Today is James Gang, Eagles, and solo artist Joe Walsh’s 73rd birthday. The first James gang album contains a song called Funk 48. (good song, good album) so naturally for the next album Joe came up with “Funk 49” We don’t know the origin of the former, but we do know how “Funk 49” got its title. Joe Walsh explains it — sort of.
“We’re dumb stupid guys from Cleveland and everybody thought we knew somethin’. And we called it ‘Funk 48’ on Yer Album, which was the first album, and the intellectual content of ‘Funk 49’ isn’t your basic PhD thesis. And I said, ‘What do we call this? I don’t know. I don’t even know it’s a song, but we’ve recorded it.’ They said, ‘Well, ‘Funk 49.’ And everybody wants to know the real deep meaning of stuff like that.
