TECH TALK

Since the first wave of British guitarists, few American rockers have staked out their own turf with an equal nod to musical mastery and anti-authoritarianism as has Joe Walsh. He is the exception to everybody’s rules. Since he hit the road and the national airwaves with the James Gang in 1969, many of his English contemporaries have considered him (and still do, for that matter) the most unique and gifted of the U.S.