Eight People Go Crazy at Same Time

EDGAR WINTER’S WHITE TRASH

Edgar Winter’s White Trash is probably the best evidence this side of Grand Funk that rock is not dead. An unbelievable bunch of Southerners who lived together for a year and a half polishing themselves, they have a wonderful ability to make people happy.

There are eight of them, or something, and they have three stars and they always get three or four encores, even though they’re not yet headliners. They have horns, guitars, drums and singers and their music is free American rock and roll.

Edgar has played in public since he was eight when he and brother Johnny, then eleven, played ukuleles together. “We used to do Everly brothers things like ‘Wake Up Little Susie’ — we did talent shows, went on tv but, we weren’t really serious about it.”