I don’t know if it’s working for us, or if we’re working for it. Meanwhile, our bodies sit in chairs and wait for our minds to come back. We all spend more and more time in there and we get lost. There is a whole new technology, but there is also a whole new world that’s virtual and that doesn’t really exist. This album I did with a hard drive and a mouse. We did the last album with recording tape and knobs. I like reading the album covers and I like side B. We cut Long Road Out of Eden digitally, but I like vinyl. The whole analog thing is observations on what’s going on, not really a judgement. I’m not saying I’m some old fart who just came out of the woods, and I’m not saying analog is better. You can just dump it on him and he says, “Alright, here’s what we’re doing first.” He took me in a direction I would never have gone. I get these great ideas and I get them started, but I can never quite finish them up because I have a new idea that I have to go do. She said to me, “You ought to get off your ass and put this record together.” And she said, “By the way, here is Jeff Lynne’s number.”ĭid you know Jeff well prior to this record? She’s really the part of me that was missing.
I got married three-and-a-half years ago. Working on music when it started to get late…there were just too many triggers. Meet the Beatle: A Guide to Ringo Starr's Solo Career in 20 Songsįor a while I just couldn’t really go into the studio or around that kind of environment. Vodka was my best friend for a while there.
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I had to relearn how to do everything without vodka. I was hitting bottom and I ran out of options, so I had to stop everything and rebuild Joe from the bottom up. The other thing is that in 1994, I had to get sober. We’ve been around the world a couple of times, and that’s been a priority for us.
In 1994, the Eagles decided to get back to work, and we did Hell Freezes Over. I just never got any momentum going to finish any solo project. Why did it take you 20 years to record a follow-up to your last solo album? Walsh spoke to Rolling Stone about the new LP, getting sober and what’s in store for the Eagles and the James Gang. Although the group is hashing plans for a 40th anniversary tour, they’ve been taking it slow this past year, giving Walsh time to go back into the studio and cut his new disc Analog Man (out June 5th) with producer Jeff Lynne. Since then, the guitarist quit drinking and reformed the Eagles, touring the world many times over and even recording a new LP with them in 2006. Bush was president and Kriss Kross had the Number One album in the country. The last time that Joe Walsh released a solo album, George H.W.
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