“I like to say I only got drunk once — for thirty years.”
Joe Walsh, quoted in “The Return of Joe Walsh, One of Rock’s Unsung Guitar Gods.”
Walsh goes on to say “Coke really allowed me to focus, and alcohol took the edge off the cocaine.”
And that he always wanted to do an American Express commercial “in a completely trashed hotel room, with smoking embers and things sparking. And I’d go, ‘Hi, do you know who I am? I don’t have a clue.'”
Walsh joined The Eagles in 1976. The first album with Walsh in the band was Hotel California, which says all you ever need to know about both The Eagles and Joe Walsh.
I have a mansion forget the price
Ain’t never been there they tell me it’s nice
I live in hotels tear out the walls
I have accountants pay for it all
They say I’m crazy but I have a good time
I’m just looking for clues at the scene of the crime
Life’s been good to me so far
My Maserati does 185
I lost my license now I don’t drive
I have a limo ride in the back
I look the doors in case I’m attacked
On the Eagles live album, Joe also sings the alternate lyrics:
“I have a limo ride in the trunk
I look the doors in case I get drunk”
Love it.
I like:
I go to parties
I stay until four
It’s hard to leave
If you can’t find the door