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

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.

They called themselves the Eagles, which pleased Frey because he thought it sounded like a street gang.

West Side Story had more intimidating gang names.

The Baseball Furies is a more intimidating gang name.

Maybe not The James Gang, you got me on that one Roach.

I count three songs – "Witchy Woman," "Good Day in Hell" and "One of These Nights" – where the Eagles equate women with the Devil. Has your perception of women changed over the years?

I constantly ask myself what I think of women. Lately I've been feeling less physical. I'm through my playmate period, ya know, where you meet a real pretty girl and immediately attach all these great qualities to her. But women are objects for men, whether or not sex objects. They're a goal – that's the way we're brought up. Maybe there's something wrong with that. The Devil imagery was just a way of describing a seductive look.

But the Devil is evil. Aren't you equating sex with evil?

Yeah, well, we're speaking to America.

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So, Alfred, what's the weather like in Steam City today?

I'll tell you after I get past this fuckin' stop sign

In The Wild: "Best of My Love" on the area CC 'Rock' station.

ANNIVERSARY JAM

Uhoh, now it's Springsteen and "One Step Up...".

TROUBLE IN PARADISE

Watch David Letterman Try to Bait the Eagles Into a Lawsuit

DON: David may joke about it, but all we are doing is taking action to keep our art guarded from being exploited by those in the TV world who want to stick our music under every game, season finale, and news report. That cheapens everything.

GLENN: We're also still pissed about that Seinfeld episode. Between that and the possibility Leadon could make money off his work--it's just too traumatic to play anymore.

DON: Well, yeah.

In the wild: Pandora sends a message to my phone recommending I listen to their "70s Rock" channel. I click the link and the first song is "Heartache Tonight".

break my heart.

I miss this thread :(

I worked an event last night, an awards banquet for the regional construction industry, and every time an award was given out a live band would play an instrumental version of a popular song for about 30 seconds -- kind of Paul Schaffer-style bumper music. one that they played a couple times was "Hotel California," don't tell Don and Glenn.

i dunno, this looks kinda chilling in retrospect...

here we go...

― scott seward, Tuesday, August 20, 2013 1:31 PM (1 year ago)

and they were never heard from again...

I miss this thread and I wasn't even a part of it.

GUYS

"A Good Day in Hell" a year ago!

no wonder I woke up w/an upset stomach this morning

this thread should be published in book form. in the kindle version the embedded youtube videos will still work.

i had avoided this thread until today, but i've been reading it for the past hour. evokes warm memories of lurking on ilm in college and being amazed that so many people had strong and deeply researched opinions on stuff they professed either not to care about or to actively dislike, and that i wasn't the only one foolish enough to spend their time thusly.

that might sound sarcastic but it's not.

In the wild, sort of: watching the Witchay Woman episode of Seinfeld right now on one of my local stations

Desperado @ Grocery Outlet. Sweetest programming ever

^^The Donster knows those feels:

DON: A lot has happened since that summer of 1971. It is amazing and gratifying that so many people, all over the world, still love these songs and come out in droves to hear us play them. I live in Texas now, and sometimes, late at night, when I’m pushing the cart around the supermarket, I’ll hear one of our records and think, “I left here 33 years ago, did all that, and here I am back again… now, what did I come here to buy?”

(PS: I must it feels like a turning point when I just discovered that Crowe interview link was no longer saved in my browser.)

That's the least gross he's sounded out of anything quoted in this thread.

Eight-second song about the Eagles in the style of the Mountain Goats

I just got a sponsored post in my fb feed from Stubhub saying "Find your dream seats for the Eagles show in Houston on 10/14 . Click here for tickets!"

I didn't know they were playing here again so soon--they just did a show back in February I think.

From the link:

Tickets-Priced from: $93.31 USD
1,020 tickets left

Parking Passes-Priced from: $14.99 USD
174 tickets left

and FYI, I'm not going because IF I WANT TO STAND UP DURING A BALLAD, I WILL TO STAND THE FUCK UP

In the wild: Patty Smyth and Henley's "Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough," a huge boomer-rock hit in fall '92 (#2 behind "End of the Road") and one of the last. It holds up.

Both Mr. Henley and the Eagles have worked hard, for over 40 years, to build their names and goodwill in the world community," he continues. "They pride themselves on the fact that they have never allowed their names, likenesses or music – individually or as a group – to be used to sell products. Their names are their trademarks and, therefore, they take offense when an individual or a business tries to piggyback and capitalize on their art, their hard work and their goodwill in the public arena."​

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/don-henley-sues-maker-of-henley-t-shirt-over-pun-20141010

http://d252n40xdb1b5e.cloudfront.net/image.aspx/media/images/products/56014-HTG-front.jpg-1500x1500

This is a battle I can't take sides in.

Don A Henley And Chug All Night

Don A Henley And Get Over It

melina1222 • 12 hours ago

Waiters hate Henley for being a crap tipper, and hotel staff can't stand him either. But the Duluth Trading suit is not Henley's stupidest lawsuit. In 1998, he literally tried to sue a nonprofit dedicated to saving - you guessed it - endangered eagles. The suit claimed that the American Eagle Foundation was guilty of name infringement. The suit was eventually dropped, as his lawyer said he was busy touring and couldn't appear in court.

I remember that case. It was a dispute over the web domain "eagles.org".

ooh! in the wild: "Teenage Jail" at a watch repair shop I visited earlier. We reviewed it almost a year ago :(

In The Wild: I knew they had used it, but last night I watched the series finale of China Beach on DVD, and what I didn't know was that "Try and Love Again" actually was the last non-score music cue they used on the show (it plays over a scene of the characters saying their goodbyes after visiting the Vietnam Memorial). For the DVD, they had to sub a less 'produced' Randy solo recording in place of the Eagles original, presumably due to the Eagles' blackout on TV licenses, but I'd like to think it's really because Dana Delaney probably threw a martini at Don and/or Glenn at an LA-area bar sometime in the '90s.

Guys guys GUYS The History of the Eagles is on Netflix streaming!!! All 3 hours of it!

there goes my Sunday.

^^Well, yeah.