So on top of being better at relationships and rocking harder than you might have thought, he’s also a terrific technical guitarist, and a hilarious storyteller. He was the great, great love of my life.” (more here) There was nothing more important than Joe Walsh - not my music, not my songs, not anything. This man, if he’d asked me to marry him, I would have. I was very content with him all the time. I look back at all the men in my life, and there was only one that I can honestly say I could truly have lived with every day for the rest of my life, because there was respect and we loved to do the same things. He was the one I would have married, and that I would probably have changed my life around for a little bit, anyway. It took me years to get over it - if I ever did. We were a couple on the way to hell.īut there was no closure. We were busy superstars and we were doing way too much drugs. We had to break up or we thought we’d die. She said of their breakup: “It nearly killed me. I actually started rethinking this song when I read what Stevie Nicks had to say about Joe Walsh, who she describes as “the great, great love of my life.” Still aren’t, either, which is a story for another day.) (1971 was the first great year for a wide swath women artists in classic rock, but women as a lot were alas still not faring well at the hands of male writers. Well, maybe Joe really IS that way, because the song sounds pretty damn persuasive, and other than being a little condescending, it’s not especially mean, which automatically sets him above most men of the day. The MAN in the song is the one who wants to talk about his feelings and where the relationship is going, while “you just turn your pretty head and walk away.” Riiiight. I had once thought of this song as a pleasant bit of science fiction. If all you know of him is what you’ve heard on the radio or with the Eagles, you’re in for an eye-opening, and ear-opening delight. Surely you’ve already pressed play, and heard Joe Walsh absolutely ROAR into this thing. This performance from Germany’s Beat Club, first aired July 24, 1971, somewhat splits the difference between the civilized, if still loud, studio band, and the utter savages (in a good way!) of James Gang on stage. Very much in keeping with the ethos proclaimed in the liner notes of the previous year’s James Gang Rides Again, “Made Loud To Be Played Loud.” It’s the loudest slab of vinyl I’ve ever put on a turntable – even with the volume turned all the way down, the racket coming straight out of the needle scraping through the grooves unamplified was flat out unbelievable. I’m surprised the hall was still standing when they were done. Their two 1971 albums offer the perfect contrast, Thirds (from whence comes this glorious single), and James Gang In Concert, recorded in May 1971 at Carnegie Hall and released later that year. The James Gang was one of those bands that hit so much harder live than on their studio records that it’s almost impossible to believe that they’re the same guys. TURN IT UP! Joe Walsh with The James Gang, “Walk Away”, 1971
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