Originally Posted by slipkid (Post 793224)

Those excerpts from his book in Crawdaddy are a riot. A race between gear mobiles?? That's something Top Gear (BBC) would do today, a show I highly recommend. The scary plane ride to Antwerp seems to be the inspiration for a scene from "Almost Famous".

Originally Posted by snoot (Post 793317)

The club scenes where so many top rank musicians converged there in London were out of this world back then, starting with the Marquee Club, and spreading out from there. You never knew just who you might run into, or what mayhem was in the works! :D

Originally Posted by snoot (Post 793162)

Never heard of the Winter connection before ~ interesting is right. I'm not sure Manalishi was recorded anywhere but at De Lane Lea Studios, unless this came in the form of mixing and overdubs later on (after perhaps being shuttled off via express courier). Johnny Winter may have also found his way into the Kingsway, London studio during one of his concert tours of England. I know there exists a 1970 recording of him and his band performing from the Royal Albert Hall, which came out a few years ago as part of a Sony reissue package, so who knows.

Originally Posted by dino (Post 793413)

I think we have it backwards regarding the recording date.
http://forum.metroamp.com/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=10844
The track was apparently started in LA in January 1970, on the American tour,
then completed in London. Of course Winter could have played in either place, as he was in London in April 1970.