Joe Walsh - "Barnstorm"

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My dad used to play this all the time, but I never paid attention to it back then. It's not really a total honky-rock fest, as one would assume; there's some sweet pop here.. and lots of interesting spacey production effects going on (esp. the first side). His voice may take getting used to.. I dunno, seems like a pretty prime example of Classic Classic Rock that remains unheard and out of print. Any other fans, eh?

― giantBehemoth (makelove), Thursday, 16 March 2006 06:54 (eighteen years ago) link

no but it sounds like i could be

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 16 March 2006 10:51 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm a big Joe fan. Get "You Can't Argue With A Sick Mind" and "The Smoker You Get..." Smoker has "Rocky Mountain Way" which you're probably sick of too, but there's some really good "unknown" stuff on there that I'm sure you'll like. Also, get some James Gang stuff. It's great classic rock.

― Davlo (Davlo), Thursday, 16 March 2006 14:29 (eighteen years ago) link

Smoker also has Meadows which is one of the greatest songs ever.

It's been 20+ years since I've heard Barnstorm, but Turn to Stone (another greatest hits gem) is another of Joe's best writing. I just D/L'ed video torrents of Joe Walsh performances on the Midnight Special & OGWT, etc ...

― Dave NSFW (dave225.3), Thursday, 16 March 2006 14:46 (eighteen years ago) link

walsh is cool. my friend tom was playing 'barnstorm' in the car on a lunch break the other day and about two songs in smacked the steering wheel and said 'man, this shit is so great I can even forgive this guy for joining the eagles'

― milton parker (Jon L), Thursday, 16 March 2006 19:11 (eighteen years ago) link

Does "The Smoker You Drink the Player You Get" mean anything? About once a year I come across that album, try to figure it out for about three minutes -- is it a pun? a spoonerism? plain old non sequitur? -- and then move on to more constructive activities, i.e. anything else.

― O-Keigh, Friday, 17 March 2006 05:10 (eighteen years ago) link

anyone ever hear the howard roberts record, or is any of the tumbleweed label stuff good?

― noizem duke (noize duke), Friday, 17 March 2006 06:57 (eighteen years ago) link

Jesus, I was NINE SECONDS away from asking this myself! I've wondered about that for 20+ years now.

― Myonga Von Baffled (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 17 March 2006 10:16 (eighteen years ago) link

It's just drunk talk - like "I'm not as think as you stoned I am."

― Dave NSFW (dave225.3), Friday, 17 March 2006 12:45 (eighteen years ago) link

Are you insinuating that Joe Walsh has partaken of drugs or alcohol?!

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 17 March 2006 14:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Or that he knows someone who has?

― adam (adam), Friday, 17 March 2006 15:04 (eighteen years ago) link

maybe something he heard on TV

― Dave AKA Dave (dave225.3), Friday, 17 March 2006 15:37 (eighteen years ago) link

two months pass...

Hip O-Select has just reissued Barnstorm. Relatively cheap too.

Well worth checking out. Almost enough to forgive Joe for joining the Eagles.

― Jeff K (jeff k), Friday, 26 May 2006 23:29 (seventeen years ago) link

this is very good news..

― gaseous (gaseous), Saturday, 27 May 2006 19:39 (seventeen years ago) link

two years pass...

Revive just to say I recently heard this and it is fantastic. Joe Walsh is awesome.

― Bill Magill, Thursday, 28 August 2008 20:29 (fifteen years ago) link

It's just drunk talk - like "I'm not as think as you stoned I am."

-- Dave NSFW (dave225.3), Friday, March 17, 2006 7:45 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Link

But if you switch player and smoker, it still makes no sense

― mizzell, Thursday, 28 August 2008 20:32 (fifteen years ago) link

I always figured it was a very messed up attempt to deliver "the more you smoke/drink, the better you play".

― contenderizer, Thursday, 28 August 2008 20:41 (fifteen years ago) link

Like you have "the more you smoke, the better you play", and "the more you drink, the smarter I get", and you mash them together. Or something.

― contenderizer, Thursday, 28 August 2008 20:43 (fifteen years ago) link

Not really on topic, but the full length "the Bomber" with the Bolero shit in the middle on James Gang "Rides Again" is fucking great

― Bill Magill, Thursday, 28 August 2008 21:03 (fifteen years ago) link

Barnstorm is a good listen. Really you cannot go much wrong with all three of the James Gang records or Joe Walsh's first three solo albums.

― earlnash, Friday, 29 August 2008 07:00 (fifteen years ago) link

This kind of has to be seen to be believed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igguqtwMBn4&feature=related

― Bill Magill, Friday, 29 August 2008 16:08 (fifteen years ago) link

eleven years pass...

I can almost hear a big star #1 record quality here and there, maybe the acoustic g and vocal enunciation ?

― calstars, Sunday, 5 July 2020 00:51 (three years ago) link

whoa cool there’s a whole thread about this album <3

― brimstead, Sunday, 5 July 2020 01:54 (three years ago) link

How do you guys rank this against Rides Again? I think it’s stronger

― calstars, Sunday, 12 July 2020 12:05 (three years ago) link

two months pass...

Is it a sad day? A bad day? I don’t know

― calstars, Sunday, 27 September 2020 18:14 (three years ago) link

“I’ll tell the world” is one of the saddest songs I’ve ever heard.

― brimstead, Sunday, 27 September 2020 18:51 (three years ago) link

just discovered this, beautiful record

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 27 September 2020 19:38 (three years ago) link

one year passes...

yeah it really is. i expected this to rock but its just wonderfully downtrodden and solemn. ill tell the world is perfect.

― It's the Final Cluntdiwn (Spottie), Friday, 29 October 2021 00:38 (two years ago) link

VR looks like being trapped in a teletubby horror world with lurkers behind big cartoon eyes talking with their hands

― calstars, Friday, 29 October 2021 02:36 (two years ago) link

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