The Trickster band (left to right): bassist Anthony Tidd, keyboardist Matt Mitchell, drummer Sean Rickman, and Miles Okazaki.
The entire album was recorded over a two-day span with the quartet recording live on day one and overdubs the following day. There was a Funk 50, but not until Joe Walsh released it on his 2012 album Analog Man after being asked to rework Funk 49 for the ESPN show Sunday NFL Countdown. Hooked: Butch Walker on the James Gangs 'Funk 49' Premier Guitar. When they came up with what would become Funk 49, they were once again faced with no logical title based on the lyrics, and followed the sequence. The first James Gang album Yer' Album, 1969 contained the track Funk 48, which according to producer Bill Szymczyk, got its title out of thin air. like all old music not all the songs are as great as I remember them but there are the great classics like funk49 that are so excellent.
Listen free to James Gang Funk 49 Funk 49, Midnight Man and more. Much of the song is instrumental, drawing from Joe Walsh's guitar, Dale Peters's bass work, and Jim Fox's drumming. Funk 49 is 3:35 in length, though it only has two verses. The song was a moderate success upon release, peaking at 59 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song featured as the first single off the group's second studio album James Gang Rides Again 1970. 40 years earlier, in a 1972 Guitar Player interview, Walsh said he used a 'Vibroplex', but this was probably an inside joke as Walsh is a ham radio enthusiast and a Vibroplex is actually a Morse code.
Funk 49 is a song written by Joe Walsh, Jim Fox, and Dale Peters, and recorded by American hard rock band The James Gang. Walsh’s Tele tone sounds particularly raunchy and percussive due to the guitar’s lowered action and Walsh’s use of a light-gauge nylon pick. And a sincere thanks to UMG for allowing me to post this copyrighted song.