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  • Jim Fox FTMFW

  • I had this footage on pause (UPS at the door), only to later find my fifteen year old son had taken my place on the ear buds. I'm like "..hey, I'm listening to that!". My son says, "You know Dad, out of all your 90's bands, I actually like these guys".

  • the bummer here is..the sound is coming only from Joe's mic. ya can't hear the mix very well

  • This sounds suspiciously similar to Van Halen's new single "Tattoo".......just sayin'....

  • We did all these songs back in the day !! Awesome !!!

  • better than the album by far

    

  • Anybody remember seeing these guys play at the Agora in Cleveland back then,  fun times.

  • Old hippies never die...... Until somebody brings back the 70's talent just hit REPLAY!

  • i can't help but notice that he must have left his guitar tone with the Gang when he quit. His tone never sounded that good on his solo or Eagles stuff.

  • Too bad James Brown didn't play with them, then the band could have been called The James Brown Gang.

  • feh, lead voice too loud...

  • Quite possibly the greatest 3 man band ever

  • @0066keith cream

  • GREAT!!!!

  • There's nothing better than a young Joe Walsh on a Les Paul with no Eagles. No wonder Pete Townshend loved this guy.

  • What a boring crowd. Did they take the brown acid? eeeek!@

  • I saw this band November 1971 but Joe was playing a Strat not a Les Paul

  • No knock on the person who posted this, but can't anyone film a band from the front. I want to see him play the lead solo from the front . Is it against some moral law to show his fingers????!!!I I've noticed this a lot.

  • @phobias1000 take a look at the vids i posted to see detailed finger work

  • i think hes high as fuck lol!

  • Who are these 9 people that are deaf ? Dislike THE JAMES GANG>made in America. Traitors!!!!!!

  • Wow, Joe come through loud and clear!!

  • Kurt Cobain wanted tobe Joe Walsh lol

  • ... i heard Pat Travers used to play through the leslie speakers ...

  • Is that the Les Paul that Jimmy Page bought for 500 US Dollars off Joe Walsh in the early seventies? You can just feel the sustain, perfect tuning and pitch out of that axe. Looks like there's a wood Leslie speaker cab hooked up next to the other Marshall cabs. Still, a guitar only plays superbly if the player knows how to play it well. The drums are totally incredible too. What a gem of a video. It's almost like a time warp.

  • @douglasfir77

    Didn't know too many Leslies that weren't wooden cabinets. Looks like a D122 model. Most were used by Hammond organ players. A lot of guitarists played through them as well when they started to get creative with various effects. Our keyboard player had two of them hooked up. Sometimes played a piano through it on different songs but mostly the organ.

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  • They don't sound that great.

  • Check out the Leslie rotary speaker cabinet!!!

  • WOW...40 years ago....Thats a Trip...Joe Walsh Is BAD..I think Underrated Too.

  • LOL ... man oh man ... I saw these guys open for The Who in Athens, Ohio in 1969 and in Cincinnati at Music Hall in 1970. Both great shows. They look typically 1970s. For those of you who wonder what the 70s looked and sounded like ... watch this video ... LOL.

  • wow! 40 years ago.

  • @pmgl616 lol I put My "wow 40 years ago" comment BEFORE I seen Urs....funny. :)

  • ppl say to love this singing...

    i know one thing, if anyone i know (including me) even tries to sing this anywhere in this world, people r gonna throw tomatoes...

  • YES!!!!

    

  • This song and yayo go together like peanut butter and women

  • this is freaken awesome, thanks for the upload. just great quintessential james gang. loved this album. saw him many times out in denver in the early seventies.

  • @reeblite lucky...

  • @reeblite lucky...

  • I was at a friends house who was a couple of years older and he put this on and I remember loking at the Live at the Filmore cover with the horses hitched up and reading all the liner notes. Wow those were the days.

  • ちんけなイーグルスなんかに入る必要なかったジョー・ウォル­シュ、WALKAWAY、ジェームス・ギャングでの勇姿!­ハードエッジギターの代表!

  • well when you say joe walsh what more can you say...

  • FuckN Greatttt!!!those were the days!! 70's!!!! I hate "Kings Of Leon"

  • I got TWO words for you Don Henley.... "Joe Fucking Walsh"

    thank you James Gang.

  • @lodownX

    that's three words, but point well made. :)

  • @lodownX Thank you! Lol

  • Fuck Don Henley and Don Felder. Only one Joe!

  • @lodownX i got 1 word for u go fuck yourself

  • @toledozoo1 what's wrong Toledozoo1>?  you must be a Don Henley lover... nothing wrong with that.... i guess.

  • @lodownX Actually thats three words

  • @dmarkj22 dude, the "Fucking" is silent.

  • @razzledashdazzle

    Lol, nice.

  • @lodownX

    Only 2 of those words matter :)

  • @lodownX I with you there brother!!!

  • @lodownX Exactly!

  • @lodownX I did not know Joe Walsh's middle name is fucking.

  • @jpo2084028 yeah... little known... but well documented fact. besides... I really have to give credit to Dennis Leary... I lifted that line from one of his standup routines when he was ripping Don Henley for his environmental (and whiny) stance. Always thought it was a hilarious line... also when you compare the two's solo work... Joe rocks harder - HANDS DOWN.

  • @lodownX Whats wrong with an enviornmental stance? Are you that uneducated to think that pollution just floats out into space?

  • @kevin122380 its a joke Denis Leary once used years ago about how cool Joe Walsh is compared to Don Henley... just 'recycling' the laughs... I'm not anti-environmentalism... I'm pro-laughing and not taking ourselves too seriously.... and rocking with awesome guitar tone.

  • @lodownX I can't stand arrogant ass Henley, he can go fuck himself, Nothing he did with the Eagles compares to "Pretty maids all in a row". There's another two words for Henley!

  • @lodownX Henley WHO? That pinhead wouldn't know a guitar if it played itself and have him credit. Oh, wait....

  • @lodownX Why do you have to campare.u fool!

  • simply beautiful. cant begin to explain why

  • What Kind of Fuzz does Joe Walsh use

  • the drummer has to be allen ginsberg's long lost, but now found, brother!!!

  • Geez, Joe should never have left and joined the god awful Eagles...

  • 骨太アメリカンハード、ジェームス・ギャング”WALK AWAY“~若きジョーウォルシュの勇姿

  • Where the hell is the rest of this video? Please post!

  • yes good music pass me  opps ...........

  • jeff spicolli got a les paul for christmas !!!!

  • I noticed Joe does not use any pedals. His sound is huge!

  • @jamesdewer That's just a Les Paul plugged into a Marshall turned all the way up - not much to it. They didn't have many pedals back then, anyway. Wah pedal, primitive distortion boxes maybe...

  • seems like someone is one line away from a heart attack, actually. great powerful vocals, great band. also this band has always had great pulsating bass lines.

  • Sounds like they are playing inside a high school gymnasium.

  • Next bong hit, man. I love Joe Walsh.

  • 1:05 the glass of beer on the amp.. epic 

  • Love the drumming. I was a drummer in a band that played this and I always looked forward to playing this.

  • ....that drummer is awesome...

    ....he is way holding this chaos together...

  • Yea!!!!

  • People probably thought, this guy thinks he can sing? Dylan sings better! Kieth Richard sings better! hahaha lil did they know, eh???11

  • THINGS THAT IM GROWIN, whats that lyric supposed to mean???!!!?!!?!?!

  • @ funkafaggot

    its 19670 dude

  • @mdent23 it says 1971 right on the video, Einstein

  • The James Gang version rocks compared to the softer Eagles version.

  • @LibertaerUeberAlles Everything rocks compared to the Eagles version of anything :P

  • @60spastlife Indeed. But I'm glad Joe made some big bucks with that back-up band.

  • @60spastlife Glad someone else noticed. I was initially dismayed when I heard Joe joined up with this middle-of-the-road SoCal band, but it's nice to know he made a lot of dough adding a little "punch" to their stuff ...

    Try to imagine Joe, with his own band (with at the very least, Joe Vitale on the kit), doing "Desperado."

    Now that would be creepy ...

  • @BettyVanSneeIV LOL indeed it would be! I honestly can't imagine it. Nor do I want to.

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  • do caralho!!

  • now we know where Nirvana got their ideas from. except Joe can play. He is awesome.

  • Saw these guys in 1970 at a club called Papaliski's in Dayton, Ohio. Small, intimate - just like in this video except no cameras. Joe bantered with the crowd. Dale Peters was new with the group and constantly watched Joe for what looked like a confidence boost - but his bass was rock solid. Jim Fox was, well, what can you say - tight, precise and a real mix-up for this three piece group. (Fox once said that the JAMES GANG "was either the biggest small band or the smallest big band" in the world.

  • @DAVESIV Let's hear it for my home towne!!!!! Do you remember what area of Dayton?

  • @ckelley63 Long time ago.... In a land far away... but before us is the proof it did exist! It was a small club in the back of "a shopping center." Right next to it was another, mainstream nightspot I believe was called The Lion's Club. In Papaliski's was a huge carpet with pillows here and there. I was laying on the floor with my feet about 3 feet from Walsh's mike stand. (There was some seating if you preferred.) The opening act was a band called Balderdash.

  • @DAVESIV Wow that's awesome, I've seen a few bands in my days but I can't really say that I've seen any as they were up and coming. The James Gang were a great rocking band you were lucky to have been able to see them back then that up close and personal. Are you from the Dayton area? do you play? Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

  • @ckelley63

    Before the show they played Neil Young's first solo "album" over the PA. (First time I had heard it.) Back then, these guys were not known in the mainstream. Walsh used a Fender TWIN Reverb AMP, an ECHOPLEX, and a clear Ampeg guitar - the one with changable pick-ups. I think he also had a fuzz and wah. Peters used this same Telecaster bass and a TRAYNOR amp with two cabinents. This is all true kids!

  • @DAVESIV Back when you had to have talent and and knew how to play your instrument.

  • What did he say at 1:52 ? You Just turn you plowmus head?

  • vocal mic too hot? ... probably, the stage volume was so loud the PA had to carry the vocals mainly ... this is obviously recorded from the board ... I'll bet the mix in the room was good

  • he's pissed drunk and slurring his speech...Brutal.

  • joe u r the sh!t. its raw and real. better than the crap on the radio. thanx for the musical inspiration!!!!

  • This is from when songs came from the heart and mind and a lot of hard work and practice.......no cheatin` with computers here!

  • This is the Joe Walsh I remember and love

  • yhea... now were cookin w/ gas!

  • yhea... now were cookin w/ gas!

  • this song is the definition of american hard rock... just like good times bad times should define british hard rock in my opinion... the james gang was so awesome and unique....didnt there used to be a video of The Bomber too?

  • DAMN, COOL!

  • Rough, raw and full of balls!!! 

  • You can't touch Jimi Fox on drums!

  • now that's good raw energy - like rock should be - the james gang - they did it right, man. far out

  • the grainy 'early 70's biege vid makes it better on this! I think Geddy Lee's Voice dominated in the b/w "Live in Parrasic"(All the world's a Stage) Bastile day, bad audio, the music is better than the voice. though the audio record corrected that.

  • i love my dad for interducing me to this music!!!!

  • Great look back into the past when rock was at it's best.

  • WOW1971

    I WAS 8 YRS OLD....

    GOOD SONGS NEVER DIE

  • I loved the gritty style that Joe Walsh and the James Gang had. Take notes; three piece bands like this are all but dead....damn shame too!! Joe Walsh and company absolutely kicked-ass in concert!!

  • @pat52010 check out High on Fire. A little heavy, but insanely good.

  • they dont make music like this anymore. Everything today is so polished (I know this is live), this is raw. You can hear the mistakes in the music, and that is what I love about it. It's real musicianship. I love this song!

  • what a tone guys!!!!

  • man that mic is too hot sheesh...or they got it mic'd right next to the vocal monitor for this recording.

  • Fox is incredible!

  • whats up with the overly hot vox mic??

  • @Skinhitta  thats why i chose this video to upload, nobody sings like JOE WALSH

  • @Funkamedic TV studio sound, it's why Zeppelin stopped doing them However, not bad here, the drums needed better mics

  • @Funkamedic I resepctfully disagree. This is expertly crafted and a real SONG.

  • the good old days when you taped a mic below in reverse phase to knock out the feedback. man times have changed. this video can be fixed in a DAW

  • he looks f-ing shitfaced. even missed the next refrain. he's acutally kinda hot here. and he's for the most part one ugly fuck.

  • I bet thats the only mic we are hearing in this recording. 

  • rock it joe! rock it!

    bad-ass hard rock

    joe,come to Boston Ma. this

    summer!!!

  • the beer on the amp is classic

  • love the beer sittin on the amp

  • Too bad the bass player couldn't have sung the vocal harmonies. I kept missing them. They are part of what makes this song great. Still an awesome performance. Like "Mississippi Queen," this is the kind of song that makes your car want to swerve into a tree of its own accord.

  • Under appreciated drummer

  • fuck yeah!

  • Anyone remember them doing this on Top of the pops?

  • Thanks Funkamedic, I've always wanted to see the awesome Jim Fox play this song. The man is a monster who greatly influenced my playing (along with Joe Vitale), and I thank you again for this priceless treasure!

  • Oh, hey! Glad to see this back up again. I'm gonna save it before it disappears once more.

  • Love joe walsh,great style and songs, but back in these days he always seemed about 1 beer away from blacking out.

  • @fretfirestarter

    My guess is you're probably dead on. I'm pretty sure most of the lyrics from Life's Been Good were mostly real life experiences. "........it's hard to leave when you can't find the door"

  • @fretfirestarter

    maybe a bowl or spliff as well...lol.

    but like Jimmy Page, he stayed up and rocked!

  • @fretfirestarter I totally agree. I wonder what it would have been like to try to hold a convorsation with him . LMAO.( I have watched interviews.Just not the same as doing it yourself) It is so amazing that he was as awsome as he was and still is.

  • @fretfirestarter and whats your point....what are you a priest??? he was livin the life pal...just like we all did.......

  • Why we hear the voice so loud and clear?

  • No post-production mixing on this clip.

  • Thanks. A True video! It's always crap static sleeve w. music on Youtube

  • I mean 1971--sorry about the wrong year.

  • Saw them in Pecatonica Illinois in 1974.

  • This was a real power trio like Cream

  • what happened to the sound when the camera man went behind the drum set?

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  • Is that you Joe?

  • Ol Rubber face Joe !!!!!!!!! top five in my influences!!! i dont know if this is the les paul he gave to Jimmy Page i dont think it is-- sunburst is too dark -pickguard coulda beem changed - but i think it is a diff axe,Walsh had a ton og LPs at that time>

  • I've played that Beat Club clip that is perpetually on/off of youtube over and over, nice to see a performance from the same era.

  • Pure Classic Rock at its best!!!!!!!

    Never going to see anything like this era again

  • Just doesn't get any better than this ... this is the real deal ....

  • doob it up an feel this

  • just plain ole good stuff, that simple

  • Good drumming!

  • CFX 5000 load of horseshit , ya there great and all , but answer your own question where are they now , WALSH , I HAVE AN IDEA WHAT HE DID...

  • awesome drummer

  • try top 5 five bar tune!

  • Top 50 bartunes

  • @cfx5000 Bullshit

  • One of the top 100 classic rock songs. Maybe top 50.

  • Definitely Top 50...Just pure power and finesse...You're a Joe Walsh fan and you can't leave this out of his Top5...A great one to be sure...My Top 10 guitarists of all time...

  • @baridaddy I agree, Joe Walsh is definitely in the top 10, but he was woefully under-rated by the pussies like the Rolling Stone Mag. and others.

  • You ever heard The Bomber Medley by James Gang??? Check it out!!! First time I heard it years ago I thought it was Zeppelin...

  • Will check it out. Thanx 4 the tip.

  • 3 masters of their respected instruments. Joe Walsh is the shit. Pete Townshend himself claimed Walsh as one of the most underrated guitarists out there. I can't argue with that. Raw ass-kicking guitar is what Walsh has delivered for 40 years now and will continue to do. JAMES GANG RULES!!!!!

  • that drummer is AWESOME!!

  • A great, great power trio that was very underrated in the early 70's...Joe Walsh is a total master of guitar even this early in his career...Been a big fan since almost day one...As a music teacher i would play this song for every music class I ever taught in high school and university and then watched as the kids jaws dropped...To quote Joe Walsh 'Made Loud to be played LOUD'...