{"id":752,"date":"2014-05-23T09:48:05","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T17:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=752"},"modified":"2014-05-23T09:48:05","modified_gmt":"2014-05-23T17:48:05","slug":"music-friday-joe-walsh-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/music-friday-joe-walsh-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Friday &#8211; Joe Walsh Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"TweetButton_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  data-url=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/music-friday-joe-walsh-edition\/\" data-text=\"Music Friday &#038;%238211; Joe Walsh Edition\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<\/script><\/div>\n<p>The spotlight turns to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joe_Walsh\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Walsh<\/a>, who many of you may know as a member of the Eagles; \u00a0However&#8230;Joe Walsh was Joe Walsh before he was an Eagle. \u00a0In the late 60&#8217;s he joined a band called The James Gang &#8211; 70&#8217;s refugees will recognize the name and recall that this band produced some of the first hit songs written\/performed by Walsh. \u00a0He left the James Gang and formed a group called Barnstorm, which had a few hits, the most commercially successful being &#8220;Rocky Mountain Way&#8221; which reached #23 on the 1973 US Top 40 Chart. \u00a0Interestingly, the band released three albums, but only the first branded as Barnstorm, the later two marketed as Walsh solo efforts. \u00a0As a result, no one remembers Barnstorm &#8211; I know I didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>This James Gang song is the one with the famous riff and the funky name: Funk #49:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JbmtW31oAj8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>OK then. \u00a0I&#8217;ll close with a few bonus fun facts about Joe Walsh:<\/p>\n<p>He played the Oboe in his high school band; He produced Dan Fogelberg&#8217;s 1974 Album <em>Souvenirs<\/em>; \u00a0he is an amatuer (HAM) radio operator, call sign WB6ACU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet The spotlight turns to Joe Walsh, who many of you may know as a member of the Eagles; \u00a0However&#8230;Joe Walsh was Joe Walsh before he was an Eagle. \u00a0In the late 60&#8217;s he joined a band called The James Gang &#8211; 70&#8217;s refugees will&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":753,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions\/753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}