{"product_id":"joe-walsh-the-smoker-you-drink-the-player-you-get-20","title":"Joe Walsh - The Smoker You Drink, The Player You Get [20]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e@POWERPLANTRECORDS | PowerPlantRecords.com | Leave a positive Google review!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTitle:\u003c\/strong\u003e Joe Walsh - The Smoker You Drink, The Player You Get\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eYear\/Genre\/Sub-Genre\/City:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1973, Classic Rock, Hard Rock, Wichita, Kansas 10\/26\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMatrix #:\u003c\/strong\u003e DSX-50140 (Dunhill\/ABC, US, gray label; side label DSX 50140 B); runout not legible in photo\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e EX (LM) | \u003cstrong\u003eMembers:\u003c\/strong\u003e Joe W (47' - ), Joe V (49' - ), Kenny P (49' - ), Rocke G (N\/A) | \u003cstrong\u003eProducer:\u003c\/strong\u003e Joe Walsh, Bill Szymczyk\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eCultural Facts:\u003c\/strong\u003e      [20]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eHe Kept His Father's Name:\u003c\/strong\u003e Joe Walsh was born Joseph Fidler in Wichita, Kansas. His father, Air Force Lt. Robert Fidler, was killed in July 1949 when his F-80 Shooting Star went down during maneuvers over Okinawa, when Joe was 20 months old. Adopted by his stepfather at five, he took the Walsh name but kept Fidler as his middle name, and decades later he started the veterans charity VetsAid in his dad's memory.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eOut of Dottie West's Garage:\u003c\/strong\u003e The talk box on Rocky Mountain Way traces back to a Nashville house party at country star Dottie West's place, where her husband, steel player Bill West, came back from the garage with a taped-up cardboard box and a piece of surgical tubing. He told Walsh to put it in his mouth; Walsh says it smelled terrible. Walsh and sound man Bob Heil, both ham radio operators, then spent a Sunday afternoon building a louder road version, and Heil later mailed one to Peter Frampton as a Christmas present his girlfriend ordered.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFree Gas for Everyone:\u003c\/strong\u003e Walsh got his ham radio license, call sign WB6ACU, in 1961, around the time he first picked up a guitar, and says the radio theory taught him to rewire and soup up amps back when bands had no roadies. In 1980 he ran a joke campaign for President on a Free Gas for Everyone platform, promising to make Life's Been Good the national anthem, even though at 32 he was too young to serve.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n","brand":"Power Plant Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68064450183355,"sku":null,"price":27.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0095\/4204\/1658\/files\/3r25ayiwjigd443dfnbxw7goi.jpg?v=1793407770","url":"https:\/\/powerplantrecords.com\/products\/joe-walsh-the-smoker-you-drink-the-player-you-get-20","provider":"Power Plant Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}