The James Gang-Take A Look Around / Tend My Garden

[BackwardsMoney08]

I grew up on classic rock and I have to say Joe Walsh is one of the most under rated guitarist in history!

[bluejayg56]

god i miss this group.

[stolendolin]

DirkjeA 2 months ago..... The answer is (no) But I still keap the faith thanks for your interest and sorry it took so long to respond but I was having horrible problems resetting my GOOGLE password. Sherry I hope you live to read this one day and look me up I live quite close to the yellow brick road that connects BA with TU STEVE

[Bobo9977]

That's an amazing recording. Ive always likes Joe Walsh

[motorcityquig]

@fttp21 Sad to say, most people think Joe's whole career was with the Eagles. You are right, that particular song you mention is pretty fucking annoying.

[daltongang]

One of the best live albums ever recorded, love it, thanks for posting!!!

[doorswhofan]

Now THIS was music, my friends.... :-)

[rockinroller7]

Joe has always been known as a "Jokester," but he can always slay you with that arrow, straight into your heart. I've been slayed so many times over the years by these songs.

Peace.

Rock

[potterboy88]

One of the best live albums ever!!!!!

[BohemianConspiracy]

it's good to read so many people writin' about great bands... i mean 4sure JamesGang ...Tony Kaye of Yes ...then The Doobie Brothers and Lil Feat ... even Boston (the 1st lp was not bad)...even REO speedwagon out there... in fact i'm a little less excited by REO...but they made some good LP as well... i' mean... i feel at home when people talk bout such great 70s bands... :) ... and before i get to this youtube page i was listening to the "something happening" '74 lp by Peter Frampton...

[MartinTaylorOlson]

This is great stuff. Careful playing it while driving. You might forget where you are at.

[stampedehero22]

This live album, Little Feat's Waiting for Columbus and The Doobies Live at Wolftrap can match up as three of the best

[CacheSeaker]

If i am not mistaken, Joe Walsh was the first to overdrive a B-3/Leslie like that. I think he took one of the tubes out of the leslie so he could crank it up more

[blairzel]

@CacheSeaker I think Tony Kaye did it with the Yes Album around the same time...he stacked two Leslies on that record for the "dirty swirl"...

[stolendolin]

We had no idea that Joe Walsh would be in the show but when we sat down in front we saw the speaker boxes with Joe Walsh stenciled on them and we knew. It has been so many years ago and I lost track of Sherrie so SHERRIE TURNER if you still remember us and those days please post here or on My Face Book Page and remember Beg My Parden...Tend My Garden and sing my song LTHFY Steve

[stolendolin]

The Leon Russell Show in Wichita KS with REO Speedwagon & Joe Walsh and Barnstorm was the very first concert I ever attended. I went to this show with a girl I barely knew at that time (Sherrie Turner of Broken Arrow, OK) a Scorpio, who was a year older than I was, we travelled all night long in her 1971 Red Ford Pinto, it was the best time I have ever had with a girl who had no boundaries and she taught me more about life than any other person I have ever known. Thank you Sherrie Miss you S.O.

[DirkjeA]

@stolendolin Sorry, I hope you don't mind, but I was wondering if she ever answered your message? 

[motorcityquig]

Midwestern rock and roll. Joe was way ahead of the curve.

[curtbarile]

I have this record and recorded it directly to a stand alone pioneer CD recorder,and the only difference is the resonance , and the audio you have here ROCKS! Great sound , is this from a CD ? Thanks for the up-load enjoyed it...

[1FendrBendr]

What a classic live album, from way back in the good ole days!

[marbleheadband]

killer rythym section to support Joe on the keys & vocs like that..........brings back a lot of memories ..........def. influenced tom sholz of boston for their great debut album

[hammonddave]

Great songs from Joe and the Gang. Saw them In Miami in the 70's... Joe on Hammond A100.

[tonysounds]

Rockin Roller, try listening at 5:26. More importantly, it seems Pete Townsend owes Joe a little back royalty for The Song Is Over.

[alsaxe1]

@tonysounds not sure if pete wrote that riff be4 joe...pete and joe became friends around this time period....

[DAVESIV]

Jim Fox once said they were either the biggest small band or the smallest big band in the world. As a fan in those days, the JG were not widely known across the listening spectrum. There were so many great groups: Cactus, Spooky Tooth, Savoy Brown, but J W stood out even then as an immense talent. I saw this lineup in 1970 at a small club doing songs from their first two albums and some covers - "Down by the River" was one. Two guitars, two amps, a drum kit and a small PA. Up close and personal!

[Heepster1]

@DAVESIV

They have always been a legend

[scifizmylife]

Outstanding

[caroldenison]

was tommy bolin with them , on this album or what? i saw them(the james gang ) in 73 0r 74

[castodiego]

@caroldenison hell no, joe

[caroldenison]

was tommy bolin with them , in 1973 on this album or what?

[caroldenison]

ahh, my first concert, first song i ever heard live , love this song soo much!!! thanks for posting it

[kevoneWho]

I was at this show with my whole crazy gang from Brooklyn. Triangle park Bay Ridge Brooklyn!

We had a reunion when the James played the Beacon in NY a few years ago, so many friends came.

You can hear my friend Vinny scream out on the live album during "Stop" I think, Meeeeeeaaattttttttt___Bowallll­lllls (meatballs).

[kevoneWho]

I was at this show with my whole crazy gang from Brooklyn. Triangle park Bay Ridge Brooklyn!

We had a reunion when the James played the Beacon in NY a few years ago, so many friends came.

You can hear my friend Vinny scream out on the live album during "Stop" I think, Meeeeeeaaattttttttt___Bowallll­lllls (meatballs).

[abt4u]

Joe Walsh was/is the quintessential rock musician. Great, diverse songwriting. competent Hammond B3 playing, amazing guitar playing... and a very unique voice, which sounds not unlike a cat howling in the night, but is perfect for his music. I highly recommend any of his solo albums up to 1976, maybe even later than that... I'm just not familiar with his 80's output other than "I Like Big Tits", which cracks me up. A true legend and a blueprint for what modern rock music should sound like.

[jnmud]

i recall reading that Pete Townsend liked Take a Look Around so much he wrote Pure and Easy based on it.

[abt4u]

@jnmud-> I totally noticed the "Pure and Easy" chord progression in "Take a Look Around", but wasn't sure who wrote it first. I believe that the James Gang opened for the Who during 1971, which is when "Pure and Easy" was written (I believe). Looks like "Take a Look Around" was written in at least 1970, so props to Joe for inspiring yet another songwriter/guitar hero to create a phenomenal song. 

[MB280E]

@abt4u Take a look around was released on James Gang´s first studio album in 1969, Yer´ Album. I may be written as early as 1968.

[DoubleVisionandco]

Take a look around is one of my fav James Gang tracks, this live versions wild sounding organ defines the meaning of cool.

[SimaoFan]

Take a Look Around sounds better live but Tend My Garden sounds better from the album :| Still classic stuff though <3

[PhillipAndrewMorton]

I totally thought that too. there would be no "more than a feeling" without these songs...

[rsgrippo]

Wow! Sounds just like I remember James Gang at the Morris County College in NJ over 35 years ago. Joe Walsh is still an amazing performer with the Eagles. Usually completely takes over the Eagles show for about 15 minutes playing James Gang material. The rest of the band seems to love it!

[blairzel]

Joe on the Hammond B-3!

[DouglasWatts]

These two songs are the blueprint for Boston's first album, recorded 4 years later. Except because Joe is playing live here on keyboards he can't play any guitar. The outchorus of "More Than A Feeling" is identical to the outchorus of Tend My Garden. Pretty funny.

[SPFC77869106]

Joe Walsh, Dale Peters and Jim Fox... this was a good combination....

[alexandriabay1]

I agree whole-heartedly with the comment , rap music makes me nauseous too. And rap isn't music anyway, just a whole bunch of bullshit to anyone who grew up in the early 70's. Bring back old times and songs like this.

[meatpole55]

and i may be too fukked up on acid right now..but at times when i hear early joe walsh Vocals..i hear layne staley..(Alice in Chains)..

[ButzisAroma]

@meatpole55

Don't worry, time traveller - I can hear it too. They have a similar quality - they both use their vibrato the same way.

[meatpole55]

ALSO..the kings of leon lead singer..listen to sex on fire..and listen to Layla by eric clapton..similar vocal qualities

[meatpole55]

@ButzisAroma ...congrats on the gold medals...now revise the GUN CONTROL LAW...and start ...two of the best medals around...GOLD AND LEAD...hehe

[meatpole55]

RAP ARTISTS give their rhymes and their time..artists like the JAMES GANG GAVE THEIR SOUL..

[meatpole55]

what makes me nauseous..they compare Rap to such gifted artist as this man..RAP is TRASH..may it die soon..

[meatpole55]

mmmmmm.... me and debbie callison..okc..oklahoma..1971.­.we were working at dairy Queen..we sat on the couch and made out..i smelled like hamburger..she smelled like fries..but knew we would remember each other thru out the rest of our lives..i still look for her today..come babylove..tend my garden

[emadmadi]

this lp is great...

[sionxxii]

The entire first Boston album was ripped off from this song.

[meatpole55]

@sionxxii im glad to see you out of many are adept enuff to see the light my friend

[rockinroller7]

@sionxxii With all due respect:

Sorry, but I can't make the connection,, between Boston's first album and these two songs, or for that matter, Boston, having taken anything from Joe, and making it similar in any way.

In other words, I don't believe it's possible for anyone to "rip," anything from Joe's music. It's just too much a sound of his own, and can't be duplicated, in my humble opinion.

Peace.

Rock

[moogyboy6]

@rockinroller7 I can definitely hear a resemblance, particularly with Joe's magisterial organ work (cf. "Foreplay/ Long Time"). The overall sound is looser here, the music is less "swingy", and of course no guitar solos; I also don't know if Tom Scholz consciously had this in mind. Perhaps it's more of a general family resemblance common to many early-mid '70s stadium rock acts. Fwiw, I hear a bit of "Tommy"-era Who here. :-)

[rockinroller7]

@moogyboy6 Sorry, I just don't hear it.

But, at this point, 15 others agree with you, and I respect that.

Peace.

Rock

[boneypart]

@sionxxii

me neither. i dont hear any Boston in this. Doesnt sound like battery-guitar, harmony overkill rock at all. but im an old guy, what do i know....

[AOXOMOXO]

@sionxxii You know...you're damn right. I saw James Gang do this live WAY back in 1971....thanks for mentioning it. Knew that Boston song sounded awfully familiar!

[mj99a]

two of my favorite JG songs. yer album and rides again were two faves for early morning on the back end of a night of acid...... two excellent albums for greeting the sunrise and coming back to earth. glad i lived to tell about it.........

[meatpole55]

@mj99a ..1971..i was 16 and on 4 hit of sunshine and 2 peyote buttons..these of so little depth today will never be so brave as to delve into things such as the brave and seeking

[dmandtm]

We have to keep joes music alive or soon the sixties and seventies quality bust your ass for us music will never teach the kids anything. Can todays stuff even come close? They worked back then, for us!

[TheSanityInspector]

Yep. Now it's just computers overdubbing each other. Back then, the callouses on their fingers would bleed, they were rockin' so hard.

[meatpole55]

@dmandtm one thing for sure my friend..they will never learn talent from RAP..what the fukk has our music stoop to..may RAP end sooon..

[drumsurfdump]

Joe and the guys at their zenith! One of my top 5 records of all time. Towering talent, live, no Pro Tools, no BS. Killer slap off the back wall of the auditorium on certain passages. Used to walk out these deaf, buzzed and stoked!

[Stoned1959]

Bombastic Hammond,GREAT SONG.Thanx

[ELP71]

love the hammond/leslie, great stuff

[blairzel]

That's Joe Walsh on the Hammond B-3

[3bar]

Love that Leslie swirl on the organ. Too bad the B-3 doesn't get used like it used to.

[AllusCats]

I love all of the yea-for-Hammond comments here. I used to play/sing "Take a Look Around", back in the '70's using a B-3 & reverb with dual Leslies-model 122. They kicked butt. I still play/sing it on gigs using a 1959 Hammond M-3 and a 145 short Leslie mic'd top & bottom through a large P.A. Big Hammond still exists with my band (Allus Cats...google the CD, 'Tis Of Thee [include the apostrophe] & listen on Lala or Rhapsody or any site and you'll hear lots of Hammond but, lighter). Joe Walsh!

[meatpole55]

@AllusCats ..I BET YOU SOUNDED BAD asss

[AllusCats]

Well...with a 'B' and two Leslies, how can you not? Thanks...I think you just complimented me?

[meatpole55]

@AllusCats no i didnt compliment you..i just made you a god among many of my friends..

[AllusCats]

Will you tell me what you mean...are your friends Hammond fans? A "god"?

[jibarosi]

When I was a kid I had these tunes on 8 track tapes. Great songs, they bring back alot of memories. Thanks!

[olpap53]

yes!!!! amazong how the time rolls and thing just come back around .... :)}}}}}}}

[grimchieftain]

I still have the LP!

[floridashorti]

From the beginning to this very day, Joe ROCKS! His music is the soundtrack of my life....hearing this takes me back to those great partyin days! Still rocks the socks off this 50 yr old babe, great post!

[heavyfe]

My THANX as well.....spent many a nite with these 2 babies....it was a nice trip indeed !!

[wormburner26]

THANKS FOR SHARING THIS!!! (my vinyl copy has the grooves worn out on it)

[rockinroller7]

Having seen The James Gang in '75 '76?, I recall hearing these great tunes together.

Some of The Gang's best work, in my opinion.

I want to thank, "Fragensteller56," for posting such great musical talent from a great band, for all time, and all ages.

[kjavos]

These songs are both aces. Top notch shit, my friends.

[swennsyever9]

oh baby 1st to comment on this utoob?!

think it might be the only album ever to have horse poop on the cover.

that alone would make it unique but then there's the concert recording inside & to me that's to live music what secretariat was to racing: the best. no joke...james gang live @ carnegie is as good as any rnr record ever. (maybe johnny winter and live ties it but only maybe)

thnx big 4 the utoob. peace.