Eagles - Joe Walsh Guitar Gear Rig and Equipment

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Published on Friday, 12 September 2008 12:18

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Joe Walsh is a rock guitarist and singer who has been in some of the most popular rock bands of all time. Walsh was in The James Gang, solo, and also best well known for being in The Eagles.

Joe's rig has had tons of guitar gear and equipment in it over his long career, and it is constantly changing, so we'll try to focus on more recent stuff, and give somewhat of a decent idea of what he's used.

Please feel free to add to the list by leaving a comment or posting in the forum.

Click the gear images for more info and specs at Musician's Friend

Guitars
- Fender Telecasters

- Fender Stratocasters (model Eric Clapton, etc...)

- Rickenbacker (model Glennn Frey)

- Gibson Les Paul Gold Top with Bigsby

- Gretsch Duo Jet (black)

- Gretsch White Falcon

- Gibson Les Paul Standard

- 12-string Takamine acoustic guitars

- '57 Gretsch 6120 Hollow Body

- Gibson J200

- Gibson J-185 12-string

- Ernie Ball Benji Madden guitar

- Carvin California Single Carved top CS6M

- Paul Reed Smith Mira guitar

- Epiphone guitars

- variety of Duesenberg guitars

- Gibson Double Cut guitar

- Gibson '58 goldtop

- Fender '53 broadcaster

Amps and Cabinets

- Hiwatt Custom Studio/Stage 40w Combo (head is pictured below)

- Egnater Rebel 20 amplifier

- Roland Micro-Cube amp (for practice) Cube-60

- Variety of Dr. Z amps (Maz 38, KT45, RX ES, Z Wreck amps...)

- Roland JC-120 Jazz Chorus amp (in 1983)

- Peavey MX Amp (in 1996)

- Trace Elliot TA C 200 Acoustic Combo (in 1996)

- Dr. Z boxes (in 1996)

- Hammond Leslie

- Carvin Bel Air amp

- Modified Fender Twin (in the older days)

- Mojave Scorpion

- Vintage Marshall Amps

- Groove Tubes GT-E34LS Power Tubes

- Fender Frontman 2x12 combo (Live from Daryl's House)

- Fender FM15 (used on Analog Man)

- Fender blackface Champ

Effects and More
- Boss PS-5

- Boss DD-3 and DD-6 pedals

- Boss OS-2

- Boss CH-1

- Boss BF-3

- Boss LS-2

- Ibanez TS-9

- Boss PSM-5 Power Supply and Master Switch

- Boss GE-7

- Talkbox

- Korg rack tuner

- Wireless unit

- Dunlop Wah

- Real McCoy Joe Walsh Signature Wah Pedal (started making this in 2007)

- Visual Sound H20 pedal

Strings
- Ernie Ball Strings (Ernie Ball site shows RPS 10's)

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+3 # RE: Eagles - Joe Walsh Guitar Gear Rig and Equipment — Partscaster 2012-11-16 13:16

You can add a Fender Frontman 212 DSP Amp(!!). He played one at "Live from Daryl's House" and sounded great! It's all in his fingers!

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+1 # Gibson Double Cut — uberproaud 2012-11-16 15:44

Quoting Partscaster:

You can add a Fender Frontman 212 DSP Amp(!!). He played one at "Live from Daryl's House" and sounded great! It's all in his fingers!

It also looked like he was playing a Gibson Double Cut guitar at Daryl's House.

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0 # His "white" tile guitar — LiveDeliberately 2012-11-16 19:55

Both correct! Frontman the whole time, Double Cut for slide work on Rocky Mountain Way. Don't forget the awesome Duesenberg Pearl Series guitar. It was the white-ish pearly-tiled guitar that Joe played for a couple songs on Live From Daryl's House

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+1 # Guitars — Zingale 2012-06-30 08:42

I recently saw him play the jazz fest in new Orleans LA and he used a Duesenberg that kinda looks like a rickenbacker

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+5 # RE: Eagles - Joe Walsh Guitar Gear Rig and Equipment — RockrChicK 2012-06-21 23:27

Joe's playing an Epiphone Les Paul by Gibson on "Lucky That Way"..

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+2 # Fuzz? — Clint 2012-06-02 05:00

I can swear that I am hearing some kinda fuzzface style pedal on Rocky Mountian Way. Am I just going crazy or do my ears hear correct?

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+1 # RE: Fuzz? — Larry 2012-09-25 13:49

He used a device which was called the "talk box". It was an effect that was used in the seventies.

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+1 # RE: Eagles - Joe Walsh Guitar Gear Rig and Equipment — Unknown 2012-04-15 03:50

Joe Walsh uses Carvin guitars Carvin amps Carvin cabs and Carvin Mixing boards

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0 # RE: Eagles - Joe Walsh Guitar Gear Rig and Equipment — CJensen 2012-04-07 04:27

Quoting Sam:

Wow, I'm really surprised that he uses pedals that you'd see on any "normal" persons pedal board. I would have thought that you would see a lot more boutique stuff.

Just proves that you don't need alot of junk to sound awesome...

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0 # RE: Eagles - Joe Walsh Guitar Gear Rig and Equipment — Phil 2012-02-18 06:11

Also he has a PRS hollowbody that he used on the farwell 1 tour. I believe it had tigers eye flamed maple top

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+1 # RE: Eagles - Joe Walsh Guitar Gear Rig and Equipment — Rik Andresen 2011-12-29 20:40

Joe's main amp is a Dr Z Maz 28 or a 6545 that the doc made for him for the tour!

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0 # RE: Eagles - Joe Walsh Guitar Gear Rig and Equipment — jon 2011-10-25 05:13

Egnater Rebel head at least 2011 during eagles tour..

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+2 # RE: Eagles - Joe Walsh Guitar Gear Rig and Equipment — Jmcc405 2011-06-15 03:45

I am amazed that some people use a 66 black face champ. A decent mic and a great FOH system and who cares... Tone is what you get. Some of the session guys in nashville use small amps on stage which are miked and a larger amp (or monitor) to listen to what they are playing. The small amps generate great tone. An EAW, Meyer or JBL FOH makes that tiny amp sound awesome.

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+3 # matt — Matthew Scanlon 2011-01-12 12:44

I think on hell freezes over he uesd a marshall jtm 45 with a compressor for life in the fast lane.

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+4 # Joe Walsh tele like guitar — mick Massey 2009-12-19 17:37

Been watching the Eagles farewell tour from Melbourne and on Already gone (0.53.00 in) JW plays a type of Tele hybrid. Any idea?

Also, on one of these nights, (00.27.00) he plays a black one....

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+4 # Austin 2009-12-20 20:04

The Tele Joe uses is a FMT HH Fender Telecaster. It has two humbucking pickups! Pretty cool. I know Musician's Friend has them as well as other music instrument stores.

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+4 # joe 2009-11-28 08:18

right now he is using carvin bel air and nomad amps. i saw him in hamburg this year and his sound was so powerful....it was great.

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+3 # John Hauptman 2009-11-04 19:32

B) Joes just an "Ordinary Average Guy" he does'nt need "botique" pedals

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+2 # Wow... Average gear? — Someone 2009-08-11 16:17

Yeah seriously his gear isn't too great.

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+8 # Amplifiers — midas 2009-08-10 08:15

Joe walsh has been using the Dr.Z Prescription Rx amp until Brad Paisley and Dr. Z collaborated and made the Prescription Rx ES Joe now uses the Prescription Rx ES

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+4 # Joe Walsh Guitars — Carlos Dias 2009-07-23 09:28

He's using another Music Man Guitar Live, and an Ibanez Guitar too. I think he's using another Fender Amp.
These Music Man guitars he's using have such a sound! Huge!
I loved to ear him yesteday live in the last concert in Europe.

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+4 # Sam 2009-05-31 00:10

Wow, I'm really surprised that he uses pedals that you'd see on any "normal" persons pedal board. I would have thought that you would see a lot more boutique stuff.

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