Where Was FourWallsdo?: Rocky Mountain Way
By Four Walls
@FourWalls (78200)
United States
August 23, 2025 10:28am CST
Well, howdy! It’s hiccup day here on myLot, but we’ll get through it. We always do. 
We’re continuing a musical journey that mirrors the physical one I took earlier this month. Since this was my first visit to Colorado, excuse me for using another song about it! Of course, this one’s pretty obvious.
Rocky Mountain Way - Joe Walsh
But of course. One of the staples of classic FM rock. You have everything you need in a 70s FM rock song: drug reference (“couldn’t get much higher”), long guitar solo, talk box, slide guitar, and five minutes for the DJ to pull more records or go to the bathroom. 
Joe Walsh wrote this while he was living in Colorado, having left the James Gang and Ohio. No wonder he thought “the Rocky Mountain way is better than the way we had.” 
(For our Ohio residents, he lived in Cleveland and went to Kent State, so it wasn’t like he was living next door to Hocking Hills State Park or something. )
Yes, this got played while in Colorado. Can’t help it!
Rocky Mountain Way
Written by Joe Walsh, Joe Vitale, Kenny Passarelli, and Rocke Grace
Recorded by Joe Walsh
From The Smoker You Drink, the Player You Get, 1973
Time to open fire:
We’re continuing a musical journey that mirrors the physical one I took earlier this month. Since this was my first visit to Colorado, excuse me for using another song about it! Of course, this one’s pretty obvious.
Rocky Mountain Way - Joe Walsh
But of course. One of the staples of classic FM rock. You have everything you need in a 70s FM rock song: drug reference (“couldn’t get much higher”), long guitar solo, talk box, slide guitar, and five minutes for the DJ to pull more records or go to the bathroom.
Joe Walsh wrote this while he was living in Colorado, having left the James Gang and Ohio. No wonder he thought “the Rocky Mountain way is better than the way we had.” (For our Ohio residents, he lived in Cleveland and went to Kent State, so it wasn’t like he was living next door to Hocking Hills State Park or something. )
Yes, this got played while in Colorado. Can’t help it!
Rocky Mountain Way
Written by Joe Walsh, Joe Vitale, Kenny Passarelli, and Rocke Grace
Recorded by Joe Walsh
From The Smoker You Drink, the Player You Get, 1973
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8 responses
@dgobucks226 (36846)
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23 Aug
One of Joe's best for sure. 
And the perfect tune for a Colorado Rockies win! Of course, with the # of wins they have this season, Walsh's song has not been played much. 
And the perfect tune for a Colorado Rockies win! Of course, with the # of wins they have this season, Walsh's song has not been played much. 1 person likes this
@FourWalls (78200)
• United States
23 Aug
Yeah, Joe hasn’t been getting the royalties for plays of “Rocky Mountain Way” like Steve Goodman has for “Go Cubs Go” or Bill Anderson for writing “Cincinnati, Ohio.” Maybe he needs to ask ‘em to play it if they lose instead…he’ll get more money that way.
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@dgobucks226 (36846)
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27 Aug
@FourWalls Ha, ha. Yes, true. Hey, those Cubbies have been having quite the season haven't they. Now can they catch the Brew Crew.
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@FourWalls (78200)
• United States
27 Aug
@dgobucks226 —the Brewers are playing for Ueck. Going to be hard to stop them with that kind of mission.
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@moffittjc (125419)
• Gainesville, Florida
23 Aug
One of my all-time favorite Joe Walsh songs!
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@FourWalls (78200)
• United States
24 Aug
Yahoo! Glad you enjoyed it, hope you're doing well!
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@moffittjc (125419)
• Gainesville, Florida
24 Aug
@FourWalls I am doing well. I hope you’re doing well too. Looks like you are doing lots of traveling. Sounds like a lot of fun.
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@FourWalls (78200)
• United States
23 Aug
I only got to stay up late on weekends, so I wasn’t ready on Friday anymore than I was ready to go to bed at 10 on Sunday.
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@DaddyEvil (157965)
• United States
23 Aug
No, I don't recognize this one...
I'm... well, not glad, but it's nice to know myLot isn't only giving me problems this morning. It keeps kicking me off the site, telling me myLot isn't available and to try again later. It's annoying but I keep logging back in.
I hope it gets tired of doing that pretty soon.
I hope it gets tired of doing that pretty soon.1 person likes this
@FourWalls (78200)
• United States
23 Aug
Seems like it hiccups after payday. 
Oh well.
Oh well.1 person likes this
@DaddyEvil (157965)
• United States
23 Aug
@FourWalls At least it's working again now.
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@FourWalls (78200)
• United States
26 Aug
Oh, then don’t look at today’s song…it’s from 1932, or the year my mother was born!
@wolfgirl569 (121455)
• Marion, Ohio
23 Aug
I have heard it. Waves smelling salts under Karen's nose 
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@FourWalls (78200)
• United States
24 Aug
You've heard too many of these. I have to go back to my regular formula.
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@RasmaSandra (88403)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
23 Aug
I was not into this but I was on a Rocky Mountain high
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@FourWalls (78200)
• United States
24 Aug
I got much higher at the Eisenhower Tunnel, which is another mile above Denver's altitude.
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