A Good Day In Hell - The Official ILM Track-By-Track EAGLES Listening Thread

actually i guess that applies even more to Randy Newman (who is surely a dick)

but those America guys might be total dicks, too. who knows.

my pal george on marthas vineyard opened for neil and dylan when he was drumming for dinosaur and i was really hoping he would have juicy stories but he said they never saw those dudes they would just appear on stage when it was time to play. they didn't hang with anyone. probably depends on their mood. they are probably so sick of people.

someone told me a story about a renowned dick. a local guy here was in new orleans having dinner with people and one of the people was in los lobos and at the table next to theirs was paul simon and everyone at the los lobos table was talking about richard thompson and paul simon leaned in and asked them who they were talking about and they told him richard thompson and paul simon had no idea who that was. i thought that was weird. someone told me that yesterday. also thought it was weird that they were dining with a guy from los lobos given the whole simon/los lobos debacle.

just thought i'd share that.

paul simon is secretly lame! haha.

I don't know—never having heard of Richard Thompson feels like a good thing to me. I wish I'd never heard of him.

paul simon is secretly lame! haha.

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oh come on -- everyone paul simon's age should know who richard thompson is esp if they used britfolk melodies to sing about parsley

lyrics aside, "mood" makes me think of some throwaway Stills/ Manassas cut (p great album btw)

There's a lot of things Paul Simon doesn't know.

He goes, "Yeah, I did this in Louisiana with this zy decko guy." And he kept saying it over and over. And I remember having to tell him, "Paul, it's pronounced zydeco. It's not zy decko, it's zydeco."

haha!
oh paul simon
i should have said everyone in his peer group, not his age
i would def expect paul simon to know who richard thompson is by name if not necessarily by sight

I was at the dentist yesterday and he was telling me how his kids went to school with Neil's kids, which he was unaware of until Neil started showing up at PTA meetings ("looking like a homeless guy") and chatting up the other parents. he said Neil was really nice, invited folks back to his ranch, which he said was huge but not ostentatious, really pretty psychedelic stained glass, barns, etc.

Turned out it was all a ruse to get them to invest in PONO.

i worry about pono sometimes

Whatever else Young's a superb dad by all accounts. It wouldn't surprise me that he and Pegi would be sweethearts to PTA parents; the latter want nothing out of him.

yeah i wouldn't be surprised if neil was nicer to just some random person that would talk to him about cars or the weather or something than a fan who loved his music

fwiw my dentist was not a "fan" of Neil and didn't recognize who he was

last year at the bridge benefit we were sitting behind this couple and their 2 little kids, and at some point I told the wife how cute her kids were. she said that a couple of years ago her sister had been babysitting the kids and took them to a diner near Redwood City. This guy who turned out to be Neil Young was ordering coffee and noticed the kids, and came over to the table and told the sister how adorable they were etc, he ended up sitting down at the table with her and talking to the kids and playing with them. Sister says to the waitress after he left, 'what a nice man' and the waitress gives her a look and says, 'That was Neil Young'

I was just about yelling at the woman HOLY SHIT YOUR SISTER DOESN'T KNOW WHO NEIL YOUNG IS?

but it was a really beautiful story

Paul Simon also doesn't know who Neil young is.

that woman was paul simon

woah

Sweet baby Paul

This song is like the bastard child of Alex Chilton (pplains otm) and Stephen Stills (will otm, but lyrically this is like him too--remember his tmi jams "Make Love To You" and "Fair Game"?) (not Manassas, but whatever). Was this the song that got dropped for "Nightingale"? Weird that it never got collected on an album--you'd think with so little rare or unreleased Eagles material it would have been on the box set or something.

Also, I had to grab my copy of CSN to sure I had "Fair Game" correct, and Chilton's Free Again was directly under it in the stack. Eerie.

"Make Love To You" and "Fair Game"?

ha i don't know these but going to listen to them right now

I bet Neil is fine to hang with, but his circle is pretty tight. Randy Newman is a bro, don't think he's a dick, have talked with him a few times and he was cool. There is no way Paul Simon did not know Richard Thompson, or if he didn't, he had surely heard him in Fairport, or whatever. Maybe he misheard? Los Lobos guys I have heard could be dicks. To this day I know people who dread booking them because they shut the place down. They are always the last to leave, with the bar dry.

Was reading the Sammy Hagar book, and he and Eddie played the Bridge School benefit once (!). Paul Simon was there and asked Eddie if he wanted to do "Sound of Silence" and Eddie didn't know it. Now that I believe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzZsl1YVkZw

Dying here. That EVH cameo is straight out of St. Sanders.

Is Neil a good guy? I mean I'd love to hang out with him, but I'm not sure I'd be expecting a mellowed-out good time as such.

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2012/10/the-vexing-simplicity-of-neil-young.html

"On the ride Young told me that he didn’t read, but I might have guessed anyway. He was a reserved and slightly grave figure, and talking with him was like being trapped with someone whose mind had no reach. He could only talk about what he felt or had seen or thought. I couldn’t respond to one of his remarks by raising an idea it had made me think of and have him make some connection to some other thought and then respond to that. A part of him seemed to have been arrested at a very early age."

plus, he's a victim of Stills abuse. hard to come back from.

again in that hotel california book people were dumfounded that neil would hang with stills for so long cuz stills was so horrible to him. but neil loved jamming with stills so i guess that was worth it.

probably a lot more of that in the shakey book i haven't read it.

btw never believed that line about Young not reading.

scott! You'll love the Shakey book!

Young probably got his licks in on Stills too. That story in Sharkey about Young conning Stills into overpaying for a guitar could just be the tip of that cocaine iceberg.

"Shakey"...stupid pono phone.

if Stills had been in the Eagles then I would understand the hate for the band that's the genesis of this thread. & I like CSN! but Stills is gross and his CSN(Y) (& springfield) songs are by and large the worst of those bands. BLAHHHHK QUEEEN oh fuck you

well, the dude did write the lyric "Forgive me if my fantasies might seem a little shopworn."

The Eagles didn't need Stills...they had Frey!

Dallas Taylor's book is worth checking out for lots of disturbing CSN stories.

i worry about pono sometimes

otm

"Doolin-Dalton"

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FkHsCg7rmtw/UBPcSFnuVFI/AAAAAAAAALg/8iSnR8vDo98/s1600/EaglesPlus.jpg

http://youtu.be/-dzW2jzWdds

it took four members of the brain trust to write this song:

"Doolin-Dalton" (Glenn Frey, J. D. Souther, Don Henley, Jackson Browne)

and to be fair it actually sounds like an effort, you know? they were trying, man.

at least they look like they could hit a gay bar

"Graveyards filled with tombstones, waiting for the names" -- this is not how tombstones work iirc

I always thought this look was pretty dope. Looking forward to finding out why it bombed.

well, not making "desperado" a single might be one reason!

It wasn't?!

and Alice Cooper's was still better.

"tequila sunrise" and "outlaw man" were the singles.

Year Single Chart Position
1973 "Outlaw Man" Billboard Pop Singles 59
1973 "Tequila Sunrise" Billboard Pop Singles 64

the album got to number 41 in the states. did better on canadian charts. which makes sense as canada was suffering from stampeders fever.

http://s.cdon.com/media-dynamic/images/product/music/album/image5/rubes_dudes_rowdies_import-stampeders-1195523-frnt.jpg