On a lighter note...Bob & Tom interviewing Joe Walsh

[berettafan]

This is an older bit but they played it again today and it is still a riot. What a neat guy he must be to bs with.

[daepp]

That was unfortunately way too short!

[targa911S]

Joe is the nicest bunch of guys I have ever met.

[ODDJOB UNO]

i have seen joe a few times now. always a great show. used to do some stuff up and produce in netherlands studio outside of boulder when i was living in colorado and we would see him around. always nice,wayy cool guy. i guess his daughter died there and he ended up splitting was the story i heard.

anyway i read or heard years ago, he was off the calif coast on his sail boat by the u.s. navy gunnery range be bopping around with friends. they ended up in a "NO ENTRY ZONE" by the gunnery range without knowing lat/long of the zone. pretty soon either a u.s. navy or USCG vessel approaches and boards them wanting to know what the hell they were doing. military asked him who he was and the next thing ya know they are all joking around shooting the breeze.


well it just happened to be joes lucky day. it was the day that one of the refit IOWA class battleships(new jersey?wisconson?missouri?iowa) came out of port and was slated for gunnery practice with its 16" guns.


well as i remember the miltary vessel let them stay and all of joes friends and himself got to watch an extreme display of 4th of july by watching the 16" guns lob volkswagons onto their targets!


now that would be a COOL DAY!

[RRico]

I love Joe Walsh! (in a musical sense of course)

[ramonesfreak]

ide like to be roomates with him and keith richards.

[herr_oberst]

He used to do cameo's on The Drew Carey show. (As did the Reverend Horton Heat)

One of the few famous people I think would be fun to know.

[Racerbvd]

One of my Favorites.......

[stevej37]

Saw him with James Gang in 1970...had just released "Rides Again" Fun times.

[targa911S]

I pretty much grew up with Joe in Cleveland. We used to see him all the time drinking in the bars in Kent around KSU. Great guitar player but the loss of his child pushed him over the edge a bit. He's kinda like hanging out with Sybil. The guy that taught him to play and original James Gang guitarist, Glenn Swartz, still plays small clubs in Cleveland. He is as mad as a March hare. Still a great guitar player but totally gone to the other side. His brothers are his band and they keep him under control. He just mutters to himself between songs. Must be the James Gang curse.

[pwd72s]

"we know we played together because we have the posters"....Damn, that's funny!

[Shuie]

I'm a fan. Listening to Funk 49 now.

Useless guitarnerd trivia:

Joe Walsh gave/sold Jimmy Page his #1 '59 Sunburst Les Paul Standard. Yes, if not for Joe Walsh, Jimmy Page may have been better known for playing a Telecaster than a 'Burst after Led Zeppelin I.

[targa911S]

I believe Clapton gave Joe the Peter MaX SG, that Joe gave to Todd Rundgren too.

[Shuie]

The Fool SG? I knew Rundgren wound up with it, but never knew that Walsh owned it. :cool

Rundgren is credited with changing the neck on it because it had been worn out or broken by Clapton.... ugh. This guitar was used on 'Disraeli Gears', 'Wheels of Fire', 'Goodbye', 'Live Cream' and 'Live Cream Volume II'. He should be drawn and quartered.

[targa911S]

Yeah pretty sure. I can't source it though.

EDIT: I was wrong about that...

The Legend According to
"Professor Ed McCarthy".

George Harrison after commissioning the paint job, gave the original guitar to his buddy Eric Clapton who used it on "Crossroads" and all throughout the 60's "Cream" era. We see this guitar slung on Eric throughout all his different hairstyles, hair colors, radical outfits etc. Eric was very cool when he was Rockin'.

Eric loaned the Guitar to "Jackie Lomax" a songwriter known mostly for the song he wrote for my favorite singer of all time "Eric Burdon" of "The Animals". The song was covered by another great group "Grand Funk Railroad" Grand Funk had the hit with it 10 years later "Inside Lookin' Out". I'm not sure just how long Jackie had the guitar in his possession but in 1972 he SOLD the guitar to "Todd Rundgren" for an undisclosed sum of money. (Remember Eric never gave him the guitar he just loaned it to him).

Todd has had the guitar for more than 28 years. He has used it on a lot of studio tracks. I ran into Todd's manager backstage at a Donny & Marie Osmond concert here in Vegas and he told me Todd finally did sell it !

One day about 1979, Todd strolled into my shop totally unexpectedly. (He was looking for a Wah Pedal) I casually attempted to broach the subject of the guitar but Todd was very closemouthed. "I think Clapton wanted the Guitar back and Todd was not in the mood to give it up". That is just a theory based on hear say, I really don't know. Anyway I attempted to blab about it a little more and I mentioned that I would gladly give $10,000.00 for the guitar. I did not get very far with my offer. Todd just clammed up and changed the subject again. (Oh Well). Today that original guitar would easily bring half a million dollars. (That far back $10,000.00 was actually a reasonable offer)