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

For those of you who change lyrics live, Don's got words for you!

they're like his children, man! you wouldn't paint a mustache on somebody's kid WOULD YOU?

I met a Frenchman in a field last night
He was out there with an easel, painting carnival light
He said, "I used to paint the princess; I used to paint the frogs
Now I paint moustaches on dangerous dogs"
He said, "Sometimes it's a country; sometimes it's a girl
You know, everybody's got to have a purpose in this world
You Yankees are so silly about matters of the heart
Don't you know that women are the only works of art

You're drivin' with your eyes closed
You're drivin' with your eyes closed
You're drivin' with your eyes closed
You're gonna hit somethin'
But that's the way it goes"

Come guys were born to Rimbaud
Some guys breathe Baudelaire
Come guys just got to go and put their rockets everywhere
You can breed 'em by the thousands; you can trick and you can train
Just look at all those poor dogs that are dragged down by the Seine
How many arrows must I shoot into the blue?
Ah, you little maniac, I'm crazy over you
Before The Death of Lovers and The Punishment of Pride
Let's go scrape across the terrazzo
It's just too hot outside

"You're drivin' with your eyes closed
You're drivin' with your eyes closed
You're drivin' with your eyes closed
You're gonna hit somethin'
But that's the way it goes

Talk talk, talk and talk
Talk talk, sweet talk
Talk talk, tough talk
Talk talk, dirty talk
Talk talk, walk and talk
Talk talk, big talk
Talk talk, baby talk
Kiss kiss kiss

Talk talk, talk and talk
Talk talk, smooth talk
Talk talk, body talk
Talk talk, back talk
Talk talk, small talk
Talk talk, baby talk
Talk talk, peace talk
Talk talk, bullshit

http://vimeo.com/75138530

Out on the road today, I saw a Black Flag sticker on a Cadillac.

Don didn't write that song so he doesn't care if you fuck it up

Don Henley, criticizing other people's lyrics

he's like a baker that hates sandwiches

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_process

More hilarity:

http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/music/the-eagles-to-tour-australia-but-want-fans-to-put-away-their-phones/story-e6frfn29-1226926087860

``Videoing a concert with a phone is a violation of our copyright,” he said. “Google own You Tube. They don’t need any more free content. We don’t want our shows posted on You Tube. It spoils it for people who are going to come to a show in the future. We’d like for them to experience it for the first time in the audience rather than experience it on a crappy video that sounds horrible. But I don’t think there’s any going back now. People feel so entitled to being able to use their gadgets and post things on the web. I’m from a different generation, I don’t understand it, it’s not a very pure experience. It takes away from the immediacy of the live performance. If we’re just going to watch TV we can stay home and do that.”

...

As well as being anti-phone, the Eagles are asking fans to sit down during the show, which is heavy on their trademark ballads.
``It’s always been puzzling to us that there’s always three or four people in an audience of several thousand who think they have to stand up for the entire show,” Henley said. ``They seem to be completely oblivious to the fact there’s thousands of people behind them who are not standing up because it’s a ballad for Christ’s sake! We get to a point in our show when it’s quite obvious it’s time to stand up and we give the audience a signal. But people who start standing up in the beginning when we’re doing ballads are a great annoyance to us and to the people behind them. We have our security people gently tell them to sit down. You pay for your seat, sit in it.”

We get to a point in our show when it’s quite obvious it’s time to stand up and we give the audience a signal

Is it the finger

you pay for your seat, sit in it

You stand when the priests of rock stand

They spent months and years assembling those seats

DON: we get to a point in our blowjobs when it's quite obvious it's time to stop blowing and we give the blower a signal.

GLENN: i think i'm gonna signal right now.

DON: well, yeah.

They're not just blowjobs, they're EAGLES Blowjobs.

tbh I dislike standing through a show too, especially when it's mellow twaddle like the Eagles.

Posted upthread, never forget:

Early on, he promised that the group would educate as well as entertain. That meant clips from the film about what book inspired this song and how they told that producer it’s time to rock. It also meant a lecture about the night’s harvest moon and playful scolding when Professor Frey mistakenly said CD instead of tape and the fans laughed. “I’ll tell you when to laugh. That wasn’t a joke,” he half-joked.

All rise. The part of the song where you can stand is now in session, Honorable Judge Don Henley presiding.

you pay for your seat, sit in it

― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, June 4, 2014 8:03 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I thought this was a joke but he actually said that.

THAT WASN'T A JOKE

Henley's so funny when he's not trying to be funny.

Long-winded Eagles in the wild...

Went on a tour of the Los Angeles Federal Reserve yesterday morning. Saw millions of dollars shredded (lasered actually), the football-field sized vault where several billion in cash was stored, ID'ed some counterfeit bills, etc. etc. Pretty cool tour overall.

Before leaving, I asked a couple questions of the guide:

ET: "Once you started working here, how long did it take for you to stop thinking of the significance of all this as money and as mere product and inventory you have to move around and deal with like at any other job?"

Fed. Res. Emp: "About three months"

ET: "Has working here changed how you feel about money in general?"

FRE: "Yeah, I hate it"

The tour ended and as I crossed the street to the parking lot, a nearby taco truck was blaring out "Hotel California." Had a moment...

wait did they laser cut a big block of money?

Lasering a block of money?

<crying Don Henley jpg.>

Fed. Res. Emp: "So that concludes the tour of the Reserve, any questions? Yes? You, up here in the front."

DON: "Since you're not using it for anything else, have you ever tried snorting the money?"

FRE: "Excuse me?"

DON: "Just see if you could try to imagine for a second using a hundred-dollar bill to get a hit off of a hundred hundred-dollar bills. Not saying I couldn't try it, mind you, but you all here seem like you could afford the charity."

GLENN: "Ha, you could even cache a bowl with actual cash! Anyone could!"

DON: "Well, yeah..."

VIP tickets for upcoming Eagles shows include several keys of shredded bills.

http://www.semshred.com/stuff/contentmgr/files/0/94674abb359b937f5c67f1a18b1d6410/misc/brick_202.jpg

End of show confetti cannons filled with

http://lunchbreaktourists.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/federal-reserve-interior-bag-of-shredded-cash.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VmLkgZ4mlE4/TRNqxNdWesI/AAAAAAAADEg/63h7lPFZJwE/s1600/Kansas%2BCity%2B4.jpg

We get to a point in our show when it’s quite obvious it’s time to stand up and we give the audience a signal.

midway through, Glenn helpfully tells people that it's a good time for a bathroom break as they've got a Tim Schmidt number coming up

wait did they laser cut a big block of money?

The counting machines at the Fed are hulking monsters that take thousands of bills at a time and auto-reject anything too worn or counterfeit to a shredder that uses lasers rather than the traditional cutting blades. The LA Fed generates 530 tons of shredded currency a year and using lasers is just plain faster.

ET: "Once you started working here, how long did it take for you to stop thinking of the significance of all this as money and as mere product and inventory you have to move around and deal with like at any other job?"

TBS: "Pretty much right after we did the Christmas single."

haha

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possibly less unpleasant

six of one half a dozen of the other

ET: "Once you started working here, how long did it take for you to stop thinking of the significance of all this as money and as mere product and inventory you have to move around and deal with like at any other job?"

TBS: "Pretty much right after we did the Christmas single."

― pplains, Wednesday, June 4, 2014 7:56 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

spectacular

In the wild: Joe Walsh's "All Night Long" at Home Depot.

In The Wild: "Love Will Keep Us Alive" at one of those fancy remodeled Wendy's.

Did you smell rotten meat?

I <heard> rotten meat.

brisket!

Pecan Pie!

misogynist!

petroleum club!

in the wild: "hotel california" on the staples center organ during the second overtime of the kings-rangers game. (though maybe/probably they do that all the time.) (but it obviously propelled them to victory and the stanley cup.

you can check anytime you like :D

ha!

haha Ron McLean made a "Hotel California" reference (same joke, practically!) on CBC just before the game!

Considered posting that Stanley Cup organ-rendition airing myself but wasn't sure it was eligible.