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Wino Wednesday: Warhorse Covers Led Zeppelin’s “Moby Dick” at Wootton High School, 1978

Happy Wino Wednesday.

It’s not a word I use often, but this one is unfuckwithable. The year is 1978, and Warhorse, the band that would later become The Obsessed, is playing a rock concert on a stage set up on the field at Thomas S. Wootton High School — appropriately enough — in Rockville, Maryland. I don’t know who the full lineup in the band was at that point, but if you look at the stage, which is positioned right beyond the track while the clip is being filmed from the bleachers, you’ll find one Scott Weinrich wearing a black jacket and ripping what would over the years become a characteristically Wino solo as the band covers “Moby Dick” from 1969’s Led Zeppelin II.

This one’s a treasure, and I mean it. The video is grainy, obviously, and near as I can tell it was shot for some kind of school project or something like that. As you can see below, it’s a four-part series, and the last of the parts is an interview a girl conducts with students, faculty and (I think) also vocalist Vance Bockis, who says the show went alright but that, “Scott‘s guitar was way too loud.” Hilarious.

Honestly, I might have to make this a four-part series, but at very least that interview clip is going up next week. In the meantime, here’s a direct look at the roots of one of heavy rock’s most pivotal figures getting his bearings in what would become a landmark band. Happy Wino Wednesday:

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5 Responses to “Wino Wednesday: Warhorse Covers Led Zeppelin’s “Moby Dick” at Wootton High School, 1978”

  1. Mike H says:

    HOLY SHIT!

    • You know, that was my response as well, and I kind of thought that would be the reaction this one got. I guess maybe after 29 weeks solid of Wino’s awesomeness, people are desensitized or something. To me, this was the ultimate in excellence, and so far you’re the only one to chime in. Well, if it had to be anyone. Hope all’s good, dude.

  2. dd says:

    i’m just wndering how young dudes like that could afford all those marshall amps in high school and shit! but yeah pretty fucking awesome!

  3. goAt says:

    I’ve been too busy watching the “Streetside” video every day this week for some reason.

    I’ll just say “HOLY SHIT” as well, because hey, it’s Wino.

  4. andy says:

    iwas there i just started school there and during the day i think during a class they said evertbody to the football field i was expecting a fire drill ,then i was rocked i think it was 78 , and these guys invented some of the baddest rock i have ever seen , it was sabbath on streroids , wino lit it the band was tight , and they were want metallica wished they could be , raw talent

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