Please enable javascript in your browser to view this site!

THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD

LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-MARCH 10, 2020…IT WAS ON THIS DATE IN 1981 THAT GUITARIST JOE WALSH RELEASED HIS 5TH STUDIO ALBUM ‘THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD’. THE ALBUM HAS JOE WALSH WORKING WITH A TON OF SESSION PLAYERS, INCLUDING EAGLES MEMBERS DON FELDER AND TIMOTHY B. SCHMIDT.  THE ALBUM WAS A HUGE HIT IN ROCK RADIO, WITH THE SINGLE ‘A LIFE OF ILLUSION’ HITTING #1 ON THE BILLBOARD MAINSTREAM ROCK CHART. THE SONG WAS ALSO FEATURED IN THE OPENING CREDITS OF THE MOVIE ‘THE 40 YEAR OLD VIRGIN’.  HERE’S JOE WALSH AND A  VIDEO OF WALSH SHOOTING THE COVER OF THE ALBUM “THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD’ INCLUDING THE PICTURE THAT WAS USED FOR THE 45 SLEEVE OF ‘A LIFE OF ILLUSION’