![]() Proceeds from the concert will be donated directly to veterans' services. I believe in Ohio and look forward to celebrating our musical legacy while honoring our veterans with VetsAid 2022.” Now it is a great privilege and humbling opportunity for me to share the stage once again with my original James Gang buddies and with this absolutely incredible group of Ohio rock legends like Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails, the Black Keys, the Breeders and Dave Grohl. “Picking up my first guitar as a kid in Columbus set me on a musical journey to Kent State, Cleveland and then the world. It was Walsh who conceived this year's VetsAide bill, which includes artists with Ohio ties: James Gang and Nine Inch Nails are both from Cleveland the Black Keys from Akron the Breeders are from Dayton and Grohl is from Warren. ![]() He left the James Gang in 1972 to form Barnstorm. Somewhat greater than the sum of their parts, these incredibly versatile offerings stand as a testament to the golden era of power trios (*), whose half-decade of dominance (initiated in ‘66 by Cream and The Jimi Hendrix Experience) was coincidentally coming to an end.Īnd just in time, too, because the excessive, 18-minute jam on The Yardbirds’ “ Lost Woman” clogging up side two points towards the sort of reckless self-indulgence found on future live LPs like Deep Purple’s Made in Japan and Led Zeppelin’s The Song Remains the Same.Walsh lived in Ohio when he was younger and attended Kent State University. ![]() What I do know, based on bootlegs of the same show that surfaced later is that this 43-minute set perplexingly omitted some of the James Gang’s most popular numbers, including “The Bomber” and the timeless “Funk #49,” maybe because the band just wasn’t happy with how they turned out that night.īut there are still plenty of dynamic – if rarely transcendent – performances here, ranging from riff-raging hard rockers (“ Stop,” “ Walk Away”), to organ-drenched crowd pleasers (“ Take a Look Around,” “ Tend My Garden”), to amplifier-melting blues (Albert King’s “ You’re Gonna Need Me”), to acoustic folk whimsy “ Ashes, the Rain and I”). Having said that, if Live in Concert was ever feted as a classic of the form, alongside early ‘70s essentials like The Who’s Live at Leeds or The Allman Brothers’ At Fillmore East, then I’m not aware of it – but then I was barely alive in ‘71, so what the hell do I know? ![]() Then, roughly 50 years ago, in September of 1971, another James Gang – this one comprised of Joe Walsh (vocals, guitar, organ), Dale Peters (bass) and Jim Fox (drums) – made their final stand with the release of Live in Concert, captured a few months earlier at New York’s prestigious Carnegie Hall.Ĭheck out the album’s tongue-in-cheek rear sleeve, showing the boys shoveling the shit left behind by the horses pictured on the front sleeve.Īnd before you call me an idiot, yes, I know that while Walsh embarked on a solo career and later joined the Eagles, a reconstructed James Gang led by Peters and Fox would stubbornly carry on for another five years and half-dozen LPs, but this marked the end of their first and most important chapter. Roughly 140 years ago, in September of 1881, the notorious James Gang, led by fabled outlaw Jesse James, made their final stand with a train robbery in Missouri just a few months later, Jesse was shot in the back by his turncoat accomplice, Robert Ford. ![]()
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