I read Hitchhikers and saw the film, but the button looks like a sports team font or something so I'm not sure if it's tied to the book. Probably is though. haha.
That hand sweep is likely how Jimmy Page did it in The Rain Song, sounds almost the same! Joe Walsh even sold a Les Paul to Page, so it's even more likely.
@@DredgenX Yeah, I saw a kid working in guitar centre and said "Wow, amazing playing - how did you do those jazzy fusion runs" and he said "Well I sold a pick to Guthrie Govan"
The theme song to the Hitchhikers To The Galaxy radio show was "Journey of the Sorcerer" from the album One Of These Nights (1975) by the Eagles. Though Joe didn't perform on the song and wouldn't become a member of the Eagles until the next album, Hotel California.
Way back in the mid 60s, Joe use to teach my brother guitar in trade for use of my brother's Silvertone 2x12 amp. Joe didn't have a good amp and needed one for his gigs. He also lived in his van and ate a lot of bolony/mustard sandwiches. I was 5-6 yrs old and my brother was 15-16 yrs old. He would come over to our home and teach my brother, but also take time to teach me simple songs and I would learn them. He was playing in a band called the Measles and played all around NE Ohio while he was going to Kent State. He told my parents to take notice how fast I picked up learning a song by ear. He gave my brother and me good advise when it comes to not leveling off in our playing skills. If you get stale in the band you're in, change bands, even if it's a step backward. You'll still learn something you didn't know in the other bands. The more people you play music with, the more you'll learn. Learn more than just one style of music so you will have a wide variety of ideas and styles to draw from and that will help create your own style. Needless to say, he quit the Measles and went up to Cleveland to play in the James Gang, which had 5-6 members at the time. But shortly after he joined, the band dropped down to Joe, a bass player, and a drummer. That was enough to kick start his career. The rest is history. He basically turned me on to playing music when I was 5. Now, I'm 64 and have been in bands and doing solo work fulltime since I was 13. I'm on my 35th year as a solo act and enjoy playing music just as much as when I was a little kid just learning how to play. Thanks Joe. 🙂
The James Gang was a HUGE part of the soundtrack to my childhood - one of the few bands both parents really loved. I could still imagine old Joe sleeping in a van and being happy. Life's been good, right?
I met Joe Walsh at a house party about 10 years ago. He was sitting by the pool playing guitar and I walked up with some girl I’d just met that night. He was basically sitting in the dark so we walked up but didn’t get too close to try and give him his space. We sat down and he told us we could come closer so we were literally 3 feet away from him while he played acoustic guitar. She had absolutely no idea who he was.basically got a free show for just the two of us for about 20 minutes before everyone else came up to the pool. Then other people joined him and started playing. I tried explaining it, but I don’t think she ever really understood who this man was and how lucky we were.
@@ROOKTABULA well I just met her that night. So we definitely weren’t dating. And she was about 10 yrs younger than me so I was able to forgive her not knowing who he was. But a few weeks later I took her to see Bob Dylan and she had no idea who he was. So that was the absolute end of it!
@@MrPernell27 I don't get people who aren't into, or know anything about music. I'm like how? Music is a must for me. Some people just aren't i guess. Can't name a band if they hear a song on the radio. Blows my mind
He had a bit of Foster Brooks and Dean Martin in him too though - he was the clown, and people expected him to be funny and drunk, so he delivered, but he was also very sharp with the things he was saying. I think he first wants to make people smile, and then wants to teach.
In the midst of his party days, Joe was on a late night talk show, I believe it was Letterman, and he's telling about his hotel trashing days, and says something like, " most people call the front desk and ask for a wake up call, but I would ask for a go to bed call". MoFo is crazy but he can play the shit out of the geetar!
I'm so glad I watched this. Joe Walsh has been a favorite of mine for many reasons since before the time in Eagles. He's always been very real and WYSIWYG. My favorite performance of his was with Les Paul, in Joe's birthday, impromptu. Les got him up on stage and he did "Personal Manager". It was glorious.
He is actually playing from his solo album, But seriously folks. Track is Indian Summer. Terrific album! Joe is what took the Eagles into the top tier.
Opioids was his drug of choice at that point. He is very open about his severe addictions. He was so hyperactive that the drugs calmed him down. Imagine him back then Without the additional substances. A lot of people don’t know that his dad was a vet that was killed while later serving after the war. He is very big into helping veterans because of his lost. He is a good soul.
Joe's 'Story Arc' has been one wild and crazy ride! And, at the end of it all, he cleaned himself up and became a new man. This time period (of this instructional), he was on a serious booze bender (among other things). Look up his appearances on the Howard Stern show (at this time). They document a lot of what was going on with Joe, at this point. Joe's a great human being. And, even when drunk, you could see he was a funny, smart but vulnerable guy. So good to see him cleaned up.
It's a shame because there are a few Eagles/Henley songs I really like. The solo in Dirty Laundry is really wild. The note choices are very interesting
@jackpijjin4088 - I mean, it's probably just some lawyers that handlesthat stuff. Walsh is an older guy now, and maybe hasn't even given copyright policy much thought. He's probably just going along with some lawyers' (bad) advice. Maybe.
That monkey in the background is actually a toy from 1989 called “Da Grunt”. I was born in ‘86 and my grandfather had one. Playing with it as a kid is one of my earliest memories. He died in the 90s and my grandmother died last year and I inherited Da Grunt. It sits on my computer desk (i still have the original packaging) and everyone that sees it is flabbergasted by how weird of a thing it is. I just about shit myself seeing it in this video lol. What a trip. Thanks for the laugh!
The real Rock spirit. There’s something about his character I really enjoy. Maybe it’s about an ability to say and do all of this crazy unhinged stuff and still feel like a god. That’s impressive
I just started playing Joe Walsh stuff, and it's fun. I grew up in the 70s/80s and heard him all of the time on the radio.When I got my first (bass) in '86, I focused on Rush, Iron Maiden, therfore bypassing all of the "classics". The selling point was learning he has been sober since '85; 2 years next month for myself. AND, his awesome guitar-faces.
I think he got sober in the early 90s, anyways glad hes still here, saw him live at red rocks in Colorado with bad company and thats the reason i started playing.
Great to hear your take on this haha. The VHS comes with a great book with handwritten tabbed notation by Joe for some cool parts of Mother, Indian Summer and some others.
Being rooted in the “old” ways is the way it was done for centuries. By ear, the way it worked because it taught you how to listen and rely on yourself. It might’ve taken longer but it meant more .
Favorite Joe Walsh quote is from an interview on the Bob And Tom show. I'm paraphrasing, but something like "There are parts of the 70s that are just a mystery to me. I was talking with Ozzy the other day and I guess we toured together back then. Neither one of us remembered it but we both had the posters from it."
This is awesome. I do like Joe Walsh, both as a player and as a person. Great advice and genuine silliness from him in this video. Will definitely check out the full instructional. Congrats on 875k Subscribers!
"Don't PanicK" is a reference to the 80's British TV interpretation of a 70's radio show called "The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy" The writer Douglas Adams originally wrote it off the cuff just before the radio edit came together. It was later released as a series of books. It's sci-fi.
Joe Held a concert at Kent State when I was there as a sophmore...he was master of ceremonies for Homecoming week and even played the Star Spangled Banner before the football game ! One of my buddies was a campus EMT and told me that him and his ambulance crew was called backstage between the final song and the encore because Joe had passed out fully clothed with all the gym showers turned on. They did get him up and he finished the SHOW !! What a weekend..What a LEGEND !!
Joe is brilliant. His Les Paul days with James Gang are legendary for a reason. All of his advice here is gold. Open tunings is the way to Valhalla. Also, the Beatles. Wish he'd do that "Cathy's Clown" on a solo album.
I connected with Joe at NAMM back in '04. He is just that way. I enjoyed that time with him. You realize how crazy the rest of the world is after spending a bit of time with him. And yes. He did grab and shake my hand. He is very much "alive".
You have no idea how right on Joe is in this instructional video. The moment I saw the video for sale I couldn’t believe it. I bought it. I sat down. I watched it. I kind of thought it was a little trivial, however 25 years after I bought the video, I found myself in a six year recording project. I was working with some of the biggest names in the industry. And absolutely everything Joe said was true. The alternate tuning the slide guitar. He was correct on all of it. Learning every Beatles song that was an important part, so if Joe Walsh watches this and reads my comment, thank you so much Joe. You help me more than you’ll ever know.
The first time I went to a Joe Walsh performance was in the early 1970’s in Jacksonville, Fl. Since then I have seen him every chance I get. Always a superlative experience. One of the best was in Santa Cruz, CA, at the Catalyst, they played almost every song from the James Gang Rides Again album, a peak experience for sure.
If you need another reason to love Joe, listen to him talk on addiction and sobriety. He is as down to earth as you can get without being interred. A humble, intelligent guy.
That's pretty sage advice on learning ALL The Beatles songs. I don't believe it's only because they're the greatest band in the world. But rather because they actually used a wide variety of chord voicings. By going the varied voicings route (not to mention a fearlessness to try unorthodox instruments and instrumentation) by playing a common chord an entirely different way on the neck lends to a more unique sound in a song. Almost every Beatles song has a peculiar uniqueness either subtle or in your face. The earliest of The Beatles is as common as you get and only got more expansive from there. I can't imagine another band, however talented and unique such as Pink Floyd or even The Eagles that managed this so well as The Beatles did.
This was the one and only guitar instructional video ive ever bought when i was around 16 as i was a big Joe fan but this video became legendary ro my friends as we watched it for comic purposes more than a learning tool but he did teach me how to lock in my strings doing string changes and the way he says one thing then later says the complete opposite drove us crazy like unplug all that pedal crap and roll the tape then later on well im using a noise gate pedal and a talkbox lol,but i did confuse my buddies who never seen it before who would ce over and pick up my guitar and say dude your guitar is way out of tune and id laugh and say its Joe Walsh g tuning then show them the video as we would laugh,but all in all he taught me alot as a beginner but made me laugh evven more i still have this vhs somewhere around my dads house lol
As many have pointed out "Don't Panic" is Hitchhikers Guide To the Galaxy". Not so many have mentioned that the theme tune to the original radio series was the Eagles "Journey Of The Sorcerer". Bernie Leadon song, pre Joe era. Cheers.
This is a really great video you posted and was awesome to see Joe back in the day .. I’m going to watch the whole session..keep up the good work Art of Guitar ✌️✨
Joe Walsh is the real deal. I had this video back in the day and honestly after watching it several times you really learn a lot about guitars and set and tuning. Dude gives Sage advise through the whole thing really. If your not that good and are good with words get into G tuning. And when he talked about playing slide guitar...come on the guy is so real about what he's talking about. You have to get passed the antics but I learned more real pro advise from this video than any other instructional. The Mark Slaughter one is great for beginners too.
Saw a recent video where he said he always played his best when he was drunk on vodka. Now that he’s sober, he’s surprised at how much better he’s playing. That makes me wonder how much better he could have been back in the day.
i love how he attacked the strings with his pick during the tuning. i usually just lightly do it, but attacking at full volume seems like it gives more vibration and tone variance, to hear the difference as things settle. Also, its going to match his heavy attack during ff. reminds me of doing a mic check at full volume vs half volume, except here its for pitch.
I had seen this before. I think you confused the words “jester” and “raging alcoholic” at the beginning because Joe is drunk off his ass in this entire video. On a side note, I got a meet and greet ticket to meet Mr. Big when they were opening for Aerosmith in Berlin, Germany back in ‘93. I didn’t realize it was a meet and greet because I traded a carton of untaxed US Marlboro reds to a scalper and he gave me his best ticket. I got to meet Paul Gilbert, and he’s one of the coolest guys I’ve ever met in my entire life. It turns out I was born in the town in PA he’s from, and I grew up down the road from there. He was very engaging while the rest of the band couldn’t give a rats ass about anyone there. He asked me “What’s it like to be a soldier stationed in Germany?!? That has to be so cool!” And I’m like “What’s it like to be a guitar god opening for Aerosmith on a European tour?!? That has to be SO much more cool!!!” I told him I’d just started learning the guitar about a year and a half ago, and he goes “Let me show you how to do the patented Paul Gilbert pick slide…” And he hands me his stage guitar right before they’re going on stage and shows me how he does a pick slide. Then I hand it back to him and he walks out of the green room up to the stage without even checking the tuning. It was pretty badass.
My sister is 7yrs older than me (I'm 66) and James Gang Rides Again was my first taste of Joe. I was so enamored by him, and caught the humor of him right away. Read an interview in some mag, he described building a "talk box" using a Fender Twin Reverb as the amp/speaker, and his rattling all the fillings in his teeth out. And of course he got the guitarist job in Drew Carey's band over Slash. He also went to Montclair HS, Montclair NJ, where he took shop class and learned to weld...
Joe Walsh. He is fortunate to be one of those with near enough perfect pitch. Regular humans have to depend on the electronic tuners. Of course you could do it the Other old fashioned way. Get a tuning fork to set your low string to. He did a guitar setup video for a white Gibson from I think Gibson UK? That was a great video to watch to learn the basics of setting up a guitar.
Hey thanks for posting this !! So cool to see how an original personality like Joe Walsh can raise an instructional video to a classic level. The fun and informal approach kinda reminds me of the Flea video with River Phoenix.
Did you know, Joe only got drunk once in his life? He admitted he stayed drunk for 17 years, but it was just the one time. Love his humor almost as much as his playing.
Have you seen the videos showing that Don Henley has all of his live vocals on a backing track? Wings of Pegasus and Michael Noland's channel have the lowdown.
Joe is a phenomenon. My cousin was friends with his cousin. I wish I had some stories about him, but just watching him play or talk about guitars is a dream. Joe is unbelievable!!
They had a show on Friday nights in NY on 92.3 KRock, Howard Sterns home station before he went to Sirius. Joe and Rick were much like Joe was in the video.
That was delightful. I think he might have been drunk- I know Joe is a recovering alcoholic. He's a lovely guy- very funny, very honest. Stevie Nicks called him "the love of (her) life," incidentally. He got to be in a relationship with a young Stevie Nicks. Wow.
Joe Walsh is like that wild, drunk bachelor uncle that your mother hated. You were somewhat scared of him too, but you knew he was super cool and way more interesting than your parents. One time, in your early teens, your parents had to get out of town in a hurry and were desperate for a sitter, so you had to stay with him for a few days. It was a magical time... Uncle schooled you on the best music, taught you how to play guitar, gave you your first beer, you got into his grass and porn stash... it was epic and life changing. LOL
I think I just stumbled upon a gamechanger that even Joe would approve. A jewelry cloth. A silver one, at least because that's what I was using to clean silverware for a loved one. Turned really tarnished acoustic strings to looking and feeling almost new to sight and touch. I didn't bother with the underside because this was on a whim. But you pretty easily could if you detuned a few steps I imagine. Might very well keep a set lasting much longer as well.
I watched that video too several months ago. I no longer cut the excess of guitar strings when changing strings. I simply wiggle them back and forth until they break off like Joe teaches in the video. No more prickly sharp string ends sticking up. So yes he did teach me something
Joe is still a goofball. I've been on a ham radio show with him. Yes, he's a ham and has been for decades, him and Bob Heil (who just passed away) did a lot of ham radio stuff while on tour back in the day.
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I know what you mean about that Flamenco thing. Watch the master, Paco de Lucia. Nobody comes close. Exception: There's one chord on Burn Down the World by The House of Love that sends chills.
Man Joe saved the live show from being a canned homogenized version of the band on this tour! His songs were larger than life and of course he's hoot - great post thanks for sharing!
I think you should make this a series if you haven’t already where you review guitar instructional videos. I know you’ve done a few others already. Great video! Thanks for all you do.
I met Joe and Rick the bass player at KAZY radio in Denver when he was out promoting his Got Any Gum LP doing morning shows. He played my D28 in the parking lot and let me take some pics. He was trashed. It's good to see him sober now because he wasn't back then.
i have to watch his video. thk you for introducing me to this video. I love how nuts and talented he is . When you said he s like your crazy uncle , that was the perfect analogy.. I didn't t know he did an instructional. I will watch it for sure. Love your channel . I try to watch it whenever I can . I am subscribed but I don tg get notifications when It s a live stream if thats what it s called .. But great job . Enjoyable to watch with alot of valuable insight.. Edwin Woods , Thunder Bay . Ontario. Canada
Many luthiers frown apon the knotted string on the tuner, Tom Bukovac blames this specific instructional video for all the trouble hes had untying the knots on the pegheads of alot of the guitars hes purchased 😅 I thought this method was dying down but now with this video and your recomendation of telling people to watch the original video to learn how to do it, there is going to be a whole new generation doing this 😂
Right!.... in the first minute when I heard that I was about to fly to the comments to protest!!! NOOOO!!!! no knotting is needed!!! The taper on the post is enough to make it self-clamping!!! 4 wraps around the post UNDER the hole and that string will NOT move! (I have one guitar I had put away for 10 years, out of the case it was still in tune! Of course strung with no knots!)
Opens up with an Epiphone by Gibson ad and takes to Joe playing a Strat! LOL! Joe is an amazing musician/artist. His talk box was gifted to him by the inventor Robert Heil who passed away last month. That opening song was Walk Away, a James Gang hit. I don't think Joe wanted to get sued by Don Henley either. Thanks for sharing this precious gem!
That video is perfect for a Guitar Center store. Here is how to set up your guitar, after a Guitar Center tech F's it all up (or does nothing at all to it and charges you for it).
I started playing guitar right around this time of year way-back in 1985, and of course wanted to play shred-metal. I learned quickly that I was never going to be as fast as Eddie or Vai, so I listened to who inspired *them* and people who didn’t “shred” but played guitar-based rock & pop. You can learn from almost every player, and should be open to taking the time to check-out music that isn’t your cup of tea.
DUDE LOL, THIS JOE WALSH VID WAS ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS I LEARNED FROM AS A KID. my dad got it for me when he signed me up for lessons. i literally remember being 10yo watching it while restringing my guitar for the first few times. i completely forgot!
I read Hitchhikers and saw the film, but the button looks like a sports team font or something so I'm not sure if it's tied to the book. Probably is though. haha.
It nearly always is 🙂
There was a hitchhikers guide video game in the 80s, a text-based Zork-style game. It came with that button and some other swag in the box.
That hand sweep is likely how Jimmy Page did it in The Rain Song, sounds almost the same! Joe Walsh even sold a Les Paul to Page, so it's even more likely.
@@DredgenX Yeah, I saw a kid working in guitar centre and said "Wow, amazing playing - how did you do those jazzy fusion runs" and he said "Well I sold a pick to Guthrie Govan"
The theme song to the Hitchhikers To The Galaxy radio show was "Journey of the Sorcerer" from the album One Of These Nights (1975) by the Eagles. Though Joe didn't perform on the song and wouldn't become a member of the Eagles until the next album, Hotel California.
Way back in the mid 60s, Joe use to teach my brother guitar in trade for use of my brother's Silvertone 2x12 amp. Joe didn't have a good amp and needed one for his gigs. He also lived in his van and ate a lot of bolony/mustard sandwiches. I was 5-6 yrs old and my brother was 15-16 yrs old. He would come over to our home and teach my brother, but also take time to teach me simple songs and I would learn them. He was playing in a band called the Measles and played all around NE Ohio while he was going to Kent State. He told my parents to take notice how fast I picked up learning a song by ear. He gave my brother and me good advise when it comes to not leveling off in our playing skills. If you get stale in the band you're in, change bands, even if it's a step backward. You'll still learn something you didn't know in the other bands. The more people you play music with, the more you'll learn. Learn more than just one style of music so you will have a wide variety of ideas and styles to draw from and that will help create your own style. Needless to say, he quit the Measles and went up to Cleveland to play in the James Gang, which had 5-6 members at the time. But shortly after he joined, the band dropped down to Joe, a bass player, and a drummer. That was enough to kick start his career. The rest is history. He basically turned me on to playing music when I was 5. Now, I'm 64 and have been in bands and doing solo work fulltime since I was 13. I'm on my 35th year as a solo act and enjoy playing music just as much as when I was a little kid just learning how to play. Thanks Joe. 🙂
The James Gang was a HUGE part of the soundtrack to my childhood - one of the few bands both parents really loved. I could still imagine old Joe sleeping in a van and being happy. Life's been good, right?
I met Joe Walsh at a house party about 10 years ago. He was sitting by the pool playing guitar and I walked up with some girl I’d just met that night. He was basically sitting in the dark so we walked up but didn’t get too close to try and give him his space. We sat down and he told us we could come closer so we were literally 3 feet away from him while he played acoustic guitar. She had absolutely no idea who he was.basically got a free show for just the two of us for about 20 minutes before everyone else came up to the pool. Then other people joined him and started playing. I tried explaining it, but I don’t think she ever really understood who this man was and how lucky we were.
Obviously you dumped her, yeah? 😉
@@ROOKTABULA well I just met her that night. So we definitely weren’t dating. And she was about 10 yrs younger than me so I was able to forgive her not knowing who he was. But a few weeks later I took her to see Bob Dylan and she had no idea who he was. So that was the absolute end of it!
@@MrPernell27 I don't get people who aren't into, or know anything about music. I'm like how? Music is a must for me. Some people just aren't i guess. Can't name a band if they hear a song on the radio. Blows my mind
I do enjoy how your tiptoe around the fact that Joe is BLASTED throughout this video.
Not blasted... evenly basted
Joe was hosed most of the time. ;)
Poor Joe, you can see him shaking at times in the video. I suspect this was the most sober he had been in a few days at the time of recording.
He had a bit of Foster Brooks and Dean Martin in him too though - he was the clown, and people expected him to be funny and drunk, so he delivered, but he was also very sharp with the things he was saying. I think he first wants to make people smile, and then wants to teach.
Joe Walsh is amazing. I saw him live opening for the Steve Miller Band years ago and it was one of the best concerts ever!
Truly one of the most underrated guitarists ever. He gets left out of the conversation a lot!
You said " amazing " ? Really. What is amazing... asking for a friend.
@@Fuzzybunny-ki1cw The opposite of what you are.
@@Fuzzybunny-ki1cw He was an amazingly functional alcoholic! I wish I could do half the stuff sober he did blasted out of his mind.
Tell your friend to go back to Taylor Swift, dingus.
dont panic was a hitch hikers guide to the galaxy thing
In the UK, the theme tune for the TV show for hitchhikers guide was based on the eagles' tune "journey of the sorcerer," hence the reference.
This guy knows where his towel is
@@heatwithoutlight this was the only comment i wanted to see.
Yup
I have to find the original video, he must have used a 42 reference somewhere
In the midst of his party days, Joe was on a late night talk show, I believe it was Letterman, and he's telling about his hotel trashing days, and says something like, " most people call the front desk and ask for a wake up call, but I would ask for a go to bed call". MoFo is crazy but he can play the shit out of the geetar!
We recently saw the Eagles and Steely Dan. Joe Walsh always got the loudest applause of anyone on the stage!! He is a legend!!!
I'm so glad I watched this. Joe Walsh has been a favorite of mine for many reasons since before the time in Eagles. He's always been very real and WYSIWYG.
My favorite performance of his was with Les Paul, in Joe's birthday, impromptu. Les got him up on stage and he did "Personal Manager". It was glorious.
He is actually playing from his solo album, But seriously folks. Track is Indian Summer. Terrific album! Joe is what took the Eagles into the top tier.
Felder was, Joe was just the iceing on the cake.
@@dw9034 It's well known for years that Felder was a better player than Walsh. Just sayin'
I cut my teeth on that album...love it!
Yeah, I bet Joe also powdered his nose 👃 before this was filmed. 😅
🤣🤣🤣
@@andygold007 More likely Peruvian flake. He could afford it.
Opioids was his drug of choice at that point. He is very open about his severe addictions. He was so hyperactive that the drugs calmed him down. Imagine him back then Without the additional substances. A lot of people don’t know that his dad was a vet that was killed while later serving after the war. He is very big into helping veterans because of his lost. He is a good soul.
@@jackgilchrist I had that once it numbed my whole face.
This is the opposite of being on cocaine
Joe's 'Story Arc' has been one wild and crazy ride! And, at the end of it all, he cleaned himself up and became a new man.
This time period (of this instructional), he was on a serious booze bender (among other things).
Look up his appearances on the Howard Stern show (at this time). They document a lot of what was going on with Joe, at this point.
Joe's a great human being. And, even when drunk, you could see he was a funny, smart but vulnerable guy. So good to see him cleaned up.
When Robin and Howard recounted when Joe was so drunk he was drinking out of their toilet!
Don Henley: "Why don't the newer generations listen to more Eagles music?"
Honestly, if he's going to be as aggressively predatory about copyright claiming his music, he deserves to be forgotten.
Because he's such a nutcase...
It's a shame because there are a few Eagles/Henley songs I really like. The solo in Dirty Laundry is really wild. The note choices are very interesting
@jackpijjin4088 - I mean, it's probably just some lawyers that handlesthat stuff. Walsh is an older guy now, and maybe hasn't even given copyright policy much thought. He's probably just going along with some lawyers' (bad) advice.
Maybe.
Most of the young people I know listen to all of the Eagles members' solo stuff instead.
That monkey in the background is actually a toy from 1989 called “Da Grunt”. I was born in ‘86 and my grandfather had one. Playing with it as a kid is one of my earliest memories. He died in the 90s and my grandmother died last year and I inherited Da Grunt. It sits on my computer desk (i still have the original packaging) and everyone that sees it is flabbergasted by how weird of a thing it is. I just about shit myself seeing it in this video lol. What a trip.
Thanks for the laugh!
Don’t panic is from Douglas Adams’ book “The Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy”. If you haven’t read it you really should. 😀
42
You know I haven’t read that in a long time (40 yrs) and I have an audible credit burning a hoe in my pocket.
@@marvinthemartian6788 You're a git.
Its actually from the back of the Guide 🙃
An instrumental song by the Eagles, was actually intro theme for the original Hitchhikers's tv-series, so I guess there is some kinda connection
The real Rock spirit. There’s something about his character I really enjoy. Maybe it’s about an ability to say and do all of this crazy unhinged stuff and still feel like a god. That’s impressive
He was high as a kite! Lol. That's his character!
I still have this VHS bought at Roseville guitar center in 90"s
Roseville, MN? Can you make me a copy? 😂 I gotta get this thing.
I just started playing Joe Walsh stuff, and it's fun. I grew up in the 70s/80s and heard him all of the time on the radio.When I got my first (bass) in '86, I focused on Rush, Iron Maiden, therfore bypassing all of the "classics". The selling point was learning he has been sober since '85; 2 years next month for myself. AND, his awesome guitar-faces.
Keep coming back, bro.
I think he got sober in the early 90s, anyways glad hes still here, saw him live at red rocks in Colorado with bad company and thats the reason i started playing.
Joe Walsh is THE MAN! One of the very best to EVER pick a guitar up
He's very passionate about the instrument 🎸 that shows thru
Great to hear your take on this haha. The VHS comes with a great book with handwritten tabbed notation by Joe for some cool parts of Mother, Indian Summer and some others.
Joe is like the Robin Williams of the guitar world 😂 love it!
Joe Walsh is actually funny and not annoying.
@@johndeaux3703 I grew up watching Robin Williams, I’ve never met anyone who thought he was “annoying.” To each their own I guess 😂
@@calebryhal293you never met me
Robin was a joke stealing douche
Same brick..back then. Prolly...(definitely)
You fckin know... exactly what I mean.
And yes. I 1000% get that.
Fucking very sames.
Joe was absolutely hammered, ha.
So drunk. 😂
😂 Yeah, the first thing I thought was, is it pre Hell Freezes over when he got sober.
Omg so fucking drunk
Epic ! I had this on VHS in the 90's. More than anything else, IMO what really stands out about Joe's playing is simply his perfect phrasing. His solos say so much without being overly technical in the slightest. Its clearly based on the time proven classic "Q&A approach" to building melodies via cleverly connecting simple licks & riffs & such. & I'm 100% with him regarding learning Beatle tunes & NOT only for guitar, even if you don't necessarily like the styles/genre. Writing, as well as just understanding music in general is ALL about chord progressions. & virtually every good modern tune, even to this day, can more often than not be directly traced back to something Beatlesque. & yes, Henley is notoriou$ for being a ©/blocking D-bag, which unfortunately will ONLY diminish(perhaps greatly) the # of people familiar with his music in future gens.
Being rooted in the “old” ways is the way it was done for centuries. By ear, the way it worked because it taught you how to listen and rely on yourself. It might’ve taken longer but it meant more .
Favorite Joe Walsh quote is from an interview on the Bob And Tom show. I'm paraphrasing, but something like "There are parts of the 70s that are just a mystery to me. I was talking with Ozzy the other day and I guess we toured together back then. Neither one of us remembered it but we both had the posters from it."
Joe is the reason I picked up the guitar in 1979. I have a few other favorite guitarists of course, but Joe is my #1 dude
This is awesome. I do like Joe Walsh, both as a player and as a person. Great advice and genuine silliness from him in this video. Will definitely check out the full instructional. Congrats on 875k Subscribers!
I still reference this video to this day. Classic.
"Don't PanicK" is a reference to the 80's British TV interpretation of a 70's radio show called "The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy" The writer Douglas Adams originally wrote it off the cuff just before the radio edit came together. It was later released as a series of books. It's sci-fi.
Just about to say the same thing. A friend of mine permanently had one of those badges attached to his jacket.
Joe Held a concert at Kent State when I was there as a sophmore...he was master of ceremonies for Homecoming week and even played the Star Spangled Banner before the football game ! One of my buddies was a campus EMT and told me that him and his ambulance crew was called backstage between the final song and the encore because Joe had passed out fully clothed with all the gym showers turned on. They did get him up and he finished the SHOW !! What a weekend..What a LEGEND !!
I discovered this a month ago and have been loving it. It's funny and real.
Joe is brilliant. His Les Paul days with James Gang are legendary for a reason. All of his advice here is gold. Open tunings is the way to Valhalla. Also, the Beatles. Wish he'd do that "Cathy's Clown" on a solo album.
I connected with Joe at NAMM back in '04. He is just that way. I enjoyed that time with him. You realize how crazy the rest of the world is after spending a bit of time with him. And yes. He did grab and shake my hand. He is very much "alive".
You have no idea how right on Joe is in this instructional video. The moment I saw the video for sale I couldn’t believe it. I bought it. I sat down. I watched it. I kind of thought it was a little trivial, however 25 years after I bought the video, I found myself in a six year recording project. I was working with some of the biggest names in the industry. And absolutely everything Joe said was true. The alternate tuning the slide guitar. He was correct on all of it. Learning every Beatles song that was an important part, so if Joe Walsh watches this and reads my comment, thank you so much Joe. You help me more than you’ll ever know.
The first time I went to a Joe Walsh performance was in the early 1970’s in Jacksonville, Fl. Since then I have seen him every chance I get. Always a superlative experience. One of the best was in Santa Cruz, CA, at the Catalyst, they played almost every song from the James Gang Rides Again album, a peak experience for sure.
If you need another reason to love Joe, listen to him talk on addiction and sobriety. He is as down to earth as you can get without being interred. A humble, intelligent guy.
That's pretty sage advice on learning ALL The Beatles songs. I don't believe it's only because they're the greatest band in the world. But rather because they actually used a wide variety of chord voicings. By going the varied voicings route (not to mention a fearlessness to try unorthodox instruments and instrumentation) by playing a common chord an entirely different way on the neck lends to a more unique sound in a song. Almost every Beatles song has a peculiar uniqueness either subtle or in your face. The earliest of The Beatles is as common as you get and only got more expansive from there. I can't imagine another band, however talented and unique such as Pink Floyd or even The Eagles that managed this so well as The Beatles did.
I agreeeee,Michelle-Strawberry Fields-all my loving-Yesterday....great for building your chord artillery
This was the one and only guitar instructional video ive ever bought when i was around 16 as i was a big Joe fan but this video became legendary ro my friends as we watched it for comic purposes more than a learning tool but he did teach me how to lock in my strings doing string changes and the way he says one thing then later says the complete opposite drove us crazy like unplug all that pedal crap and roll the tape then later on well im using a noise gate pedal and a talkbox lol,but i did confuse my buddies who never seen it before who would ce over and pick up my guitar and say dude your guitar is way out of tune and id laugh and say its Joe Walsh g tuning then show them the video as we would laugh,but all in all he taught me alot as a beginner but made me laugh evven more i still have this vhs somewhere around my dads house lol
As many have pointed out "Don't Panic" is Hitchhikers Guide To the Galaxy". Not so many have mentioned that the theme tune to the original radio series was the Eagles "Journey Of The Sorcerer". Bernie Leadon song, pre Joe era.
Cheers.
Joe is the best.
18:06 That’s from The Confessor, so cool.
Walsh should run for president again 🫡
Who else but Joe Walsh would name an album "You Bought It..... You Name It"?? Hahahahahahahaha
This is a really great video you posted and was awesome to see Joe back in the day .. I’m going to watch the whole session..keep up the good work Art of Guitar ✌️✨
Joe Walsh is a mad genius! I wish I had his confidence. Nevermind the talent
Joe Walsh is the real deal. I had this video back in the day and honestly after watching it several times you really learn a lot about guitars and set and tuning. Dude gives Sage advise through the whole thing really. If your not that good and are good with words get into G tuning. And when he talked about playing slide guitar...come on the guy is so real about what he's talking about. You have to get passed the antics but I learned more real pro advise from this video than any other instructional. The Mark Slaughter one is great for beginners too.
Saw a recent video where he said he always played his best when he was drunk on vodka. Now that he’s sober, he’s surprised at how much better he’s playing. That makes me wonder how much better he could have been back in the day.
i love how he attacked the strings with his pick during the tuning. i usually just lightly do it, but attacking at full volume seems like it gives more vibration and tone variance, to hear the difference as things settle. Also, its going to match his heavy attack during ff. reminds me of doing a mic check at full volume vs half volume, except here its for pitch.
"Willy Wonka Mobster"
Bang on! 😂One of my favorite guitarists!
How cool you are to bring some attention to Joe Walsh and this old video he really was one of the coolest and most down to earth rock stars
I had seen this before. I think you confused the words “jester” and “raging alcoholic” at the beginning because Joe is drunk off his ass in this entire video.
On a side note, I got a meet and greet ticket to meet Mr. Big when they were opening for Aerosmith in Berlin, Germany back in ‘93. I didn’t realize it was a meet and greet because I traded a carton of untaxed US Marlboro reds to a scalper and he gave me his best ticket.
I got to meet Paul Gilbert, and he’s one of the coolest guys I’ve ever met in my entire life.
It turns out I was born in the town in PA he’s from, and I grew up down the road from there. He was very engaging while the rest of the band couldn’t give a rats ass about anyone there.
He asked me “What’s it like to be a soldier stationed in Germany?!? That has to be so cool!” And I’m like “What’s it like to be a guitar god opening for Aerosmith on a European tour?!? That has to be SO much more cool!!!”
I told him I’d just started learning the guitar about a year and a half ago, and he goes “Let me show you how to do the patented Paul Gilbert pick slide…” And he hands me his stage guitar right before they’re going on stage and shows me how he does a pick slide. Then I hand it back to him and he walks out of the green room up to the stage without even checking the tuning. It was pretty badass.
This dude and Marty’s videos is what taught me guitar, thanks
My sister is 7yrs older than me (I'm 66) and James Gang Rides Again was my first taste of Joe. I was so enamored by him, and caught the humor of him right away. Read an interview in some mag, he described building a "talk box" using a Fender Twin Reverb as the amp/speaker, and his rattling all the fillings in his teeth out. And of course he got the guitarist job in Drew Carey's band over Slash. He also went to Montclair HS, Montclair NJ, where he took shop class and learned to weld...
Joe Walsh. He is fortunate to be one of those with near enough perfect pitch. Regular humans have to depend on the electronic tuners. Of course you could do it the Other old fashioned way. Get a tuning fork to set your low string to. He did a guitar setup video for a white Gibson from I think Gibson UK? That was a great video to watch to learn the basics of setting up a guitar.
Hey thanks for posting this !! So cool to see how an original personality like Joe Walsh can raise an instructional video to a classic level. The fun and informal approach kinda reminds me of the Flea video with River Phoenix.
Did you know, Joe only got drunk once in his life? He admitted he stayed drunk for 17 years, but it was just the one time. Love his humor almost as much as his playing.
3:21 POWDERED his nose for him .. priceless.
Have you seen the videos showing that Don Henley has all of his live vocals on a backing track? Wings of Pegasus and Michael Noland's channel have the lowdown.
This was awesome! Thanks Mike!! Joe Cool rules! He reminds me of Steven Adler!
I thought that too but it was more Steven Adler reminds me of Joe Walsh . There’s definitely a similar aura with the two.
Joe is a phenomenon. My cousin was friends with his cousin. I wish I had some stories about him, but just watching him play or talk about guitars is a dream. Joe is unbelievable!!
I had the Brian Setzer instructional VHS. He also plays and sings in his demonstrations. It's also on RUclips and pretty cool.
Joe Walsh and Rick the Bass Player did a New Years Eve radio show back in the 80s. They were a great comedy team.
They had a show on Friday nights in NY on 92.3 KRock, Howard Sterns home station before he went to Sirius. Joe and Rick were much like Joe was in the video.
That was delightful. I think he might have been drunk- I know Joe is a recovering alcoholic. He's a lovely guy- very funny, very honest. Stevie Nicks called him "the love of (her) life," incidentally. He got to be in a relationship with a young Stevie Nicks. Wow.
You know Mike I have been trying to find more influences and players to learn from and I enjoy this video thank you so much!
Joe Walsh is an American national treasure and a fantastic guitar player.
Joe Walsh is like that wild, drunk bachelor uncle that your mother hated. You were somewhat scared of him too, but you knew he was super cool and way more interesting than your parents. One time, in your early teens, your parents had to get out of town in a hurry and were desperate for a sitter, so you had to stay with him for a few days. It was a magical time... Uncle schooled you on the best music, taught you how to play guitar, gave you your first beer, you got into his grass and porn stash... it was epic and life changing. LOL
Every family has such an uncle Joe.
Awesome, thank you so much. 👏👏👏
I think I just stumbled upon a gamechanger that even Joe would approve. A jewelry cloth. A silver one, at least because that's what I was using to clean silverware for a loved one. Turned really tarnished acoustic strings to looking and feeling almost new to sight and touch. I didn't bother with the underside because this was on a whim. But you pretty easily could if you detuned a few steps I imagine. Might very well keep a set lasting much longer as well.
That critter:
"grooving on a Pict"
I watched that video too several months ago. I no longer cut the excess of guitar strings when changing strings. I simply wiggle them back and forth until they break off like Joe teaches in the video. No more prickly sharp string ends sticking up. So yes he did teach me something
Joe Walsh 20 NOV 1947
Rusty METAL J " NOV 1979
Howard Duane Allman 20 NOV 1946-1971 RIP
Thank you for sharing this. ❤
Probably the single best rock guitar 🎸 instructional video of all time.
Great review!
Joe is still a goofball. I've been on a ham radio show with him. Yes, he's a ham and has been for decades, him and Bob Heil (who just passed away) did a lot of ham radio stuff while on tour back in the day.
I wish I'd known about Joe Walsh earlier. He's like the Ace of the Eagles but more talented. 100% rockstar.
Dudes, my singer and best friend was taken from the world on presidents day this year, we miss you Virgil Ray Stebbins
Joe Walsh is my favorite guitarist of all time . The James Gang rides again is one of the greatest albums ever .
Interesting video I however have an issue with the instructions on TRUSS ROD ADJUSTMENT?! !! Sighting is ok ina pinch... However Most Luthier's & guitar tech's have a Truss Rod Level Tool see Amazon e-bay TEMU Alie-Express Sweetwater etc. It's a metal edge with 2 sides notched so it can fit over Frets .. both scales for Fender and Gibson Style guitars Length... This gives a clear true reading of the Fret Board... Cheers 🍻🥃🥃🎸🎵🎶🎶🥂
I know what you mean about that Flamenco thing. Watch the master, Paco de Lucia.
Nobody comes close.
Exception: There's one chord on Burn Down the World by The House of Love that sends chills.
Good job 👏 👍 👌 🙌 😄 😀
👏 Loved this video. Learned a lot. 🤘🏼
Man Joe saved the live show from being a canned homogenized version of the band on this tour! His songs were larger than life and of course he's hoot - great post thanks for sharing!
wisdom from a truly gifted musician
I think you should make this a series if you haven’t already where you review guitar instructional videos. I know you’ve done a few others already. Great video! Thanks for all you do.
I met Joe and Rick the bass player at KAZY radio in Denver when he was out promoting his Got Any Gum LP doing morning shows. He played my D28 in the parking lot and let me take some pics. He was trashed. It's good to see him sober now because he wasn't back then.
That was cool hearing Joe say the 3rd string intonation was critical. I was thinking that too, but thought I was crazy.
I remember seeing this years ago, Great to see you share this...
i have to watch his video. thk you for introducing me to this video. I love how nuts and talented he is . When you said he s like your crazy uncle , that was the perfect analogy.. I didn't t know he did an instructional. I will watch it for sure. Love your channel . I try to watch it whenever I can . I am subscribed but I don tg get notifications when It s a live stream if thats what it s called .. But great job . Enjoyable to watch with alot of valuable insight..
Edwin Woods , Thunder Bay . Ontario. Canada
This is a good video because I love Joe and can't wait till I have more time and watch the whole original video
I'm really glad he sobered up. Such an immense talent.
I was told by a luthier to NEVER do that knot to your electric strings lol. Classical guitar only😂
Hope you also record your reaction to Nancy Wilson's instructional video when you get to watch it 😄
It's on the queue. :)
Many luthiers frown apon the knotted string on the tuner, Tom Bukovac blames this specific instructional video for all the trouble hes had untying the knots on the pegheads of alot of the guitars hes purchased 😅
I thought this method was dying down but now with this video and your recomendation of telling people to watch the original video to learn how to do it, there is going to be a whole new generation doing this 😂
Right!.... in the first minute when I heard that I was about to fly to the comments to protest!!! NOOOO!!!! no knotting is needed!!! The taper on the post is enough to make it self-clamping!!! 4 wraps around the post UNDER the hole and that string will NOT move! (I have one guitar I had put away for 10 years, out of the case it was still in tune! Of course strung with no knots!)
Gotta love Joe! His sense of humor is priceless
Opens up with an Epiphone by Gibson ad and takes to Joe playing a Strat! LOL!
Joe is an amazing musician/artist. His talk box was gifted to him by the inventor Robert Heil who passed away last month.
That opening song was Walk Away, a James Gang hit. I don't think Joe wanted to get sued by Don Henley either.
Thanks for sharing this precious gem!
That video is perfect for a Guitar Center store. Here is how to set up your guitar, after a Guitar Center tech F's it all up (or does nothing at all to it and charges you for it).
I started playing guitar right around this time of year way-back in 1985, and of course wanted to play shred-metal.
I learned quickly that I was never going to be as fast as Eddie or Vai, so I listened to who inspired *them* and people who didn’t “shred” but played guitar-based rock & pop.
You can learn from almost every player, and should be open to taking the time to check-out music that isn’t your cup of tea.
Loved it!!!
Well, he was an ordinary, average guy. He also brought the Eagles out of their easy listening funk.
Felder started that, Joe guaranteed it. They had a fantastic chemistry that elevated the band quite a bit.
Eagles
DUDE LOL, THIS JOE WALSH VID WAS ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS I LEARNED FROM AS A KID. my dad got it for me when he signed me up for lessons. i literally remember being 10yo watching it while restringing my guitar for the first few times. i completely forgot!
I don't know if it's still a thing, but Joe Walsh made a few visits do Daryl's House (as in Daryl Hall). Worth checking out. o