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

The Eagles are soaring one final time!

On Thursday, the band announced that after more than 50 years of touring and 150 million albums sold worldwide, their upcoming “The Long Goodbye” tour will be their last.

“Our long run has lasted far longer than any of us ever dreamed. But, everything has its time, and the time has come for us to close the circle. The official farewell tour is currently in the planning stages,” the band said in an emotional statement.

GET OVER IT

GLENN: Vince Gill started asking for more money, didn't he?

DON: Well, yeah.

We’re Thinking Of Buying A Fourth Home Tour

EAGLES ERAS

Hope the encore is both bands doing "Dirty Laundry" with a new Steely Dan bridge added to it.

We’re in our seventies, and we recognize that we can’t do this forever,” Walsh told Variety at Ringo Starr’s 83rd birthday party on July 7. The longtime Eagles guitarist says the band is emphasizing quality over quantity with the upcoming shows and plans to keep performing as long as fans keep showing up.

“I think people like BB King set an example, which is, there’s no reason to stop unless you can’t do it,” he said. “And so we’re just announcing that we’re gonna just focus on playing quality shows and slow it down a little bit. And we’re gonna play until we can’t, or play until nobody comes, whichever comes first. But they’re still coming, so why stop?
That’s the only thing we know how to do.”

The Eagles’ tour begins on September 7 at Madison Square Garden in New York City and currently has dates scheduled through November 14 at Rupp Arenanergy Center in Lexington, Kentucky. The band will continue to announce more shows as dates are set.

“The Eagles have had a miraculous 52-year odyssey, performing for people all over the globe, keeping the music alive in the face of tragic losses, upheavals, and setbacks of many kinds,” the band shared in a collective statement. We know how fortunate we are, and we are truly grateful. Our long-run has lasted far longer than any of us ever dreamed. But, everything has its time, and the time has come for us to close the circle.”

Tickets go on sale Friday (July 14).

The Eagles The Long Goodbye Final Tour Dates 2023:

Thursday, September 7 New York, NY Madison Square Garden
Monday, September 11 Boston, MA TD Garden
Saturday, September 16 Newark, NJ Prudential Center
Wednesday, September 20 Belmont Park, NY UBS Arena
Thursday, October 5 Denver, CO Ball Arena
Monday, October 9 Indianapolis, IN Gainbridge Fieldhouse
Friday, October 13 Detroit, MI Little Caesars Arena
Tuesday, October 17 Cleveland, OH Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse
Thursday, November 2 Atlanta, GA State Farm Arena
Tuesday, November 7 Charlotte, NC Spectrum Center
Thursday, November 9 Raleigh, NC PNC Arena
Tuesday, November 14 Lexington, KY Rupp Arenanergy Center

Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse

Meant to add, "Well Yeahhhhh."

Belatedly, I agree with the general sentiment upthread that "I Can't Tell You Why" is the Eagles' finest moment

Have they ever done a "classic album" show or tour, or do even their biggest fans not want to sit through "Try and Love Again" or "The Greeks Don't Want No Freaks"?

i truly cannot think of anything worse (aside from an Eagles hits tour lol)

i think the listening thread PROVES they are a greatest hits band. the majority of their album tracks should be burned lol

"Try and Love Again" isn't _that_ bad. (Overlong, yes).

They've been doing Hotel California in full + hits shows with orchestral backing for the last few years.

all star SD/Eagles jam of "Chug All Night" for the second encore

lmao

"Chug All Night"/"Deacon Blues" medley

*crowd rapidly leaves arena*

The "Don't Let the Door Hit You in the Ass" Tour

“doors open at 7pm; doors are locked at 9pm we go through this together til we die”

Or until all loads are loosened.

Essay questions from Professor Henley to follow.

The good vibes of “F.M.” segue into the bad vibes or “Life in the Fast Lane.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcb-K8k-OAE

"eat shit Dan" LOL

2. Becoming the Eagles
After the line-up of the band was secure, they were faced with the same monumental task all burgeoning bands encounter: picking a band name. The bandmates have contradictory memories when it comes to how they came up with the name Eagles.

Felder claims that Leadon thought of the name while recalling a story he had read about the Hopis people’s reverence for the bird of prey, while frequent collaborator J.D. Souther claims Frey came up with the name on a whim after seeing the animal flying above them.

https://americansongwriter.com/9-memorable-moments-from-the-eagles-career-from-breakups-to-reunions/

Imagine how different history would have been if he saw a pigeon instead.

So an origin not dissimilar to Batman.

“Critics are a superstitious cowardly lot. So our name must be able to strike terror into their hearts...”

Belatedly, I agree with the general sentiment upthread that "I Can't Tell You Why" is the Eagles' finest moment

― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Monday, July 10, 2023 11:29 AM bookmarkflaglink

if they'd done more songs that sounded like AM station pop that you could vibe with driving home at 4 am, I might have liked them. I didn't even realize this was them until recently.

Most people have that moment with "I Can't Tell You Why."

Otm

I probably thought it was Linda Ronstadt the first time I heard it.

It's probably the association with a good time of my life, but "New Kid in Town" does the same for me.

Happy birthday, Mystic Banjo Man!

Sirius XM Deep Tracks just played Neil Young's "Pocahontas"--->"The Last Resort" and I'm pretty sure that's the biggest quality drop-off between tracks I've ever experienced in my whole listening life.

what did Don 'n' Ghost of Glenn think of Neil?

Before Joe Walsh joined the band, the best single they had was Randy’s. R.I.P.

vale, Randy

love the anecdote from the history of eagles that's like:

*HOTEL CALIFORNIA TOUR, CROWD EAGERLY AWAITING ENCORE*
glen frey: we gotta play take it to the limit!
randy meisner: nah I'm hungover no way am I hitting those high notes let's do any other eagles song
glen frey: FUCK YOU RANDY MEISNER!!! AGGHHHH THE HEAT IS ON
randy meisner: alright bet, have fun assholes *quietly leaves most famous rock band in the world he co-invented*

rip randy we didn't deserve you

RIP, Bassman.

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

perhaps we should all claim to be randy meisner at any available opportunity, in his honor

1. ten years ago, this thread was in full throttle, and is considered one of the greatest ILM achievements; I was getting ready to get married, and would often find myself getting too involved herein instead of attending to the event…

2. and it's also great that Scott S, the initiator as such and one of the alltime ILM MVPs, is back!

3. It seems Meisner was the Eagle who came out of the band and its heyday the most damaged… probly the most accomplished and certainly the most dishy out of them all at the outset, and…he had a pretty rough life after 1977…

his million dollar moment, as someone described "Take it to the limit" ten years ago, is not described in many of the appreciations of the past couple of days as being redolent of "If you don't know me by now" (frey was really into gamble and huff at the time), but it really is…I don't think much of any of the other cuts he sang lead upon, but he also does the falsetto extemporizing in the rideout of "One of these nights," which is probly his second most memorable vocal in the band…

In an interview with Flanagan in musician mag, Glyn Johns talks about Meisner taking him aside during production of desperado and asking why the band can't sound more like Motown, which baffled Johns as much as Henley demanding that Johns make him sound more like Bonham…

Well, and, remember, Frey said that Henley was their Philippe Wynne or some shit.

Whereas Don Felder was their John Frusciante and Desperado was their Slippery When Wet. Schmitt was their Billy Preston and Stevie Nicks was their Stevie Nicks.

XP Their TEDDY PENDERGRASS! (IIRC)

I liked Dave Marsh's description of "TITTL" as "An arrangement from the Elton John handbook, lyrics from the Bernie Taupin rummage sale".

I respectfully disagree. Taupin lyrics often make exactly zero sense. Eagles lyrics are sometimes banal but they usually scan like English sentences.

Like, What the fuck is a pauper to a pawn? In contrast, any fragment of "Take it to the Limit" reads like Henry James.

The American era or Wings of the Dove era

I’m wayyy late to this thread but did you guys rate “smugglers blues?”

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