Joe Walsh

Joe likely received the Ric 230 GF after Glenn Frey (his Eagles bandmate) decided to give it to him when he was given the signature model from Rickenbacker. He is known for using the guitar mainly for slide. You can also refer to the "History of the Eagles" documentary on Netflix or any other source to actually see him playing it in the studio for "Hell Freezes Over".

Joe Walsh playing a PRS Guitar PRS SE custom 22 semi-hollow

This pedal is mentioned in this interview for Boss.

"What BOSS pedals get the most mileage onstage?"

"The delay [DD-3] is a favorite, the overdrive [OS-2], and more and more the pitch shifter [PS-5]. I prefer the DD-3 onstage, but for recording I use the DD-6."

Joe is seen using this guitar in a 1977 performance of "Hotel California". He can also be seen using the same guitar during "One of These Nights" & "Take it Easy" from the same show.

This was his amp when he recorded and played "Funk #49", according to this interview in Guitar World:

"And I love Fender Champs, too. An old blackface Champ is actually what I did ‘Funk #49’ on. A blackface Champ and a Tele, straight in."

Joe Walsh uses this 1980s Fender Stratocaster occasionally. The picture here was taken on the 18th of May, 2012 in Winnie, TX. This guitar the cream white colour and has gold hardware.

He used to play on this amp, according to this Boss interview:

"Did you ever use the Roland JC-120 Jazz Chorus amp?"

"Yeah. I used to play a pair of those. I used those when I played the second Us Festival [1983]. That was during the So What [solo] album. There’s film footage of that out there."

Walsh can be seen playing a Gibson EDS-1275 double-neck guitar in this photo.

In this youtube video of "Don Kirshner's Rock Concert", Joe can be seen playing this guitar starting at 34:18. Gibson actually created a replica of this guitar that was inspired by Joe himself.

"Working closely with Joe Walsh, the guitar’s current owner, and the guitar itself, Gibson Custom has analyzed this rare original ’Burst in exacting detail, reproducing it with unprecedented precision in a Limited Run totaling 250 guitars: 50 hand-aged by Tom Murphy and signed by the artist, a further 75 Murphy aged, and 125 treated to Gibson’s proprietary VOS processes."

Played on "Turn To Stone" 9/23/15 - Warner Theater, DC

In this Guitar.com article, Joe Walsh says, "My other favorite thing is a pair of Vox AC-30s. That is tremendous for Fender guitars."

He used this little amp to record "Analog man", as said in this interview for Guitar World:

"'I found this little Fender amp called an FM15,' he says. 'It’s a digital amp with sampled amp tones. I’d come out of the headphone jack of that amp into a tube recording preamp and into a hard drive. Do that, and the Pro Tools sees tubes.'"

Walsh plays and loves this Roland Cube, according to this interview for Boss:

"You have a small Roland CUBE amp between your monitor wedges. How is that being used?"

"That’s driving the talk box [used on “Rocky Mountain Way”]. The speaker isn’t hooked up; it’s driving the talk box. It’s an old 60-watt CUBE — an orange one that’s been painted black.

Those CUBE amps are so great. I used to play with four of those in the early Eagles when Hotel California came out. In fact I used a CUBE to play slide on “The Long Run.” I liked to stack ’em too. That’s what I did in the old days. I even made a stand so I had two and two stacked. The top ones drove the bottom ones. I’d like to try out the new CUBE-60."

In this photo you can see Joe playing the Zakk Wylde Bullseye Les Paul.

This Gretsch White Falcon was used at Joe Walsh's performance at Iridium jazz club, in New York, on 10th of October 2012. Not sure if this guitar was ever seen again.

Another item Walsh gave to Pete Townshend was this Fender Bandmaster amp. This one is mentioned in this Guitar World interview:

"It was also Walsh who laid on Pete Townshend the 1959 Gretsch 6120 and 1959 Fender Bandmaster amp that Pete used to create the unforgettable guitar sound on Who’s Next."

Joe Walsh can be seen playing a signature Eric Clapton Fender Stratocaster in white during the live recording of "Hell Freezes Over". Clapton's signature can be faintly seen on the headstock starting at 2:13 in the video.

Rocky Mountain Way - 2:52

In this photo you can see Joe Walsh playing a Fender Telecaster.

In this photo, Walsh is playing a Gibson Les Paul Standard Doublecut live in the Iridium Jazz Club.

In this photo, we can see Walsh with a Fender Stratocaster.

According to Reverb's website, his current list of pedals also includes the Boss OD-3 overdrive pedal.

He had this one until he gave it to Pete Townshend, who made significant progress on "Who's Next" with this guitar.

Excerpt from Guitar World interview: "It was also Walsh who laid on Pete Townshend the 1959 Gretsch 6120 and 1959 Fender Bandmaster amp that Pete used to create the unforgettable guitar sound on Who’s Next."

Joe Walsh's wife got him this guitar. He talked about his wife and how his wife is generous in this interiew for Guitar World.

“She bought me a ’58 Goldtop, and she found me a ’53 Broadcaster, from before Fender named it Telecaster. And a ’57 Gretsch 6120 like the one I gave Pete! So I’m getting some vintage guitars on the wall.”

This pedal is mentioned in his interview for Boss:

"What BOSS pedals get the most mileage onstage?"

"The delay [DD-3] is a favorite, the overdrive [OS-2], and more and more the pitch shifter [PS-5]. I prefer the DD-3 onstage, but for recording I use the DD-6."

The Fender Super Reverb is mentioned in this interview for Guitar.com -

"That would go into a pair of Fender Super Reverbs with four 10s, except only one top. I would connect the other four 10s to the external speaker jack, so that I was using one top and eight 10s. That way I had a spare top. I would put them on metal folding chairs that are about knee-high. Standing about eight or ten feet in front of those, you can actually move around and find different areas to sustain any note you want. It's also incredible because eight 10s pull the impedance of the amp down to like 4 ohms, and that's where you really get your sweet sound -- when the amp is screaming before it blows up. My other favorite thing is a pair of Vox AC-30s. That is tremendous for Fender guitars. The Super Reverbs are tremendous for humbucking configurations, like on the Les Paul."

Walsh can be seen in this image playing a Ernie Ball Music Man Luke.

Walsh is playing a 1958 Les Paul single pickup re-issue in this image.

This pedal is mentioned in this interview for Boss:

"What BOSS pedals get the most mileage onstage?"

"The delay [DD-3] is a favorite, the overdrive [OS-2], and more and more the pitch shifter [PS-5]. I prefer the DD-3 onstage, but for recording I use the DD-6."

He used this amp for the recording "Analog Man". As said in interview for Vintage Guitar:

"How about amplifiers?" (...) "The other thing I found is a little Fender modeling amp called an SM-15. It’s got a 10? speaker. I don’t like modeling amps for recording – they sound good in a room, but when it’s playback time, they sound digital. So I came out of the headphone jack and went into an ART tube preamp and pushed that pretty hard, then put that into the computer, so the computer actually sees tubes, like a buffer. I had really good luck with it."