an absolute Classic with all required components....

@stevenchido9223

7y↑69

My parents were haveing a argument in the car back in the day ,all of a sudden Frankenstein came on the radio ,this song completely hypnotize me as a teenager

@a_literal_brick

4y↑273

Should we do a metal or jazz song?

Yes

@tedcruzforgayrights2045

4y↑28

Sounds like some funk to me brother

@CowbodyDane

4y↑5

California Pizza Kitchen
Some straight sticky funk at points.

@IHateYoutubeHandlesVeryMuch

4y↑3

boogie rock

@donalddickinson3203

4y↑1

Could it be the rock-n-roll equivalent of Gershwin's (classified as jazz) "Rhapsody In Blue?"

@ddlk9913

4y↑4

Needs more didgeridoo.

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@johnleite2053

3y↑2

Being able to correctly identify this song earned me a night of free beer at a bar in Las Vegas back in the mid 90's.

@robertthacher

49w↑6

Made it to the charts for one week in 73! So well done!

@Nirotix

46w↑6

Used to listen to this all the time on LP when I was 12 years old. It just absolutely rocks! 👍

@pmrespinozadelosmonteros5870

2y↑2

THANX EDGAR & JOHNNY WINTER
Texas musicians 🎼🎶🎵🎧🎙️🎤🎛️🎚️🎸🎹

@quasimoto491

2y↑2

A Chicago Westside kid got introduced to this cut in H.S., and loved it. Now a senior citizen, and it still rocks.

@geico15minutes

3y↑41

I'm playing this real loud on Halloween this year

@googlesucks1376

32w↑2

After playing that play the intro to this song - https://youtu.be/Tn9k4yCJ_KY When I was mixing this, we had some people soliciting for some religious thing. I had it blasting thru the far fields. They walked right around our building. Was great. Had it looping at our house one Halloween and only one parent - who knew the band and the song - came up to get candy.

@DJK-cq2uy

26w↑1

Wow...can't wait. That's always nice invade your neighbors...why the hell can't people just enjoy music without thinking loud music makes them badass? Get serious

@johnsmith-zz1ku

50w↑10

Watched him play this at the Mikatam Lounge in Flint MI. He was extremely talented. Awesome to watch in action. Could teach most musicians a thing or two nowadays.

@n84434

9w↑2

Heard this song for the first time around 1975-76. I was probably 10 years old. Such an impact on me. Between Frankenstein and Kraftwerk's Autobahn, I grew up with the best music.

@Vendzor

22 years old here,

And yes, yes you did. 🤝

@ceres_mars8137

47w↑2

Thanks dad for sending me the link to this incredible song

@Jeffrey-lw5ls

31w

U. Welcome

@suoicilappaz

4y↑9

Please watch a live version. I've been listening to this song for almost half a century and I had no idea how many instruments Edgar played during this song.

@chief2tongues

2y↑3

Very few people can remember the rush hearing this in stereo back in the day! A great time to be alive!!

@philkleinman7002

I can! I was in HS when this came out.

@harlow743

42w↑2

One the greatest instumentals of all time and I had the pleasure of meeting Edgar in 1971 and watching him do "Frankenstein" from back stage in Detroit !!

@peterburns7578

3y↑8

My brother had the album on 8-track, I had it on cassette and the 45 with free ride on the flip. WCOZ played Frankenstein 10 times a day for like a year and it never got old. It's one of those songs that was so densly layered you really needed good headphones to get it all in your head. 1973 seems like a thousand years ago.

@rickurvina1625

1y↑3

Bought this album when it first came out wore out my turntable listening to, I still listen today anytime I am tuned into YouTube

@jaybird8192

5y↑16

This song still kicks ass, even now!!!

@ThatIckyGuy

2y↑15

I got this song stuck in my head and didn't know the name of it and couldn't remember any lyrics for it (for obvious reasons) and just ended up humming the intro for a coworker and he nailed it. So glad to have finally found this song.

@sarasmith99

29w↑1

Love this! It's a rock masterpiece.

@MikeDial

2y↑25

I still get the feeling of exhilaration that I got when I first heard this tune. It's like classical music in that, instead of repeating the same original piece of melody over and over, it keeps moving forward to new melodies. I know it is pieced together like a Frankenstein monster, but this is how all rock should be done.

@rickjohnson3779

3y↑11

One of the greatest rock instrumental sounds of all time the 70's live on!

@timcrawford8983

42w↑1

My very 1st concert, was Edgar Winter, Rick Derringer, ELO, James Gang with Joe Walsh, and REO. 1974. What a blast. Bloomington Indiana

@tonyezar7547

45w↑1

Perfectly rated!!! Classic jam!!!!

@realmeny

7y↑378

Todos saben que el rock consiguió la perfección en el 74. es un hecho cientifico

@DracoCorneliusVI

6y↑57

Realmeny , el pendejo de Ursusrex no entendió tu referencia a THE SIMPSONS, él debería de dejar de escribir pendejadas.

@horacionigro450

6y↑10

realmeny si señor!!!

@TheAceSpaceman

6y↑18

¿Ya solo tienes poco tiempo para ponerte pesado? :(

@pablocordova4680

5y↑12

Homero Simpson xD

@marceloacosta1742

5y↑8

@@DracoCorneliusVI Se nota que ni entendiste el chiste idiota es una referencia a los simpsons.

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@juanchavez5676

44w↑3

In my hometown in Mexico they uses this song for commercial gingles, but rarely it happened that I listened the whole song, ecxtatic moment !!! Musical orgasm for me !!!

@poom641

39w

starting at 1:50 this song exits the earth's atmosphere !!

@lutherbias661

DIS WAS DA JAM BACK IN DA DAY!

@user-be8pm5qw7h

28w↑1

I'm going on 69 on oct18 n still smoke weed n still rocking with this song, first time I heard this song I told my mom look mom this is rock n Roll n she went crazy listening to it it was awesome seeing mom rock to it +++++

@sagehart8746

4y↑40

When this song came out I was talking to a guy friend on the phone back before there were “friends with benefits.” He said to me, “you’ve got to hear this song.” He blasted it through the phone and the whole neighborhood must’ve heard it. We were both blown away. Hocus Pocus came out around the same time and wow, what a combo. Would love to relive those moments.

@willard2729

3y↑1

Smoke On The Water, live in Japan was also around this time. I was 12. Peak guitar riff appreciation

@gordonyork6638

2y↑1

Focus

@larspilsen

38w

@gordonyork6638 Focus 3 . One of the best albums ever. Never tire of it. Golden Earring live too

@DarkFlamage

37w↑1

@@larspilsen Moontan/Golden Earring.... You gotta hear it too

@mydisease2you

5y↑14

Incredibly ahead of their time! True Masterpiece!

@joeglenn1480

37w

Always took this in with me when buying a new car stereo and speakers, try it it still works to this day.

@calvinbealer7264

48w

Classic Gold from 1972-73.

@mjeffn2

4y↑41

The ultimate Beebop Jazz rock fusion song in history. I was 18 in 73, tripping on acid at a party when I heard this the first time. I believe, but am not entirely sure, that I lost consciousness traveling between aural and visual hallucinations and body rushes in some kind of alien tripscape. Awesome.

@markonspaugh338

3y↑4

Jeff Newman - I was a year older and heard it for the first time that same year - one of my frat brothers played it through a color organ - I had never been high at that point, but man, I was transported!

@no834

3y↑1

Low spark of high heeled boys, also

@jamesgrabowski5372

1y↑3

I saw Edgar and Johnny over 20 years ago at the old Coyotes in downtown Louisville they played separately and together I must say Johnny Winter the most butter blues guitarist of all time Edgar did Frankenstein for like 20 minutes played every instrument on stage he was all over the place awesome stuff never forget it. Then we waited out back by the bus and got their autographs!

@sianefer-ptah1258

32w

I've heard this song for thirty years. First time actually giving it a real listen. Damn 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

@davidsiller9078

4y↑1

I grew up a hundred miles away from Edgar and Johnny and NO one in south Texas thought that either were disabled, but rather gifted and talented legendary musicians.

@RonaldCharlesEpstein

I never thought of albinism as a disabling condition.

@brittthelonleyuwu7514

3y↑8

When it hits 1:32 it's my favorite part I love this song sm I was born in 2004 and my dad showed me all the good oldies and this will never get old it's my favoriteeeee

@dfbinet1

2y↑2

This is a MASTER PIECE guys! The effects on this track... Don't need drugs to travel... Always loved it... love it now... will always love it.. GENIOUS

@MannyScoot

43w

this is a fantastic soundtrack to test earphones and IEM's ...... A true monster track !!!!!!

@kellywatkins6409

6y↑32

great song to play during a lightning storm at night.

@DuckandMikeyfan49

6y↑1

kelly watkins Great song for the Power Rangers as well, for I can see somebody mashing up this song with the theme song for Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.

@pamelasallee1729

Yes I totally agree this and riders on the storm next time it's storming listen to both it's really cool

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