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-
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.
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.
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 🌎.
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.
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.
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
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 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!!!!
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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".
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
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?
……….. 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
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 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'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.
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 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!!!
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!
Charlie Dillon Nederland was the home of Caribou Ranch. One of the premier recording studios in the seventies and eighties. So many legit r and r stars recorded there while I do not know for sure, it is quite possible that this is where Joe was living. The list is huge just a few are Chicago, CSN, Loggins and Messina., Elton John. Steven Stills lived in that area for awhile also. Once in a while he would venture to Boulder and hang out at Tulagis. Those were great days in Boulder.
Jeremy Washington well as an 18 year old kid living 40 miles away fro Nederland, I used to get in my car after my summer job and go fishing in Barker lake in Nederland. It didn’t seem that far when I was young. But now that I am older and don’t like ti drive so much, it seems much more isolated. I lived 70 miles from Denver for 30 years. On the western slope where it really snowed. That was isolated. But 25 miles from Boulder, not so much.
I love that drive up Canyon Boulevard from BoCo to Barker Reservoir and Nederland. Follows the path of Boulder Creek from up in the mountains down into Boulder, through the CU campus, and East until it drains into ponds.
Sadly, Caribou Ranch and the famed studio went up in flames many years ago. It didn’t have a long life in the grand scheme of things. It’s clear to me how leaving Cleveland for Nederland could change an artist’ head completely. That area is breathtaking in both senses of the word.
@John Y Yaussi I spent some evenings at Tulagi’s and also The Sink on the Hill. Good times, but long ago. Boulder is twice as crowded now. Awful traffic.
Being from Wichita myself and living here most of my life, I've seen him perform here several times, which is extra great because he's one of my guitar heroes who influenced my own playing, tho' I don't claim to be able to approach his level of expertise. He's just on the short list of major influences of mine.
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...
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!
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 ! 👍
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.
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.
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 saw Joe Walsh perform in Seattle...with the band from barnstormer album... in between Jame's Gang and The Eagles... he frkn rocked it..of course....i remember he dropped his guitar..i thought..oh.. he is normal/...=\/
Saw joe at Warwick, Rhode Island, in the tent he was running for President. Think it was 1984? He was good but wasted, stage went round in circles while he played, He must hav got dizzy, He was good that nite. Thanks Joe. Jimbob from Massachusetts Rock On
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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-
Awesome
Great!
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.
The 70's was an amazing time for rock!
I seriously miss those days!
@DrPsychedelic - Not if you was there....😎
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.
Seen the Eagles in Greensboro, N.C. in 2009. Yes, they gave Joe Walsh the floor to play his own tunes
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 think Joes barnstorm album was his greatest achievement. A classic.
I bought the album when it first came out. I've gone back to it recently and wow with headphones it's amazing!
Agreed, with “So What” a close second imo.
@@travelinben1966 Yes!
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Lest we forget “But Seriously Folks”👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
@@travelinben1966 Or "Ordinary Average Guy"!
So happy Joe is still rockin after all these years.
Thanks for your love and support ♥️
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.
I also saw them in 72, backup for Stepenwolf. I could have sworn it was James Gang? Long time ago.
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 🌎.
It's a shame they don't make music like this anymore😪
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.
Thank God for cds!
DatS RighT!Soooo OrGaniC!Take care nah!Jcs
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.
Joe Walsh is a Class Act!! There is absolutely no one like him in the business
Crazy down to earth. Heard him with the James Gang in 1969 in my home town of Canton, Ohio. Blew me away!
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.
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
@@edwardhayes2465 😂😂😂😂 I remember hearing Joe say that
All his albums solo and with James Gang are superb. And Barnstorm is a masterpiece.
When Rocky Mountain Way came out here in the UK, it changed my life. He’s still my favourite artist 44 years on.
Me too. Changed my guitar playing. Loves the sounds he could get out of it.
Played constantly on my am radio late at night. As i lay in my cabin, snow falling, in the Rocky Mountains. Best memories...
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 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!!!!
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!
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 !!
The first Barnstorm album is a masterpiece.. Acoustic guitar sound is amazing, even now..
I would love to meet Joe... seems so cool..and he’s a great musician..
david mack ive met him before and jammed with him he’s a really nice cool laid back dude
First Barnstorm album is a classic.....Birdcall Morning is a truly great song.
Joe saw the Beatles on Sullivan. Now he's married to Ringo's wife's sister. Would love to be at that dinner party!
Cool.
"Let's play 'Who's the bigger drunk?'"
My 1st concert, ace, joe walsh, and yes July 11 1975 Cleveland stadium 15th birthday good times
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.
Don Felder played guitar the entire concert as well
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 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.
JOE IS STILL BARNSTORMING AFTER ALL THESE YEARS ! HE CAME CLEAN AND RESPECT TO HIM ! MR. WALSH ROCKS !
I play the --t out of all of Joe’s stuff to this day.👍
It's About Time
That’s for sure!👍
Ditto!
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.
First Barnstorm album is not only the best Walsh project but one of the best albums of all time, period.
It is something special.
excellent biography, carries his age well.......thank you for the upload............H6UK (82)....
Feels constrained by the three piece, leaves and starts a new three piece. Only Joe Walsh.
My Cousin is James William Guercio. Him and Passareli were genius producers.
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
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.
And dealing with the fall out for decades afterwards!
Great Story!
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".
The Barnstorm album was a classic. First one I had.
Drum track on RMW is exceptional.
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
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?
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
When did you go to Caribou Ranch?
I had no idea that Vitale played in the Amboy Dukes. I am wiser now.
He went to Middle School in Columbus, Ohio that still stands. He attended Kent State for 6 years major in English.
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 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
Nice video, guys. Perfect length, solid information. I enjoyed learning a bit more about my hero’s past 👌
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.
moto 23 you just have to learn to deal with it
Joe is true talent.
Master Walsh , i like to think of him. The brilliant jester.
Got to see Joe and Barnstorm in 1974 great concert
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 !
Don’t forget the soundtrack to the hit movie “The Warriors” In The City! By Joe Walsh it was huge in 1979!
Great story telling on this video and great pics and music! And it is about one of my favorite musicians! Thank you!
He produced Dan Fogelberg. Do you realize what an odd combination that is? It absolutely worked for me!
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
Smoker you drink the player you get is my favorite all around album. Every song is perfect.
Great video! Fills in some blanks for me. Thank you! He' the perfect court jester!
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".
Should have mentioned the excellent Joe Vitale solo records.
Well done documentary! Very informative!
Still my favorite.
Heard Joe in college and I was never the same. Great, talented musician and great guy.
I did a gig with Kenny a couple weeks ago. Great feel on the bass. Behind the beat just a little. Love that feel.
My guitar hero. Always was, always will be.
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.
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!!!
We need a full length Joe Walsh documentary! Wtf
Just saw Joe with the Eagles in Las Vegas...incredible show and Joe stole the show
Love me some Joe!👍❤️🎸
Joe Walsh is a legend for a reason . . . talent to spare.
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!
Recorded at Caribou Ranch in Boulder County, Colorado. Before Chicago recorded there.
"Nederland was in the middle of nowhere". 20 minutes from Boulder. 45 minutes from Denver. Lol.
Charlie Dillon Nederland was the home of Caribou Ranch. One of the premier recording studios in the seventies and eighties. So many legit r and r stars recorded there while I do not know for sure, it is quite possible that this is where Joe was living. The list is huge just a few are Chicago, CSN, Loggins and Messina., Elton John. Steven Stills lived in that area for awhile also. Once in a while he would venture to Boulder and hang out at Tulagis. Those were great days in Boulder.
Jeremy Washington well as an 18 year old kid living 40 miles away fro Nederland, I used to get in my car after my summer job and go fishing in Barker lake in Nederland. It didn’t seem that far when I was young. But now that I am older and don’t like ti drive so much, it seems much more isolated. I lived 70 miles from Denver for 30 years. On the western slope where it really snowed. That was isolated. But 25 miles from Boulder, not so much.
I love that drive up Canyon Boulevard from BoCo to Barker
Reservoir and Nederland. Follows the path of Boulder Creek from up in the mountains down into Boulder, through the CU campus, and East until it drains into ponds.
Sadly, Caribou Ranch and the famed studio went up in flames many years ago. It didn’t have a long life in the grand scheme of things. It’s clear to me how leaving Cleveland for Nederland could change an artist’ head completely. That area is breathtaking in both senses of the word.
@John Y Yaussi I spent some evenings at Tulagi’s and also The Sink on the Hill. Good times, but long ago. Boulder is twice as crowded now. Awful traffic.
Being from Wichita myself and living here most of my life, I've seen him perform here several times, which is extra great because he's one of my guitar heroes who influenced my own playing, tho' I don't claim to be able to approach his level of expertise. He's just on the short list of major influences of mine.
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...
Great Albulm - Barnstorm by Joe Walsh!!
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!
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 !
👍
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.
I bought "The Confessor" in 1987 and it blew my fuckin' head off...
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.
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!
Wondering if they still have the Music Festival at Estes Park....
excellent
Still waiting on the blues CD Joe had talked about.
Played Funk #49 when I was in a teen band in 1971..tried to do The Bomber, but we never got it down
Between him and Don Felder they were like Dickey Betts & Duane Allman. Awesome!!!!
JW is a truly great American. Live well Lion!
Give that first album some love! James Gang AND Barnstorm
Joes music has influenced me and every band I’ve been in to some degree. I’m 26! Rock the fuck on Joe!
The Eagles would still be playing Holiday Inns if it weren't for Joe Walsh.
Barnstorm was/is a great album.
The SURVIVOR !
The BOMBER !
That's no banana , that's my nose .
My wife and I used to go up to the Pioneer Inn and catch some amazing musicians.
I saw Joe Walsh perform in Seattle...with the band from barnstormer album... in between Jame's Gang and The Eagles... he frkn rocked it..of course....i remember he dropped his guitar..i thought..oh.. he is normal/...=\/
Saw joe at Warwick, Rhode Island, in the tent he was running for President. Think it was 1984? He was good but wasted, stage went round in circles while he played, He must hav got dizzy, He was good that nite. Thanks Joe. Jimbob from Massachusetts Rock On
Meadows is a great tune.
Joe Walsh...Awesome!
Joe was a Ham radio operator? COOL! I wonder if he still is?
He is. wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/license.jsp?licKey=893189