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Joe Walsh - You Can't Argue with a Sick Mind Audio CD

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Joe Walsh Band: Joe Walsh
Title: You Can't Argue with a Sick Mind
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Release Date: 1990-10-25
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Walk Away 2: Meadows 3: Rocky Mountain Way 4: Time Out 5: Help Me Make It Through the Night 6: Turn to Stone

Great album - and lesser known TV appearance
I think a friend also copied it to cassette and thus it became an outdoor party soundtrack that year as well. I still have my original scratchy vinyl and would say I wore it out as much as any during the summer of '76. I loved this recording and the versions of the songs seemed so alive. Listening to it now I think I could do without the disco beat of Walk Away. But Joe or his producers definitely had the pulse of what the young rock audience wanted to hear and delivered a quality live rock performance that wasn't a total commercial sellout, and that was exactly what I wanted to hear.

BUT. . . no one has mentioned here that this performance could also be seen as well as heard, as it was filmed for the TV show Don Kirshner's Rock Concert. I can't recall which I heard first, the album or TV show, but I remember when I did tune in that late night, just to prove it to my nerdy self that it was in fact the same performance, I actually was able to somewhat sync up my record player with the picture! It would be great to see the video released someday. At a time when VHS recorders were just being introduced at $900, I doubt too many people taped it, although I think I downloaded a torrent awhile back with a rough copy. Good times!
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Party All the Time
The cool photograph of the band members and the concert shot of Joe Walsh doing a "guitar hero" pose says it all. . . this is unbridled rock without taking time to check the studio arrangements of the six numbers.

Released in October 1976 - and recorded before he became an official member of the Eagles - this is the classic live sound from Walsh; which is no frills, guitar-driven romps that powerfully feed off a revved-up audience. Only clocking in at 35:09 - even skimpy by 1970s standards - the group is Don Felder (g), Willie Weeks (b), Jay Ferguson (key), Dave Mason (key), Rocky Dzidzornu (per), Andy Newmark (d) and Joe Vitale (d).

The album kicks-off with Walk Away - the last hit Walsh had with the James Gang - and then rolls into Meadows, which is a solid lead-in for the iconic Rocky Mountain Way. Time Out has a smooth groove and Don Henley, Glenn Frey and Felder are the "guest" vocalists on Help Me Through the Night. Walsh's lead licks on Turn to Stone shows why Pete Townshend had him tabbed back in the late 1960s as the next great American electric guitarist.

During an era when the mostly self-indulgent double-live sets began to flood the marketplace, Walsh churned out one album of "catch-as-catch-can" music. He scores the pinfall win.



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Joe As He Should Have Been
On this and the James Gang Live album you experience what a truly great rock n' roll artist and performer Walsh is. I am a die-hard Joe W fan and this album acts, unfortunately, as his swan song prior to joining the Eagles. On this album be creates the soaring solos and duets with Don Felder that they later contributed to the Eagles. Not a bad cut here at all. Wonderful arrangements that reinvent the studio cuts adding textures and depth. I can only imagine how much more great music Joe would have created had he not thrown in with the Eagles. I love the guy, but he disappointed me joining the Eagles where he's just a side man. I saw the Hotel California tour and it was great seeing/hearing Joe and Don perform live their dual solo so close to when they first created it. Joe, it was great that you got the James Gang back together recently. Please, ditch the Eagles and get back out on the road with the Gang or a new Barnstorm. You need to shine front and center again. You can't argue with that.


An all-time favorite!
I owned it back when I was about 16 and it was the soundtrack to much teen angst and heartbreak! Now in my mid-40s, I even downloaded the tracks to my mp3 player. This album is an all-time favorite of mine. I know every note of every solo by heart. Turn To Stone is my favorite cut on the album.

This album has stood the test of time for me, and is a terrific addition to any Walsh fan's collection. You will not be disappointed! .


Avoid, Will Robinson, avoid, avoid! Lousy audio ahead!
The audio quality is horrible, and unlike other live releases, it's neither been remastered nor has any "bonus material" been added. OK, sorry for the "Lost in Space" intro, but seriously folks, avoid this. This is, and it sounds like it, first-generation CD audio from the 1980s. It deserves to be remastered and expanded. Until then, the best Joe Walsh (audio-wise) is either "Look What I Did" (a two-CD best of) or "Little Did He Know. . . " (a less comprehensive, but more cohesive best-of). For now, The Smoker You Drink and all the other Barnstorm-era Joe Walsh is in dire need of remastering and I wouldn't buy any of it until Joe (or his label) gets around to cleaning up the muddy sound that was so common with first-generation compact discs.

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