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July 9, 1993GOLDMINEquintessertial lns Angelenos). -Ever since Imovid out here fton\ Texas l've bcen in lheTwilight Zone," iormer Eagles drummsrand singer Don Henley told ioumalistTimothY White in June 19S9"'l don't feeltiOa t ,.rt,, belong here anJ 1'et I cen t gohack to where I came trom'"-in.-.,"n o{ the Eagic' is rcall*ercnin,ar'aa,inC 'lorr(s thur touih upon mJnv.ri..r.'it:t''n. story of a mu\icf,l 'ccnc lnd,i", t..".:' ut-t'"ittnt f'ot rhe brr rl theil;;;;". a roik club to a mu:ical st\leffi;;;,;;;t much or thc.most PoPularmusic of a 'lecade and hevond"'i" "r" "'tn the oldesl Randy lrleisncr-,:;;;; '" ;:;"'brufl' Nebra:ka on varch*- is*' ,ir."gt' *me sources place his birth

Bo,vs hit, thev ",id",l c'1":t'jl,:1,,:Tl?;,r\\ nll. ttrst dsuco tsY .grUUp lnlni u..u'.,t'' c"l''ilil',L]Lll"n.*'il:r:"ffi;;;;;tres hit' rhty added drum'J:: ;::il;;i" and becarne i: .:.'lll::*'.T'il;.i. t'n*n' -:"*:]:

6-t t-t.t 1980's'Long Run'tourI r.o, lrr., l-n the carly la60s' Meisncr sang::: :';;;;; in a Nebrasla band carre'lr'i" I'i^o... He then moved lo Dinver""i -J".u the Soul Suruivors Thi:*":,lo:tbc banrl rhat did 'Expres*ay I o r our;J,;i; i967' but rather a quartet featur-

rrlcntcd \cw Dr!'" - c..,,. ( ril.'!l\o tlepf,n to attcnd Salramenro r'''"l.oe. *ltere he studicd psrchologl'-il;. ; " l'""i ,li"i of disasreement"trour *t "ra an-rl when Joe Walsh was born'i.riiL" ntuiotl'y opinion is rhar he cane intot*. *-fi on November 20' lg47' ln*t,nt,r.' L"*' iMinorin opinron' hold'''"'

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- ----:;:; i'sucd an LP claJ' onJdnuaq '-l" "-J --..i,,-c,t hv TerrujiJf il," ;;.';"." ::'l'-'^:1 "1t"-1",'3li"",in"l ro'tn" tsvrds' Paul Revere and theRaiders. etc )'-gur S.t.ir hal already been playing withPco Uefore thal- and in February the offi-ciat announcement came that he had leftGlad and joined Poco (Glad replaced himwjth Andrew Samuels' changed their namero Retiwing and signed to Fantasy Records,though they never achieved national suc-cess.) Schmit's tenure in Poco lasted morethan seven years, a tale thal will be told in anupcoming issue of Goldnine'In May 1970. the Flying Burrito Brothers,with Leatlon aboard, issued their secondalbum. Burlto Dehue. Unfortunately, by thistime, Gram Parsons had left the group he'dfounded, to be replaced by Rick Roberts'Eunito Delw dld not make the charts. Alsoin May, Don Henley's band Shiloh moved toL-A. on lhe promise of a record deal withAmos Records. Their album would be pro-duced by Kenny Rogers and Rogen's *ifewould manage the group for a brief time. Atthe offims of Amos Records, Henley metGlenn Frey and J.D. Souther.

One of Frcy and Souther's reenl activi-ties was backing their friend Jacksn

Browne on a demo tape of a wng called"Jmaica Say You Will" that Browne sent toDavid Geffen, a personal manager who hadgotten his stan handling Laura Nyro andthen taken on Joni Mirchell and Crosby,Stills, Nash and Young. Getfen threw thepackage in the trash, but it was retrieved byhis seeretary, who thought Browne's public-ity photo was cute. Geffen played the tape,was impresed, and tried to lGal Browne,who had by this time left town to wanderaround for a few months. When he retumed.Geffen agreed to manage Browne, thoughhe was nr:t in a hurry to get him a recorddeal. Geffen is not known to have com-mented on the backup musicians. thoughBrowne began to lobby him on behalf ofFrey and Souther.

The James Gang achieved stardom wilhtheir sond album, "/cnes Gang RidesAgain,which entered the charrs in July 1970and hii #20, going gold and spawning and#59 hit single "Funk #49."Toward the end of 1970. Rick Nelsoncalled Randy Meisner in Nebraska and con-vined him to return to plaing in lhe StoneCmyon Band. ln Derember, Shiloh's fintand only album, ShrloA. was releared byAmos Rmrds, but by April 1971' Shiloh

was history. "We split up becausc rse had nowork and the record. which was au1ul, didnothing,'Henley rold Pete Frame.Lrnda Ronstadt. meanwhile. was garninggreatet success. Her second solo album, Si/k.Ftirse, released in rhe fall of 1970, hit #103.Her manager, John Boylan, again needed toput together a touring band, and he offered$200 a week to Glenn Frey. who passedalong an offer to Henley. The group wasfilled out with Mike and Richard Bowden.more ex-members of Shiloh. Around thesame time, the hard-working James Gangissued their third album. lhrids. which wasnot quite as successfui as its second. but stillwent gold and produced ttr'o chart singles,"Waik Away" and "Midnight Man."

Geffen, managing Browne along with hispafiner. Eliot Roberts, was now lrying to getthe songrdriter a record conhact, havingdecided he was ready. But there were no tak-ea. "l went to everybod) in the business tr1-ing to make a record deal for Jackson, andeverybody tumed him down," Geffen isquoted as saying in Off The Record: An OralHistory Of Popular Music, by Joe Smith(Wamer Books, 1988). "I went to (AtlanticRecords president) Ahmet iErtegun) againand I sid. 'I'm teliing vou. this guy-' is good. -I'm the guy who brought you Crosby, Stillsand Nash. I'm tJoing you a favor.'Ard hesaid,'You know what? Don't do me anyfavors.'I said,'You'll make millions withhim.' And he said. 'You know what? [ gotmillions. Do you have miliions?' I said, 'No.'He said.'Start a record companv and you'|lhave millions. Th!.n we'll all have millions.'lthought, Fuck him. I w:ili start a record com-pany."'

So, in 1971, David Geffen srarted his omrecord company, Asylum Records, torelease an album by Jackson Broune. Thelabel's records were manufactured and dis-tributed initially by Atlantic, which suggeststhat Geffen couldn't have felt quite so angryat Ertegun.

Record companies, of course. tend tohave more lhan one artist. "As it happened,Souther and Frey were Iiving upstain fromJackmn Browne in a duplex in Silverlake,"Geffen told Smith. "Thev were broke. Jack-son camc to me and said.'l want vou to signlhem. They're really good and they're broke.Thy can'l pay their rent.' So, to be a bero toJackson Browne, I signed them. I encour-aged John David Souther to b a solo artistand I encouraged Glnn Frey to pul a grouptogether. Glenn would come to me witheach new member, and he would say,'Can Imake a record now?' Ard I'd say, 'No. Notgood enough yet.' Finally it was, and thatwas the beginning of the Eagles."

This is Geffen's version of the story. Analtemate venion credits Ronstadt's man-ager, John Boylan, with adding Meisner,after he left Rick Nelson in June 1971, andl:adon, after he left the Flying BunitoBrothers in July, to Frey and Henley in Rori-stadt's backing band, replacing the Bowdenbrothers. (Despite their respective depar-tures, Iradon can be heard on Tfu FlyingBunito Brothen, their third album, relearedin May, and Meisner is on Nelson's RudyThe Fifrh, released in June.)In August, the newly formed Eagles leftLinda Ronstadt's mploy and were bookedby David Geffen into tbe Callery, a club inAspen, Colorado, where they played four

scts a night for a month in order to horhem$lves into a unified band.Jackson Browne. meanwhile, was at Cry

lal Sound recording his debut aibum. Onethe songs he did not finish tbr the recorand might have abandoned, was slie"Takc lt Easy." Frev liked the song, hoever, and Browne gave it to him to develoFrey- added a second verse ("I'm standingthe corner in Winslow, Arizona...") aelongated the "e" in "easy" to make a rechorus out of the title. The song entered tEagles'repertoire.

While the Eagles were playing their Corado club residency, Geffen brought Brish record producer Glyn Johns to see theJohns, who had engineered the RolliStones' Sric.! Fingen and associate-prduced the Who's l/hoi Nev in recemonths, *ff not impressed. "They weplaying rock'n' roll, Chuck Berry, but sortbadly," he told John Tobler and StuaGrundy (Iie Record Producen, St. Martinpress. 1983), "and you had Bemie Leadoon one side, a great oun!ry PlaYer, aGienn Frey on the otber, rock 'n'roll froDetroit-they were pulling the rhythm setion in two, which wasn't very good at alJohns later went back !o see the Eaglagain, this time w;th acouslic guitars inrehearsal studio. and liked them much morHe agreed to produce their debut album.The Jane-s Gang released their fouralbum in less than *vot'ears, Livc In Concein August. The album became their thistraight Top 3t). goid-selling hit, but JWalsh had had enough. He quit the bandNovember and moved to Colorado. BMarch 1972. he had organized a new bancalled Barnstorm thal would last him unthe end of 1973, lhough from here on he win essence a solo star.At the start of the year, Capitol Recordreleased Linda Ronstadt s third solo albumLinda Rorctadt, a country-flavored effoincluding such standards as "Crazy Amsand "l Fall To Pieces," on which she wbacked by all four of the Eagles. The albureached only #163, failing to break Rostadt through to pop suaes- That woucome ?0 months later when she issued hfirst Asylum Records aibum. Don't Cry NoAlso in January, Asylum premiered wiJackson Erowne (an altrum frequenlly calleSaturcte Before Using because the albucover is a reproduction of a canteen bearinthose words). It was arguably the moimportanl fint album hy a singer-songwlitsince the debut of Joni Mitchell four,vearbefore. Though one can in a sense date thbeginning of the Southem California Sounof the '70s from this release and it certainlopened ears to a raft of performers, thEagles among them, it is also true that Jackson Browne st a standard so high that nonof Brome's may talented friends and peereally could compete.'A great artist lays waste the language,Yeats *holar Denis Donoghue has notedand Browne, despite the very real help hextended to Frey, Souther and othem, alunintentionally hamed them by doing whathey did so much better. Especially in theearly years, the Eagles were seen by manobseners m a kind of Brom tribute bandand this probably contributed to the criticastoms they were forced to weather throughout their career.

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The Eagles went to Olympic Studios inin,Aprii 1972. where. in threethey cut their debut album' Eagles'lr)-lrilck LP led of{ $rlh thc Bro}nc'collaborarion Take It Easv' and alsoanolher of Browne s cast-tlffsFrc) coniributed "Chug Alland ivtost Of Us Are Sad" and inlro-songwriting friend Jack Tempchin s

Easy Feeling " Lcadon brought incoliaboration with old partner Gene

"Train lxaves Ilere-fhis Morning"'

co-wrote ..Wilchy Woman" with HenlelEarlybird'with Meisner' Meisnercon-:'Take The Devil ' and "Tryin"'none of lhe sonts were collabora-Itet*een Henlcy and Frey' later the

Eagles songwriting team ) The albumthar the gtoup could effec-mix guitar rock with elements of folk

country, and it aiso showed lhey weresingers. both individually and in

Il was favorably reviewed upon its releasen June 1. Bud Scoppa- writing in the June

2? issue of Rollirrg Srone' raved' though hisconrmcnts look account ut that more ausPi-cious debut of five monttrs previous "?'heEagles," he concluded, "is 'ight behiod Jack-so; Browne's recortl as tbe best fi6t albumof this year. and I could be persuaded toremove the word'first'from that state-ment." later notices fot the band in 'Rol/ingStone would not be so favorable, however' inpart apparentlY for extra-musical reasonsihut *ilib" di..utted later' But other criticalrescwal.ions we re mrile at this iim as well'Vilbge lbrce reviewer Robert Christgau'while complimenting Eaglcr' concluded that"lhe product is suave antj synthelic-bril-liant. but {alse. And not always brilliant'cither."

Recorrl buyers' howevti' don'l \eem lohave found the album brilliant or false' burinsiead modcratelv successful' Advanced bya single relcase of "Take It Easy" with a non-LP d-side. 'Get You In The Mood"'faglesocaked at #Jl during r '13-*cek initlal chart' tn lln 1q75. when the F:gl* became.up.r.,urr, it would re+nter the charts foran additional 16 weeks') "Take tt Easy"became a hit ln Eiltboard's Hot 100' itreached #12.(The BillbuilHot 100 singles chan takesits rankings fiom a combination of salesreports and ratlio airplay' while rival CoshBox is purely a sales chxt. Since "Take ltEas'" peaked io Cash Box at #9, the imPli-cation is rhat the song's surcss was drivenmore by sales than by airplay, and this wouldDrove true of most Eagles singles until theirbreakthrough. "Best Of lvly tlve"' after

Meisner and Joe Walsh. on *iulfalls b'v ex-Fl,ving tJurrito Brolher Rick Robcns as weliGlenn Frey's guilar playing was featuredprominenrlv on John David Souther' whichhrd been rcleased shortly a'irer EoglesThouch SoLlther's debut went largely unno-riced. it \\'as a slrong album. t$o oi vhosesongs. "The Fast Onc' and 'Run Like AThief." uould be covered by Linda Ronstadtand Bonnie Raitl. respectivelv Early inlql-1. Frc\ al\o could bc hcrrLl singing onthe Asylum release ,Vice Baht & The 'lnge!'by New York folk singer and famous BobDrlan crony David Blue. BIucc Preriou'aibum. Storics. had been Asylum's officialsecond release after Jutksotl Bru||ne,lhoughit may actuall-v have hit stores first NjceBatx & The "lngei contained a Blue mngcalled "Outlaw Man." which Frey borrowedfor the upcoming second Eagies album'(After a year of operation. and having hitwith Jackmn Btowne. tbe Eagles and JoniN,lirchell, who had moved over fromReprise, Geffen sold Asylum to WarnerCommunications for $7 million' whileremaining president. As Ertegun facetiouslypredicted, Geffen now had millions; eventu-ally, he would have more than a billion')

The Eagles' second album, Desperado'which they recorded at Island Studios intlndon, again with GlYn Johns, wasreleased on April '17,7973. Desperado was afar more ambitious effort than its predeces-sor. a mncept album whos songs dealt withlhe Old Wst, specifically the Dalton gangand its leailers, Bill Dalton and Bili Doolin'The concept was tied together by a FreyiHenley8rownelsouthern song called''Doolin-Dalton" lhat appeared in three ver-sions. but also in Blue's made-to-order"Outla\ Illan." L-eadon's "Bitter Creek''iBitler Crce k Newman was a member of thegang) and Henley and Frey's "Desperado "

Journalist Grac Lichtenstein. who choseDesperado as her "desen island disc" forGreil N'larcus: book Srrandedi Rock AndRoll for A Deseft Island (Alfred A Knopf'1979), derribes ihe album's concpt as fol-lows: "The Bill Doolin who joins the DaltonGang at the bginning of Desperado regardshim*lf as a young bul immortal hotshot(-Twcnty One ). loses his innmence in aromantic encounter with a manied woman("Tequila Sunrise"), faces isolation in hispasage lo adulthood ("saturday Night")'and confronts the emptiness of a life on theroad ("Desperado"). Yet he still hones hisskills ("Certain Kind Of Fool") 1o becomerhe best of the hunch, while at the sme limehe turns rynical about lame ("Bitter Creek")and eventually recognizes that life isn't whathe expected it to be. lnslead of a full house,il's a stacked deck (reprise), inevitably wind-ing up in violent death."Predictably. it was a story line thalattracted Holllvood, in the perrcn of direc-tor Sam Peckinpah. shos crediis includdsuch violenl Westems as Tk l*ild Bunch'though nothing ever mme of a movie ver-sion-

Perhaps also to be exPecled' it was analbum that offended rock critics' esPecialiyurban ones, if only because it suggested aDaraliel bet$een the lives of Old West oul'laws and rock'niroll surs The band mem-ben even appear in guns and Western gearon the froni cover of the LP and (along with

Souther) are dcpicted on lhe back coverlving dead an'J tied up on a Western street'It ma1 have been this kind of identifica'tion that made Roberl Christgau in hisreview ol rhe albunt. declare that he was''!ilrn!'d ull h\ snal {hc blnd rcfr(t'nt\'Clearll. what lhe Eagles reprtsenled toChristtau s'as a "slick'sound and lyrics thatctlebratcd hedonism' sexism and other sen-timents we woulci now dub politicallv" incor-rect." all in the guise of a Western molif Butto those who liked that motif, many ofwhomljved in the West, what the Eagles repre-sented was a Part of their cuiture"One maY argue whether the music'coming ou1 of L'A. rock establishment' isunauthentic in the'real' cowboY'/outlawWest," wrote Lichtenstein "That's not thepoint. In a four-wheel truck crossing a ruttedmountain pass lhal led to the played-out sil-ver mines where, in the 1890s, 'Baby Doe'Tabor scanclalized the country' Desperadowas utterly appropriat on a car stereo in tbe1970s. At times hatdly any other musicwould do."Vital as the album might come to be seenfor its fans, however, Desperado was a salesdisappointment initially. It peaked at #41,19 spats below tbe debul album "TequilaSunrise," the first single, got to only #64(#40 in Cash 8a), with second single"Outlaw Man' doing slightly better at #59

(#49 in Castr 8ox). It is curious. given thesuhsequent success of the song. that"Desperado'was not released on 45.''l)esperado" did appear again in the fallon Linda Ronstar1t s debut Asylunr album

Dt n t ( N V,,t hcr highc'l chdrltns \(l Jl#45. Frey und Henle,v, meanwhile car:hcontributed a harmon.v Iocai lo a song onJackson Browne's second album, For Even'nrar. also released in the fall Df I 973'

The relative [ailure of Desperadd secms tt-\have precipitared two major changes in theEagles'direction. On the road. the birnd wasbeing handled by GelTen employee IningAzoff. Again" what happened depends onwhich story -vou choose to believc. Geffenwas once again changing positjons at thispoint. The departure of Elektra Recordsfounder Jac Holzman, who had sold hiscomPany to Warner years before, led to thedecision to merge Elektra and Asylum andput Geffen in charge of the whoie company'ln the meantim, he was hunting biggergame for his artist roster, luring Bob Dylal,whose contracl with Columbia had lapsed'

Geffen claims lever to have liked per-sonal management-too many late nightphone calls - despite his reputation for closcrelationships with artists, and he seems tohave been leaving the management businssmore to his partner Eliot Roberts-

Frcv. August, 1974

which the reverse would be the case - singles*r-fl p.ri. hig\er in Biltbwrd than in Cos'gor- indicating the records were gettrngmore airplay rhan theit sales perfomane*."i1 i"Oi*t.. 'qff chart Peaks in lhis aflicleare taken from a;JJb oard' with the Cash Bu".rt ".,.a in parenthe5es if it is higher')"-]*t,"* wo*un" was the Eagles' second.innte. anO ir reached #g' "Peaceful Eas)i.li."." t l"u*o as the LP s third sinFle inO...",iU., 1g't2' got w #22 (#20 in Cashgo, i Ornng tt'" year' the Eagles could alsot. tt.urO oo ottttt LPs t'eadon was on Ritatoolia*.'. fall release The Ladv's Not ForSale. aiO he turned up' along with Hetlev'


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-n::i'':,i',T;o .l]:lln::I ,)nJon FlIh Joiirr)' "'-j , !,l."1",i. '"""' on rou'*ill tre w1rf,-. .. ".".,r en adrrnce copl ol hls uPcomlngl,l---1,"a,,."0 bv Bill Sz-vmcz-'"k' Ifie"'"""' '., ^;-L Th, Plovcr You Get.Stnar|tr touil"." *,.r*' the album tumed l'\'alsh into

" Ii".,rr. *oing'o #b and sPaMinB his sig-"r,"* f,it 'n*fq Muurrain.\\'a-v- aswell asa \econd chart entry"'Meadows'Thot *u, good tnough for the Eagles' whoiuJ.d tosiof the Johns scssions and hired'slr.ot lo start over al the Record Plant

in Los Angeles The main dispute seems tot "u" be.n *b"rh.t tlre band should move ina more rock-oriented direction' as Freyanoarenll\ wante.l {Johns says hc and Freyn"r., *oi rlong ) The hiring of SzymcryLsttled lhat disput, and the third album' OnThe Bonier, tbough it retained two Johns'oruduced ballads. Souther rnd Hcnley's:'You \crcr Cry Like A tover" and Souther'Henlev antl Frey's "The Best Ol My Love"'rocked harcier than the band had before'It was still, ho*ever' a balanced collec-tion. The ieati-of{ track' Jack Tempchin andBob Strantllund's ' Already Gone" {a musi-cal retread of "Take It Easy"), and Henleyand Frev's "Good Day In Hell" featured theguitar piay.,ing of Bernie Leadon's old friend-Don Felder, who irad been spending his timesince his rrrivel in LA in 1971 as a sessionDlarer an,J latcll a part of David Blue'si,oclup uanO. The F.agle: Iiked his *ork suf-ficiently that he was asked to join the grouPthe day after the "Good Day In Hell" ses-

The album contained an unusual amountuf oulside materiai, intjicating that !he paceof recurding and road work was not allowingtlrc bard members enough time to wite lnadililion to "Already Gone," there were"Midniglrr Flyer" by rcuntry u'riter PaulCraft (who would wore a country hit withMoe Baudr in 19?5 on his song "Hank Willi-amr, You Wrote My Life") and'Of 55" byAsvlum Records singer-songwriter Tom\1aits. Meisnr contritruted "ls It True?"ard l*adon lumed in a tdbute to his oldIluritrr huddy Gram Pusons (on whoseFiJ$thunrously released debut solo albumGri#xe "4nst he gusred), 'MY Man."Lcrdcn sko conlribuled to the tiile tracka!+ng with flcnley and Frey. At16 11t"t" *u.sNrther s$!lf by that mngwiting mnglomer-*tc o{ Frq, HsnldY, Southcr and Brome,*Jcxr Feln'

lowed b;- "James Dean," which got lo #771 # l9 rn Ccsh But ) Thcn on Scptember 23'!)tspcrado hecamc thc Fagles thir'J albumof rhc lerr ro achieve gold cerlificdtionThe band members were all over othernorabte albums released in lhe fail of 1974'Henley, Frey and Ltadon sang backgroundvocals on Randy Newman's classic Southernconcept album Good Old .Boyr,' Henley,S()ulher and a net upcoming songuriterfriend of Joe Walsh's. Dan Fogelberg'among others, sang harmonies on JacksonBrowne's third album, I-ate For The Slc'v''Henley drummed and he, Frey and Meisnrsang hamonies on Fogelberg's debutalbum, Sorvenin. produced by Walsh andreleased on Azoffs new Full Moon imprintthrough Epic Records; and Frey and Henleysang on Walsh's album, So ltftal Most nota'ble of all, Henley drummed and Frey playedacoustic guitar on "You Can Clos YourEyes." the closing lune on Linda Ronstadt'sHean Li*e A Wrcel, the lwo-million selling#1 album that made her a star. Bass guitaron the track was played by Poco memberTim0thy B. Schmit-'fhose who have listened to a radio anytjme since 19?4 may recall that it was notedin passing above that ()n The Border con'tained a song called "The Best Of My Love"that was held over from the abortive GlynJohns recording sessions' PerhaPs due tothat onus or (as with "Desperado"?) theband's disinclination to think of itself as aballad group, the LP's first fwo singls hadboth been uptenpo rockers. Finally, ninemonths after On The Border had hit recordstores, "The Best Of My Llve" was releasedas a :ingle in November 1974. It changed theEagles'lives forever'

For the week ending March t, 1975, "TlteBest Of My l-1'" topped Billboard's Hot100 tthough it never got higher than #4 inCash Bu\. Suddenly, a band that had been

strugglilg for three vcars to define itself-country rock? guitar rock?-had beendelined by AN{ radio as smooth-voiced bal-ladeers.Fortuitously. they were just ready torelease their lourth aibum, One Of These.Vrgfirs. This timc. thcre were no sonwritingcredits outside the band (well, a couple' butwe'll get to that). Maybe Souther' wbo Gef-fen seems to have decided shoukl be in aband, was busy, with the first Souther' Hill-man, Furay Band album, on which Henleyand Frey apPear, just out.On One Of These n-ighrs, Henley and Freyhad laken firm control. getting co-*rilingcredits on six ofthe nine tacks.with Meisner.Leadon and Felder being assigned whatnight be thought of as the George Harrisonposition, i.e., a rng or fwo on the album, butno singles. Most prominent was Leadon,who co-wrote "Hollywood Walu" with Hen-ley, Frey and Tom ladon (his brother, oneassumes) and co-wrote "1 Wish You Peace"wirh his girlfriend of the time, Patti(Reagan) Davis.

While not ranking in infamy with CharlesManson's writing contribution to a BeachBoys album, Davis's particiPation on (7ne 0/These Nights is notable if only beuuse, sometime later, she told a reporter how much sheliked receiving royaities from the album,only to have Don Henley tell ihe press thather contribution was minimal and, an;vay,"l Wish You Peace" wasn't uP to the Eagles'usual standards.

Leadon also contributed an instrumental,with fiddles by.. David Bromberg and stringsby "the Royal Martian Orchestra"'called"Joumey OfThe Sorcerer," aboul which wewill hear more later. (tfadon relurned thefavor to Bromberg by appearing on his Mld-nig,ht On The firoler album).

But the tracks we ali remember tiom OnrOfThese Nighx,which was released on June

10. 1975, soared to the top of the LP chartsand went gold in less lhan thrce weeks. arethe title song, which became the Eagles sec-ond straiqht #l single for the week endingr\ugusr 2, ''Lyin' Eyes," which went to #2 inNovember (#8 in ihe country charts)' and"Take It To The Limit," which reached #4in early 1976.The effect of these four staight ToP 5singles and this chart-topping album was to\aull rhe Eagies 1o the *tatus ofsuper:tars in1975. All their albums went back in [hecharts. They played stadiums in the summer*appearing with Elton John, the BeachBoys and Joe Walsh at Wembley irr London,on June 21, for example, and with the Doo-bie Brothers at Oakland Stadium on June 29(Elton John dropped in and sang "Oh Car-ol" - they were still doing Chuck Berry r$k'n'ro11, no matter what Glyn Johns thought).

They were also the subject of a RollittgSrone cover story, even if it was assigned toteenager Cameron Crowe, who handledupstart '70s bands like Led Zeppelin for theincreasingly staid'60s-oricnled maguine.This would prove a temporary respite in theEaglesiRol/irg Srorle feud, about which morelater.

One Of These Nighr-s uas arguably the bestEagles album vet. ThJl s how tt uas per-ceived by the cross-section of criti* whoparticipated in Paul Gambaccini's /ioc/iCitics' ChoiceiTht Top 200 Albums {Q'sickFox, 1978), who voted it #190 on rheir list'One of the participants who probably didnot vote for it, however, was Dave Marsh,who, though he lists "Take It To The Limit"at #830 in his book The lleart of Rock &Soul: The l}al Crearest Sing{es Ever Made(Piume, 1989), uses his write'up on the $ngto trash the band in a way that exemPlifiesthe reaction of critics like him to the Eagles.both in their heyday and subsequcntll-."The Eagles wele to seventies rock slars

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what Uncle Scrooge was to comic book char-acters," he beBins, "the richest, mosirenowned, and neyertheless th most dissat-isfied and greediest." This kind of personai.unsubstaoliated attack is lypical of Eaglescriticism. lv{arsh doesn't so nuch dislike theEagles'music as he disapProves of theEagtes. just as Christgau earlier criticizedwhat he ihought the band rePresentedMarsh later admits (though he says he'llrJr'ny it ifyou tell anyone) that, "actually, theEagles were often decent Top 40 fare and'Take It To The Limit'is a good example."He then criticizes the song's orchestrationand its "{uzzily lliought out" lyrics.Another penon wlto seems to bave beenunhappy with the Eagles' music at this Pointrvas Bcmie [:adon, who quit the trand unex-pectedly on December 20, 1975' fhe day"Take It To The Limit" entered the Hot 100."The way I heard it, after months of discon-rent. Bernie went to the loo during a record-ing session and that was the last they saw ofhim," writes Pete Frame (Pete Frarne's RockFanily Trees, Omnibus Press. 1980).

A variant on this accounl is one from pro-ducer Szymczryk (though i1 refen to the OneOf These Nryhls album sessions). "l cmremember one instance in particular,"Szymcak told Tobler and Grundy, "whenwe were at the Record Plant in L.A. Wewere listening back to some tracks we haddone the night before, and we had worked

until two a.m., and it *'as now two o'clock inthe aftemoon. Bernie was laying on a couchin front of the board. so we really couldn'tsec hrm, bccau* the rest of us were tD ing todecide on qhicb oi this bunch of takes wewere going to use, and everybody had theiropinion. So I mked Bernie what he thought,and he got off the couch and said, 'l ahinkI'm going surfing,'and he got up, walked outof the studio. and we didn't see him for threedays."

When [radon went surfing permanently.he left the Eagles in the lurch, because theyhad a tour ol the Fdr East coming up immi-nently. It was a surprise when theyannounced that Joe Walsh had agreed toreplace lcadon. The singer/guitarist was afriend, and he shared a matager md a pro-ducer with the Eagles, trut in i975 successfulsolo artists didn't join even more susessfulgroups. Walsh. who maintained his solocareer, was the iirst of what is still only a fewsuch group memberslsolo artists.By the end of l9?5, meanwhile, DavidGeffen had gotten out of ihe music businessentirely, advancing to the position of vice-chairnan of Wamer Bros. Pictures andlooking like a possibJe successor to WarnerCommunications chairman Steve Ross.Elektra/.Asylum was taken over by recordexecutive Joe Smith (laler to publish thebook Of The Retord znd run other recordcompanies). Shortly after his ascension.

however, Geffen was misdiagnosed as hav-ing caner and retired from the businessworid entirely lor the rest of the '70s.The Eagles'fint album had taken rhreeweks to make: their fourth took sir months.A{ter it came out, they went on tour for therest of the year, tben suffered a personnelchange and went out on the road again. Itwas clear to EiektraiAsylum that the bandrvas unlikely to have a new album ready tbrthe summer of 1976- So. probably as a stop-gap, on February 17, the company releasedTheir Greattst Hits I97l-1975.

The album may well harc had the effect ofkilling sales of the band's fint four albums(none of whictr seem to have advaned tothe one-million-unit mark), but it was wel'comed enthusiaslically by fans ln one week,it was certified not only gold (signifying salesofhalfa million copies), but also Platinum (arew designation inaugurated at the start ofthe year indicating sales of a million copies)

The band's most successful album ever.T\eit Greatesl Hits topped the charts for fiveweeks starting on March 13 and stayed listedamong the 2t)0 best-sellen for 133 weeks. Asof this writing, it has been cenitied for salesof 12 million copies domestically' which putsit in a three-way tie with Pink Floyd's l"fteDark Sitle Of The Moon and Bruce Spring-steen's 8on In The LI.SA. as the thirdhighest-setling album in history. (MichaelJackson's Thnller is on top, of coune, fol-

lowed bv Fleetwood lvlac's Runotro.)On !-ebruary 28, 1976, the Eagles won aGrammy award for Best Pop Vocal Perfor-mance by a Duo, Group or Chorus for"Lyin' Eyes." hr lv{arch, track fron the FarEast. they entsred Criteria Studios in \'[jamito begin work 0n their fiih album.

The same month. ABC Records i\ssed anew Joe Walsir alhum, the live LP You Can'tAque lllth A Sick Mittd. Not surPris;nglv,Walsh's backup band included Don Felderon guitar, and Feider, Frey and Henleyheiped out on vocals on a version of ''HelpMe Make It Thrcugh The Night." Thealbum reached #20.The Eagles intempted their recordingsessions for the lucrative U.S. sumner con-cert circuif, starting on Mav I in Sacra.mento, where Walsh made his domesticdebut as an Eagle. They also found time toguest on many of the summer's new albums.J.D. Souther was once again a solo anist,with the Souther, Hillman, Furay BanC har-ing folded after a mcond not-very-successfuialbum. His second solo album. 8/act Rose,released by Asylum in the spring, featuredFrey. Henley and Walsh. (Chris Hilimaa'sSltppin' Away, reieased around the sanetimc. featured Bernie l*adon.).

In other summer session news, Frel'played guitar on Carly Simon'slnorher Pc.s-sen6e4 Walsh played on Rod Stewart's rwo-million-selling-4 Night On The lown. Hen-

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ley sang on Linda Rotrstadt's one-million-sellitg Hasten Down the lfmd and Frey andHenley appeared on Warren Zevon's majorlabel debut (on Asylum, of course), lVarenZtryon. which was produced by Jack*nBrowne,As sunmer tumed into fall, HenleYturned up in the credits on Browne's newalbum, Ifte Pretender, which was relea*donly week before lhe appearance of theEagles' long-awaited new opus, Hotel Cak-fomia. ll appeared on December 8, 1976,just in time to b th stocking stuffer of thyear.

Hotel Califomia is the consensus choice,by critics, fals, even the trand itself, as thebest Eagles album. Even critics vho hate theEagles can only weasel out of praising it il itdcsewes by using phrases like -most consis-tent." In 1987, when Paul Cambacciniupdated his tritic' bmk and re-published itas The Top 100 Rrck 'N' Roll AIburu Of AllTime (}*mony Books), Hotel Califumiaranked at #48.In sals, it does bette. than thar. Crtifiedfor having sold nine million opies, it is tiedwith five other albums for 15th plae on theRecord Industry Awiation of America'slist of the best-selling albums of all time.Hotel Califomia hit #1 for the week end-ing January 15, 1977, and held that positionoff and on for eight weeks, staying in thecharts for 63 weeks. "New Kid In Toun," itsfirst single, hit #1 on February 26 and wascertified gold on March 21. Its scond single,"Hotel California," hit #1 on May 7 and wascertified gold on May 12. Its third single,"Life In The Fast Lane." hir #1 1 JuDe 25.It is probably this period that Robert SamAnson has in mind in hrs book Gone CrazyAnd Back Again" The Rise And Fall Of TheRollitrg Stone Generatiott (Doubleday. 1981)when, discussing the explosion of the remrd

buines in rhe 1970s, he writes, "There wererhe Eagles, who, at on point, with tworecords [the other being Their Greatest ltits]on the cha(s, were wlling 500,000 units perwek."

Ironically, Hotel Cal$omia is a closeexamination of exactly the way of life theEagles' critics disapproved of them forallegedly living. "Hotel California is aboutmodem America," writes Grace Lichten-stein. From the T--ilight Zone story line of.the title song through the accounts of thosewho, like all of the Eagleg come to the bigcity in search offame and forfune, "New KidIn Tom" md "Life In The Fast [:ne,"through the fear that all is "Wasted Time,"to the decision to'Try And l,ove Again"and the resignation of "The Last Resort,"the album, l*e Duperudo, is a cautionarytale about the ptrsge from innoen toexperiene and disillusionment. Along theway, there de those old favorites, sex, intoxi-cants, md a lot of rtrk 'n' roll.Ilgielly enough, the Eagles spent thebetter part of 1977 touring to promote thealbum, beginning a month-long U.S. trek onMarch 14 at the Civic Center in Springfield,Massachusetts, then starting a Europeantour on April 25 that rm through May 18.A{ter that. it was back to the U.S. for thesummer stadium circuit and then anothrEuropean trip.

During the summer, Bernie I:adon, whohad formed a band with Michael Georgia-des, released their fimt and only album, Nar-ural Progressiou, which hit #91 (#80 inCash Box).At the eod of th tour in September,Randy Meisner quit the Eagles, complainingof exhaustion. The band went to Timothy B.Schmit, who had been faithfully playing inPrco all this time, through their variou\ upsand downs, and made him an offer that was

impossible to refuse-a full pannenhip inrh grotrp. Thus, Schmit became the latest ina long line of people (Meisner, Messina.Furay) to quit the moderately succcssfulPoco in search of greener pastures. Theband soldiered on without him.

As Hatel Cal(omia continued to sell in thfall of 197, various Eagles furned up on theremrd racks seruing 6 session men for theirfamous friends. Don Henley drummed andsang on Linda Ronstadt's #1 albm SimpleDreams. Glenn Frey sang on the self-titieddebut album by Karla Bonoff, many ofwhose songs Ronstadt covered, and on JoniMitchell's Don Juan's Reckles Daughter.Frey, Henley, Schmit and Walsh allappeared on Randy Newman's Little Crimi-na&. Heniey and Schmit also tumed up inthe credits lo Tmce Boylan, the mzjorlabel debut of John Boylan's brother, whichis one of the gleat lost singer-songwriteralbums of the 1970s (in me anyose at Elek-tra is paying attention).

The Eagles were nominated for a numberof Grammy awards in January 1978, amongthem Record of the Year (a singles award,not to be confu&d with Album of the Year)for "Hotel Califomia." As recounted inHenry Schipper's book Brcken Record: TheIrcide Stors^ Of The Grammy Awards (Birch[:ne Pres, i992) and clearly based on aninteruiew with Grammy awards show TVproducer Pierre Cossette, the Eagles wereinvited to appear and perfom on theGrammy TV show, broadcast February 28.

According to Cossette, by way of Schip-per, Eagles manager Iming Azoff agreed tohave the group appear on the condition thatthey win an award. Cosrette protested thalthere was no way he could know that inadvance. Azoff countered by asking fhat rheband be prorided a secret dressing roomfrom which they would emerge if they did

win, "lf the;v lcst," Schipper writes, "theirfans would never ltnow ihey cared enougb togo to the show."

The National Academy of Recording Artsand Sciences T!'committee refusd thisrequest. Azoff then ctranged his mind andtold Cossette the band would play anyrvay,then on the night of the shm', they neverarrived, leaving Coslte "to improvise a fin-ish midway through the show."The upshot w6 that the Eagls wonRecord of the Year as well as a BestArangment for Voices award for "NewKid In Tom," and tiey were quoted in vari-ous press acctunts as having snubbed theshow because they didn't like the Grammys."The whole idea of a contest to see who is'best' just desn't appeal to us," Don Henleytold the Los Angeles Timu.Arother orious incident in the Eagles'career offied on May 7, when they playeda softball game against the staff of fioJlingStone. Robert Draper, in Rolling Stone Mag-azine: The Uncensored lllrrory (Doubleday.1990), diwsses boih the game and the long-running feud between the band and themaguine, one that has seriously harmed theEagles'critical standing md their plae ineristing histories of rock 'n' roll."Bad blood ran behreen the maguineand the Eagles." Draper *riies unequivo-cally. The fint reason he cites is the familiarone about what the Eagles were thought torepresent. "The band, perhaps more thanany other, gpified the muic of rhe seventierand the state of the industry itself," Draperwrites. "They were...tuneful and laid-backand clever, faceless stars, spokesmen for nocause save the guilty pleasures of the fastlane...Glenn Frey and his cohorts fanciedthentselves outlaH...but io fact thev wereconsummate insiden."

A ser-ond reason, Draper suggests, "couldbe found at tb corporate leyel. As a short.brash. briliiant upstart in the remrd trusi-ness, Eagles manager Iwing Azoff serued asa natural rival to [Ro//ng Stone publisher]Jann \&'enner." (Such rivalries LrenveenWenner and music industr! people were nolunusual. and the resul! was usuallv the same:bad reviews in Rolling Stone and skimpv.sncering coverage for the bantj in que:tion.Another good example is the trand Chicago.massively successful in the'70s and since,whose manager/producer James WiliiamGuercio had "a failing{ut" fiith Wenner,according to a trighly placed, usually reliablesource, after which the band was virtuallverased from the history of rock 'n' roll astold by Rolling Stonr in both the maguineand its many books.)The Eagles ereamed Rolbng Stone 15-8,and no wonder: If they'd lost they wouldhave to have done an inten'iew.

Somehow, in the midst of a-ll theseshenanigans, the Eagles found time to startworking on a new album. They also foundtime to work on other albums; Felder andFrey played guitar on Bob Seger's five-mil-lion-selling Stangu ln lown, reieared inMay. The same month, Asylum issued JoeWalsh's best, and best-selling, solo album."But SeioustyFolks-.. " which featured vari-ous other Eagles and included his causticand hilarious ca.eer summan 'L,ife's BeenGood," a #12 htt (*6 in Caslr 8or). Thealbum itsell hit #ll rnd wcnt platinum.

The Eagies, ropanga canyon, septembet,1973. L.R: Bernie Leadon, Randy Melsner, Henley anct Frey

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Kc nnc t lu1 s truld lrter go on io an associa-iion as prorlucer, songxrircr and husband totlmrrrylou l-iarris and would achieve consid-crahlc success in country music, but l{tire*lansions ir aroiher great lost album of theT{b.'I'lr* [.aplt:. meanwhile, worked on intot9?r]- and rt uar pruhably al this poinl that.St F.),.trrlrr rnai:lrillc rcprlned, Asylum*ift:rcri tirtnr * cl\h hanui (51 million is the!r*lre urr.;l!r ilrc{}) to fintsh the albun.;vr!-tshly Irr rrr*ncr 197(i relcasc. though it*}qlil harr tun for f.hristnrr< li)lti. Theyr{idnl m;re cither dcadiine. "You're4trli:tg *rth ;mplc *hr: have so much: ifsl{r*} thdt rh*rc ir nr: financial spur," Joefi*ifh t*l* l-,rde*f,. "We er.r'n *nt them a. flry*ti*5 di{t('nar}-."i':y*s si tl&-t }*rked. how{vd r, the [:agles&lw*t tilr"r t{? !i\ir i}tlur stutji0r, and thcira.&Xs nau ls bqnrql i-,r J.D. $cruthcr's rhird$f*i {S&;n 1x${l li{E! !${i*r1f$l oil{), }',I.'tr:@' fu:e**f,g. *a{t X{xl! llr:tlrrffr Rrrrlsrr

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which producer Bill Sz-vmcnk derisirelldubbed Ifte Lnng One. (lt sholld be notedthat, these dlys. a supcrstar act laking threeyears tletween albums is at least avetage.and ma1'be even on the short side )

The l-ong Rsn was. perhaps inevitably.compared unfavorably to tlotel Califomia'Nevenheles, it contained some excelleltsongs, among them the title track, a #8 hit,Tinothy B, Schmit's "l Can't Tell You Why'{co-written wilh Henley and Frey), whichalso got to #8, and "Heanache Tonight,"the album's biggest hit, whicb reached #l onNovember 10 and was certified gold onFebruary 1, 1980. On that sarne day, thealbum. which had hit #1 on Novembe r 3 andstayed there nine weeks (14 in Cush Box)was certified platinum. Its domestic salesnow stand at a respeclable four millionCritics found the album disappoilting,though none is quite as harsh as Dave Manhwho, in The Hean of Rock & Sorr/. accusedthe group of plagiarizing the l9?i Otis Clayhit "Trying To Live My Life Wilhout You"in fte song "The Long Run" and even sug-gesied that Bob Seger, who covered the Claysong (written by Eugene Williams) on his1981 live album Njne foriSir. did so to"make amends." The two tunes are similar.but whether they are similar enough to jus'tify Marsh's charge must be a matter for thecourts, and no suit has ever been fiied. (Inconcert, the Eagles introduced "The LongRun" as their tribute to MemPhis.)

As the Eagles were enjoying their last stu-dio hurrah, Bernie Lradon uas enjoling asurprise hit, as his Eagles instrumental'"Joumey Of The Sorcerer," was used m thelheme to the U.K. TV series The Hitch-hiktr's Guile To Tlrc Galui, based on thecomic sciene fiction novel b! DougiasAdams.Despite the candiclary of Jo Walsh' lheEagles played a one-off concerl on Decem-ber 21, 1979. at the Sar Djego Spons Arenato raise monev for the presidential camPaignof California Governot Jerry Brown. Otherperfomen included Chicago and Browne sgirlfriend. Linda Ronstadt.

The double soundtrack album hit #l andwent platinum. The sason was also markedby the reiease of Elton John's 2l At 33'which featured glest appearances by ClennFrey, Don Henley and Timotlry B. Schmit'ln late July the Eagles performed at theSanta Monica Civic Auditorium and theLong Beach Arena, where they remrded thesho*s for a live album.. Il almost didn't hap-pen, aaording to Joe Smith. ln Off TheRecord. Smith says that he sPnt a year con-vincing the group to make a live album' evenas they "were gening further and furtherapart petsonally.- The day before the firstshow, Frey and Henley threatened to backout, saying that they would only go throsghwilh the shos and the album iI Smith couidanswer one question: Wbo were the four 20-game winners on the 1971 Baltimore Ori-oles'pitching staffl" Smirh answered cor-rectly*Dave McNally, Jim Palmer. MikeCuellar and Pat Dobson. He is convincedthal if he hadn't, the Eagles would havenever made an album. As it was, they wentahead.First oui, however, was ex-Eagle RandyMeisner's second solo album, One MoreSong, released in Oclober. The album con-tained the #22 hit "Deep Inside My Heart"

and a follow-up. 'Heans On Fire." thatreached the Top 20. "Gorta Get Arval.' athird single, chaned at #83 in Ccs& 8o: butnissed the Billbosrd chatt. The title song'written by Jack Tempchin. was said to be anaccounl of Meisner's dcpartue from theEagles, though the lyrics are not that spe-cific. Frey and Henley sang the backgroundvocals. The album hit #50' and Meisnertoured behind it.Eagks Live was released November 7'1980. It reached #6 (#5 in Cuh Box) anC'soltl a millioc opies, producing a #27 singlein the band's version of Steve Young's"Seven Bridges Road."

Among the critil communiry". there wasdeep suspicion thal Eagles llrr was one o{the least "live" albums ever released. that itconsisted largely of studio Performancesrvith audience sounds added. Producer BillSrymczlk disputes this charge. 'l beg to dif-fer witb that." he said to Toblet and Grund1-We did patch the tracks up here and there.but everybody does that with a live albumThe band does mund like their alburo inconcert, and I'd say that 70 perent of thalrecord is live."On November ?1,1980. Paramedicsarrived at the home of Don Henley in Los

Having completed their opus. lhe Easleswere free to engage even more in tbeltfavorite activify: stopping in at olhet Peo-ple's sessions. Among the albums released inthe firsl quarter of 1980 are ChristopherCross's self-titled debut, which features thesinging of Don Henley, Warren Zevor's BadLuck Sn'eak In Dancing.sclral. on whichFelder. Waish, Frev and Henlel aopear.Craham Nash's Ecnlr & .5i:. lerturingWalsh s -suiLar playing, and Bob Seger'sAgainst The tlitd. on which ilenler andS.hm,t .ing and Frel plars guitar.on Februar,"- 27 1980' the Eaqles won aCramml award for llest Rock vocal Perfor-rancc for a Duo or Group for "HeartacheTi>night.' Negixiations. if anv. berueenPierre Cosselte and lnirg Azofl have notbten rei,caied.In Ma}, the movie Li,cn Co$bor' *'asrcleaseti. aeain with the invoivement ofArotT. nany of whcse clients were featuredor thc nominailv ceunt^Loriented sound-tr:*k. among them Bonnic Raitr. LindaRonsradr in a duct with J.D. Souther. BobSegcr and tlre F-:gles singing 'Lyin Eves."Jm Walsh s "All Night Lr:ng' was releasda* a :irtgle and gor to #19 (# I 8 in Casl 8or).

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guitar on Bob Seger's lale-in-the-yearrelease, l"fte Distann, and l{enley *ng onChristopher Cross s early 1983 foliow-up ttthis spectacularly surcssful debut album. thedrsappainting'4 n athu P age'

Joe Walsh retumed 10 the record racks inJune l98l with You Boughr lt - You Name It'Chrisrgau. u hu graded the album a surpris-ingly high B+, decided to name it JoelValsh\ Come@ Album-Finally. Peaking at#48, it produced the #52 single "Space AgeWhiz Kids."

In' September, Waylon. Jennings andWillie Nelson cemented the relationshipbetween Desperados and Outlaws bYrecording a duet version of "Take lt To TheLimit" thar they took to #8 in rhe countrychans.ln Novenber. Don Feider became lhefifth ex-Eagle to issue a fuli-fledged soloalbum with the release oflrbome. Unfortu-nalelv, the a{bum was a commercial wash-ouL ;tting ontifto +t;s, and it has provenFelder's onll' solo outing.

Frey released his second solo album, IirAllttighter, in June 1984. For lhe release.Frey su'itched to N'lCA Records, which hadappoinled Ining Azolf iis president' Fre)continued his arciation with Jack Tem-phin, co-writing every song on the albumwith him. Though it eventually peaked at#ll and had 65 weeks in the charls total' lhealbum was a sies disappointment initiallv.Its first single, "Sery Girl," was a Top 20 hit.bul tbe second single, "The AllniShtet," g!)lto only #54, and by the fall, the album's salesappeared to have dropped off permaneflth.In October, Timothy B Schmit becamethe sirth ex-Eagle to isue a solo album withPlay,in It Crcl. Like Felder, Schmit had ttough time in record stores, with his albumonly getting to #160- Unlike Felder. hswould keep trfing.

November saw the release of Don Heil'ley's second *lo album. Building The PerfeuBeast. ('{\e LP aPPeared on GcflenRecords, a label set up b."- David Geffec in1980 after he retumed to the business worldand that had proved jusr as successful as.Asylum.) It was the albm that establishedHenley as ihe Eagles'only solo superstarand crilical :ucres. Mark Colcman. u hogives it {ive sm in the Rollilg Stone ALbuntGarde. calls it "damn near a perfect popalbum-and a popular one !o boot." Theaihum. which hit #1-1 (#8 in Cash 8o:) andsoid nvo million copies, was jed bv the mas-si!el,v- popular single "The Bols Of Sum-mer. a #5 hii with a memorable black-anr.i'qhite video thal became an MT\j farorirc

The single elen draws thi Praisc of Ea5:i.hater Dare Nlanh in llre lleurt Of Rttck &5,,a1. H,rq could Dcn Hcnlcr seem sr' lircas lead vocalist of the Eagies, yel so greal c'rhis ownl'" N{ush asks. going to the heart ofthe mattet. "Well. in baseball lhev call iaaddition by subaraction; get rid of the nedi-ocritic. and iet thc real talent shin< '

"The Bovs Of Summer" was followed itithe sjngles charts bv "All She Wan{s To D{lIs Darce." which hit #9. "Not Enough Lovth Tle Worltl." which got to #3-1 ( #6 in Bili'board's ALiuit Contemporan - forme iitEas-v Listening-chart, a listing cx-Eaglc'would rurn up in more and more fre-quentlv). and "sunset Grill." which hit #l;{Nol that it matters anymore. but upol

t--a.r& SrtJ' h coatained the #34 single "ALife Of ltlu,ittn " In Juiy' Don Felder's solo*ru*, ws iauncirecl rvith two songs on thed*uble-slbum $undtrack to th animatedfilm I/r*ry lluat' As t\e Urban Cmboys*ilndtrack had been to country muslc' sosi$ the Ifrdvj* Mctal soundfaek to heaiy,neasl $usic. Featured artists included suchnoted hearl metal performers as Steviellicks, Journer:. Donald Fagen and Devo'FeJ&r contributcd both "All Of You" and.ih+ tifigl "Heavy Metal (Takin'A Ride)"'Fhich hit #13 (#4?incash Box)'ln rrjilition to these sightings, the Eaglesinade sveral guest rPPearances on summerrecordl. Tin Schrtit sang on Gary Wright'sTfu Right f'laie *nd oa Plantation Harbor , anetbum ttt drummer Joe Vitale, who hadpkyed with both \[alsh and the Eagles'rtsabh and Felcler contributed.guitar plalnglo thr tllrum.

The mt:sl promincnt session work of thet.tt-x1a, hit*glcr' was for Fleetwmd Macsi*ger Stevie Nicks's debut solo albtm Bellaflor$c. lielder phyed guitar and Don Hen-ley lvht dircusses his affair with Nicks in Of'llrr rtrc*nC) rintmmed and sang backgroundvmals on thc album's concluding track, "TheHighwuynan," and Henley sang a duet withl{ish on "Lcatt}er And lace," a song Nickshait stitlr* for Waylon Jennings and JessiColter. 'l'he album lopped th chads andt+rLl {*ur miiliun copies; a single version of'I.*ather And l:ce." medited to "Stevie:,,llihs siih tli:n l{cnley," wenl to #6 in thetdl.f.eglc gucrt epparances continued in*tldt fall rrc*rd rclcarcs as Who bassist JohnliirtsLitle'r ltxi J-utl Tjrc Nere (extensiveft*frHg b \A'rlrh), lhe rlf-titled, million-$alllr}S drhlt alhurr f,r {)uulcrflash (Schmit{41 $tr*hl **ii tlrq [!ec $res'lr.iag [rr,rql]r.&'kf {K S!}1r.tii. !n tlrc spring ol 1981.llcnlry. kJr*r:t :rnrl 1\rihl rl} turned up infh* crr:lltrt ltt Kariu ltrrioflr l*ild t.lean O{It*r }'rer*g, anil 5,.lrnrir cQultt he heard sing-1*6 *r,r'lotifl ,li*il.*rrllirrr.rclling Ioro /1.,..; !e ht.*.r liis;" J!r\r pn{:x ln thc rcledse of$$*:.J $.1*3'* r!:brrt q:lo alhum, In.. iu,\zoff**!1*.r*r{S.* l{r* *{ticisl hrcr}iup oi rhe. Fxglel *l l*eet th* f.i*gl* *ere ore r half-

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Manchu mustache Glenn Frey, solo artist,had a fashionably short hairflt and a MonaLis smile. and he was wearing a white suitwith a red tie. (Later, Frey would go evenfurther, appearing in "before and after" ads-for Jack La Laine exercise clubs. one photofrom his Eagles days captioned "hard rmk,"the other, an '80s shot, "rock hard.")

On the record itself, Frey had replaced hisold writing partner, Don Henley, with his oldfriend Jack Tempchin, who had co-writingcredits on six of the 10 tracks The album'ssound was a simpler pop-rock than theEagles had adopted, with far fewer of thetrademark hamtonies.

No Fun Aloud hit #32 in the charts andwent gold in seven months. lt produced a#31 hit in its first single. "I Found Some-body," followed by "The One You Llve,"rvhich got to #15. A third single' "All ThoseLies," made il to #41.Next up uas Randy Meisner, whose thirdsolo album. and his second to be titledRan@ MeLsner.was released in early Augut'The album got to only #94, producing the#28 single "Never Been In bve"' and waslv{eisner's final solo LP so far.Four other former Eagles were repre-sented on yet anolher double soundtrackalbum, this one accompanying the film FastTimes At Ridgemont High. The film wasbased on a book by fotmer Rolling Stone*riter Cameron Crowe, who had profiledthe Eagles so s.vmpathetically back in 1975.The album included songs b-r'Henle,v'Felder- Schmit and Walsh. the nost notableof which was Schmit's cover of the Tymes'hit "So Much In Llve." a #59 hit single'though it was Jackson Browne's #7 "Some-bod-v s Bab1"' that was the album's biggest15. Fast Timcs ,4t Ridgelnont High gol to adisappointing #5,1. The movie. a consider-abie summer hit. launched lhe career ofaclor Sean Penn.

On August 13. As.vlum released Don Hen-ie;--'s dcbut solo album, I Can't Stand Still'[.ike Frev. Henley had found a new collabo-nlor as well- hooking up with James Tay-lor's guitar player, Danny Kortchmar.Korlchmar turned up in the writing creditsol eight out of 1 1 songs and even wrote one("You Be tter Hang Up") himself. Henleyalso rclied more heavily tban Frey on old

Eagles cronies: Walsh contributed a guitarsolo, Schmit sang hamony and plaved bassand J.D. Souther co-wote a couple of songs,sang and played guitar.

While critia had applied the Eagles curseto Frey's solo album, dismising him as a sec-ond-rale hack, they warmed more to Hen-ley. In part, this was because Henley hadtaken on certain social issues in the album'slyrim- "Johnny Can't Read" was about illit-eracy and "Dirty laundry" dealt with mediasensationalism, a subject Heniey knew aboutpemnally.

Some of the old animosity to anythingrelated to the Eagles remaineC, to be su.e,but even Robert Christgau admitted in hisreview, "If thire were an!'thing to actuallylike about the guy, his complaints and reve-Iations might even be moving," a statementthat, in Christgau's terms, amounts to a rave.Ten years later, writing in the Rolling StoneAlbum Guide (edited by Anthony Decurtisand James Herke with Holly George-War-ren, Random Houe, 1992), Mark Colemanwot that I Can't Stand Sil/ "sounds like aleaner, meaner update of the Eagles' llorelCalifomia...a subtle, but definite improve-ment."

The album hrt #24 in the charts and wascertified gold. "Johnny Can't Read" got toonly #42 as a single, but "Dirty laundry"tuned out to be the first big post-Eagles hitfor an ex-Eagle, reaching #3 and going goldA ttlird single, "I Can't Stand Still." got to#48.As usual, the summel also found Eaglesall over other albums, especially Timothl' B.Schmit- who shared his vocal cords with Eyeto Eye (E-ve Io Eye), Crosby, Stills and Nash(Daylight Again) and America (Wew FromThe Ground). Heniey, meanwhile, sang onWarrcn Zevon s album l/re Ent o;.If Henley and Frey established thcmselvesas solo artists in 1982, an end-of-the-yearrelease demonstrated that they- didn'i havenearly the ommercial cloul of the EaglesWhen Asylum released Greatesr Hits' Lbl'ume 2. tt looked like a redundancl. but itwent gold a lot faster than Henley or Fr$"ssoio albums.Olhenise, the fall of 198: and lvinter ol1983 rcre quiet on the ex-F.agles front'though Felder and Frey lurncd up plalingEL l,{pt }nr+o era;r:ig hrppie wirh thc Fu

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temporary charts.Henley, however, :etained the greatestcritical respect, a fact reinforced on Febn-ary 25, 1986, when he rvon a Grammy forBest RGk Vrcal Perfomance, Male, lor"The Boys Of Summer." Henley.s othernorable actil itis for 1986 (the only notableactivities during rhe yer by an ex-Eagle)included placing a song "Who o'pns ThisPlace." on the excellent mundtmck to thefilm The Cobr Of Monq put together byRobbie Robertson and, in the dirty laundrydepartment, tlosting a Nw Year's Eve p?rtyat which Democratic presidential hopefulGary Hart met Doona Ric, an event that, inthe spring of 1987, would lead to his with-druwal from lhe presidential race.

In early 1987, John McEuen, leader of theNitty Griny Dirt Band, left that group. Hewas replaced on a temporary basis by BemieLeadon. lradon toured and recorded withthe group during the year and into 1988.

The summer and fall of 1987 sw albumreleases by Walsh, who returned to comedytitles with Got Any Gum? and peaked at#113, and Schmit, who improved his previ-ous showing with Timorfry 8., which went to#106 and featured the #25 Hot 100 hit"BoF Night Out" and the #30 Adult Con-remporary hit 'Don'r Give Up."

Frey's third album, Soul Searchin', did notappear until the summer of 1988, a full fouryears after his previous LP. This time lackinga TV or film conneciion, the album onlyreached #36 durjrg 19 weeks on the charts,though the single "True lnve" reached #13on the Hot 1ff) and #2 on the Adult Con-temporary chan. The album's second single,"Soul Searchin'," mised the pop chart. butgot to #5 Adult Contemparary" The moreuptempc "Livin' Right," releared tr a thirdsingle. petred out at #m on the Hot 100.

h,r featlred role.onw, pl"YtrIS a cynrcar'tHf*ln lo 1988 on iheq'*e,"**.{fl'- lllii** tull-tbre uanat Griuy Dirt Bandi-i #33,*unttY nt"sith hb third solot+ici*rjiue io lun"

stars, had a featured parg singing "Ufe InThe Fasr l:ne-" A liw album of the shw*as released by Rykodisc in October 1990'

Randy Meisner tumed up in Augusl 1989s a rnember of the reunited original lineupof Poco, which isued an album, /"{gaqy, thathir #40 and went gold. Meisrer loured withthe s,roup through the summer of 1990, sing'inslTake It To The Umit," mmg otherso-nes Bur bl fall he ws in a nw countryourit, Black Tie, that smred a #59 countryhit with a cover of Buddy Holly's "lramingThe Game'"

ln Julv 1990. Timothy B Schmit releasedhir thirdsolo album' Tell trle The Truth The

You" tumed up on the sourdtrack of rhefrlm Thelma & Louise in the Spring of 199iPlear *e EACLES page 160

ffi but not as ai""'t" o sow unavaihble 3nd,lhal track;*;-x ; r.:i.l'.ii xl ll,l-'J I 1",., n ".assumed the mantlc of the Eagles lc-qacyione with a surprise critical regard Clennir""Lt" u".rt with a hit record in tht form^i-rn. f.i,i, Forsev and Harold Falter-I"***ii,,"n and -produced "Thc Hert [sOn," f"utut.a in Bttcrh Hills C.? the big-*ri fit* nf ryt. 198-1 Christmrs season "Thele at ls On'' becamc lhe biggesl hit yet by anex-Eagle, going to #2 by March 16' 1985'The soundtrack album topped the chartsand sold rwo million coPies'

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((iuest appearances by ex-Eagles for 1984included Timolhy B- Schmit's vocals on DanFogelberfs l4indaws lnd lfalLr' Schmit andHenley's singing on J.D. Soulher's -I{one 8yDarz, and Bemie Leadon's playing andsinging on his old friend Chris Hillman'sDesert Rose, the precursot to Hillman'sc{luntry group the Desen Rose Band.)Don Henley had a song, "She's On TheZoom." on the early 1985 soundtrack to thefilm !'?sion Qaesl, which hit #11 and wentplatinum. but he still was no competition toFrey. who turned up as an aclor on an cpi-sode of the hit TV series lfiami l4ce basedon his song from The Allnighter,"Smtgg,ler'sBlues." The resulls were predictable:"smuggler's Biues" was relemed as a singleand wenr lo #11 while The Allnighterheaded back up the charts. gaining a goldcertification by August.Joe Walsh was the only ex-Eagle with anew album out in the spring of I 985. His lleConfessor, the first solo album he'd made inyears wilhout a joke title. got to only #65(#52 m Cash Bor), despite a tour that foundhim opening for Tina Turner. (Walsh muldalso be heard during the summer playinggpitar on Michael McDcnald's album NoLnkin'Back.\Don Felder and Timothy B. Schmit eachcontributed to {he soundtrach to the film

album frvii1989 with thc rrlesse ot Thc End O! Thctnnocence. "airch bitch bhch, blo$t bloatbtoat," smplained Rokn Ctuietgau, butnrs was a minmily opinion. The alhum wuicd off by thc ritle track. which mundcti lilcexactly what it was, a 6lltboralion bet*eenHenley and pianisVsingerlrongmiter BruceHomsby. As a single, it wenr to #g on fheTot 100.#-Z on rhe Adult Contemporarychart and #1 6n Billboanl,s. Album RockTracks listing.The album was widely played on AORradio, which alm chos such songs as "I WillNot Go Quierly,' "lf Dirt Were pr61LO"-The Lst Worthless Evening." .The HeanOf The MatFr," "How Bad Do You Wanitt?" and "Neq York Minute" for exensiwphy. "Evening," released as the album's sec-ond single, went to #21 on the Hot 100, #2Adult Contemporary, and it was followed by'The Heart Of Tlre Ma*er," whicb went to#11 pop, #3 Adult Contemporary. A fourthsingle, "How Bad Do Ycu Want Il.?," wgtttlo #48 pop, and a fifth, "New York Minute,"went to #48 pop and #5 Adult Contempo-rary. .4s a result, the album, which pealed at#8, stayed in the charts 148 weeks and soldthree millioo copies. Henley won a BestRock Vocal Perfomane Grammy for thealbum on February 21, 1990.In th swmer o{ 1989, Walsh joinedRingo Starr for a 28-city tour as part of hisAllStan Band. Walsh, like the other all-

album fulfilled Schmit's contractual obliga-tior to his record company (not surprisingly'it failed to chart) At thal dme' Schmit wasreporledly ready to parlicipate in a plannedFreles reunion'i}e follou'ing appears in the rmrd com-pcny bio sent ro lhe pr('ss uith-fcU Vt Thefnriit -en Eagles reunion would sure comein handv. The idea, initially' was to rtrord afe* tra"ks as bonus cuts for a CD mmpila-tios. But, having joined Henley and Frey insviral live performances, Timothy think

.'i$mething bigger might be in the offing''Glenn was real hesitant atrout this,'he says'but at one recent get-together, 'l could see in' '6tenn's eyes that he was digging it' Some'r:jthinC is definitely b:ewing As far as theentire band, I'm honestll not sure."'' Indged an Eagles reunion was beingoperitji discused in many plaes in mid-1990, but nothiig has come of it yei. (Norhas a CD compilation been released.)Schmit laterturnecl up playing bass and sing-ing in Jimmy Buffett's backup band.One can't help thinking, however, thatplms must have been serious, if the nextpiece of niusic to appetr from Glenn Frey i!

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l'6 A Cult Hto4 Dig You (gre4ue, pimre sleevc)Blue Sulihine (Robert Smith atd Sil:Nie Md thc Banshees'bsist Steve Seve ti!)

Siorcie And The Banshes (LP/CD)Ceffer/Wonderland/ 24030 Hyaena (Roberl Snith on guitd)THE l'lHO 5510THE WHo. w and 3i8nd cto$'ingIdM.ok in*rumt5 Pld ,'1d P{atinum-alhms. Cotac, Staftlads 3l0lF Henneon Ave., M96 MN 55413.oiz-el:'izlt, Fax 612 331-80&3FRAilK APPA 55MCAPTAIN EEEffUiT iteffi wtsd lnscMne I dn o{fs ffi iEe &PPalrft6;cludrn8 rmd ldc6'Bong! FuM r$ue. YNr list geB mlre aill flc,iD 4 8or 4062. Newt$ Nl C7360

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July 9, i993 GOLOMINE

and hit #10. Another;:?- l^' ::.il ::T ;::,.: i:: Y:;;'Ti?ff : :::Wut.tt't album Antused To DeuthSeptembcr,l ll fealurcd a duel

Rock Tracks chart for the week contract, and thus came under the Califor-nia rule limiting contracts to seven yeas'duration. This, he said, allowed Hcnley 10i(rminate his.lontract'lith witrcn notrce infotrf. fnnat further noLed thal the c('nltac{i"ol l*.i, *r"- "'ause altowing the arrist to,..*inrt. i, Dil id Geffcn were not penon-:';"';,;;"'". rhings ar thc compan; uhichirig.r .unttnota r{) bc thc m\e At prc\cnt'thc suit is Pending"

erd rhar just about brings tbingr uP todate. As noted at the beginnin8' of th sevenmln who at on time or another were mem-U"., of *" Eagles, one hasn't been heardfuom lately, rwo are in Nashville' three h3veiaiied to reach lhe charts with their Itrleslalbums and one is in lili-gation Classic rockconlinucs lo play Eagles records and lans:un,inuc to 5ur them. and countn conttnt'e:!o turn out Eagier clones' in s0me cases withthe help of ex-Eaeles

What will happcn rext? A tew fearlesspredictions. Hcnler and Ccflen srll i(ltle:Henlcy * ill get more mone; ' anJ Dn id Gef-Ln,uill ogre. to take his calls- Henlev tillsucceerl in buying Waiden Wlrods' but notu'ith his om money. Glenn Frey' Timothy B'Schmit. Joe Walsh and Don Felder (if any-one can find him) will unite to make a newaibum for a new record company under aneiv name: it won't sell Randy Meisner willretire again' if he hasn't already BernieLerdon till kcep plaling kiiler bluegrass inNashville. They'l) atl get together for a tourand a new album in the year 2001' Really

uut.t, and Hcniey on tbe trackTV.* John Prine had originall!{ot the duet' but pulled out,r* thc lyrics' in which the nunatortmln! lis girllricnd his )e llou

in fianun.nen Square in the ahorlrverevolution of 1989'

Octobcr' Rcstiess fleart's 68 'lroxlin" dn shrch B(rnr: iu.i:l'l:r'Promincnlly *a\ relel\(s rrvi, iu-u- in the 'ounrry charts 3ndt"',i" oto tharts and was still charted5, 1993'

RandY Meigner and Don Henley

January 2li' 1993' Ceflen Rccords:urt .g,'n'r Dun Hcnler' chatuing"t conr"tt '*tLtng.S'10 milli''n inrnJ a'Ltng lut rn il)iun(tion pre-H"ntat lr'rm :rFning uith rrnolhert.tftn contundcd ihat HLnle) wa5

t u ,i. 1.16' , 'i a iqsx reord culltrsctfor rhree ulhum' of which hc hudontu one. Tl:i Lnd Of Th' ln'n'lauyer, Don Engel' replied tolhat Hcnley's 1988 cootiact was lnan amended "tttlon e6 [i5 19'5'1

The Eagies {,,S, Albums Discogiaphv.$ord # title59

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