Shannon Meets Joe Walsh

I really can't remember how we found out he was about (my husband is an ex-roadie and I think one of his mates phoned and told him to get down town that day). Joe was playing with a local band called Midnight Oil at the time and recording in the studio with a reggae / funk band called Herbs.

I can remember grabbing some bits n pieces as I tore out the front door -including this little sketch I drew about 10 years earlier while bored in
high school (usual thing of staring out the window thinking about music rather than doing school work).

Anyway, long story short - we got the call, went downtown and there was Joe with some of his band and I remember having a conversation with him about my favourite JW album called "You Can't Argue with A Sick Mind" (which I have two signed copies of, on LP and CD). Joe's comments were 'well that's a pretty old album, you don't look old enough to have been around when that came out' - nice compliment. When I presented him with the old sketch I'd drawn and showed him the date, he grinned and said to me 'that's a good drawing and I predict you'll be a great artist one day'. Little did he know, as they say - upon his very words I would later go on and win an award for my drawing and yes I am an artist these days..., thank you Joe! (and yes, my drawing has improved somewhat over the last 30 years).