This JOE WALSH instructional is as UNHINGED as you'd expect! 

I read Hitchhikers and saw the film, but the button looks like a sports team font or something so I'm not sure if it's tied to the book. Probably is though. haha.

Way back in the mid 60s, Joe use to teach my brother guitar in trade for use of my brother's Silvertone 2x12 amp. Joe didn't have a good amp and needed one for his gigs. He also lived in his van and ate a lot of bolony/mustard sandwiches. I was 5-6 yrs old and my brother was 15-16 yrs old. He would come over to our home and teach my brother, but also take time to teach me simple songs and I would learn them. He was playing in a band called the Measles and played all around NE Ohio while he was going to Kent State. He told my parents to take notice how fast I picked up learning a song by ear. He gave my brother and me good advise when it comes to not leveling off in our playing skills. If you get stale in the band you're in, change bands, even if it's a step backward. You'll still learn something you didn't know in the other bands. The more people you play music with, the more you'll learn. Learn more than just one style of music so you will have a wide variety of ideas and styles to draw from and that will help create your own style. Needless to say, he quit the Measles and went up to Cleveland to play in the James Gang, which had 5-6 members at the time. But shortly after he joined, the band dropped down to Joe, a bass player, and a drummer. That was enough to kick start his career. The rest is history. He basically turned me on to playing music when I was 5. Now, I'm 64 and have been in bands and doing solo work fulltime since I was 13. I'm on my 35th year as a solo act and enjoy playing music just as much as when I was a little kid just learning how to play. Thanks Joe. 🙂

I met Joe Walsh at a house party about 10 years ago. He was sitting by the pool playing guitar and I walked up with some girl I’d just met that night. He was basically sitting in the dark so we walked up but didn’t get too close to try and give him his space. We sat down and he told us we could come closer so we were literally 3 feet away from him while he played acoustic guitar. She had absolutely no idea who he was.basically got a free show for just the two of us for about 20 minutes before everyone else came up to the pool. Then other people joined him and started playing. I tried explaining it, but I don’t think she ever really understood who this man was and how lucky we were.

I do enjoy how your tiptoe around the fact that Joe is BLASTED throughout this video.

dont panic was a hitch hikers guide to the galaxy thing

Yeah, I bet Joe also powdered his nose 👃 before this was filmed. 😅

In the midst of his party days, Joe was on a late night talk show, I believe it was Letterman, and he's telling about his hotel trashing days, and says something like, " most people call the front desk and ask for a wake up call, but I would ask for a go to bed call". MoFo is crazy but he can play the shit out of the geetar!

Joe Walsh is amazing. I saw him live opening for the Steve Miller Band years ago and it was one of the best concerts ever!

Don Henley: "Why don't the newer generations listen to more Eagles music?"

He is actually playing from his solo album, But seriously folks. Track is Indian Summer. Terrific album! Joe is what took the Eagles into the top tier.

Joe was absolutely hammered, ha.

We recently saw the Eagles and Steely Dan. Joe Walsh always got the loudest applause of anyone on the stage!! He is a legend!!!

Don’t panic is from Douglas Adams’ book “The Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy”. If you haven’t read it you really should. 😀

Joe is like the Robin Williams of the guitar world 😂 love it!

The real Rock spirit. There’s something about his character I really enjoy. Maybe it’s about an ability to say and do all of this crazy unhinged stuff and still feel like a god. That’s impressive

I still have this VHS bought at Roseville guitar center in 90"s

Joe's 'Story Arc' has been one wild and crazy ride! And, at the end of it all, he cleaned himself up and became a new man. This time period (of this instructional), he was on a serious booze bender (among other things). Look up his appearances on the Howard Stern show (at this time). They document a lot of what was going on with Joe, at this point. Joe's a great human being. And, even when drunk, you could see he was a funny, smart but vulnerable guy. So good to see him cleaned up.

Joe Walsh is THE MAN! One of the very best to EVER pick a guitar up

I'm so glad I watched this. Joe Walsh has been a favorite of mine for many reasons since before the time in Eagles. He's always been very real and WYSIWYG. My favorite performance of his was with Les Paul, in Joe's birthday, impromptu. Les got him up on stage and he did "Personal Manager". It was glorious.

Favorite Joe Walsh quote is from an interview on the Bob And Tom show. I'm paraphrasing, but something like "There are parts of the 70s that are just a mystery to me. I was talking with Ozzy the other day and I guess we toured together back then. Neither one of us remembered it but we both had the posters from it."

I just started playing Joe Walsh stuff, and it's fun. I grew up in the 70s/80s and heard him all of the time on the radio.When I got my first (bass) in '86, I focused on Rush, Iron Maiden, therfore bypassing all of the "classics". The selling point was learning he has been sober since '85; 2 years next month for myself. AND, his awesome guitar-faces.

I love that Joe focused on that elusive 3rd part "Harrison" harmony. That's the part that's always intrigued me the most in vocal harmonies.

This is a really great video you posted and was awesome to see Joe back in the day .. I’m going to watch the whole session..keep up the good work Art of Guitar ✌️✨

I still reference this video to this day. Classic.

Excellent post as always! Thank you.

This is awesome. I do like Joe Walsh, both as a player and as a person. Great advice and genuine silliness from him in this video. Will definitely check out the full instructional. Congrats on 875k Subscribers!

Walsh should run for president again 🫡

I discovered this a month ago and have been loving it. It's funny and real.

Awesome, thank you so much. 👏👏👏

👏 Loved this video. Learned a lot. 🤘🏼

Thank you for sharing this. ❤

This was great! Well done...

You know Mike I have been trying to find more influences and players to learn from and I enjoy this video thank you so much!

I remember seeing this years ago, Great to see you share this...

Joe Held a concert at Kent State when I was there as a sophmore...he was master of ceremonies for Homecoming week and even played the Star Spangled Banner before the football game ! One of my buddies was a campus EMT and told me that him and his ambulance crew was called backstage between the final song and the encore because Joe had passed out fully clothed with all the gym showers turned on. They did get him up and he finished the SHOW !! What a weekend..What a LEGEND !!

This dude and Marty’s videos is what taught me guitar, thanks

Joe is the reason I picked up the guitar in 1979. I have a few other favorite guitarists of course, but Joe is my #1 dude

Joe is brilliant. His Les Paul days with James Gang are legendary for a reason. All of his advice here is gold. Open tunings is the way to Valhalla. Also, the Beatles. Wish he'd do that "Cathy's Clown" on a solo album.

wisdom from a truly gifted musician

"Don't PanicK" is a reference to the 80's British TV interpretation of a 70's radio show called "The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy" The writer Douglas Adams originally wrote it off the cuff just before the radio edit came together. It was later released as a series of books. It's sci-fi.

thanks for this!

Probably the single best rock guitar 🎸 instructional video of all time. Great review!

i love how he attacked the strings with his pick during the tuning. i usually just lightly do it, but attacking at full volume seems like it gives more vibration and tone variance, to hear the difference as things settle. Also, its going to match his heavy attack during ff. reminds me of doing a mic check at full volume vs half volume, except here its for pitch.

The first time I went to a Joe Walsh performance was in the early 1970’s in Jacksonville, Fl. Since then I have seen him every chance I get. Always a superlative experience. One of the best was in Santa Cruz, CA, at the Catalyst, they played almost every song from the James Gang Rides Again album, a peak experience for sure.

I'm really glad he sobered up. Such an immense talent.

Being rooted in the “old” ways is the way it was done for centuries. By ear, the way it worked because it taught you how to listen and rely on yourself. It might’ve taken longer but it meant more .

Great to hear your take on this haha. The VHS comes with a great book with handwritten tabbed notation by Joe for some cool parts of Mother, Indian Summer and some others.

Hey thanks for posting this !! So cool to see how an original personality like Joe Walsh can raise an instructional video to a classic level. The fun and informal approach kinda reminds me of the Flea video with River Phoenix.

This is a good video because I love Joe and can't wait till I have more time and watch the whole original video

That was great! What an inspirational guy

Saw a recent video where he said he always played his best when he was drunk on vodka. Now that he’s sober, he’s surprised at how much better he’s playing. That makes me wonder how much better he could have been back in the day.

As many have pointed out "Don't Panic" is Hitchhikers Guide To the Galaxy". Not so many have mentioned that the theme tune to the original radio series was the Eagles "Journey Of The Sorcerer". Bernie Leadon song, pre Joe era. Cheers.

I dig this instructional... Fun to watch even without a gtr in hand. & The gtr setup part = genius

This was the one and only guitar instructional video ive ever bought when i was around 16 as i was a big Joe fan but this video became legendary ro my friends as we watched it for comic purposes more than a learning tool but he did teach me how to lock in my strings doing string changes and the way he says one thing then later says the complete opposite drove us crazy like unplug all that pedal crap and roll the tape then later on well im using a noise gate pedal and a talkbox lol,but i did confuse my buddies who never seen it before who would ce over and pick up my guitar and say dude your guitar is way out of tune and id laugh and say its Joe Walsh g tuning then show them the video as we would laugh,but all in all he taught me alot as a beginner but made me laugh evven more i still have this vhs somewhere around my dads house lol

Good job 👏 👍 👌 🙌 😄 😀

Gotta love Joe! His sense of humor is priceless

How cool you are to bring some attention to Joe Walsh and this old video he really was one of the coolest and most down to earth rock stars

I had the Brian Setzer instructional VHS. He also plays and sings in his demonstrations. It's also on RU-vid and pretty cool.

I connected with Joe at NAMM back in '04. He is just that way. I enjoyed that time with him. You realize how crazy the rest of the world is after spending a bit of time with him. And yes. He did grab and shake my hand. He is very much "alive".

Awesome 🔥🔥🔥

That monkey in the background is actually a toy from 1989 called “Da Grunt”. I was born in ‘86 and my grandfather had one. Playing with it as a kid is one of my earliest memories. He died in the 90s and my grandmother died last year and I inherited Da Grunt. It sits on my computer desk (i still have the original packaging) and everyone that sees it is flabbergasted by how weird of a thing it is. I just about shit myself seeing it in this video lol. What a trip. Thanks for the laugh!

Joe Walsh and Rick the Bass Player did a New Years Eve radio show back in the 80s. They were a great comedy team.

Joe Walsh is the real deal. I had this video back in the day and honestly after watching it several times you really learn a lot about guitars and set and tuning. Dude gives Sage advise through the whole thing really. If your not that good and are good with words get into G tuning. And when he talked about playing slide guitar...come on the guy is so real about what he's talking about. You have to get passed the antics but I learned more real pro advise from this video than any other instructional. The Mark Slaughter one is great for beginners too.

I think you should make this a series if you haven’t already where you review guitar instructional videos. I know you’ve done a few others already. Great video! Thanks for all you do.

Joe is a phenomenon. My cousin was friends with his cousin. I wish I had some stories about him, but just watching him play or talk about guitars is a dream. Joe is unbelievable!!

Joe is the best. 18:06 That’s from The Confessor, so cool.

Epic ! I had this on VHS in the 90's. More than anything else, IMO what really stands out about Joe's playing is simply his perfect phrasing. His solos say so much without being overly technical in the slightest. Its clearly based on the time proven classic "Q&A approach" to building melodies via cleverly connecting simple licks & riffs & such. & I'm 100% with him regarding learning Beatle tunes & NOT only for guitar, even if you don't necessarily like the styles/genre. Writing, as well as just understanding music in general is ALL about chord progressions. & virtually every good modern tune, even to this day, can more often than not be directly traced back to something Beatlesque. & yes, Henley is notoriou$ for being a ©/blocking D-bag, which unfortunately will ONLY diminish(perhaps greatly) the # of people familiar with his music in future gens.

I met Joe and Rick the bass player at KAZY radio in Denver when he was out promoting his Got Any Gum LP doing morning shows. He played my D28 in the parking lot and let me take some pics. He was trashed. It's good to see him sober now because he wasn't back then.

"Willy Wonka Mobster" Bang on! 😂One of my favorite guitarists!

Thanks for that one, Mike. Joe Walsh is a brilliant human being ❣

That's pretty sage advice on learning ALL The Beatles songs. I don't believe it's only because they're the greatest band in the world. But rather because they actually used a wide variety of chord voicings. By going the varied voicings route (not to mention a fearlessness to try unorthodox instruments and instrumentation) by playing a common chord an entirely different way on the neck lends to a more unique sound in a song. Almost every Beatles song has a peculiar uniqueness either subtle or in your face. The earliest of The Beatles is as common as you get and only got more expansive from there. I can't imagine another band, however talented and unique such as Pink Floyd or even The Eagles that managed this so well as The Beatles did.

This is good stuff. 😎✌️

I think I just stumbled upon a gamechanger that even Joe would approve. A jewelry cloth. A silver one, at least because that's what I was using to clean silverware for a loved one. Turned really tarnished acoustic strings to looking and feeling almost new to sight and touch. I didn't bother with the underside because this was on a whim. But you pretty easily could if you detuned a few steps I imagine. Might very well keep a set lasting much longer as well.

This was awesome! Thanks Mike!! Joe Cool rules! He reminds me of Steven Adler!

The best part is the "flick pick," ala Funk 49. Priceless.

My sister is 7yrs older than me (I'm 66) and James Gang Rides Again was my first taste of Joe. I was so enamored by him, and caught the humor of him right away. Read an interview in some mag, he described building a "talk box" using a Fender Twin Reverb as the amp/speaker, and his rattling all the fillings in his teeth out. And of course he got the guitarist job in Drew Carey's band over Slash. He also went to Montclair HS, Montclair NJ, where he took shop class and learned to weld...

That was cool hearing Joe say the 3rd string intonation was critical. I was thinking that too, but thought I was crazy.

been learning his stuff. glad to see this cuz it gave me even more hope. and will keep on practicing

That was a great idea

I love how much you love Joe. Me too.

I watched that video too several months ago. I no longer cut the excess of guitar strings when changing strings. I simply wiggle them back and forth until they break off like Joe teaches in the video. No more prickly sharp string ends sticking up. So yes he did teach me something

3:21 POWDERED his nose for him .. priceless.

Mike man I remember feeling the same way at guitar center. and seeing that paul gilbert intro was terrifying. I too didn't appreciate the greatness of joe Walsh until much later in my musical journey. Thanks for this great video. 👍🏾

It's a fun video. Thankfully Joe seems to got through his lost weekend phrase pretty well. Whenever I've heard him in recent interviews he's also witty and sharp as a tack.

This is the best thing you have ever done bro. :D

Well, he was an ordinary, average guy. He also brought the Eagles out of their easy listening funk.

I started playing guitar right around this time of year way-back in 1985, and of course wanted to play shred-metal. I learned quickly that I was never going to be as fast as Eddie or Vai, so I listened to who inspired *them* and people who didn’t “shred” but played guitar-based rock & pop. You can learn from almost every player, and should be open to taking the time to check-out music that isn’t your cup of tea.

i have to watch his video. thk you for introducing me to this video. I love how nuts and talented he is . When you said he s like your crazy uncle , that was the perfect analogy.. I didn't t know he did an instructional. I will watch it for sure. Love your channel . I try to watch it whenever I can . I am subscribed but I don tg get notifications when It s a live stream if thats what it s called .. But great job . Enjoyable to watch with alot of valuable insight.. Edwin Woods , Thunder Bay . Ontario. Canada

There's a video of him showing how to setup a guitar. It's amazing.

Nother is not a word. Great video.

Tom interviewed Ray Gomez on that instructional ( plus performances) video , and he was really good at it. Still my favourite of all the Starlicks videos.

enjoyable stuff Ry Cooder-fied.

Wow, Joe's geekin !

Joe Walsh is a mad genius! I wish I had his confidence. Nevermind the talent

His hands are enormous geez

DUDE LOL, THIS JOE WALSH VID WAS ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS I LEARNED FROM AS A KID. my dad got it for me when he signed me up for lessons. i literally remember being 10yo watching it while restringing my guitar for the first few times. i completely forgot!

I saw Joe headline the Ga Jam once Derrick Trucks opened the festival he was like 13 at the time everyone had Derrick come out to do at lest one song but Joe had Derrick come out when he came out on stage & had him play slide on every song in in the set list it was UHMAZIN.

I never went into Guitar Center or Sam Ash to show off. I just checked to see if the nech was straight, the electronics worked and played a few easy open and barred chords to see if it was comfortable.

I don't know if it's still a thing, but Joe Walsh made a few visits do Daryl's House (as in Daryl Hall). Worth checking out. o

Have you seen the videos showing that Don Henley has all of his live vocals on a backing track? Wings of Pegasus and Michael Noland's channel have the lowdown.