Joe Walsh

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 ...

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