Don in the Press/Blogs/etc.

[Troubadour]

I know nothing is guaranteed, and Don's mind seems to change with the weather regarding this issue but reading that makes me happy.

Truthfully, while they're still fit enough to tour, and still selling the tickets... I can't see them giving it up. It's what they do, and what they've always done. Despite the downsides, it's obviously still a great thrill to tour and perform their songs to crowds all over the world.

[Ive always been a dreamer]

I bet it's safe to say that most of us here would not take exception to Don's remarks in that interview.

[Scarlet Sun]

One of Don's better interviews; very well-written. You can tell he took some time with it. He makes good sense and I can understand where's he coming from better with this article than some of his others. He makes a lot of good points.

I agree that all things go in cycles, and in the digital era, those cycles become shorter and shorter. Look at MySpace - it used to ubiquitous, but now it's fading. For good or for ill, nothing lasts forever.... and that includes corporations.

I found his comments about the money being in touring now to be food for thought. If it's true that the music industry is going back to being live-based, it would ironically be a throwback to pre-acetate days when being a musician meant being able to sing for your supper on a regular basis. Music was still a business - instruments have been made and sold for thousands of years; you can find them in ancient Egypt. People were paid to sing and play. They might not have become billionaires, but they were able to make a living doing what they loved. The profession of the musician has been around long before the evolution of the record company and will continue even if that corporate entity collapses.

Then, people could not hide their inadequacies through studio tricks. Perhaps it is time for a return to that paradigm. In such a paradigm, the attitude would become "They sounded great live; let's buy their stuff" rather than the record-label paradigm, which is the opposite. Their attitude: "You need us to get your name out there; that's the only way people will buy your album. Then, if they like it, they'll go see you live and buy more."

Don is right that in such a system - the system in which he and the Eagles thrived - the record labels are necessary. In the live-based scenario, perhaps they will not be, especially as the power of the internet continues to grow. What Don sees as a "myth" now might become quite possible before long.

After all, Mozart didn't need a record company to have a "lifetime career of scale."

Industries change. I bet the carriage-making industry was hit hard when everybody started using those darn cars.... cycles indeed.

And I bet that in 50 years, Google will also be a thing looked back upon with nostalgia and missed by those who benefited from that "sovereign nation."

In the end, though, it's all about the music. It's wrong to illegally download songs and I condemn that, but such behavior won't destroy music. Nothing can do that.

very nice!

[Prettymaid]

-- Ever since they got back together in 1994 for their Hell Freezes Over tour, The Eagles have been constantly threatening to break up again, this time for good. But according to comments recently made Don Henley, that threat seems to have lifted.

I'm not sure about the "constantly threatening to break up" remark. Yes, they have talked about shortening their shows or not touring anymore but just because a band doesn't make records or tour anymore doesn't necessarily mean they're broken up, does it? I mean, they've not talked about desolving the band since HFO, have they?

[sodascouts]

Well, when the guys were being inducted into the Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame in 1998, Glenn characterized their time as a band as if it were over:

"Over the nine years that the Eagles were together during the seventies, over the three years that we were together during our reunion..." ie, the band had not been "together" since 1996.

That all changed just a year later in the latter half of 1999, when they were planning the release of the Selected Works and the Millennium concerts, as well as the possibility of a new album... which led to the attempt to renegotiate Felder's contract - we all know how that went!

Since then, they've been touring off and on. However, in 2005, Glenn did talk of "ending it" and that talk has come up again. Does he mean "ending it" with regard to touring and making music together (which would end it in all but name) or officially "breaking up"? Who knows.

I do agree that the "constantly threatening to break up" is a mischaracterization.

[sodascouts]

very nice!

Thanks!

[Prettymaid]

I remember when Glenn was going around with Natalie Mains promoting the summer tour he said something like, 'The Stones didn't break up - they just went and did their own thing separately. At the time we didn't know we could do that or we would have done that too.'

Well, now they know they can do that. I can't believe the Eagles would ever break up again knowing they can just go off and do their own thing. Even if they were to never perform together again that wouldn't be considered a break up.

[Koala]

Don Henley checks in

http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/10/2...checks-in.html

[Peekaboo]

Not sure if this has been posted or not. Got this in a Google alert but it's from an article on Oct. 3rd. I only just now read it because I'm way behind on checking my email.

http://lubbockonline.com/entertainme...orney-collects

Pretty cool that this guy has gotten autographs from every member of the Eagles former and present.

The local attorney also enjoys sharing another encounter that took place “following a Henley solo show in Oklahoma City a couple of years ago.”
Nicholson, his wife and sons headed to an IHOP south of town. There, he said, “We had a late night breakfast with Henley and some of his friends.

This in particular caught my attention. I was at that concert.

[tequila girl]

They’ve kept their chops up.

Could someone please explain to be what this expression means? i've seen it used a few times and im stumped!