Billy Gibbons & Joe Walsh - slide tunings?

[Rich_S]

I've been listening to some old-school rock by two guys who mixed a lot of slide in with their normal playing. In particular, let's talk about a couple classic tunes that everybody knows - "Tush" and "Rocky Mountain Way".

Standard tuning?

[Bender]

Re: Billy Gibbons & Joe Walsh - slide tunings?

can't say about Tush but I play RMW in standard. It's just easier cause I also do the wah in that song.

[Bludave]

Re: Billy Gibbons & Joe Walsh - slide tunings?

I'm pretty certain that Billy Gibbons does all his slide in standard. Joe Walsh said that Duane Allman showed him how to play slide in open E. I am not that familiar with Rocky Mountain way so I can't be certain, but I think it is open E or D.

[Rich_S]

Re: Billy Gibbons & Joe Walsh - slide tunings?

I've seen a YouTube video of Walsh playing RMW back in the old days, where he switched guitars between an extended talkbox solo, and the slide solo that followed. Makes me think he maybe used a different tuning, but who knows?

Either way, that rates up there as one of the all-time great little bits of rock and roll music, that transition from the talkbox solo, "Wout-wout-wout-wouuuww, wout-wout-wout-wouuuww", and then, short crescendo, BAM!, band entrance, slide solo, outro, the works. Fun stuff.

[Corbic]

Re: Billy Gibbons & Joe Walsh - slide tunings?

Joe Walsh used open E for the first bits of Rocky Mountain Way, another guitar tuned to standard for the talkbox solo, and then switched back to the open E guitar for the end. He still does that nowadays too.

[ZoSo0789]

Re: Billy Gibbons & Joe Walsh - slide tunings?

Billy Gibbons uses Open G for Tush

can't remember where I read him say that though.....
and it's easier than a Las Vegas hooker to play too