Joe Walsh on BBC Radio Two.........

[Middleman]

Funk 49...defined an era.

 

[timmerman]

Made Loud To Be Played Loud

Would we like for those days to come back? Did not many albums of that period have a similar tag? Perhaps that is now the reason why some of us use earplugs while playing.

Has anyone of you yet spotted a tag which is commonly used these days to describe the sonic nature of the disc you are listening to. If there is no common tag around perhaps we can invent one here. Keep myself open for suggestions.

Eddie

 

[Olive]

"Made Loud to be Played Loud". God, those were the days. I must have listened to that album a million times.

I always got a kick out the Deep Purple live album (hmm..Made in Japan maybe?) where you can hear Ian Gillan ask the sound guy to "turn everything louder than everything else". Kinda sums up Deep Purple for me.

 

[sparrow]

I always got a kick out the Deep Purple live album (hmm..Made in Japan maybe?) where you can hear Ian Gillan ask the sound guy to "turn everything louder than everything else". Kinda sums up Deep Purple for me.

Sounds like one of my old bands! Somebody once asked the bass player if he thought we were playing just a little bit too loud? He replied
" Not if you can you still hear the drummer!"

 

[jBear]

reviving an old thread is sor of like arrive too late for the party - but...
Since the James Gang is touring again maybe someone would want to revive this thread.

fyi - on the Yer Album vinyl groove on side one it repeated "Turn Me Over" on side two it said "Play Me Again"

That kicked off little notes in the space between the last of the song on the side and the label of all Joe's records- like: "That's no banana, that's my nose" or "VOL is five piece live" - but the classic was the joke that said "What do you do for a dog with no legs" and on the other side was the answer...

 

[Clive Hugh]

Sounds like one of my old bands! Somebody once asked the bass player if he thought we were playing just a little bit too loud? He replied
" Not if you can you still hear the drummer!"

We were playing a gig one night and some prat in the audience shouted at the bass player,
Prat:"you're too loud",
Bass player came back "what"?
Prat:"I said you're too loud!"
once again "what?"
Prat:"I said you are too fucking loud"!!!
bass player "sorry man, I can't hear you, I'm too loud"
I thought it was hilarious at the time.

 

[ggunn]

No one mentioned his work with The James Gang; in my opinion, this was some of the best work.

I'll chime in even though it is a revived old thread.

The James Gang were an incredible band. I saw them back in the day; Joe played barefoot and worked an Echoplex with his toes. For those of you too young to remember, an Echoplex was a big old tape delay unit that set the delay time by moving the playback head back and forth on a slide bar. The head had a vertical stud that you would take hold of to move it, and Joe did that with his toes while he was playing.

 

[jfrog]

We were playing a gig one night and some prat in the audience shouted at the bass player,
Prat:"you're too loud",
Bass player came back "what"?
Prat:"I said you're too loud!"
once again "what?"
Prat:"I said you are too fucking loud"!!!
bass player "sorry man, I can't hear you, I'm too loud"
I thought it was hilarious at the time.

That's classic.

 

[rayc]

Yeah where were all these people when Rocky Mountain Way was a monster solo hit? Oh, not born yet, right sorry.
I saw The Eagles as the end of Joe Walsh as an entity. I think I'm right.

 

[apl]

Yeah where were all these people when Rocky Mountain Way was a monster solo hit? Oh, not born yet, right sorry.
I saw The Eagles as the end of Joe Walsh as an entity. I think I'm right.

He's a hoot on the Carvin DVD. "You see this? I tried to get Gibson to build a guitar like this and they wouldn't do it!"

 

[ggunn]

Yeah where were all these people when Rocky Mountain Way was a monster solo hit? Oh, not born yet, right sorry.
I saw The Eagles as the end of Joe Walsh as an entity. I think I'm right.

Where were you when Funk #49 was a hit? ;^)