![]() ![]() In 1976, Walsh recorded the song on his You Can't Argue with a Sick Mind album. ![]() ( August 2020) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. This section needs additional citations for verification. Szymczyk says the thick guitar sound is from Walsh himself, not from studio trickery. ![]() Walsh is described as having layered about "six or seven" guitars on the recording, playing through a small amp with one Shure SM57 microphone aimed at it. In Jake Brown's 2014 book Behind the Boards II, producer Bill Szymczyk writes about how Walsh first came up with an instrumental "blues-shuffle" recorded at the Criteria studio, then stripped down to drums alone at the Caribou studio and rebuilt from there, adding lyrics to make the final version. The song was used as the title to Walsh's 1985 compilation album, which featured previously released singles and tracks from his albums Barnstorm, The Smoker You Drink, the Player You Get and So What. gives Walsh's blues stomp a futuristic wave, as if a hulking mechanical beast was looming just over those rocky mountains." The song features Walsh using a guitar talk box manufactured by sound engineer Bob Heil, inventor of the Heil high-powered talk box. Walsh has varied that story over the years, however, telling the Rocky Mountain News that he wrote the lyrics while recording the album at Caribou Ranch Recording Studio. The Rocky Mountain way is better than the way I had, because the music was better.' I got the words. I'm already in Colorado and it's too late to regret the James Gang. And it knocked me back because it was just beautiful. I look up and there's the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains and there's snow on them in the summer. "I'm living in Colorado and I'm mowing the lawn. Walsh appeared in studio on The Howard Stern Show on June 12, 2012, and talked about how the lyrics to the song came to him in 1972 shortly after releasing his first solo effort, Barnstorm. The song was originally released on the album The Smoker You Drink, the Player You Get. " Rocky Mountain Way" is a 1973 song by rock guitarist Joe Walsh and his band Barnstorm, with writing credits given to all four band members: Walsh, Rocke Grace, Kenny Passarelli, and Joe Vitale. ![]()
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