Barnstorm was the group created by Joe Walsh

Joe Walsh

Joseph Fidler "Joe" Walsh is an American musician, songwriter, record producer, and actor. He has been a member of three commercially successful bands, the James Gang, Barnstorm, and the Eagles, and has experienced notable success as a solo artist and prolific session musician, especially with B.B...

 after he left the James Gang

James Gang

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. The original members of the group were Walsh (guitars, keyboards), Joe Vitale

Joe Vitale (musician)

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 (drums, flute, keyboards) and Kenny Passarelli (bass); all of the members contributed vocals and songs, although Walsh was the principal singer and songwriter. Later, the group added keyboardist Rocke Grace, to permit it to play the complex arrangements live that it was creating through multitracking in the studio or with the help of session musicians Paul Harris (piano) and Joe Lala

Joe Lala

Joe Lala is an actor and voice actor, notable for his dubbing of Kun Lan of the video-game Killer7.He also played drums and percussion on 32 gold and 28 platinum albums. His credits include Blues Image, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Manassas, The Bee Gees, Whitney Houston, and many...

 (percussion).

Barnstorm would record only three albums over its three-year life (two as principals, Barnstorm and The Smoker You Drink, the Player You Get

The Smoker You Drink, the Player You Get

The Smoker You Drink, the Player You Get is the second album by Joe Walsh and his band Barnstorm, released in 1973 , although the album's front cover credits only Walsh...

, plus serving as the backing band on Michael Stanley

Michael Stanley

Michael Stanley is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and disc jockey. Both as a solo artist and with the Michael Stanley Band, his brand of heartland rock was popular in Cleveland and around the American Midwest in the 1970s and 1980s.-Biography:Michael Stanley Gee graduated from Rocky...

's Friends and Legends

Friends and Legends

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) before disbanding, although Walsh and Vitale have continued to work together ever since. Passarelli, meanwhile, joined Elton John

Elton John

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's backing band in 1975, and he later rejoined Vitale in Crosby, Stills and Nash's backing band.