Will someone please explain why Joe Walsh

[Dhalgren]

is with the Eagles? I watched some of the concert last night and Joe Walsh was so out of place. He screwed up the whole show. He is a joke. Why did the Eagles take him on? They sure as hell didn't need him. From now on, I will only like the pre-Walsh Eagles. When Joe was with The James Gang in the 60's he was pretty good - man he sucks now...

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

1. They needed someone who could get the GOOD blow

[johnnie]

2. Funny

I personally think that anything the Eagles did without Walsh sucked. He saved their asses at the time in my opinion.
To each their own I guess.

[chicagojoe]

3. Actually, the Eagles sought out Joe Walsh.

They felt they needed a heavier rock sound. They brought him on about 1980, I believe.

[AntiCoup2K4]

10. Joe joined the band in 1976 for Hotel California.

Though that wasn't really the first time he worked with them. (Listen closely to the harmonies on the James Gang song "Walk Away")

[chicagojoe]

15. Thanks for the correct year.

I had forgotten how long ago Hotel California had come out!

[ewagner]

4. That concert was pretty good

I thought....

I've always liked Glen Fry and Don Henley...even as solo artists...

I really liked the addition of the horn section....

[JitterbugPerfume]

5. Joe Walsh is

great

[Atlas Mugged]

25. I like Joe Walsh, too

I've only seen him in concert once, however. That was in the late Seventies when he was the opening act for The New Barbarians, which was Ron Wood and Keith Richards' touring act in support of Wood's outstanding 'Gimme Some Neck' release. Great show, seriously. However....or should I say "how-eh-vuh"....during the last part of Walsh's show, his special guest star came out: a very, completely, thoroughly, totally inebriated Stevie Nicks. Nicks was at the height of her own solo career at the time so this was a very unfortunate spectacle. She kept going over to the press section, waving her scarves and nearly falling into the pit trying to give them good shots. She held a mike and would wail into it on occasion. Truly sad. After Walsh's set, the Barbarians came on. From where I sat I could see her being restrained from joining them for their set.

Then there was the time I stumbled into the entire Fleetwood Mac entourage at a pancake house in the Big Bear ski resort...but that's another story.

[underpants]

9. I caught the last 25 mintues of it and all I was thinking was

thank god we didn't plunk down the money to see them (my wife wanted to) when they came through here.

[Dhalgren]

14. Yeah, all in all the show had a negative effect on me.

I like the Eagles less after last night...

[fertilizeonarbusto]

6. I saw him with them a couple of years ago

I thought he was OK, but I always had trouble with his lyrics. I think "Ordinary Average Guy" is a walking excuse for mediocrity ( Mediocrity is a sin, people) and, though, I hate to blame him for his audience, it seems every narrow-minded, hateful-deep-inside, sexist, racist, homophobic, white-ass, junior-reactionary, Hitler Youth asswipe I went to college with had adopted that tune as his personal anthem. ("I'm so proud of my Wonder Bread, bland mediocrity, d'uh.")
And don't get me going on the commercialistic smugness of "Life's Been Good to Me."
OK I think I've offended enough people now. Flame away.

[Wickerman]

7. Joe Walsh's pants rocked!

not just any rocker approaching 60 could've gotten away with those. :rofl: He's been a joke for 30 years, living on his past.

[AntiCoup2K4]

8. I think he got those pants at Bono's garage sale.

They look like the ones Bono wore on the PopMart tour.

[zbdent]

11. Walsh can really play guitar

I always liked his music, and I truly enjoyed his acoustic intro to "Hotel Calif." in the "Hell Freezes Over"/"Unplugged" get-together . . .

He's fun. He's also sober. (I think he was saying 10 years now.)

[underpants]

12. He has had some good songs but WHERE WERE THE OTHER EAGLES?

I can't remember their names but I thought (I would have been pissed to go to a concert to only see half the line up) they had had several members over the years. Where the hell were they?

Actually I think they got Walsh because only having three Eagles on stage.

[henslee]

13. If the eternally farewell touring Eagles didn't need him, they would dump

him in a second. They hate his guys. Bottom line -- they need his attitude, wicked licks and rock n' roll atttude to wake up their retread "Lawrence Welk for the 70's crowd" tunes. It would be a snore fest without him. Eagles are greedy little piggies who milk this farewell tour forever. I think a rock and roll plane crash would be the ultimate poetic justice for them -- of course only if Joe missed the plane having overslept in the hotel.

[chicagojoe]

18. Okay, maybe I don't dig Henley either,

but let's save the plane crashes for the "Morans" of the unwanted "Administration".

[henslee]

19. oh poo.

[chicagojoe]

20. Isn't that why we're here---

---the " Eventual and Aggressive Removal of the Unwanted Administration"?

[Lannes]

16. Listen to him with the James Gang

and you will know why he was recruited.

[Dhalgren]

22. Yeah, I liked the James Gang a lot.

But something happened to his style after he left the group; he fell into a sort of "Captain Hook" genre of rock. At least that's my take...

[RagingInMiami]

17. Joe Walsh is a great guitarist

He was not a joke. He doesn't suck. Educate yourself.

[Dhalgren]

23. I have been listening to Walsh since the sixties.

He has become a joke, he does suck. I suppose it is just a matter of taste, eh?

[enigmatic]

21. Walsh is one helluva guitar player

His stuff w/ The James Gang is unbelieveable. I din't care for his solo stuff or his stuff w/ The eagles, though; they should feel lucky he's propping them up, though..

[Dhalgren]

24. I agree. There seems to be a big style difference between

the excellent James Gang and Joe Walsh after the "Gang".

[driver8]

26. Here is a Joe Walsh story...

I used to work at a recording studio, and one of the engineers told me this story.

He was working on an album and Joe Walsh was coming in to do some guitar work as a "guest." Joe shows up and is blasted -- he can hardly stand up and is nodding off on the couch. They take Joe out to the studio, put his guitar in his hands and get ready to roll. My friend said he was expecting to be there for hours...

Anyhow, they roll tape, Joe is still kind of dozing...it comes to Joe's guitar part and he wakes up and plays it flawlessly -- one take! They recorded a couple of more guitar parts -- all done in one or two takes.

[theboss]

27. He's the best musician in the group

Before Joe Walsh, the Eagles were a bad Jackson Browne cover-band.

After Joe Walsh, they were doing "Life in the Fast Lane."

[underpants]

28. I watched the whole thing last night on Bravo

There was NOTHING on last night and my wife wanted to watch it.

It appeared that they had plants in the front row. Young women who were up and dancing the whole time-they struck me as being strippers.

Wow was that a bad performance covered up with lots of interviews and much editing.

[leftofthedial]

29. glenn and don wanted leverage against Don Felder

who didn't fit into their extracurricular activities

they also wanted to get on the multi-lead guitar bandwagon with all those Southern rock bands that were kicking ass in the country rock format.

they also wanted more "rock" cred and Joe Walsh had that at the time.

plus, Joe IS a great guitarist

made perfect sense.