The Mad Scientist of Rock: Edgar Winter on His Groundbreaking Instrumentals

Here’s a number for you 13… Only 13 Instrumentals have hit the #1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100… Of those 13 as you may have guessed most are from Movies or TV shows… but out of that small list of 13 that hit #1 there is only 1 ROCK instrumental that did it in all of music history and it started out as a jam session. the Edgar Winter Group led by the wild and crazy mad scientist of Rock n Roll. He wanted to play his keyboard like a guitar so he put a handle on it and jammed. That instrument became the Keytar…that instrumental became Frankenstein. Once they recorded the song it was an epic 20 minutes long. If radio was going to play it, they would need to pair it down. But the song became the only #1 rock instrumental in history when a DJ played it by accident. Coming up we’ve got the goods. an interview with rocker Edgar Winter. who wrote the song tells us the story along with his massive follow-up hit Freeride… both of these songs are mainstays on classic rock radio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .