Classic Songs 31 + 32 - Edgar Winter "Fire and Ice" and "Peace Pipe"

For some years now, I've been searching for Youtube 

postings of songs from Edgar Winter's debut LP,

Entrance, which to me ranks way up near the 

top of my desert i-land iPhone play/wish list.

Until today, I've come up, empty-linked 

and frustrated at the thought that 

no-one else thought as much

about that album as I.

Well, imagine my surprise when my eyes spotted

the prize I've been striving and YT diving for:

2 video/song postings - from the same person -

popped up as results of my latest search. Both 

are now embedded here, along with my 

most hearty and heartfelt praise for 

this astonishing debut from

a young Edgar Winter.

I first heard the album in 1970. 

A pretty big year for music, 1970 was:

12 Songs (Randy Newman); Abraxas (Santana); 

Deja Vu(CSN&Y); Led Zeppelin III; 

New Morning (Bob Dylan); 

Moondance (Van Morrison); 

Lizard (King Crimson);

 Straight Life (Freddie Hubbard); 

My Goals Beyond (John McLaughlin);

Hello, I'm Johnny Cash, not to mention 

John, Paul and George's first solo albums, 

plus about a hundred or so more 

timeless, GREAT records.

Out of Edgar's fruitful mind (and somewhat 

overshadowed by the aforementioned list

of new releases) popped Entrance,

a still-fresh synthesis of jazz, blues,

pop, classical, improvisational

and truly sensational music,

featuring Edgar's multi-talents

on keyboards; saxes; percussion

and vocals. With the capable assistance

of his prodigious brother, Johnny, Edgar 

created and laid down - for all time - 

tracks that are still forward thinking

and dead-in-the-pocket.

A somewhat interesting tidbit, with respect to Entrance 

is that one of the songs (I believe it's "Hung Up")

contains a visceral, early reading of what would 

become the alternate instrumental riff that 

helped drive Winter's future hit, 

"Frankenstein" to the top of the 

airplay and sales charts, 

about two years later.

Here are video/audio clips for "Fire and Ice"

and "Peace Pipe", preceded by a couple

of pix that I thought you might like...

seeing as everything I'm doing today's in 'twos'.

Mozz the Elder

www.vapormusic.com