![]() The James Gang's earliest lineup consisted of Fox (drums), Kriss (bass), Silverman (guitar), Giallombardo (vocals, keyboards), and after auditioning some 25 candidates for lead guitar, the band decided to go with Greg Grandillo, who later played with another popular Cleveland band, Rainbow Canyon. ![]() After leaving them again to return to school, Fox, heavily influenced by the sound of British Invasion bands such as the Beatles, the Who and the Yardbirds, began to think about forming his own band and teamed up with schoolmate Ronnie Silverman (guitar), bassist Tom Kriss and keyboardist Phil Giallombardo in 1966. After they had a national hit the following year with " Time Won't Let Me", Fox returned temporarily to play with them after their drummer was drafted. On September 3, 2022, the band's power trio returned for a performance at the Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert held in Wembley Stadium.ĭrummer Jim Fox first played with the Cleveland-area band the Outsiders but left them in 1965 to attend college. Several incarnations have reformed for reunions since then. The band carried on with a number of other guitarists and lead singers to replace Walsh, but it failed to produce a hit song over the course of six more studio albums. In late 1971, Walsh left to pursue a solo career and would later join the Eagles. Two of the band's songs, " Funk #49" and " Walk Away", continue to be popular on classic rock and AOR stations. Dale Peters replaced Kriss on bass for the band's second and third albums. The band went through a variety of line-up changes until they recorded their first album as a power trio consisting of Joe Walsh (guitars, lead vocals), Tom Kriss (bass), and Jim Fox (drums). And a real shame the James Gang never got all the fame they deserved-they were the equals of any of the other good hard-rock groups of the early seventies, and I include the Who, the Stones and Zep in that comparison.James Gang was an American rock band formed in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1966. ![]() They briefly had a fourth member singing lead after Rides Again but as Jim Fox said, "his 15 minutes of fame came and went." Can't remember the guy's name, but if you get the OST to the "electric western" Zachariah you'll get two or three songs by the JG two of them are on the 2000 CD compilation James Gang Greatest Hits it also features "Ashes, The Rain and I" which has about a minute-and-a-half of a demo of Walsh playing Jimmy Page's "White Summer" tacked on at the end.Īfter Dom Troiano left the group and they got Tommy Bolin in, they retouched the photo they had taken for their new album Bang to include Bolin in place of Troiano I thought he did a really good job with the group. The only time you heard Fox or bassist Dale Peters "sing" was when they did "Lost Woman" live (the version on JG Live In Concert is hilarious) I know they sang on Thirds but that's an album I like to forget, save for Walsh's songs on it. I think Walsh left partly because he had to do so much-guitar and the vocals and most of the songwriting (same problem as John Fogerty would have). I didn't buy Rides Again until '76 but it did have Bolero included I always told friends get the version of the album where "The Bomber" is seven-minutes-plus and you'll thank me for it. And the run-out messages were funny ("Turn me over!" b/w "Play me again!"). I enjoyed the black-and-white drawing in the middle of the gatefold of Yer Album as originally released (on ABC-Bluesway Records) spent months coloring it in with felt pens, don't think I ever finished doing it.
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