Cry, Cry, Cry (Bobby Bland), The Hunter (Albert King), Motor City’s Burning (MC5) and Jelly Jelly (James Cotton) are just dead-center on. I never thought I’d hear a version of Wade in the Water that could hold a candle to The Graham Bond Organisation, but Pacific Gas & Electric come real close. The cover material, however, is a different story. They’re good, but none of them have stuck with me over the years. There are only a few original tracks on the album: Long Handled Shovel, Stormy Times and Live Love. I hung on every solo from Schwartz, and Allen owned every word. Every groove of that album bled molten fire. A decade later, I tuned into it again and Get It On blew me away. No doubt, Charlie Allen was a force and Glenn Schwartz was as good a lead guitarist as you could hope for, but the material didn’t set my soul on fire. The first time I reviewed this album, I wasn’t that impressed. Buffalo Springfield A gypsy childhood took Stephen Stills from Dallas, Texas, through many southern cities and also Central America.Electric blues rock powered by the vocals of Charlie Allen and the guitar of Glenn Schwartz.Bay City Union Bay City Union formed in Brisbane in March 1966 and were one of Australia's first traditional Chicago blues bands.Seeds, The The Seeds formed in 1965 and comprised vocalist Sky Saxon, guitarist Jan Savage, keyboard player Daryl Hooper (who also played….Following the dissolution of his jazz combo, The… Loading Zone, The Cosmic R&B combo The Loading Zone formed in Oakland, California, in 1967.Fox Noosha Fox (real name Susan Traynor) had been the vocalist with folk-rock band Wooden Horse before moving to glam-pop band….After Passin’ Thru (1972) Troiano left to join The Guess Who and was replaced by future Deep Purple member Tommy Bolin.īy the time of Bolin’s departure in late 1974, the band had released Bang (1973) and Miami (1974) on Atlantic.įox and Peters recruited Richard Shack (guitar) and Bubba Keith (guitar, vocals) for one final LP, the optimistically titled Newborn (1975), but they split the following year, in stark contrast to Walsh who joined The Eagles for the million-selling Hotel California. Walsh prospered with new band Barnstorm as The James Gang’s fortunes went from bad to worse.
New members Roy Kenner (vocals) and Dominic Troiano (guitar) dominated the writing, while Jimmy Fox contributed very little. The thin and weary Live In Concert (1971), recorded before Walsh’s departure, was hardly a fitting memorial but it was preferable to Straight Shooter (1972), recorded by a new line-up that barely resembled the old one in sound or substance.
Songwriting was rigidly divided – four songs for Walsh, two each for Fox and Peters, and a collaborative effort on the slight instrumental Yadig?Īlthough Thirds produced a second Top 30 placing in the US, Walsh left the band in November 1971. Perfectly paced and flowing, Rides Again set The James Gang a high standard that they were unable to match on the disjointed Thirds (1971).
Tend My Garden resembled a pastoral Who, while the lovely Ashes, The Rain and I concluded the LP’s gradual slope into retrospection, fading out on rising strings scored by Jack Nitzsche. Rides Again (1970), one side of group-credited hard rock, one of softer, mostly acoustic guitar-based material written by Walsh, was a total success.įunk #49 (a sequel to Yer Album‘s Funk #48) coupled a favourite Walsh guitar riff with catchy call-and-response vocals. The Gang’s debut release, Yer Album (1969), included pretty but powerful originals like Take A Look Around, Collage and Fred, an inspired reading of Buffalo Springfield‘s Bluebird, and several minutes of charming tomfoolery interspersed between the songs.Ĭream‘s influence was apparent, especially on a lengthy run through The Yardbirds‘ Lost Woman, though Stop was more than overlong at 12 minutes.Īn encouraging beginning, it scraped into the US Top 100 and The James Gang received further valuable publicity from The Who‘s Pete Townshend, who proclaimed Walsh as “about the best guitarist I’ve seen” after they were on the same bill at a Pittsburgh show.įollowing Tom Kriss’s curiously timed departure for session work in early 1970, The James Gang recorded their second LP with new bass player Dale Peters. The band was formed in 1966 by Fox, Tom Kriss (bass) and Glenn Schwartz (guitar) though it was after the latter was replaced by Joe Walsh (vocals, guitar, keyboards) the following year that the band got their break in the form of a support slot for Cream in Detroit. Although formed around drummer/vocalist Jimmy Fox as a British Invasion-inspired group, The James Gang were, in reality, the product of a thriving Cleveland music scene.
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