I saw him in concert about five years ago. He was a shell of his former self. While he played and sang, he didn’t sing all of his songs and most of the solo guitar playing was left to his bandmates. He sat in a chair the whole time and never even got up except to get off stage. Quite frankly I’m surprised he lasted this long after seeing him then.
This just goes to show what a life of drugs (especially heroin) will do to someone.
Johnny became addicted to methadone as a result of being treated for heroin addiction. He only kicked the methadone habit in the last few years.
Winter claimed that his former manager Teddy Slatus enabled his addiction so that he could manipulate him and bleed money from him.
I saw him once in the ‘70s, at Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City, NJ.
Alice Cooper was the headliner of a late afternoon/evening show which featured a number of acts. My friends and I went just to see Johnny and Leslie West. We couldn’t care less about Alice Cooper.
Johnny stole the show.
Even the Cooper fan freaks were blown away.
It was my first ever rock concert.
2 years of heroin and 35 years of methadone.
Neither really ‘healthful’.
“This just goes to show what a life of drugs (especially heroin) will do to someone.”
The heroin was in the early days, went through a year of rehab. Being an albino has it problems also. He was diabetic to boot. The dude had a ton of baggage other than the early drug abuse. He wouldn’t have lived to be seventy if he continued the early days excesses