the spritual godfather of el-lay decadence. and you just couldn't kill him.
HOLY SHIT
Kicking myself that I forgot him. Wolf King is a great record, but hooboy has he left an evil shadow on this town.
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 24 August 2013 05:14 (ten years ago) link
The Zevon book desperately needs an index, but there is a Who's Who at the back and under the "Henley, Don" entry is this
Warren's relationship with Don was strange. When discussing whether or not he wanted a funeral, Warren said, "I just don't want to have to spend my last days wondering if Henley will show up." Henley didn't, but Timothy Schmidt did.
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 24 August 2013 05:19 (ten years ago) link
Also, am I the only one self-conscious enough to turn off my Last.fm tagging when reading this thread?
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 24 August 2013 05:26 (ten years ago) link
bwahaha
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 24 August 2013 05:33 (ten years ago) link
shame shame we know your name
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 24 August 2013 05:35 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm-o7_VVAoU
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 24 August 2013 05:43 (ten years ago) link
if only we had listened to mojo
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 24 August 2013 05:45 (ten years ago) link
a line in that Mojo song reminded me of that brief time in the late '80s when Henley turned into Timothy B. Schmidt (or, "The Ponytail Years")
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/89/254840967_23dcb0527f.jpg
http://i924.photobucket.com/albums/ad88/whitcap91/Don/dhjapan89aswtdid-1.jpg
― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 24 August 2013 06:05 (ten years ago) link
For some reason, this photo of Sonny reacting to Glenn's suggestion they change the name of the show to "Frey-ami Vice" came up too:
http://content9.flixster.com/question/66/91/19/6691195_std.jpg
― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 24 August 2013 06:08 (ten years ago) link
i wonder what his career would have been like if he had kept his creepy 'fro
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 24 August 2013 06:08 (ten years ago) link
xpost LOL
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 24 August 2013 06:09 (ten years ago) link
ok ok
how about Miami Chuggin?
you guys! we could take an ilx field trip!
http://standinonthecorner.com/
http://i412.photobucket.com/albums/pp201/sharonjoy666/937835F7-D443-404B-9F31-09D4F3FC6EC5-5640-0000036F397E9F50_zps8aa806c4.jpg
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 24 August 2013 06:19 (ten years ago) link
"Nightingale"
http://www.glennfreyonline.com/images/eagles1972cactus02.jpg
http://youtu.be/xBahwTC8eXY
― scott seward, Saturday, 24 August 2013 13:18 (ten years ago) link
this song is lame.
i think this is actually the first time so far where listening to one of these songs my immediate response is: LAME.
― scott seward, Saturday, 24 August 2013 13:19 (ten years ago) link
They cut this after the initial sessions because the label wanted "More Henley". You can also see why Browne didn't put this out himself.
― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 24 August 2013 13:33 (ten years ago) link
in that eagle-hating salon article i defended eagles when that guy called them lowest common denominator but i don't know why i would bother when i listen to something like this. or chug for that matter.
― scott seward, Saturday, 24 August 2013 13:38 (ten years ago) link
this song needed like 6 more months in the woodshed
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 24 August 2013 14:02 (ten years ago) link
jesus christ this song is like watching the lawn in front of my house die
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 24 August 2013 14:02 (ten years ago) link
This is okay but no particular reason why it should pass any cut. A bit strange that it makes it onto the same album as Take It Easy, let alone Witchy Woman which genuinely does have a touch of genius about it. If you took the vocals off, the verse-and-choruses are what a computer might come up with if you programmed it to play rock & roll.
But it does take wing for thirty seconds at 2:58 from "I get so low, and my mind's about to go ... but wait a minute". I like this a lot, there's some genuine yearning there - if that's been turned into a song it'd've worked fine. As it is, it should be a decent b-side.
― Ismael Klata, Saturday, 24 August 2013 14:04 (ten years ago) link
Maria heard witchay woman at Home Depot yesterday. this might be a good place to post if you hear an eagles song in the wild.
― scott seward, Saturday, 24 August 2013 14:09 (ten years ago) link
i would love to hear Browne sing this. it totally has his melodic sense but it would only sound particularly good in his voice, unlike "Take It Easy."
― some dude, Saturday, 24 August 2013 15:18 (ten years ago) link
it's just the same old murder movie but they call it the news
Dig 'em when they're up. Dig 'em when they're down.
― pplains, Saturday, 24 August 2013 17:43 (ten years ago) link
Get a very demo vibe off this, a track a band throws onto the tape just to show they have more than four songs. The inert opening vamp is just ... nothing.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 24 August 2013 17:51 (ten years ago) link
Opening riff reminds me of the riff in Jesus Mary Chain's 'Sometimes Always'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WL0269xbykQ (start at 1.57)
I don't mind this, it's just that it doesn't really go anywhere for me. I kept waiting for a build or a hook or a something but it just kept going.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 24 August 2013 18:09 (ten years ago) link
would it be rude of me to suggest that you guys do the youtube link thing instead of the embed thing too? i just kinda like the idea of this thread being one thread, but i guess we could have a part 2. it could get kinda impossible with a million vids on here. says the guy who throws fifty million youtube videos onto a million threads.
― scott seward, Saturday, 24 August 2013 19:07 (ten years ago) link
Wooo that song is bad but also I forgot how it even went the second it was over so it's kind of ultimately neutral I guess.
― Lawyer... SUAVE... (carl agatha), Saturday, 24 August 2013 19:31 (ten years ago) link
bah, this band, but i'll read this thread periodically till you get to their version of steve young's seven bridges road and their song the sad cafe.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Saturday, 24 August 2013 19:48 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcYY-7AqOeo
― banjoboy, Saturday, 24 August 2013 19:56 (ten years ago) link
Agree no embeds fwiw. I want this thread to be openable so's one of us can print it out when it's done and bury it one night in a time capsule on Henley's ranch.
― Ismael Klata, Saturday, 24 August 2013 20:24 (ten years ago) link
Another day, Another bad Eagles song.
― I'll take the jangle-jangle over the throb-throb (brg30), Saturday, 24 August 2013 20:57 (ten years ago) link
no that's a good idea scott, will do
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 24 August 2013 21:26 (ten years ago) link
I want this thread to be openable
Ha, says the guy who a few posts earlier said of Witchy Woman it "genuinely does have a touch of genius about it," and referred to the band's " genuine yearning." ;) Me, I'd be OK if this thread was not openable.; Like a child lid on a prescription.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 24 August 2013 22:21 (ten years ago) link
josh
dude
take it easy
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 24 August 2013 22:22 (ten years ago) link
I guess it's possible that I may come to regret those posts, YouTube away
― Ismael Klata, Saturday, 24 August 2013 22:29 (ten years ago) link
Nah that's not right, Witchy Woman is strange enough to deserve it
― Ismael Klata, Saturday, 24 August 2013 22:37 (ten years ago) link
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, August 24, 2013 2:19 AM (16 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Lolling at how the town of Winslow, Arizona is trying to make "Standin' On The Corner" a tourist attraction/slogan/image solidifier, it's like they know the only time anyone ever hears about Winslow is that brief mention in "Take It Easy", so they need to milk it for all it's worth.
As for "Nightingale", as a onetime songwriter I can relate to it. Sometimes the inspiration hits, and you think up a lyric that perfectly captures your situation in a unique way, and pair it with an inventive melody and backings of the sort you can only dream up at your most inspired, and through happy accidents in the recording process it sounds even better on tape (or whatever you record on nowadays) than it did in your head when you were writing it. But most of the time I'd be called upon to write something when I wasn't in the mood and had nothing to say, but just needed to force it and squeeze out a song for contractual reasons. And when I did, it usually would sound something like "Nightingale".
I must admit i got a good laff from that youtube photo though
― Lee626, Saturday, 24 August 2013 23:25 (ten years ago) link
"Train Leaves Here This Morning"
http://www.rockpeaks.com/files/imagecache/body/eggs/e/Eagles/002691-Eagles-Train-Leaves-Here-This-Morning-BBC-In-Concert-1973.jpg
http://youtu.be/UXy3hYqvstU
― scott seward, Sunday, 25 August 2013 11:31 (ten years ago) link
this song is a ringer because a god among men wrote it. so, enjoy a wonderful sunday song.
Sighting: out buying lunch, Peaceful Easy Feeling playing in M&S
― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 25 August 2013 11:41 (ten years ago) link
This is really good, best song in days. I wonder what kept them from doing more Clark material (I know:$$$$$). He was a friend/drinking buddy of theirs in the early days.
― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 25 August 2013 14:04 (ten years ago) link
This is really good, but very unEagles - I'm guessing Gene Clark is the writer here, it could easily be a more country Byrds. The phrasing is nothing like any of the previous songs, which are all made up of short, hooky lines repeated and varied; this deals in very long phrases and is more interesting for it, even with the slower chord progression. I like the vocal harmonies, and the guitar in the middle eight sparkles nicely, though the chord change/quasi-solo at the end is unpleasant. The ending is good. Another one that's quite unlike what's gone before.
― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 25 August 2013 14:19 (ten years ago) link
It was a Clark/Leadon co-write from the first Dillard & Clark Expedition album from '68.
― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 25 August 2013 14:33 (ten years ago) link
whoah, this is nice. who's singing lead on that? bernie?
― reggie (qualmsley), Sunday, 25 August 2013 15:03 (ten years ago) link
Reminds me of Jayhawks, at their most Burrito-ish.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 25 August 2013 15:16 (ten years ago) link
Yeah Gene Clark parts of Hotel California are heartbreaking, you can tell Hoskyns really loves his music the most
Such a tragedy, and he doesn't even have the Gram Parsons/Chilton/etc cult that he deserves
― everything I do is funky like Debussy (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 25 August 2013 15:22 (ten years ago) link
that's Bernie on lead vocals!
LOVE this so much.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 25 August 2013 15:24 (ten years ago) link
there's a tone to Bernie's voice that reminds me a lot of Marty Robbins. Really rich in the low notes, and he hits those really pretty high notes.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 25 August 2013 15:26 (ten years ago) link
What did he do after the Eagles?
― everything I do is funky like Debussy (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 25 August 2013 17:09 (ten years ago) link