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Posted: January 18 2016 at 17:08
RIP
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Posted: January 18 2016 at 20:50
Frey's early acoustic songs with The Eagles like Take it Easy, Tequila Sunrise and Desperado were tunes people loved to hear playing guitar around the campfire and at parties. The Eagles got a little too glitzy and pop after that for my tastes, although Joe Walsh revitalized their sound for a minute. But Frey was born in Royal Oak, MI, so he's always been a next-door neighbor, in a manner of speaking.
Edited by The Dark Elf - January 18 2016 at 21:10
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Posted: January 19 2016 at 09:15
Eagles was my favourite band in high School, mostly becouse of a greatest hits record, i spun it daily.
Lots of it become my rutinal basic for Learning bass guitar, the bass line of Hotel California is as cool as the guitar solos, so melodic, and fun. Timothy B Smith is an unsung and singing hero. Hes sining bass playing is so delicate. The New kid in town. and Feldor and Welsh are such a good combo of fierce angry guitardome. and from that docu i saw in summer, Don Henley is a better drummer in the earlyer days, fluid and explosive.
Skilled band who knows how to save the dynamite and techicality, elegant and tunefull Music. Glenn Frey was sort fo the oak tree of the band, the wice dude who sort of pulled the strings and had a firm idea of what Eagles were and should be, maybe a lite dictatorical. Hes no slouch on solo guitarist either actualy, but is sort of left in the shadow of the mighty two, of Felder and Walsh.
But i respected Freys integraty, hes ideal was to me, a good one, and was the key factor to why Eagles was so effective and worked so well IMO.
Joined: May 22 2007
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Posted: January 19 2016 at 09:35
The Dark Elf wrote:
Frey's early acoustic songs with The Eagles like Take it Easy, Tequila Sunrise and Desperado were tunes people loved to hear playing guitar around the campfire and at parties. The Eagles got a little too glitzy and pop after that for my tastes, although Joe Walsh revitalized their sound for a minute. But Frey was born in Royal Oak, MI, so he's always been a next-door neighbor, in a manner of speaking.
Yes. As a fellow Michigander I agree. I knew somebody who knew somebody who went to school with him in Royal Oak. I go through phases with the Eagles where I really like them, but at other times, they are too Country sounding for my tastes. Their Greatest Hits has always been one of my favorite compilation albums.
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Posted: January 20 2016 at 13:53
Well I just could not let this one go by without paying my
respect.Forgive me if I wear my heart
on my sleeve for a moment...
I was sad when Bowie and Squire passed away, two artists
deserving of great respect and who brought me much enjoyment.But when I saw the words on my monitor that
Glenn Frey was dead the tears came as if I'd lost a friend.People can say what they like about the
Eagles being corporate, or crap, or both.To me they were beloved postcard Americana
inextricably tied to years growing up, restlessness, and long nights.Nights and experiences that were real and
went with songs from a faraway LA band.They
weren't there to be groundbreaking or excite highbrows, there were other groups
for that.
Frey was the coolest Eagle, the pushy one, the loudmouth
perhaps, rocking out in a laid back 70s combination of long hair, flannel
shirt, and shades up top.He was the
undisputed leader of the band despite Henley's
magic ballads.Like the rest of the
Eagles nothing was particularly extraordinary at first glimpse.Despite commercial success, in many ways the
individuals of the Eagles flew below the radar save for Henley's
80s pop solo career.But when you put
these guys together they were perfect. Despite all the stories of drama and cocaine,
they were absolute perfectionists when it came to the craft. Every song a simple story of human condition,
every vocal backed by flawless harmonies, every strum of Frey's acoustic
adorned by Felder, Leadon, and/or Joe Walsh with just the right nuance or sizzle.And when a song needed a real pretty shot of cowboy
moonlight, Randy Meisner stunning range could deliver it like nobody since.
Rarely did my friends and I play Eagles albums at home in
the same way we played rock albums by other bands.We didn't have to because the Eagles rode the
FM airwaves every time we turned the car key.Glenn Frey became the voice of the open road and the muscle car
experiences of our youth.Windows down, warm
summer wind blowing through the potent mix of rock and smoke.Even though we may not have given them the
same "rock god" respect we gave other harder rock legends, the Eagles
were always there.People road tripped
to "Take it Easy", they partied to "Life in the Fast Lane",
they made out to "Hotel California", and they ran out many long
nights to Take it to the Limit, Lyin'
Eyes, New Kid in Town, Tequila Sunrise, Wasted Time, 7 Bridges Road, In the
City, One of these Nights, and quite literally, countless others.That's why I was crushed today. Another voice I thought would always be around
isn't. People seem to take the Eagles
for granted.Only when one starts to
look at the track lists of album after album do we realize we probably shouldn't.And Glenn was the heart and soul.
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Posted: January 21 2016 at 04:36
Finnforest wrote:
Well I just could not let this one go by without paying my
respect.Forgive me if I wear my heart
on my sleeve for a moment...
I was sad when Bowie and Squire passed away, two artists
deserving of great respect and who brought me much enjoyment.But when I saw the words on my monitor that
Glenn Frey was dead the tears came as if I'd lost a friend.People can say what they like about the
Eagles being corporate, or crap, or both.To me they were beloved postcard Americana
inextricably tied to years growing up, restlessness, and long nights.Nights and experiences that were real and
went with songs from a faraway LA band.They
weren't there to be groundbreaking or excite highbrows, there were other groups
for that.
Frey was the coolest Eagle, the pushy one, the loudmouth
perhaps, rocking out in a laid back 70s combination of long hair, flannel
shirt, and shades up top.He was the
undisputed leader of the band despite Henley's
magic ballads.Like the rest of the
Eagles nothing was particularly extraordinary at first glimpse.Despite commercial success, in many ways the
individuals of the Eagles flew below the radar save for Henley's
80s pop solo career.But when you put
these guys together they were perfect. Despite all the stories of drama and cocaine,
they were absolute perfectionists when it came to the craft. Every song a simple story of human condition,
every vocal backed by flawless harmonies, every strum of Frey's acoustic
adorned by Felder, Leadon, and/or Joe Walsh with just the right nuance or sizzle.And when a song needed a real pretty shot of cowboy
moonlight, Randy Meisner stunning range could deliver it like nobody since.
Rarely did my friends and I play Eagles albums at home in
the same way we played rock albums by other bands.We didn't have to because the Eagles rode the
FM airwaves every time we turned the car key.Glenn Frey became the voice of the open road and the muscle car
experiences of our youth.Windows down, warm
summer wind blowing through the potent mix of rock and smoke.Even though we may not have given them the
same "rock god" respect we gave other harder rock legends, the Eagles
were always there.People road tripped
to "Take it Easy", they partied to "Life in the Fast Lane",
they made out to "Hotel California", and they ran out many long
nights to Take it to the Limit, Lyin'
Eyes, New Kid in Town, Tequila Sunrise, Wasted Time, 7 Bridges Road, In the
City, One of these Nights, and quite literally, countless others.That's why I was crushed today. Another voice I thought would always be around
isn't. People seem to take the Eagles
for granted.Only when one starts to
look at the track lists of album after album do we realize we probably shouldn't.And Glenn was the heart and soul.
Thanks Glenn for many a pretty song...
Jim, very nice sentiments. All songs I know by heart and still sing along to every time I hear them, whether on the radio or on my iPod. I never had the chance to see them play live, but this past summer while vacationing in Ludington, MI, I saw an Eagles tribute band perform and while watching them perform, I think I finally realized just how much I really liked this band. Glenn Frey will be missed.
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Posted: January 21 2016 at 15:06
rushfan4 wrote:
Finnforest wrote:
Well I just could not let this one go by without paying my
respect.Forgive me if I wear my heart
on my sleeve for a moment...
I was sad when Bowie and Squire passed away, two artists
deserving of great respect and who brought me much enjoyment.But when I saw the words on my monitor that
Glenn Frey was dead the tears came as if I'd lost a friend.People can say what they like about the
Eagles being corporate, or crap, or both.To me they were beloved postcard Americana
inextricably tied to years growing up, restlessness, and long nights.Nights and experiences that were real and
went with songs from a faraway LA band.They
weren't there to be groundbreaking or excite highbrows, there were other groups
for that.
Frey was the coolest Eagle, the pushy one, the loudmouth
perhaps, rocking out in a laid back 70s combination of long hair, flannel
shirt, and shades up top.He was the
undisputed leader of the band despite Henley's
magic ballads.Like the rest of the
Eagles nothing was particularly extraordinary at first glimpse.Despite commercial success, in many ways the
individuals of the Eagles flew below the radar save for Henley's
80s pop solo career.But when you put
these guys together they were perfect. Despite all the stories of drama and cocaine,
they were absolute perfectionists when it came to the craft. Every song a simple story of human condition,
every vocal backed by flawless harmonies, every strum of Frey's acoustic
adorned by Felder, Leadon, and/or Joe Walsh with just the right nuance or sizzle.And when a song needed a real pretty shot of cowboy
moonlight, Randy Meisner stunning range could deliver it like nobody since.
Rarely did my friends and I play Eagles albums at home in
the same way we played rock albums by other bands.We didn't have to because the Eagles rode the
FM airwaves every time we turned the car key.Glenn Frey became the voice of the open road and the muscle car
experiences of our youth.Windows down, warm
summer wind blowing through the potent mix of rock and smoke.Even though we may not have given them the
same "rock god" respect we gave other harder rock legends, the Eagles
were always there.People road tripped
to "Take it Easy", they partied to "Life in the Fast Lane",
they made out to "Hotel California", and they ran out many long
nights to Take it to the Limit, Lyin'
Eyes, New Kid in Town, Tequila Sunrise, Wasted Time, 7 Bridges Road, In the
City, One of these Nights, and quite literally, countless others.That's why I was crushed today. Another voice I thought would always be around
isn't. People seem to take the Eagles
for granted.Only when one starts to
look at the track lists of album after album do we realize we probably shouldn't.And Glenn was the heart and soul.
Thanks Glenn for many a pretty song...
Jim, very nice sentiments. All songs I know by heart and still sing along to every time I hear them, whether on the radio or on my iPod. I never had the chance to see them play live, but this past summer while vacationing in Ludington, MI, I saw an Eagles tribute band perform and while watching them perform, I think I finally realized just how much I really liked this band. Glenn Frey will be missed.
Thank you Scott. Here's one of 'dem pretty Glenn songs for you.....kind of a mellow one but I love the care taken with the vocals.....and Felder's little embellishments are SO nice...enjoy my friend. And turn it up, this particular video has stellar sound!
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I go through phases with the Eagles where I really like them, but at other times, they are too Country sounding for my tastes. Their Greatest Hits has always been one of my favorite compilation albums. 
