Originally Posted by
BBKron
Wow! These are great! I just LOVE hearing alternate unreleased tracks and versions like this. Much thanks for finding these AEW21 and steering us over to this site (The Joni Mitchell tracks are awesome, too), and certainly thanks to Bill Halverson for finding and posting these lost gems. These will be cherished.
I just wish the band themselves were more interested in finding and making available other 'lost' recordings from their earlier days. I know that Glenn and Don have maintained that there just isn't anything to release, but I think that is nonsense. I'm sure that there are old, unreleased songs, bits, alternate takes and recordings that would be a goldmine to fans such as us here. I just don't think that Don and Glenn have any interest in releasing any of that stuff, probably because they don't think it is any good or worthy of being released. Although it is very likely that there might not be anything that is up to their high standards that they want to see released, I'm sure there is a lot more unreleased studio stuff out there that may never be heard. Even if not that high quality, real fans want to hear all that went on in those recording sessions.
What about all the tracks from the abandoned Glyn Johns London sessions for On The Border (I'm sure someone has those somewhere). They recorded enough for a whole album there, including several songs that were ultimately scrapped (Like Bernie's 'Georgia Peach' and Randy's 'Wait and See', and who knows what else?) as well as different versions of songs that did make the album (Like 'Ol '55', 'Good Day in Hell', and 'James Dean'). We know these songs existed because they were playing them at live shows in November 1973, right after their London sessions, which was well before they returned to the studio in 1974 with Bill Szymczyk to 're-do' the album. The only tracks from the Johns sessions that were used for the album were 'Best of My Love' and 'You Never Cry Like a Lover'. All the rest were scrapped. Would LOVE for those tapes to be made available sometime or somewhere (I bet Johns still has copies of them). Maybe some day. And who knows what else might be out there?
Even if the stuff is not of high enough quality for commercial release as an official Eagles rarities album or whatever, perhaps at some point it could be distributed as mp3's to fan sites such as this, who would really appreciate any and all tracks, songs, and insights into the recording process of this great band.
Anyway, I appreciate any bits we can get so these tracks are great finds. And here's hoping that we can get many more of these kinds of recording studio gems as time goes by. Hmm, an album of Eagles outtakes, rarities, etc. might be a great follow-up to the whole 'History of the Eagles' Dvd, tour, etc. We can only hope.