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Joe Walsh You Can't Argue With A Sick Mind (1976)
Originally Released 1976\nCD Edition Released 1988 ??\n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW: Recorded live just before Joe joined up with the Eagles full-time, You Can't Argue... contains six of Joe's better-known songs. Things start off with his last hit with the James Gang, "Walk Away," and then makes its way through "Meadows" and eighteen minutes of "Rocky Mountain Way." The crowd loved it. Follow all that with "Time Out," then do "Help Me Thru the Night" acoustically with future bandmates Henley, Frey, and Felder helping out, and close things up with a profound and majestic "Turn to Stone," and you've got one heck of a Joe Walsh concert souvenir. -- James Chrispell\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nworks as an addition to your Joe Walsh collection, August 12, 2006\nReviewer: Elizabeth A. Freniere "music addict" (Massachusetts)\nI rated this record three stars because it's not Walsh at his best and it's too short, but I found the sound quality to be fine and it's a logical item to round out one's Joe Walsh collection. Any real fan will look at the track listing and already be well-versed in the six songs captured live, they're nothing new. \n\n"Walk Away"--This version is played in a very different style from the better James Gang studio version. In fact, this version here is like that on the Eagles' Farewell I video, if you are familiar with that. \n\n"Meadows"--Pretty true to the studio version but ever-so-slightly faster with a bit the of vocal embellishment one can expect from a live performance. \n\n"Rocky Mountain Way"--A good, loud, rip-roaring version suitable as music to drink to. The talkbox section seems to have more depth to it than in the studio recording and an organ really adds to the party. \n\n"Time Out"--Pretty straightforward rock with Walsh's singing sounding a bit overdone. \n\n"Help Me Make It Thru the Night"--If only one song on this record is worth it, this is the one. This is a very sweet, quiet version of this song in a different key from the studio version and Walsh's extra-reedy voice sounds more lovelorn than ever as it's backed by lovely, soft harmony vocals. \n\n"Turn to Stone"--This version starts out dramatically with a quiet but intense synthesizer introduction, then segues into what we're familiar with already. The loud instruments seem to overpower Walsh's vocals, though, and he sounds hoarse from trying too hard earlier in the concert. After the second verse, the song abruptly turns into smooth jazz with bluesy guitar, flute improvisation, and a mellow keyboard. The flute and keyboard fade out as the guitar comes to the front and resumes the song as we know it. After a number of repetitions of the theme, the band comes to a climactic ending. A nice way to close out the record.\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nYou must be joking......, February 4, 2005\nReviewer: Music Professor (UC Berkeley, CA)\nTotally outstanding and thoroughly entertaining live album, especially while driving. Crank the opening tune and get ready to party! Totally captures the mid 1970's stuff us white kids were listening to at the time. I couldn't love this album more. It takes me right back to 1976, the year I graduated from high-school. Dazed and Confused all the way baby. \n\nAlthough somewhat short, it's not a problem and is actually just another thing that makes the album great, and it's worth every penny. It is a very uniquely recorded live album as well, with excellent sound quality and the live audience sounds down-played. This album is a real sleeper in the world of 70's rock and only a few of us were lucky enough to score it. \n\nWalsh is priceless, a true gem in the world of rock, with a wonderfully unique often self-deprecating and wry sense of humor. His album titles tell the whole story. Check his background out. A top musician and song writer in his own right, you will also find among many other things that he was involved with a vast and eclectic mix of musicians and bands who he produced some truly wonderful music with. Look closely at the closing scene in The Blues Brothers movie and you might see him dancing on a table. And remember, Walsh is responsible for laying down one of the most memorable guitar solos of all time in the song Hotel California by The Eagles. \n\nOver and out \n(the Professor recommends: "I Need A Man To Love" off the Cheap Thrills album. \n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nA nice concert souvenir, May 4, 2003\nReviewer: Docendo Discimus (Vita scholae)\nNot too used to seeing a six-track CD, are you? \nWell, Joe could've certainly have found room for one or two more songs, but this album is from the age of the LP, after all, and three of these six songs are over seven minutes long. \nThe sound on this live album is very good, and Joe Walsh plays with energy and conviction. He is in good form vocally as well, and he lays down a great, bluesy solo on "Meadows" and plays searing slide guitar on "Rocky Mountain Way". \n\nThe songs flow smoothly, starting off with a powerful "Walk Away", and closing with a majestic, eight-minute rendition of the epic "Turn To Stone". And in between you'll find a great lesser-known song, the rocking "Time Out. \n\nThis fine live recording has lots of feeling, great sound, great songs, and it is a worthy addition to any Joe Walsh-collection, even if you're not an ardent fan and perhaps only own a compilation or two, or maybe a couple of his solo albums.\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nYou cant argue with the liner notes, May 25, 2002\nReviewer: G. E. Bobel (Indianapolis, Indiana United States)\n..., this is a outstanding live recording of Walsh material... it's not going to (supposed to) sound like studio versions of the same material. And remember, this was released in 1976, no digital enhancement devices here (just listen to the amp buzz during Vitale's flute solo on Turn to Stone). \n\nFor me this recording is about the soul the musicians put into the performance! Every time I listen I can see Walsh step back from the mic, drop his head and rip it up on Walk Away. And Rocky Mountain Way is given a keyboard treatment that shows the song for the fine, fine blues statement that it is. Put on a pair of headphones and really listen to the organ and piano that drives the underlying rhythm line. You absolutly will be moving every part of your body with a Ray Charles sway and bounce! \n\nAs for the personnel, here's the straight poop as read from the original release vinyl album (yes I still own it and play it almost 30 years later, so much for the theory that vinyl [stinks]). Anyway as listed on the back of the inside, cardboard dust jacket, not the back of the album cover, the credits include: Willie Weeks,Bass; Joe Vitale,Drums (he doesn't get credit for the flute solo, but it's him); Andy Newmark,Drums; Don Felder(joined the Eagles in'74), Guitar; Joe Walsh,Guitar; Rocky Dzidzonru,percussion; Jay Ferguson,keyboards; David Mason, keyboards. Vocals on "Help Me Through the Night" by Glenn Frey, Don Henly, Don Felder and Joe Walsh. \n\nBuy this CD, fire it up (as the man said LOUD) and you just may find yourself taping up the door, jammin' a damp towel at it's base, and put'en a fan in the window... blowing out! \n\nWhoever said "You can't go home again", may have been right, but for us 45 year olds, this CD might at least get you back to college... \n\nWhatever you do, Don't "Just turn your pretty head and Walk Away"!\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nhere is a real review, March 8, 2002\nReviewer: William F. Cody (Los Angeles, CA United States)\nThis is a great live CD that shows exactly what Joe Walsh was up to... He and the band are excellent and as far as the comments here that these songs are not as textured as the original recordings, well, duh - it's an f-ing live album. \nJust a note about the other reviews here. The guy who thought this was recorded with the Eagles is just plain daffy. Don Henley and Glen Frey did do vocals on the original version of Turn To Stone, but not on this live record. The other reviews are by a bunch of geeks who probably never saw Walsh live back in his heyday. As a high schooler I saw Walsh on this tour and later with the Eagles. I will defer to my friend Ron, who after seeing the revamped Eagles commented that two great bands had now become one mediocre mess - later finishing his diatribe with the statement...\n\nIf you like live records this one rocks. Play it loud!\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nThe rather you drink, the liver you harm, April 18, 2001\nReviewer: Gavin Wilson (Thames Ditton, Surrey United Kingdom)\nThis short live album marked the end of the Barnstorm era, just before Walsh got absorbed into the Eagles. I've bought this twice on CD in a pairing with 'The Smoker You Drink ...' -- once in a double CD pack, and the second time squeezed onto the same physical disc, because it's well under 35 minutes long.\nIn 1975, Walsh went on tour with a band containing, among many, two drummers (Joe Vitale and Andy Newmark), a second guitarist, and Jay Ferguson on keyboards. They must have given some fantastic concerts, and I just wonder what happened to all the rest of the material. Why did Walsh decide to release a single live LP, rather than the double, or even triple LP, that was more the norm for those days?\n\nAs other reviewers ave remarked, these live recordings stripped the studio versions of much of their subtlety and clarity. 'Walk Away' is a rip-roaring start, and perhaps a new tune for those unfamiliar with Joe's pre-Barnstorm days. 'Rocky Mountain Way' was hugely disappointing, but it features an enhanced solo on the voicebox gizmo that Walsh introduced Pete Frampton to for 'Show Me the Way' on 'Frampton Comes Alive!'.\n\nFor me, the highlights are the new arrangements on 'Meadows' and 'Turn to Stone'. 'Meadows' shares the same riff as Deep Purple's 'My Woman From Tokyo', but for this concert version, Joe ends with a powerful instrumental that is anthemic in a similar vein to 'Freebird' and 'Stairway to Heaven'. It shows Joe at his best, and should have been sited at the end of the album. 'Turn to Stone' has a pleasant synth intro, somewhat reminiscent of the Gary Wright 'Dream Weaver' album, but I've never been able to understand why Joe did three versions of the tune in the space of four albums. This version contains a flute solo from the much underrated Vitale, creator of the classic LP 'Roller Coaster Weekend'.\n\nOverall, not quite as good as 'The Smoker You Drink', but it should be much enjoyed by anyone who only knows Walsh in his Eagles persona.\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nYou can argue with flaccid arrangements, January 31, 2001\nReviewer: D. Montgomery (Houston, Texas United States)\nGreat songs, but they are rendered less powerful here than their studio antecedents by the new instrumentation and arrangements. No doubt calculated to keep up with the rock Joneses, the disco-shuffle perversion of Walk Away leads off the album. However, the album is quickly redeemed by listenable, if not interesting runthroughs of classics Meadows, Rocky Mountain Way, Time Out and Help Me Make It Through The Night. The quasi-Carribbean rhythm of Time Out prefigures the more overtly reggae-tinged funrock Walsh was to explore in later years. Finally, Turn To Stone is given a competent reading. But where is that thick Gibson tone of bygone days? All in all, worth having for the collection, but if you're looking for just one live album of Joe Walsh playing amazing guitar, perform an Amazon search for the brilliant James Gang album Live In Concert.
This rock cd contains 6 tracks and runs 35min 5sec.
Freedb: 40083706
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