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I posted Walsh's other performance from this Crossroad's DVD a while back, "Funk 49". He's still backed here by Booker T. and the M.G.s: Steve Cropper, Don Dunn, Booker T. Jones, and Steve Potts. They really jam this one hard. My absolute favorite part is Walsh's introduction to the song, saying that if he had known he'd have to play this song the rest of his life, he'd have written something else.
I'm sure there are a lot of artists out there who feel that way about one particular song or another. Huey Lewis made a very similar comment about "Power of Love" when I saw him in concert, and Slash has remarked on his feelings toward "Sweet Child O' Mine" on many occasions in interviews and such. The hits seem to be the ones you hate, and I can kind of understand that just from having to play so many of them in cover bands.
Walsh gave a detailed description of the song's concept on The Howard Stern Show this past month. He said, "I'm living in Colorado and I'm mowing the lawn. I Look up and there's the Front Range of the Rock Mountains, and there's snow on them in the summer, and it knocked me back, because it was just beautiful. And I though, well, I have committed. I'm already in Colorado, and it's too late to regret the James Gang. The Rocky Mountain Way is better than the way I had, because the music was better. I got the words, bam! I got all of the words all at once and ran into the house to write the words down. The lawn mower kept going over into the neighbor's yard and ate the garden. It was an expensive song to write!"
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