Running Out Of Time

[sodascouts]

Hmm..very ironic that an album called "Soul Searchin'" should be almost completely lightweight and fluffy! This makes me think even more so that he was going for a departure with this album...if he had LHS hanging around from the Soul Searchin' sessions, then he probably almost built the album around that...a dark, 'ominous' song, plus the surgery and all the ways in which his life changed in that time from which to draw inspiration as well.

I think I might disagree a bit with Julie. First, how are we definining "lightweight"? There are songs here that are darker, like Some Kind of Blue and I Did It for Your Love. However, those are very traditionally structured, so perhaps they can be called lightweight in that they're "safe."

I don't agree the title track is lightweight. I think it lives up to its name. The video emphasizes overtones that go beyond romance when he picks up the newspaper and reads about toxic waste. I also think "It's Your Life" has an unusually insightful theme. How many times do we hear a love song that has the message "I love you enough to let you go if you need to go be happy?" Lightweight love songs are much more simplistic than that "I love you! Yay!" lol

I will agree that the rest of the songs on that album are not among his best, with the exception of "True Love." In fact, "Two Hearts" is one of my least favorites of all of his solo songs.

I also think it's very possible he built the album Strange Weather around LHS - after all, global warming does cause strange weather! lol It makes sense that it was a thematic spark.


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[PinkCoatGirl]

I also think "It's Your Life" has an unusually insightful theme. How many times do we hear a love song that has the message "I love you enough to let you go if you need to go be happy?"

Oooh...definitely want to hear this. I did hear rumors of a store around here having this album from a friend of mine...I'll have to go check around.

As well, I agree about the title track...I'm only familiar with it and "True Love", off that album, and I love them both. I definitely don't think it's lightweight...I actually heard this song all the time over the PA at an old job of mine, haha, before I knew it was him (this is a theme with me--I've loved You Belong To The City since it came out, and only found out he did it in 2002... as well, had grown up loving "Holiday Road" and "Dancin' Across the USA" from the end of the "Vacation" movie without knowing it was one Mr Lindsey Buckingham who sang them!), and loved it even then, as it was definitely fitting for me at the time.

LOL...very very true about the global warming thing! I actually wasn't even thinking of that aspect, haha...I was thinking stylistically alone...yep, I can definitely see it being a spark for the album.


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My friend and I: "Nice coat Glenn!"

Joe Walsh, at next pause between songs: "Hey, nice coat, Glenn."

Glenn: "Thanks, thanks...yah, I picked this up at the..Liberace garage sale, glad you like it..."

[eaglesfans]

I'm a little lost.....done what? Start with a non-single song? Yes, he's does that in the past. For one tour he opened with Drivin With Your Eyes Closed...which is a great song, imo.





<blockquote>Quote:<hr>Hehe..aww. Sorry, I felt so bad for Don, especially at the Detroit show, during The Genie...Detroit started half an hour earlier than the tickets showed, so there was *no-one* around for it and those that were were all completely pre-occupied. Except me trying to ignore them all and pay attention to this song that I *adore*. Just out of curiosity, has he done that with many past solo shows? (Sorry, this is rather off-topic...I'm just a bit curious.)<hr></blockquote>


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[PinkCoatGirl]

Start with a non-single song? Yes, he's does that in the past. For one tour he opened with Drivin With Your Eyes Closed...which is a great song, imo.

Sorry, I was doing a few things at once when I posted that...yes, started with a non-single song. Awesome...that is definitely a great song!

I suppose he might've discussed it with Glenn, yah... I was at one of the shows at which he referred to "The Genie" as "an obscure album track nobody knows"...hey, I love the "obscure" stuff, so I say bring it on guys!


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~*She'll always be...the girl from yesterday...*~


My friend and I: "Nice coat Glenn!"

Joe Walsh, at next pause between songs: "Hey, nice coat, Glenn."

Glenn: "Thanks, thanks...yah, I picked this up at the..Liberace garage sale, glad you like it..."

[glenneaglesfan]

I confirm what you said earlier about Glenn's illness. Diverticular disease is more common in older people and is usually relatively benign. To require that sort of surgery takes a real emergency - a perforation or peritonitis. He must have been very ill.

Back to the global warming, and slightly off topic, but it immediately made me think of this thread- I took my boys to the Aquarium in Plymouth today, and one of the telly weathermen from Sky was giving a talk on this subject. The three of us sat in an empty theatre and engaged in conversation with this chap. Fortunately, more people showed up and he gave an impressive and worrying talk about the inevitability of global warming, and the necessity for all of us to get together and slow down the release of carbon emissions. Sorry this sounds like I'm on my soapbox, but Glenn was concerned about it in 1992, and also demonstrated his environmental concerns on the Expedition Earth video.


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This way to happiness...

[sodascouts]

I'm not sure if he said that in Chicago or not about it being obscure. It's not so much the obscurity of it that bothered me, it was the lack of energy. At least Drivin' With Your Eyes Closed gets the blood pumpin'. I don't know, maybe The Genie does that for other people, I just know that for myself and the three girls I came with (Bree - I went with Tiffany/Wldhrt315, Lindsay/lhansboro and Darlene/dardragon), it inspired the reaction of "Gee, hope the rest of Don's set isn't full of lackluster songs like this." Luckily, it wasn't, and soon Don has us eating out of his hand.

So, I understand the idea of not playing a hit early on so no one misses anything. However, if it were me, I would pick something peppier. Obviously this is just my opinion. I'm sure many people adore The Genie. I just think perhaps another choice would have gotten a better response out of the audience, even if they are still seating themselves. It's like how Fleetwood Mac starts with The Chain, and when you hear those notes, it doesn't matter where you are. You perk up and pay attention!


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[sodascouts]

I confirm what you said earlier about Glenn's illness. Diverticular disease is more common in older people and is usually relatively benign. To require that sort of surgery takes a real emergency - a perforation or peritonitis. He must have been very ill.

And he had to have surgery twice in 6 or 7 years! That's unusual, isn't it? Luckily he's gone a decade now without a flare-up, so it appears to be under control. :: knock on wood ::


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[eaglesfans]

I agree....he should have done something a little more up tempo, but I think he was going with his "witch/magic" theme and The Genie fit that. I also didn't like his cover of I Put a Spell on You and normally I LOVE it when Don does a cover.



On the whole I think Don's set with Stevie was fairly lackluster, which disappointed me because I know he can do better and I was hoping he'd wow the heck out of the Stevie fans who think he's a jerk.....but we all have off days. <img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/smile.gif ALT=":)">





<blockquote>Quote:<hr>I'm not sure if he said that in Chicago or not about it being obscure. It's not so much the obscurity of it that bothered me, it was the lack of energy. At least Drivin' With Your Eyes Closed gets the blood pumpin'. I don't know, maybe The Genie does that for other people, I just know that for myself and the three girls I came with (Bree - I went with Tiffany/Wldhrt315, Lindsay/lhansboro and Darlene/dardragon), it inspired the reaction of "Gee, hope the rest of Don's set isn't full of lackluster songs like this." Luckily, it wasn't, and soon Don has us eating out of his hand. <hr></blockquote>


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[sodascouts]

On the whole I think Don's set with Stevie was fairly lackluster, which disappointed me because I know he can do better and I was hoping he'd wow the heck out of the Stevie fans who think he's a jerk.....but we all have off days

Well, he wowed some of us! lol It wasn't just Don fans singing along and dancing to "Dirty Laundry." I saw some of my fellow hard-core Stevie fans doing it too. And "Gold Dust Woman" was HOT.


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[PinkCoatGirl]

Obviously this is just my opinion. I'm sure many people adore The Genie. I just think perhaps another choice would have gotten a better response out of the audience, even if they are still seating themselves.

I have to agree here, to be honest...as much as I love "The Genie" and am personally thrilled he chose to do it, part of why I am so thrilled is that when I heard it, I thought "Hm, this'll never in a thousand years translate well to live performance". LOL! I do agree that it went with his whole "witchy" theme, though, and I guess that's why he chose it.

I think maybe why Don's set might've come across as "lacklustre" was that he knew there were going to be a ton of people there that night that were *not* there to see him, and would *not* know his more 'obscure' stuff, so he chose to play it quite safe. I think it was a good decision, personally, as out of the 5 people I went to shows with, only one of them was also a 'hardcore' Don fan...one of them really knew only Heart of the Matter and Boys of Summer...but all of them loved his set. He might even be aware of some of the animosity towards him in the Stevie fandom, and not wanted to come across as trying to 'steal the show' (even though it was a double bill...I hope you get my meaning here..!).

And yah, semi-back to the topic here, hehe, though not really since it was just something that reminded me of this: I was at physiotherapy today, and was just lying there icing my knee trying not to eavesdrop on the people talking next to me, when one of them suddenly says "It's gonna be a long, hot summer." The other one said "It's been a long hot WINTER, too...it never even got cold." First one says, "Guess there's some truth to that global warming stuff." LOL...fitting, no? I had to remind myself I wasn't involved in the conversation so I didn't throw in "Yah, we've had some awfully strange weather."

Oh, and then I had to drop by my work afterwards, and one of my friends there randomly hands me "The Stand", by Stephen King, and tells me I need to read it, because she just finished it and apparently loved it. So, now I'll see what inspired "Brave New World"!

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~*She'll always be...the girl from yesterday...*~


My friend and I: "Nice coat Glenn!"

Joe Walsh, at next pause between songs: "Hey, nice coat, Glenn."

Glenn: "Thanks, thanks...yah, I picked this up at the..Liberace garage sale, glad you like it..."