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

The American era or Wings of the Dove era

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

Here: They Will Not Go Quietly: The Official ILM Track-By-Track DON 'n' GLENN Listening Thread

lol thanks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq7XxwIsgbU

I watch parts of this from time to time, mostly for Witchy Woman and Earlybird but the whole set is kind of amazing

we probably established this ten years ago but eagles was such a cooler band when it was Meisner + Leadon and also some assholes nobody had heard of but whatever they're alright

also randy meisner = bass beast, while he's singing most of the time, at the same time, and so handsome, so sensitive, love you randy meisner

listening to the comp "help the poor," which complies singles by meisner's early band "the poor." fun nesmith-ish sunshine pop.

compiles

Thing is, I love Meisner but I also love Schmit. Without Meisner's arrival you don't get "Take it to the Limit"; without Meisner's departure you don't get "I Can't Tell You Why," and both are essential to any cogent understanding of Eagleness.

Schmit happens.

But - and here I am about to go controp / challop: I really don't give a shit about whether Leadon or Felder is the designated stringwizard.

Joe officially replaced Bernie. Felder's just Felder -- kind of like the Y of CSN&Y.

I will never not love Joe Walsh. But he's a dramatically different kind of multi-instrumentalist than the other two.

They have always had a lot of people who can pick up a guitar and sing a song. Indeed, one of my problems with the Eagles has been: too many fucking guitars. No one needs three guitars and a piano all operating in the same sonic space. It's all midrange mush.

But banjo and mandolin? That's part of what gave early Eagles some more texture.

from 1973 to 1983 - if i'm not mistaken - there were 10 10cc albums. that might be fun...??

i never did those other ones with you guys. elton john...that was a bridge too far for me.

istening to the comp "help the poor," which complies singles by meisner's early band "the poor." fun nesmith-ish sunshine pop.

― Thus Sang Freud, Tuesday, August 1, 2023 5:34 AM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

compiles

― Thus Sang Freud, Tuesday, August 1, 2023

Yes---back in Scottsbluff, NE, he was a star performer with the Drivin' Dynamics, then spotted and nabbed by Denver-based Soul Survivors, who became The Poor on the fabulous Sunset Strip, picked up by Buffalo Springfield's management, made a few records, then Meisner joined original Poco, was recruited by Rick Nelson for the Stone Canyon Band (along with a couple other Poor folk, who went on to New Riders and elsewhere). You can hear some of his Poor sides, incl. at least one song that he wrote, and read much else about his adventures with them and others here; I've only just begun:

https://randymeisnerretrospective.com/

thanks for that. this "help the poor" comp also has stuff by the soul survivors, which is more garage-y. it's not clear if meisner is on the soul survivor recordings. it would perhaps be more clear if qobuz downloads came with liner notes, but beggars can't be choosers.

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

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.

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.

Timothy's white overalls slap, tho

He deserves a slap, yeah

Henley's probably mad the rapist got 30 years because now who's going to play him in the movie?

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

outstanding

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?"

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

This should give you the cover image: https://www.amazon.com/Heaven-Hell-Life-Eagles-1974-2001/dp/0470450428

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

TAKE THE RIDE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02nAH_oAjeg

You have the life every aspiring rock star dreams of, how do you go through it perpetually pissed off?

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...

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

There are stars in the southern sky
Southward as you go
There is moonlight and moss in the trees
Down the glen frey's sizable hole

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

Smuggler’s ‘Roids

desperasshole

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hole_in_the_World?wprov=sfla1

Sizable Hole in the World

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/21/nyregion/eagles-lyrics-trial-hotel-california.html

What a world we live in where Iggles ephemera has this kind of value

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

What a douche

He could have escaped with a pina colada...

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

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.

well, yeah

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.

Absolutely. So many good songs!

OK, Florida Man.

100% down for Petty

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.

It may get boring because there won't be much to say about the shitty songs.