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James Gang

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eno50

Jan 31, 2009
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#1
Help, does any know the guys name that played bass with
Joe Walsh on the james gang live album?
I found an old cassette tape the other day that took me back to my teenage years and it was the frist bass solo that
I heard when him and Joe were trading licks and even the drummer got to do his solo to . anyway that was a big hit with me back then,but i dont remember the bass players name
the cassette was missing it's cover , and what's he doing now days? he sure influnced me back then..

eno
 
#5
Dale Peters played on the live album. I have a French TV video of them from around that time, Dale was playing a really cool looking sunburst Tele bass. Stuff that is insanely expensive collector's items today were just old guitars back then, sigh...
 
#7
Tom Kris is only on the first James Gang album. Dale "Bugsly" Peters is on "Rides Again", "Thirds", and that great live album. I saw a very cool video with him playing what looks to be a pre-1957 P bass with the single-coil PUP replaced with a split-coil P PUP.

I still love to put on those two albums with Joe Walsh still in the band and just crank them. "Funk #49" came on the radio yesteday as I was driving to work. What a great way to start the day!!

jte
 
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eno50 said:
That it! It was Dale Peters anyone know what he is doing nowdays? is he still playing?
eno
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He's still playing. They did a reunion tour with Walsh just a few years ago, I thought I saw some footage on youtube awhile back. I might have forgotten to mention Dale Peters P-bass tone from that live album in the recent best P-bass tone in rock thread, great nasty tone.
 
#11
Very cool to find some people who are into The James Gang and especially the Live at Carnegie Hall album. Really great rock band! The live album was one of my favorite albums growing up and I was lucky enough to find it on CD last year.

Check this out (with Dale Peters on bass):
 
#13
fullcircle said:
Very cool to find some people who are into The James Gang and especially the Live at Carnegie Hall album. Really great rock band! The live album was one of my favorite albums growing up and I was lucky enough to find it on CD last year.

Check this out (with Dale Peters on bass):
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Yes I have been searching for a CD but no luck yet, I'am glad you found one ,I was told that the live album was'nt on cd
oh well now I know it is ,point me in the right direction to pick one up Please....
 
#14
I found James Gang Live on CD in a used CD store in Berkeley, Ca. I would check Amazon.com, maybe. If you can find one, you'll dig the sound quality compared to vinyl- definitely worth looking for. Talk about great P-bass tone on that album! The later incarnations of that band didn't compare.
 
#17
First concert I went to was the Bang-era band opening for the Edgar Winter Group w/ Rick Derringer.
Opening tune was "Ride The Wind"...Peters was playing the sunburst P (which, at the time, I thought was a Tele bass).

"Ride The Wind"-
 
#20
My high school buds and I spent many a happy hour riding around the Maryland countryside groovin' with the James Gang. One of my buds had an Olds Delmont 88 with a 40-watt 8-track player. Dale Peters sounded damn good on there! We used to drive all the way around the Washington Beltway just for fun. You can hear a lot of music doing that!
 
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