Remembering Glenn Frey

[Outlawman13]

Awww...AG, that really was good.

I love this video soo much!!!! Glenn is just awesome!!! It makes me want to cry again!!

[Outlawman13]

No, it isn't. This article claims to have gotten a photo of Taylor from her Facebook page. Given the few photos of a young Taylor that I have seen, I believe that it is her. (scroll down a little bit to see the photo of Taylor)
http://heavy.com/entertainment/2016/...-son-daughter/

His daughter is just so pretty!!! Love her eyes!

[sodascouts]

To those curious about the move to NYC: Glenn never shared why he chose to move publicly. Any motivation you made have heard is simply fan speculation.

[GlennLover]

I can do some if ya'll don't mind the small "play" button in the middle of the screenshot. I'll post them in the photo thread.

ETA: I figured out how to do them without pausing the video, so they won't have the play button in them.

That would be wonderful, AG95!

[MaryCalifornia]

The interesting thing is that Timothy also bought a place in NYC in the past couple of years. Whether to have a place to stay when in town for regular doctors' appointments, or working on an Eagles musical, or just a jet setting famous person who likes Manhattan, we don't know the motivation. But, interesting timing that both he and Glenn bought places there in their mid/late 60s. I was surprised to hear that unlike TBS who bought a place but continues to live in LA, Glenn actually moved his family there and Otis attends school there. BIG change. But, lots of rich people have homes there...Perhaps there is some greater Irving Azoff/James Dolan reason lurking in the background we know nothing about!

[AlreadyGone95]

That would be wonderful, AG95!

I posted them earlier, post #1592 in the photo thread.

[GlennLover]

I posted them earlier, post #1592 in the photo thread.

Thanks. I was busy all day so just catching up on reading the threads.

[UndertheWire]

Remembering Glenn Frey: 1948-2016 —by Glyn Emmerson, January 27, 2016


“I’m not sure I believe in fate, but I know that crossing paths with Glenn Lewis Frey in 1970 changed my life forever, and it eventually had an impact on the lives of millions of other people all over the planet. … It will be very strange going forward in a world without him in it. But, I will be grateful, every day, that he was in my life. … Rest in peace, my brother. You did what you set out to do, and then some.”-Don Henley

Glenn Frey left us way too early on Jan. 18 due to rheumatoid arthritis, acute ulcerative colitis and pneumonia, per the Eagles’ website.
Singer-songwriter and guitarist, he co-founded the Eagles with Don Henley after their first tour backing up Linda Ronstadt in 1970. From the opening chords of “Take It Easy” that was co-written with Jackson Browne, to their last one, Long Road Out Of Eden, they churned out the hits that defined an era. By the time they wrote their first song together, “Witchy Woman,” Henley-Frey were well on their way to becoming the Lennon & McCartney of the ’70s.

Combining Laurel Canyon singer-songwriter flare and a showdown of three electric guitars, they went from a countrified unit to a hard-driven rock outfit by the time Hotel California went down in 1977. They ended the decade a spent force with The Long Run.

After a 14-year hiatus they regrouped, unplugged, then regrouped again for another outstanding album in 2007, Long Road Out Of Eden, that took on the environment, politics and the new world order. The History Of The Eagles documentary put them on the map once again as they toured the world for two years, ending it this past summer on July 29 in Bossier City, Louisiana.

Frey was the heart and soul of the band, for sure. A Detroit-bred badass with a porn star mustache, he added some edgy grit to the band’s soaring harmonies. He funneled the intellectual weight of drummer Henley’s stone-eyed delivery to court jester Joe Walsh’s daredevil runs up and down the fretboard, Don Felder’s metallic thunder and bassist Timothy B. Schmit’s bottom end into one serious bawl-out affair of great rock and roll.

Original guitarist Bernie Leadon laid down the countrified licks that started it all as Randy Meisner took it to the limit. Frey played band quarterback as he took on the motley crew throughout their personnel changes, cheered them on and got the job done. He was the ringleader at party central and the glue to the band’s split personalities. At an Eagles show, they played the hits and did them well, all two and a half hours’ worth.

Frey threatened to kick Don Felder’s ass after the guitarist started whining onstage at a political fundraiser and eventually did kick him out of the band. Bernie Leadon poured a can of beer over his head in a fit of anger then left the band. Frey was an original. He pissed people off with a no-nonsense style as he demanded the best from his bandmates. It’s all documented in the band’s warts and all, tell-all film, History Of The Eagles.

He acted in Miami Vice, providing the 1985 hit “Smuggler’s Blues” to the soundtrack, and played a sleazy sports agent in the 1996 Cameron Crowe film, Jerry Maguire. Part-time hippie, No Fun Aloud party boy and sentimental crooner on his 2012 solo album, After Hours, but ultimately rock and roll outlaw, Frey wore more hats than a coat rack. His solo on “I Can’t Tell You Why” showcased an earthy, bluesy style as he made his guitar weep.

The Eagles’ organization was always incredibly generous to this paper and I reviewed them numerous times at shows in Atlantic City, Giants Stadium and the Garden. Watching him pacing the stage in high-top sneakers then banging out the ferocious and twisted leads ending “Hotel California” with Joe Walsh and Steuart Smith at the newly reconstructed Giants Stadium is something I will never forget.

I met him briefly at the Waldorf Astoria at a benefit for the Silver Lining Foundation in January 2001, where he provided the evening’s entertainment. I was shooting the red carpet and saw Frey hanging at the bar. I discreetly unclipped the velvet rope separating us from them, shook his hand, thanked him for the music and asked him to sign my Hotel California album. He said, “Sure, man!” It’s on my wall.
Take it easy, Glenn…

http://www.theaquarian.com/2016/01/2...rey-1948-2016/

[UndertheWire]

I tend to prefer the modest, low-key approach to celebrity, but I get carried along by the exuberance of this description. Azoff was creating a spectacle, a mythology and it seems that Glenn loved that. It's taken from Rick Cooper's response to Lefsetz.

"It's gonna be huge! Irving's got a 727 that seats 210-people that’s being reconfigured to seat 51. And we're gonna have police escorts to and from every venue. If you think we've been having fun the last couple of years, wait 'til you fly on EAGLE ONE." The first time I did, I was blown away! Wide-eyed and amazed at the precision of the police motorcade, motorcycles blocking entrances to the interstate and then passing our van, sirens wailing, leapfrogging with each other to get to an entrance ramp a few miles up and block it for us. And when we got to the airport, Glenn turned to me and said, "Cooper. Watch what we do when we pull up to the jet." The line of vans made three complete circles around the big 727 before pulling up under the tail where we boarded the plane. I asked Glenn why they did that, and his response..."Because we can." Typical cool!

[Ive always been a dreamer]

I so appreciate all of you who are posting these tributes. It is very heart-warming and comforting to see how well loved Glenn was even though I already knew it.

A couple of comments about some of the discussion that has been taking place here ...

With regard to the family picture that claims that it is Taylor, I agree 100% that it is not her. I guess it's natural for people to to assume it is. I don't believe it was ever determined who the young lady is. Again, some of us speculated that it may be Deacon's girlfriend, but we don't know for sure - it could be a family member or just a family friend.

And regarding when Glenn moved to NYC - he said at a MSG show in November, 2013 that he had been living there for a year. He started teaching the songwriting class at NYU in the fall semester of 2012 so that would be about the right timing. I agree it was probably a combination of the things previously mentioned that accounted for him staying there. Whether or not he intended to return to L.A. at some point is anybody's guess.

And I meant to post these a couple of days ago, but I got side-tracked ...