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"Rocky Mountain Way" is a 1973 song by rock guitarist Joe Walsh and his band Barnstorm, with writing credits given to all four band members: Walsh, Rocke Grace, Kenny Passarelli, and Joe Vitale. The song was originally released on the album The Smoker You Drink, the Player You Get .
Rocky Mountain Way is a compilation album released in 1985 by rock musician ... Kenny Passarelli, Joe Vitale, Joe Walsh: 5:14: 2. "Turn to Stone" Walsh, Terry ...
The Best of Joe Walsh & The James Gang 1969-1974: March 2000 ... "Rocky Mountain Way" — — — 39 Rocky Mountain Way EP: 1978 "Life's Been Good" 12 56 11 14
In 1998, ABC wanted to use a classic rock song rock for Monday Night Football that year, so they asked Walsh to rewrite the lyrics to "Rocky Mountain Way" for the quarterback John Elway of the Denver Broncos. "Rocky Mountain Elway" was the new title of the song and Walsh appeared in a video that ABC showed on Monday Night Football.
It proved to be his commercial breakthrough, largely on the strength of the Top 40 hit single, "Rocky Mountain Way", which helped propel the album into the Top 10. On this album, Walsh shares the vocals and songwriting with the other three members of Barnstorm : drummer/multi-instrumentalist Joe Vitale , bassist Kenny Passarelli , and new ...
That fall Vitale was invited by his former Kent State classmate Joe Walsh to join Barnstorm, a new band being formed by Walsh in Colorado. The band recorded two albums together and Vitale and Walsh began a longtime partnership (incl. co-writing "Rocky Mountain Way"), although Barnstorm broke up in 1974.
Kenny Passarelli (born October 28, 1949) is an American bass guitarist.Passarelli was a founding member of the Joe Walsh-led band Barnstorm, co-writing the hit "Rocky Mountain Way".
He combined the Manassas song "Jet Set (Sigh)" with Joe Walsh's similarly sounding hit "Rocky Mountain Way" on the electric side. On the acoustic side he did a cover of Robert Johnson's " Crossroads " segueing into Chuck Berry's " You Can't Catch Me ".