The rock star Joe Walsh called the highlight of his life: “It was absolutely terrifying at the time”

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/walsh-highlight-of-his-life/ ^ | Thu 26 September 2024 | Tim Coffman

[ifinnegan]

He could write a new song - Life’s been better.

[Chode]

Two Wild and Crazy Guys...

[packrat35]

Life’s Been Good

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Pair of Aces... or Jokers

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Amen...

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that must be fun...

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to me, so far...

[dfwgator]

Luckily he got the gig with Drew Carey’s band, The Horndogs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLt0oMNuVac

[Chode]

damn good stuff...

[newfreep]

He’s married to Marjorie Bach (sister of Barbara Bach) and became the brother-in-law to Ringo Starr.

[Chode]

yup...

love his new stuff too

Analog Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=il1Byvn_vMA

Family
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCv3SeKDll0

[Paal Gulli]

The story that Keith drove a Lincoln into a hotel swimming pool is disputed but Roger Daltry gave his version of "the facts" in an interview with Jeremy Clarkson on BBC's Top Gear (season 4, episode 7).

Daltry stated he didn't see it happen but he did see the bill for $50,000 Moon received for the removal of a Lincoln Continental from the hotel swimming pool.

Then Daltry added, "...And the great thing about it, it [he swimming pool] was on the second floor."

Moon also apparently had the habit of driving cars into the pond on his farm. It was a shallow pond, not deep enough for the car to sink in but deep enough to seem to him a challenge to drive across it. Several people claim to have seen a car stuck in the pond but some claim it was a Rolls Royce and some claim it was Moon's 1939 Chrysler Wimbledon, which originally was owned by the US Embassy in London.

The multiple eye witnesses and the mismatched cars lend the possibility that Moon might have done it twice, on different occasions and in different cars.

(Top Gear presenter James May and Moon's Chrysler Wimbledon)

Ordinarily you might be inclined to think it had only happened once, if at all, but being as this is Keith Moon we're talking about ....

[Paal Gulli]

Moon with part of his car collection, including the Dino that almost lasted a month.

Almost.

And yes, that does appear to be the Wimbledon in question at right of frame.

[Paal Gulli]

"The story that Keith drove a Lincoln into a hotel swimming pool is disputed but Roger Daltry gave his version of "the facts" in an interview with Jeremy Clarkson on BBC's Top Gear (season 4, episode 7)...."

Sorry, that should have been season five, episode 7. My mistake. And you can watch it here:

https://archive.org/details/top-gear-complete-clarkson-hammond-may/Top+Gear+05x07.avi

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sweeet...

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EXCELLENT video — Joe shows how he sets up a brand new Les Paul

this is NOT a joke video

that by the way, he introduced to Jimmy Page...

Joe Walsh Les Paul Set Up Full video
WATCH AS JOE WALSH SHOWS YOU HOW TO SET UP A GIBSON LES PAUL GUITAR.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7gMwE7phoM

[Chode]

this is fairly old, don’t know if you’ve seen it

[dayglored]

> this is fairly old, don’t know if you’ve seen it (Joe Walsh Les Paul Set Up)

Coincidentally, I stumbled upon that vid about a month ago while rambling through YT. JW is entertaining as hell, funny and direct, no bullshitting. And of course he did a good job on the setup steps.

I have a Les Paul Custom (the "Black Beauty" triple-pickup, like Peter Frampton had on his live album) that I bought used. It needed a fair amount of TLC to get it into shape, but fortunately the neck was good and the pickups were solid, so after some tweaking with the bridge and adding micro-tuners (no whammy), everything else pretty much fell into place. Cleaned up real nice, heavy as hell, but great sound.

So I found JW's demonstration/lesson mostly a recap, but even so he had a few new things to add to what I knew. I've been a fan since the James Gang, and wore out my Smoker You Drink LP back in the day. The man is a legend.

[Chode]

nice...