The Last Word: Joe Walsh on the Future of the Eagles, Trump and Turning 70Guitarist shares wisdom on drinking, aging, meditating and why you calm down before sending an angry emailAndy Greene
July 30, 2017A little over a week before the Eagles played their first concert since Glenn Frey's death at Classic West in Los Angeles, guitarist Joe Walsh phoned up Rolling Stone for a Last Word interview, where he shared a lot of hard-earned wisdom he's learned over his seven decades. He touched upon everything from the years he regrets wasting as an alcoholic to his thoughts on the aging process to how meditation changed his life.
He also talked about his new charitable endeavor VetsAid, which will raise money to aid America's veterans. A benefit concert will be held on September 20th at the EagleBank Arena in Fairfax, Virginia featuring Zac Brown Band, Keith Urban, Gary Clark Jr. and Walsh. "My dad died when I was a year and a half old," Walsh says. "He was in the Army Air Force, so I've always just been sympathetic to vets. My buddies went to Vietnam and came back a mess, and every time I go to Washington I visit the prosthetic limb ward at Walter Reed Hospital. I don't see the vets getting the attention they deserve."
What's the best part of success? What's the worst?The best part of success is that it got me past the basic survival level of existence so that I was comfortable. I didn't have to worry about stuff pertaining to survival. Once that was taken care of, I got the chance sit down and create and work at what I do. If you have a full-time job, you won't have that free time to let that process unfold. In my early twenties, I got the basics covered. In retrospect, one of the great things about success is that I never really had to work in a factory full-time. So that's a blessing.
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