So, what have you been listening to lately?

[uwe]

I've always liked him as a person and in his day job, but I didn't know he was so good at this too:



A very flourishing and expressive stage presence, no doubt, he really should have been an actor! 

[Dave W]

[uwe]

So that is how he looked like as a young man! I only knew him like this, with the perm wig:



Tsk, tsk, tsk, you don't hide that widow's peak, you're proud of it! It runs in the family with us Hornungs.

[uwe]

More Americans: art for art's sake.

[Dave W]

So that is how he looked like as a young man! I only knew him like this, with the perm wig:

Carl's toupee was bad, but Hank Snow's toupee was epic. It must have been made from roadkill.

Look starting at 2:30 when Marty Robbins interviews him. You can see the side view.

[uwe]

Ain't seein' nuthin' a tube of denture fixative couldn't have helped the man with!

[Dave W]

[uwe]

Wot, where did Jim Fox's angler hat go? It ain't the same without it.

Really nice. But the song is also a testament to Joe's songwriting developing into a trio-format-breaking direction. Hence the need for a keyboarder.

I didn't know that they have been gigging again as recent as late last year, still no angler hat though:



Walsh never fails to entertain.

[uwe]

[Dave W]

Wot, where did Jim Fox's angler hat go? It ain't the same without it.

Really nice. But the song is also a testament to Joe's songwriting developing into a trio-format-breaking direction. Hence the need for a keyboarder.

I didn't know that they have been gigging again as recent as late last year, still no angler hat though:



Walsh never fails to entertain.

There have been keyboards here and there throughout their career, at least on studio recordings. Mostly by Joe, occasionally by Jim.

They didn't play between 2006 and 2022. Last year was only for three shows. No plans for more, but Joe said never say never.

[uwe]

Yeah, I was aware that Joe played keyboards with them a lot, even on the Live in Concert album. I never understood why they didn't enlarge their line-up - Joe as their chief songwriter wanted it and always said it was his reason to move on (and he never played in a trio format again, even when he played harder music), were Fox and Peters so unsure of their position that they resisted it? Ironically, the remaining history of the Gang was basically a never-ending quest to find a stable line-up where two people did what Walsh had done before alone. They turned into a quartet with separate lead guitar and lead vocal roles and never added a keyboarder for good.

[Highlander]

And that first quartet had a DP link... eventually... they were both competent LPs that lineup put out...

[uwe]

Second quartet! The first one was Domenic Troiano with Roy Kenner in tow - two RnB inclined Canucks -, Bolin then replaced Troiano after two albums because Fox and Peters wanted someone more "rock" than Troiano and Walsh recommended Bolin to them. Kenner was first enamored with Bolin, but by the recording of Miami (a much less ebullient album than the previous Bang) he was frustrated by Bolin's now apparent lack of interest (drug- or music-fueled or both) and handed in his notice with Bolin following suit shortly after.

Miami isn't an awful album, but the decrease in energy and commitment is telling. Bolin didn't get along with Fox and began ridiculing the latter's hobbies such as collecting car license plates from all States.

[uwe]

Now that was fun to watch! I didn't really think her voice would be suited for the song, but I was wrong.



More frantic, but hell it's an encore in the set. And explains why I preferred VH with Hagar, DLR couldn't have done this. (Well, except for the can-can dancing part of course, he was always nimble.)

[westen44]

Outstanding performances by both Sheryl Crow and Van Halen.