This album showcases his intricate lead capabilities with extended jams added to most of the guitar songs. He also extensively worked with an Echoplex EP-2, and you can hear that right from the second cut, “You’re Gonna Need Me”.īut what was Walsh, in the scheme of rock history? First, he was the very first of the second wave of “guitar heros”. The result is medium-high gain sound that was really amazing, individual, and powerful for the period. The album was recorded in ’71, right at the peak of the period when the guitar had transitioned from a background, rhythm instrument or a spinky little lead thing into an instrument that commanded the entire stage.īill Szymczyk wasn’t the only person involved who was handy with a soldering iron: To create his sound, Joe took old blackface Fender Twins and personally modified them to gain them up and make them brighter. Nevertheless, once you come to terms with the fact that this album is a creature of its times, from this album you get a great idea of how tight a band the Gang was.
Put on your paisley shirt before you listen to this album, because there’s a certain amount of psychedelia left over from the ’60s. There was no slick repackaging and overdubbing. This is a live album from the tradition of The Allman Brothers Live at Fillmore East: They played, they mixed, you heard. The result was that they got exactly one night of performances to make this album, and it was mixed the very next day. They set up security guards every six feet along the cable to protect it. The first night, just before show time, someone cut the mic cables leading from the stage to the truck, preventing them from getting a recording.īill Szymczyk stayed up all night with his soldering iron, splicing the cables back together. Unfortunately, that first rock concert at the Carnagie was extremely unpopular with classical purists. The James Gang and producer/engineer Bill Szymczyk scheduled two mights of performances with a remote truck and planned to take the best takes from the two nights.
This was a big stinkin’ deal, and the time fronting the WHO had finally payed off. After nearly a year of constant touring, including a long tour of Europe fronting the WHO, the band was going to show the North East how it was done, as main act in the very first rock concert staged at Carnegie Hall.
Joe Walsh – James Gang Live in Concert (1971)įirst the history: The James Gang Live in Concert was intended to be the pinnacle of the band’s career.
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