@@richdiddens4059 LOL, I was hoping the version they were reacting to would be complete with that! Oh well... I saw another reactor (Black Pegasus) play that one, and it made him bust out laughing!
Joe is criminally underrated as a guitarist. His simple feel for just how and when to bend notes, pull cool double-stops, and work his magic on the fretboard has always been amazing.
Barbara Bach is married to Ringo Starr. She's also a Bond Girl (The Spy Who Loved Me) and was in Force 10 From Navarone. Catherine Bach is best known as Daisy Duke from The Dukes of Hazzard. Either one of were incredibly beautiful in their day. Still are beautiful today as well ❤❤🎉🎉
Saw them on that tour. Sacramento Arco Arena. They started with Hotel California, the 4 guitarists sitting on stools in a row at stage front playing the intro. Big impact. All was nice, good, nice...and then Joe did Funk 49 and the entire audience stood up and never sat down again. Because Joe brought the party to the place! Love him.❤
@@BigRalphSmith Whoa serious? They can't even mention the Eagles?? I thought you couldn't play videos of them, but you could at least mention them with words.
So ya stay later! Departure time is determined by staying as late as possible while arriving home before sunrise. Black out curtains and/or coffin optional.
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Keith Moon, the original drummer for The Who, was a wild partier. Joe Walsh has said the best day of his life was when Keith decided to be his friend, and the worst day of his life is when Keith decided to be his friend.
Joe Walsh, the mad genius! Killer guitar player, great songwriter, and crazy party animal. This song was all over the radio In1978. Most stations played the shortened single version, it wasn't as powerful as the full version that you played. Thank you for that. This was my theme song that year. I was 16, had already amassed a stupid amount of speeding tickets, and got blitzed regularly at parties.😂 Thank God both Joe and I sobered up.
This song is autobiographical. Joe was a serious wild man as a youngster. It was the Eagles that told him if he wanted to play with them, he had to clean up his act.
Joe was guitarist with the Eagles in the late '70's until the band went their separate ways. Then in 1994 for "Hell Freezes Over " tv special, Don Henley and Glenn Frey wanted Joe to be Back with the Eagles only if Joe was Sober. Then Joe got Sober and been performing with the Eagles ever since.
Joe was every wild and crazy rock story you can think of. One of the best is his story about when Keith Moon decided they were friends and how crazy those two got.
As a Stevie Nicks fan you'll appreciate this connection: Stevie and Joe Walsh once dated, and she wrote Has Anyone Ever Written Anything For You? for him. He took her to a park in Colorado to see a memorial he had made to his daughter that died young. She was so moved that she wrote the song afterward.
So much more to it, than that, lmao. They burned thru so much drugs together, if they hadn’t split up, they would have died. Nicks had a house party, after they split up, and Joe showed up. Unfortunately I can’t remember who it was, but someone with ties to Tom Petty heard Nicks screaming at Walsh… don’t come around here no more…. And Petty wrote the song.
@@Krymsyn_RydyrI remember hearing this particular story and that it was Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics who overheard Stevie Nicks say that and Stewart also produced that album for Tom Petty if I remember correctly.
@@paultalamo4481there's even a conflicting story between Stewart and Nicks. Stewart said that Nicks was an uncredited contributor to the vocals on "Don't Come Around Here No More". Nicks has said that she either doesn't remember or won't confirm.
@@Krymsyn_Rydyr close… Petty didn’t write the song. Originally the writer, I can’t remember his name off hand, wrote it and they wanted Stevie to try it out. Tom sang did the recording while they were waiting to pitch it to Stevie Nicks. After hearing it Stevie thought they were dumb thinking anyone could do it better. There is an interview with the song writer somewhere on TH-cam.
I heard Joe Walsh say, in an interview, that, when the Eagles went on “hiatus” he was never asked if he agreed. He said that, as far as he was concerned, his next album would be an Eagles album. You gotta love him.
Amber you were sooooooooo right. It is a masterpiece, epic, a song that you don't want to end. I could quite happily play this on a loop for a very long time. The lyrics are throw away lines of episodes in a rock star's life and make you smile. It is not a "deep" song but so intricate in its instrumentation that it is like a musical abstract painting - you might not understand the make-up but if you "get it", it just takes you over. Thank you Joe for this song that will never leave me and thank you Jay & Amber for sharing both your experience of the song and giving "the public" not only "what they want" but also spreading the word!
Check out "In the City." Life's been good is autobiographical. Joe had drinking problems and used a lot of drugs. Then he cleaned himself up and went to rehab. So glad he did.
YES YES YES... "In the City" is absolutely glorious. Joe wrote the song and the Eagles decided they wanted to make it an Eagles song, but this was his baby. It's also memorably used in the end of "The Warriors" which you guys should also review (it's a classic movie for a reason).
Fun Fact: "Life's Been Good" is a humorous look at the spoils of fame and fortune associated with being a rock star. Walsh pokes fun at the lifestyle of wealth and fame, and the spoiled mentality - how it's not him who has changed, but everyone else. In a 1981 interview with the BBC, Walsh explained: "I wanted to make a statement involving satire and humor, kind of poking fun at the incredibly silly lifestyle that someone in my position is faced with - in other words, I do have a really nice house, but I'm on the road so much that when I come home from a tour, it's really hard to feel that I even live here. It's not necessarily me, I think it paraphrases anyone in my position, and I think that's why a lot of people related to it, but basically, that's the story of any rock star - I say that humbly - anyone in my position. I thought that was a valid statement, because it is a strange lifestyle - I've been around the world in concerts, and people say 'What was Japan like?', but I don't know. It's got a nice airport, you know... so it was kind of an overall statement."
Jay and Amber, just to give you some clarifying info. Joe was never actually in REO. He did session work on a few tracks on their 1973 album Riding the Storm Out. That was before he joined the Eagles. He never did anything else with them after 1973. He is a very talented guitarist and producer that has done extensive session work for a lot of big names over the last 50 years.
Fun fact Joe was born in Wichita Ks. This song is a true story about him. He wanted adjoining rooms at a hotel where the band was staying so he could be around his friends. They didn't have one he went out and bought a chain saw and made it adjoining!
“Everybody say I’m cool, he’s cool!” Priceless my favorite lyric of the song, well one of them! He sat down to write this song and the noticeable differences in the melodies are because they were different parts he had thought of separately, he said they were even different keys but they work beautifully in this song! Rock n Roll Anthem Masterpiece!! Mr. Joe Walsh!
When Jay asks "what is that sound?", about half the time, it's a synthesizer. Also, the transitions are meant to give you the feel of a performer's hectic life.
Most def synth in some of it's earliest days, but crazily enough had already existed for more than a decade before this track. Just not nearly as complex in sounds.
Joe started with the James Gang and their biggest hit was "Funk 49"! I saw them in 1972. Another great hit was in the cult movie classic: "The Warriors" was "In the City".
Truly one of the most underrated geniuses of rock and roll. From the James Gang to The Eagles and a brilliant solo career. The love of Stevie Nicks life and brother in law to Ringo Starr and sober addict/alcoholic of what, 20 or 30?years?? Ladies and gents, the great Joe Walsh🙏🙏🙏💯💯❤️❤️
I remember when this came out in junior or high school, but I ran out and bought the single and had all the words memorized in about an hour. And it's so fun.
Such a cool song, pushing the envelope back in the day, but he always did... Swinging back, give Papa Was A Rolling Tone by the Temptations a shot... Live for their dancing..
My favorite moment when the Eagles were at the Rose Bowl for the "Hell Freezes Over" tour, was when Joe sang "lucky I'm sane, after all I've been through" and the guys answer back "Oh yeah, HE'S cool", while tapping their cabezas and twirling their fingers around their ears! 😹 🤪
Great music!! Classic rock! I loved growing up in 70’s/80’s and I exposed my kids and grandkids to this great music! Sunday mornings was Breakfast with The Beatles! I’m 58, my kids are 40,33,32 and 30, my grandkids are 23,17, 16 and great granddaughter who is 2 is now a Beatles fan!
Love your reaction! Nothing says "Joe Walsh" quite like this one. He has such a good sense of humor. Amazing guitarist!! The James Gang, The Eagles, solo work... on and on.
Jay n Amber speaking of the voice Box i DARE you to check out PETER FRAMPTON COMES ALIVE The live VERSION His song DO YOU FEEL LIKE WE DO ,,,,,,,FROM 1976 YOU AND JAY will have EAR GASAMS BIG TIME LOL
I SO enjoyed watching you guys enjoy this one! What's not to love??? Joe Walsh is one of the most underrated guitarists in the business. Can't help but smile at those lyrics. As always, thank you for sharing. Steve
You've seen Hotel California live, so you've seen Don Felder (or Steuart Smith in newer performances) and Joe Walsh playing together at the end. They have to coordinate their guitars, and in an interview I saw the host ask Joe Walsh if he still needed to practice after all these years. He said, "No, I can play it like sh*t without any practice at all." A good reminder that skills need brushing up from time to time, and Joe Walsh is really funny! Thanks for reacting to a great song, and God bless you!
The realest autobiographical account of a 70s rock star. And probably one of the longer instrumental interludes between vocal tracks. His "dueling guitars" part with Don Felder at the end of Hotel California is legendary.
I’ve seen him with Ringo twice. Since the last time I saw them together they have become brother in laws. They both married Bach sisters😊Interesting fact about that: the sisters and Joe Walsh saw the Beatles in Cleveland 1965. They were all there together but separately.
Joe Walsh is married to the sister of Barbara Bach, Ringo Starr's wife. They are brothers in law. Joe Walsh was a member of the James Gang with Hits Funk #49 and Walk Away. As for the Eagles check out the Solo careers of Glenn Frey's Smuggler's Blues and Don Henley Boys of Summer and Dirty Laundry. I loved watching them in the Hell Freezes Over concert.
So glad you’re back to Joe Walsh, my favorite musician and guitar player. I started listening to him when he was with James Gang then he went on his own with barnstorm so what and a couple other albums then he went with the Eagles everywhere he went I would hear his song on the radio, and I would recognize his guitar every time listen to ordinary average guy in the same theme as life’s been good except it totally different and also the confessor which is an incredible song rock song. but you have to watch the video on this one too thanks
And only living an hour or so out of town, there's definitely a link between Cleveland and Joe. Just something the same about the town and him; Joe is Cleveland. Definitely different, but not in a bad way.
Joe is an awesome guitar player, truly one of the best. I saw him in concert with the Eagles and he is one of the most important players in the band. He and Stevie Nicks were a couple many years ago. It was great to watch him play Hotel California. He is a treasure.
I just checked Joe's bio: he contributed slide guitar on "Whiskey Night", "Open Up" and "Start A New Life" by REO Speedwagon, on their "Ridin' The Storm Out" album, but he was never a member of REO Speedwagon. He's also appeared on albums by Dan Fogelberg; Michael Stanley Band; John Entwistle (bassist for the Who); Don Henley; Jay Ferguson; Andy Gibb; Wilson Phillips; Emerson, Lake & Palmer, and Steve Winwood. He also supplied the guitar work on Richard Marx's debut single "Don't Mean Nothing" (with two other Eagles supplying background vocals - former Eagle bassist Randy Meisner and current Eagle bassist Timothy B. Schmit). Also, we lost two rockers last Thursday - Greg Kihn of the Greg Kihn Band ("The Breakup Song" and "Jeopardy") and Jack Russell, the original lead singer of Great White. Could we get tributes to the two of them?
Thanks so much for discography info and the sad news of the departed! I did not know Greg Kihn and Jack Russell passed! Grew up with both those! Loved both for different reasons. So sad! Yes definitely definitively do a Greg Kihn band and some Great White. And Amber will like the Great White ballad Afterglow.... Thanks again for all the information.
Joe was also a member of a supergroup in the early 90s called The Best. Some of the other members besides Joe were Keith Emerson of Emerson, Lake and Palmer, John Entwistle of The Who and Skunk Baxter of the Doobie Brothers.
Many REO Speedwagon, and J Geils Band songs in the Grown Ups movies!! Jay and Amber if you guys haven’t watched those movies you should!! They are so outrageously funny!!
Love Joe Walsh ♥ In the 90s a coworker who grew up in LA told me he was recently there for a cousin's birthday. This was a working class neighborhood & ordinary house. Coworker goes into the kitchen and sitting alone at the table is a white guy eating tacos. Coworker: "Hi, I'm Rick" Guy: "Hey, I'm Joe." Rick soon realized who he was speaking with. His cousin had met Joe & became friends. ❤
Oh man, you guys would love his song "Life of Illusion"! He is such a musical genius. You can look at the dude and know he is a good time waiting to happen.
Joe contributed some to REO Speedwagon, but I don’t believe, that he ever played with them. Of course, he’s best known, as a member of the Eagles. He also dated Stevie Nicks 😍
“I can’t complain but sometimes I still do” is my favorite line from ANY song EVER.
Been my go to reply when asked. How you doing? for 45yrs or so...
Yes, one of the best lines ever
My complaint is I miss the flock of wah wahs.
One of the best
@@richdiddens4059 LOL, I was hoping the version they were reacting to would be complete with that! Oh well... I saw another reactor (Black Pegasus) play that one, and it made him bust out laughing!
Don Henley of the Eagles said " Joe is a great bunch of guys"
Was Joe Ever a full time Eagle. I thought he was a part timer.
@@TristanandIsolt Joe's been a full time Eagle since 1975
@@ruserious9577 I really thought he came and went. I'll take your word for it.
@@TristanandIsolt Check the color chart of band members...about halfway down the page.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagles_(band)
Glenn Frey said this
Joe Walsh quote- " I got drunk once. Lasted thirty years!"
"Joe is an interesting bunch of guys." -- Don Henley
Being a degenerate alcoholic is so cool to the brain dead
Joe is criminally underrated as a guitarist. His simple feel for just how and when to bend notes, pull cool double-stops, and work his magic on the fretboard has always been amazing.
Underrated?
"My Maserati does 185... I lost my license now I don't drive." Such a great line.
A great recent Joe Walsh quote: "I had a lot more fun being in my 20s in the '70s than I do being in my 70s in the '20s."
guy enjoyed being young more at 5 lmao
He can't complain, but sometimes he still do!
Love this song! Thanks guys 😊😍
What in the heck do you have to expect when a person has a studio album entitled: 'Got Any Gum'? :)
Also, try I.L.B.T.
Joe Walsh is Ringo Starr' brother-in-law. Joe married Ringo's wife's sister
I don't think that's how it works? My sister's husband has a brother. That makes him my sister's brother-in-law, not mine.
That's usually how you become a brother-in-law.
Barbara Bach is married to Ringo Starr. She's also a Bond Girl (The Spy Who Loved Me) and was in Force 10 From Navarone.
Catherine Bach is best known as Daisy Duke from The Dukes of Hazzard.
Either one of were incredibly beautiful in their day. Still are beautiful today as well ❤❤🎉🎉
Yes Joe Walsh is married to Ringo Star's Wife Barbara Bach, which her name is Marjorie. Catherine Bach & Barbara Bach are not related
@@ronknox3376Not Catherine Bach. No relation to Barbara. Marjorie Bach is the sister. She’s married to Joe Walsh.😊
Love Joe Walsh. Funk 49 is my favorite
With the James Gang.
James Gang Live! 🎸
That is one of those songs that stands tall in the all-time lists, if you were alive in the 70s.
James Gang...I agree!
@@hoboroadie4623born in 63
This song just never grows old. I have been listening to it for 46 years, and it is as fresh as ever!
The lyric everyone can appreciate, " I can't complain but sometimes I still do."
My mom LOVED this song! Her favorite line - “it’s hard to leave when you can’t find the door.” 😂
Been there, done that. Got the snow globe. LOL!
@@raymondohlsen5054 LOL!!!!!
They say I'm lazy, but it takes all my time...
@@kidcurry4107 LOVE your name! You a fan of Butch Cassidy, Harry Longabaugh, and Harvey Logan, by chance?
My favorite is, "My Maserati does 185. I lost my license, now I don't drive."
Joe never quit the Eagles .Everybody else did . He just waited for "Hell to Freeze Over"
That's a Gooder😂
Saw the Hell Freezes Over concert.
@@spacecardinalI did too. It was awesome!
Saw them on that tour. Sacramento Arco Arena. They started with Hotel California, the 4 guitarists sitting on stools in a row at stage front playing the intro. Big impact.
All was nice, good, nice...and then Joe did Funk 49 and the entire audience stood up and never sat down again. Because Joe brought the party to the place! Love him.❤
@@jrox6091 Ordinary Average Guy with his Fabio cutout tore the house down lol
Joe Walsh played with the Eagles. His guitar on Hotel California is epic!!!
They can't even mention the Eagles or they risk having the entire video blocked and demonetized.
The Eagles are draconian with online content.
His guitar and Don Felder’s.
Joe still plays with the Eagles.
@@BigRalphSmith Don Henley to be specific...
@@BigRalphSmith Whoa serious? They can't even mention the Eagles?? I thought you couldn't play videos of them, but you could at least mention them with words.
'I go to parties, sometimes until four. It's hard to leave when you can't find the door' 😂 Best line ever - in a song full of great lines 😆
THIS is one of the greatest songs of all time! Joe Walsh was/is a mad genius... and a helluva guitar player.
"i go to parties sometimes until 4, it's hard to leave when you can't find the door!" Simply a great line!!!!
So ya stay later! Departure time is determined by staying as late as possible while arriving home before sunrise. Black out curtains and/or coffin optional.
I just said the same! Such great writing!
"I go to parties, sometimes until ...Tuesday," from a similar period in my life.
😮😅😂🎉❤ Great Song...
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Keith Moon, the original drummer for The Who, was a wild partier. Joe Walsh has said the best day of his life was when Keith decided to be his friend, and the worst day of his life is when Keith decided to be his friend.
Moon was an official member of the Hollywood Vampires (not the band)
Joe Walsh's humor also shines in the song "Average, Ordinary Guy".
Ordinary Average Guy is one they definitely should react to!
Yes. Absolutely!
Pickin up dog doo. Hopin it’s hard
That whole album is great!
Down On The Farm also 😂
Joe Walsh, the mad genius! Killer guitar player, great songwriter, and crazy party animal. This song was all over the radio In1978. Most stations played the shortened single version, it wasn't as powerful as the full version that you played. Thank you for that. This was my theme song that year. I was 16, had already amassed a stupid amount of speeding tickets, and got blitzed regularly at parties.😂 Thank God both Joe and I sobered up.
Best I could do was try to drink myself to sleep, and failed
Same age. same behavior.
For most of us growing up in the 70's, Life's Been Good.
Saw Joe with The Eagles a couple of times. My take both times was that the crowd really liked The Eagles, but they freaking LOVED Joe Walsh!
His stage presence is so dynamic! Hard to take your eyes off him when he plays
I laughed when I saw the title. I knew you two were going to get a big chuckle out of this song. Joe Walsh is a real trip, and a fun guitarist!
See the live version with the Eagle. Joe had Glenn Fry cracking up
Just something about this song. Heard it countless times and will still listen when it pops up. Never change the station.
It starts kinda silly but they are seriously rocking by the end❤
"They say I'm lazy, but it takes all my time..." 🤷🏻♀️❤️
That sound is a jaw harp. Everybody went around buying them after this came out.
Juice Harp
Jew's harp
It's known by all 3 of those names, also known as a mouth harp.
Snoopy played one
"They say I'm lazy but it takes all my time" I saw Joe Walsh play at an Eagles concert.
ADHD in a nutshell.
He joined the Eagles in '76.
Everybody's so different I haven't changed, is the line that does it for me
This song is autobiographical. Joe was a serious wild man as a youngster. It was the Eagles that told him if he wanted to play with them, he had to clean up his act.
This is true, but it didn't happen until the early 1990s. Joe partied really hard for 30-35 years before getting clean.
Joe was guitarist with the Eagles in the late '70's until the band went their separate ways. Then in 1994 for "Hell Freezes Over " tv special, Don Henley and Glenn Frey wanted Joe to be Back with the Eagles only if Joe was Sober. Then Joe got Sober and been performing with the Eagles ever since.
Joe was every wild and crazy rock story you can think of. One of the best is his story about when Keith Moon decided they were friends and how crazy those two got.
He made the Eagles an epic musical force. They begged him to join. They wanted to rock. Joe did whatever he wanted.
@@legionkahnexactly
As a Stevie Nicks fan you'll appreciate this connection: Stevie and Joe Walsh once dated, and she wrote Has Anyone Ever Written Anything For You? for him.
He took her to a park in Colorado to see a memorial he had made to his daughter that died young. She was so moved that she wrote the song afterward.
So much more to it, than that, lmao.
They burned thru so much drugs together, if they hadn’t split up, they would have died.
Nicks had a house party, after they split up, and Joe showed up. Unfortunately I can’t remember who it was, but someone with ties to Tom Petty heard Nicks screaming at Walsh… don’t come around here no more…. And Petty wrote the song.
@@Krymsyn_RydyrI remember hearing this particular story and that it was Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics who overheard Stevie Nicks say that and Stewart also produced that album for Tom Petty if I remember correctly.
@@paultalamo4481there's even a conflicting story between Stewart and Nicks. Stewart said that Nicks was an uncredited contributor to the vocals on "Don't Come Around Here No More". Nicks has said that she either doesn't remember or won't confirm.
No room in a relationship with Nicks, she's too conceited.
@@Krymsyn_Rydyr close… Petty didn’t write the song. Originally the writer, I can’t remember his name off hand, wrote it and they wanted Stevie to try it out. Tom sang did the recording while they were waiting to pitch it to Stevie Nicks. After hearing it Stevie thought they were dumb thinking anyone could do it better. There is an interview with the song writer somewhere on TH-cam.
Seeing Amber this happy makes ME happy!
A true rock legend! Love Joe Walsh! He was great with Daryl Hall on Live From Daryl's House!
I was introduced to Joe through his work in the early James Gang band. "Funk #49" is still one of my favorite tracks. ♥
I heard Joe Walsh say, in an interview, that, when the Eagles went on “hiatus” he was never asked if he agreed. He said that, as far as he was concerned, his next album would be an Eagles album. You gotta love him.
Yes, Joe Walsh is mega talented, I consider him one of the 10 Greatest Guitarist of all time.
Amber you were sooooooooo right. It is a masterpiece, epic, a song that you don't want to end. I could quite happily play this on a loop for a very long time. The lyrics are throw away lines of episodes in a rock star's life and make you smile. It is not a "deep" song but so intricate in its instrumentation that it is like a musical abstract painting - you might not understand the make-up but if you "get it", it just takes you over. Thank you Joe for this song that will never leave me and thank you Jay & Amber for sharing both your experience of the song and giving "the public" not only "what they want" but also spreading the word!
My dad passed away years ago but he put me on to some of his favorite artists from his day, Joe Walsh and Steely Dan
Check out "In the City." Life's been good is autobiographical. Joe had drinking problems and used a lot of drugs. Then he cleaned himself up and went to rehab. So glad he did.
then he came out with ORDINARY AVERAGE GUY.
YES YES YES... "In the City" is absolutely glorious. Joe wrote the song and the Eagles decided they wanted to make it an Eagles song, but this was his baby. It's also memorably used in the end of "The Warriors" which you guys should also review (it's a classic movie for a reason).
In the City has Timmy singing
Great song! His time in the James Gang and the Eagles are great
Fun Fact: "Life's Been Good" is a humorous look at the spoils of fame and fortune associated with being a rock star. Walsh pokes fun at the lifestyle of wealth and fame, and the spoiled mentality - how it's not him who has changed, but everyone else.
In a 1981 interview with the BBC, Walsh explained: "I wanted to make a statement involving satire and humor, kind of poking fun at the incredibly silly lifestyle that someone in my position is faced with - in other words, I do have a really nice house, but I'm on the road so much that when I come home from a tour, it's really hard to feel that I even live here. It's not necessarily me, I think it paraphrases anyone in my position, and I think that's why a lot of people related to it, but basically, that's the story of any rock star - I say that humbly - anyone in my position. I thought that was a valid statement, because it is a strange lifestyle - I've been around the world in concerts, and people say 'What was Japan like?', but I don't know. It's got a nice airport, you know... so it was kind of an overall statement."
Lots of pros & cons to being in a band.
Bit like being aircrew.
How can ANYONE not love this?
Jay and Amber, just to give you some clarifying info. Joe was never actually in REO. He did session work on a few tracks on their 1973 album Riding the Storm Out. That was before he joined the Eagles. He never did anything else with them after 1973. He is a very talented guitarist and producer that has done extensive session work for a lot of big names over the last 50 years.
😮🎸🎸🎸 still to this day this song is utterly one of the most unique tunes ever, and he paints a picture of a lifestyle that is truly 😮
Fun fact Joe was born in Wichita Ks. This song is a true story about him. He wanted adjoining rooms at a hotel where the band was staying so he could be around his friends. They didn't have one he went out and bought a chain saw and made it adjoining!
The road manager actually bought him an electric chainsaw to take on tour lol
I live in Wichita and sadly nobody here knows that.
Amber did you just say you were diggin it????? LOL you are transforming into the 70's hippie you have a destiny to be!
“Everybody say I’m cool, he’s cool!” Priceless my favorite lyric of the song, well one of them! He sat down to write this song and the noticeable differences in the melodies are because they were different parts he had thought of separately, he said they were even different keys but they work beautifully in this song! Rock n Roll Anthem Masterpiece!! Mr. Joe Walsh!
I love watching both of you truly enjoying the music we grew up with.
Jay & Amber, you'll love his "All Night Long" and "A Life of Illusion" !!
You stopped it before it got to the wah wah’s. Let it play another minute next time.
or ornery average guy! or down on the farm!
Joe Walsh - The Confessor
Yes, awesome song and album!
They should do that one next.
A lost gem.
I concur 💯
yes!
When Jay asks "what is that sound?", about half the time, it's a synthesizer. Also, the transitions are meant to give you the feel of a performer's hectic life.
Most def synth in some of it's earliest days, but crazily enough had already existed for more than a decade before this track. Just not nearly as complex in sounds.
An Oberheim to be a little more precise. It does the lead and the 'swell'
Out of all the guitarists in the world, Joe's one of 'em.
Stevie Nicks called Joe Walsh the great love of her life.
I thought she dated him.
I don’t know this!
they were together, but then she did fleetwood on the side .. causing their break-up. but fortunately still mostly friends, so we got leather n lace
Leather and Lace was with Don Henley.
yeah, oops that got left out on my edit
Joe started with the James Gang and their biggest hit was "Funk 49"! I saw them in 1972. Another great hit was in the cult movie classic: "The Warriors" was "In the City".
Another movie they need to react to.
1972 "seems to me" a Kent State bar gig, but I'm dating myself there...(not that there's anything wrong with that) Where was the show you saw?
Warriors, come out to play....
Truly one of the most underrated geniuses of rock and roll. From the James Gang to The Eagles and a brilliant solo career. The love of Stevie Nicks life and brother in law to Ringo Starr and sober addict/alcoholic of what, 20 or 30?years?? Ladies and gents, the great Joe Walsh🙏🙏🙏💯💯❤️❤️
I remember when this came out in junior or high school, but I ran out and bought the single and had all the words memorized in about an hour. And it's so fun.
"I can't complain but sometimes I still do." My stock phrase when anybody asks how I am.
Everybody say, “Oh, yeah”
He's cool.
There is no way anyone can listen to this song and not feel great afterwards!!!! Great song, great reaction!!!!!
"I can't complain, but sometimes I still do..."
The problem with complaining is, is there anyone listening, and if they did, do they care.
That sound is sequenced high-bypass filter overtones on a synthesizer oscillator tuned to a low A note. 😊
Such a cool song, pushing the envelope back in the day, but he always did...
Swinging back, give Papa Was A Rolling Tone by the Temptations a shot... Live for their dancing..
You listen to Joe and realize oh so he’s the reason I love the Eagles.
"Turn To Stone" by Joe Walsh and Barnstorm after Joe left the 'James Gang' released back in 1972 is smokin' hot. 💫⚡🔥🎤🎸🥁🔊☮🎧
The version Joe's album SO WHAT is better.
My favorite moment when the Eagles were at the Rose Bowl for the "Hell Freezes Over" tour, was when Joe sang "lucky I'm sane, after all I've been through" and the guys answer back "Oh yeah, HE'S cool", while tapping their cabezas and twirling their fingers around their ears! 😹 🤪
Great music!! Classic rock! I loved growing up in 70’s/80’s and I exposed my kids and grandkids to this great
music! Sunday mornings was Breakfast with The Beatles! I’m 58, my kids are 40,33,32 and 30, my grandkids are 23,17, 16 and great granddaughter who is 2 is now a Beatles fan!
Love your reaction! Nothing says "Joe Walsh" quite like this one. He has such a good sense of humor. Amazing guitarist!! The James Gang, The Eagles, solo work... on and on.
The Confessor should be next. More storytelling and transitions to blow your mind.
Joe was a WILD MAN...Great Guitarist! HIT "Funk 49"
This song was a biography of his life, but he has sobered up and changed his life, from what I've heard.
Jay n Amber speaking of the voice Box i DARE you to check out PETER FRAMPTON COMES ALIVE The live VERSION His song DO YOU FEEL LIKE WE DO ,,,,,,,FROM 1976 YOU AND JAY will have EAR GASAMS BIG TIME LOL
I SO enjoyed watching you guys enjoy this one! What's not to love??? Joe Walsh is one of the most underrated guitarists in the business. Can't help but smile at those lyrics.
As always, thank you for sharing.
Steve
You've seen Hotel California live, so you've seen Don Felder (or Steuart Smith in newer performances) and Joe Walsh playing together at the end. They have to coordinate their guitars, and in an interview I saw the host ask Joe Walsh if he still needed to practice after all these years. He said, "No, I can play it like sh*t without any practice at all." A good reminder that skills need brushing up from time to time, and Joe Walsh is really funny! Thanks for reacting to a great song, and God bless you!
The realest autobiographical account of a 70s rock star. And probably one of the longer instrumental interludes between vocal tracks. His "dueling guitars" part with Don Felder at the end of Hotel California is legendary.
Joe Walsh, The Confessor
I’ve seen him with Ringo twice. Since the last time I saw them together they have become brother in laws. They both married Bach sisters😊Interesting fact about that: the sisters and Joe Walsh saw the Beatles in Cleveland 1965. They were all there together but separately.
Quite a coincidence.
Joe Walsh is married to the sister of Barbara Bach, Ringo Starr's wife. They are brothers in law. Joe Walsh was a member of the James Gang with Hits Funk #49 and Walk Away. As for the Eagles check out the Solo careers of Glenn Frey's Smuggler's Blues and Don Henley Boys of Summer and Dirty Laundry. I loved watching them in the Hell Freezes Over concert.
So glad you’re back to Joe Walsh, my favorite musician and guitar player. I started listening to him when he was with James Gang then he went on his own with barnstorm so what and a couple other albums then he went with the Eagles everywhere he went I would hear his song on the radio, and I would recognize his guitar every time listen to ordinary average guy in the same theme as life’s been good except it totally different and also the confessor which is an incredible song rock song. but you have to watch the video on this one too thanks
Joe Walsh - one of Cleveland ,Ohio's gifts to us . thank you !
And only living an hour or so out of town, there's definitely a link between Cleveland and Joe. Just something the same about the town and him; Joe is Cleveland. Definitely different, but not in a bad way.
My favorite Joe Walsh song.
mine too
My husband and I were talking last night about The Eagles and Hotel California. Joe Walsh is awesome and brought such an amazing sound to the Eagles!
Yet when somebody told me he was joining them, I was like What?? Nah, that can't be right! Still feels that way sometimes. Whoda thunkit?!!!
Joe Walsh was incredible prior to his solo work, with James Gang - their third album (Thirds) is one of my all time favorites - check it out.
Joe is actually Ringo’s brother-in-law. I’ve seen him do this with Eagles and it’s great. 🌸✌️
This song and "Ordinary Average Guy" are two of Joe's funniest. That sound you were wondering about is probably a synthesizer.
The crazy thing about this song is it's all true!
Joe is an awesome guitar player, truly one of the best. I saw him in concert with the Eagles and he is one of the most important players in the band. He and Stevie Nicks were a couple many years ago. It was great to watch him play Hotel California. He is a treasure.
Life of Illusion, you will love it!
Yep Joe Walsh will blow your mind every time. I've been lucky enough to see him play in person many times.
And he's a fantastic guy.
I just checked Joe's bio: he contributed slide guitar on "Whiskey Night", "Open Up" and "Start A New Life" by REO Speedwagon, on their "Ridin' The Storm Out" album, but he was never a member of REO Speedwagon. He's also appeared on albums by Dan Fogelberg; Michael Stanley Band; John Entwistle (bassist for the Who); Don Henley; Jay Ferguson; Andy Gibb; Wilson Phillips; Emerson, Lake & Palmer, and Steve Winwood. He also supplied the guitar work on Richard Marx's debut single "Don't Mean Nothing" (with two other Eagles supplying background vocals - former Eagle bassist Randy Meisner and current Eagle bassist Timothy B. Schmit).
Also, we lost two rockers last Thursday - Greg Kihn of the Greg Kihn Band ("The Breakup Song" and "Jeopardy") and Jack Russell, the original lead singer of Great White. Could we get tributes to the two of them?
Thanks so much for discography info and the sad news of the departed! I did not know Greg Kihn and Jack Russell passed! Grew up with both those! Loved both for different reasons. So sad!
Yes definitely definitively do a Greg Kihn band and some Great White.
And Amber will like the Great White ballad Afterglow....
Thanks again for all the information.
Joe was also a member of a supergroup in the early 90s called The Best. Some of the other members besides Joe were Keith Emerson of Emerson, Lake and Palmer, John Entwistle of The Who and Skunk Baxter of the Doobie Brothers.
Many REO Speedwagon, and J Geils Band songs in the Grown Ups movies!! Jay and Amber if you guys haven’t watched those movies you should!! They are so outrageously funny!!
Joe Walsh is such a great songwriter & guitarist. Turn To Stone is one you definitely will want to hear.
Walsh is a sneaky good guitar player. He has that "less is more" kind of style that makes each note more memorable.
Prior to tuning in to you 2 , I was coloring with the basic 8, now I'm coloring w/ 64 and so much more. Thanks 🙏👍
You know a song is fantastic when it sounds just as great today as it did 50 years ago when you first heard it
Thanks for featuring this.
It was a big hit in my youth.
It got a lot of radio play.
You guys are awesome.
Love you!❤
Joe Walsh is a national treasure ( of sorts ).... he has a LOT more...
BTW, he's Ringo's brother in law.
Now we're talking!! This one deserves a donation.
Love Joe Walsh ♥
In the 90s a coworker who grew up in LA told me he was recently there for a cousin's birthday. This was a working class neighborhood & ordinary house. Coworker goes into the kitchen and sitting alone at the table is a white guy eating tacos. Coworker: "Hi, I'm Rick"
Guy: "Hey, I'm Joe."
Rick soon realized who he was speaking with. His cousin had met Joe & became friends.
❤
Joe was a member of the James Gang, Ringo Star&His All Star Band, the Eagles, Barnstorm
Oh man, you guys would love his song "Life of Illusion"! He is such a musical genius. You can look at the dude and know he is a good time waiting to happen.
Joe contributed some to REO Speedwagon, but I don’t believe, that he ever played with them.
Of course, he’s best known, as a member of the Eagles.
He also dated Stevie Nicks 😍
Thank you
Joes previous band was The James Gang. I loved this song when it came out. I was 13 and had never heard anything like it
Same here!~
"I can't complain but sometimes I still do" is my go to line for a greetings reply,,,
great one to borrow!
Receive God's Blessings and keep up the great work! Love, love, love you both!❤🙏😊🎈😎👍