I'm up early to give my review of the show last night.
I arrived at about 6:50 & was hanging out in front of the theater for a few minutes. Apparently there were still tickets available at the box office. I was a little surprised about that...
They started at about 7:10 with several speeches by gala director & NYU president. Judy & Micheal Steinhardt were given their awards & both made short speeches. Maria Bartiromo appeared in a short video.
Glenn accepted the award for the Eagles & spoke briefly about how he became involved with teaching at NYU. He was wearing a black suit, white shirt & black tie. He mentioned that his daughter, Taylor attends NYU. Then he introduced 3 students who performed 3 songs together. There was a female cello player, a guy on guitar & one on keyboards.
After a few minutes break to reset the stage, the Eagles came out. Don was wearing a white shirt with grey vest, black jeans, Tim; white shirt, dark vest & black jeans, Joe was all in black.
Here's the set list;
How Long
Peaceful Easy Feeling
I Can't Tell You Why
Witchy Woman
Lyin' Eyes
Walk Away
Don spoke a little about the 40th anniversary of the Eagles, before
The Long Run
Joe spoke a little about the movie The Warrior, which has the next song
In The City
Hotel California
The NYU Symphony Orchestra joins the band for these last songs;
Take It To The Limit
Desperado
Don held a particularly long note on Desperado to some cheers.
The show was short, but good. There was no encore!! I thought they would at least come back out & do Take It Easy, but no, the lights came on.
People were a little upset not to hear TIE...
My seat had a good view of the entire band, but I was trapped in the middle of the row, so I could not escape. Some were taking photos & video but the camera police were on it.
The girl next to me took some short video, that she said she will post on facebook, so I will try to see them.
They sounded great, as always, but the show felt like it was about 20 minutes, even though it was an hour. It seemed VERY SHORT & I knew it was going to be an hour, but it went so FAST. I felt like so many songs were MISSING from the show.
I had a great time, but I did feel a bit cheated that they didn't do an encore!!!
They did give out a nice large program with a nice photo of them, from LROOE