James Gang - Allen Theater, Cleveland, OH, 2-24-2001

Here's a concert by the James Gang, Joe Walsh's band in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It's from a rare reunion in 2001.

I recently came across an audience bootleg recording of the James Gang performing at the Fillmore West in 1970. I thought, "great, with the latest improvements in audio editing technology, I can upgrade that into something worth listening." But the sound quality was too poor to be redeemable. However, I also noticed a soundboard concert from 2001. It was better in every way than the 1970 recording, including being much longer. The only problem was the date. But I figure, what the hell, it's too bad we can't get a concert recording like this of the band in their prime, but at least we got one. (Plus, there is a good official live album, "James Gang Live in Concert," from 1971.)

Compared to most bands from their era, there haven't been that many James Gang reunions. Probably that's because the leader of the band, Joe Walsh, had a very successful solo career, as well as a career with the Eagles. The two other band members, Jim Fox and Dale Peters, kept the James Gang going through most of the 1970s, including having a few notable years with Tommy Bolin on lead guitar. However, they broke up the band by the end of the 1970s. 

The classic line-up of Walsh, Fox, and Peters first reunited in 1991, playing three songs at an encore of a Joe Walsh concert. They played a few songs again in 1996 and 1998. But their very first full song together since 1971 was this one. They played a few songs at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland on February 22, 2001. Then this concert happened two days later, also in Cleveland. They did one more concert at the same venue one day later. But that was the extent of their 2001 reunion.

They got together to play two concerts in 2005. Then there was a short tour in 2006, with about 17 concerts. After that, it was a long time until they played again. They played three times in 2022. There haven't been any reunions since, and there may not be, given how all of them are in their late 70s as I write this in 2026. I haven't been able to find any recordings with soundboard level quality from their 2006 tour or any other reunions. So we're lucky at least we have this one.

The vocals were pretty low in the mix. So I used the MVSEP program to boost them relative to the instruments. Also, the cheering at the ends of songs was pretty quiet. But there was enough there that I was usually able to increase the volume of those parts to make it sound like a more reasonable amount of cheering. 

This album is an hour and 14 minutes long. 

01 Walk Away (James Gang)
02 Midnight Man (James Gang)
03 Take a Look Around (James Gang)
04 Ashetton Park [Instrumental] (James Gang)
05 The Bomber (James Gang)
06 talk (James Gang)
07 talk (James Gang)
08 Garden Gate (James Gang)
09 talk (James Gang)
10 Collage (James Gang)
11 Ashes, the Rain and I (James Gang)
12 talk (James Gang)
13 Tend the Garden (James Gang)
14 Stop (James Gang)
15 Personal Manager (James Gang)
16 Lost Woman (James Gang)
17 Funk No. 49 (James Gang)
18 Rocky Mountain Way (James Gang)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/7GXQ4fJ4

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/iRevOuiegW4LfJ3/file

I couldn't find any good photos from the band's brief 2001 reunion. So this comes from the time of their next reunion, in 2006. Specifically, it's from back stage at a concert at the Northfork Theatre in Westbury, Connecticut, on August 12, 2006. From right to left: guitarist Joe Walsh, drummer Jim Fox, and bassist Dale Peters.

Joe Walsh with Stephen Stills - VetsAid 2023, North Island Credit Union Amphitheater, Chula Vista, CA, 11-12-2023

The other day, this concert appeared on my YouTube feed. I was intrigued by the fact that it wasn't a typical Joe Walsh concert, because Stephen Stills joined him for three songs, singing lead vocals on two of them. It was originally from a webcast, meaning the sound quality is excellent, so I decided to post it.

It turns out this set was from a larger benefit concert called VetsAid. It's been held annually since 2017. Joe Walsh has been a prime mover behind the concerts, along with his wife Marjorie. Both of them had parents who were military veterans. The money raised by the concerts goes to fund non-profits that help veterans. Unusually, the concert is held in different towns each year, towns that typically don't have concerts like this. For instance, this one was held in Chula Vista, near San Diego. The 2025 one was in Witchita, Kansas, and the 2022 one was in Columbus, Ohio.

Each year, there's a different line-up of prominent music acts. For this concert, the other acts were the War on Drugs, Lucius, the Flaming Lips, and Electric Light Orchestra. Stills didn't perform a set of his own.

All the songs here came from a YouTube video of the webcast, except for one song, so the sound quality was excellent. As I often do, I converted the video to audio, then chopped it into mp3s. However, the vocals were low in the mix, so I fixed that with help of the MVSEP program. 

 

The one song not from that webcast was "Rocky Mountain Way," which was removed due to some copyright issue. I found a different version of that song on YouTube, probably recorded by someone in the audience with their cell phone. Not surprisingly, the sound quality isn't as good on this one. I did some extra edits on that to try to improve the sound quality. It sounds somewhat better, but it's still rougher than the other songs.

Walsh and Stills were no longer spring chickens at the time of this concert, but they certainly could still play guitar. There's a lot of excellent lead guitar work here. For instance, "Turn to Stone" is 11 minutes long, with most of that soloing. And the songs with Stills are a highlight, due to the guitar dueling between Walsh and Stills.

 

I found an article about this concert in a San Diego newspaper, if you want to know more: 

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2023/11/13/joe-walsh-and-fellow-rock-roll-hall-of-famers-made-san-diego-vetsaid-a-benefit-concert-to-remember/

By the way, if anyone has any of the other webcasts of the VetsAid concert, including the other acts from this one, please let me know. I got the impression that there have been webcasts of these concerts every year, but they're surprisingly hard to find. 

This album is 57 minutes long. 

01 talk (Joe Walsh)
02 In the City (Joe Walsh)
03 Life's Been Good (Joe Walsh)
04 talk (Joe Walsh)
05 Turn to Stone (Joe Walsh)
06 Funk No. 49 (Joe Walsh)
07 talk (Joe Walsh)
08 talk (Joe Walsh & Stephen Stills)
09 For What It's Worth (Joe Walsh & Stephen Stills)
10 Love the One You're With (Joe Walsh & Stephen Stills)
11 talk (Joe Walsh & Stephen Stills)
12 Rocky Mountain Way (Joe Walsh & Stephen Stills)
13 talk (Joe Walsh)
14 All Night Long (Joe Walsh)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/geYXyByG

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/L1ue4d2PVQgQoAr/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. Stephen Stills is on the left, with glasses, and Joe Walsh is on the right.

Various Artists - MusiCares Tribute to Paul McCartney, Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA, 2-10-2012

Here's another MusiCares tribute show. This one celebrates Paul McCartney's music career. It's a bit short as far as these types of concerts go, but what's here is very good.

The usual format for these kinds of tribute concerts is a series of stars sing covers by the performer being honored, then there's an acceptance speech, and then the performer plays a couple of songs at the end. That's how this one went as well, except Paul McCartney performed two songs at the beginning as well as three at the end.

Actually, he did one more: a cover of "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter" performed as a duet with Diana Krall. However, this is sourced from a DVD, and that wasn't included, so I don't have it here. Also, Katy Perry sang "Hey Jude," and the Foo Fighters sang "Jet," and those aren't here either, for the same reason. If anyone has those missing songs, please let me know and I'll be happy to add them in. 

Additionally, Cirque du Soleil started the concert with a medley of "Get Back," "Hello Goodbye," and "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band." But I edited that out because it was a visual performance done to the record versions. 

What's here is pretty great though, which isn't shocking considering McCartney was one of the best and possibly the most commercially successful songwriters of all time. Particularly interesting is the finale, a version of the Beatles medley "Golden Slumbers - Carry That Weight - The End" with McCartney, Joe Walsh, and Dave Grohl dueling on guitars.

As mentioned above, this has been officially released on DVD. However, there have been no audio releases. The sound quality is excellent. 

This album is 54 minutes long.

01 talk (emcee)
02 Magical Mystery Tour (Paul McCartney)
03 Junior's Farm (Paul McCartney)
04 talk (emcee)
05 talk (Alicia Keys)
06 Blackbird (Alicia Keys)
07 talk (emcee)
08 No More Lonely Nights (Alison Krauss & Union Station)
09 talk (emcee)
10 And I Love Her (Duane Eddy)
11 talk (emcee)
12 Oh, Darling (Norah Jones)
13 talk (emcee)
14 I Saw Her Standing There (Neil Young)
15 talk (emcee)
16 The Fool on the Hill (Sergio Mendes)
17 We Can Work It Out (Coldplay)
18 Yesterday (James Taylor with Diana Krall)
19 talk (James Taylor)
20 For No One (Diana Krall with James Taylor)
21 talk (emcee)
22 talk (Neil Portnow)
23 talk (Paul McCartney)
24 My Valentine (Paul McCartney, Diana Krall & Joe Walsh)
25 Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five (Paul McCartney)
26 Golden Slumbers - Carry That Weight - The End (Paul McCartney, Joe Walsh & Dave Grohl)
27 talk (Paul McCartney) 

This album is 54 minutes long. 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/KaZyTRqs

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/MaVF1LXhP4bCOhQ/file

The cover photo is from the finale of this exact concert. From left to right on guitars: Joe Walsh, Paul McCartney, and Dave Grohl. 

Various Artists - PBS Soundstage, The Rocky Mountain Way, Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre, Greenwood Village, CO, 8-13-2017

Here's a rather strange episode of PBS Soundstage." Occasionally, that TV show would just broadcast highlights of concerts that were happening anyway. For instance, in 2003, one episode of the show consisted of highlights from that year's Farm Aid benefit concert, and in 2016 they broadcast highlights of a tribute concert for George Harrison, called GeorgeFest. 

This another case like that. Weirdly, the concert was for the Colorado Music Hall of Fame. That year, they were inducting Joe Walsh's early 1970s band, Barnstorm, and Dan Fogelberg, and a couple of others. But really, it was basically a tribute to Fogelberg, who died in 2007. Walsh did play a few songs with Barnstorm for the first time in ages, but even that was kind of a Fogelberg tribute, since he was friends with Fogelberg and produced one of his albums. 

What we have here consists only of the highlights that made it on the Soundstage TV show. Other songs were played, including by some other musical acts, but I couldn't find them. On this recording, Joe Walsh started out playing three of his songs from his early 1970s Barnstorm era. Then the rest of the concert consisted of different musical acts performing Fogelberg songs. Fool's Gold is the name of Fogelberg's long-time backing back. Johnnyswim is a rather obscure married vocal duo. The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and Richie Furay (formerly of Buffalo Springfield and Poco) apparently played one or more of their own songs earlier in the concert. But all we have is them performing together on a Fogelberg song. Then country star Vince Gill and Christian pop star Amy Grant sang a Fogelberg song together. They're connected due to being married since 2000. 

The biggest name of the evening was saved for last: Garth Brooks. Whether one likes it or not, he's one of the best selling musical acts of all time. It turns out he's also a huge fan of Dan Fogelberg's music. He was introduced by Fogelberg's widow and then sang one Fogelberg song, "Phoenix." The concert ended with one last Fogelberg song, in which all their earlier performers joined Brooks on stage for the song.

I read an article discussing some controversy about this concert, because some unscrupulous local promoter billed the concert soley as a Garth Brooks one, driving up ticket prices. Some fans were very disappointed when it turned out he only had a small role to play, despite there being other big names too, like Joe Walsh. But apparently that promoter had nothing to do with the people who actually arranged and put on the concert. 

I had a pretty difficult time editing this one. This was one of those occasional episodes where some editor thought it was a smart idea to have voiceovers over parts of the songs, especially over instrumental solos. I was able to cut out a bunch of stuff that wasn't from the actual concert between songs, like interview segments. As for the voiceovers during songs, luckily they kept enough of the music that I was able to erase the voices and keep the underlying music, using the UVR5 program. However, there was some damage to the music in those songs, the ones with "[Edit]" in their titles. 

Also, this is yet another episode of this show where the best sounding recording turned out to be a video file. So I converted that to audio and broke it into mp3s. (And by the way, this episode isn't listed in the Wikipedia page's list of all the Soundstage episodes, but I know it was such an episode because I watched the video of it, complete with Soundstage graphics. The episode title, "The Rocky Mountain Way," is the name Soundstage gave the concert, not the actual concert name used at the time.)

This unreleased album is 56 minutes long.

01 talk (Joe Walsh)
02 Here We Go (Joe Walsh)
03 Turn to Stone (Joe Walsh)
04 talk (Joe Walsh)
05 Rocky Mountain Way (Joe Walsh)
06 Part of the Plan [Edit] (Fool's Gold)
07 Nether Lands [Edit] (Johnnyswim)
08 Run for the Roses [Edit] (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band & Richie Furay)
09 talk (Vince Gill & Amy Grant)
10 Longer (Vince Gill & Amy Grant)
11 talk (Jean Fogelberg)
12 Phoenix (Garth Brooks)
13 talk (Chuck Morris)
14 There's a Place in the World for a Gambler (Garth Brooks & Everyone)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/gqqHFvZQ

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/WizLWpcA2Bkjqv7/file

 The cover image is a screenshot I took of a video of this concert, showing Joe Walsh performing a guitar solo.

The Eagles - The Forum, Inglewood, CA, 3-4-1980

Here's a live concert from 1980 by the Eagles (or, if you want to be technically correct, just Eagles).

The Eagles broke up in 1980, although they would reunite in 1994 and occasionally thereafter. They marked the end of their eight years as a band with a live double album, simply called "Eagles Live." Although decent, in my opinion it has some problems. I generally prefer full concerts. Not only is "Eagles Live" selected from multiple concerts from 1980, five of the songs actually are from 1976! And given the band had so much material to choose from, why reach back to 1976 and pick songs like "Doolin' Dalton (Reprise II)" and "Wasted Time?"

Furthermore, the band was slowing falling apart, and losing enthusiasm as the tour went on. In fact, things got so bad that on the last night of the tour, there was a confrontation between band members Glenn Frey and Don Felder that some say came to blows. It is known that Felder smashed one of his own guitars to express his feelings. Yet there was even music on the live album from that concert. The break-up after that was very bitter.

I have another issue with the official live album. It's well known that the songs were extensively overdubbed later. In fact, Rolling Stone Magazine later said it was "perhaps the most heavily overdubbed [live album] in history." I prefer listening to live performances as they really were, without all that tinkering.

Luckily for us, there is one soundboard bootleg from the band's final tour, this one. However, there is one major problem with it: the recording stopped before the end of the concert. About one minute into an encore of the song "Carol," it seems the tape ran out. This is particularly frustrating because this was a cover of the Chuck Berry song, and the Eagles never put it on their "Eagles Live" album or any other album. Furthermore, Elton John played piano on it, although to be honest it's hard to tell. 

I got a minor break in that I found an audience bootleg that had the rest of "Carol," plus all of the next song, "Best of My Love." The song "Carol" has "[Edit]" in the title because I spliced the two versions together. Unfortunately, it seems that the tape on that recording ran out too. According to setlist.fm, two more songs were performed, "Walk Away" and "Tequila Sunrise." But at least we got the vast majority of the concert, even though the sound quality on the last two is a little rough. 

Personally, I think this is better than the official album from the tour. The only loss in my opinion is that this doesn't have a version of the song "Seven Bridges Road," which the band released for the first time on "Eagles Live." I checked, and while the band played the song on March 1st and 2nd, it was a changing setlist, and they skipped it on March 3rd and 4th.

This album is an hour and 36 minutes long.

01 Hotel California (Eagles)
02 Already Gone (Eagles)
03 In the City (Eagles)
04 The Disco Strangler (Eagles)
05 The Sad Cafe (Eagles)
06 Lyin' Eyes (Eagles)
07 talk (Eagles)
08 I Can't Tell You Why (Eagles)
09 Those Shoes (Eagles)
10 talk (Eagles)
11 Heartache Tonight (Eagles)
12 One of These Nights (Eagles)
13 talk (Eagles)
14 Turn to Stone (Eagles)
15 The Long Run (Eagles)
16 talk (Eagles)
17 Life's Been Good (Eagles)
18 Life in the Fast Lane (Eagles)
19 talk (Eagles)
20 Carol [Edit] (Eagles with Elton John)
21 talk (Eagles)
22 Best of My Love (Eagles)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/4oeTCBLT

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/3K3wHjVdYzdgENY/file

The cover photo doesn't come from this concert, but it's close. It's from a concert at the same venue, but on March 1st, the first of a four concert run. The fancy lettering of the band name at the top is something I found just by Googling images of the band's name.

US Festival '83, Glen Helen Regional Park, San Bernardino, CA, 5-30-1983 - Day 3, Part 7: Joe Walsh

The seventh act on Day Three (Rock Day) of the 1983 US Festival is a set by Joe Walsh.

Joe Walsh is famous both for a successful solo career and for being a member of the band the Eagles. The Eagles were asked to perform at the festival, but they broke up in 1980 and some of the band members were on bad terms with each other. So I suppose having Joe Walsh as a solo artist was kind of a next best thing.

After the Eagles broke up, Walsh released a solo album in 1981, "There Goes the Neighborhood." At the time of the festival, he was on the verge of releasing another, "You Bought It - You Name It." That was released just a month after the festival. But apparently he didn't play any songs from it. If this is the full set, he didn't play any songs from either album. The closest was "All Night Long," which was released on a movie soundtrack album in 1980.

Walsh was supposed to play on Day Two, Heavy Metal Day. That wouldn't have been a good musical fit, since his music isn't heavy metal. John Mellencamp was supposed to play on Day Three, but he cancelled due to a dispute with the promoters, so Walsh was moved to Mellencamp's spot. That opened a spot on Day Two, which was filled by Quiet Riot. (I'm not sure who else was asked to play the festival and declined, though I saw one mention that Michael Jackson turned down a big offer.)

I'm not sure if this is the full set or not. It could be, because I can't find any mention of any additional songs. But it also seems a bit short for one of the biggest named acts on Day Three (with the set times generally getting longer as each day went on). In any case, this is sourced from a video, which I broke up into mp3s. I also used the UVR5 audio editing program to boost the lead vocals relative to the instruments, for a better mix.

This album is 50 minutes long.

078 talk (Joe Walsh)
079 Fanfare for the Common Man [Instrumental] (Joe Walsh)
080 In the City (Joe Walsh)
081 Welcome to the Club (Joe Walsh)
082 talk (Joe Walsh)
083 Life in the Fast Lane (Joe Walsh)
084 talk (Joe Walsh)
085 The Bomber [Closet Queen - Bolero - Cast Your Fate to the Wind] (Joe Walsh)
086 talk (Joe Walsh)
087 Funk No. 49 (Joe Walsh)
088 talk (Joe Walsh)
089 Rocky Mountain Way - Rainy Day Women No. 12 and 35 (Joe Walsh)
090 talk (Joe Walsh)
091 Life's Been Good (Joe Walsh)
092 talk (Joe Walsh)
093 All Night Long (Joe Walsh) 

https://www.upload.ee/files/17039577/VA-1983USFstvlDay0307JoeWlsh_atse.zip.html

alternate link:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/FFJAxBQ7

The cover photo is from this exact concert.

Joe Walsh - University of Texas, Arlington, TX, 9-24-1973

There are tons of bootleg recordings on the Internet, but trying to find the ones with really excellent sound quality can be like trying to find a needle in a haystack. (I guess that's a big reason why I have this blog in the first place.) Months ago, I looked high and low for any worthy bootlegs by Joe Walsh prior to when he joined the Eagles in 1976. It was extremely slim pickings. Somehow, I totally missed this concert, which sounds surprisingly good for 1973. Not only must it be a soundboard, but there's so little cheering that at first I thought it might be studio outtakes. This, clearly, is the best sounding live document of Walsh from before he joined the Eagles.

This concert doesn't have much singing on it. There are two lengthy instrumentals. And even the songs with vocals often have short vocal sections and long instrumental passages. But that means this is a great showcase for Walsh's lead guitar skills. 

Speaking of instrumentals, I don't know the names of either of the songs that I've just called "Instrumental No. 1" and "Instrumental No. 2." If you do, please let me know so I can correct their titles.

By the way, technically I suppose this should be credited to "Joe Walsh and Barnstorm." But his 1973 album, where many of these songs come from, was credited to just Walsh, and Barnstorm broke up after this tour. 

This album is 54 minutes long.

01 Meadows (Joe Walsh)
02 Instrumental No. 1 (Joe Walsh)
03 The Bomber (Joe Walsh)
04 Turn to Stone (Joe Walsh)
05 Instrumental No. 2 (Joe Walsh)
06 Tend My Garden - Drum Solo (Joe Walsh)
07 Rocky Mountain Way (Joe Walsh)
08 The Bomber [Reprise] (Joe Walsh)
09 Turn to Stone [Reprise] [Instrumental] (Joe Walsh)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15302578/JoeWal_1973_UnverstyofTxasArlingtnTX__9-24-1973_atse.zip.html

The cover photo comes from an appearance on an ABC TV show in September 1973.

The Eagles - The Summit, Houston, TX, 11-6-1976

I just came across this bootleg Eagles concert today. I was so impressed with the sound quality that I'm posting it straight away.

In 1976, the Eagles had a new lead guitarist, Joe Walsh, who was already a star. They put out an album at the end of the year, "Hotel California," that went on to sell over 30 million copies worldwide. One of the band's singers, Don Henley, later said that the band "probably peaked on 'Hotel California. After that, we started growing apart as collaborators and as friends." So this is a particularly good time to hear a concert for them, especially for hearing their earlier songs done with Walsh's lead guitar. 

The 40th Anniversary Edition of "Hotel California" has included a concert in Los Angeles in October 1976. But that one only has ten songs on it, whereas this one has 17. I think that makes this a better listen, especially since the sound quality is outstanding. It so good that at times you'd think this was a studio session instead.

There were no problems with this bootleg. However, I did boost the audience noise after most of the songs. The soundboard was so pristine that the amount of cheering didn't sound right. Also, I cut out some dead air between songs, but not much. There is hardly any between song banter. I guess the band members just weren't feeling talkative that day.

Only two of the songs played were from the "Hotel California" album, which would get released a month later. But one of those is the song "Hotel California" itself, which of course would go on to become an all-time classic. Also, the concert is interesting in that four of the songs were done by Walsh outside the Eagles: "Turn to Stone," "Funk No. 49," "Rocky Mountain Way," and "Walk Away."

This concert is an hour and 38 minutes long.

01 Hotel California (Eagles)
02 Lyin' Eyes (Eagles)
03 talk (Eagles)
04 Wasted Time (Eagles)
05 Take It to the Limit (Eagles)
06 Desperado (Eagles)
07 Midnight Flyer (Eagles)
08 Turn to Stone (Eagles)
09 Already Gone (Eagles)
10 One of These Nights (Eagles)
11 Funk No. 49 (Eagles)
12 Good Day in Hell (Eagles)
13 Rocky Mountain Way (Eagles)
14 Witchy Woman (Eagles)
15 James Dean (Eagles)
16 talk (Eagles)
17 The Best of My Love (Eagles)
18 Walk Away (Eagles)
19 Tequila Sunrise (Eagles)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/26HGLneD

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/9SNW3P3gW7bfDOY/file

I couldn't find any really good photos of the band in concert in 1976. This one is from a concert in Rotterdam, Netherlands, in May 1977. In February 2025, I improved the image slightly with the help of the Krea AI program.

James Gang - Pop2, Taverne de l'Olympia, Paris, France, 6-20-1971

The other day, I was listening to music by James Gang, the group led by Joe Walsh in the late 1960s until 1971, and I felt the urge to hear something by them that I hadn't heard before. So I went to check the wonderful world of bootlegs. But it turns out there's very, very little that has excellent sound quality. So I gathered all of the best sounding stuff and made a live album out of it. Five out of the nine songs come from a show broadcast by the French TV show "Pop2," so that's what I'm calling this. But about half of the total length comes from other sources.

As I was saying, it's shocking how little well recorded live music exists from James Gang, unless there's some buried in record company vaults that's still locked away. (I speak of the time Joe Walsh led the band until late 1971, since in my opinion he was the heart of the band, being the lead singer, lead guitarist, and main songwriter.) There is one official live album from 1971 called "Live in Concert." But that, plus these songs here, seem to be all there is in soundboard or radio show quality. There are some audience bootlegs, including one from the Fillmore West in 1970 that purports to be a soundboard, but the sound quality isn't up to what I would expect. 

To make matters worse, although the vast majority of classic rock acts from this time period have released bonus tracks, deluxe editions, super deluxe editions, box sets, and so on, James Gang hasn't had any of that at all. As far as I can tell, there's been no archival material released whatsoever, ever since the time Walsh left the band. I highly doubt this is due to bad blood between the band members, since the original James Gang has gotten together for musical reunions every now and then. Maybe Walsh just isn't interested, since it seems to be exactly the same situation with his solo career.

Whatever the case may be, Walsh has had legit "guitar hero" skills, so it's a shame there aren't more recorded examples of him wailing on his guitar. At least we have some very good examples here. The first song is an odd one. They took "Jeff's Boogie," a relatively short instrumental by the Yardbirds, and supersized it to the point that one might argue it's actually a medley of songs. One can definitely hear parts of the songs "Over, Under, Sideways, Down" and "Think about It" (both by the Yardbirds also) and "I Feel Fine" and "Blackbird" by the Beatles. It was done in a studio for a radio station in 1968, so there's no crowd noise.

The next two songs also date to 1968. By some random chance, the band was recorded in concert with high sound quality, even though it was just before they went to record their first album. There might be more recorded, but I doubt it because I checked all the usual places and this was all I could find. Note that "White Summer" is an instrumental by the Yardbirds (who seem to have been a big influence). Only a short bit of it is played at the end of a long version of "Bluebird," originally by Buffalo Springfield.

The remaining songs except for the last one come from "Pop2," the 1971 French TV show mentioned above. Unfortunately, it seems to have only been a half-hour long show, with time further reduced for introductions and commercials. There also were a couple interview sections between songs that I haven't included. So we're left with only 20 minutes of what must have been a longer show. The beginning of the first song, "Stop," is not included, but I edited it a way so that hopefully that loss doesn't sound so jarring. I also added some applause at the end (taken from one of the other songs), since there was a quick cut at the end with no applause. Happily, all the other songs appear to be complete and include the applause. 

A video of this can be found on YouTube (though I took it from a better quality source), so you can watch it as well. As far as I can tell, it's the only surviving film footage of James Gang from the Walsh time period, except for a performance of "Walk Away" on the German TV show "Beat Club." (I didn't include that because it's quite similar to the version of "Walk Away" from the Pop2 show.)

The last song, "Tend My Garden," comes from another 1971 bootleg, recorded in the Netherlands. Weirdly, there were only two songs on this bootleg, and the other one was a version of "The Bomber" that's version similar to the version from Pop2, so I didn't include it here.

If you add it all up, there are 55 minutes of music here. If anyone knows of other live recordings by the band in this time frame that has similar sound quality, let me know and I'll add it in.

01 Jeff's Boogie [Instrumental] (James Gang)
02 I'm a Man (James Gang)
03 Bluebird - White Summer (James Gang)
04 Stop [Edit] (James Gang)
05 Walk Away (James Gang)
06 The Bomber- Closet Queen - Bolero - Cast Your Fate to the Wind (James Gang)
07 Woman (James Gang)
08 Johnny B. Goode (James Gang)
09 Tend My Garden (James Gang)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16693314/JAMSGNG1971_Pop2TvernedelOlympiaPrisFrnce__6-20-1971_atse.zip.html

The cover photo shows the band playing for the British TV show "Top of the Pops" in 1971.

Joe Walsh - Reunion Arena, Dallas, TX, 7-10-1981

Up until yesterday, I only had one Joe Walsh concert recording, which is the album I've posted here previously, an expanded version of his live album recorded in 1975. But I was looking for some files at Soulseek, and I came across a concert of his that someone marked with an all caps "WOW." That got me to check it out, and sure enough, it worthy of a "wow." Both the performance and the sound quality are e
xcellent. So here it is.

To this day, Walsh has only released one live album, the one from 1975 mentioned above. I think 1981 is a good year for another one. He was riding high from playing with the Eagles for a few years, and had another hit single ("A Life of Illusion") and hit album ("There Goes the Neighborhood"). Unfortunately, his critical and commercial success went downhill after that, compared to what he did before.

The one disappointment I had in seeing this set list was the lack of songs he did with the Eagles. (Though "In the City" is a partial exception. He first did it solo for a movie soundtrack, and then did a different version for the Eagles' "The Long Run" album.) In particular, I fully expected to find "Life in the Fast Lane" here, but it turns out he didn't play that song live in 1981 at all. So I found a version from a 1983 concert with similarly excellent sound, and I've added it as a quasi-bonus track at the end. 

01 Meadows (Joe Walsh)
02 Over and Over (Joe Walsh)
03 talk (Joe Walsh)
04 In the City (Joe Walsh)
05 talk (Joe Walsh)
06 A Life of Illusion (Joe Walsh)
07 talk (Joe Walsh)
08 The Bomber- Closet Queen - Bolero - Cast Your Fate to the Wind (Joe Walsh)
09 talk (Joe Walsh)
10 Dreams (Joe Walsh)
11 talk (Joe Walsh)
12 Theme from Boat Weirdos (Joe Walsh)
13 talk (Joe Walsh)
14 Funk No. 49 (Joe Walsh)
15 You Never Know (Joe Walsh)
16 talk (Joe Walsh)
17 Life's Been Good (Joe Walsh)
18 talk (Joe Walsh)
19 Rocky Mountain Way (Joe Walsh)
20 All Night Long (Joe Walsh)
21 Life in the Fast Lane (Joe Walsh)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16693412/JOWLSH1981_RunionArnaDllasTX__7-10-1981_atse.zip.html

I could have used a photo of Walsh in 1981 for the album cover, but I found one from 1979 that I like better. I don't know anything about it other than it's from 1979.

Joe Walsh - Don Kirshner's Rock Concert, Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, CA, 11-26-1975

I find it very odd that in Joe Walsh's long solo career, he's only released one live album, "You Can't Argue with a Sick Mind," released in 1976. And that was an unusually short one as live albums go, at only 34 minutes. So I set about to find a good bootleg concert from the 1970s, before he joined the Eagles in 1976.

It turns out I could only find one concert that has truly excellent sound quality. Unfortunately, it turned out to be exactly the same concert that was the source of his lone live album. It was an hour-long appearance on the "Don Kirshner's Rock Concert" TV show. But I'm posting it here because I found some additional songs from that show that almost doubles the length and, in my opinion, makes it into a proper live album.

Specifically, the songs "Welcome to the Club, "Get Back," and "Gimme Some Lovin'" were added. The last two are covers of the famous hits by the Beatles and the Spencer Davis Group respectively. It's disappointing those two weren't included on the official album, since he never recorded them for any studio albums either.

I should also point out that Walsh had a number of prominent musicians helping out for this concert. Don Felder, who had recently joined the Eagle, was part of his band for the entire show. Two more Eagles, Glenn Frey, Don Henley, joined on vocals for the song "Help Me through the Night." Plus, Frey returned for the final song. Also, Jay Ferguson, formerly of the band Spirit, played piano for the show. (A couple of years later, he would have a big solo hit with "Thunder Island.") Dave Mason, formerly of Traffic, played organ.

For this recording, I relied entirely on a bootleg recording, and ignored the official version entirely. That way, the sound was consistent all the way through. But there was one big problem with the bootleg I used. Since it was recorded from the TV show, pretty much all the talking between songs was edited out, and many times even the audience applause after the songs were cut short by announcers talking or commercial breaks. But there was enough applause remaining that I was able to patch in some clapping from the ends of other songs so that all the songs have an appropriate audience response.

Another issue is song order. The order here is based on the bootleg, but it's totally different from the order on the official album. I'm pretty sure this is right and the official album is wrong.

01 Time Out (Joe Walsh)
02 Meadows (Joe Walsh)
03 Walk Away (Joe Walsh)
04 Mother Says (Joe Walsh)
05 Welcome to the Club (Joe Walsh)
06 Help Me through the Night (Joe Walsh & the Eagles)
07 Turn to Stone (Joe Walsh)
08 Rocky Mountain Way (Joe Walsh)
09 talk (Joe Walsh)
10 Get Back (Joe Walsh)
11 Gimme Some Lovin' (Joe Walsh)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15260434/JoeWal_1975_DnKirshnrsRockConcrtCivcAuditoriumSntaMonicaCA__11-26-1975_atse.zip.html

I couldn't find a cover art worthy photo from the exact concert in question. The one I used comes from a concert earlier in the same year held in the Netherlands.

The Eagles - Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA, 6-8-1994

Sometimes when I'm putting these albums together, things work out so nicely that it's almost uncanny. This is one of those times. :) I just posted a bootleg of the Eagles performing a full concert for MTV Unplugged in 1994. After doing two shows for MTV, the Eagles went on a lengthy tour. When I was getting ready to post that concert yesterday, I wondered if they'd played some songs on that tour that they didn't play for MTV Unplugged. I'd expected maybe a couple, because the Unplugged show was two hours long and included lots of big hits. To my surprise, I found a concert from two months later in 1994 that had almost another hour and a half of different songs!

So I've made this album. It contains absolutely zero songs in the MTV Unplugged concert I just posted, making it the ideal complimentary album to that one. And while the song quality for the Unplugged show is fantastic, this is nearly as good. It too comes from a soundboard, with the audience noise fairly low compared to the music from the band.

The Eagles are one of the most successful musical acts of all time, and Don Henley, Glenn Frey, and Joe Walsh had lots of solo success on top of that. The Unplugged show was dominated by Eagles hits and only had a smattering of their solo hits. This recording, by contrast, has a much higher percentage of solo material, including some all-time classics, like "The Boys of Summer," "Life's Been Good," and "Rocky Mountain Way." Including the quasi-bonus tracks (which I will explain below), only five of the songs here were originally done by the Eagles, while 12 were not. In a way, I think this is the more interesting concert in that it allows you to hear Eagles versions of solo songs.

As for those three quasi-bonus tracks, after all the hits the Eagles played at the MTV Unplugged concert, and then at this concert, there are still more big hits that they didn't include! Three of them - "Walk Away," "Sunset Grill," and "The Long Run" - were done for a concert 10 years later that was released on video. So I've included them. You might or might not want to keep them, depending on what you think of adding in performances from a full decade later.

Note though that even with those three songs included, there are still more big hits not included, such as "Witchy Woman," "Turn to Stone," "All Night Long," "A Life of Illusion," "The End of the Innocence," "The Last Worthless Evening," "The Heat Is On," and more.

01 Victim of Love (Eagles)
02 talk (Eagles)
03 New Kid in Town (Eagles)
04 talk (Eagles)
05 Ordinary Average Guy (Eagles)
06 talk (Eagles)
07 Lyin' Eyes (Eagles)
08 talk (Eagles)
09 You Belong to the City (Eagles)
10 The Boys of Summer (Eagles)
11 Funk No. 49 (Eagles)
12 Dirty Laundry (Eagles)
13 Smuggler's Blues (Eagles)
14 Life's Been Good (Eagles)
15 All She Wants to Do Is Dance (Eagles)
16 Amazing Grace [Instrumental] (Eagles)
17 Rocky Mountain Way (Eagles)
18 Already Gone (Eagles)
19 Walk Away (Eagles)
20 Sunset Grill (Eagles)
21 The Long Run (Eagles)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/EhX66BUv

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/7QAZzlJF2xd4N7X/file

For the album cover, I used another photo of the band at their MTV Unplugged concert. I suspect it's from the concert video of that. I found surprisingly few good photos from their 1994 tour, other than that. In February 2025, I upgraded the image slightly with the help of the Krea AI program.

The Eagles - MTV Unplugged, Warner Brothers Studios, Burbank, CA, 4-25-1994

Here's a remarkable bootleg recording. I never knew it existed until I luckily stumbled upon it yesterday. I've immediately fixed it up so I can share it. In short, in 1994, the Eagles got back together after 14 years and recorded a concert for MTV Unplugged. They later released it as the album "Hell Freezes Over" with four additional studio tracks. It went on to sell millions and millions of copies. This is not that. But the very next night they did a second MTV Unplugged show, and this is that. This is actually better than the "Hell Freezes Over" in several ways I will explain. If you're an Eagles fan, you definitely will want to hear this.

First off, I have to point out the incredible sound quality. Even though it's a bootleg, the sound is so good that sometimes you can hear the squeaking of fingers sliding on the guitar strings. Clearly, this was professionally recorded as part of a plan to make the "Hell Freezes Over" album, but the other night was chosen instead.

What's even better though is that this is a full concert, lasting three minutes shy of two hours, whereas "Hell Freezes Over" only includes about 60 minutes of live music. There are 22 songs here, compared to 11 live songs on that album. As mentioned above, that album had the four studio tracks as well. This concert has those same four new songs ("Get Over It," "Love Will Keep Us Alive," "The Girl from Yesterday," and "Learn to Be Still"), but in live versions. Even the live tracks on "Hell Freezes Over" apparently had a lot of tweaking and overdubbing done to them. There's none of that here. Nor is any necessary. The performance is pretty much flawless. (But the band is known for being perfectionist, so I suppose the tinkering isn't that surprising.)

Ironically, given what I just said about tinkering, I did some editing myself - but not of the music. One thing I did was cut out a lot of dead air between songs. Because this was being recorded to potentially be shown on TV, the band wanted to get everything just right, so there were longer delays than usual between songs. There also were false starts to two of the songs. I got rid of those as well. Additionally, I separated all the talking between songs onto their own tracks and usually upped the volume on those some.

In my opinion, if you want just one live Eagles recording, this is the one to get. It was recorded right at the tail end of their main hit making era, with the five most important band members (from the "Long Run" era) still in the band and relatively young and vital. And it's not just a carbon copy of their studio recordings. The first portion of it is in acoustic format, mostly. They go back to rocking with electric instruments for the second half, but even that is different due to the inclusion of a full orchestra.

01 Peaceful Easy Feeling (Eagles)
02 talk (Eagles)
03 Best of My Love (Eagles)
04 talk (Eagles)
05 Tequila Sunrise (Eagles)
06 Help Me through the Night (Eagles)
07 talk (Eagles)
08 The Heart of the Matter (Eagles)
09 talk (Eagles)
10 Love Will Keep Us Alive (Eagles)
11 talk (Eagles)
12 Learn to Be Still (Eagles)
13 talk (Eagles)
14 Hotel California (Eagles)
15 Wasted Time (Eagles)
16 Lover's Moon (Eagles)
17 talk (Eagles)
18 Pretty Maids All in a Row (Eagles)
19 I Can't Tell You Why (Eagles)
20 talk (Eagles)
21 The Girl from Yesterday (Eagles)
22 talk (Eagles)
23 New York Minute (Eagles)
24 talk (Eagles)
25 The Last Resort (Eagles)
26 talk (Eagles)
27 Take It Easy (Eagles)
28 One of These Nights (Eagles)
29 In the City (Eagles)
30 Heartache Tonight (Eagles)
31 talk (Eagles)
32 Life in the Fast Lane (Eagles)
33 talk (Eagles)
34 Get Over It (Eagles)
35 talk (Eagles)
36 Desperado (Eagles)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/W5n6zW8d

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/l5rYCU1yuC0IF3k/file

The cover art photo comes from the two nights the band played their MTV Unplugged concerts. Chances are it's from the first night, and is a screenshot from the video of that show. In February 2025, I improved the image slightly with the help of the Krea AI program.