Remembering Glenn Frey

[Witchy Woman]

That's great, Nancy !! What a wonderful memory to treasure !!

[Outlawman13]

I enjoyed reading that Nancy!! Glenn's a sweetheart and I have always wanted to hear your story on meeting him!! Thank you so much!! What a wonderful memory

[AlreadyGone95]

How very cool and awesome for Glenn to do that for you 3. What an amazing story! Thanks for sharing it, Soda! My love and respect for Glenn just increased even more!

[UndertheWire]

Thank you for sharing your story. Just the thought of receiving a phonecall out of the blue blows my mind.

[Brooke]

Nancy, thank you for telling us about this! You had told me a few bits when you visited me for the HotE show on tv, but, wow! How awesome that Glenn was so nice to all of you girls! A memory to treasure forever! He obviously trusted you all and appreciated you as his fans so much! And your picture with him is the icing on the cake! And you look great in it!

[L101]

Just read your post Soda - Amazing!! I had heard a few bits before, but that was definitely a brilliant night and Glenn just topped it off for the 3 of you.
And you do look great in that photo!

[DivineDon]

Wow, Soda - just wow!!! No wonder you loved him. What an amazing experience. I don't know how you were able to talk at all never mind remember all that. What a wonderful memory to have....he was just an incredibly generous man. (and Taylor sounds fab!)

[Ive always been a dreamer]

Well - I guess I can weigh in on this now. Like Soda, I wrote it all down too and I'm also going to do this in several posts mainly because I don't have time to post everything right now. Also, like Soda, I can't even begin to say what a thrill this little Niagara Falls trip turned out to be.

So, as Nancy described, she and I were on the phone discussing our last minute plans when the call came in. The next day (Wednesday) she was going to drive from Indiana and I was flying into the Buffalo airport where she was going to pick me up, and then we would go on to Niagara Falls for the first show on Thursday night. When the "Blocked Call" came in past 11:30, I decided to ignore it. Then when Nancy got the "Unknown Caller" message on her land line just a couple of minutes later, we thought it was strange so she answered her call. I was on hold on her cell phone and I could vaguely hear her. I remember her saying "What" and "No way" and, of course, wondered what the heck was going on. After a few minutes, I heard a click when she hung up on me. I wasn't too worried and continued with my last minute packing as I waited for her to call me back. Of course, I was dumbfounded when she did. Both of us in disbelief, we chatted for a few minutes and then decided to hang up again so she could try to reach Lissa. When I hung up, I noticed that I had a voice mail message. My heart pounded as I retrieved the message. It was indeed Glenn, and I know exactly what it said because I eventually recorded it so I would have it forever ...

“Hey Kay, it’s Glenn Frey calling you. It’s probably close to midnight in Virginia, but I just realized I’m going to Niagara Falls tomorrow and I had no idea whether you or, ah, Nancy ***** or Lisa **** were going up to the casino to see my shows. Ah, whether you are or not, I wanna leave you a phone number where you can get hold of me through my road manager. Just say you’re a friend of mine from Pebble Beach, and he’ll understand. You can call me through Tom Nixon, not tonight, but tomorrow, area code xxx xxx-xxxx. Hope everything’s well with you and I hope to speak to you soon. Bye Bye”

So, the next afternoon, as instructed, I called Tommy’s cell phone number from the Buffalo airport. I got his voice mail so I left him a message telling him I had met Glenn at Pebble Beach, and that Glenn had left me his phone number and told me to call him. I left him my cell phone number, except I was so nervous I couldn’t remember the number. I actually did get it right, but I was stumbling through it so badly that I didn’t know if he’d understand it or not. So I called him back and left him the number again. A little later I got on the phone with Nancy who was still driving in her car to pick me up. After I hung up, I noticed I had a message on my cell phone. Figuring it was Tommy, I nervously dialed the number to retrieve the message. The message said (recorded this one too) lol:

“Ah Kay, it’s Glenn Frey calling. It’s about 5:15 on the east coast here. If you would like to reach me, ah, you can call me on my cell, xxx xxx-xxxx. Bye Bye”

That’s right, Glenn returned my call – not Tommy, and he left me his cell phone number!

I started looking around in the airport for the quietest, most private place I could find before I called Glenn back. I wanted to make sure I heard every word he said. I then had the presence of mind to search for a piece of paper and ink pen in case I had to write anything down. I took a very deep breath, and, nervously dialed the number.

The familiar voice on the other end said, “Hello.”

“Hello, Glenn. This is Kay *****, you know, from Pebble Beach.”

“Hi Kay, Where ARE you?” (I was very puzzled by the way he said this – it was almost like a ‘I’ve been trying to find you all day’ kind of reaction – hmmm – I wish.)

“I’m in the Buffalo airport waiting for Nancy to come pick me up. I flew up, but she’s driving, and she should be here to pick me up within the next hour.

Then, he said kiddingly, "BTW – do you ever answer your phone?" I teased back "Well - I was wondering, do you give your phone number out to just anybody? I mean, you sure are trusting.”

He replied in a sly, joking voice, “Yeah, but you’re not going to remember this number after Saturday, are you?”

I meekly said something eloquent like “Ah, no”. Then I said, “I’ve been talking to Nancy, and this is really sweet of you to want to see all of us. And everything is all worked out with Lissa coming.”

“Is Lisa coming?” (Apparently, he didn’t listen to me the first time! lol)

I corrected the ‘Lisa’ by saying, “It’s Lissa, and yes, she’s coming. She got her plane ticket and is catching a red eye - she'll get in tomorrow morning. We are going to come back here to the Buffalo airport to pick her up.”

“That’s great. What else does she need?”

“The only other thing she'll need are tickets to the shows. She is going to stay with us in our hotel room.”

“Let me give you Jerry Vaccarino’s number, and he can take care of that for you. Just give him a call around midday tomorrow, and tell him what you need. His number is xxx xxx-xxxx. Okay now, here’s the plan for tomorrow night. What I wanted to do was take you girls to dinner, but I’m going to be a lot busier tomorrow than I originally thought because I'm adding in some new songs that we need to work on. If we go to dinner, I’m afraid we’ll be rushed, so instead, why don’t you girls come up to my room tomorrow night after the show, and we’ll have some wine and just hang out, and I’ll give you your swag. I have my daughter, Taylor, with me so you’ll get to meet her, too.”

“Oh my gosh, that sounds wonderful. What time should we come up?”

“Just come on up right after the show. The room number is xxxx. It’s the West Covina.”

“What about security? Will we need any special clearance or anything?”

“No, we'll take care of that so you should be okay. Just come up the elevators to the 2xth. If you have any problems, go to the concierge desk in the lobby and tell them to call the room.”

“Okay, I think I’ve got it all straight. Thank you again, so much, for doing this.”

Well, I’m glad that all three of you will be here. You girls be careful, and I’ll see you tomorrow night.”

“We will, and trust me, we’re glad we could all be here, too.”

And then we hung up. Not long after, Nancy arrived at the airport and we were Niagara Falls bound!


To be continued ...

[AlreadyGone95]

I've got a huge smile plastered across my face right now. Reading what all Glenn did for ya'll, how nice he was, and to see how much he did care for his hardcore fans, has made the wait of picking up 6 new prescription drugs alot easier. I'm amazed at Glenn's easy going way with ya'll. I can't wait to read the rest! I can't imagine how much you treasure those memories!

[Outlawman13]

What a lovely man Glenn is to do that for you ladies!! Can't wait to read more Kay!!