EXCLUSIVE: Joe Walsh plays new single 'Wrecking Ball,' says playing guitar sober was hard to get used to By Nicki Gostin Fox News Published May 24, 2012 7:15am EDT | Updated April 6, 2016 8:04pm EDT ...

But early the next year, Page bought the Les Paul Standard – his first – from Joe Walsh (who, Page says, “insisted that I buy it, and he was right”), paying $500 for it. He used it to ...

“But I’ve had the time of my life and one of the reasons I love doing it so much is because of the great Joe Walsh. He might be America’s most important rock and roll guitar player in history.

Enter Joe Walsh. Then a budding guitar hero with the James Gang, Page and Walsh had known one another since the former's pre-Zeppelin days with the Yardbirds. And Walsh had a proposition for him.

“So, Joe Walsh is underrated as a guitar player. Jimmy Page is underrated as a composer, as an icon, as a pioneer. And there wouldn’t be so much of Joe Walsh if there weren’t people like ...

“Most guitar players would want to impress a hero like that. “We'd trade solos sometimes, like on [Walsh's] Turn to Stone , and he'd give me a solo on [Walsh's] Life of Illusion . It was ...

Joe Walsh, One of Rock’s Most Underrated Guitarists, Is Ready to Hit the Road With His Original Band He's trashed hotel rooms with Keith Moon, had a love affair with a chain saw and was drunk ...

As the guest on this week’s installment of Walking the Floor, he happily geeks out with podcast host Chris Shiflett about guitar gear, Joe Walsh’s soloing ability and the superiority of Fender ...