Joe Walsh

He praises this amp everywhere. Here is excerpt from Vintage Guitar talking about this one:

"How about amplifiers?"

"Amp-wise, I came across a couple good things. The jury is still out about amp modeling and plug-ins and that sort of stuff, but I’ve plugged direct into the computer and got some okay results. But my favorite amp lately is a Dr. Z Maz 8, which I’ve been playing for a long time. Mike Zaite really makes some great amps, and they’re also great for recording."

Joe is seen using this Telecaster during a performance of "Already Gone" in 1995.

According to Reverb's website, his pedalboard for the "Hell Freezes Over" tour included the Boss PSM-5.

"...Bob Heil told me he designed it specficially for Joe Walsh of the Eagles, which is super cool."

— Ryan Bruce

From this Guitar World interview of Joe Walsh:

"'Hmmm, let’s see now ... the ’57 Gretsch or the ’58 Goldtop?' Joe Walsh contemplates a bevy of highly collectible vintage guitars strewn in open cases across the floor of a Hollywood photo studio."

Joe Walsh is shown in this ad for Carvin Guitars with his Custom Shop CS6M.

Joe Walsh playing a Gibson Les Paul Jr Doublecut Electric Guitar

On the main product page on Dr. Z's website, Joe is quoted saying "The Z-Lux is the best amp I own!"

Walsh was gifted the original by inventor Bill West, later making his own and using it on "Rocky Mountain Way", as related to M: Music & Musicians in 2012. The account was transcribed in this September 2013 Vintage Guitar article and this January 7, 2013 Gibson article, while it is mentioned to be the inspiration for the Heil Talk Box in this 2006 Musician's Friend interview with Bob Heil.

Vintage Guitar

Meanwhile, Bill West’s original talk box found its way into rock and roller Joe Walsh’s rig. As Walsh explained to M: Music & Musicians in 2012, “The James Gang used to play in Nashville, and I became good friends with Dottie West, the famous classic country singer. We would go to her house and people would come over, and we would sit around with an acoustic guitar and pass it around. That could be anybody – Chet Atkins, Glen Campbell, Roger Miller – whoever was in town. Dottie’s husband, Bill, was a pedal-steel player. He actually invented the talk box that was used on Pete Drake’s album. One day, while I was at Dottie’s house, Bill went out to the garage and got it and gave it to me. He said, ‘Here, you plug this end into your mouth. You’ll figure it out.’

“After I got the hang of it, I then figured out how it was built. I went to a hardware store and got some parts and made one for myself. ‘Rocky Mountain Way’ [from 1972] was the first time I used it on record.”

Musician's Friend, 2006

Joe Walsh had recorded "Rocky Mountain Way" using an 8" speaker and a funnel, a device used in Nashville by the steel guitar players. Well, it wasn't very loud so you couldn't use it live. So here we are, two ham radio operators on a Sunday afternoon out in my plant. We grabbed a 250-watt JBL, built a low-pass filter, got all the plumbing together, and voila—the Talk Box. That's how it started. After that tour, everybody's going nuts! "What's this thing he's got?" So I put together a commercial unit called the Heil Talk Box. Then Peter Frampton's girlfriend Penny called me wanting a Christmas present for Peter. So I sent a Talk Box. The rest of the story writes itself from there.

The first 50 were done in fiberglass, and Peter still carries his fiberglass one today. When you see him, somewhere in his gig box is that original Heil Talk Box. I have serial number 1 that will go in the Rock Hall with Peter and Joe's signatures.

He used this one for the recording of "Analog Man", as said in interview for Vintage Guitar:

"Which guitars did you use on the album?"

"Well, let’s see. There’s some new guitars being made, that Mike Campbell from Tom Petty’s band introduced me to – Duesenbergs. I have a couple of ’em – a Double Cat and a DTV Outlaw. They’re like a Les Paul, but a hollowbody with their own vibrato tailpiece. I’ve got one of the radical ones, and it’s pretty nice. They wind their own pickups, which are great, and record great."

Joe is famous for selling his burst to Jimmy Page and then getting it back several years later. It’s known as the Prodigal Sunburst.

Joe Walsh used an Ernie Ball Music Man Silhouette Electric Guitar during a live performance with the Eagles at The Forum in Inglewood, CA, on January 17, 2014. The guitar is a custom version featuring two single-coil pickups and a 5-way switch to emulate the sound of his iconic Telecaster, as seen in a video by E Flores.

Joe Walsh playing a Gibson Explorer Electric Guitar

Joe Walsh used the RMC RMC1 Wah Pedal during the Eagles' 2010 tour, as shown in images from a Google search.

Joe is seen using this guitar in a 1995 performance of "Life's Been Good". The guitar is equipped with a bigsby and can be seen at 1:06.

This guitar can be seen very clearly at 0:10 as Joe introduces the song "Ordinary Average Guy".

According to Reverb's website, his pedalboard for the "Hell Freezes Over" tour included the Boss CS-3.

According to Reverb's website, his current list of pedals also includes the Boss BF-3 flanger.

According to Reverb's website, his current list of pedals also includes the Boss LS-2 line selector.

According to Reverb's website, his current list of pedals also includes the MXR Carbon Copy Analog Delay.

a fan (http://www.in2guitar.com) who attended concert and took picture of Joe's backline in 2016: "The event that finally pushed me over the edge to the next move was seeing Joe Walsh perform at Charlottesville, VA, on his “2016 Toor.” For more background you can read more about that concert, HERE. Joe brought one of the new, smaller Leslie cabinets (a model 3300) and it sounded great. And I mean great. Coincidentally, I was seated directly in front of this amp and spent the whole time during the warm-up act watching its lower drum slowly spin at chorale speed."

Played on "Walk Away" June 30th 2009

Gifted to Walsh by Peter Frampton, as stated by Frampton in this September 2013 Vintage Guitar article. It is yet unknown if Walsh has used it.

“Joe Walsh and I frequent the same sushi joint here in Los Angeles, and I ran into him a while back. He’s still my idol when it comes to using the Talk Box; his ‘Rocky Mountain Way’ is the ultimate Talk Box solo. I said, ‘Did you get the Framptone I sent you, because you know you were such an inspiration to me and I just wanted to give you one.’ Joe said, ‘That’s the least you could do!’”

Mentioned on the official Bucket Seat product page.

The Bucket Seat is the same Rumble Drive circuit that is found in our 5-star pedal the “Rumble Seat” – which is herald by artists like James Burton (Elvis Presley), Stevie Wonder, and Joe Walsh (The Eagles, Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band).

Mentioned by former Systech president Greg Hochman in Analog Man's Guide To Vintage Effects, as transcribed by Joe Gore in this December 12, 2012 tonefiend.com article.

We did a custom preamp for a guitar that Greg Lake had. We were in Kalamazoo, where Gibson was….Ritchie Walborn had designed it; others asked us to build one for them. It eventually became what we called the Harmonic Energizer. It was a variable-state filter, which was kind of high-tech at the time, and it got a pretty good following from Joe Walsh to Jan Hammer….It allowed you to dial in up the Q of the filter, and by changing the frequency of the filter, you actually had the ability to choose what key you were going to have sustain and feed back. The thing actually had 55dB of gain when you got it up to a high-Q filter, so it didn’t allow you to be subtle onstage. It was dangerous, but it had a unique sound to it.

Walsh mentions many pedals in this interview for Boss, including the Boss DD-6:

"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 guitar during the recording of "Analog Man" as mentioned in this interview:

"Which guitars did you use on the album?"

"Well, let’s see. There’s some new guitars being made, that Mike Campbell from Tom Petty’s band introduced me to – Duesenbergs. I have a couple of ’em – a Double Cat and a DTV Outlaw. They’re like a Les Paul, but a hollowbody with their own vibrato tailpiece. I’ve got one of the radical ones, and it’s pretty nice. They wind their own pickups, which are great, and record great."

In this Carvin ad, Joe Walsh is quoted saying, "Carvin has an attention to detail I just don't find in other companies. I absolutely love this guitar." The ad states that Walsh uses a CT6M California Carved Top.

According to this image from the Carvin Guitars official site, Joe plays a custom shop SH550 (though the specific model SH550 is not shown).

Joe Walsh's awesome rig backstage includes his AC30 head & cab