Your Ultimate Track: The James Gang

Tour2ma
Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
edited April 2012 in Music & Movies
Been a while for a YUT thread so WTH.

And since some of us are reveling in the promise of a new release by THE Gang...

For my money it has to be "Walk Away" off of Thirds.

Straightforward rocker with great lyrics, great hook, ample supply of Joe's signature "Wahka-Wah" lick and a fine refrain...

Seems to me you don't want to talk about it
Seems to me you just turn your pretty head and Walk Away... Wahka-Wah...


Tough to beat that combo...
More later,
Tour...
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  • sda2mike
    sda2mike Posts: 3,131
    edited March 2012
    meadows, mother says...both kill
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  • gudnoyez
    gudnoyez Posts: 8,132
    edited March 2012
    Funk #49 Joe tears it up on that one, Walk Away also a classic never tire of either one. Meadows great tune however that was off of Joe Walsh's Smoker You Drink Player You Get album, Mother Says also great tune off of the Barnstorm album not James Gang tunes but excellent none the less. I will be looking out for Joes new album due out in June and the Gangs new album if rumor is true.
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  • brgman
    brgman Posts: 2,859
    edited March 2012
    Mother Says, Meadows and Turn To Stone which i guess is technically Barnstorm.
    So What is my favorite Joe Walsh including the James Gang stuff.
    So i guess i'm off base here huh?
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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited March 2012
    If you don't have all his albums, the following Anthology is a great one to have. I have a lot of Walsh and James Gang on LP but I also wanted some on CD. "Look What I Did" is well worth having.

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    Disc 1

    1 Tuning, Pt. 1
    2 Take a Look Around
    3 Funk #48
    4 The Bomber
    5 Tend My Garden
    6 Funk #49
    7 Ashes, the Rain & I
    8 Walk Away
    9 It's All the Same
    10 Midnight Man
    11 Here We Go
    12 Midnight Visitor
    13 Mother Says
    14 Turn to Stone
    15 Comin' Down
    16 Meadows
    17 Rocky Mountain Way

    Disc 2

    1 Welcome to the Club
    2 All Night Laundry Mat Blues
    3 County Fair
    4 Help Me Thru the Night
    5 Life's Been Good
    6 Over and Over
    7 All Night Long
    8 A Life of Illusion
    9 Theme from The Island Weirdos
    10 I Can Play That Rock & Roll
    11 I.L.B.T.'s
    12 Space Age Whiz Kids
    13 Rosewood Bitters
    14 Shut Up
    15 Decades
    16 Song for a Dying Planet
    17 Ordinary Average Guy
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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited March 2012
    Three of my favorite Walsh songs are not on any of his albums. “In the City” was recorded for the "Warriors" soundtrack, and then later appeared on The Eagles "The Long Run" album. The other is "Pretty Maids All In A Row" which was originally recorded with the Eagles for the "Hotel California" album. Lastly is "Waffle Stomp" on the "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" soundtrack.

    If I had to pick just one..."Midnight Man".
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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 1,225
    edited March 2012
    shack wrote: »
    Lastly is "Waffle Stomp" on the "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" soundtrack.

    Forgot about that one. Need to add to the acquisition list. Thanks. :cool:
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  • mrbigbluelight
    mrbigbluelight Posts: 9,829
    edited March 2012
    "Turn to Stone" with Barnstorm. Driiiiiiiiiiiiiivvvvvvviiiing hammering bass, lots of "whacka whacka" by Joe.

    This TTS video is from way back in 72, not at Fillmore in San Francisco (stage isn't high enough .... :redface: ), but as they say, "That's the way it was". Good tune. Was in the movie, "Lords of Dogtown".
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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited April 2012
    shack wrote: »
    If I had to pick just one..."Midnight Man".

    So you are a Mary Sterpka fan, too...

    But was she the inspiration for Disc 2 Track 11? :cheesygrin:
    More later,
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  • sda2mike
    sda2mike Posts: 3,131
    edited April 2012
    rides again...i treat that as one song...lp's were short enough, no one will miss you while you're away;) i have a james gang 'live' album..it's really in your face:) can't always listen to it..but it's fun to hear joe in his youth and wonder wtf he's on!
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  • erniejade
    erniejade Posts: 6,321
    edited April 2012
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  • transmaster
    transmaster Posts: 428
    edited April 2012
    As much as I like Funk #47, and Funk #49, "Woman" is my favorite.

    Joe is a real character he is a fellow hamradio operator WB6ACU. Years ago he was in the Greeley, Colorado area and took the opportunity to visit another hamradio operator friend of mine I dropped by an we spent and evening DXing, it was fun. I saw Joe in concert with the James Game years before this, I told him it was a real head trip to be beat black and blue by the sound coming out of their sound system. He told me they went through speakers like pop corn. You could feel the bass line in Funk #49 pounding your lungs 100 feet away.
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  • transmaster
    transmaster Posts: 428
    edited April 2012
    sda2mike wrote: »
    rides again...i treat that as one song...lp's were short enough, no one will miss you while you're away;) i have a james gang 'live' album..it's really in your face:) can't always listen to it..but it's fun to hear joe in his youth and wonder wtf he's on!

    You don't ask these sort of questions these days but Joe must have been on something the live show I attended in Florida back in 1971 Joe was blowing you over with his bass play, despite this he would lean over stick his ear right next to the monster speaker, he was playing from, remember you could feel each note he was played impacting your lungs. He would straighten up and start cranking up the volume on controls on his guitar. It was totally insane. :razz:
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