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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 .
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 ...
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.
Writing retrospectively for AllMusic, critic Ben Davies wrote of the album "considering both the amount of classic Walsh songs not featured on Rocky Mountain Way and the many other more extensive and better chosen best-ofs available, this release is rather pointless." [1]
Rock & Roll Machine (also Rock 'N' Roll Machine) is the second studio album by Canadian hard rock band Triumph.It was first released in 1977 by Attic Records.The album contained in the band's first hit, a version of Joe Walsh's "Rocky Mountain Way".
The second LP Rock & Roll Machine followed in 1977 and contained a version of the Joe Walsh song "Rocky Mountain Way". Neither of these original albums were released in the United States; however, RCA Records released a debut US album in 1978 also titled Rock & Roll Machine. This album, also released internationally, combines songs from both ...
The Devil's Rejects is the soundtrack for Rob Zombie's film The Devil's Rejects.It was released as a standard CD and as a DualDisc.While both feature the same songs, the DualDisc also includes sound clips from the film, as well as including the album in high-resolution stereo, a behind-the-scenes documentary about the film and a photogallery on the DVD side.
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".