D, all I know is reportedly it was Azoff who sent a fax announcing the news to the media about the resumption tour that simply said: Hell Has Frozen Over.
D, all I know is reportedly it was Azoff who sent a fax announcing the news to the media about the resumption tour that simply said: Hell Has Frozen Over.
"Let's burn our long johns and head west" - Glenn Frey 1948-2016
Thanks, Dawn. Seems by that simple announcement Irving was taking a lot for granted i.e. that the media knew what he was talking about.
To add something to the thread topic: of the 4 new songs from the album, the one I like best is “Learn to Be Still.” I just wonder why Don sang it the way he did. I think maybe he should have tried it in a higher key, like in “End of the Innocence.”
Right or wrong, what’s done is done
It’s only moments that you borrow...
@Delilah -- We weren't one of the newspapers favored with an Azoff press release (too small. LOL.) However, when the entertainment writer at the Birmingham News got it from a friend, she freaked out and called our features department. That was in the days before we had voice mail, it was late afternoon, and I caught the phone call. "THE EAGLES ARE GETTING BACK TOGETHER!"
"Huh? What are you talking about, Mary?"
"The EAGLES! I got a fax from my buddy at the Denver paper from the Eagles' manager that said, 'Hell has frozen over'! What else could it mean?"
"Holy crap. Let us know if you hear anything else."
Lordy. I hadn't thought about that in YEARS. Lot of water under the bridge since then. He sent a follow-up in the next couple of days. She sent a copy of it, but our fax machine was a piece of crap and it was a fax of a fax of a fax and you could hardly read it. Still, I wish I'd kept it.
I remember hearing it on the news of the local NYC tv stations. If I remember right, the announcement started as "Hell Has Frozen Over". Everyone seemed to know what it meant. I was so happy I could not believe my ears. I think it was THAT big an announcement. I remember everyone talking about it at work the next day.
Pippin - A great story !
Dawn - TY, I could not remember all the particulars ! t's been a long time but I guess I should have remembered as we have talked about it enough here - lol !
Ah, but it’s those “overwrought, melodramatic vocals” that gave them so many of their hits. If I’m not mistaken, LTBS was released as a single and went nowhere. Perhaps if Henley used a sympathetic, more emotional approach to convey the song’s earnest Biblical message, LBTS would have been a hit too. Instead he sounds tired and cynical.
He sings in a higher key in “A Month of Sundays” and you can hear the vulnerability and brokenness in his voice.
Right or wrong, what’s done is done
It’s only moments that you borrow...
I think I was referring to this thread but it seems to me your comments are appropriate for this thread, so no need to worry. I always appreciate how diligent you are about searching for relevant threads and keeping things on topic.