xpost haha that's even weirder
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 23 August 2013 02:44 (ten years ago) link
"Chug All Night" would sound like great sludge as a 45 rpm slowed down to 33 1/3. Also, nice of them not to finish the song with a harmonica flourish at the very end.
As long as we're revisiting "Take It Easy", I'll say that for the past two days I've been thinking "It's a girl my lord and a fat Rob Ford slowing down to take a look at me."
― cookin' with bad (Eazy), Friday, 23 August 2013 02:49 (ten years ago) link
someone get REALLY drunk and listen to chug all night and tell us how it sounds. for science. i ain't doing it.
― scott seward, Friday, 23 August 2013 02:58 (ten years ago) link
Symbolic of The Eagles. Fake empty authenticism
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 23 August 2013 03:00 (ten years ago) link
― scott seward, Thursday, August 22, 2013 10:58 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i've been drinking a bit but not that much
― call all destroyer, Friday, 23 August 2013 03:01 (ten years ago) link
Being a member of a particular secret mailing that was popular in the mid-90s is giving me spectacular laughs. Thank you all!
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 23 August 2013 03:04 (ten years ago) link
I'm drunk right now, but I'm listening to Duke Ellington. Turning him off to put on an Eagles song is a level of sacrilege I'm not prepared to experience and/or comprehend.
― Shart Week (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 23 August 2013 03:09 (ten years ago) link
What a strange, strange, strange Google Street View capture.
http://i.imgur.com/9h9m2MN.jpg
You hear that? There's that bridge to "Witchay Woman" again.
― pplains, Friday, 23 August 2013 03:13 (ten years ago) link
"Most Of Us Are Sad"
http://i912.photobucket.com/albums/ac327/whitcap/Jennie-and-Randy-Meisner-1.jpg
http://youtu.be/z1fka_Ow0M4
― scott seward, Friday, 23 August 2013 11:24 (ten years ago) link
Songwriters: FREY, GLENN LEWISMost of us are sad No one lets it show I've been shadows of myself How was I to know? Tell me scarlet sun What will time allow? We have brought our children Here who can save them now? Oh, weeping woman try to smile Like the coming dawn Most of us are sad it's true Still we must go on Love was here today Oh the sun was bright I will sing you faraway Love is here tonight Most of us are sad No one lets it show I've been shadows of myself How was I to know?
― scott seward, Friday, 23 August 2013 11:27 (ten years ago) link
"Randy Meisner appears on this album but was asked to leave the band shortly before the record was released. Meisner's exit was a result of his anger from being excluded (at Furay's insistence) from participation in the final mix playback sessions for the record, as only Messina and Furay were to complete the production. His image was removed from the painting on the album's cover, and replaced with the dog seen at the far left. His bass parts and backing vocals were left in the mix, but his lead vocals were removed, and new versions were sung by George Grantham."
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/88/Poco_1969.jpg
― scott seward, Friday, 23 August 2013 11:31 (ten years ago) link
replaced with the dog replaced with the dog replaced with the dog replaced with the dog replaced with the dog replaced with the dog replaced with the dog replaced with the dog
― scott seward, Friday, 23 August 2013 11:32 (ten years ago) link
intimations of randy meisner singing three dog night's "easy to be hard"
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 23 August 2013 11:32 (ten years ago) link
that guitar sure does sound pretty though.
― scott seward, Friday, 23 August 2013 11:33 (ten years ago) link
Zylon Tex 1 month agoJust for the record, I've seen the Eagles documentary, I know all the sordid detail; Randy Meisner didn't walk out on the band, he was driven away by toxicity and ominousity, hostility of those who shall not be namedAmazing musician, mad respect
― scott seward, Friday, 23 August 2013 11:36 (ten years ago) link
i meant that in a good way! in an early morning reverie imagining golden smog covered "most of us are sad" too on their first EP
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 23 August 2013 11:37 (ten years ago) link
it could be a Low song.
― scott seward, Friday, 23 August 2013 11:40 (ten years ago) link
how's his stuff after he left the eagles?
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 23 August 2013 11:43 (ten years ago) link
"In 1988, a man named Lewis Peter "Buddy" Morgan started impersonating Meisner. He had previously been charged with impersonating Don Henley in Las Vegas, but skipped on his bail. Morgan's identity was not conclusively revealed until 1997. In 1998, he was arrested and spent 16 months in jail, but upon his release continued his charade and was still doing so as of 2009. In Reno, Nevada, he tried to use Meisner's identity to rent hotel rooms. He was not as successful as before with the ruse, since area hotels had notified each other of the impostor. Some people are not familiar with Meisner's appearance, and Morgan used that fact to con musical instrument manufacturers and retailers, casino owners, and women."
― scott seward, Friday, 23 August 2013 11:48 (ten years ago) link
i have never actually listened to randy's solo albums. i've seen them, but never played them. i'd probably like them.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fa/Randy_Meisner_-_Randy_Meisner.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c4/Randy_Meisner_-_One_More_Song.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b8/Randy_Meisner_-_Randy_Meisner_%281982%29.jpg
― scott seward, Friday, 23 August 2013 11:51 (ten years ago) link
this is a sleepy little number. harmless i guess. i like randy's voice. the lyrics are.....weird.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 23 August 2013 13:17 (ten years ago) link
Hey, Zylon. GET OVER IT.
― pplains, Friday, 23 August 2013 13:20 (ten years ago) link
The eclecticism continues. I really like this, to my surprise - I'd never go for such a dirge normally. It struck me as quite hymnlike at first, though I hear the country now. It's quite protestant in its plainness. The instrumentation is refined and the harmonies are lovely, and it resists the temptation to big up too much - a lesser band would've choired it up or done something horrid. Instead this is nice.
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 23 August 2013 13:21 (ten years ago) link
Pickin Up the Pieces reminds me of
http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/t/the-byrds/album-the-notorious-byrd-brothers.jpg
(I know it's probably apocryphal, but that doesn't stop me.)
― pplains, Friday, 23 August 2013 13:22 (ten years ago) link
i love pickin' up the pieces. one of the great post-byrds albums. lots of people who love byrds have never heard it. its up there for me with byrds and the grape and the buffalo.
― scott seward, Friday, 23 August 2013 13:25 (ten years ago) link
that's a horse
― Ismael Klata, Friday, 23 August 2013 13:26 (ten years ago) link
sure looks like david crosby to me.
― pplains, Friday, 23 August 2013 13:26 (ten years ago) link
In the doc Meisner looks 100 years older than his former bandmates.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 23 August 2013 13:29 (ten years ago) link
I actually like this. It's pretty and... sad. Agree that the lyrics are weird probably because they are missing a line about sex and skin conditions, but even in their weirdness and clumsiness they are wistful in melancholy way.
in an early morning reverie imagining golden smog covered "most of us are sad" too on their first EP
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, August 23, 2013 11:37 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
That is OTM. I would probably listen to that a lot.
― Lawyer... SUAVE... (carl agatha), Friday, 23 August 2013 13:29 (ten years ago) link
http://www.angelfire.com/rock3/deliverin/MEISNER/Images/RMeisner2007.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 23 August 2013 13:30 (ten years ago) link
This is pretty, but the monotony of the vocal melody/phrasing doesn't work for me. I guess it is supposed to have a hymn-like quality, but it seems more like a nice country song gone wrong.
― Brad C., Friday, 23 August 2013 13:50 (ten years ago) link
It's a chuggerly little song but I just like it rather than chug it.
― Spot Lange (Jon Lewis), Friday, 23 August 2013 14:05 (ten years ago) link
reminds me a little of Big Star!
― scott seward, Friday, 23 August 2013 14:09 (ten years ago) link
Ha, I was just thinking that! Kinda like "Try Again."
― Shart Week (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 23 August 2013 14:11 (ten years ago) link
if it had more echo and sounded generally more fucked up it could be a sister lovers track.
― scott seward, Friday, 23 August 2013 14:12 (ten years ago) link
I'm glad you two have the weekend to think about what you just said.
― pplains, Friday, 23 August 2013 14:12 (ten years ago) link
especially that guitar break at about 2:16 with the harmonies behind it.
― scott seward, Friday, 23 August 2013 14:13 (ten years ago) link
ha! i know but its kinda true!
come on that guitar solo! its totes bigstarian.
― scott seward, Friday, 23 August 2013 14:19 (ten years ago) link
Are we not doing songs on the weekends too? C'mon, we neeeeed sweet Eagles tunage on Saturday and Sunday
― some dude, Friday, 23 August 2013 14:20 (ten years ago) link
i'll do weekends. i'm at work on saturday so i always have time. and sunday i'm just sleepy and lazy in the morning so again plenty of time. it ain't brain surgery.
i swear if ivo had put this song on a this mortal coil album in the 80's the eagles would have more love from indie rockers.
― scott seward, Friday, 23 August 2013 14:25 (ten years ago) link
If there were ever a perfect song to be sung by a ruthless drug kingpin in his private karaoke lair...
― The Bridges of Witchy Woman (Eazy), Friday, 23 August 2013 14:28 (ten years ago) link
the production/sound/harmonies are great
but the melody and song itself are really pedestrian and not great
the main "Most....of...us.....are sad" part is really lame IMO, stilted and not good phrasing
like a lot of eagles songs it succeeds in reminding me of songs/artists i like way more than the eagles
but yeah i mean the band could make records, they sound good, but they generally sound really good/pro so i'm not inclined to give them that much credit for that
― everything I do is funky like Debussy (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 23 August 2013 14:39 (ten years ago) link
yeah the overall feel is v nice, randy has a lovely voice imoand I like the sound of the guitar -- is it mixed with a keyboard or is that a specific type of guitar that sounds like that?
but the song sorta sounds like a low-budget christmas carol or a nursery rhyme. it's a bit of a plodder. but certainly a nice palate cleanser after all that chugging *burp*
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 23 August 2013 15:43 (ten years ago) link
yeah he's got a nice voice
just saying i mean these guys are pros! but lots of bands in the 70s were pros, records sounded good then, people could play and sing, so i'm saying we can't endlessly give them credit for being real polished and good at playing, you can't compare it to how records sound like shit now
― everything I do is funky like Debussy (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 23 August 2013 15:50 (ten years ago) link
Really, this thread should be active exclusively on the weekends.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 23 August 2013 15:58 (ten years ago) link
Another very "first album" song, in the sense that they're just beginning to mine something that'll soon pay off in AM/FM Gold.
― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 23 August 2013 16:02 (ten years ago) link
show of hands, how many of us are sad
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 23 August 2013 16:02 (ten years ago) link
beat me to it - this sounds like the sort of thing that could make the cut only on their first album, made before they knew they'd become huge. Likable enough but forgetable, not exactly loaded with hooks.
Horse on the Notorious Byrd Brothers coincidental btw, just happened to stick his head out before the picture was taken. McGuinn said had he thought in advance about it representing the departed Crosby, he would have has the had the horse facing the other way....
x2 re: Pickin' Up The Pieces
― Lee626, Friday, 23 August 2013 16:12 (ten years ago) link
at least they didn't turn david crosby into a dog! i still can't believe they turned the poor guy into a dog...
― scott seward, Friday, 23 August 2013 16:13 (ten years ago) link