In general, he’s doing a nice laid-back thing. He’s not traveling yet he’s recording at his leisure. He’s got other people working with him, but it’s his thing. So right now, Joe is doing, more or less, a solo trip. Plus, he always had very personal music, so he wanted to express it himself rather than bouncing off the group.
#THE JAMES GANG PLUS#
Of course, Joe had a wife, plus a kid, so that made him want to be home all the more. Constantly traveling, never being at home can be a drag. He was, I guess, a little less able to cope with it than we were. We found, though, that he sings approximately like we do… so (laughter) we got Roy (Kenner). We were kind of counting on Don to do the singing. By that time we’d already found Don (Troiano). So physically, last December 12th, or so was our last job with the old band. He said he wanted to quit the band, but he’d stay playing gigs till the end of the year. Joe Walsh, being an incredibly good person, backed out in a way it takes a hell of a guy to do. One thing that hasn’t been made clear in the biography I received, and to the public, is where the old group ended and how and when did the present group begin.įOX: The old group (Fox, Dale Peters and Joe Walsh) ended verbally last September. The following interview took place shortly before the release of Straight Shooter. Straight Shooter, the band’s first post-Walsh release, unveiled a new direction… while the newest LP, Passin’ Thru, defines a new format for the James Gang. The James Gang have constantly been on the road for the past few years with the intermittent periods taken out to record in. Troiano, the new lead guitarist, has since released a solo album on Mercury Records, while the estranger Walsh released his first solo effort, Barnstorm. Added to replace the vocal and musical void were Canadians Roy Kenner and Domenic Troiano. In the course of those years, lead singer guitarist and fan focal point Joe Walsh left, leaving bassist Dale Peters and drummer Jim Fox as the bandleader and spokesman. The James Gang is seven years and six albums old and have yet to show their age. Overall it was a great night to listen to a live band perform and I thoroughly enjoyed the spectacular experience.Not unlike those James Brown records that constantly remind us all that he of “the hardest working man in show business,” those James Gang biographies always seem to emphasize that the James Gang is “the hardest working band in show business.” they played the best songs that they had released and played some popular hits at the time from other artists as well. I was worried that the guitars and music equipment may be getting wet in the rain, but the band did not seem to care about that very much because they just kept on playing away. The band had a very classic rock feeling.
We were all standing in the crowd because there were no chairs to sit on only the grass. I remember that it had just started to rain a bit and the band was on stage outside. I especially remember the night I was at a concert of James Gang.
The audience and crowds were a very exciting experience for me. I loved going to shows and listening to bands perform. But music was something that I truly enjoyed and loved.
#THE JAMES GANG FULL#
I was just a young buck in those days, trying to find myself in a world full of crazy people. Back in the day I had the privilege to see the band in concert on multiple occasions. The band had moderate success with a few charting singles. James Gang was a late sixties rock band formed in Cleveland Ohio.
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