Celebration of "Eagles Live" Album [Archive] - The Border: An Eagles Message Board

Ive always been a dreamer

11-07-2009, 01:50 PM

Today is the 29th anniversary of the "Eagles Live" album. While this album didn't contain any new material, I think it is still a great, entertaining live album. I actually listen to it quite a bit. I especially love the versions of Take It Easy, Take It To the Limit, and Life's Been Good. I have to run some errands this afternoon, so this will be the featured album of the day in my car. I may have some other thoughts after I listen to it, but I wanted to go ahead and start this thread. So for now ...

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY "EAGLES LIVE"!!!

sodascouts

11-07-2009, 03:40 PM

Well, we did get one new track kinda - the magnificent "Seven Bridges Road." LOVE that song! It was also cool to hear Joe's "All Night Long" done with the Eagles. So glad they managed to squeeze a live album out of these guys before they imploded back in 1980!

Troubadour

11-07-2009, 03:48 PM

Happy Anniversary, Eagles Live! Aah, Seven Bridges Road. For purely gratuitous purposes...

https://www.eaglesonlinecentral.com/images/eaglesSevenBridges70s.jpg

:inlove:

Soda, your sig is adorable. Wish I could come with you!

Ive always been a dreamer

11-07-2009, 11:06 PM

OMG, troub - I'm so glad that you thought about posting that picture - it is way too cute. And, of course, how could I totally leave off Seven Bridges Road in my first post, which is perhaps my very favorite song on the whole album since it is "kinda new" like Soda said. In my first post, when I said there were no new tracks on the album, I meant no new original songs. As Soda said, although 7BR and All Night Long had not appeared on a previous Eagles album, the band had been performing them in their live shows for some time.

Like Soda, I am also very thankful that this was done before the 'implosion'. I think it is a great live album and I love hearing the intros to the songs. They sound like mere babes. :angel:

TimothyBFan

11-08-2009, 08:19 PM

I will probably get back to this thread and THE HFO one but for now, when I saw this thread's title, the first thing I thought of was
SEVEN BRIDGES ROAD :mrgreen: :thumbsup:

Ive always been a dreamer

11-07-2010, 01:27 PM

sodascouts

11-07-2010, 02:42 PM

Look at that audience in the cover art poster! Surely that must have been a festival of some sort rather than a regular concert, but oh my gosh, to play in front of that many people must have been staggering and so gratifying for the guys.

Seven Bridges Road makes this album. I'm so glad they included it, even if Glenn did resist record label pressure to put a new original song on it because by then he was pretty much done with the Eagles (which of course would consequently render the Eagles done, period).

In fact, for a long time, this album was pretty much a true "Farewell" - until of course the day that we celebrate tomorrow - the release of Hell Freezes Over. Pretty cool irony, eh, that Hell Freezes Over was released 14 years and one day after the release of Eagles Live?

Here's to the Live Album turning 30!!!!

:cheers:

WalshFan88

11-07-2010, 03:45 PM

This album is one of my very favorites. I've played guitar along with the album playing and listened to it more times than I could count. It's one that I played nonstop when learning to play.

Happy Anniversary EAGLES LIVE indeed! :cheers:

jdubfan

11-07-2010, 08:32 PM

Koala

11-08-2010, 02:30 AM

Happy 30. Anniversary EAGLES LIVE!
I like the whole album but Seven Bridges Road is defenitiv the highlight of the album for me!:inlove:

tequila girl

11-08-2010, 05:34 AM

This is one of those recordings that I've had as an LP, a tape and now CD. Never get tired of it. Played my original record until i had to tape a quarter to the arm because it skipped so bad. Luved it long time, baby!!!!
I too had it as an LP and Tape.......but somehow never got round to buying the CD - off to Amazon right this minute! :thumbsup:

TimothyBFan

11-08-2010, 08:38 AM

Like everyone else, 7BR has always been a highlight for me with this one. But everything about it is wonderful. We listen to it often. Besides, it has one of my favorite pics of Timothy (my photobucket isn't working right now) but you all know which one I'm referring to. Let's just say looks as if he had indulged a bit before taking stage.

Brooke

11-08-2010, 03:51 PM

Love, love the Live album! The one I listen to most! Especially the beautiful 7BR and TITTL. I especially love Glenn's congratulating Randy on his awesome performance of TITTL. He sounds as moved by it as the crowd does there.

A great album!

WalshFan88

11-07-2012, 05:36 AM

Happy Anniversary to Eagles Live! :partytime: :birthday:

It was released on November 7th, 1980. The liner notes read, "Thank you and goodnight". The band was officially over. The band would later reform in 1994, calling it the "Hell Freezes Over" tour, referring to Don Henley's response of "when hell freezes over" when asked about an Eagles reunion. Glenn Frey referred to the breakup as a "14-year vacation" at the MTV show. The reunion lineup consisted of the "Long Run" era members, the same lineup featured on "Eagles Live".

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Definitely in my top 3 Eagles albums and top 5 live albums of all time by any band. To me it showcases better than any, the live chemistry between Joe Walsh and Don Felder just by listening to it. You can literally feel it.

Also it was the first version of Life's Been Good I had heard other than the album radio version. I was like - NOW we're talkin! I LOVE LBG with the Eagles as you all know and there is no comparison for me between Eagles Live vs But Seriously Folks. Life's Been Good feels like an Eagles song to me anyway. And put Don Felder on dual leads and harmony vocals on the choruses and it just feels "right" to me.

I don't care if it was overdubbed (courtesy of Federal Express :D), many live albums were. KISS Alive for instance, was overdubbed yet still captures the live feel. Same with Eagles Live.

This album is sorely underrated in my view and really to me showcases an era of the Eagles I really admire. If there is any album that truly captures what I love so much about that guitar duo and makes it blatantly obvious, it's this one. Definitely will be going in the player this morning. I've already listened to a couple on YouTube.

Not to forget it gave us the Steve Young tune, Seven Bridges Road, and made it a hit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q13bdbe1Cm0

For those who haven't listened to it in awhile, I highly encourage everyone to listen to this album today. It really is a classic album in every sense of the word.

Tiffanny Twisted

11-07-2012, 10:40 AM

happy anniversary to "eagles live"

and for all it gve us..great album/cd

sodascouts

11-07-2012, 11:22 AM

Happy anniversary to this album! SBR is a favorite of mine. Hearing it love was staggering!

Brooke

11-07-2012, 02:13 PM

Love it! Still! :nod:

Ive always been a dreamer

11-07-2012, 10:35 PM

Me too. It still gets played a lot in my CD player.

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY EAGLES LIVE!!!

GlennLover

11-07-2012, 10:37 PM

It's on my iPod so I hear songs from it all the time.

TimothyBFan

11-08-2012, 08:43 AM

I went out to the albums last night to see just how many copies of this we have--- 4 and 2 of them are first pressings. :hilarious: We love showing the first pressings to friends on albums nights and explaining the carry-out grooves on the album.

GlennLover

11-08-2012, 11:03 AM

zeldabjr

11-08-2012, 11:44 AM

sodascouts

11-08-2012, 02:18 PM

Very cool, Willie!

zeldabjr

11-08-2012, 04:31 PM

this is worth the price to me just to hear 'Seven Bridges Road'...but I really do love the whole thing...I love 'live' CDs..

TimothyBFan

11-09-2012, 10:19 AM

OK Willie...now you have to explain the 'carry-out grooves' to me...lol

The carry-out grooves are the grooves at the end of the record, toward the center, after the music has run out. The Eagles had phrases put on the carry out grooves on the first pressings just like they had with One Of These Nights, HC & TLR.

Here's what Wiki says about it:

"

Original pressings of this double-album had text engraved in the carry-out grooves on each side, as had been the band's tradition since their 1975 album One of These Nights (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_of_These_Nights):

Side 1: Is it illegal to yell "movie!" in a firehouse?
Side 2: "Hello, Federal?...Ship it!"
Side 3: Not Tonight, Thanks...
Side 4: ...Ive gotta rest up for my monster"

The carry-out groove of the fourth side did not fade to silence as was customary for the vast majority of records. Instead, the crowd noise continued, even into the final-loop groove. Thus for those listening on manual turntables, the applause would not end until the listener removed the stylus from the disc."

For the record, I also have first pressings of the other albums with the carry out grooves printed.

zeldabjr

11-09-2012, 11:08 AM

I had no idea about this...very cool that you have the albums with these on them!

TimothyBFan

11-09-2012, 11:31 AM

Thanks Zelda. We pride ourselves on our record collection. We are kinda obsessed with it. And those are the originals from my collection when they first came out. Pretty cool, indeed.

Brooke

11-09-2012, 02:19 PM

It is kinda cool! I have our original albums with those too! Love 'em!

Prettymaid

11-09-2012, 09:47 PM

TBF, don't your albums 'freeze' out in the garage during the winter? Doesn't it harm them?

TimothyBFan

11-11-2012, 01:47 PM

We haven't had any trouble with them over the years. It's probably not the best set up but we don't really have another option. That's where they are listened to, on the deck and patio, and the only time we've ever had them in the house, they were actually stored away for years in the attic. They were made to be listened to so that's why we finally sat it up like we have it now. Not a week goes by in good weather do we not listen to them. My fear is always a fire or something to destroy them. How sad would that be?

Prettymaid

11-11-2012, 02:34 PM

Having had the pleasure of being at one of your patio vinyl parties and seeing your collection, I have to say HECK YES they need to be listened to! I wasn't sure if you brought them all into your house during the cold months or not. That would be a lot of work!

tjrrockandrollmaster

03-02-2013, 06:40 PM

First got this for Christmas 1984 on cassette (a month before my 9th birthday) and managed to wear this (plus Van Halen's Women and Children First and Pink Floyd's The Final Cut which I acquired alongside that Christmas) out. The two Joe Walsh solo tracks stood out live (especially "All Night Long" which at the end, Joe Vitale, Glenn Frey, Don Felder and Joe Walsh all got to take turns at a solo on piano and then three guitars respectively). Was my intro to "Saturday Night" (I wouldn't hear Desperado the album until the following year). Already knew "Seven Bridges Road" as it was on Greatest Hits 2. The rest of the songs were better than their studio counterparts IMHO (namely Hotel California, The Long Run (with Phil Kenzie's superb alto sax solo at the end), Life in the Fast Lane, Take it Easy (I can go on))!

Then I wouldn't upgrade due to other issues until March of 1991 (again would wear that one out, in fact snapped while playing end of Side 1 of the tape the weekend of my uncle's funeral in November of 1992). What I noticed was they fixed the abrupt ending to crowd cheering on the tape by fading it out).

Finally got to acquiring on CD in February, 1994 and while I played the 2-CDs, I had the booklet to stare at and say "if only I had been older in 1979/80 to see them" (not thinking they would reunite a few months later and tickets evaporating quicker than quicksand). Then did get remastered CD and now have a copy on vinyl in Excellent condition (with poster which I had to fix but complete nevertheless and the picture labels with the grenades in the birds nest with eggs was hilarious).

Brooke

11-07-2014, 02:14 PM

On this day in 1980, the Eagles released their Eagles Live album. I think this is a great live album and I listen to it often in my car. In recognition of its 30th anniversary, I thought I'd post these pictures of the cover art and poster ...

https://www.eaglesonlinecentral.com/images/livecover.jpg

https://www.eaglesonlinecentral.com/images/liveback.jpg

https://www.eaglesonlinecentral.com/images/liveposter1.jpg

https://www.eaglesonlinecentral.com/images/liveposter2.jpg

HAPPY 30TH ANNIVERSARY EAGLES LIVE!!!

Bringing this forward to celebrate this album again and I love these pics!

34 years ago today! How can it be?!

I love this album and played it to pieces back in the day! Love, love, Seven Bridges Road and this version of Take It To The Limit and Glenn's praise of Randy here! :heart:

thelastresort

11-07-2014, 02:23 PM

Happy 34th birthday Eagles Live!

Never been a huge fan of live albums but any Eagles anniversary is worth celebrating, and indeed any Eagles live work is worth a listen.

I have to ask though, what on earth is Doolin-Dalton Reprise II and why did it make the cut? Such an odd, and, I have to be honest, pointless inclusion for me...

Brooke

11-07-2014, 02:42 PM

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I have to ask though, what on earth is Doolin-Dalton Reprise II and why did it make the cut? Such an odd, and, I have to be honest, pointless inclusion for me...

I don't know what the 'II' means but there are lyrics to the reprise and I love it!

shunlvswx

11-07-2014, 02:55 PM

I just listen to it and its an instrumental. I wonder why they never used that before other than on this album.

Happy 34th Birthday to Eagles Live. We're the same age. LOL

thelastresort

11-07-2014, 03:48 PM

I don't know what the 'II' means but there are lyrics to the reprise and I love it!

The 'II' was just copying what it's listed as, presumably it means 2. It's a 40~ second instrumental on that album only, I've never heard it before or since. The closing song on the Desperado album was something else.

WalshFan88

11-07-2014, 04:28 PM

Love this album...if I weren't flying out to Florida tonight I'd give it a spin.

The version of Life's Been Good on here smokes the solo version...so good with Joe and Felder on guitars and the backup vocals.

sodascouts

11-07-2014, 08:09 PM

A great live album! I'll be listening to it tonight in honor of the anniversary of its release. Good stuff!

SoaringRockyMountainWay

11-09-2014, 03:44 PM

I love the part on this album when Joe says he's running for president. I'd vote for Joe any day! When I got the album I was happy that it came with a poster too. I have what I call A Wall of Eagles in my room that is covered with Eagles posters. I ran out of room so the poster from this album is on the ceiling above my bed. :lol:

Ive always been a dreamer

11-09-2014, 04:02 PM

OMG - I missed this celebration, so better late than never ...

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO EAGLES LIVE!!!

Love Love Love!

BillBailey1976

12-16-2014, 08:16 PM

I love Eagles Live. I think it was my second Eagles CD. I had the Greatest Hits 71-75, and then after the HFO video, I bought Live. I chose it cause at my local used CD store, it was only like a buck more than single CD's.
I fell in love with it, and still listen to it alot. I have a few questions about it that some of the folks here probably know the answer to.
1. Why were the songs chosen from such a drastic time span?
2. Why include Randy's song? A live album (IMO) should reflect the group as it was when the album was done.
3. Does Glenn play an electric guitar on HC instead of the acoustic? That song sounds different on this album than any other version I have heard, including the Millenium Concert.
4. Why not include Keep on Tryin'? I love that song by TBS.
5. Not a question, but I found it interesting that LITFL was recorded at the Cranston Benefit.

This album is actually what inspired my "Eagles Concert" playlist collection that I mess with.
I have all my CDs ripped to mp3, so I try to put together concerts, like the HFO tour, and the HOTE tour. That way I can listen in the order that I heard them in live.

Ive always been a dreamer

12-16-2014, 09:59 PM

BB76 - I share your love of the Eagles Live album, but I can only guess about some of your questions.

1. Why were the songs chosen from such a drastic time span? I suspect the songs were chosen based on the performances they felt were the best.

2. Why include Randy's song? A live album (IMO) should reflect the group as it was when the album was done. I disagree - TITTL was one of their biggest hits so why shouldn't it be included. They also included it on the HOTE bonus concert and many of us happen to think it is one of the highlights of the DVD.

3. Does Glenn play an electric guitar on HC instead of the acoustic? That song sounds different on this album than any other version I have heard, including the Millenium Concert. I personally can't recall ever seeing Glenn play anything other than an acoustic guitar on Hotel California.

4. Why not include Keep on Tryin'? I love that song by TBS. Who knows - maybe because it wasn't a big enough hit???

Freypower

12-16-2014, 10:09 PM

When TITTL was included on the HOTE DVD that was the band's lineup at the time of that show. It wasn't the lineup for most of the Eagles Live songs. I also agree that a live album should represent the current lineup of a band, no matter how loved TITTL may have been. It says a great deal about the state of the band that songs from three years previously had to be included because they presumably thought the 1980 performance weren't good enough.

The above are some reasons why I rarely listen to this album. It reminds me too much of this period of their history. I also know this is a minority opinion which is why I have never posted in this thread & won't post in it again.

Funk 50

12-17-2014, 07:42 AM

I love Eagles Live. I have a few questions about it that some of the folks here probably know the answer to.

1. Why were the songs chosen from such a drastic time span?

They obviously wanted to include Randy's, Take It To The Limit and one of the rare occassions when they performed it with live strings.

The Eagles did a legendary performance of TITTL with a 40 piece string orchestra in London 1977. It was the highlight of every Eagles concert. With the added strings it was simply peerless. Even Joe said it was overwhelming just being a part of it. The recordings of both Wasted Time and Take It To The Limit are greatly enhanced by the live strings.

2. Why include Randy's song? A live album (IMO) should reflect the group as it was when the album was done.

Not in pre-digital, 1980. Three or four Studio albums. A compilation or "Hits" album then a live document to follow, would be a typical run of albums. In the 70s, an album a year was a standard rate of release. Also, you must remember that The Long Run album wasn't as successful as the previous Hotel California album.

3. Does Glenn play an electric guitar on HC instead of the acoustic? That song sounds different on this album than any other version I have heard, including the Millenium Concert.

Again, analog technology. Before digital amplification, an acoustic guitar opening (like on the LP) is a bit quiet to start a concert. I think either Joe or Don added a bit more body to Glenn's acoustic. Actually I have a nugget of unaccounted info that guitar tech, Jage Jackson would play additional guitar on Hotel California.

4. Why not include Keep on Tryin'? I love that song by TBS.

Joe and his tunes were adopted by the Eagles to add some wallop to their FM radio friendly set list of songs. They had plenty of pretty acoustic songs. The biggest omissions are Tequila Sunrise, Best Of My Love, Lying Eyes, One Of These Nights and Already Gone....

Thanks for giving me a chance to act like a smart-ass BB76 :razz:

Mostly, the two Eagles albums to have in the 70s were Hotel California and Greatest Hits. Approaching as a Walsh fan I went for Hotel California and Eagles Live.

I was stunned by the quality of the songs and performances on Eagles live. The two Walsh tracks were probably my least favourite tracks.

Includes my favourite versions of Hotel California, Wasted Time, The Long Run, Take It To The Limit and Saturday Night.

There is a notable lack of Glenn lead vocal tracks though. Maybe he was determined to distance himself from the band as he was on the verge of quitting.

UndertheWire

12-17-2014, 08:08 AM

I know there were several shows specifically set up for the recording of the Live Album. Was there also video recording of these shows? An old interview mentioned a plan to issue archive material filmed in 1980. I'd like to see that.

Freypower

12-17-2014, 05:57 PM

They obviously wanted to include Randy's, Take It To The Limit and one of the rare occassions when they performed it with live strings.

The Eagles did a legendary performance of TITTL with a 40 piece string orchestra in London 1977. It was the highlight of every Eagles concert. With the added strings it was simply peerless. Even Joe said it was overwhelming just being a part of it. The recordings of both Wasted Time and Take It To The Limit are greatly enhanced by the live strings.

So we are assuming this performance at the Forum has strings & that's why it was included.

Not in pre-digital, 1980. Three or four Studio albums. A compilation or "Hits" album then a live document to follow, would be a typical run of albums. In the 70s, an album a year was a standard rate of release. Also, you must remember that The Long Run album wasn't as successful as the previous Hotel California album.

The point still stands that most live albums reflect a specific point of time. If it was about the success of HC why was a live album not released after the HC tour? The old tracks on Eagles Live seem like a snub to Tim.

There is a notable lack of Glenn lead vocal tracks though. Maybe he was determined to distance himself from the band as he was on the verge of quitting.

It's hardly a surprise that he hardly sings any leads. He had pretty much stopped. He talks a lot though. It's one of the album's few saving graces for me.

I'm sorry for the confusing way this post is laid out. My responses are in bold except for the last part whiuch falls outside the quote area.

Jonny Come Lately

12-18-2014, 07:19 AM

3. Does Glenn play an electric guitar on HC instead of the acoustic? That song sounds different on this album than any other version I have heard, including the Millenium Concert.
4. Why not include Keep on Tryin'? I love that song by TBS.

I think I might be able to help with these two questions:
3. As others have said, it's most likely that Glenn was playing acoustic with Don F playing the acoustic intro from the album on an electric, which is always what I've seen on video footage from the previous tour.

Interestingly, with regards to Funk 50's comments, I know Pink Floyd on their In The Flesh Tour in 1977 where they played the Animals and Wish You Were Here albums in their entirety when playing live they started with Sheep, which opens with whereas the album starts with the acoustic Pigs on the Wing - I wonder if similar reasoning was behind that move?

4. I would suggest that the Eagles would not have wanted to include a Poco song on their live album as this would be acknowledging a rival country rock band, potentially providing ammunition for Eagles-hating Poco fans (I could imagine comments like 'The Eagles didn't have enough good songs to fill their live album so they stole one of Poco's' or similar).

Also, anyone buying Eagles Live who already owned all the Eagles albums without knowing Poco's back catalogue would have been familiar with the similarly titled 'Tryin'' but not with 'Keep On Tryin'', and this could have led to confusion. The inclusion of Joe Walsh solo songs on the live album was a different matter as he was not in direct competition with the Eagles prior to joining and as he only had two Eagles songs up to that point (one of which was a ballad - hardly the sort of material he was/is typically associated with) it was a good idea to let him bring in a couple of his own songs and as these were an important part of the live show they needed to represented on the live album.

I do think the inclusion of Saturday Night might have been to give Tim a bit more exposure on the live album beyond ICTYW, as he sings Randy's lines from the original - which was ideal as it gave him something else to sing without giving him a song that was tied to Randy's voice like TITTL.

sodascouts

12-18-2014, 07:30 PM

I think the reason they left out "Best of My Love" was because Don has said he didn't like how it sounded live. I'd have to disagree, though!

I love that they included "Take It to the Limit." It's a highlight of the album for me. My favorite, though, is the magnificent "Seven Bridges Road."

shunlvswx

11-07-2017, 10:50 AM

Happy 37th Birthday to Eagles Live album.

New Kid In Town

11-07-2017, 11:33 AM

I've always enjoyed this album. My one complaint would be there were not enough songs by Glenn. Little did I know 37 years ago when I bought this album that the group had already broken up. I have to say my favorite song on the album is SBR.

YoungEaglesFan

11-07-2017, 01:20 PM

Happy birthday eagles live! I like a lot of the stuff on here but i wish they had put already gone and best of my love on it. I absolutely SBR but I wish they had a version with Bernie and Randy instead. I was also dissapointed that don had to sing in for some of Glenn’s part. I wish they had kept the actual live recording or just had Glenn redo it. I know Glenn had quit and had they had to Finish the album by themselves but still

Dawn

11-07-2017, 01:37 PM

I remember buying this album and playing it all the time! Take It To The Limit probably my most favorite . Those were the days, actually going to a record store and praying the albums I wanted weren't sold out, LOL.

shunlvswx

11-07-2017, 02:41 PM

I bought the album from Itunes about 2 or 3 years ago. I haven't listen to it in a long time.

longtimeeaglesfan

11-07-2017, 03:43 PM

This was my very first Eagles Album - a Christmas gift from my older sister in 1980 when I was just 15. I really loved it and was disappointed to hear that they had broken up already. I then collected all their previous albums and started getting the solos starting with I Can't Stand Still and No Fun Aloud.

I remember trying to match up who was who from the cleaner cut looks from the Eagles Live photos to the earlier One of These Nights, Desperado and HC.

Delilah

11-07-2017, 04:44 PM

I absolutely SBR but I wish they had a version with Bernie and Randy instead. I was also dissapointed that don had to sing in for some of Glenn’s part. I wish they had kept the actual live recording or just had Glenn redo it. I know Glenn had quit and had they had to Finish the album by themselves but still

All due respect to Joe and Timothy, I bet a version with Bernie and Randy would sound awesome. But Bernie had left the band by the time the ‘76 Forum concerts happened. As far as Glenn’s part being filled out by Don H, at least there’s the ‘76 Seattle version where Glenn’s voice is quite prominent throughout.

Which brings me to this...I can’t help but wonder how many shows were recorded for a possible live album. This was probably something the record company had been wanting for awhile but the band wasn’t ready for it (or maybe they didn’t want a repeat of GH 1). The record company didn’t get it until push came to shove and the band was breaking up. By then there are some newer songs to include on it.

I bought the album from Itunes about 2 or 3 years ago. I haven't listen to it in a long time.

I haven’t listened to it in a long time either, except for the outstanding TITTL. Even then I listen with some skepticism, now that I know about all the studio over-dubbing.

groupie2686

11-07-2017, 05:31 PM

All due respect to Joe and Timothy, I bet a version with Bernie and Randy would sound awesome. But Bernie had left the band by the time the ‘76 Forum concerts happened. As far as Glenn’s part being filled out by Don H, at least there’s the ‘76 Seattle version where Glenn’s voice is quite prominent throughout.

Which brings me to this...I can’t help but wonder how many shows were recorded for a possible live album. This was probably something the record company had been wanting for awhile but the band wasn’t ready for it (or maybe they didn’t want a repeat of GH 1). The record company didn’t get it until push came to shove and the band was breaking up. By then there are some newer songs to include on it.

I haven’t listened to it in a long time either, except for the outstanding TITTL. Even then I listen with some skepticism, now that I know about all the studio over-dubbing.

So, is the version of SBR that is on the 2-CD Very Best Of album the same that is on Eagles Live? Or from Seattle in '76, because you can hear Glenn quite loudly throughout?

I don't have this album....is it worth it to get?

Pippinwhite

11-07-2017, 05:42 PM

The album is available in tota on Spotify if you want to give it a listen before buying. I think it's a good album. "Heartache Tonight" always sounds better live, IMHO.

On the rare occasions when MTV would play something besides HC during their Closet Classics segment, I was always thrilled when they played anything with Glenn singing lead -- usually from the live in DC show. I'd sit there in front of the TV, just saying, "Isn't he goooorrrrgeous?" LOL. The mind of a 15-year-old. Did the same thing when "The One You Love" video came out. Oh Lord, I was so bowled over by how good he looks in that video! They'd also occasionally show "The Long Run" and "I Can't Tell You Why" -- the studio videos -- and I'd be drooling again. LOL. :inlove:

YoungEaglesFan

11-07-2017, 05:43 PM

So, is the version of SBR that is on the 2-CD Very Best Of album the same that is on Eagles Live? Or from Seattle in '76, because you can hear Glenn quite loudly throughout?

I don't have this album....is it worth it to get?

I’m sure it’s the same version. I posted a video of the isolated tracks for SBR on here. If you look up seven bridges road deconstructed on YouTube you can find it. Listen to Glenn’s part (for some reason it’s put with felder’s), you’ll hear throughout the song times when Don sings his parts instead. It’s not just don’s normal part which is higher.

Freypower

11-07-2017, 06:29 PM

Delilah

11-07-2017, 06:33 PM

So, is the version of SBR that is on the 2-CD Very Best Of album the same that is on Eagles Live? Or from Seattle in '76, because you can hear Glenn quite loudly throughout?

I don't have this album....is it worth it to get?

There is only one official recording of SBR and that’s the one from the 1980 live concert. So yes it’s the same. As YEF pointed out, there was a discussion about the deconstructed SBR video on one of these threads. Only then can a person tell that Don H filled in brief gaps during Glenn’s part, presumably b/c Glenn wasnt interested in coming back to the studio to dub in these parts himself. Normally I don’t think it’s obvious.

The ‘76 Seattle version is a bootleg and not an official release. Personally I wasn’t interested in downloading the whole Live album from iTunes, just the tracks I wanted. But if you don’t already have SBR, I would definitely suggest getting it b/c it’s such a classic display of Eagles harmonies (I have it already on GH 2).

thelastresort

11-07-2017, 06:56 PM

Happy birthday Eagles Live, one of the finest studio albums the Eagles ever put out.

I'm not a fan of live albums in general, but I reserve special contempt for Eagles Live. As FP alludes to, from the overdubbing so prolific they may as well have just recorded them again from scratch to the inclusion of material not days but practically half a decade apart there is nothing to write home about at all. I am still waiting for someone to explain what on earth the 42 seconds of noise entitled 'Doolin-Dalton Reprise II' is; if you are going to include an orchestral solo (which shows how utterly desperate they were IMO) at least do them justice and make it something both substantive and actually remarkable.

New Kid In Town

11-07-2017, 07:11 PM

So, is the version of SBR that is on the 2-CD Very Best Of album the same that is on Eagles Live? Or from Seattle in '76, because you can hear Glenn quite loudly throughout?
I don't have this album....is it worth it to get?

Groupie - I purchased the Very Best Of cd when it came out. I like it and listen to it quite often. Like Pippin said, you can listen to it before you buy it.
As for Eagles Live, I have not listened to it in many years. I remember the crap they took when it came out. If I remember right, critics called it the most over dubbed live album ever released - lol.

I love the Seattle bootleg. They do a great job with SBR and Randy sounds beautiful. I also think the version with Randy and Bernie must have sounded awesome. Like I said in the other thread for the 40th Annv. of HC, I wish the third cd was remastered LIVE concert footage instead of the high def of HC. If that had been done I would have no problem spending the $100 bucks. JMHO.

YoungEaglesFan

11-08-2017, 02:23 AM

The version of 7BR on Very Best Of is the Eagles Live version, and it is news to me that Glenn's part was partially sung by Don or whatever. You can hear him clearly throughout. Don's solo part though, 'sometimes there's a part of me' is blatantly overdubbed. And that is the answer to groupie's question; it is not a very good album. It is overdubbed to hell, and the inclusion of songs from 1976 demonstrates that they had run out of ideas.

It’s weird, you can’t really hear it on the record but if you listen to the isolated tracks it’s very clear. It’s disappointing. For example like “southward as you go” in the intro is don. Most of the last part is don singing. It’s unfortunate

Freypower

11-08-2017, 05:31 PM

It’s weird, you can’t really hear it on the record but if you listen to the isolated tracks it’s very clear. It’s disappointing. For example like “southward as you go” in the intro is don. Most of the last part is don singing. It’s unfortunate

I'll just stick to the official recording then, thanks.

However, I am now listening to that video, and right at the beginning, there is Glenn singing 'southward as you go'. So I don't really know what you are referring to. I mean they were singing harmonies, right? So there are multiple parts!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4lwJw6g2gM&feature=youtu.be

sodascouts

11-08-2017, 08:48 PM

I'd never noticed it, either.

BillBailey1976

11-09-2017, 08:19 AM

YoungEaglesFan

11-09-2017, 08:56 AM

I'll just stick to the official recording then, thanks.

However, I am now listening to that video, and right at the beginning, there is Glenn singing 'southward as you go'. So I don't really know what you are referring to. I mean they were singing harmonies, right? So there are multiple parts!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4lwJw6g2gM&feature=youtu.be

Maybe it’s not that line but there are a few times Don comes in for Glenn’s parts. The last part is the most obvious with the switch in and switch out. He is singing the same notes as Glenn but with his voice. I can’t listen to it but on a thread on here and on elsewhere I’ve seen people say it’s don’s part. It was something I just didn’t know and it’s impossible on the record to hear

YoungEaglesFan

11-09-2017, 09:04 AM

In general the SBR individually wasn’t that great. Joe does not sound good (though his part is impossible to hear besides the part where he goes down on “as you go”, Glenn’s part is broken up by don, Felder did his part in the studio, Henley sounds good but I think there’s some overdub. Timothy was fine but I think he sounds weak at times. Randy’s voice was better for that song. But it still sounds great so that speaks volumes about the standard we have

BillBailey1976

11-09-2017, 02:30 PM

scottside

11-09-2017, 03:28 PM

A thought that just occurred to me about SBR. Why was this song not on The Long Run? All the stories you hear is how they didn't have anything finished, and how big a struggle the song writing was during this album.
It would have made sense. It was a song they did live, so fans would know it.
Has anyone heard this answered?

It would've made perfect sense to me, but it seems that they wanted to include all original material from ONE OF THESE NIGHTS onward (before the reunion...apparently things changed after that). I would've killed for a studio version of that! They probably only used it on the LIVE set because the record label wanted a single and that was the only viable candidate that sounded like and Eagles song. They weren't going to go with "All Night Long."

BillBailey1976

11-09-2017, 03:44 PM

But, wasn't "in The City" a Walsh solo song? That's another reason why I can't figure out SBR not being there. Schmidt brought in ICTYW, and Joe had ITC.

Shadowland07

11-09-2017, 04:16 PM

Freypower

11-09-2017, 05:37 PM

That line definitely sounds like Don not Glenn. Right before "Southward" you hear the audio cut.

OK, I hear what you are saying.

And it makes me dislike the album & everything associated with the period even more. Quite frankly, I don't see how it benefits any fans knowing that this occurred. As if the album wasn't fake enough. (NB: MY VIEWS).

BillBailey1976

11-10-2017, 09:05 AM

I wonder if this new Hotel California Live CD will be as overdubbed, or if it will be more authentically live.

My My

11-10-2017, 10:10 AM

Pippin posted a link to one of the tracks, "New Kid in Town" in eagles mentions in the press. It sounds really good.

Delilah

11-10-2017, 11:41 AM

I wonder if this new Hotel California Live CD will be as overdubbed, or if it will be more authentically live.

I’ve thought about that too, but then when would they have over-dubbed it? It seems odd they would overdub all the ‘76 Forum performances and the ones from 1980 as well, back then.

YoungEaglesFan

11-10-2017, 12:41 PM

A thought that just occurred to me about SBR. Why was this song not on The Long Run? All the stories you hear is how they didn't have anything finished, and how big a struggle the song writing was during this album.
It would have made sense. It was a song they did live, so fans would know it.
Has anyone heard this answered?

I guess it just wouldn’t have been a good song for the album. It would have been a bit weird putting a straight country bluegrass song on their least country album. I would have also killed for a studio version. They should have put it on OOTN. I feel like it would have fit with the album great

scottside

11-10-2017, 01:25 PM

I’ve thought about that too, but then when would they have over-dubbed it? It seems odd they would overdub all the ‘76 Forum performances and the ones from 1980 as well, back then.

It probably won't be overdubbed and in this day, they can just use auto-tune or some other form of pitch shifting which will save loads of time and money. I would expect them to do this as they are not likely to let anything out that doesn't meet their ultra high standards.

YoungEaglesFan

11-10-2017, 06:56 PM

It probably won't be overdubbed and in this day, they can just use auto-tune or some other form of pitch shifting which will save loads of time and money. I would expect them to do this as they are not likely to let anything out that doesn't meet their ultra high standards.

They would not use auto tune. Overdubbing is not as bad as autotune. It’s something they’ve been against and will continue to be against.

WalshFan88

11-11-2017, 06:48 AM

I love Eagles Live. A great variety of songs and my favorite version on record of Life's Been Good. I'm sorry, but that version just smokes the one everyone knows on But Seriously Folks.

shunlvswx

11-07-2018, 01:41 PM

Happy 38th Birthday to the Eagles Live album.

shunlvswx

11-08-2019, 09:59 AM

Happy 39th Birthday to the Eagles live album on yesterday.

longtimeeaglesfan

11-11-2019, 01:57 PM

My very first Eagles album - I received it for Christmas in 1980 at the age of 15. Within the next year I had collected all their previous albums and started to move on to their solo records. I remember comparing the band photos in the live album to those on Hotel California and One of These Nights trying to figure out who was who!!

Thirty-six years later when I met Don Felder, I had him sign the cover.

Many great memories!

Ive always been a dreamer

11-12-2019, 07:30 PM

A belated Happy Anniversary to Eagles Live.

I also love this album. Probably my favorite live album by any band ever!

And that is cool that you got Felder to sign the cover, ltef. And I laughed when I read your post because I remember so vividly doing exactly the same thing when The Long Run came out. It was the first time I found out that Randy had left the band and Timothy was in. And I found Glenn by a process of elimination. Needless to say, I was astounded by his new look.