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

Joe's got a four-person backing vocal section so the pressure is off to hit anything out of his range.

― Old Lynch's Sex Paragraph (Phil D.),

Randy Meisner had a Glenn Frey asshole section waiting, so the pressure was on him to avoid being hit by Frey.

still lol at the thought of Henley grabbing Stan Lynch's legal pad and correcting his grammar and punctuation

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.

Did he know punctuation?

all i remember is he was extremely confident in his suggestions and was not particularly interested in anything i had to say besides yes, ok and sure. also, he cared more about the punctuation than i did.

Well: yeah

one of the joys of learning about henley is the continual, neverending confirmation that he is the dickwagon I assumed he was when I knew zero about him

In the Wild: "Victim of Love."

Victim of the Eagles.

If you listen closely you can hear Felder sobbing quietly

I saw at WalMart recently that they've quietly reissued the two vinyl-era hits comps in a box for $12.

Also: Vince Gill is apparently an Eagle now.

what!?

Yeah, two CDs in a box.

But seriously, apparently that summer show w/Gill & Frey's son went well enough that they plan to continue touring with them in the lineup.

don: think of it as the old guild system, where i am the master and you are the apprentice.

Reminds me of what I posted last year"

Also I picked up Felder's hefty Between Heaven and Hell in the library, and read the whole thing that afternoon, which never happens. Gist: his father comes off as a self-made, self-righteous, self-torturing workaholic and skinflint, and Don follows suit during his Eagles years, with infinitely more bucks and perks than blue collar Dad ever had, of course. Furthermore, Dr. Phil, he somewhat recreates his own defiant-dependent teen relationship with Dad, now played by Henley and Frey.
Also:
When he finally gets his ass fired, after having papers served in the studio, he actually calls back, all crying---"Try to seek some higher ground in this, Fingers," Frey counsels, and the ex-Mrs. Felder fervently seconds. So he does, by writing this agony-and-juicy-tidbits saga. He's always been go-to for tha latter apparently; has everybody in the firm calling up to ask him what "the Gods" are up to now, incl. the Gods themselves, D & G, checking on each other, and maybe themselves. D. circulates a memo on making sure the toliet paper rolls *toward* the shittee, so reacharound nec. One of the lighter moments.

And he casually mentions in that one of his guitar students back in Florida was "Tommy" Petty.

^^Who later had a band with Bernie Leadon's brother.

Me and some of the fellas at work takin' it to the limit.

https://i.imgur.com/rrkZJ6C.jpg

A bad day in hell: being trapped with Lyin' Eyes.

i enjoy the melody but the lyrics make me crosseyed with hatred

fantastic piece.

DON: Well, yeah.

thanks!

I'm happy that we all came out of this thread stronger, bolder and wiser. And we didn't even lose anyone along the way!

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/a0/42/5d/a0425d08c6b7d828e4a3903f81ab11d1--eagles-band-the-eagles.jpg

Listen, you ever hear me use the pronoun "we", be assured that it'll mean "me and the Eagles".

it'll never mean.

I don't need a Roach Ghost haunting me today, all right?

Love the responses from angry Eagles fans - and Alfred's retorts - in the blog post linked above.

I wondered why my stats were exploding two weeks ago: an Eagles fan site had linked to it.

First, you call yourself an author, yet you spelled ‘great with “grate” Are you making a cheese topped dish?

O Lord, I think Henley found your blog.

sick burn

man this is sweet and soft and cool.. so airy, bernie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHrFD_5iD7w

Lol @ the setlists: http://www.citypages.com/music/jimmy-buffett-and-the-eagles-at-target-field-a-timeline/487077441

"The Greeks Don't Want No Freaks" just came up on a random shuffle. Never heard it before and missed its day here. It's like a prototype for solo-Henley "Johnny Can't Read" and Hen's other sour new wave.

a day-ruiner, basically

hey y'all!

We approach the five-year anniversary of this thread.

whaaaaaat

good lord

we should celebrate by starting over again :D

^^^ frail grasp on the big picture

carved on my tombstone iirc

Well, Yeah

what would Don 'n' Ghost of Glenn say?

https://apnews.com/3c0b39a1bb5b4e44aafe2c4e05a4b67f/Beating-King-of-Pop,-The-Eagles-have-No.1-album-of-all-time

DON: “We are grateful for our families, our management, our crew, the people at radio and, most of all, the loyal fans who have stuck with us through the ups and downs of 46 years. It’s been quite a ride.”

GLENN: "Don't forget the ins and outs."

DON: "Well, yeah."

ug what a bummer

couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of assholes

Are we maybe down to one (living) asshole still in the band?

The new RIAA cert for the Eagles' Greatest Hits album is absurd and doesn't mean what most people - including almost every source reporting it - think it means. I'm a total music charts/sales geek and I could break it down in detail, but suffice it to say that A) this is U.S.-only sales; worldwide, Thriller is still the best-selling album of all time by a very large margin and B) RIAA certifications no longer reflect actual album sales and have become almost meaningless to anyone outside the industry. They're now a weird amalgam of album sales (physical and digital), digital singles sales, and streams. Thriller has likely still sold more copies, even in the U.S.

Yep.

good to know. that makes me feel better

in short: take it easy, everyone

No doubt the Eagles have sold more than the last time the RIAA certified those albums, but "selling" isn't streaming, and selling matters not a whit in 2018.