YouTube is a huge collection of video files submitted by users. The videos can then be accessed by anyone with a broadband connection and a sufficiently pitiful social life.
Best of all, most video files are accompanied by a hunk of source code that can be embedded into a blog.
Now…the main focus of this Virtual Tapas Bar is supposed to be writing. But hey…this YouTube video thing is just too seductive to resist. So I am pleased to announce a new, non-regular feature of this VTB: Friday Night Videos.
Every Friday or so, I’ll embed whichever YouTube video has been keeping me awake at night.
And I am pleased to announce that our first installment features my all-time favorite electric guitarist—Johnny Winter.
Johnny stepped onto stage at Bob Dylan’s 30th Anniversary Celebration concert in 1993 and punched a hole in the stratosphere with an absolutely blistering performance of “Highway 61 Revisited.” I feel so, so sorry for the poor bastard that had to follow him on stage that night.
Watch this video and I’m sure you’ll agree that Johnny is the greatest 110 pound, cross-eyed, heavily-tattooed, albino, blues guitarist ever.
