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

Best of My Stalin

Hotel Kremlinfornia

I do believe we could chug all night
I believe we could hug Stalin all night

Joe Stalin, Joe Stalin
Too Fast To Live, Too Young To Die
Bye Bye

in high school a friend and I changed the lyrics of "Let'Em In" to:

Joseph Stalin
Mao Zedong
Leo Trotsky
all sing along

Fidel Castro
Idi Amin
Vladimir
LENNNNNIIIINNNNN
(ooh yeah)

Frey = Stalin
Henley = Lenin
Felder = Molotov
Souther = Trotsky
Walsh = Mikoyan
Azoff = ?
Leadon = ?
Schmitt = ?

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Young Stalin would've looked amazing on the Desperado cover

Would read a Dostoyevsky knock-off set in the 1970s Los Angeles music scene

The Laurel Depths

Schmitt = Akhmatova

Crosby, Stills & Punishment

young stalin remarkably dashing, I must say

Trying to figure out who the Rasputin is in all of this.

tom waits?

Maybe Zevon?

I like where this thread goes when there's not that much to say about the song of the day.

Azoff's gotta be Rasputin, surely

duh...

David Geffen = Rasputin.

rasputin:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_606w/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2012/04/25/Interactivity/Images/7%20john%20phillips.jpg

the spritual godfather of el-lay decadence. and you just couldn't kill him.

plus, geffen doesn't look nefarious enough.

oh shit of course

john the wolfking of l.a. is such a great record

Dennis Wilson has to play a role in this. And Harry Nilsson, too. Basically, someone needs to do a '70s L.A. "Velvet Goldmine"/"24 Hour Party People." With everyone played by British or Australian actors.

would watch

The Beach Boys did shows w/the Eagles in the mid-'70s.

I bet Glenn Frey taught them a thing or two about harmony, says Glenn Frey.

Wilson to Frey: hey man I was working out this song with 'chugging' as kind of a theme I'm kickin around, you wanna hear it?
Frey: dude I already wrote a song about that!
Wilson: aw man you have the best ideas!

Show me weirdos + Glenn Frey.

http://www.liquid-blue.com/photos/celebrities/images/2007-11-16%20Los%20Angeles-CA,%20GlennFrey.jpg

http://www2.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Glenn+Frey+Chris+Littleton+2012+New+Orleans+rkcDCwug4J6l.jpg

Mike Love sued Glenn Frey over the rights to 'chug', as he'd written "Chug A Lug" (re:roof beer) in 1962.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsNWlM3fWmI

I wonder if Walsh aside these guys still drink? I imagine Henley getting sloppy drunk after a solo cup of warm pinot grigio.

(the drinking habits of aging rockers fascinate me)

Xpost Mike Love sued Roger Miller too. He won't rest til he's the Chugmaster.

Flash forward:
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Later bulked out Frey is on some joe piscopo level of gross

The Beach Boys did shows w/the Eagles in the mid-'70s.

as you probably know, it gets more tangled than that too - Dennis dated Christine McVie (not sure if this was around the same time Frey got with Nicks). John Phillips has a cowrite on Kokomo etc.

You guys notice how neither Frey nor Henley has many solo songwriting credits?

Xpost Henley got with Nicks (aborted baby Sara) and she also was with JD Souther around the same time.

ah, right

I imagine Lindsey probably pissed on Don's lawn somewhere in that timeline.

Love em and Lear em

"You guys notice how neither Frey nor Henley has many solo songwriting credits?"

as mentioned upthread, we have now listened to the two eagles tracks with solo frey writing credits. i think.

Frey needs an editor to de-chug his lyrics.

as mentioned upthread, we have now listened to the two eagles tracks with solo frey writing credits. i think.

― scott seward, Friday, August 23, 2013 7:52 PM

yeah and that's it! No solos until a song called "All Those Lies" in '82.

I wish you guys could have heard "Living in Darkness" from The Allnighter (1984). The most frightening, unconvincing falsetto I've ever heard.

I've got a project for the weekend, just letting you all know.

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the spritual godfather of el-lay decadence. and you just couldn't kill him.

HOLY SHIT

Kicking myself that I forgot him. Wolf King is a great record, but hooboy has he left an evil shadow on this town.

The Zevon book desperately needs an index, but there is a Who's Who at the back and under the "Henley, Don" entry is this

Warren's relationship with Don was strange. When discussing whether or not he wanted a funeral, Warren said, "I just don't want to have to spend my last days wondering if Henley will show up." Henley didn't, but Timothy Schmidt did.