Jethro Tull called it “Living In The Past” and if there was not a buck in it the genre of music that once eschewed the buck...
...oh never-mind.
I managed to see Walsh earlier this year. Good show, casino ballroom, nice and intimate, still kicking butt. He really only tours for fun at this point though, this summer’s tour was like 9 cities, saw people wearing the shirt from last tour and it was less. When he wants to make money he goes out with the Eagles (yet another reason to hate the Eagles, every time they’re out that’s less Joe Walsh), when he wants to have some fun with his people he puts together a 1 month mini-tour. Very low press too, if I didn’t have a friend that’s obsessed with Howard Stern (who apparently has Walsh on all the time) I’d have never heard about the show.
Tull’s still out there kicking it. Sadly the TAAB2 tour skipped AZ or I would have been there. The thing with the “old guys”still out there doing their thing is they tend to be really good at it. 30, 40, 50 years of practice teaches them some things, usually now they’re much more aptly performing much better music than in their supposed hey days.