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

DON: We didn't have hockey in the little corner of Texas where I grew up. But like anyone who landed in Los Angeles, I quickly became a Kings fan. It's been great to take breaks during our current tour to check up on this championship run.

GLENN: We're hoping that the Kings will let me and Don be photographed with the trophy. I'd call it, "Two Eagles, One Cup", after a viral video of which we are both very fond.

DON: Well, yeah.

lol A+

Huell Howser visits the Eagles in the 1970s and then again in 1994.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOZo6l88j2Q

let me predict

SO WHAT YOU'RE SAYING IS...YOU CAN CHECK *OUT* ANY TIME YOU LIKE BUT YOU CAN *NEVER* LEAVE?

"a lot of munchies"

"BUT, in case the man gets hungry, we wanna have it onboard."

Eagles in the wiiiild LITERALLY...several times during a three day camp weekend just ended. Take it easy, The Long Run, couple more. No internet or nothin for 90 or so hours, my longest disconnected span since 2001.

In the wild: "Lyin' Eyes" at a Which Which, followed a song later by some ilm listening thread synergy in the form of "Sad Songs (Say So Much)" by Elton John.

In the wild: Farewell Tour 1 is a bluray demo at my local Fr(e)y's. Glenn dedicates "Lyin' Eyes" to his first wife, "Plaintiff."

Well, yeah.

http://wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net/80450F/ultimateclassicrock.com/files/2013/02/Don-Henley-Rick-Diamond.jpg

BAH-DAh-Dum *tish*

Add some extra *tish*s, as we're dealing with Henley here.

Henley playing drums is like antimatter to any concept of a "Jazz Fest"

"...yeah, we got Max Roach, Roy Haynes, Elvin Jones....and Don Henley"

In the wild: Patty Smythe-Don Henley's "Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough," a massive #2 hit in fall '92 and the Donster's last. All these years later (god help me) he doesn't sound terrible harmonizing over the dated-at-the-time midtempo El Lay A/C arrangement.

In the wild: Value Village in East Atlanta was playing "The Heart of the Matter" by Don Henley, which is a seriously depressing song that is probably the soundtrack to millions of divorces.

I was riding back from work with a friend early this morning. We were talking classic rock and I learned he hates the Eagles but loves the comedy songs on The Long Run.

An amazing detail from this political story:

Ball argued that Americans had loaned out their sovereignty to public servants, but they reserve the right to take it back.

“So when that governor, that sheriff, doesn’t do his job, we can go take them out of office,” he said. “We don’t have to wait for an election.”

He didn’t explain how that worked, but in another video posted online, Ball argues that individuals can escape police questioning by insisting officers fill out a form.

As the Eagles’ 1979 Al Green pastiche, “I Can’t Tell You Why,” plays in the background, Ball explains that sovereign citizens can hold public officials accountable for violating their oath with the Public Servant Questionnaire.

Ball claims the document, which asks for identifying information and explanations of the officers’ intentions, must be filled out by public servants before they question citizens.

Saw this as a featured item last night at Wal Mart:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/91qR7b4xXtL._SL1500_.jpg

Wow.

A long time ago, I bought a cassette of the Greatest Hits of Bachman Turner Overdrive and Grand Funk Railroad, each with their own side of the tape.

But I assumed that A.) such a format wouldn't exactly work on a CD and B.) Styx and Foreigner have more than enough tunes (and fans) to qualify for their own GH package.

As for Don Felder, lol, Don Felder wat are u doing?

oh felderpaws

In the wild: Walking out of a Barnes & Noble to hear the opening of "The Long Run" positively BLASTING from the muzak of a neighboring Talbot's. Could easily still hear it from my parking space an easy 100ft. away.

"Lyin' Eyes" inside the new Savers that took over the old Wal-Mart. Buying some ant poison.

Spotted while perusing the newly archived "Real Life Rock Top Tens":

8. MTV: Decade–1980-1989 (December 24)
A two-hour tribute to digital editing, with talking heads both stupid (John Mellencamp, Tina Turner, and most of all Linda Ellerbee) and not (Frank Zappa, David Byrne, Roseanne Barr). Best line, Don Henley: “Reagan had a bedside manner for a dying nation.”

Ronald: Well, yeah.

Know what gets me out of bed in the mornings?

https://vine.co/v/MYr7IqQwp69

Chug All Night, Take It Easy Every Morn'

Eagles in the wild:

"Already Gone" playing in the guard shack of a parking lot as I was leaving from a job interview.
"One Of These Nights" playing right now in a Silver Lake coffee bar.

i tried to watch the 3-hour documentary on The Eagles last week when it came on TV at midnight and i was trying to stay up late to meet a deadline. it put me to sleep after an hour, although i was really just very tired, i found it interesting.

I don't have Showtime.

Also, I've listened to every song they ever released. Not sure if "putting it all in context" is going to do anything for me.

Seriously, this thread was like Boys State. Glad I went, hope I never do it again.

IT'S GONNA BE A YEAR, GUYS

Playing "Chug All Night" on the hour on the 20th

Celebrate with a FAP in Winslow, Arizona, followed by a trip to DFW to rent a helicopter to drop TP on Don Henley's mansion.

needs more rails of blow otherwise tes

yes, even

I don't think we've covered this before, but I found this 1979 Rolling Stone cover story in the RS Archives for recently posted for Charles M. Young (RIP). Our Zeroes are positively ON FIYAH throughout.

The Donster driving recklessly!
Azoff dissing Steve Miller!
Joe Walsh not brushing his teeth!
Glenn Frey on his 'Playmate Period'!
Tim Schmidt being boring!
Don and Glenn go to a punk show!

It's all there, and more.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/A19Z9AJ10fL.jpg

I woke up this morning and Don Felder's legs were missing.

Don looks a bit tense. The second after the shutter fell, he was like: OK, time to step OFF, Bernie or whatever your name is.

happy anniversary, all.

we're like Richard Farnsworth and the WWII survivor having a Bud Lite in The Straight Story.

Guys.

I just saw something.

And now, I am very ---

I'm having some weird emotions right now.

I'll be back later, just gotta take a sec.

Oh, here. Almost forgot:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v0dn10EDBQ

oh hell

from the article:

"Throwing up is my least-favorite thing in the world," moans Frey.

"Don't worry, Don," Walsh comforts. "Tomorrow's gonna be better. Toronto's my lucky city. I met a girl there once that I didn't get the clap from."

Don: "You remember the line, "Her mind is Tiffany twisted, she got the Mercedes bends" in "Hotel California"? I got a letter from a woman telling me I spelled the name of the car wrong. I can't stand it that somebody out there thinks I can't spell."

can only imagine the response letter. "The line in question is a pun on the copyright name "Mercedes Benz" and "bends." It's meant as a sociopolitical statement."

I'm trying real hard to not just run back here and paste every paragraph of that RS story.

But stuff like "Who are you guys? The Maalox survivors?" Frey explodes with laughter is making it difficult.

"Look at that: the buns of doom," says Frey, ogling an attractive female walking down Santa Monica outside the club. "Ya know, the great thing about being thirty is there are so many more available women. The young ones look younger and the old ones don't look nearly as old."

Henley and Frey emerge from the control room a little before midnight (six hours early by their standards) and announce it is monster time. To monster, in Eaglese, is to ingest mind-altering substances and behave like a beast. The Eagles measure monsterdom in quarters, as in, "I was only three-quarters monstered last night."

Don Henley mixed his records with a legal pad.

chuck was the master of this kinda shit. but as I said on the thread dedicated to him that FCC started last night, he could not accept that the days of him shadowing someone for a long time, getting mucho acreage with minimal editing to say exactly what he wanted had expired. that said RS did give him assignments in the last decade where he was afforded leeway that less seasoned writers would never get.

which is to say that he did this kinda thing for decades. his contemporaries like Xgau and marsh were much more invested in, like, what they thought and how they were right about everything. Chuck was curious and attentive to other people in ways that those guys were not. I urge you guys to seek out his shit for RS and Musician, cuz he deserves to be remembered as much as Lester Bangs. see the thread FCC started last night for more.