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Racer88 said:
First time I've heard this particular performance... My favorite song of all time. It's always resonated with me. And I love the guitar riffs.


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FANTASTIC!!!!! I'd never seen this performance either. I was there but I don't think he was there the day I was there unless it was earlier before we arrived (on Heavy Metal day)
 
One Ping Only said:
FANTASTIC!!!!! I'd never seen this performance either. I was there but I don't think he was there the day I was there unless it was earlier before we arrived (on Heavy Metal
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Music is subjective. I never understood Walsh's appeal. I thought the Eagles made a mistake inviting him in. Some say he influenced Hotel California's success but others say not so much. When I listen to that album I don't hear much influence from Walsh. I kind of look at Joe Walsh like Jimmy Buffet. They both made a great living pandering to boomer stoners and drunks. The difference is Buffet transformed his fandom into a business empire and Walsh remained an alky and drug addict for years. To his credit he eventually got sober.
 
Bongo Lewi said:
Music is subjective. I never understood Walsh's appeal.
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I can only speak for myself.... I like Walsh's lyrics. They're light-hearted and funny. I also like his unique and very recognizable guitar style. Watching him play just makes me smile. Perhaps it's because he looks like he's just having fun, too. His facial expressions are comical, too. He's just a funny guy.


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Bongo Lewi said:
I kind of look at Joe Walsh like Jimmy Buffet. They both made a great living pandering to boomer stoners and drunks. The difference is Buffet transformed his fandom into a business empire and Walsh remained an alky and drug addict for years. To his credit he eventually got sober.
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I can see that. Jimmy Buffet was a businessman... a good one. Singer? Not so much, but it doesn't matter. He created a business empire out of a STORY that drew in "normal people" who could live that "beach bum life" vicariously in his music and characters. They DRESS UP for his concerts. Themed hotels, restaurants, resorts, clothing, and tchotchkes..... It's quite brilliant.

Walsh is just a guitar player. A really good one. And yeah... he was an addict but appears to have cleaned up nicely and successfully... which is truly rare.
 
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Racer88 said:
I can only speak for myself.... I like Walsh's lyrics. They're light-hearted and funny. I also like his unique and very recognizable guitar style. Watching him play just makes me smile. Perhaps it's because he looks like he's just having fun, too. His facial expressions are comical, too. He's just a funny guy.


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I can see that. Jimmy Buffet was a businessman... a good one. Singer? Not so much, but it doesn't matter. He created a business empire out of a STORY that drew in "normal people" who could live that "beach bum life" vicariously in his music and characters. They DRESS UP for his concerts. Themed hotels, restaurants, resorts, clothing, and tchotchkes..... It's quite brilliant.

Walsh is just a guitar player. A really good one. And yeah... he was an addict but appears to have cleaned up nicely and successfully... which is truly rare.
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I have no criticism for his talent as a guitarist. He was funny because he was wasted. :) Like the early Cheech and Chong schtick about being stoned all the time. It's funny.

It's been said that Edgar Allen Poe was an opium addict and couldn't write unless he was high.

I have friends and acquaintances who are like that. One of my brothers as well. They are very charming and funny but only when they are stoned to the bejeezus-belt (Carl Spackler reference).

This guy was funny.
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Unless it's not an act and it's somebody you know. :( I had a boss in NYC who was like Foster Brooks after his three martini lunch! He was a fucking nightmare to work for. He invited my wife and I along with a colleague and his wife to dinner at a very posh Manhattan restaurant, got drunk and referred to his wife - who was with us - as a fatass.
 
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Bobster said:
Go Fuck Robots--it is a new punk band...

The correct answer is Grand Funk Railroad... :rolleyes:
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Oh come on now. There hasn't been a new punk band since the Voidoids broke up. :)

Grand Funk Railroad. Now there's a name I have not heard since Chan Chak K’ak’nal Ajaw ruled Uxmal

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Joe Walsh- aside from his persona and his history with personal battles, the guy is a technical whiz and has a great technical mind for amps and guitars. He's been modifying his amps for years long before others were doing so. Great chops, great tone, and his tongue-in-check "Life's been good" satirical yet-all-too real lyrics of the music biz and the lifestyle of a rockstar back then...maybe not for everybody. But I like him. I don't own his albums- not one, actually, and never have, but have always loved "Rocky Mountain Way" and "LIfe's Been Good". To me, his invitation to the Eagles was a huge testament to the recognition of his talent, underneath the act and/or unique individual he is. YMMV.
 
Bongo Lewi said:
That is a fact. Who was married to: Patty Smyth (Not Patty Smith)

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She wasn't too hard to look at back then. Eddie VanHalen was banging her for a while. Then she married John Mackenroe the king jerk of tennis!
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John McEnroe... I don't know if Ed was having conjugal visits with Patty, but she came EXTREMELY close to joining VH. But she passed on the invitation because of the VH brother's constant drunkeness, and constant fighting. Meanwhile, Scandal's drummer was enticed away by Bill Aucoin (Billy Idol's management), who as Patty put it, 'went to Sodom and Gomorrah' with Billy Idol's band. Great drummer. And the story of Scandal's demise is a sad but all too common story of the music industry back then. Sign the band, get them confortable with the first album, then zero-in on the vocalist and/or songwriter, and then cook up bullshit stories to divide them & run the others off. Then the record company has total control of one or two, and can bring-in hired guns for sessions and live work for much less money. I've seen it and been it myself and it was sickening. Bastards.
 
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One Ping Only said:
John McEnroe... I don't know if Ed was having conjugal visits with Patty, but she came EXTREMELY close to joining VH. But she passed on the invitation because of the VH brother's constant drunkeness, and constant fighting. Meanwhile, Scandal's drummer was enticed away by Bill Aucoin (Billy Idol's management), who as Patty put it, 'went to Sodom and Gomorrah' with Billy Idol's band. Great drummer. And the story of Scandal's demise is a sad but all too common story of the music industry back then. Sign the band, get them confortable with the first album, then zero-in on the vocalist and/or songwriter, and then cook up bullshit stories to divide them & run the others off. Then the record company has total control of one or two, and can bring-in hired guns for sessions and live work for much less money. I've seen it and been it myself and it was sickening. Bastards.
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I have no talent for music and cant comment on the technical expertise of one musician or the other. I can't dispute that some musicians past and present have savant-like talents. Extraordinary yet narrow. Engineers and physicians can be like that as well.

I've had a lot of exposure to celebrities of all stripes, which is why I came to avoid and ignore them :) Same goes for the very wealthy but lesser known. I think there's something to the philosophy that money is the root of all evil. Certainly too much money is. It seems to bring out the worst in people. I also avoid people who feed on drama. A common celebrity trait, and of those who worship them. I can't relate to either. One of the blessings of high functioning autism, perhaps.

Thx for the correction on McEnroe spelling. I always liked playing tennis but the pro circuit was something I purposely ignored. In related news, I believe pickleball is the new shuffleboard and younger men who play it are trendy cucks whose wife picks out their clothes.

Regarding Joe Walsh... for me it's really not about him being good or bad. It's mainly that I don't get what he is or was trying to communicate. The stoner/addict persona or lifestyle, whether it's real or comedic, grates on me. I'm not a teatotaller by any means but never understood the compulsion to be high all the time.
 

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