Joe Walsh

Not to be confused with his American-born guitarist namesake, Liverpool-based drummer Joe Walsh was a member of two of the more tenacious Merseybeat bands of the early '60s, Lee Curtis & the All-Stars and Ian & the Zodiacs, both of which saw their biggest success in Germany. He replaced ex-Beatle Pete Best on drums in Curtis' All-Stars. He was with Curtis during his most successful years, from early 1964 through early 1966, and probably played on the group's 1964 Star-Club Show, Vol. 3 album. He jumped to Ian & the Zodiacs in the late winter of 1966 and left the music business later that year. (Ironically, it would be the American Joe Walsh who would become a key member of Liverpool drummer Ringo Starr's All-Starr Band some three decades later.) ~ Bruce Eder, All Music Guide