Fun fact: Joe Walsh was the reason Jimmy Page switched to a Les Paul guitar. Page told Walsh in early 1969 that he needed more "crunch" for Zeppelin, and the Telecaster wasn't gonna cut it---so Walsh sold him a Gibson Les Paul which he cut Zeppelin 2 with, and Page was a "Gibson man" from that moment on
I hear You brother and people just don't know how important that moment in history really, really?Was. Oh oh, maybe they do, if they listen to whole.Lot of love
Someone on YT had a list of the greatest power trios, and put the Police in there, but didn't even list the James Gang! I mean, really? the Police were a "trio" alright---but there was NO POWER behind their music! Power trios have to be heavy, by necessity, they have a lot to make up for---in the JG did in spades!
No one here so far has mentioned all the cross-overs between the A and B channels midway through the song right before the Bolero bit. I first heard this in 1970 and had just started toying with pot. When you are a little high and have headphones on, those guitar cross-overs are mind blowing with the sound going right through your head from one side to the other
My copy of the album, which I purchased in 1972, contained the abridged version of The Bomber-NO BOLERO! Only years later when I bought the CD was I able to hear the song in its glorious entirety.
Walsh and Fox were magical the way they accentuated one another. It's pure gold. Neither were the "best", but when you put these three together in from of a few hundred watts we get to see rock history in the making. Great performance, so much happiness in their music.
First time i ever heard this song i was blown away and even years and years later it still gives me chills. We don’t talk about the James gang and their musical abilities enough. Joe Walsh is the man 🤘
Truly one of the most influential songs of all time I the USA. Everything from Bolero to charlie Brown Vince Giraldi A Midwestern flavor and Joe Walsh one of the first with a Les Paul and an echoplex.
He was also the one who convinced Jimmy Page to switch from a Telecaster to a Les Paul on LZ first US tour when both bands gigged together in early 1969!
@@darrellminx5459 The same one he used to record all the future Led Zeppelin albums with. You notice how similar sounding the James Gang albums are to Led Zeppelin. They are both playing the same type of guitars!
Just think….. that guitar almost went to Jimmy Page. He liked it better so…, “ #1 “ went To Jimmy Page and we get to here this one here in all its tonal glory ❤
You see these early James Gang / Walsh performances and it becomes clear that he (Walsh) was on par with (and often exceeded ) anyone at the time in the rock world. He was always pulling from multiple genres and he was doing it on another level. He is so laid back and nonplussed that people almost always took him for granted.
Still get goose bumps when Joe breaks into Cast your Fate. I saw it in 1970 and will never forget James Gang blowing The Who off the stage at Cobo Hall Detroit MI. Thanks to older brother Thomas for taking me and my little brother. Game changer seeing Joe at his pinnacle and Jim Fox too. What a drummer he is.
He had great control of tape echo and when playing a Gibson guitar incredible abilities with the Bisgby tremolo. So much so that his playing was unmistakable. Slide guitar as well. When he play slide, you just know it's him...on anyone's records, including his own. Good example: "Thunder Island" by Jay Ferguson and "Part of the Plan" by Dan Fogelberg.
Bolero and Cast Your Fate to the Wind were among my favorites even before I heard this album about fifty years ago. James Gang became one of the bands that defined my youth. Many thanks guys. And as for Mister Joe Walsh...artist and genius. We all bow before you.
Joe is like a fine red wine: As old as his vintage music like this gets, the better it tastes to the ear. Three-piece band made some classic rockin' muzak!! "SR"
I'm so glad I got to see the James Gang before Joe Walsh left the band. He was one of the first to make such great use of tape echo playing live. Okay, Hendrix may have used it earlier in concert.
A rock & roll guitarist extraordinaire. Jimmy Page himself declared Joe Walsh "the best rock & roll guitarist ever." Enough so that Page began using the Les Paul that Joe gifted to him, as "Number One." Overall, I would agree. When he plays, his hand sweeps over the fretboard like he's caressing a kitten or something. Effortless... The boy was MADE for the Les Paul, Telecaster and Stratocaster...and the Gretsch. HIs work on the Bigsby, particularly as a chord embellishment device, is unmatched. Listen to any of his solo work or that with The Eagles, and you'll hear it. It's a real standout on "Try and Love Again," where producer Bill Szymczyk drenched the Gretsch with reverb on those Bigsby flourishes for long decay.
even though this was 6 years before i was even thought of, my mom and dad got me "rides again" from a yard sale, and i proceeded to wear the needle out on my fisher price record player.
And we'd go wherever they were. All of us teenage guitar players were picking up everything could from watching Joe. but none of us could come close to him. I saw him in the Measles, too. Kent State was never the same after Joe went there. Had a blast hanging out in Kent. Until that day when it wasn't fun anymore.
@@surferbri5346 My Dad caught them at A place called The scalded Frog in Painesville years ago, also played the Painesville Armory if I remember what he told me correctly.
Did Jeff Beck sue Joe Walsh over the 'bolero' guitar lead? That's what I heard many years ago. No reference to a lawsuit in the Beck's Bolero Wikipedia article, but it does mention Walsh.
This was a fun band… The first time I saw them they weren’t the headliner… 3 bands at the Fillmore East. I’d never heard of them. We saw the name Alice Cooper and figured it was some girl singer. The main band for the night was Bloodrock. By the time The Alice group was done no one cared about Bloodrock anymore.
I wouldn’t say underrated at all. Not even underappreciated either. You can’t write the story of The Eagles without a chapter called Joe Walsh!! Nor this band either. He’s pretty famous if you ask most rock fans who know true R&R.
I'll come right out and say it: The Eagles were just another average white folk band until Joe Walsh joined the band. "Hotel California" could not have been made without him. Enough credit for you, Ruthie?
I'm STILL trying to figure out the nifty little hammers and pull-offs he does in the "Cast Your Fate to the Wind" section. They're deceptively complex although he makes them sound really simple. These days, when he plays "The Bomber," it's a LOT slower than this. This is almost identical to the original track on "Rides Again" which has that part dubbed in. Listen carefully and you can hear where the engineer brings up the faders. The original has TWO guitars playing in unison, but one is going through a Leslie cabinet and the other into the Echoplex. But somehow Joe got that "across-the-Grand-Canyon" effect on the live version by setting the Echoplex just right. VJDxp got it right too: the French never knew what hit 'em. NOBODY was playing stuff like this. A friend of mine caught one of the Gang's shows in Boston around that period and said it was the most eye-poppin' display of guitar virtuosity he'd ever seen. People were literally gasping when he pulled off some of those tricks with that Echoplex. I have a pretty good Echoplex emulator, a Catalinbread Belle Epoch but I can only approximate that sound. Of course, it might have something to do with the fact that I'm not a guitar god, only a weekend player...
@@hugohugo2832 I remember Vanilla Fudge well. I still have a couple of their earliest LPs. I saw them perform as the opening act (believe it or not) for the Bee Gees at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium (I think) back in the 60s. DP and VF both featured heavy organ emphasis. VF was a lot more "psychedelic." Both band played LOUD! Still, I'd categorize The James Gang as hard rock, not metal. Same with long-gone Blue Cheer. Where exactly are "Art" and "Open Mind" today, hmmm? Deep Purple endures despite personnel changes. They may have tinkered with psychedelic tropes early on, but it wasn't really their "thing."
@@timhoovermusicman It has to have been inspired by Ravel, in fact, wikipedia mentions it: "Beck's Bolero" features a prominent melody with multiple guitar parts propelled by a rhythm inspired by Ravel's Boléro... There are similarities.
Fun fact: Joe Walsh was the reason Jimmy Page switched to a Les Paul guitar. Page told Walsh in early 1969 that he needed more "crunch" for Zeppelin, and the Telecaster wasn't gonna cut it---so Walsh sold him a Gibson Les Paul which he cut Zeppelin 2 with, and Page was a "Gibson man" from that moment on
I hear
You brother and people just don't know how important that moment in history really, really?Was.
Oh oh, maybe they do, if they listen to whole.Lot of love
@@BrendaSharp-ce8cz "Whole Lotta Love" would not sound the same with a Fender Telecaster---and that's a fact
that boys and girls is a POWER trio
Someone on YT had a list of the greatest power trios, and put the Police in there, but didn't even list the James Gang! I mean, really? the Police were a "trio" alright---but there was NO POWER behind their music! Power trios have to be heavy, by necessity, they have a lot to make up for---in the JG did in spades!
The drums in this song is freaking insane.
Powerhouse of a rhythm section
Jim Fox is so underrated as a drummer.
Jimmy Fox is on par with Bill Ward from Black Sabbath, in my opinion
Jim Fox was a remarkable drummer who never received the credit he deserved from a professional standpoint.
Yep, just discovered Jim Fox myself... brilliant. Check out 'Walk Away'.
One of the most under rated greatest songs of all time.
agreed!
Walsh's slide work is also hugely underrated!!!
P Brickley Truth
esp if you were high as fuck on the great drugs of those days
Darn tootin af!!
If I had to pick only one James Gang song to be able to ever listen to, this would be it... of course the long extended version...
Amen to that! Me as well...
Yeah...
Hell Yeah, Agree 100%!!! M O'B
Joe Walsh is the greatest musician that the United States has ever produced. NE Ohio’s finest.
The Kind ❤
Jim Fox is a really first class drummer, this song proves it.
Amazing!
No one here so far has mentioned all the cross-overs between the A and B channels midway through the song right before the Bolero bit. I first heard this in 1970 and had just started toying with pot. When you are a little high and have headphones on, those guitar cross-overs are mind blowing with the sound going right through your head from one side to the other
True dat!👍
Maybe because that's only in the studio version
My copy of the album, which I purchased in 1972, contained the abridged version of The Bomber-NO BOLERO! Only years later when I bought the CD was I able to hear the song in its glorious entirety.
@@CBrolley I always thought it was a copyright issue...?
@@TJ_USA Yeah, that seems the most likely explanation.
Pure, Raw , Rock N Roll!
Absolute masterpiece of music
Jimmy Vox one of the most underrated drummers in the history of hard rock. This performance is great. Rare too.
Vox!!!!
@@aaarauz1James 🦊 Fox! ✅👍
@@MichaelOBrien-z8i - there's a youtube video of this BeatClub appearance where Jimmy's last name is spelled Vox. that's where that comes from
@@aaarauz1 Yes I've seen that,they are in another country! That's why it is spelled different!
Walsh and Fox were magical the way they accentuated one another. It's pure gold. Neither were the "best", but when you put these three together in from of a few hundred watts we get to see rock history in the making. Great performance, so much happiness in their music.
My favorite version of this classic song. This set a new standard in it's day
Nothing beats 70's heavy rock.
First time i ever heard this song i was blown away and even years and years later it still gives me chills. We don’t talk about the James gang and their musical abilities enough. Joe Walsh is the man 🤘
Saw them thrice in the early 70s. One of the best rock trios to ever come down the pike. Period.
One of the greatest performances I have ever seen
This is it !!!!!!!!!!!! This is the American Band.... RAW and REAL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Truly one of the most influential songs of all time I the USA. Everything from Bolero to charlie Brown Vince Giraldi A Midwestern flavor and Joe Walsh one of the first with a Les Paul and an echoplex.
He was also the one who convinced Jimmy Page to switch from a Telecaster to a Les Paul on LZ first US tour when both bands gigged together in early 1969!
@@impalaman9707 interesting thank you
If I remember right he gave Jimmy Page a Les Paul
@@darrellminx5459 The same one he used to record all the future Led Zeppelin albums with. You notice how similar sounding the James Gang albums are to Led Zeppelin. They are both playing the same type of guitars!
@@impalaman9707 good point. Yep. Thank you.
The tone that Walsh was able to get with that Les Paul was 100% perfect!
Just think….. that guitar almost went to Jimmy Page. He liked it better so…, “ #1 “ went To Jimmy Page and we get to here this one here in all its tonal glory ❤
What a find! Thank you for sharing this :-)
You see these early James Gang / Walsh performances and it becomes clear that he (Walsh) was on par with (and often exceeded ) anyone at the time in the rock world. He was always pulling from multiple genres and he was doing it on another level. He is so laid back and nonplussed that people almost always took him for granted.
Still get goose bumps when Joe breaks into Cast your Fate. I saw it in 1970 and will never forget James Gang blowing The Who off the stage at Cobo Hall Detroit MI. Thanks to older brother Thomas for taking me and my little brother. Game changer seeing Joe at his pinnacle and Jim Fox too. What a drummer he is.
He had great control of tape echo and when playing a Gibson guitar incredible abilities with the Bisgby tremolo. So much so that his playing was unmistakable. Slide guitar as well. When he play slide, you just know it's him...on anyone's records, including his own. Good example: "Thunder Island" by Jay Ferguson and "Part of the Plan" by Dan Fogelberg.
Why isn't this at 10 million views yet?
Jim Fox one of the most over looked and under rated drummers in rock history!
Agreed
without a doubt !
Just amazing, never underrate the classically trained people
Absolutely great drumming (and everything else)
No DOUBT ! Saw them live in 1971 JIM FOX was/is AWESOME !
Bolero and Cast Your Fate to the Wind were among my favorites even before I heard this album about fifty years ago. James Gang became one of the bands that defined my youth. Many thanks guys. And as for Mister Joe Walsh...artist and genius. We all bow before you.
Joe is like a fine red wine: As old as his vintage music like this gets, the better it tastes to the ear. Three-piece band made some classic rockin' muzak!! "SR"
Damn, they were good...
Wow!!! Only 73,915 views??? Some great music, would like to see the rest of the concert...
He's so damn good. Wish I could see more of the fretboard work, but filming was different then.
Priceless- to be this young and crazy good!
Audience heads must of been spinning, great performance, controlled chaos at it's finest.
2025 Who's Still Loving This Video!? 🔥🎸🔥
Always loved this song
Yeehaw!! Still blowing me away.
Joe is as good as ever these days, clean & sober, even at his advanced age. The last of a true rock god.
Saw them in 1971 and before the days of digital effects he used a mechanical tape echo. Amazing group!
I'm so glad I got to see the James Gang before Joe Walsh left the band. He was one of the first to make such great use of tape echo playing live. Okay, Hendrix may have used it earlier in concert.
Jimmy Page on Dazed & Confused since 1968 or '67 with the Yardbirds and then Led Zeppelin.
@@larryn2682 Yes, indeed. I stand corrected - or augmented ^:)
Love the quote from Ravel's Bolero in Joe's guitar solo.
Absolutely .fuckin..amazing
A heavy power trio from Cleveland Ohio...by way of Kent. Joe Walsh, Jim Fox and Dale Peters.
This is how you rock ✌
As a guitarist I weep. I can never be this good.
The vast majority of those hoping to make it big playing guitar will never be as great as this genius. Very few can be regarded as "better."
Buckeye here..love him and this somg..saw him in 70..Ohio st fair!1
1969/70 Stark County Fair grounds!
Echoplex makes for the best tone, feeling and delay! Without question in my ears.
makes my day❤❤❤
They are the best
The best rhythm section Joe ever had.
Wow this is amazing! awesome footage to find
Jimmy Fox! Those cymbals! His signature sound for the James Gang!!
I learned to play 🥁 Drums, because of these guys!!! M O'B
love the vince guaraldi nod. classiest smartest sample there ever was.
MUST SEE VIDEO!!! ROCK AND ROLL AT IT'S FINEST!!!! M.O'B
Tasty tone 🔥
A rock & roll guitarist extraordinaire. Jimmy Page himself declared Joe Walsh "the best rock & roll guitarist ever." Enough so that Page began using the Les Paul that Joe gifted to him, as "Number One." Overall, I would agree. When he plays, his hand sweeps over the fretboard like he's caressing a kitten or something. Effortless... The boy was MADE for the Les Paul, Telecaster and Stratocaster...and the Gretsch. HIs work on the Bigsby, particularly as a chord embellishment device, is unmatched. Listen to any of his solo work or that with The Eagles, and you'll hear it. It's a real standout on "Try and Love Again," where producer Bill Szymczyk drenched the Gretsch with reverb on those Bigsby flourishes for long decay.
70's paul'.......Revel's "Bolero"........perfection.
Badass song !
Ésta una obra maestra y la dedico 🙂 a mi hermano y hermana Gaby y Javier
I Saw the Original 3! Featuring Joe Walsh! Around 1971! With Johnny Winter! At The Toledo Sports Arena in Toledo Ohio.Real G👁️👁️D! Concert.
Best thing on utube
even though this was 6 years before i was even thought of, my mom and dad got me "rides again" from a yard sale, and i proceeded to wear the needle out on my fisher price record player.
My 12-month old grandson loves the James Gang. It settles him down like it did his father. Loud is just fine.
James gang used to play all over the cleveland/Kent area early on to work on their tunes. Roller rinks, bowling alleys that was when to see them.
And we'd go wherever they were. All of us teenage guitar players were picking up everything could from watching Joe. but none of us could come close to him. I saw him in the Measles, too. Kent State was never the same after Joe went there. Had a blast hanging out in Kent. Until that day when it wasn't fun anymore.
Me too bro..
@@surferbri5346 My Dad caught them at A place called The scalded Frog in Painesville years ago, also played the Painesville Armory if I remember what he told me correctly.
Best American band.
The greatest.
A Raw Joe Walsh!!🎸☺️👍
This is not 'shit' recording. pure raw brilliance!
I agree. For it's time this is very good recording. And great playing.
Its just his vocal mic with no effects, or a really shitty sound guy or something broke.
Just thank your lucky stars we have this recording🇦🇺👍🎸🦘
There's no tape dubbing here .that want invented till the Eagles started.
Pure hard rock
Joe was best with the James gang
yes
AMEN brother
Power trio (noun) rock and roll band consisting of guitar drum and bass, e.g. James Gang
Great memories 9th grade
Super Power Trio!
thank you!
Marshall heads w/Twin bottoms? French didn't know what hit em.
VJDxp it's just a Marshall cab on its side.
You got to the love the bolero jam
Did Jeff Beck sue Joe Walsh over the 'bolero' guitar lead? That's what I heard many years ago. No reference to a lawsuit in the Beck's Bolero Wikipedia article, but it does mention Walsh.
This was a fun band… The first time I saw them they weren’t the headliner… 3 bands at the Fillmore East. I’d never heard of them. We saw the name Alice Cooper and figured it was some girl singer. The main band for the night was Bloodrock. By the time The Alice group was done no one cared about Bloodrock anymore.
Insane talent times 3. Way better than the Eagles.
By 999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999 Light Years.
song F..d my vision of all songs..
gotta have chords... and then more
Didn't know much about there music I'm figuring it out more
Joe Walsh has some serious power
Rock and roll !!
I love that Les Paul sound! :-)
You can never go wrong with a Les Paul;)
heavy, man, heavy.
Not Joe’s best vocal, but still one of the great songs of 70’s. He carried on some of this energy with the Eagles-“In the City”...
I prefer his studio ending, where he plays the 1st position E as opposed to the power chord up top. Killer way to finish up such a snarling rocker.
Ohio Rock & Roll.
Yup. You had to be there to understand.
beyond amazing, his best ever, even forget that Eagles joke
Underrated guitarist. I know "underrated" is overused. Still, Joe Walsh doesn't get his due credit.
When Joe Walsh was added to the lineup ... Eagles at their best. Nuf sed
To be proper and correct >>> A PIONEER >>> Keep it going !!!
5:14
I wouldn’t say underrated at all. Not even underappreciated either. You can’t write the story of The Eagles without a chapter called Joe Walsh!!
Nor this band either. He’s pretty famous if you ask most rock fans who know true R&R.
I'll come right out and say it: The Eagles were just another average white folk band until Joe Walsh joined the band. "Hotel California" could not have been made without him. Enough credit for you, Ruthie?
"The closet queen, the bus stop fiend."
"It's too strong, something's wrong... I guess I lost the feeling"
I'm STILL trying to figure out the nifty little hammers and pull-offs he does in the "Cast Your Fate to the Wind" section. They're deceptively complex although he makes them sound really simple. These days, when he plays "The Bomber," it's a LOT slower than this. This is almost identical to the original track on "Rides Again" which has that part dubbed in. Listen carefully and you can hear where the engineer brings up the faders. The original has TWO guitars playing in unison, but one is going through a Leslie cabinet and the other into the Echoplex. But somehow Joe got that "across-the-Grand-Canyon" effect on the live version by setting the Echoplex just right.
VJDxp got it right too: the French never knew what hit 'em. NOBODY was playing stuff like this. A friend of mine caught one of the Gang's shows in Boston around that period and said it was the most eye-poppin' display of guitar virtuosity he'd ever seen. People were literally gasping when he pulled off some of those tricks with that Echoplex. I have a pretty good Echoplex emulator, a Catalinbread Belle Epoch but I can only approximate that sound.
Of course, it might have something to do with the fact that I'm not a guitar god, only a weekend player...
You sure sound like you want to know what you're talking about but like Joe said SHUT UP AND LISTEN TO THE GUITAR
This slide solo takes me away.....
He never should have left the band
Agree….fuck the Eagles.
Apparently you've not heard Barnstorm, and the many Joe Walsh albums that followed.
Where metal started. Pre dates even Sabbath.
Hugo Hugo no it doesn’t are you dum
Please. If not for Deep Purple, there would be no Metal, certainly no Black Sabbath. "Shades of Deep Purple" preceded Black Sabbath by two years.
@@alkholos which itself is just a Brit version of Vanilla Fudge. It ain’t heavy in the least - Blue Cheer, Art, Open Mind all much heavier
@@hugohugo2832 I remember Vanilla Fudge well. I still have a couple of their earliest LPs. I saw them perform as the opening act (believe it or not) for the Bee Gees at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium (I think) back in the 60s. DP and VF both featured heavy organ emphasis. VF was a lot more "psychedelic." Both band played LOUD! Still, I'd categorize The James Gang as hard rock, not metal. Same with long-gone Blue Cheer. Where exactly are "Art" and "Open Mind" today, hmmm? Deep Purple endures despite personnel changes. They may have tinkered with psychedelic tropes early on, but it wasn't really their "thing."
@@alkholos Deep Purple wern't Metal.
Can anyone confirm if that's the 59 burst he sold to Jimmy?
This is a 70 les paul deluxe he ordered with factory full sized humbuckers. And later seen with the eagles sporting white knobs.
ジョーウォルシュがギター上手すぎてビビった高校時代。ジェームズギャングの時代から凄かった。特にボンバーのボレロには腰抜かすかと思った。
Was this done before Jeff Beck's Bolero? Just found this by accident, wow!
'67: Beck. Joe joined JG in '68.
Yes. 1969. Kind of makes you realize who Joe is, doesn't it.
Becks bolero was written by jimmy page and had nothing in common with ravels bolero
@@timhoovermusicman It has to have been inspired by Ravel, in fact, wikipedia mentions it: "Beck's Bolero" features a prominent melody with multiple guitar parts propelled by a rhythm inspired by Ravel's Boléro... There are similarities.
@@ashleyjudecollie possibly,but I don't hear them.
That pick slide at 5:14
I wonder if he was playing through an echoplex
Did Joe use a Leslie cabinet?
I want to time travel back....
F8UUUUUUUUUUCKKKKKKK YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Joe added the edge to the Eagles they needed.
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