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

noted misanthrope edward abbey.

i can't find a picture of the abbey book with that cover anywhere though.

okay, found it.

http://cb.pbsstatic.com/l/02/4502/9780394474502.jpg

(from Amazon):

Harry Crosby was the godson of J. P. Morgan and a friend of Ernest Hemingway. Living in Paris in the twenties and directing the Black Sun Press, which published James Joyce among others, Crosby was at the center of the wild life of the lost generation. Drugs, drink, sex, gambling, the deliberate derangement of the senses in the pursuit of transcendent revelation: these were Crosby's pastimes until 1929, when he shot his girlfriend, the recent bride of another man, and then himself.

Black Sun is novelist and master biographer Geoffrey Wolff's subtle and striking picture of a man who killed himself to make his life a work of art.

(thought it was the Abbey book too)

Drugs, drink, sex, gambling, the deliberate derangement of the senses in the pursuit of transcendent revelation: these were Crosby's pastimes until 1929, when he shot his girlfriend, the recent bride of another man, and then himself.

in some used bookstore in America is Henley's copy, with marginalia like "heavy" and "need to research"

and 'talk to Joe about it'

"Maybe that's their appeal. The Eagles hate everybody so people who listen can feel like they are in an exclusive club of special people who occupy the narrow space of who the Eagles don't hate."

this is rush limbaugh too.

― scott seward, Saturday, November 9, 2013 2:40 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

And Frank Zappa.

so mister environmentalist has an 11 million dollar compound in dallas?

http://www3.dmagazine.com/images/100me/don-henley.jpg

http://www3.dmagazine.com/content/100-Most-Expensive-Homes-In-Dallas-2013/Don-Henley

He had Walden Pond bulldozed and relocated to Dallas iirc

also had Emerson's body disinterred and planted near his tennis court

and the he drained Walden Pond & built his house in it

lol @ col

Noteworthy: 6 fireplaces, 3 wet bars

H.:"I'm working on improving that ratio"

GLENN: Henley's place is really something! Six fireplaces! Three wet bars! Fuckin Walden Pond, man!

DON: I wantd to make sure that Dallas could be its own self-supporting ecosystem -- to preserve the things I love.

GLENN: With three wet bars and four jacuzzis, man, you wanted to confuse the cops who were looking for a dead underaged chick.

DON: Well, yeah.

http://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/18/garden/at-home-with-don-henley-in-his-mulholland-drive-wilderness.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm

from back in the pre-compound days of '92, when H. only had a 2,700-sq. ft. bachelor manse in Hollywood.

Now his environmental activities are a little more upscale. A couple of years ago, when Southern California was imposing restrictions to fight a drought, he drained the water from his pool and hot tub for a year. WALKING the WALK, folks.

On the need for open space: "Humankind survived on the savanna grasslands in the Eastern part of Africa. We need once in a while to put our bare feet on the ground."

On his lobbying techniques: "I adopted the Lyndon Baines Johnson tactic of bringing your enemies into your own camp."

On being named an honorary citizen of Massachusetts: "I wonder if that means I'll have to pay taxes there, too?"

so he's a barefoot Mark Levin.

http://img5.bdbphotos.com/images/orig/4/u/4uyhgue98q3p4py8.jpg?obn5da3o

I have a brother who I haven't seen or spoken to in 17 years. For my 17th birthday in 1982 he bought me a copy of I Can't Stand Still (which had just come out). I think this is the only Eagles-related album I've ever owned.

time for a reconciliation. Ask Casey Kasem to dedicate "Love Will Keep Us Alive" to him.

http://www3.pictures.gi.zimbio.com/Scarlett+Johansson+Don+Henley+49th+Annual+PhN3Udg0ixql.jpg

watch out for this one, Johansson

RUN SCOJO RUN!!

On being named an honorary citizen of Massachusetts: "I wonder if that means I'll have to pay taxes there, too?"

First thing I thought of when I saw the Dallas spread: no income tax.

That actual miles cover is to close to my style than I really needed to see.

i will never understand rich people who build massive mansions RIGHT NEXT TO other mansions. and henley's is flanked by two big roads. there's no room to breathe! if i were a megabucks i wouldn't be anywhere near anyone else. i would be surrounded by a thousand acres of my own walden woods. money can buy you your own feudal state, who the hell would want to be surrounded by tons of dallas oil people?

lol i had that same thought scott

scott otm

and conversely, surely you'd want henley as far away from ppl as possible, for everyones benefit

if i were a megabucks i wouldn't be anywhere near anyone else.

A certain legendary comedian (whose name rhymes with Shmill Shmosby) in your neck of the woods has put this into practice.

(and Miles Davis married Cicely Tyson at his house in the mid-1980s)

Awesome. It's been awhile on this thread since I've been able to break out the Google Maps.

http://i.snag.gy/5ixJW.jpg

Also Donster lives fewer than three miles away from Shrubya. Maybe they meet up at Starbucks for some pecan pie every once in awhile.

http://i.snag.gy/J1jTH.jpg

Eagles in the wild: "New Kid In Town" playing at an Ocean State Job Lot

Don: Wendy Davis is a true patriot, and I completely endorse her platform against the cronyism leading to a frail grasp on the big picture shared by her opponent, Mr. Abbott, and all his friends down at the Petroleum Club.

Glenn: And I think I can speak for us both when I endorse the platform that both myself and Don would totally hit that.

Don: Well, yeah.

"Frail Grasp On The Big Picture": This is supposed to be a devolved "Dirty Laundry", right?

Frey's house in Hawaii: http://www.bergproperties.com/blog/rocker-glenn-frey-pays-775m-for-a-six-bedroom-4400-square-foot-estate-in-hana-hawaii/

"Last Good Time In Town"

http://www1.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Joe+Walsh+Opening+Gala+Unmasking+Resnick+Pavilion+5X_qCXetMcXl.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8zoR-n5sig

"Jazz on Trombone Jazz on Trombone" he whispered insistingly.

I like the music on this, probably the most interesting on the album. The chorus reminds you that the song is not just Walsh, but Walsh with The Eagles, which isn't quite a good thing. I assume all that extra percussion is not Henley.

http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/joe-walshs-house-2/

joe is also surrounded.

http://www.starmap.com/the-eagles-vocalist-songwriter-joe-walshs-house/

mike nesmith's old house

http://www.bergproperties.com/blog/rocker-joe-walsh-pays-45m-for-a-2308-square-foot-house-in-the-hills-above-beverly-hills-ca-that-former-monkees-frontman-mike-nesmith-once-owned-clearl/

Walsh has owned other Los Angeles-area properties over the years. He currently owns:

--A 2,437-square-foot house at in Los Angeles' Studio City neighborhood, which he has owned since 1991, according to public records;

--A 791-square-foot condominium at 2005 in Carlsbad, Calif. that he purchased in early 2006 for $450,000, according to public records.

--A 4,878-square-foot house at in Encinitas, Calif. that he purchased with other family members in early 2007 for $1,900,000, according to public records.

Classic anecdote from the "Life's Been Good" thread:

I've never had much desire to meet and/or hang with celebrities, but i've always thought that in a perfect world John Waters and Joe Walsh would be my neighbors, and we would barbeque every weekend.

The first time an ex gf of mine ever came to my house she got all excited realizing she had briefly lived around the corner when she was 12. "And you'll never guess who lived next door... Joe Walsh!!!" (He lived here for about a year and a half during and after recording _Got Any Gum_ at Ardent). She then began to regale me with tales of him playing guitar for her and her sister, buying them goofy christmas presents and the time she walked outside to find a shopping cart from the neighborhood grocery perched on the roof of his carport.

― will, Friday, February 8, 2008 9:23 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/timothy-b-schmits-house/

felder's monster house has some nice palm trees

http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/don-felders-house/

he used to live in an even bigger monster originally owned by tommy chong until nick nolte bought it

http://blogs.wsj.com/developments/2013/04/23/nick-nolte-lists-malibu-home-for-8-25-million/

felder's net worth on here pegged at 60 million. probably cuzza the lawsuit. timothy b. listed at a mere 15 million.

http://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-celebrities/rock-stars/don-felder-net-worth/

I use that site a lot but wonder at its accuracy.

Jesse: What are your parents doing today?
Me: Watching the game at an Eagles bar. (nb: Philadelphia Eagles)
Jesse, horrified: the band?!?

Leadon's worth twice as much at T.B. Schmidt? That doesn't entirely compute.