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  • go JW

  • this is the real sh*t

  • always liked this one..... until i heard the joe walsh live version on YOU CAN'T ARGUE WITH A SICK MIND. holy crap! but this version is still great. love the bass line

  • Every era of music has had its hits and misses.  I agree that the stuff that is out today is mostly crap. There is still some good stuff out there. I have an affinity for classic rock that wont go away. My dad raised me on this stuff along with the Moody Blues, Marshall Tucker, Alabama, Led Zepp, Canned Heat. There was always some good 60's and 70's on the turntable growing up. All the greatest we had it. in my teens it turned into Metal. Rock, Metal and Blues for me now.

  • clear vocals. clean playing. a melody that also rocks. why is this so difficult for the modern bands to grasp?

  • @Yipeokia1- Since the tech age hit us, creativity for Rock has diminished into legends..Now I have to endure the angst in Rap, hip hop, and all the other CRAP that's now known as "Music"

  • @Fynness "Angst" is too nice of a word for that no-talent crap. .....Dittos otherwise!

  • the most under rated band of the 70's

  • Ford- ' Like a big boy ! " LOL

  • In the summer of '71, I was 20 and, I drove around Great Britain in a racing green Triumph convertible TR-6 with two friends, and we followed the James Gang on their summer tour - what a BLAST!!! Joe Walsh - what a killer style - so distinctive.

  • A post of excellent quality. Thank you.

  • Fabulous rock song ! Ilove it !

  • there is no one and never will be unless their name is Joe Walsh otherwise known collectively as the James Gang

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  • Seems to meeeee

  • I LOVED The James Gang. Brings back so many memories in a time I thought that I would live forever, life would always rock and didn't realize that time changes everything. Love all of Joe Walsh music!!

  • If this don't bring ya back.. nothing will

  • sounds like Joe Walsh. oh, snap.

  • I would be in everlasting guitar heaven if i could jam with JOE!

  • They really had their finger on the main jugular of rock in the 70s with this one. 

  • HOT DAMNNNNN. This is one I haven't heard in 'several' years but hearing it now brings some secret smile to my face.

  • I've never heard a 3-piece rock band that put out such great music! Man, I now realize how great the music was when I was a teen.

  • @777butch777 Cream, Jimi Hendrix Experience... The two best 3 piece bands out there.

  • And I'm talking about today stuff, not the class of music Joe Walsh plays!!!!!!!!!! This guy has forgot more about music, than today's "artist" will ever know.

  • Thump pidy thump thump ain't music!!!!!!

  • Finally - two morons converge!!!

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  • Where , oh where are the new kids who can play like this ? Or am I relegated to an endless trail of tribute bands for the rest of my life ? Tell your asshole son to drop the goddamn X- box controller, pick up a guitar, listen to this song,and go make some rock and roll music ! : )

  • @yipeokia1 Best comment ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

  • @yipeokia1 hey man i can play like this i play everything from james gang to black sabbath altho most of the stuff i write is more like hendrix but still

  • @acdcandnerf - Cool,  When you coming to Long Island ! : )

  • @yipeokia1 lol I dont know :)

  • @yipeokia1 theres alot of bullshit top comments over youtube but, you hit the nail on the head with this one.

  • @Nancycarigen - Thanks sweetheart- love you all and Merry Christmas !

  • @Nancycarigen - By the way, do your knees feel any better since the " Tanya " incident ? - Great name- is it real ? : )

  • @yipeokia1 The little boys aren't even in this universe. We can only try to pass it along and wish 'em luck.

  • @signeseeker17 - I weaned my kids on Beatles albums when they were in diapers, and took them to Floyd laser shown , and " Rain " and they " got it ". They can see the difference in creativity like a bell.

  • @yipeokia1 Though i do understand the point you're making, you really need to search a little more if you think there is no good/creative artists out there today.

  • @yipeokia1 try Flash Lightnin'. They're a young Canadian Band. Pretty awesome rock and blues.

  • @yipeokia1 lol

    

  • @yipeokia1 we're working on it man. we just have to deal with the bullshit white-collars at the labels that are putting out the crap they're callin music today.

  • @alpatriot76 - Keep the faith, brother !

    And please set fire to every auto- tuner you see - : )

  • @yipeokia1 its coming man

  • @yipeokia1 I did exactly that, without anyone telling me to...lol

  • @yipeokia1 yeah..., let´s play fucking rock 

  • I remember listening to some of the James Gang's songs on radio (AM, as FM was not around in early 70's). But when FM radio took off in about 1974 in Kansas City, it really helped bands like this, and played album rock (yep, full albums sometimes). AM in mid to late 73 began becoming disco radio and, thankfully, more FM station and AM/FM radios came into being, even in cars. 8-tracks of this were great, driving down the road jamming with them. GREAT!

  • @djepsonatmastnet hi had a 74 aqua monte carlo with the trusty 8- track player. till cassette decks were around or i got one of em. lol had ted nugent cat scratch too alot of yes floyd kansas and rush . good times some fresh hash and a book were all i needed to get fuzzy with and a stereo!!

  • great GREAT SONG

  • SEEMS TO ME!

  • awesome

    

  • @dragonflychainsaw I'm 56 too and this song and funk 49 were the guitar licks back in our time. But what a great time to grow up in!

  • @jrogers4072 It seems like forty minutes ago, doesn't it ? God, what times we had. I had a red Super Beetle with a 4-channel, 8-track stereo system in my bug. Sounded like head phones on wheels, lol.

  • @daddybug101 I had a 67 Volks Beetle..Got license and car at 15 in 1972...only one in my crewe who had the forsight to put a car cassette deck in my ride...I had started buying LPs in 1970...I had 55 home recorded tapes off of my home cassetted deck that were recorded from the LPs...This LP was on of the first 55 and I played this sucker constantly ...I had a custom A/C built and the Beetle rode cool in summer in the LA. heat...I loved that ride and It would be a collector's dream with A/C....

  • @1stSaintsFan I'm 16, got a beetle too, 65 (named Betty). But I live in Sweden, so I have to wait for my lisence 'til 18. Haven't got any stereo in the car yet, but my dream is to drive around, listen to this great song!

  • @littlegelland ...You enjoy that Beettle my Swedish Friend...One little tip, if you get into a pinch the little bug will float across a slow moving creek or a drawn down Bayou..About 10 minutes top...Loved that car and the cheap gas of the 70s in the USA..."Laissez les bons temps rouler" Cajun Out!!!

  • got to love youtube.........

  • joe walsh hell ya this rocks!!!!

  • takes me back to my long hair blue jeans and tie dyed t shirts i was 16 years old and i just knew the whole country was going to start loving one another and sadly at 56 gone are my youth my long hair and pretty much my dreams of a country loving each other i don't understand it is much easier to love than to hate

  • @dragonflychainsaw

    I'm 60, hair more than half way down my back (What's left) and always wear blue jeans...James Gang was a large part of the music we played in those first bands, and if for nothing else, I still love it...

  • @glk001 I'm curious..many years ago I saw a movie and the James Gang opened the back of a truck and speakers were nailed to the doors and they played something..any body have a clue?

  • Simply great.

  • Good stuff.

  • I thought this was Squires, so many old classics by groups that only had one or two major hits & were forgotten. More guitar rock of the 70's for you, hope you are enjoying the journey back in time, to rediscover some classic rock faves. I'm playing name that group as each song plays from the CD, and I failed on this & the last 2 I shared just now.

  • They used to play this on the juke box in my high school cafeteria when I was a sophomore in '71. And Joe Walsh would go on to do so much better with the Eagles later in the decade. It was a great decade in which to grow up!

  • Outstanding song..... Joe Walsh is a mean guitar player....

  • I am a fan and hopefully still of friend of Jimmy Fox. Most Fantastic Drummer!!!

  • don't forget montrose and blue oyster cult, humble pie, nazereth, trapeze, nectuer, zz top and proco harem. damn i'm old now but 1972 was a great year to get your driver's license in dallas, tx

  • Got myself hung up on you... : )

  • Joe Walsh....Whatever you did or smoker you drinked.... thank you for your talent !!!!

  • don 4get trapeze-black cloud & coast to coast- Steve winwood blind faith & traffic

    / eric clapton cant find my way home-presence of the lord-dear mr fantasy. Quicksilver- I found love- The who- seeker. Free-all right now. Humble pie- 30 days in the hole I could go on & on & on....... Like to start 60/70's revival band to say the least to preserve the profound truths and powerfull musical elements so distorted in allot of today's decadence.

  • Why can't we thumbs up? :(

  • 1971? Really? Jeez I'm old. Seems like just last night!

  • @callmethebreeze61 I was born in a great year for music. 71 rules! and yes we are getting old! lol

  • Gary Calamungi ..eat your heart out ..these were all our friends

  • @makokan2000

    How do you know Gary?

  • @DCalamungi Met Gary at Adrian college in michigan .We played together at the rush union and later Gary came out east here in New Hampshire in 1970 to start a band which kind of fizzled since I hadnt me too many players out here ..Are you his brother...Ask Gary about his stint out here with John Shepard the drummer ...

    interesting good to hear from you D

  • @makokan2000

    I'm Diana, Gary's widow. He passed away July 7, 2006. I remember your name. He had good memories of you. Glad that someone remembers Gary and his passion in music.

  • @makokan2000

    I'm Diana, Gary's widow. He dies July 7, 2006. I remember you r name. He had good memories of you. I'm glad some remembers Gary's passion for music. His son Mike now plays occasionally. Alpine Tanker 11. Check them out on Myspace.

  • Love these classics... smile :-)

  • This song is baaad-ASS.

  • man, the suggestions that came up on the right are all up my alley too: The Animals, BTO, Todd Rundgren, Mountain !!, Blue Oyster Cult. What, did they look at my album collection?

  • @DevoDevoT That's cool man. I think it's great that one of my videos has real music in the suggestions unlike some videos that don't and have the crappy mainstream music of today.

  • @Egista07 thanks for posting this...

  • @DevoDevoT did you here hollywood wants to remake "the warriors" ? what a bunch of A-holes they will never beat the original - what say you ? 

  • @nutbagbrew102 It's not a bad thing really...I think that more kids my age should understand what I mean when I stand outside their houses with beer bottles and scream: "WARRRRRIOOOORRRRSSS!!!!! COME OUT TO PLAAAAAAYYYYYYYEEEEEEEAYY!"

  • @nutbagbrew102 Hollywood wants to remake everything, it's easier than expending the effort to do an original creation. The Warriors was a very cool movie, I'd have to watch it again to see if I would still appreciate it as much as I did when it was new.

  • @DevoDevoT Did ya know he hung out with The Who? Joe gave him an old Gretsch semihollow body, and Pete used it on some of the backing tracks on "Who's Next" and "Odds and Sods"? Also Leslie West and Felix Pappalardi of Mountain. Listen to the remastered "Who's Next", Leslie is on "Baby Don't You Do It" and one other track I can't think of, but he is playing slide on it.

  • @DevoDevoT yeah I agree with that for this song, everything on the list is something I've heard and like.

  • I love this song, I got this record from a local store like a year ago

  • I love hip hop but this is the sh!@ !!!!!! man the dude on the guitar ripped it up dude is awesome man.

  • @01willerd always awesome when people can appreciate all forms of great music...

    i love hip hop too..i wouldn't say it's my main music, because there is no music i would call my main music

    but great music is great music...

  • How does this only have 1722,000 views ???? Half of them must be MINE alone !!!!!

  • I remember when this came out. We kicked it UP Large in every direction back then , HARD too... Amazed that I made it. What a Song!!! Thanks.

  • This song actually helped me learn a little more about music theory, specifically the use of the relative minor!

    If it wasn't for me hearing this song, I wouldn't have known so much about the relative minor.

    Note that the verse is in A♭Major, and the chorus is F minor (the relative minor to A♭Major).

  • There is so much about this group, and Joe Walsh...

    The most... well you can hear at the guitar solo section that he seems to effortlessly pop in and out of Phase... interesting because in just about 3 months after this album, the guitar that Walsh plays ends up in a "JAMES GANG" all right... THE JIMMY PAGE BRAIN... another sort of James Gang...

    Joe and he swapped up guitars because Jimmy needed the effect that the Sunburst had and have it easy to move between... Whole lotta love anyone?

  • OMG, I heard this today while shopping at the Bottom Dollar food store... They had it on their Muzac machine!

    What a time trip. Thanks for sharing.

  • james gang is the only good thing to come outta cleveland

  • I remember my older brother getting stoned in his room along with his friends to this song blaring back in the day.. They tucked a cloth under the door jam to stop the dope smell....yeah...like that worked!

  • @somersetdc Sounds like what we did, except we opened the window, even in the winter!

  • THIS SONG JUST ROCKS.PLAIN & SIMPLE I LOVE THE PAUSE IN THE GUITAR WITH THE DRUMS AND BASS GOING STEADY JOE WALSH IS AWESOME!!

  • such a good song

  • The Most Underrated Rock Band in Music History !!!!!!

  • @stinkyglove Interesting too that Walsh was the second guitar player in the band's history.

  • @lundehund44 as a matter of fact they went through a lot of different guitarist's.

  • djfisher, thanks for the Steppenwolf reference but its worth looking into how the term "heavy metal" came from Navy people (US and UK alike) , many 1960s rockers of course had connections with these, the Navy were talking about really big bits of metal fired from naval guns, you can find the phrase heavy metal in navy stuff from and about at least the late 1700s on.

    And BTW not that he would take the "heavy metai" label but search Deniz Tek for the genuine article. F4 pilot, guitar hero.

  • that bass and drums during the hook get me going!

  • JAMES GANG CAN REALLY GROOVE, ESPECIALLY FOR A TRIO!! THESE ALBUMS ROCK SO MUCH YOU CAN LISTEN TO THEM OVER AND OVER AND NOT TIRE OF THEM THEY DEFY GENERATIONS THEY SOUND AS GOOD TODAY AS THEY DID THEN

  • Actually the term "heavy Metal" was penned by John Kay from Steppenwolf if you listen to the lyrics of "Born to be Wild" and it refered to the sound of a Harley Davidson motorcycle at the time.

  • @djfisher3 agreed - "I like smokin' lightnin' - heavy metal thunder" - PROPS for yer post

  • @djfisher3 - Correction my friend: The expression "heavy metal" first appears in print in William Burroughs' 1962 novel The Soft Machine. Burroughs is also responsible for the terms Soft Machine (human body) and Steely Dan (dildo). John Kay of Steppenwolf lifted the term from Burroughs -- but, I will give Kay credit for using the term first in music. Also, the group "The Doors" comes from Aldous Huxley's novel "The Doors of Perception." Those hippies read too damn much.

  • @lastrada52 WONK WONK WONK WONK..GO OUTSIDE AND GET A FRIGGIN LIFE.....GEEEEZZZEEEEE

  • @whokeithmoon - Very eloquent. Always glad to hear from you. I will go get a life if you will go get an English education. Really? Is that the best you can do when you attempt to tell someone off?

  • @lastrada52 Well before i dump my 186 IQ on you, ill make it simple so that you and the rest of the room can understand...I noticed you were going up your own asshole and i really didnt want to follow you and im sure the rest of these nice folks didnt want to either!!!

  • @whokeithmoon - 186 IQ and you use words like "dump?" and start sentences with "ill" for I'll. I don't have to say anything more whokeithmoon "the rest of the room and the rest of the folks" (as you phrased it) now have a pretty clear picture of what you are without me saying much at all. And yes, thanks -- don't follow me. I don't want anyone following me up my own asshole who uses dead rock drummer's names for an ID. 186 IQ and that's the best ID you can come up with?

  • @lastrada52 well you must lead a very intresting life is all you can do is check spelling...wow you are lame..i feel sorry for you...speller checker guy, wow something to be proud of and your realitives can always say, yes he was the best spell checker i ever know, what a contrubution to society,....make sure i spelt that righ?? why did i waste my time with you..very lame sonny...

  • @whokeithmoon - Once again you prove to everyone who can READ on YouTube that you can't spell, you can't write and you can't speak. No pal, I feel sorry for you because you can't even disagree, debate or argue with anyone sensibly -- because, most people who can do those things with a degree of opinion -- wouldn't waste their time with yours. By the way, when you asked yourself "why did I waste my time with you..." you did -- because you can't tell time.

  • As a kid, the first rock power chords I remember hearing were those of Joe Walsh on this song and Funk 49 . . . still awesome . . . . three guys and all that sound -

  • Short-lived but a GREAT lineup of talent! James-Gang picture is in the dictionary when you look-up 'classic rock'.

    

  • I love this song! I was only 13 when it came out. Did they have any other hits? Thanks

  • @litenslick1 Funk 49 was a big hit probably even bigger than this song. I've uploaded that one too. Unfortunately they didn't have a lot of radio hits like they should have but they do have really great songs. Like The Bomber, and so on.

  • @Egista07 The reason why there wasn't any radio hits is this music wasn't commercial, like Donny Osmond was. They called it "Underground" or "Album Music" back in those days...Great Stuff, Walsh is in top form. Thanks for posting!

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  • @litenslick1 dood, check out tend my garden from the Rides Again album. It did not get much radio play and might be the best song on the album.............

  • @litenslick1 FUNK #49!

  • @litenslick1 Listen to everything they did.

  • @litenslick1 I love it and I was 2. lol

  • search joe walsh james gang walk away live to see a massive you tube video

  • Only bad thing about this song is that the closing train crash isn't long enough. The version by Tesla stretches out the coda, like Walsh shoulda.

  • @alexzivo Actually this was 71, Sabbath was already producing music considered as "metal"

  • @eruptionmat I agree but Ozzy said he hates it when people refer to Sabbath as Metal

  • l. ga ga suhk sooooooo baaaadd compaired to dis

  • puuure genius...

  • I Love this song.

  • Good copy here on YouTube ... I was craving hearing this song, glad I found it. Thanks for putting it up!

  • i dont know about anybody else but i am here because of supernatural

  • Walsh proved himself as a great rock guitarist starting at 2:42 of this song, "Walk Away" is a good rock song but if Walsh would have extended the ending longer it could have become rock classic

  • comparing genesis to james gang is like comparing black sabbath to justin beiber !!!

  • joe walsh is amazing with his rhythms.

  • It seems to me that the new guys " dropped the ball " when it came to the hand off of rock and roll- All it took was a little disco- sugar hill gang- new wave , and alternative- and presto- new guys dressed like bronzed chipmunks, can't play a lick chasing tail at the dance club. I mean go for it, but where is the beauty, soul , and character of rock and roll ? There are many in the world who are waiting for the next Joe Walsh to have his uncle show him this video and inspire him to create.

  • when this song came out i thought it was called " seems to me" god i love this song

  • Joe Walsh use to live in the Great State of Iowa...:)

  • It Angers Me When I Am Not Understood..Fox.Rock's Czar!...(but I guess now that every woman now is a bitch!..-through your eyes no thank you!)..You Win!

  • @foxyroxstar ..yes. what's so hard to understand about that!...but a woman that would lay down her LIFE for another Jesus?

  • is joe walsh to the eagles the exact opposite of phil collins to genesis?

  • @FalconFan23

    Genesis is wannabe rock and Roll, The James Gang IS Rock N Roll.

  • who doesn't like the James Gang

  • did someone ask "who's playing guitar?" you gotta be sh@ttin' me.......

  • @surfstrat59 Exactly my first thought also. " Ya' gotta be sh^ttin' me..."

  • @surfstrat59 Ha!!!!!

  • I heard this song on the radio awhile ago. it was pretty sweet.

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  • Great songs deserve to have words to sing along with!!!

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  • @jjammin1812 Thanks for posting the lyrics!

  • Thanks to the TV program SUpernatural I rediscovered this classic that I use to listen to when maybe I was 10, dont quite remenber exactly. I am now in my late forties.

  • I remember the first time I skoed a joint and listened to this song. Blew me away man. Still freakin does!!!!

  • OMG I'm back in the High School Gym at the dance!

  • Loved these guys! Still do!

  • Cool stuff!

  • joe

  • One of the ultimate break up tunes.

  • Excellent!!  Still KICKS ASS!!

  • underated song.

  • this was stuck in my head in math class last friday :D

    cause mr. marshall had it on really low i was jamm'n though i love this one

    in a happy goodtimes way

  • That would be Joe Walsh.