County Fair & Falling Down

Nice choice. Joe's great.

the confessor:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quVERH404pA

Don't these sounds bring back my teenage years! Thanks once again for all the great links...

john amato, there you go again...

talking about music as if it's all just a bunch of sorcerer's affecting reality...

who gives you these ideas? miles davis? les baxter? franz schubert?

More Tommy Bolin.

brings back good memories.

Cincinnati, summer of '69. free concert in Eden Park.

4 groups, Grand Funk Railroad at their prime, James Gang and Joe was killer! with 2 local groups The Sacred Mushroom and The Ditalions featuring 16 year old Bootsy Collins with his first band.

Outstanding!!!!

Ah yes rondo, I was gonna post The Confessor as well. But then I thought of this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWTu1Wutzt4

Great selection! 'The Smoker You Get the Player You Drink' is a classic.

Kai - buzz off. The Eagles were incredible in their prime. I miss Don Henley's biting social commentary. He's mellowed a bit with age.

Thanks for posting that John. Funk 49 was my theme song on my college radio show back in 1970.

Ah, my very formative and fun, fun, fun college days. A shame we all had to start masquerading as adults. I had three beautiful female roommates. I was a very lucky young man. We played allot of Joe Walsh.

The Eagles are still a blight on all things musical. Sad Joe latched his wagon to theirs. -Kai (comment 10)

Amen brother. Have intensely disliked all things Eagles nearly from the moment I heard them (Hotel California is the only exception. I had a brief musical romance with until I heard it..oh for like the zillionth time). The Eagles are like the boring obnoxious phony snob who doesn't realize how lame they truly are. THE EAGLES SUCKED. PERIOD. Joe Walsh on the other hand is fantastic.

James Gang Rides Again is a classic. The Bomber is still one of my favs . Too bad about Tommy Bolin though mudhsark. He was an amazing talent . He wasn't Joe Bonamassa for sure but close. Too bad Bolin fell into the rock star trap and got on the drugs.

Joe is both a virtuoso and a manic comic genius. The best thing about the original "Funk 49" track, though, is its spontaneity, a quality all but abolished in our digital age.

Go back and listen carefully at 2:50 and you'll hear Joe come in just a bit behind the beat on the unison blues scale riff with the bassist. Perhaps he forgot that the riff modulated up a step; maybe he was momentarily distracted by some sudden comic insight -- who knows. But despite the flub, they kept the take. That's Rock-n-Roll.

THE EAGLES SUCKED. PERIOD.

honuman - does the fact that you're yelling out your personal opinion make it so?

Nearly 40 years ago, before their first album was released, I had the pleasure of seeing The James Gang at the Black Dome, a little club in Cincinnati, several times over the summer. Then they were still a local band out of Cleveland. Joe would stand on the front of the stage with his feet half off the edge and his eyes closed playing these phenomenal runs up and down the neck of his guitar without missing a beat - his fingers were moving so fast that they seemed blurred. I remember thinking at the time Joe must have been born with a silver guitar in his hands. When I told people at my high school that I had seem this amazing new band the "cool" kids laughed and made fun of my discovery - then their first album came out and they couldn't get enough. Looking back, it was that summer that gave birth to my interest in rock n' roll and led to my twenty year career as a rodie/staghand/sound engineer/lighting designer. I can still picture it to this day. What an amazing talent.

Kai @ 10:

The Eagles are still a blight on all things musical. Sad Joe latched his wagon to theirs.

While I wouldn't say "blight," I have never been able to figure out why the Eagles are so amazingly popular.

That said, I love Joe Walsh. He filled in on Letterman when Paul Shaffer went on vacation and I'm pretty sure he scared Dave silly. He's part of a dying breed of weirdo. God bless him.

I remember seeing the Gang in Cleveland,practicing in the garage of a house near where my house was.This was waaay back,maybe 69,also saw Joe play feedback offthe back of Cleveland stadium during Rocky mountain way.In 74 or 3??

Shake the Devil
Tommy Bolin.
Yeah, It's sad. He lost his battle with drugs.
With the title of this song, it's sounds to me that he knew in was in a fight.

Used to carry the Marshall stacks for James Gang appearances at Mentor Hullabaloo and many high school dances for cheap admission (like maybe $1.00, while others were paying the ghastly sum of $1.50). Saw them open once for Zeppelin. They played a killer set and Zeppelin was so loaded they were sloppy and we all left. Yes, Zep was legends, but thye were so loaded,that Robert Plant's fretwork sucked.

rojo

Jeez! I haven't heard that since that cassette player ate my tape in my car during high school many decades ago! Thanks for the fun.

The predecessor to Funk #49 was of course Funk #48 from Yer' Album

http://www.imeem.com/kikkinas/music/6eiiwes2/james_gang_funk_48/

Humble Pie

"30 Days in the Hole"

Yipes.

There really was a lot of hideous music back in my college days.

Thanks for reminding me of what I don't for a minute miss.

Not that there wasn't good music to be had:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfHDQ1GffRQ

It's just that the James Gang didn't provide any.

Always been a Joe fan... His guitar work was good enough that Pete Townshend spoke very highly of him way back in the Who's Next/Tommy days when Pete himself was considered on the cutting edge of music... I've liked him whether it was the James Gang, Barnstorm or even the Eagles... I recall hearing an Eagles tune after Joe joined up and thinking to myself, 'Damn! This doesn't sound like the Eagles anymore.. This sounds like the James Gang with better vocals'.... That's a dominating sound when you can walk in and turn a top notch country rock act into your hard rock backup band... That may be a little bit of an overstatement.. But only a little... Another fine Ohio Product.. I recall having a roomie in the 70s who claimed he used to go see Joe and the James Gang play a little roller rink in the Canton area when this roomie was in high school for like a buck or something ridiculously cheap... Of course back then, things were ridiculously cheap by todays standards... He also does have a zany sense of humor...Rock on Joe... You make me proud to be a fellow musician from Ohio bro.....JD

WOW Sickupandfed, you must be from Cincinnasti, I was there, it rocked, remember the Ludlow Garage? I miss Lowell too ruffledelffur, thanks for the link.