Patrick Walsh

[Grado]

Kinda Johnny Cash, Hank Williams 3rd, and maybe a bit of Leon Russel thrown in.

From what I gather he plays small bars and festivals in the California area.

A regular one man bad, in the vein of a Gary Wright.

A Lone Rider.

https://youtu.be/igc8_iUDoGM

[Grado]

Room 514.

"the man didn't know what kind of man he let in...."

Lol!

https://youtu.be/e28cANc9_7g

[Grado]

Starfield, along with another one he does, Caravan, both show the guy's got skills.

He ever hits the mid-Atlantic region, hopefully in some little college town dive, I'll be there for that.

https://youtu.be/uAaQRnOtUpU

[Mark M]

Nice, nice!!!  What a vintage sound of the 50's/60's with a modern twist. Sounded like Johnny's old band rose from the dead but brought back Curt Cobain instead of Johnny. I liked the first song the best but it was all very cool. Thanks for that.

[Grado]

Ya, talented guy Mark.

Found him looking for motorcycle songs for cyclevisor.  

Same with this one.
A guy who I never heard of, JoelB.
"Motorcycle Girl".
Snappy tune for sure
And one of the most beautiful examples, of the female human, out there.


https://youtu.be/sW_JjCSZAxQ

[Walter E]

LOL, that Patrick Walsh guy does sound like Cobain in that song! great stuff. Motorcycle Girl is really good too. Grado, you come up with some interesting tunes, and I like it!!!

[Mark M]

Yo Grado, you do know about this song, right?  I used to absolutely LOVE this song and is one of the first songs I learned to play on guitar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YswkF-d2VZ8

[Bob]

How about this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuP7VLkHmhk

[Grado]

Wadaya guys think I am, some biker guy or something?



Ya, both songs are pretty good.  Pleasantly surprised you knew em.

Since this is morphing into a motorcycle piece thread, here are 3 from what one considers
the best soundtrack of a biker flick.

If you don't know the story.......2 guy's beat the system selling cocaine.
Flush with cash they set out to find America, on their own terms. Unfortunately America ain't what they thought it would be.

https://youtu.be/J1cDECkN2xg

[Grado]

https://youtu.be/fCNoCuOMT08

https://youtu.be/hjYAEtO-Ohk

A few tidbits.......many would say the songs, the soundtrack had a lot to do with the success of that movie.  A movie that cost about $325,000 to make, and pulled in $60 million.  Even tho both Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper were already established actors, this made them household names.  And sent untold numbers of young guys at the time into the bike scene.  Even the bikes became a kind of legend in their own right.

Cloaked in mystery, one would become one of the most valuable motorcycles in history.

There were 2 of each built for the movie.  2 "Billy Bikes", the yellow one, and 2 "Captain America" bikes, the chrome one.  They needed constant maintance, and to keep the filming going uninterrupted, they rotated them, working on one while filming the other.

Legend has it, after the movie was made, they put all 4 in a storage unit.  
The unit was broken into, with both Billy Bikes and one complete Captain America bike stolen.  Never to be seen again.

It's the 2nd Captain America bike, the one they crash in the final scene, that was supposedly left in the storage unit by the thieves that survives.  Which was supposedly given to the guy that worked on the bikes during filming.  Who supposedly rebuilt the bike that eventually would be valued at somewhere between $500,000, and 1 million dollars.

If, that is, that's the bike in the movie......which nobody knows for sure.....

[Mark M]

Grado, those are some interesting facts that I didn't know. FYI, I was 12 when that movie came out and my older brother had the Easy Rider soundtrack so I knew all of those songs :-)

The Captain America Chopper (never knew it was called that until now), IMO, is the coolest bike of all time. I thought I heard somewhere that Peter owns a replica of that bike.

[Mark M]

Ok, I'm gonna surprise you again... here's a tune from my favorite show from the same time period:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-I4gPC3xwE

[Seymouro]

Pretty decent Bruce.

[Walter E]

Oh man I totally forget about that lonesome highway song. Very cool.

[Mark M]

And it was Michael Parks (the actor that played Bronson) that actually sang the song and I think he had the perfect voice for it.

[Grado]

Yeah....Then Came Bronson.  Michael Parks sang the songs.  He had a band, really tried to make it as a singer.  There's an album out there.  He did a lot of acting, small parts, too basically pay the bills.  He was the drug dealer in Twin Peaks I think.  

We had a motorcycle event, mainly vintage stuff about 20 years ago.
We tried to get him to attend, but refused, because he didn't want to do the Bronson thing.  Said he'd come and sing with his band, but it fell thru.

Here's the opening of the show.  A guy that just had had it, couldn't take the 9to 5 thing anymore.  "hang in there",  became a catch phrase of the era.....

https://youtu.be/DIjJB9qVORc