Joe's one of those guys who, like David Gilmour, demonstrates that there's so much more to playing guitar than "how many notes can you play in succession per second." People who are caught up in that school-kid mentality miss the dynamics, range of expression and appropriateness to the song that players like Joe and David nail every time, and that is essential to real appreciation of guitar. Every now and then they'll shred where appropriate, so you know they can do it if needed, but they only do so when it adds to the song. They don't play to show off. They play for maximum musical enjoyment.
Walsh, Gilmour, and Jimmy Page are my three favorites. They all know the power of dynamics, pitch bending, and melody, and are masters of rhythm and pacing. But if they weren't great songwriters, nobody would care.
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I stood two feet away from Joe while he played this and his whole set in Santa Cruz ca. Im a guitar player and Joe saw me watching him and he was literally showing me how to play this. He was like okay first you go here, then there. It was awesome. I’ve seen Him 7 times over the years. Always a great show. 🤘
I had a similar experience in some mostly empty Columbus college dive circa 1969! He said “you’re looking at the wrong hand….” 🤣 but I was just figuring out that occasionally he used different tunings on different guitars…🤣🤣🤣👍🏼🤷🏻♂
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It seems that with the V, he was able to do The Bomber like it was studio quality. I started looking around for on of these exact Vs, but haven't found one quite like that one!
I ran across this tune when I was just jamming one day..when I realized what it was I knew James gang so I looked it up and practiced the rest and my band and I covered it and evetytime we played it people went nuts ..it's a a great rock tune..I'm just glad I played my guitar that Day and found it...I knew I had the riff before and was just glad to put all t he facts togrther...the James gang rocked
Not sure what impresses me the most,... Joe remembers the lyrics,... the guitar face or the slide guitar in standard tuning!! Joe is one of heroes for many reasons,... least of which was the eagles,... his solo work - and Yes,.. I consider the James Gang as "Joes Gang",.... is the best! Just love this guy and this song! My band plays Funk 49 and Rocky Mountain way,... gotta keep it alive!
Fox and Peters were an integral part of why the James Gang was so good. This song -- one of my favorites of all time -- is not the same without them, to me at least.
@@madddog6790 Absolutely right. We’ve got TWO excellent drummers on this tour and yet they still don’t have the energy, and variety of dynamics that’s almost casual when Fox & the re-formed JG performed in Columbus in ‘22. I’d love the see them reunite for one more tour before we all shuffle off to…wherever…
I got to see The James Gang perform outside summer of 1968 at Point State Park Pittsburgh Pa.He did things with his guitar that I've never seen or heard before! They opened my eyes and ears to music unlike any artist of that time
Me to......I saw The James Gang after the release of "Thirds". 1971 I believe at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster Pa. Joe left JG after that album and tour. Released "Barnstorm" the following year 1972.
Also, I lived in Littleton Colorado eons ago...It's Beautiful! I know this LIVE Joe Walsh Concert was awesome & other worldly! (Wish I could have been there!)
Saw him in concert several times in the early 70s before he joined The Eagles. Have every James Gang album, as well as all of his solo work. I remember bringing my James Gang Rides Again album home from Capers Corners Records in Kansas City right after it was released. When I played this song for the first time, I was blown away. I grew up listening to all the greats: Hendrix, Clapton, Page, Townsend, etc. My first thought? What other guitarist would ever have the vision or the guts to integrate Ravel's Bolero and Cast Your Fate to the Wind into his own rock medley? Boys and girls, this is guitarist artistry at its finest.
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Great. I bought Rides Again with Bolero on The Bomber, like '70. Loved it. Read there was some copy right trouble and later there was an edit. I didn't buy it but dug the edit to Cast Your Fate To The Wind.
Measure of the greats is how bad ass they sound doin’ a D to A into a cranked amp. Joe, Angus, Ronnie, Pete…where that rock n roll just comes from your guts.
Never heard of Joe playing this live. Just fantastic. He even kept the excerpt from Ravel’s Bolero in it. “Rides Again” was the first r&r album I had, after the Beatles. Still pretty much the best. Thanks, Joe!
This is the guitar sound and melodic style I have compared all others to ever since I bought the Rides Again album when it came out. Nobody really does anything like this. My all time favorite guitar player. Joe, you need to call Jimmy Fox to get this drum part right.....
thanks for exact time of the bolero so I can cut it out of the song Bomber as my version never had it in it and it ruined the bomber song with Bolero in it.
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Joe was one of the people who was good friends with Keith Moon and lived to tell about it. Amazing what this guy has seen. He did a tour with Sly And the Family Stone, Jimi Hendrix and the James Gang. Joe said Clapton, all the top guitarists, at the time noticed Jimi played the guitar upside down! They all thought this is it, nobody could "crack the code" Joe says. Jimi sounded that way and you can't go there. Lookup the Joe Walsh Howard Stern interview he says it.
The Best of the James Gang was one of my first albums. I wanted to learn electric guitar because of Joe Walsh and Leslie West. But listening and watching this, man!, Joe Walsh could SING! Also so precise with his guitar playing rhythm and lead and slide, and while singing on pitch. Total polished professional, and rock PIONEER. Power to the Power Trio!!!!
What a joy to see this. Thanks for posting, never saw him play this epic song live before. There are only a handful of songs in rock history that rank up there, like this one does. Layla, Stairway, Voodoo Child (slight return), Maggot Brain, Comfortably Numb, Free Bird. Songs that take it to another level altogether.
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Ravel would be in awe hearing this. It’s like Joe read the music right off the page. Bolero has never been performed better. Walsh is phenomenal. I’m so glad I saw him at The Us Festival in ‘83
Joe Walsh (sober, according to him) just crushed his ultimate jam forty years after the fact. Holy Christ, one of the world's greatest guitarists, but a very old one, according to me. But what the hell do I know.
When you find me late this morning weeping like a newborn kitten because Joe gang is dropping bombs on me from a composer of the 13th century who wrote this after finding his son dead on the battlefield. Joe brings life from death.
I had an album of James gang rides again bought in 72 or 73 in California, the song Bomber my version did not have the BOLERO CLIP IN THE SONG and I cannot listen to bomber song that I purchased recently with the CD reissure of James gang Rides Again in 2018. rides again with the beolerro 2 min clip ln it. What happened to the version without bolero in the song, twice purchased in Southern Cal LA area in early 70"s.
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What a survivor, singing his butt off and playing great. The true American treasure thank you Joe
Excellent version of Bomber. Whew....
NO ONE, makes a better guitar face than Joe. : )
Good god, a toke and a few rum and cokes on a random RUclips journey leads me to this absolutely incredible performance.
From Rides Again... my first JW album...I was 13....my music idol ever since.
Joe's one of those guys who, like David Gilmour, demonstrates that there's so much more to playing guitar than "how many notes can you play in succession per second." People who are caught up in that school-kid mentality miss the dynamics, range of expression and appropriateness to the song that players like Joe and David nail every time, and that is essential to real appreciation of guitar. Every now and then they'll shred where appropriate, so you know they can do it if needed, but they only do so when it adds to the song. They don't play to show off. They play for maximum musical enjoyment.
Been my thoughts for decades
EXACTLY
Walsh, Gilmour, and Jimmy Page are my three favorites. They all know the power of dynamics, pitch bending, and melody, and are masters of rhythm and pacing. But if they weren't great songwriters, nobody would care.
@@avjake don't forget to add Clapton in that elite group.
@@David-ej7qq NOt Clapton.....but Paul Kossoff , Leslie West , Robin Trower..
It's 2021 now, and almost 10 years later, this is still timeless....
Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
53 years later! rides again was flawless and still is.
Joe Walsh is an icon in the rock industry that cannot be denied.
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@@joewalsh6633 Hey Joe (?) Thank you man. I'm a poorly old guy and your's is the kind of music that keeps me going. Thank you. Pete UK.
@@joewalsh6633 what do you think of Stevie Ray Vaughan? As much as I love your music I also think he was an icon to the Blues.
Joe Walsh definition:
"The Smoker You Drink The Player You Get"
LEGEND LEGENDARY WORDS AND NOTES !
I tend to relate to YOU CAN'T ARGUE WITH A SICK MIND ! LOL
It’s The Smokier you Drink the Playier you Get
Great album
Joe Walsh for president. Hell fn yeah
I remember when he ran. He said he'd create more cabinet posts
So it would stand up better
I stood two feet away from Joe while he played this and his whole set in Santa Cruz ca. Im a guitar player and Joe saw me watching him and he was literally showing me how to play this. He was like okay first you go here, then there. It was awesome. I’ve seen Him 7 times over the years. Always a great show. 🤘
I had a similar experience in some mostly empty Columbus college dive circa 1969! He said “you’re looking at the wrong hand….” 🤣 but I was just figuring out that occasionally he used different tunings on different guitars…🤣🤣🤣👍🏼🤷🏻♂
I've seen Joe a few times myself first time was the James gang ,from Sacramento, peace ✌ out my friend
Cool.
You roçķ the world joe walsh!❤
Joe bought one of my Django Reinhardt shirts, like, 15 years ago! I was jazzed about that.
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@@joewalsh6633you're to cool, Big Joe ,thanks for all the great tunes!!!! From Sacramento, CA peace ✌ out my friend
@@joewalsh6633 No sir ty for the inspiration for 50 plus yrs from frayser Memphis !
Rocking it,joe..
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james gang rides again was the flawless lp that made me eternally hooked on joes guitar work and vocals....hell yeah!
He'll yeah, the James gang
JW inspired me from a young age to play guitar. 40 years later and here I am again. Joe Walsh is a true guitar hero
Don't recall ever seeing Joe playing a Flying V, nice touch.
It seems that with the V, he was able to do The Bomber like it was studio quality. I started looking around for on of these exact Vs, but haven't found one quite like that one!
I ran across this tune when I was just jamming one day..when I realized what it was I knew James gang so I looked it up and practiced the rest and my band and I covered it and evetytime we played it people went nuts ..it's a a great rock tune..I'm just glad I played my guitar that Day and found it...I knew I had the riff before and was just glad to put all t he facts togrther...the James gang rocked
Not sure what impresses me the most,... Joe remembers the lyrics,... the guitar face or the slide guitar in standard tuning!! Joe is one of heroes for many reasons,... least of which was the eagles,... his solo work - and Yes,.. I consider the James Gang as "Joes Gang",.... is the best! Just love this guy and this song! My band plays Funk 49 and Rocky Mountain way,... gotta keep it alive!
Fox and Peters were an integral part of why the James Gang was so good. This song -- one of my favorites of all time -- is not the same without them, to me at least.
@@madddog6790 Absolutely right. We’ve got TWO excellent drummers on this tour and yet they still don’t have the energy, and variety of dynamics that’s almost casual when Fox & the re-formed JG performed in Columbus in ‘22. I’d love the see them reunite for one more tour before we all shuffle off to…wherever…
@@madddog6790he'll yeah, the James gang
I always liked Joe Walsh-and this is one of my favorite tunes! He used to play locally years go.
I got to see The James Gang perform outside summer of 1968 at Point State Park Pittsburgh Pa.He did things with his guitar that I've never seen or heard before! They opened my eyes and ears to music unlike any artist of that time
Me to......I saw The James Gang after the release of "Thirds". 1971 I believe at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster Pa. Joe left JG after that album and tour. Released "Barnstorm" the following year 1972.
He'll yeah, the James gang
Smokin' Joe layin' it down. He is Rock&Roll 🇺🇲🎸
Excellent!!
The greatest....and..funny as hell👍👏
Wow - this holds up really well. Joe was always one of my favorite players.
Joe is incredible
Joe is such a badass!!!!
Glad Joe is still KICKIN'! & Boy Is he Ever!☺
Also, I lived in Littleton Colorado eons ago...It's Beautiful! I know this LIVE Joe Walsh Concert was awesome & other worldly! (Wish I could have been there!)
Joe is a bright musician, personality, a real showman!
I loved it! Takes me right back to 1974 and many doobies later! LoL
Awesome. Even two drummers can't match Jim Fox.
No lie, my very thought. The drummers are leaden and dead compared to Fox, thus the entire performance is leaden and dead.
Jim Fox on the first album entirely blew my mind. But then, all three of them did. I'd never heard a bass guitar sound so powerful before.
I thought the same thing about 12 seconds in.
DIG JIM UP AND HE'D BE BETTER THAN THESE TWO STIFFS
@@tombrennan6312 A combo of Led Zeppelin and the Grateful Dead would awesome!
Saw him in concert several times in the early 70s before he joined The Eagles. Have every James Gang album, as well as all of his solo work. I remember bringing my James Gang Rides Again album home from Capers Corners Records in Kansas City right after it was released. When I played this song for the first time, I was blown away. I grew up listening to all the greats: Hendrix, Clapton, Page, Townsend, etc. My first thought? What other guitarist would ever have the vision or the guts to integrate Ravel's Bolero and Cast Your Fate to the Wind into his own rock medley? Boys and girls, this is guitarist artistry at its finest.
Brother you said it, you named all my favorites, peace ✌ out my friend, from Sacramento, CA
OMG! He really is that awesome! Never ceases to amaze me!!!1
I've said it a thousand times.....I LOVE Joe Walsh!!
bought that 2nd James Gang album when it came out..Joe has improved it
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Great.
I bought Rides Again with Bolero on The Bomber, like '70. Loved it.
Read there was some copy right trouble and later there was an edit.
I didn't buy it but dug the edit to Cast Your Fate To The Wind.
Measure of the greats is how bad ass they sound doin’ a D to A into a cranked amp. Joe, Angus, Ronnie, Pete…where that rock n roll just comes from your guts.
Great Stuff
Never heard of Joe playing this live. Just fantastic. He even kept the excerpt from Ravel’s Bolero in it. “Rides Again” was the first r&r album I had, after the Beatles. Still pretty much the best. Thanks, Joe!
Amazing!
This is sweet, the atmosphere is excellent and my preference! One tune of so many great hits.
Love this song. Joe Walsh is AWESOME ! Great video, Thx for posting.
This is the best "The Bomber" I think I have seen him perform. Great.
Subpar without Jim Fox on drums.
This is the guitar sound and melodic style I have compared all others to ever since I bought the Rides Again album when it came out. Nobody really does anything like this. My all time favorite guitar player.
Joe, you need to call Jimmy Fox to get this drum part right.....
And Bugsy for the bass part
OH MY GOD!!!
Frickin' awesome, Joe. Thank's for the great music! This, for 35 years, has been one of my favorite songs ever recorded.
53 years
Jim Fox is a hard act to follow. These two cannot fill his shoes. Joe Walsh is a Living Legend.❤❤❤
great great great....true to the original
Joe's cover of 'Bolero' at 3:45 till 5:03 has always been my favorite of his since the James Gang days.
thanks for exact time of the bolero so I can cut it out of the song Bomber as my version never had it in it and it ruined the bomber song with Bolero in it.
I finally saw Joe solo for the first time on this tour, hella fun show.
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Joe was one of the people who was good friends with Keith Moon and lived to tell about it. Amazing what this guy has seen. He did a tour with Sly And the Family Stone, Jimi Hendrix and the James Gang. Joe said Clapton, all the top guitarists, at the time noticed Jimi played the guitar upside down! They all thought this is it, nobody could "crack the code" Joe says. Jimi sounded that way and you can't go there. Lookup the Joe Walsh Howard Stern interview he says it.
Just kickin butt, showing how it's done and meant to be
This is excellent, thank you!
The Best of the James Gang was one of my first albums. I wanted to learn electric guitar because of Joe Walsh and Leslie West. But listening and watching this, man!, Joe Walsh could SING! Also so precise with his guitar playing rhythm and lead and slide, and while singing on pitch. Total polished professional, and rock PIONEER. Power to the Power Trio!!!!
Cast Your Fate to the Wind. So beautiful ...
Epic musician.. Epic performance!!
JW is and Always will be timeless, simply because he plays the song!!
Impeccable..if you will.
What a joy to see this. Thanks for posting, never saw him play this epic song live before. There are only a handful of songs in rock history that rank up there, like this one does. Layla, Stairway, Voodoo Child (slight return), Maggot Brain, Comfortably Numb, Free Bird. Songs that take it to another level altogether.
Just awesome!
Thank you for posting!
Love that he's playing a "V"
Awesome love to hear the greats ..🗿🎸
So Awesome Joe!
The video quality makes it even cooler to watch!
aLOT has changed in Littleton Colorado since the summer of 81. Somethings remain the same
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This is the most badass song ever recorded!
I saw Joe in Denver in 1983. He warmed up, incredibly enough, for Stevie nicks
When he goes into 'Cast Your Fate to the Wind' I get chills.
just think about it, from Joe to Ravel then Vince Guraldi then back to Joe. Like around the planets but in less than 10 minutes!
Thanks for posting this video chrisrco - man I wish I coulda seen that gig!
Ravel would be in awe hearing this. It’s like Joe read the music right off the page. Bolero has never been performed better. Walsh is phenomenal. I’m so glad I saw him at The Us Festival in ‘83
Classic!!!
Such an amazing human.
Wow, thank you to whoever uploaded this! XLNT rendition of an XLNT song‼️
Really good vocals on this compared to other “Bombers” I’ve seen on RUclips. And yes, Jim Fox is sorely missed. Long live Joe Walsh....
Damn Joe we need some more music! I'm an old surfer that grew up on your tunes and I'm a junkie now! Chasing the dragon!
You da man brother, you da man !
Hot Damn... That's riding into the Sunset.
What a song. What a man.
Ladies and gentlemen the Master ! Jumpin Joe !!!
Joe Walsh for president. Not the other Joe
And Joe is still offering guitar education on You Tube for free! He IS NOT an Ordinary, Average Guy!!! What a rocker!
Joe Walsh (sober, according to him) just crushed his ultimate jam forty years after the fact. Holy Christ, one of the world's greatest guitarists, but a very old one, according to me. But what the hell do I know.
When you find me late this morning weeping like a newborn kitten because Joe gang is dropping bombs on me from a composer of the 13th century who wrote this after finding his son dead on the battlefield. Joe brings life from death.
woulda give a fair bit to have been at that one
That is badass!
Anybody know what those amps are? I've never seen him use them before and they sound incredible to me! Not to mention the Flying V.
RAVEL'S BOLERO! --- THIS JOE'S BEST VIDEO -- NONE OF THAT BORING EAGLES STUFF
Nice.
Pretty cool when you have Seal played percussion for you.
Right!?!
Can we talk about the guy playing the drums with his hands? Dude is getting down.
Hudson Gardens is cool.
Fucking incredible
WERE NOT WORTH WERE NOT WORTHY!!!!!!!
Ahhh! Just gotta love Joe! Lol. ;8)
Cooler James Gang. Song..🎸joe walsh..ist great
que animal¡¡¡¡ tremenda joya musical
💥💥💥💥💥fing bolero man🤙
I had an album of James gang rides again bought in 72 or 73 in California, the song Bomber my version did not have the BOLERO CLIP IN THE SONG and I cannot listen to bomber song that I purchased recently with the CD reissure of James gang Rides Again in 2018. rides again with the beolerro 2 min clip ln it. What happened to the version without bolero in the song, twice purchased in Southern Cal LA area in early 70"s.
The guitar player's guitar player!
Sunset spesh mix
Up State NY represented
Even with two drummer is doesn't compare to Jimmy Fox. Joe is always great any year you hear him
2 drummers & they sound like their in slow motion.
I used to really get into this..if you know what i mean...haaha👍🎵✌edit...still do
He'll yeah, the James gang