Joe, Alan, and the Eagles

Welcome to GSM. With this installment I will present three songs for your review. One song will have two samples, however I could have included the entire song as a M.O.M. The songs for this post are:

Song #1: Rocky Mountain Way

Rocky Mountain Way by Joe Walsh from the 1973 "The Smoker You Drink, The Player You Get," CD. Right from the start the guitar hammers out the riff that will run through the entire song. By the third measure of the intro the air guitars are out and in play. Notice the first riff is in the left channel and the second riff is doubled in the right channel. Yes, a classic Joe Walsh tune!

Click play below to hear the sample of Rocky Mountain Way.


Song #2: Sirius

This is one of those songs that I am sure you have heard but have no idea where it came from. The song is titled, "Sirius." If you have ever been to a Chicago Bulls home game you have heard the song. They use it as the lights get turned off, the song starts and the announcer says, "And now..." to announce the starting line up of the Bulls. I am sure other sports teams use this at some point during a game.
The instrumental song is from the 1982 'Eye In The Sky" CD by The Alan Parsons Project.

Click play below to hear the sample of Sirius.


Song #3: Hotel California

This is one of those songs where the entire song is a Moment Of Meaning (M.O.M.) Just pick a spot. I decided on the intro where the guitars kick off the well known tune. Then I have Don Henley singing about the mirrors on the ceiling. I took this from the 1994 "Hell Freezes Over" CD. My all time favorite part of this song is where the two guitars of Joe Walsh and Don Felder play the riff at the very end of the song. In the original 1976 album version you can hear Timothy B. Schmit's bass driving the beat through this guitar riff.
This is one of those songs where I think I know where I was when I first heard it. I was just getting ready to go in to school in 1977 and one of my friends said, "You have to come out and hear this song," So, we went out to Kenny Park's MG Midget to listen. It gets a bit fuzzy here. I am pretty sure he put a tape in so we could listen. That's my story and I am sticking with it. The car and the song where too cool.

Click play below to hear the sample of Hotel California Sample Number 1.


Click play below to hear the sample of Hotel California Sample Number 2 and listen for the driving bass.


So, there you have it for this post. Look forward to more Alan Parsons Project stuff. And I have a couple of clips from Singer/Songwriters who we have lost recently where I will pay tribute to their work. See you next time.

Keenan