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glenneaglesfan
01-21-2007, 06:10 PM
This is an article from Melody Maker, April 13, 1985. It seems to be a session of quickfire topics requiring instant comments, but it's fun!

SHRINK WRAP

This week the probing eye falls on former Eagle and aspiring actor Glenn Frey…

Eddie Murphy
This generation’s Richard Pryor.

Roy Rogers
Jeeze, squeaky clean, the perfect cowboy. G-rated, the perfect good guy.

Yesterday
The song or…? A place I don’t spend any time.

LA
LA is a great town, it really is. It’s not as laid back as some people think, not as fast as others think. It’s slightly misunderstood. The best place I could possibly have moved from high school.

The American Dream
Something the Reagan administration is slowly but surely taking away from the working class in my country. Our country was built on the middle class, on believing that, if a man worked hard, he could be a success in life. That’s just not so true anymore. The trickle-down theory is not working under President Reagan, it’s not trickling down to the right people. He’s still protecting the rich and not doing much for the people who fought in World War Two, people my parents’ age.

The Eagles
That was nine, wild, glorious years. The greatest way a guy could spend his twenties.

Tomorrow
Where are my drugs? Tomorrow’s the Concorde back to New York, tomorrow is writing more songs and learning from today and using it tomorrow.

Guitarists
Pain in the ass…no! Uh…guitarists…Eric Clapton, Albert King, James Burton, Don Felder and Joe Walsh.

MTV
It’s an interesting concept and something we definitely have to deal with now. It’s a very good promotional tool. The only thing wrong with MTV I guess is that sometimes videos take your imagination away because you get to see the music – sometimes that’s good, sometimes it’s not.

Cars
Where everything happened when I was growing up. No-one could afford an apartment and you couldn’t do it at your parents’ house. Cars were the symbol of freedom. My favourites? Porsche.

Sleep
Does wonders.

Pets
I have three dogs and a cat. I like pets. All they ask you to do is love ‘em.

Pregnancy
Someday soon, I hope. Yes, I’d like to have kids and I’ve been married for almost two years now and my wife and I have kinda figured out that we get along so now we might be able to involve an innocent bystander.

Cigarettes
Something I gave up for 10 years and started doing again as soon as I got a job as an actor.

‘The Boys Of Summer’
A brilliant record. I’m really happy for Henley. In fact, I think that whole album he made is a terrific record. I know he worked for a year and a half on it and sweated blood and he deserves all the success he gets. Congratulations, Don!

Drugs
You got any? Sometimes they make you smart, sometimes they make you stoopid.

Heroes
I don’t know that we should always have heroes. We tend to make too much out of them. The people we usually call heroes aren’t heroes at all. The heroes, to me, are the Albert Schweitzers of the world, those who strive for peace, and also my dad, y’know…to me a hero’s a guy who goes out and busts his ass for 10 hours a day five days a week so his kid has school clothes, so his kid can get an education. These are the kind of people we should look up to, people who work hard for a living and sacrifice and give some of themselves. It’s unfortunate that we always seem to make heroes of popular entertainers and people with money. Money is seldom accompanied by taste.

Hippies
Hippies aren’t called hippies now but it seems to me that a lot of the Sixties idealism is starting to resurface with all the work that the music industry is doing for Ethiopia and things like that. I think that’s very good. All the people that dropped out have dropped back in again now but it seems to me that a lot of the young people, kids just out of high school, are starting to be romanced again by that idealism. Hippies had a conscience and I think the Sixties, as the decades go on, will get their just due.

Death
I’m too busy living to think about dying.

Villains
I often wonder who the villains are in real life. I can think of a lot of ‘em – Westinghouse, General Electric, the oil companies, Khomeini, the asshole in Libya…I guess you need villains or you can’t have heroes.

Sex
Over-rated, over-discussed and, as far as casual sex, I think God has figured out a way to cut down on it – AIDS and herpes.

Billy Idol
Very interesting. Unique. He’s very charismatic, very good visually – Elvis’s sneer, Jim Morrison’s voice and Buckwheat’s hair. I think there’s a place in the music business for Billy Idol. I don’t know where though.

Z
01-21-2007, 06:48 PM
They were great! Thanks, GEF.

Maleah
01-21-2007, 07:50 PM
That was very interesting to read. Thanks for posting it!

Freypower
01-21-2007, 09:43 PM
I hadn't read that. Porsche, eh? I knew the German in him had to emerge somewhere. :twisted:

EasyFeeling
01-22-2007, 05:28 AM
Very interesting to read. Thanks for posting. :)

glenneaglesfan
01-24-2007, 01:56 PM
I hadn't read that. Porsche, eh? I knew the German in him had to emerge somewhere. :twisted:

He certainly looks good in a Porsche...

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c96/Glenneaglesfan/porsche.jpg

I wonder if he used his own car in the Smugglers Blues video?

Perfect Little Sister
01-24-2007, 03:56 PM
I like his saying his dad is his hero. So sweet. That answer came straight from the heart with no thought to building his image or anything. Such a good boy. lol

Freypower
01-24-2007, 05:07 PM
I wondered about the car as well, but surely not... but in CHC in Ordinary Average Guy the line is 'Glenn's got a Porsche and Joe lost his Dodge'.

I found another screenshot of the car.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v242/ozeagle/Frey%20Videos/SmugglersBlues8.jpg

glenneaglesfan
01-24-2007, 07:02 PM
I have to confess I'm not really noticing the car in that last one!

sodascouts
01-24-2007, 09:36 PM
Great car. Great hair. Great video!

Ive always been a dreamer
01-24-2007, 11:43 PM
This is really interesting insight from this 70's poster boy for sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll. And GEF - I'm with you all the way on this one - I never noticed a car in those stills! :D

EasyFeeling
01-25-2007, 05:33 AM
Great car. Great hair. Great video!


... great man! :wink: These are adorable shots. :D

SweetHolly
03-16-2007, 02:59 AM
Thanks for posting it. Interesting to see what was going on in Glenn's mind. :D

sodascouts
12-02-2009, 11:03 PM
I was looking through the People Magazine archives and found a few cute bits from years ago. An excerpt:

People Magazine - March 24, 1986

NOW HE'S GUNNING FOR STARDOM: Glenn Frey had a tough time getting a handle on his role in Let's Get Harry, the rocker's feature film debut. The movie, which is scheduled for summer release, stars Robert Duvall, Gary Busey and Frey as blue-collar workers who rescue a kidnapped buddy in Central America. Told that he'd be trained to use UZIs, MAC-10s and M60s, ex-Eagle Frey admitted he had limited experience with weapons. "The only thing I've ever fired," he said, "is a guitar player."

[practice makes perfect! lol]

Freypower
12-02-2009, 11:27 PM
Yes. I remember that piece. Who was he suggesting that he fired? Bernie Leadon? He didn't fire Felder in 1980 (he didn't do it until 2001). The assumption has always been thet Bernie left the band voluntarily, but it would not surprise me at all if Glenn DID fire him.

sodascouts
12-02-2009, 11:29 PM
I was thinking maybe he just meant a backing guy from his solo touring band.

I don't think Glenn "fired" Bernie. Bernie was a co-founder of the band - unlike Felder, despite the impression Felder likes to give about them all starting out together.

sodascouts
12-10-2009, 10:33 PM
Can't you just see Glenn at Baseball Fantasy Camp? I bet he was in seventh Heaven! An excerpt:

The New York Times - April 14, 1983

SCOUTING: Fantasy Campers
By Frank Litsky

The latest fantasy craze allows men in their 30's and older to live out their dreams of playing baseball and spend a week learning from former major leaguers. The $2,295 fee includes airfare, breakfasts, lunches, uniform, videotape and personalized baseball cards.

<snip>

The Dodger camp is the creation of Max Shapiro, a 39-year-old Californian who founded a company named Baseball Fantasies Fulfilled. His Dodger campers include a Baptist minister from Los Angeles, a Los Angeles pediatrician named Frank Sinatra, a one-armed trucking company owner from Minneapolis and Glenn Frey, the lead singer in a now-disbanded rock group, the Eagles.

Glennsallnighter
12-11-2009, 06:19 PM
Awwwww! I love those two tidbits Soda!! I love reading things like this about Glenn :heart:

Super Frey
12-11-2009, 10:10 PM
Yeah it's nice

Glennhoney
01-10-2010, 03:57 PM
......Love it......

Troubadour
01-10-2010, 07:13 PM
Heh, I loved reading Glenn's responses. I like the bit about involving an 'innocent bystander'!

Ive always been a dreamer
01-10-2010, 08:21 PM
I love reading Glenn's responses in that interview. What I think would be a hoot is if someone could do the same interview with him today to see what he would have to say ... or to see what his reaction today would be to some of the responses he gave in 1985.

GlennLover
01-11-2010, 12:28 AM
It's always been one of my favourites of Glenn articles.

Koala
01-11-2010, 02:16 AM
Thanks for that , I love read the old articles!

Glennsallnighter
01-11-2010, 03:53 AM
Yeah! I love that article too and as Dreamer suggested I'd love to see how his responses have changed over the intervening 25 years. Like Lou, I love the 'Innocent Bystander' comment.

I also think one of my favourite all time Glenn :heart: quotes is
'I'm too busy living to think about dying' (Thats after the cheeseburger comment in a different interview :wink:). I've borrowed the quote myself on occasion.

I love the praise he gives Don for BoS and the album.

Freypower
01-11-2010, 05:44 PM
Also did you notice that he named Don Felder as one of his favourite guitarists (along with Joe)? He always went out of his way to be generous to Felder, at least when he made public comments. I think it's important to remember that when you consider some of the stuff Felder said about him.

sodascouts
04-21-2010, 05:39 PM
Check this out! Steve Goddard posted some clips from an interview he did with Glenn back in 1983 or thereabouts - good stuff, although Glenn's voice sounds a little funny!

Part 1: http://kool.radio.com/2010/04/20/me-and-glenn-frey-a-long-time-ago/#photo-1

Part 2: http://kool.radio.com/2010/04/21/eagles-in-town-tonight-so-what-is-glenn-freys-favorite-eagles-song/

ETA: I can't get the second one to play. Anyone else having better luck?

GlennLover
04-21-2010, 07:05 PM
Yes, I got it to play. Nothing new. It's interesting that his favorite Eagles' songs haven't changed:

One of These Nights
I Can't Tell You Why
Take It To The Limit

Pretty well everything else I have heard before.

sodascouts
04-21-2010, 07:16 PM
Thanks, it's working for me now, too.

I agree with him on TITTL! It's not just my favorite Eagles song, it's one of my favorite songs of any band.

I wonder what his favorite song is that he sings lead on?

ETA: Oh wait, I forgot I have a list of his faves on GlennFreyOnline (http://www.glennfreyonline.com)! That site is so big even I can't remember everything I put on it. Anyway, here it is:

One of These Nights (http://www.glennfreyonline.com/eagles/ootn/oneofthesenights.htm), I Can't Tell You Why (http://www.glennfreyonline.com/eagles/longrun/icanttellyouwhy.htm), Take It Easy (http://www.glennfreyonline.com/eagles/eagleslp/takeiteasy.htm), Tequila Sunrise (http://www.glennfreyonline.com/eagles/desperado/tequilasunrise.htm), Desperado (http://www.glennfreyonline.com/eagles/desperado/desperado.htm), Best Of My Love (http://www.glennfreyonline.com/eagles/border/bestofmylove.htm), Take It To The Limit (http://www.glennfreyonline.com/eagles/ootn/takeittothelimit.htm), Hotel California (http://www.glennfreyonline.com/eagles/hotelcalifornia/hotelcalifornia.htm), New Kid In Town (http://www.glennfreyonline.com/eagles/hotelcalifornia/newkidintown.htm), Life In The Fast Lane (http://www.glennfreyonline.com/eagles/hotelcalifornia/lifeinthefastlane.htm), and Wasted Time (http://www.glennfreyonline.com/eagles/hotelcalifornia/wastedtime.htm).

GlennLover
04-21-2010, 07:19 PM
Thanks, it's working for me now, too.

I agree with him on TITTL! It's not just my favorite Eagles songs, it's one of my favorite songs of any band.

I wonder what his favorite song is that he sings lead on?


Mine too! And so is ICTYW!!!

Freypower
04-21-2010, 07:59 PM
Thanks, it's working for me now, too.

I agree with him on TITTL! It's not just my favorite Eagles song, it's one of my favorite songs of any band.

I wonder what his favorite song is that he sings lead on?

ETA: Oh wait, I forgot I have a list of his faves on GlennFreyOnline (http://www.glennfreyonline.com)! That site is so big even I can't remember everything I put on it. Anyway, here it is:

One of These Nights (http://www.glennfreyonline.com/eagles/ootn/oneofthesenights.htm), I Can't Tell You Why (http://www.glennfreyonline.com/eagles/longrun/icanttellyouwhy.htm), Take It Easy (http://www.glennfreyonline.com/eagles/eagleslp/takeiteasy.htm), Tequila Sunrise (http://www.glennfreyonline.com/eagles/desperado/tequilasunrise.htm), Desperado (http://www.glennfreyonline.com/eagles/desperado/desperado.htm), Best Of My Love (http://www.glennfreyonline.com/eagles/border/bestofmylove.htm), Take It To The Limit (http://www.glennfreyonline.com/eagles/ootn/takeittothelimit.htm), Hotel California (http://www.glennfreyonline.com/eagles/hotelcalifornia/hotelcalifornia.htm), New Kid In Town (http://www.glennfreyonline.com/eagles/hotelcalifornia/newkidintown.htm), Life In The Fast Lane (http://www.glennfreyonline.com/eagles/hotelcalifornia/lifeinthefastlane.htm), and Wasted Time (http://www.glennfreyonline.com/eagles/hotelcalifornia/wastedtime.htm).

Of these, he sings lead on the grand total of 3 (although he sings TITTL now). Sometimes I think this modesty and self-effacement goes a bit far. As for New Kid In Town you would not know that it was a favourite, given that he has dropped it both from Eagles and solo shows. I notice he doesn't mention Heartache Tonight.

sodascouts
08-04-2010, 12:46 AM
This is older, but I just found it and I think it's cute!

Eagles Guitarist Visits Loyola Marymount University: Glenn Frey speaks to music management and recording arts majors (http://www.laloyolan.com/entertainment/eagle-guitarist-visits-lmu-glenn-frey-speaks-to-music-management-and-recording-arts-majors-1.1498098)

Freypower
08-04-2010, 03:14 AM
I always find it heartening and positive when I read stories like that.

Ive always been a dreamer
08-04-2010, 09:13 AM
Oh wow! I liked that too. Well, we sure never had guest speakers like that in any of my college courses that I can recall. :wink:

timfan
08-07-2010, 03:52 PM
That was a great read! I liked what they said about Glenn treating them as equals.

Windeagle
12-28-2011, 06:01 PM
I was poking about on the internet today and found a treasure trove of old articles from the LA Times about Glenn. Some of them go back as far as 1985. I recognized some quotes from GF Online, so I'm sure Soda and some of the early Borderers have seen these, but for those who haven't, enjoy.

Here's the link:

http://articles.latimes.com/keyword/glenn-frey

sodascouts
12-29-2011, 11:58 AM
Very cool! Thanks!

We actually have a thread for older articles, but it was buried in the forum. This is the perfect opportunity to revive it, so I'm moving the post. Love reading these!

AEW21
05-14-2013, 12:55 AM
This is an article from Melody Maker, April 13, 1985. It seems to be a session of quickfire topics requiring instant comments, but it's fun!

SHRINK WRAP

This week the probing eye falls on former Eagle and aspiring actor Glenn Frey…

Eddie Murphy
This generation’s Richard Pryor.

Roy Rogers
Jeeze, squeaky clean, the perfect cowboy. G-rated, the perfect good guy.

Yesterday
The song or…? A place I don’t spend any time.

LA
LA is a great town, it really is. It’s not as laid back as some people think, not as fast as others think. It’s slightly misunderstood. The best place I could possibly have moved from high school.

The American Dream
Something the Reagan administration is slowly but surely taking away from the working class in my country. Our country was built on the middle class, on believing that, if a man worked hard, he could be a success in life. That’s just not so true anymore. The trickle-down theory is not working under President Reagan, it’s not trickling down to the right people. He’s still protecting the rich and not doing much for the people who fought in World War Two, people my parents’ age.

The Eagles
That was nine, wild, glorious years. The greatest way a guy could spend his twenties.

Tomorrow
Where are my drugs? Tomorrow’s the Concorde back to New York, tomorrow is writing more songs and learning from today and using it tomorrow.

Guitarists
Pain in the ass…no! Uh…guitarists…Eric Clapton, Albert King, James Burton, Don Felder and Joe Walsh.

MTV
It’s an interesting concept and something we definitely have to deal with now. It’s a very good promotional tool. The only thing wrong with MTV I guess is that sometimes videos take your imagination away because you get to see the music – sometimes that’s good, sometimes it’s not.

Cars
Where everything happened when I was growing up. No-one could afford an apartment and you couldn’t do it at your parents’ house. Cars were the symbol of freedom. My favourites? Porsche.

Sleep
Does wonders.

Pets
I have three dogs and a cat. I like pets. All they ask you to do is love ‘em.

Pregnancy
Someday soon, I hope. Yes, I’d like to have kids and I’ve been married for almost two years now and my wife and I have kinda figured out that we get along so now we might be able to involve an innocent bystander.

Cigarettes
Something I gave up for 10 years and started doing again as soon as I got a job as an actor.

‘The Boys Of Summer’
A brilliant record. I’m really happy for Henley. In fact, I think that whole album he made is a terrific record. I know he worked for a year and a half on it and sweated blood and he deserves all the success he gets. Congratulations, Don!

Drugs
You got any? Sometimes they make you smart, sometimes they make you stoopid.

Heroes
I don’t know that we should always have heroes. We tend to make too much out of them. The people we usually call heroes aren’t heroes at all. The heroes, to me, are the Albert Schweitzers of the world, those who strive for peace, and also my dad, y’know…to me a hero’s a guy who goes out and busts his ass for 10 hours a day five days a week so his kid has school clothes, so his kid can get an education. These are the kind of people we should look up to, people who work hard for a living and sacrifice and give some of themselves. It’s unfortunate that we always seem to make heroes of popular entertainers and people with money. Money is seldom accompanied by taste.

Hippies
Hippies aren’t called hippies now but it seems to me that a lot of the Sixties idealism is starting to resurface with all the work that the music industry is doing for Ethiopia and things like that. I think that’s very good. All the people that dropped out have dropped back in again now but it seems to me that a lot of the young people, kids just out of high school, are starting to be romanced again by that idealism. Hippies had a conscience and I think the Sixties, as the decades go on, will get their just due.

Death
I’m too busy living to think about dying.

Villains
I often wonder who the villains are in real life. I can think of a lot of ‘em – Westinghouse, General Electric, the oil companies, Khomeini, the asshole in Libya…I guess you need villains or you can’t have heroes.

Sex
Over-rated, over-discussed and, as far as casual sex, I think God has figured out a way to cut down on it – AIDS and herpes.

Billy Idol
Very interesting. Unique. He’s very charismatic, very good visually – Elvis’s sneer, Jim Morrison’s voice and Buckwheat’s hair. I think there’s a place in the music business for Billy Idol. I don’t know where though.

So many interesting quotes here from "vintage Glenn"--not shy about talking recreational drug use...and his love of pets! ;)

What always stands out to me is the "smoking" response--if he started again around 84/85, that means he quit around '74/75... I swear there are many pics on GFO of him during those years holding cigs. Didn't he smoke pretty much during that entire era--tobacco and "other" substances? ;) (And aren't there rumors he still smokes on occasion now?)

Though I would have thought he'd have stopped during his fitness craze in the late 80s, and after having kids, but they an addictive crutch...

sodascouts
05-14-2013, 01:42 AM
There's tons of photos of him smoking up until 1976, and he's obviously smoking in the Hotel California insert - that is a normal cigarette, right?

http://glennfreyonline.com/images/eaglesVB09detail.jpg

He also smokes in the documentary during the Hotel California tour.

However, I did a quick perusal of the GFO galleries (http://glennfreyonline.com/gallery.htm) and I couldn't find any photos of him with cigarettes from 1977-1980. Perhaps he just rounded up 8 years to 10 years, lol.

I don't know about nowadays, but he did still smoke occasionally as recently as five years ago or so.

VAisForEagleLovers
05-14-2013, 07:54 AM
Perhaps he's not really smoking in the picture, it's just a prop? I don't see any smoke from the cigarette, but then, with that smokin' hot man on a bed, who looks at the cigarette?

In the last couple of years, his voice has sounded clearer when talking, so I'm thinking that if he does still light up, it's only rarely.

AEW21
05-14-2013, 01:01 PM
And I suppose when you're diagnosed with a chronic disorder such as Rheumatoid Arthritis, one of the first things they probably tell you is to maintain your overall health, which would definitely include quitting smoking, or smoking regularly. Don't know when he was diagnosed, but I would bet dollars to donuts that seriously curtailed any remaining smoking habit. (Though the pot he smoked back in the day might help some days with nagging joint pain!) :heybaby:

Do admire him from quitting in '77, though. It was a time of high stress, I'm sure, when other band members and roadies, etc. were probably smoking up a storm, so good for him for stopping...even though I'm sure his other habits at the time were much worse than tobacco!

Prettymaid
05-14-2013, 01:28 PM
I like his line in the MTV paragraph about videos sometimes taking your imagination away because you get to see the music. What do you think he meant by that?

VAisForEagleLovers
05-14-2013, 01:59 PM
At the songwriter's event he talked a lot about the lyrics and the music needing to paint a picture, and especially from the intro, and used Phil Collins' In The Air Tonight as an example. He's also talked about songs being interpreted by the listener to be what works for them (or words to that effect). So I'm guessing he's talking about that. When you hear a song and think about the video, you're taking away from your own imagination. You're only 'hearing' and 'seeing' one person's interpretation and taking it on as your own.

ETA: An essay question!! How much differently would your feelings for HC be if there'd been a video with it? It's been one of the most discussed songs ever as far as meaning. Would that discussion have taken place if there'd been a video? Also, can you truly appreciate the guitars (the best ever in the history of rock and roll) if you're watching a video instead of really listening?

Freypower
05-14-2013, 06:45 PM
At the songwriter's event he talked a lot about the lyrics and the music needing to paint a picture, and especially from the intro, and used Phil Collins' In The Air Tonight as an example. He's also talked about songs being interpreted by the listener to be what works for them (or words to that effect). So I'm guessing he's talking about that. When you hear a song and think about the video, you're taking away from your own imagination. You're only 'hearing' and 'seeing' one person's interpretation and taking it on as your own.

ETA: An essay question!! How much differently would your feelings for HC be if there'd been a video with it? It's been one of the most discussed songs ever as far as meaning. Would that discussion have taken place if there'd been a video? Also, can you truly appreciate the guitars (the best ever in the history of rock and roll) if you're watching a video instead of really listening?

Perhaps this should be a separate topic. But to answer briefly I don't think my feelings would have been different.

I am still annoyed that there was no video for Heartache Tonight.

Brooke
05-15-2013, 02:30 PM
I don't think there would be near the controversy over the song if they had made a video for it. It would stop a lot of the speculation and people would mostly take it for what they saw. That would be me for sure. I think!

sodascouts
05-16-2013, 01:22 AM
If anyone's wondering where AEW's post went, I moved it to its own thread here:
https://www.eaglesonlinecentral.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4348

Because that is one mega-cool find!!

AEW21
05-16-2013, 03:36 PM
That's a much better place for it--it's not really Glenn-exclusive, so thanks for relocating it!!

cbecrad
05-19-2013, 12:19 PM
ETA: An essay question!! How much differently would your feelings for HC be if there'd been a video with it? It's been one of the most discussed songs ever as far as meaning. Would that discussion have taken place if there'd been a video? Also, can you truly appreciate the guitars (the best ever in the history of rock and roll) if you're watching a video instead of really listening?

My guess is that it wouldn't have been an concept video, but rather a performance video. So things would still be the same lol.
Concept video would have been cool though, but I'm not that lucky.

WalshFan88
05-19-2013, 12:24 PM
ETA: An essay question!! How much differently would your feelings for HC be if there'd been a video with it? It's been one of the most discussed songs ever as far as meaning. Would that discussion have taken place if there'd been a video? Also, can you truly appreciate the guitars (the best ever in the history of rock and roll) if you're watching a video instead of really listening?

My feelings would be much the same. Perhaps it'd be good to try to decipher lyrics but otherwise having a video along with the song on the album wouldn't be a bad thing.

As far as the guitars, I certainly can appreciate them in a video. That's all I watch in performances of HC from the 70s. Just Felder and Walsh playing. It's truly a guitar song IMO. If there were no footage of them playing it (like there was footage on 3 songs of them playing them from TLR) then I'd probably prefer the album version, of course. But HC will always be a guitar song for me and nothing video or otherwise would change it. When you have a brilliant surgeon-like precision guitar player and a great bluesy raw energetic guitar player, it's hard not to focus on them.

Thirsty&Hot
05-20-2013, 11:22 PM
This is an article from Melody Maker, April 13, 1985. It seems to be a session of quickfire topics requiring instant comments, but it's fun!

MTV
It’s an interesting concept and something we definitely have to deal with now. It’s a very good promotional tool. The only thing wrong with MTV I guess is that sometimes videos take your imagination away because you get to see the music – sometimes that’s good, sometimes it’s not.




I think it is definitely a mixed bag. I guess if I had heard Hotel California before seeing a video, I might be either disappointed or pleased depending on if it panned out as it had in my head. As far as the music goes...I would hope those bits would be "on a dark desert highway" or something so we could focus on the guitars.
Honestly, HC doesn't need a video. None of the Eagles' songs do. They were masters at painting the pictures with words and music!



Cars
Where everything happened when I was growing up. No-one could afford an apartment and you couldn’t do it at your parents’ house. Cars were the symbol of freedom. My favourites? Porsche.



I like this for obvious naughty reasons haha. :heybaby: :makeout:



Pets
I have three dogs and a cat. I like pets. All they ask you to do is love ‘em.


animal lover! xoxo



Death
I’m too busy living to think about dying.



I think maybe I need to get busier (if that's possible).
As I get older, and in light of recent events, it's hard NOT to think about death :/

VAisForEagleLovers
05-20-2013, 11:57 PM
Honestly, HC doesn't need a video. None of the Eagles' songs do. They were masters at painting the pictures with words and music!

Yes, exactly, and that was my point (and Glenn's point, I think). I really think a video would have taken away from the picture the words and music painted.

sodascouts
05-20-2013, 11:59 PM
I still would've loved to see them do an "in the studio" video of "Heartache Tonight" like they did for "I Can't Tell You Why" and "The Long Run." Glenn looks so nummy!

http://glennfreyonline.com/images/GFreyLRV.jpg

Actually, he looks great in all of his videos except one, and for that reason - I say hooray MTV! lol

Thirsty&Hot
05-21-2013, 12:04 AM
right on VA!

and haha true Soda! any excuse to see them in action!
we don't need a conceptual video though! Though I wouldn't avoid it if there was one!

Outlawman13
05-21-2013, 12:10 AM
OHHH Glenn with that open shirt!!!! MMMM. Heartache Tonight would've been perfect to have as a music video. I agree with Tiffany. Even though I love seeing our boys!!!! LOL.

AEW21
05-21-2013, 11:39 PM
I still would've loved to see them do an "in the studio" video of "Heartache Tonight" like they did for "I Can't Tell You Why" and "The Long Run." Glenn looks so nummy!

http://glennfreyonline.com/images/GFreyLRV.jpg

Actually, he looks great in all of his videos except one, and for that reason - I say hooray MTV! lol

Dare I ask which one does not look his finest in? And I agree--"The Long Run" recording sessions do feature a fetching look on his--superb hair and denim work. ;)

Freypower
05-21-2013, 11:42 PM
Dare I ask which one does not look his finest in? And I agree--"The Long Run" recording sessions do feature a fetching look on his--superb hair and denim work. ;)

Love In The 21st Century. He had bleach blonde hair.

http://www.glennfreyonline.com/solo/moviestv/21stcenturycaps.htm

cbecrad
05-22-2013, 10:41 AM
Love In The 21st Century. He had bleach blonde hair.

http://www.glennfreyonline.com/solo/moviestv/21stcenturycaps.htm

Temporary insanity lol.

sodascouts
05-23-2013, 08:01 PM
That video is hard to watch. It's not just that wretched hair; the video's really pervy.

Outlawman13
05-24-2013, 12:52 AM
It is hard to watch it!! I love the song though!!!

AEW21
07-19-2013, 12:16 AM
Love this--from 1992, radio interview (http://www.971theriver.com/Player/101535931/)--Glenn talks about his "dream" bandmates...

Outlawman13
07-19-2013, 12:25 AM
Love that interview, but it's too short!!! LOL. Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney, and Stevie Winwood would be amazing in a band!!!

AEW21
07-21-2013, 11:34 PM
http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0708/images/diltz/diltz_042.jpg

From a site talking abut Henry Diltz's work: (http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0708/diltz43.html)


While hanging out with Glenn Frey and Don Henley I would hear them comment on the UCLA cheerleaders on TV. They would joke about calling their manager to send a limo for them. I told this story to David Cassidy. A German magazine called to say they wanted to do a home story on David Cassidy and did he have any ideas? He said, "Tell them to send a limo for the UCLA cheerleaders." So they did. The cheerleaders arrived at David's house with a uniform for him. Afterwards, David became a good friend of the girl on the right.

sodascouts
07-23-2013, 11:22 PM
Cute story!

RebeccaLovesEagles
07-24-2013, 02:45 PM
Love In The 21st Century. He had bleach blonde hair.

http://www.glennfreyonline.com/solo/moviestv/21stcenturycaps.htm

Somehow I must have missed this video/hair :shock: and it was a good thing. I don't like him as a blond. He has such beautiful dark hair. :faint:

sodascouts
03-24-2014, 09:16 PM
Guys, I have found a freaking goldmine of old articles from newspapers!

I used to have articles that I scanned in on the sites, but I took down all of them because of that Righthaven group going around a few years ago suing people who'd posted articles. However, our friend Google has a news archive where we can go get 'em.

Here are the ones I found on Glenn:

"Eagle Glenn Frey Hopes to Soar as a Solo Artist" - Gainesville Sun (May 22, 1983) (http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1320&dat=19830522&id=dT1WAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1-kDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7271,2204158)

"Glenn Frey Is One Eagle Who Likes Flying Alone" - Toledo Blade (June 4, 1983) (http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1350&dat=19830604&id=LpAxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=uwIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6826,2088785)

"Former Eagle Puts Heat on the Expos" - Ottawa Citizen (Aug. 4, 1985) (http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2194&dat=19850814&id=nKQyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=mO8FAAAAIBAJ&pg=6633,921994)

"Glenn Frey Muscles Vices Out of His Life" - Spokane Chronicle (Oct. 5, 1988 ) (http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1345&dat=19881005&id=-UJYAAAAIBAJ&sjid=4_kDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6644,376405)

"Former Eagle Glenn Frey Goes 'South of Sunset'" - Ocala Star Banner (Oct. 23, 1993) (http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1356&dat=19931023&id=DHhRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=4QcEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4917,1989344)

"Glenn Frey Enjoys Career Move to TV - The Daily Gazette (Oct. 24, 1993) (http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1957&dat=19931024&id=WXkhAAAAIBAJ&sjid=r4kFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2514,6164910)

"Eagles Cancel Tour; Frey Needs Surgery" - Rome News-Tribune (Oct. 4, 1994) (http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=348&dat=19941004&id=i2ZMAAAAIBAJ&sjid=cTMDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3861,1039001)

"Glenn Frey Undergoes Successful Surgery" - Lodi News-Sentinel (Oct. 7, 1994) (http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2245&dat=19941007&id=-pIzAAAAIBAJ&sjid=HDIHAAAAIBAJ&pg=3812,4909164)

"Glenn Frey Released from Hospital" - Lodi News-Sentinel (Oct. 13, 1994) (http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2245&dat=19941013&id=_ZIzAAAAIBAJ&sjid=HDIHAAAAIBAJ&pg=5433,5670216)

"Frey Better, Eagles May Still Tour" - Sun-Journal (Oct. 19, 1994) (http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1914&dat=19941019&id=xps0AAAAIBAJ&sjid=IGsFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3752,4021945)


There's more, but I just found a really interesting Eagles one I'm going to post over in that forum!

Houston Baby
03-24-2014, 09:29 PM
OH WOW!!

Awesome finds Soda! Thank you!
I know what I will be doing the rest of the night! :)

sodascouts
03-24-2014, 09:34 PM
Some more:

"Glenn Frey Cuts Loose" - The News and Courier (Jul. 10, 1982) (http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2506&dat=19820710&id=31JJAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1QkNAAAAIBAJ&pg=2078,2651790)

"Meet Glenn Frey" - Lakeland Ledger (Apr. 24, 1986) (http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1346&dat=19860424&id=t9wvAAAAIBAJ&sjid=e_sDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2337,3242292)

"Eye on Frey: Musician Still Soars" - The Post and Courier (Jul. 10, 1993) (http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2482&dat=19930710&id=qjtSAAAAIBAJ&sjid=gzYNAAAAIBAJ&pg=3257,3546042)[mostly Dublin video review]

"Strange Weather: Live in Dublin" - The Free Lance-Star (Aug. 6, 1994) (http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1298&dat=19940806&id=WV8zAAAAIBAJ&sjid=mgcGAAAAIBAJ&pg=1229,1213338) [Dublin video]

"Glenn Frey's Solo Collection is Worth a Try" - Star-News (Jun. 21, 1995) (http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1454&dat=19950621&id=8PVOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=FBUEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5617,2362209) [review]


More later...

sodascouts
03-24-2014, 10:10 PM
"The Heat is on Glenn Frey" - Gainesville Sun (Aug. 1, 1985) (http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1320&dat=19850801&id=xegTAAAAIBAJ&sjid=XQYEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6888,292002) [What? Glenn purchased the rights to a book called Snowblind in order to make it into a movie, and that's why he wrote "Smuggler's Blues"?! Dang, this was before he even got his first acting gig! I never knew this before!]

"Glenn Frey's Long Road Back to the Top" - The Montreal Gazette (Aug. 15, 1985) (http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1946&dat=19850815&id=KIoxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=uqUFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4896,1907327)

"Glenn Frey Returns to Miami Vice" - Beaver County Times (Mar. 6, 1986) (http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2002&dat=19860306&id=yqwzAAAAIBAJ&sjid=5tkFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3507,1008254) [too bad this didn't happen]

"Glenn Frey Sued By Record Company" - The Telegraph (Feb. 27, 1994) (http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2209&dat=19940227&id=W4hjAAAAIBAJ&sjid=_HkNAAAAIBAJ&pg=6159,5984571)

sodascouts
03-24-2014, 10:34 PM
"Solo Fun from Frey" [No Fun Aloud review] - The Age (Jun. 24, 1982) (http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1300&dat=19820624&id=OxhVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=T5QDAAAAIBAJ&pg=1430,4050891)

"Glenn Frey Moves Over to Filmland - Daytona Beach Sunday New-Journal (Dec. 15, 1985) (http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1870&dat=19851215&id=TK8pAAAAIBAJ&sjid=mcwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4345,11463456) [wonder what happened to that song "Trouble"?]

"Frey Sparks with Creative Energy" - New Straits Times (Aug. 27, 1992) (http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1309&dat=19920827&id=A7FUAAAAIBAJ&sjid=YJADAAAAIBAJ&pg=6564,2935810)

(http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1454&dat=19950621&id=8PVOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=FBUEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5617,2362209)

sodascouts
03-24-2014, 10:46 PM
I know we've overloading at this point, but posting all the links now means I never have to go back and look through 'em again. And so we continue...

"Studio Tans" - The Palm Beach Post (Jul. 12, 1985) (http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1964&dat=19850712&id=4iAjAAAAIBAJ&sjid=684FAAAAIBAJ&pg=4942,1301355) [Glenn jokes about how he'll spend summer vacation; cute]

"Next Generation" - Lakeland Ledger (Feb. 5, 1986) (http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1346&dat=19860205&id=j7cwAAAAIBAJ&sjid=pvsDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3457,1755783)

"Pepsi Ad Star's Vice's Johnson, Singer Frey" - Lakeland Ledger (Feb. 23, 1986) (http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1346&dat=19860223&id=6LgwAAAAIBAJ&sjid=vPsDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4786,2707302)

"Sheffield: Frey Finished" - Times Daily (Feb. 4, 1987) (http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1842&dat=19870204&id=zc4yAAAAIBAJ&sjid=hcgEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6074,934274)

"Glenn Frey Still Has Bullets in His Gun" - New Straits Times (Sept. 30, 1988 ) (http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1309&dat=19880930&id=3q1UAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GJADAAAAIBAJ&pg=2426,3864561)

"Ex-Eagle Frey Takes a Shot at Being 'King Solo'" - New Straits Times (Aug. 29, 1992) (http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1309&dat=19920829&id=BbFUAAAAIBAJ&sjid=YJADAAAAIBAJ&pg=2483,4722645)

"Irwin/Erving Tied with Archer/Frey" - Gadsden Times (Dec. 16, 1995) (http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1891&dat=19951216&id=hL4fAAAAIBAJ&sjid=EtgEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2372,1610559) [snippet about golf]

"Has Country Peaked?" - Observer-Reporter (Jan. 4, 1996) (http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2519&dat=19960114&id=3oReAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CGINAAAAIBAJ&pg=3421,3286200) [Garth Brooks mentions Glenn]

sodascouts
03-24-2014, 11:55 PM
"Former Eagle Wants to Work" - Park City Daily News (May 10, 1983) (http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1697&dat=19830510&id=BzUqAAAAIBAJ&sjid=RUcEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6650,2045108)[Glenn plays baseball; more about Snowblind. I can't believe I've never heard of this before. And he was going to make a one-hour video for The Allnighter?!]


OK. that's all for now!

prayfordaylight
03-25-2014, 09:36 AM
Damn Soda! I know what's going to get me through work today :)

Glennhoney
03-25-2014, 11:28 AM
"Former Eagle Wants to Work" - Park City Daily News (May 10, 1983) (http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1697&dat=19830510&id=BzUqAAAAIBAJ&sjid=RUcEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6650,2045108)[Glenn plays baseball; more about Snowblind. I can't believe I've never heard of this before. And he was going to make a one-hour video for The Allnighter?!]


OK. that's all for now!

OMG OMG OMG...CAN'T WAIT FOR A CHANCE TO READ ALL THESE....WAY TO GO SODA!!!!!:thumbsup:

GlennLover
03-25-2014, 11:39 AM
Wow, Soda! What a fantastic find! :thumbsup:

Glennsallnighter
03-26-2014, 02:50 PM
Brilliant read! Thanks Soda for posting it

Brooke
03-26-2014, 04:19 PM
I wonder if he still owns homes in all those places (Detroit, Colorado, LA, and Hawaii)? I guess he can now add New York City!

sodascouts
03-26-2014, 04:20 PM
Brilliant read! Thanks Soda for posting it

Glad you liked it! There's 30 more on the prior page!

Freypower
03-26-2014, 05:43 PM
I wonder if he still owns homes in all those places (Detroit, Colorado, LA, and Hawaii)? I guess he can now add New York City!

I have never heard of him having a house in Detroit since he left the place. This article is the first mention of it I have ever seen & I am therefore dubious about it. I know he still has the place in Hawaii & I assume he still has the chalet in Snowmass, Colorado.

UndertheWire
03-26-2014, 05:53 PM
I've also seen him listed as owning property in Florida and La Quinta, so my guess is that he's bought homes for his parents to live in over the years and Detroit could be one of them.

UndertheWire
06-11-2014, 03:41 AM
From a December 1993 interview with Jack Tempchin:

Tempchin and Frey began their songwriting partnership in 1981, the year the Eagles broke up. Frey had liked some songs Tempchin sent him during the Eagles' final days, and they had their first writing session at Frey's house as he prepared for a post-Eagles solo career.As Tempchin tells it, they thought so much of what came out of that session that all of it ended up in Frey's waste basket.
"I came over the next day and he had taken the pads out of the trash and looked at 'em and thought it wasn't so bad," Tempchin remembers. The retrieved batch of songs included two that would become signature hits for Frey, "The One You Love" and "Party Town."
Since then, Tempchin has co-written the bulk of Frey's solo material, including the hits "You Belong to the City" and "Smuggler's Blues."
http://articles.latimes.com/images/pixel.gif
"We just sit down and write 'em when he has a record to do," Tempchin said. It appeared that Frey's recording career would be put on hold earlier this year as he took the lead role in a TV series, "South of Sunset." But CBS canceled the show after just one episode, and Tempchin said that he and Frey are working now on material for another album.
"He's going to do an album of early-Eagles-sounding things, all new songs," Tempchin said. "We've already written a bunch of stuff for it."
http://articles.latimes.com/1993-12-04/entertainment/ca-63817_1_jack-tempchin/2

GlennLover
06-11-2014, 05:42 PM
What happened to those songs?!

sodascouts
06-12-2014, 12:21 AM
I was thinking the same thing! It's likely "The Girl from Yesterday" was one of them, and perhaps also the then-new material that wound up on The Solo Collection: "This Way to Happiness", "Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed", and "Common Ground."

GlennLover
06-12-2014, 09:58 PM
I was thinking the same thing! It's likely "The Girl from Yesterday" was one of them, and perhaps also the then-new material that wound up on The Solo Collection: "This Way to Happiness", "Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed", and "Common Ground."

That's quite possible, Soda.

UndertheWire
06-15-2014, 05:46 PM
Cameron Crowe did a piece on Jackson Browne (http://www.theuncool.com/journalism/rs161-jackson-browne/) in 1974 and Glenn and JD feature in it a few times.

Jackson had heard of Geffen. He made up a demo, with Glenn Frey of the Eagles and J.D. Souther (now working with Richie Furay and Chris Hillman in a new group) behind him.



These days, Jackson is bolstered by friends he’s had since the pre-Asylum days, friends who have joined him on the Eagles. He met Glenn Frey (who would add the Winslow, Arizona lyrics to “Take it Easy”) and John David Souther five years ago at a free-clinic benefit in Long Beach. He had seen Frey and Souther perform before, and he wanted them to try this new song of his, “Jamaica Say You Will.” “We were floored,” said Frey. They ended up sharing what Souther called “this adobe matchbox that was already halfway rolled down the hiss,” in the Echo Park sector of Los Angeles.


There's more on the Desperado concept which I'll post in the appropriate thread.

sodascouts
06-15-2014, 10:23 PM
Cool! They're a bit inaccurate about "Take It Easy," though. Jackson came up with the Winslow, AZ part and Glenn came up with seeing that fine girl in the flatbed Ford. :)

UndertheWire
07-18-2014, 11:46 AM
[For context, we were discussing a Dec 1993 interview with Jack Tempchin about Glenn's next solo album and the songs they'd already written for it.]

I was thinking the same thing! It's likely "The Girl from Yesterday" was one of them, and perhaps also the then-new material that wound up on The Solo Collection: "This Way to Happiness", "Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed", and "Common Ground."
I believe you're right about those. There's a 1992 interview with Glenn where he said that the next year he was going to record an album titled Common Ground in Nashville. Also, some of the songs may have found their way onto Jack Temchin's 1994 album as Glenn has songwriting credits on two songs.

luvthelighthouse
01-22-2016, 01:13 PM
I'm not sure where to post this... but I think this is right... and it may be here already. I was looking up something and came across this. I loved it, it made me smile. "Never"... thankfully, those "nevers" didn't happen.

http://alumnus.caltech.edu/~markowit/interviews/gf/oui/oui.html

sodascouts
01-22-2016, 01:18 PM
Yes - I remember this article. It used to be a bit of a joke how Glenn was so adamant back in the day that the Eagles were over, but luckily with maturity he realized that one should "never say never" so to speak. Thank God he changed his mind! Otherwise, I would never have experienced the Eagles, or Glenn.

luvthelighthouse
01-22-2016, 01:20 PM
I also thought it was cute, when asked if he'd ever live in New York... "Are you nuts... I've "never" had a desire... "

I bet even chuckled thinking back on that interview if he ever thought about it.