The james gang11/9/2022 ![]() they’re like, ‘Aren’t you guys gonna do a few more shows? I mean, we’re ready and we’re out there!’ Well, of course, I don’t have an answer, but plenty of people have their own self-interests in seeing it continue. It seemed like the easiest thing to do and it was also a guarantee that we would be getting quality people. It really doesn’t – but at the same time, we haven’t added anything. Well, you know, listening to the way Joe is talking, it doesn’t sound like the last dance. You know, maybe that’s just us being optimistic. “I don’t think that either Dale or I believe that this is the last round though. The James Gang was a rock band in the late sixties and early seventies, most famous for their songs Funk 49 and Walk Away, and for launching the career of Joe Walsh. That put the plans in motion.”Īlthough the VetsAid show is being promoted as the band’s one last ride, Fox and Peters seem not to believe that it’s gonna be their last. So we said yes and at the same time, Dave said yes to Joe’s thing. It just wasn’t shocking to hear that there might be a chance for us to do it. As tight as I was with Taylor, Joe was that tight too. ![]() I suspect that Dave and Joe had been talking. Dale Peters replaced Kriss on bass for the band's second and third. 2 The band went through a variety of line-up changes until they recorded their first album as a power trio consisting of Joe Walsh (guitars, lead vocals), Tom Kriss (bass), and Jim Fox (drums). You know, there’s two Taylor Hawkins tribute concerts coming up and he wondered if we would be interested in doing that.’ I said, ‘Are you really asking that question?’ I said, ‘Yeah, it would be an absolute thrill.’ He said, ‘Well, I think we can do it!’ I just put it on the waitlist to hear the results and back came that we were on. James Gang is an American rock band formed in Cleveland, Ohio in 1966. So if we’re good, let’s work towards that.’ I said, ‘Of course we are!’ He said, ‘While we’re on the subject, I’ve spoken with Dave Grohl. Plus, we’re looking at Columbus, so it ought to be a little bit special for Ohio.’ He said, ‘I’m sort of thinking of an Ohio-centric lineup. ![]() This year, when Joe called, he said, ‘You know, it looks like we might get it done. Every year we would talk and say, ‘Are you going to do this?’ ‘Yeah, let’s do it, man! If there is one!’ And then there wasn’t one. This is, I think, either the third or fourth year in a row of doing Joe’s veterans charity show – and COVID kicked and all of the sudden, there weren’t any shows. When Fox was asked on how did this current reunion started, he said: I still can’t believe we’re where we are and what’s happened to us.”īuy or stream The Best of Joe Walsh and the James Gang, 1969-1974.Following the tribute concert, they will be at the Walsh’s annual VetsAid benefit in Ohio this November. I don’t honestly understand what they see in us. “Okay, we were getting along, but he got us attention and since then The Who has really taken us under their wing. And he helped us a hell of a lot in the States. Americans expect everyone to be a Jimmy Page. “England has a kind of aura about it, y’know. “We would never have come over here if it hadn’t been for him,” Joe Walsh told Penny Valentine in Sounds. ![]() Soon after the release of Rides Again, their first UK performances were, aptly, supporting the British band on tour through most of October, 1970. The James Gang had won praise from Pete Townshend when they played with The Who in Pittsburgh. Jack Nitzsche contributed a classical-style orchestral arrangement to the ballad that closed the record, “Ashes, The Rain and I.” The track made an unlikely connection with club-goers in 1999, when it was sampled by British DJ-artist Fatboy Slim on his UK No.2 hit “Right Here, Right Now.” ![]()
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