Joe Walsh

smoker you drink

b-b-b-barnstorm but smoker you drink and so what are close

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joe walsh really named one of his albums "got any gum"?

great thread

i've only got a few of his albums, but "But seriously folks" is pretty amazing. the title track to the Confessor's great also

james gang rides again and again and again

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sad at poor turnout.
barnstorm is maybe my favorite 70s california rock album

Sad turnout indeed--I was a "But Seriously..." voter, but could have just as well gone with "Rides Again" or "Barnstorm".

I'd never heard "Meadows" until it came on the radio today--what a great song. (I thought at first it was "My Woman from Tokyo.")

Anybody see this? Looks cool. Got it on my dvr.
http://www.cmt.com/news/country-music/1688211/joe-walsh-and-friends-meet-at-cmt-crossroads.jhtml

Guy has a new album out apparently. Heard the single "One Day At A Time," a kind of nice little meditation on being a recovering alcoholic, on the radio this morning. Not bad really. Heavy Jeff Lynne presence, not entirely unwelcome in my retro-rock.

Joe Walsh's twitter feed is an amalgamation of "people who have figured out how to live" and "unlikeliest celebrity photos."

https://twitter.com/joewalsh

https://www.facebook.com/johnnie.blackwell/videos/10219159682241517/

great look. good drummer

Spent the last four score and seven years rocky mountain way

https://variety.com/2020/music/news/joe-walsh-kcsn-radio-885fm-dj-program-1234614041/

Never liked the Eagles but always seemed to enjoy whatever Joe Walsh songs I heard, so yesterday I had my machine randomly play stuff by the James Gang, and at least several songs in a row they were all good! Yeah, lotta butt rock, but (butt) there was a lot of pretty sorta psychedelic acoustic stuff in there, too, if memory serves.

yeah his slow stuff/balladry is great, as good as his rockers imo

Joe Walsh is definitely a Zelig/Forrest Gump character in rock and roll. I think the local schlub from Cleveland makes good and somehow ends up brother-in-law to a Beatle.

Walsh was one of the early adopters of using synths. There are a couple tracks on Barnstorm and his early records where he gets into some Floyd Not Floyd tunes, especially the track "Giant Bohemoth".

I liked his music as a kid and he is one of my favorites of those early 70s rockers, although his records get spottier as they go on.

As posted above, if you don't know "The Confessor", it is pretty spacy psych for early 80s and then rocks some serious mullet once it kicks in. I was obsessed with that tune as a teenager.

"Song for Emma" is a really sad song as the guy went through some serious tragedy as his 3 year old daughter got killed in a car wreck with his girlfriend by a drunk drive.

“giant behemoth” is THE SHIT. Spaced out. I made a long edit of the soft weepy beepy ambient synth vapor at the end

the other thing it reminds me of is the desolate “no means to live” by traffic

I go to parties sometimes until four
It’s hard to leave when you can’t find the door

otm

I'm not really an Eagles fan, but Walsh clearly brought a lot to the band when the handful of tracks I do like are pretty much made by his guitar work.

"Look What I Did!: The Joe Walsh Anthology" is close to a solid collection. Material gets a little dodgy when you get to the '80s, but considering the absence of any highlights from his Eagles work, the 2+ hours of top-drawer material is still very impressive.

So many major guitar players have stories about being gifted some rare or special guitar by Joe Walsh.

There's a tale of a particular Les Paul that Johnny Marr used live a lot that he got from Pete Townshend who got from Joe Walsh. Apparently Noel Gallagher currently owns it.

I saw Joe Walsh once by accident in a surprising situation and he totally won me over. More later.

xp I pity that Les Paul, suffering a continual ownership downgrade over the years (j/k, lol).

Joe Walsh's twitter feed is an amalgamation of "people who have figured out how to live" and "unlikeliest celebrity photos."
This is true. Thanks.

So many major guitar players have stories about being gifted some rare or special guitar by Joe Walsh.

It is not the best quality video or audio, but I thought Joe Walsh's set at the US Festival 1983 was pretty good. I like the horn setup and 2 backing vocalist setup, as since Joe doesn't also add a second guitarist of a keyboard player, there is some room to use the arrangements. The proto-Miami Vice version of 'Life in the Fast Lane' is cool to hear Joe do the verses and the backing singers the chorus.
Throwing in the Dylan nugget 'Rainy Day Women #12 & 35' between 'Rocky Mountain Way' and 'Lifes Been Good' is fun.

^i was just watching that earlier today

I recently heard his first solo album Barnstorm and what a great record, blown away!

way psychedelic folk rock in places, very strange album

yeah, beautiful record

I don't listen to his solo stuff much at all but was listening to James Gang Rides Again yesterday and it rules.

yeah every time i put that one on, i thank ILX for tuning me into James Gang. i should dig into Barnstorm!

A lot of Barnstorm is not what you think it's going to be

Some of us must be going
Some of use have to stay

https://open.spotify.com/track/2Z8ajaIHosQLFEiBdOaUkr

Make us all feel bettah
Make us all feel fine

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This is fun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAQy1XtFcSM

Also James Gang Rides Again definitely rules.

I wonder how many drummers with gongs ever hit them more than once per set?

You need to get Roger Waters onstage if you really want to see someone bash the hell out of a gong. A flaming gong.

I really wanna start a dadblues band and cover Walk Away, that song seems like it would be a blast to sing and play.

I'd be down but 'daddy don't live in that new York city no more' am I right ? lol

i think 'life of illusion' was the song i listened to most in 2020.

so good

I want to say Joe Walsh is underrated as a songwriter and maybe a bit misunderstood as an artist? Do people know his 70s albums aren’t just meat and potatoes rock but contain lots of dark epics with enveloping atmospheres?

"mother says" was probably my most played...weekend anthem

gonna spend some time on all his early solo stuff

I want to say Joe Walsh is underrated as a songwriter and maybe a bit misunderstood as an artist? Do people know his 70s albums aren’t just meat and potatoes rock but contain lots of dark epics with enveloping atmospheres?

I remember being about 13 or 14 and the local classic rock station played "The Confessor" once and I thought, Wait...Joe Walsh is metal now? Still never heard the rest of the album, but that's a weird-ass song.

Is there no good Joe Walsh anthology? Or at least a great Spotify playlist?

There is, the two-CD Look What I Did!, and it's literally subtitled The Joe Walsh Anthology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look_What_I_Did!

Good comp, but the main omission is the original Walsh version of "In The City" from The Warriors OST (and not the Eagles re-recording from The Long Run) but you can add it on your own.

True - they should have added that track, but I'm guessing there was some rights issue or it cost too much to license.

It would've been nice to add a few Eagles tracks, specifically "Life in the Fast Lane" which musically belongs to Walsh - he didn't just play the shit out of it, Henley and Frey overheard him playing that riff as a warm-up and wrote a song around it - but I'm sure it would have cost too much to license from WEA and given that album's popularity, it probably seemed redundant.

Really like many 70s artists, you really cannot go wrong with anything from that period by Joe Walsh and really you can take it up to 1981 with 'There Goes the Neighborhood'.

The records after that are much more spotty, but he was pretty out of it for a big part. "The Confessor" was pretty much about him trying to get clean. For his party persona, the guy has some real darkness. He lost his young daughter back in 1974, that is what "Song for Emma" is about.

Yeah, really endeared him to me:

Walsh's daughter, Emma Kristen, 1974 at 3 years of age as a result of injuries suffered in an automobile accident on her way to nursery school. In her memory, he had a fountain and memorial plaque placed in a park in which she played.

I probably posted this on here before but Walsh lived in Midtown Memphis for a while during the late 80s when he was recording Got Any Gum at Ardent (sadly p forgettable iirc). He lived in an old 1920s four square about a block from where i lived for most of my time there some 20 years later.

I briefly dated a girl who was super excited to point out the house next door to his old place where she and her mom and sister lived while she was in elementary school. She said that she didn’t really understand who he was but her mom was like ‘oh yeah he’s a big deal, Eagles, etc’. She said he was incredibly cool to her and her sister, bought them Christmas presents and shit, just a really affable dude. She also remembers it being a party house where things would get mildly rowdy on the reg. (not terribly far from Ardent and the Overton Square bar “scene” at the time) One time she walked outside to see a grocery cart from the Seesel’s Grocery around the corner perched on the roof of the portico carport, which, to her 5th grade mind was simply the funniest thing she’d ever seen.

Damn, joe in Memphis, that sounds like a party

When he and Stevie Nicks dated she wrote "Has Anyone Ever Written Anything for You" for him and the memory of his daughter, she sez.

hey, "The Confessor" is pretty rad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gf47PtfG7VA

Joe Walsh's 'Star Licks' video is worth searching out on Youtube, especially for guitarists.

It is very entertaining and actually has some good basic information included. Joe seems pretty stoned/hungover during the filming.

Parts of Rivers (of the hidden funk) are darkness Byrdsy like an early 80s Cure record or something.

I filed this album under "classic rock goes new wave" and on second listen, I can hear it.

It has the spring but it's kind of brooding.

The autocracy on my cell phone replaced "soloing" with "spring".

(whether “autocracy” was serendipitous or intentional, great stuff either way)

dug into his early material recently and was really surprised at how many big star boxes it checked off.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIKSWPxuN5Y

https://i.imgur.com/2c6v986.png

This poster is making my head explode. Gotta love Reznor going back to repping Ohio after how many years in L.A.?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FZFSyuDVUAAGB4H.jpg

That looks awesome.

first time in my life i wish i lived in ohio lol

Wow

For the first time I ever, I need to visit Columbus, OH.

Actually, it looks like they have some good museums I should see too.

Columbus is great! It's crept up really close to the top 10 US cities in population, which means all the good stuff lots of people bring: food, culture, crime ...

No New Bomb Turks, No Cred

Spent the last year

the bottom has a rocky reputation

Paul Shaffer is ignorable here, but Joe Walsh isn't one bit. 77 years old and I think he sounds more exciting here than in any other clips old or new.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27p6qjOo9Wk

Yeah sounding good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwgJgTL5JmE
“Dirty laundry” is kind of a shit sandwich but Joe smokes the solo

Paul Shaffer is ignorable here, but Joe Walsh isn't one bit. 77 years old and I think he sounds more exciting here than in any other clips old or new.

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he also makes it look easy (if not as easy as prince did)

that 1st james gang alb is boss

also beautiful sounding - bill szymsczyk or however you say that joker's name

lot of good stuff on other jw records too but that's my pick

he apparently lived over here in aotearoa for a while 'cause he saw the nz reggae band herbs, liked 'em, so he joined 'em for a while

wild & crazy guy huh

I really wanna start a dadblues band and cover Walk Away, that song seems like it would be a blast to sing and play.

One blast, coming up!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUo-WzUGihA

Joe kinda sings this but it's totally compelling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOc1GTXORv4

I always thought he used an open tuning for that one. Guess not

huh, didn't know Willem Dafoe played guitar

not interested in ever hearing this song again

^ been thinking about this dumb ass post all week