Walk That Road - Pete Ham - Badfinger

Pete Ham plays and sings lead on his original blues-oriented song. Pete uses the 1964 Gibson SG that George Harrison gave him in 1969. Pete uses a Vox AC30 amp onstage for this one.

Pete Ham on Lead Guitar - Tom Evans throws in a little "Matchbox" vamping

Dan Matovina mastered the song - mixed from two tracks

Billy Preston said "That cat could play!" Pete did some jams at Apple. And George Harrison was especially blown away with Pete's slide playing and according to Ian Clews of Trash (An Apple band) he had an influence on George's interest in slide which started heavily that year. George encouraged Pete to play slide on "Suitcase" and 'Day After Day" when he produced Badfinger and he told Pete his solo on "I'd Die Babe" was fabulous! George was obsessed with Pete's "Name Of The Game" which he mixed and re-cut trying desperately to give the song the justice he felt it deserved, before he finally became too swamped to ever help Pete again. George was very distraught to find Badfinger signed with Warner Brothers before he knew. He likely would have tried to recruit them for his Dark Horse label he was planning.

Badfinger - "No Matter What", "Baby Blue", "Day After Day", "Without You", "Come And Get It"

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[GraceBarrett]

@cdadave83814 That's what's amazing. Dan has taken those horrible speeded-up bootleg tracks and made them very listenable here. We can only dream what might have been for Pete and Tom... Has any guitar magazine ever recognized Pete's talent or are they working on article #15,789 about Eric Clapton?

[str8truthup]

Is there one note of his playing here that isn't sheer nirvana! What an incredibly melodic, raw, in-the-pocket knock-out performance! And though it is standard blues, shows what a natural he was. He could've been Peter Green before Peter Green! Oh, I forgot, he sang great, wrote classic songs, was a superb human being...

[rgrg34]

that was f*cking amazing!!!!!!!!!! never knew Pete could play lead guitar so well WOW Maybe Bad Finger should have gone down this road a little more or blended it in anyway................to bad really RIP Pete thanks for all the great tunes.........................­............

[LabelBob]

You can really hear the aluminum vibrato tailpiece on the SG it's this hollowish metaillic BARK

[naniajoe]

DO have a LISTEN to as much of PETE HAM's vocals and guitar playing as you can....there is a lot of songs here at youtube that are treasures and show the versatility of this man we all got to know as the front man for BADFINGER....please stretch out with your mind and listen to PETE HAM....he did it all....NOT just the band and songs he is known for...Hollywood Joe

[robharding1957]

no question,,pete ham was up there with the best,,

[toejam498]

those executives with all that red tape got to him. he should have let it roll off his shoulders, what a waste of human life

[ifeelallright]

wow man, i thought my music knowledge was pretty impressive for my age, but i am blown away by all the shit you have, new subscriber here. good job

[russtyler]

Pete was like a prism. Seems like he took in everything that was going on...and what came out was always beautiful.

[rothr]

Pete, you sure did that Gibson SG right! Thanks Iveys! Thanks Dan!

[badfinger848]

@GraceBarrett One more thing...that comment you made about Clapton--I couldn't agree more! He gets far too much credit (no offense to him meant though). Sometimes, it seems that he's literally just playing one famous blues lick after the other. To be quite honest, there are so many guitarists out there that are a whole lot better than Clapton--Pete Ham, Albert Lee, Brad Paisley, Eric Johnson, Jeff Beck, Tommy Emmanuel, Chet Atkins, Jerry Reed and Mountain's Leslie West to name just a few.