At a concert in Long Beach, California, for Senator Alan Cranston on July 31, 1980, known as the "Long Night at Wrong Beach", things hit a breaking point in the band when the animosity between Felder and Frey boiled over before the show began after Felder said, "You're welcome – I guess" to Cranston and his wife, thus offending Frey.
These photos below capture just the overall poisonous vibe that the year 1980 carried.
https://i.imgur.com/T2lrCyI.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/gzVH6LP.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/tPkFPPc.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/KTWFSl9.jpg
― pplains, Saturday, 9 September 2023 14:56 (eight months ago) link
All I heard this week was how despite his shitty music, Jimmy Buffet was an all-around altruistic dude.
You won't be hearing the same about Don Henley in a few years.
Whatta bunch of sourpusses.
― gjoon1, Saturday, 9 September 2023 16:31 (eight months ago) link
they are so not cool looking. what happened to cool? i guess they just look like their audience. that's what jann wenner looked like back then.
― scott seward, Saturday, 9 September 2023 16:55 (eight months ago) link
Timothy's white overalls slap, tho
― Hereward the Woke (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 9 September 2023 17:03 (eight months ago) link
He deserves a slap, yeah
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 9 September 2023 17:07 (eight months ago) link
Henley's probably mad the rapist got 30 years because now who's going to play him in the movie?
― pplains, Saturday, 9 September 2023 18:31 (eight months ago) link
when i was a younger fact checking cuz, i spent some time on the phone with henley going over a transcript of a q&a that a reporter at my site did with him. henley had demanded to see the transcript because he was appalled that we had sent a woman in her early 20s to interview henley the great and powerful. first he sent me a copy-edited version of the transcript, with his own proofreading marks on them. not even remotely surprisingly, dude knows his proofreading symbols. then he got on the phone with me to argue hyphens, dashes and semicolons before something else ticked him off and he hung up on me. top-five highlight of my fact checking life.
― fact checking cuz, Friday, July 7, 2017 5:56 PM (six years ago) b
― hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 22 October 2023 15:55 (six months ago) link
outstanding
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 22 October 2023 18:23 (six months ago) link
That's awesome.
I'd like to imagine Christgau having a similarly contentious argument that ended with Henley hanging up on him over "Where's the Coke?"
― birdistheword, Sunday, 22 October 2023 20:07 (six months ago) link
Rong Night W Cranston was of course depicted in Felder's classick Heaven and Hell: My Life in the Eagles (1974-2001), the only rock book I ever read at a single sitting (my incisive take is way upthread) dig https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91dCWCGNONL._SL1500_.jp
― dow, Monday, 23 October 2023 02:08 (six months ago) link
This should give you the cover image: https://www.amazon.com/Heaven-Hell-Life-Eagles-1974-2001/dp/0470450428
― dow, Monday, 23 October 2023 02:17 (six months ago) link
co-sign on the Felder book, two sittings at a Barnes and Noble, very breezy read
Felder was just so much cooler than Henley/Frey, I think they were jealous, and also assholes of course, such nonsense they wouldn't let the guy sing Those Shoes
Like yeah maybe he isn't as strong a vocalist as Henley but he ain't chopped liver
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ysh4kcrTM5Q
― Florin Cuchares, Monday, 23 October 2023 02:56 (six months ago) link
TAKE THE RIDE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02nAH_oAjeg
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 23 October 2023 03:07 (six months ago) link
You have the life every aspiring rock star dreams of, how do you go through it perpetually pissed off?
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 23 October 2023 12:56 (six months ago) link
A couple moments from the review of last night's show in Houston (https://www.houstonpress.com/music/last-night-eagles-and-steely-dan-at-the-toyota-center-17494401)
Henley proved an amiable host, thanking fans for their decades long support. “We’ve been playing this music for 52 years,” he said to applause. Then promised a show with “no flashing lights, no confetti cannons, no butt-waving choreography. Just a bunch of guys with guitars.”
GLENN: Maybe *some* butt-waving choreography?
But the winner for most unpleasant four-word combo in the English language goes to...(cymbal-heavy Don drum roll)
As has been for several years, singer/guitarist Glenn Frey’s sizable hole caused by his 2016 death has been filled by his son Deacon Frey and country artist Vince Gill (both on vocals/guitar).
Of all the ways that could be phrased...
I mean, fuck, man...
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 18 February 2024 05:29 (two months ago) link
You check out of Glenn Frey's sizable hole any time you like, but you can never leave
Wait, no, how about
Glenn Frey's sizable hole has a peaceful easy feeling
― fleetwood macrame (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 18 February 2024 14:16 (two months ago) link
There are stars in the southern skySouthward as you goThere is moonlight and moss in the treesDown the glen frey's sizable hole
― Florin Cuchares, Sunday, 18 February 2024 14:54 (two months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/sZnEOCU.jpg
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 18 February 2024 15:15 (two months ago) link
Smuggler’s ‘Roids
― calstars, Sunday, 18 February 2024 15:24 (two months ago) link
desperasshole
― memphis milano: the new trend of the 80s (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 18 February 2024 16:17 (two months ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hole_in_the_World?wprov=sfla1
Sizable Hole in the World
― fleetwood macrame (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 18 February 2024 19:26 (two months ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/21/nyregion/eagles-lyrics-trial-hotel-california.html
― calstars, Wednesday, 21 February 2024 15:03 (two months ago) link
What a world we live in where Iggles ephemera has this kind of value
― calstars, Wednesday, 21 February 2024 15:04 (two months ago) link
Eagles’ Don Henley ‘regrets’ cocaine-fueled night with 16-year-old prostitute who suffered seizure: ‘I wanted to escape’ https://t.co/vXUKC4pFRy pic.twitter.com/MDBYXXQYCV— New York Post (@nypost) February 26, 2024
― paisley got boring (Eazy), Monday, 26 February 2024 23:08 (two months ago) link
What a douche
― calstars, Tuesday, 27 February 2024 00:12 (two months ago) link
He could have escaped with a pina colada...
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 27 February 2024 00:15 (two months ago) link
Wait wasn’t 1980 the same year a girl hanging out with Walter Becker died via a coke overdose too? Or do I have that story wrong
― calstars, Tuesday, 27 February 2024 00:20 (two months ago) link
After the duo returned to New York in 1978, Becker's girlfriend Karen Roberta Stanley, who was an employee of ABC Dunhill Records and personal manager for the band, died of a drug overdose in his apartment on January 30, 1980, resulting in a wrongful death lawsuit against him.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 27 February 2024 00:30 (two months ago) link
well, yeah
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 27 February 2024 01:38 (two months ago) link
wait you guys think you would want to do tom petty like this? i brought it up somewhere else. any interest? someone or some two said they might. man, i couldn't hang with that massive elton john one you guys did. i was just too busy. but i would make time for petty. i don't know why i'm so fixated on him. total normcore! but i can't help myself.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 27 February 2024 02:53 (two months ago) link
Absolutely. So many good songs!
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 27 February 2024 03:03 (two months ago) link
OK, Florida Man.
― pplains, Tuesday, 27 February 2024 03:09 (two months ago) link
100% down for Petty
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 27 February 2024 03:26 (two months ago) link
Here for that.
A couple years ago I Was tempted to start one of these for RHCP after one of their threads had very successful and funny revive, but I backed down after realizing how demanding it would be: Counting b-sides, bonus cuts, soundtrack & comp tracks, they have way over 200 songs! It would take about a month to get through Stadium Arcadium, and a little bit longer addressing their two most recent efforts. And you can't limit the scope, because the thread needs to be a California death march.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 27 February 2024 03:47 (two months ago) link
It may get boring because there won't be much to say about the shitty songs.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 27 February 2024 04:07 (two months ago) link
i'm thinking a more stipped-down petty? just the albums. group and solo. would that be cool? i don't think he had a ton of b-sides and odds & sods anyway? maybe i'm wrong. there are two early Mudcrutch singles that aren't that memorable. oh yeah latter day Mudcrutch. would have to include those albums. so, heartbreakers albums, 3 petty solo albums, 2 mudcrutch albums. and the she's the one soundtrack. gotta do that. that's as good as a studio album. there are 14 heartbreakers albums. that's not nothing.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 27 February 2024 04:15 (two months ago) link
well, yeah.
by the book petty can be kinda one-dimensional. but its all a part of his grand plan. to make people buy roger mcguinn albums.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 27 February 2024 04:16 (two months ago) link
LET'S DO IT
can't wait
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 27 February 2024 04:17 (two months ago) link
man, an RHCP one would probably literally kill all of us. jesus. they would just find us all in different towns and cities. dead. rhcp playing quietly in the background. so sad.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 27 February 2024 04:18 (two months ago) link
okay, one a day. did we do weekends with the eagles? or can we take the weekend off?
also i am not good with pictures. i don't know. my computers are weird now. old laptops. my desktop at work isn't great. so if you guys want to post pictures have at it.
i can post YT vids. if someone else wants to go crazy and be more elaborate i'm happy to let someone do it. otherwise, i will just do it.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 27 February 2024 04:22 (two months ago) link
one a day with weekends off works for me!
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 27 February 2024 04:26 (two months ago) link
you need your weekends for Northern Exposure reruns.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 27 February 2024 04:36 (two months ago) link
exactly <3
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 27 February 2024 04:38 (two months ago) link
i could start tomorrow. or next week? no time like the present. do i embed videos or just do links? i did links on this thread but everyone has supersonic computers and phones now, right? i don't think i even remember how to do the link thing. i forgot how to do everything in my dotage.
also we would need a title. someone come up with a good title.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 27 February 2024 05:11 (two months ago) link
My Middle Name Is Earl: A Tom Petty Listening Thread
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 27 February 2024 06:12 (two months ago) link
ooooh i like it
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 27 February 2024 06:16 (two months ago) link
mine is cornyOne of Those Things You Gotta Feel To Be True: A Tom Petty Listening Thread
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 27 February 2024 06:19 (two months ago) link
The Collected Works of Charlie T. Wilbury Jr (Official ILM Tom Petty Listening Thread)
― Florin Cuchares, Tuesday, 27 February 2024 07:47 (two months ago) link
Was tempted to start one of these for RHCP after one of their threads had very successful and funny revive, but I backed down after realizing how demanding it would be
You sure you're up for Petty, then?
― pplains, Tuesday, 27 February 2024 13:36 (two months ago) link