He is the coolest guy- many years ago we were at the Sturgis rally, having just arrived. Due to the plethora of great music and venues, Joe was playing at a smaller venue, which wasn’t sold out in the afternoon. We had stopped just to have lunch under a big awning, open air. We didn’t even know he was going to be playing there. He was walking around the lunch crowd, giving away free tickets to all to keep a crowd for his show, and came up to us and asked us to stay for his show. I was flabbergasted- he was promoting his own show like a new band might do. Of course we stayed, the show was GREAT-

@patmcdonald4297

Жыл бұрын

Awesome

@normatible9795

Жыл бұрын

Great!

@howabouthetruth2157

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing such a cool story! Do you recall around what year that was? Joe Walsh is one of the very few greats I never got to see perform live in concert. Yet I've always been a huge Walsh fan. Still am.

Long live Joe Walsh. As every one knows who has seen the Eagles live, it's actually divided into two parts --- the Eagles show, and the Joe Walsh show. Whenever Joe takes over and does his tunes, or steps up for any solo, he blows the walls down. The fans absolutely love the man. He's one of a kind and a truly great genius guitar player.

@patmcdonald4297

Жыл бұрын

Seen the Eagles in Greensboro, N.C. in 2009. Yes, they gave Joe Walsh the floor to play his own tunes

The 70's was an amazing time for rock! I seriously miss those days!

@RSVPini

4 жыл бұрын

@DrPsychedelic - Not if you was there....😎

When I was about 6-7 and my first ever favorite song was Walk away. My dad had the James gang 8 track tape and I listened to it a lot.

All his albums solo and with James Gang are superb. And Barnstorm is a masterpiece.

Saw Barnstorm in Nashville in 1972. One of the best concerts I have ever seen. Saw the same band a year later on the "Smoker You Drink" tour. It still ranks among the finest music Joe has ever made.

@scottstores6801

4 жыл бұрын

I also saw them in 72, backup for Stepenwolf. I could have sworn it was James Gang? Long time ago.

@stevenmccown4650

Жыл бұрын

The Smoker you Drink 'The player you get was when the Band became Fantastic & spot on ! And according to Rocke Grace this Album was still Barnstorm.R.I.P. Rocke // I saw the Band in 1975 in Portland Oregon at the Paramount Theater 🎭. These boys could play better than any other Band in the World 🌎.

I think Joes barnstorm album was his greatest achievement. A classic.

@scurfie2343

Жыл бұрын

I bought the album when it first came out. I've gone back to it recently and wow with headphones it's amazing!

@travelinben1966

Жыл бұрын

Agreed, with “So What” a close second imo.

@scurfie2343

Жыл бұрын

@@travelinben1966 Yes!

@travelinben1966

Жыл бұрын

@@scurfie2343 Lest we forget “But Seriously Folks”👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

@scurfie2343

Жыл бұрын

@@travelinben1966 Or "Ordinary Average Guy"!

So happy Joe is still rockin after all these years.

@joewalsh6633

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for your love and support ♥️

It's a shame they don't make music like this anymore😪

@michaelcraig9449

Жыл бұрын

They do. There is plenty of good newer classic rock bands now. The difference is now, the media does not give it the promotion and attention it deserves. Check out Ally Venable, Danielle Nicole, Samantha Fish, Davy Knowles, Amanda Fish for starters.

@stevetrimble7007

Жыл бұрын

Thank God for cds!

@jcsolomon6470

Жыл бұрын

DatS RighT!Soooo OrGaniC!Take care nah!Jcs

Joe Walsh is a Class Act!! There is absolutely no one like him in the business

@williampaul8556

4 жыл бұрын

Crazy down to earth. Heard him with the James Gang in 1969 in my home town of Canton, Ohio. Blew me away!

@strictlynorton

4 жыл бұрын

Totally agree. He dealt with his issues and now actively helps others with similar difficulties. All that as well as being one of the best lead guitarists of his generation. A great American.

@edwardhayes2465

4 жыл бұрын

Joe Walsh - 1. "One of the scariest things that happened to me was...Keith Moon decided he liked me.". 2. "Remember kids, Chainsaws are dangerous in the curtains, use a weed wacker. You can make a nice clean cut!". LOLOL

@daved7253

4 жыл бұрын

@@edwardhayes2465 😂😂😂😂 I remember hearing Joe say that

When Rocky Mountain Way came out here in the UK, it changed my life. He’s still my favourite artist 44 years on.

@michele21auntiem

4 жыл бұрын

Me too. Changed my guitar playing. Loves the sounds he could get out of it.

"The Bomber"!!! Been listening to Joe's music since the beginning! What a great all around musician! Fantastic "Guitar Slinger", singer, and song writer.......Keep on rockin' Joe!!!!

Joe's Barnstorm albums really hit the mark for me. Coming out 5 years after my love affair with Colorado began, his words and music expressed what I felt about Colorado far better than I ever could.

The Barnstorm album is one of my favorite albums of all time

I'm from Cleveland Joe Walsh is simply a person with direction a what ever he's touched turns to gold not stone !!

Proud to have every album mentioned in this vid on vinyl...bought back in the day when they first came out. Great road trip music!

Played constantly on my am radio late at night. As i lay in my cabin, snow falling, in the Rocky Mountains. Best memories...

Thank you again I love 💕 music history it means a lot to me Joe Walsh is part of that great history music goes back further than we know⏰

I would love to meet Joe... seems so cool..and he’s a great musician..

@namelessghoulphantom

4 жыл бұрын

david mack ive met him before and jammed with him he’s a really nice cool laid back dude

First Barnstorm album is not only the best Walsh project but one of the best albums of all time, period. It is something special.

First Barnstorm album is a classic.....Birdcall Morning is a truly great song.

Grew up listening to " you can't argue with a sick mind" arguably one of the greatest live albums ever. The eagles came on stage to join Walsh for a tune, a sign of things to come.

@buckcubmandingo6772

4 жыл бұрын

Don Felder played guitar the entire concert as well

JOE IS STILL BARNSTORMING AFTER ALL THESE YEARS ! HE CAME CLEAN AND RESPECT TO HIM ! MR. WALSH ROCKS !

My 1st concert, ace, joe walsh, and yes July 11 1975 Cleveland stadium 15th birthday good times

Joe saw the Beatles on Sullivan. Now he's married to Ringo's wife's sister. Would love to be at that dinner party!

@chasbodaniels1744

4 жыл бұрын

Cool.

@steveconn

4 жыл бұрын

"Let's play 'Who's the bigger drunk?'"

The first Barnstorm album is a masterpiece.. Acoustic guitar sound is amazing, even now..

I play the --t out of all of Joe’s stuff to this day.👍

@travelinben1966

4 жыл бұрын

It's About Time That’s for sure!👍

@DrJohn493

4 жыл бұрын

Ditto!

You gotta love Joe Walsh. My cousin who works in the music business was once introduced to Joe, and Joe says, "Hi! I am what's left of Joe Walsh".

Habe alle Schallplatten von Joe walsh und James Gang. 🎸..er war schon ein Rockstar da waren die Eagles ne. Dorfband...Rock on. Joe walsh.

I saw Joe Vitale with the Amboy Dukes in Jackson Michigan and saw him again with Crosby Stills Nash and Young in Wilmington NC. I've only caught Joe Walsh one time at Myrtle Beach HOB. Great shows.

excellent biography, carries his age well.......thank you for the upload............H6UK (82)....

Now I finally understand how a big influence the surroundings of Colorado had on Joe's songwriting. In some songs he describes how nature fulfilled him with beauty and made him speechless. His first three solo albums are still my favorites of Joe's whole discography. He joined the Eagles in the middle of the seventies but I rather would have seen him with Vitale and Passarelli and continue with what he was doing then. He wrote Hotel California and life in the fast lane but for me he never touched that level of his first three slolo albums again wich I still listen to every now and then.

Joe's been playing inside my brain every day of my life for 50 years now. God knows, I've tried everything, coffee enemas, listening to old Neal Sedaka records, booze, drugs, meditation, but nothing works, he's still in there. In fact, the booze and drugs just makes it even worse. It gets louder! So I guess I'll just have to resign to the fact that he's never gonna go away, even after i'm dead.... Wow, Thanks a lot Joe.

@mma1st105

4 жыл бұрын

moto 23 you just have to learn to deal with it

Love this channel!! Thanks for the spotlight on a great musician/guitarist Joe Walsh. Kenny Passarelli has always been a great yet underrated bassist. Cool to know that Kenny played with Hall and Oates band in late 70's, and a few years back Joe Walsh was a featured guest of Daryl Hall on his great webisode series "Live from Daryl's House".

In the eighties, I was meeting 5 of my colleagues at the old Denver airport for a business trip to Phoenix. I met some of the guys and went to a bar to meet the last one in the group. He was sitting at the bar talking to someone that I instantly knew was Joe. Joe and my friend were getting hammered. When our flight got called, our friend joined us to get on the plane. I asked him if he knew who that was? He had no Idea. When I told him he still wasn’t sure who that was. I gave him some songs and told him Joe was now an Eagle. To my surprise, Joe got on the flight with us. He sat in the front and was drinking heavily. When we arrived at the airport, Joe was picked up by 2 beautiful, tall women that helped him to the Limo and they left. I don’t think my friend ever really knew that he was talking to anyone but a crazy person. Oh for the life of a rock and roll star in the seventies and eighties.

@eamonnward2962

4 жыл бұрын

And dealing with the fall out for decades afterwards!

@d5u2ke

4 жыл бұрын

Great Story!

The Barnstorm album was a classic. First one I had.

Great story telling on this video and great pics and music! And it is about one of my favorite musicians! Thank you!

One of the best things that ever came out of OHIO ,luv his music ,James Gang ,Branstorm ect... makes this Buckeye boy proud.

……….. What an effect the first Barnstorm record had on me! Years later I visited what was left of Caribou Ranch , part of it had burned in a fire, but it was a full -circle experience to see where these great albums were produced, what a wonderful era...…….SR

@leafski6763

4 жыл бұрын

When did you go to Caribou Ranch?

Great video! Fills in some blanks for me. Thank you! He' the perfect court jester!

Joe is true talent.

And then the Warriors came and Joe's triumphant ending song "In the City" with the gang on the beach at Coney Island...perfect song to wind down the 1970s

My guitar hero. Always was, always will be.

Nice video, guys. Perfect length, solid information. I enjoyed learning a bit more about my hero’s past 👌

Smoker you drink the player you get is my favorite all around album. Every song is perfect.

Well done documentary! Very informative!

Drum track on RMW is exceptional.

Master Walsh , i like to think of him. The brilliant jester.

Heard Joe in college and I was never the same. Great, talented musician and great guy.

Love me some Joe!👍❤️🎸

When I was around 14 yrs old, I found a copy of the live album: "You Can't Argue With a Sick Mind" by Joe Walsh, and I'm assuming Barnstorm. All of my friends would always try to borrow that album from me. We all loved it. I eventually loaned it to a young sweetheart & forgot all about it. We both moved our separate ways, both of us got married, and I started my own family. Something like 20+ years later, she told me she still had that album, and that it was her all-time favorite. I have yet to find that album anywhere else. Haven't even met anyone else who had it either. Anyone out there have it?.......or at least remember it?

Joe Walsh is one of the most natural Americana players a complement for he does not always follow the rules. The film of him a white Les Paul Custom electric guitar years ago illustrate his originality. X

Joe Walsh is a legend for a reason . . . talent to spare.

Still my favorite.

Joe has experienced the highest of the highs - AND - The lowest of the lows and still Keeps on truckin'.. To put it another way.... he's QUALIFIED QUALITY ! 👍

Des fois je me demande si Joe, Joe et Kenny ont réalisé à quel point cet album est génial!? Pour moi le meilleur album des seventies. J'affirme !

I used to see Joe with the James Gang back in the Akron area where he played the local high schools, mall, swim club and ski lodge. I stuck around after the gigs and talked to Joe about his musical influences while he was packing up his gear. He was always so generous and available- such a nice guy. He said Duane Allman was a major influence on his slide work and Eric Clapton and Mick Taylor on his guitar style. Glad he is still rockin.

I remember Joe being a guest DJ in Detroit back in the 80's I could barely understand him glad to see him sober :-) Peace

For ANYONE who doesn't like one of the most creative well rounded original solo pioneers in rock and roll AND is still alive, you're living a LIFE OF ILLUSION!

Thanks for sharing this; Joe Walsh is an American national treasure, like Stevie Wonder or Ray Charles. Too bad that he got caught up in the swirl of the Party Favors, he makes a great big deal about it these days. I have been a fan since the Barnstorm days. Keep on rockin', Joe!

Best concert ever was Joe Vitali jamming with Rob Grange and John Angelos and Theodorosaus Maximus Prime free at Ella Sharp Park back in 71 Then again with CSN Living it up at Trask Colleseum in Wilmington NC in the 1990s which was the best concert ever. I saw Joe Walsh at the house of Blues in Myrtle Beach, Best Concert ever

The SURVIVOR !

@Mark-lq3sb

4 жыл бұрын

The BOMBER !

Feels constrained by the three piece, leaves and starts a new three piece. Only Joe Walsh.

Got to see Joe and Barnstorm in 1974 great concert

We need a full length Joe Walsh documentary! Wtf

excellent

Just saw Joe with the Eagles in Las Vegas...incredible show and Joe stole the show

I did a gig with Kenny a couple weeks ago. Great feel on the bass. Behind the beat just a little. Love that feel.

JW is a truly great American. Live well Lion!

I was a James Gang fan from the first time I heard my cousin Ernie in Ohio playing the Bomber trilogy using a Fender Mustang running through a tape deck with an echo button on it. Big fan of the first album, second album, and part of "Thirds" and later albums. But Barnstorm blew me away. Rock on fellas!!!

He produced Dan Fogelberg. Do you realize what an odd combination that is? It absolutely worked for me!

Saw the James Gang at the Stark County Fair grounds in Canton, Ohio in about 1969. Blew me away! Same as he ever was! The real deal.

Great Albulm - Barnstorm by Joe Walsh!!

He went to Middle School in Columbus, Ohio that still stands. He attended Kent State for 6 years major in English.

@Fresh-tw7ev

Жыл бұрын

Joe returned to Columbus this past November for a Vets Aid concert in Nationwide Arena. I was there and he was superb! In the hype leading up to the concert he gave numerous interviews to local media. He talked about that middle school located in the university area and I believe it was on Summit Street. Maybe it was N. 4th Street. I can’t remember the name of the school. Joe also spoke about his great great grandfather being the first settler/founder of Gahanna, Ohio which is 10 miles northwest of downtown Columbus. The things ya didn’t know!!

Joe Walsh...Awesome!

I've been a fan of Joe Walsh for over 50 years. Caught him when James Gang opened for Tommy Bolin and Lynyrd Skynyrd at Rich Stadium, Buffalo NY. I recently bought his "Look What I Did" 2-CD compilation and was immediately brought back to Joe's musicality that I heard as a youth. Joe goofs around onstage, but don't let the goofiness throw you -- Joe's all about the music.

Joes music has influenced me and every band I’ve been in to some degree. I’m 26! Rock the fuck on Joe!

Should have mentioned the excellent Joe Vitale solo records.

That's no banana , that's my nose .

Give that first album some love! James Gang AND Barnstorm

Hated to see the James Gang breakup. But the Barnstorm albums proved to be brilliant. It was a ballsy move by Walsh to start all over in the Rockies without any guarantee of any kind of success.

Joe's Beatle connection started w/ John Lennon & others at CARIBOU. What a beautiful village/studio. Thanx 2 Guerin, Fogleberg,Smzyszk,Elton!! Rock-n-Roll Rocky Mountain High, COLORADO...

My Cousin is James William Guercio. Him and Passareli were genius producers.

Saw the Rockies for the first time in 1989 following the Grateful Dead out west, hung out in Boulder area for a week, went to a party up in the mountains at a place that was next door to Joe Walsh’s barn, took some lsd and talked to my girlfriend’s second head which was upside down on top of her original head, her second head was prettier, lol. Spent a few years in Colorado growing weed shortly after, one year up in Nederland, Rocky Mountain High for sure.

Recorded at Caribou Ranch in Boulder County, Colorado. Before Chicago recorded there.

I had no idea that Vitale played in the Amboy Dukes. I am wiser now.

Walsh is the best

Between him and Don Felder they were like Dickey Betts & Duane Allman. Awesome!!!!

I lived in Nederland 1993-2005. It's 20 miles into the mountains above Boulder, but only about 4 miles from the continental divide. Steve Stills, Carl Wilson, Dan Fogelberg, and others had lived there (or very nearby) but all were gone by the early 1990s. The old gold mill in town was a transhipment point for weed at one point. The frozen dead guy (Bredo) has been on dry ice in a storage shed in the town development of Big Springs since 1993. and his shed was right across the gully from me. My girlfriend was a ghostbuster who dealt with him occasionally. She said that becoming famous was going to his head and that he was going out and going through people's houses (his spirit, not his body) and that "He shouldn't be doing that shit!". We'd see Jim Guercio around town (owner of the famous recording studio) and I used to try to call bull elk off his ranch during the fall elk season. Either they were too smart or I was too bad at bugling, or both. Life is different in a small town high in the Rockies!

i love nederland

unfortunately just after the smoker you drink his young daughter Emma would be hit by a drunk driver killed instantly at age 4.. Joe would put a memorial fountain out near Boulder to her that would still be there to this day in 2019.. and a great tribute song to her on the following album in 1974 that finished off the album called Song For Emma.

A true god of rock 'n' roll!!! :)

My wife and I used to go up to the Pioneer Inn and catch some amazing musicians.

Barnstorm was/is a great album.

Joe Walsh is the man

OMG Joe Walsh.

The Greatest

Great guitarist, great personality once he escaped bottle and the blow. Very talented man m

I was a big time James gang fan and have been a big Joe Walsh fan every since and I probably will be a fan and listen to his music 🎶 until he quits making music 🎶 or I can no longer listen 👂 to music 🎶

Don’t forget the soundtrack to the hit movie “The Warriors” In The City! By Joe Walsh it was huge in 1979!