Happy 70th birthday Glenn

[sodascouts]

I'm just going to report what I put on Glenn Frey Online (http://www.glennfreyonline.com):

Today would have been Glenn's 70th birthday. It's hard to wrap one's head around that.

70 is the age that, to me at least, is when a person officially hits the "old" category.

They may not act old or feel old. The headspace is certainly more important that any number. In all the meaningful ways, they may not be old. If they're really lucky, they may not even look old. However, strictly in terms of age... when they have to check the box that says 70-79 on forms, they have hit the old folks category.

And Glenn never made it there.

I'll be thinking about him a lot today, and I won't be the only one. There will be people thinking of him today especially around the globe. He affected so many with his music.

As we do, we all have to remember the lyrics of that prescient song, "It's Your World Now," and its admonition of "No tears allowed." We must focus on celebrating his life.

So, let's make it a happy 70th birthday, for Glenn.

[sodascouts]

BTW, my apologies to all my 70+ members if I just made you feel ancient. I just mean in terms of NUMBERS - as I said, in IMPORTANT ways, it's not about that. There are 70 year olds who are younger than a lot of 60 year olds I know in all the meaningful ways.

[CAinOH]

Well said, soda.

[New Kid In Town]

Beautifully said Soda. Glenn was such an amazing talent and is greatly missed. Thinking of Glenn and his family today. It must be a hard day for them. Also thinking of all my Border friends today. Sending hugs to everyone.
Soda, I love your avatar !

[FreyFollower]

So sad to not have even reached seventy. But goodness knows, he packed many lifetimes worth of living in those 67 years.
Beautiful words, Soda. I'm afraid I can't live up to the "No tears allowed" lyric, but he is remembered with a smile. I am reminded of some words to an old hymn of heaven..."through eternity sing...in a land where we'll never grow old...".

Happy Birthday, Glenn, with love.

[Houston Baby]

I feel so blessed to have been born 5 years after Glenn Lewis Frey. It meant I was able to fully enjoy the many, many talents of this beautiful man for many years.
Thank you Glenn for enhancing my life with your music! You will be forever in my :heart:
My thoughts are with his family and many friends today.

[Brooke]

Yes, it's sad that Glenn never made it to 70, but I doubt he would have changed anything about how he lived his life. He lived it to the fullest and even though he died at a fairly young age, what a life to have lived!

I am sad whenever I think of him. I can't promise 'no tears allowed' today. Thinking of his family and close friends......Happy birthday, Glenn......Gone but never forgotten.

[LuvTim]

Remembering Glenn and all his special gifts. :rockguitar:

[shunlvswx]

Happy 70th Birthday to Glenn Lewis Frey. Thank you for the many years of great music. Here's my favorite picture of Glenn.

http://www.glennfreyonline.com/images/GFreySTB03.jpghttp://www.glennfreyonline.com/images/GFreySTB03.jpghttp://www.glennfreyonline.com/images/GFreySTB03.jpg

[takeiteasy]

The best ones always leave us too soon (my father included) :heart:

[groupie2686]

Happy birthday, Glenn. Thank you for the music and enriching my and so many lives.

I can't promise "no tears allowed" either....gone far too soon

[MarthaJo56]

BTW, my apologies to all my 70+ members if I just made you feel ancient. I just mean in terms of NUMBERS - as I said, in IMPORTANT ways, it's not about that. There are 70 year olds who are younger than a lot of 60 year olds I know in all the meaningful ways.

It's all a matter of how you feel and one's state of mind.:guitar::headbang:
Two years ago when my beautiful sister, Christina, turned 70, she came to visit and we took her out to hear a local rock band.
She was out on the dance floor for every song, rockin' & rollin' and keeping up with the best of us. In contrast, another friend of mine, who was also 70, danced to the slow songs, sat at the table most of the night talking about how old he was.
I'd like to think that Glenn would be more like my sister. Celebrating every year and still rockin' & rollin'. <3:heart::band:

[Houston Baby]

Happy 70th Birthday to Glenn Lewis Frey. Thank you for the many years of great music. Here's my favorite picture of Glenn.

http://www.glennfreyonline.com/images/GFreySTB03.jpghttp://www.glennfreyonline.com/images/GFreySTB03.jpghttp://www.glennfreyonline.com/images/GFreySTB03.jpg

I love this photo too shun!! :smitten:

[East Texas Girl]

Happy Heavenly Birthday Glenn!! Thanks for the music and the lovely pictures! :heart:

[Pippinwhite]

Happy birthday, Glenn. One of my music men who gave me so much, just because he shared his talents with the world. :iloveyou:

[WalshFan88]

Happy Belated 70th Birthday Glenn.

Oh how I wished I had been more of a fan of you while you were alive and I would have loved to meet you to tell you how much the music you helped create affected me. The Ultimate Eagle IMO.

[Dawn]

Glenn Frey was and always will be in a league all his own. A tremendous talent and remarkable human being who gave his all to creating music and entertaining others. He was also a warrior who faced the challenge of a serious auto-immune disorder with courage and grace. Glenn left this world much too soon and will be forever missed.

https://i.redd.it/4accnjs5ypqz.jpg

[takeiteasy]

Glenn Frey was and always will be in a league all his own. A tremendous talent and remarkable human being who gave his all to creating music and entertaining others. He was also a warrior who faced the challenge of a serious auto-immune disorder with courage and grace. Glenn left this world much too soon and will be forever missed.

https://i.redd.it/4accnjs5ypqz.jpg
I totally agree.
Very good picture.

[takeiteasy]

I just want to send a little love straight from my heart to anyone who is feeling grief at this time. I won't pretend that I knew too much about Mr. Frey, or pretend to have been a huge fan of the Eagles, but I do know how a song can sneak up on you and play a big role in putting a place-holder on your heart to a special memory in your own life.

For me, it's Frank Sinatra's "The Way You Look Tonight." Oh man, that song just kills me. It was my grandparents' favorite song, and I remember how at all the special family occasions both my parents and grandparents would always hit the dance floor to dance to that song. And when my grandfather was sick in bed in his last days on this earth 5 years ago,he would call out for my grandmother to put the song on and tell her to come on over to his bedside, and he'd hold her hand, and she'd dance a little around and he'd sing the song as best as he could to her. I can still see them dancing to the song at our wedding we held in our yard about 6 years ago -- and he died about a year later -- so I know how a song can capture your heart. We've been at a few family events since my grandfather's passing, and when that song has been played, I fall even more in love with my husband, as he doesn't skip a beat of being one of the first men out of their chairs and he extends his hand out for my grandmother to dance with him.


What originally brought me to this board earlier this year was not only to learn a little about a band my husband and I were planning to see last summer, but I came across a tidbit of info that Glenn Frey & my husband not only look so much alike, but they share the same birth date; although my husband only turned 32 yesterday, and our son turned 4 two days earlier on Nov. 4. I don't know too much about astrology, so I was interested to learn info about Glenn Frey to see if they shared any common traits -- but from what I've read about Mr. Frey on this forum -- I don't think they have too much in common.

I know I had mentioned before that my husband worked his way through college performing in a band with his brothers in clubs all around NYC -- but I don't know if I ever mentioned that Glenn Frey happened to be at a couple of their shows, and they happened to talk before or after those shows. I know one of the shows was for a fundraising benefit that Mr. Frey attended.

But one thing it appears they both share in common is that I couldn't have asked for a better husband, who always has my back -- and he is a phenomenal father -- and it sounds like Mr. Frey was a wonderful husband and father, as well.

But one thing Matt and I discovered early on is that we have very different interior design styles. Matt is a phenomenal architect, who took a little rundown house we bought when we first got married and designed our absolute dream home, which he also built, along with help from his brothers, my father and my grandfather. But when we went to pick out furniture -- we had complete opposite tastes. I loved light, cotton fabrics -- and he liked dark leather furniture. He allowed me to have free reign of picking out all the furniture.

So for his birthday yesterday I surprised him with replacing one of our living room sofas with a leather sofa. Even though it definitely changes the style of our living room a lot -- just to see how happy it makes him is worth it. This is the sofa that is sitting in my living room right now and my husband and son are cuddled up it watching Anthony Bourdain's Parts Unknown old repeat shows On Demand:
https://www.clubfurniture.com/products/sheffield-deep-seated-select-a-size-extra-large-leather-sofa

I know many of you are still feeling grief today -- but take-in all the love around you. :heart:

Hi Carolyn! What a coincidence! My son turned 16 on Nov. 4. So our sons are Scorpio. They are sensitive, intuitive and charismatic.
Some traits that my teenager shares with Glenn Frey: he's left-handed, he plays the piano and he is a bit arrogant too! :laugh:

One thing I noticed when I read about the Eagles for the first time was that half of them were Scorpio: Frey, Walsh and Schmit or signs of Water: Leadon (Cancer) and Meisner (Pisces). Emotional tension guaranteed! Well...Henley (Leo) added passion and Felder (Virgo) stability :headscratch: :hilarious:

[CAinOH]

... Felder (Virgo) stability :headscratch: :hilarious:

That head scratching emoji is a good addition for that statement! LOL!

[New Kid In Town]

I just want to send a little love straight from my heart to anyone who is feeling grief at this time. I won't pretend that I knew too much about Mr. Frey, or pretend to have been a huge fan of the Eagles, but I do know how a song can sneak up on you and play a big role in putting a place-holder on your heart to a special memory in your own life.

For me, it's Frank Sinatra's "The Way You Look Tonight." Oh man, that song just kills me. It was my grandparents' favorite song, and I remember how at all the special family occasions both my parents and grandparents would always hit the dance floor to dance to that song. And when my grandfather was sick in bed in his last days on this earth 5 years ago,he would call out for my grandmother to put the song on and tell her to come on over to his bedside, and he'd hold her hand, and she'd dance a little around and he'd sing the song as best as he could to her. I can still see them dancing to the song at our wedding we held in our yard about 6 years ago -- and he died about a year later -- so I know how a song can capture your heart. We've been at a few family events since my grandfather's passing, and when that song has been played, I fall even more in love with my husband, as he doesn't skip a beat of being one of the first men out of their chairs and he extends his hand out for my grandmother to dance with him
What originally brought me to this board earlier this year was not only to learn a little about a band my husband and I were planning to see last summer, but I came across a tidbit of info that Glenn Frey & my husband not only look so much alike, but they share the same birth date; although my husband only turned 32 yesterday, and our son turned 4 two days earlier on Nov. 4. I don't know too much about astrology, so I was interested to learn info about Glenn Frey to see if they shared any common traits -- but from what I've read about Mr. Frey on this forum -- I don't think they have too much in common.
I know I had mentioned before that my husband worked his way through college performing in a band with his brothers in clubs all around NYC -- but I don't know if I ever mentioned that Glenn Frey happened to be at a couple of their shows, and they happened to talk before or after those shows. I know one of the shows was for a fundraising benefit that Mr. Frey attended.

But one thing it appears they both share in common is that I couldn't have asked for a better husband, who always has my back -- and he is a phenomenal father -- and it sounds like Mr. Frey was a wonderful husband and father, as well.

But one thing Matt and I discovered early on is that we have very different interior design styles. Matt is a phenomenal architect, who took a little rundown house we bought when we first got married and designed our absolute dream home, which he also built, along with help from his brothers, my father and my grandfather. But when we went to pick out furniture -- we had complete opposite tastes. I loved light, cotton fabrics -- and he liked dark leather furniture. He allowed me to have free reign of picking out all the furniture.

So for his birthday yesterday I surprised him with replacing one of our living room sofas with a leather sofa. Even though it definitely changes the style of our living room a lot -- just to see how happy it makes him is worth it. This is the sofa that is sitting in my living room right now and my husband and son are cuddled up it watching Anthony Bourdain's Parts Unknown old repeat shows On Demand:
https://www.clubfurniture.com/products/sheffield-deep-seated-select-a-size-extra-large-leather-sofa

I know many of you are still feeling grief today -- but take-in all the love around you. :heart:

Carolyn - Thanks for your beautiful words. Such a beautiful story. You sound like one lucky girl who has an amazing husband. Happy Birthday to your son and Matt. Hope y'all had a great time at the sox game.

Everyone has left such beautiful memories of Glenn. Dawn - I love that picture of Glenn !

[WalshFan88]

Hi Carolyn! What a coincidence! My son turned 16 on Nov. 4. So our sons are Scorpio. They are sensitive, intuitive and charismatic.
Some traits that my teenager shares with Glenn Frey: he's left-handed, he plays the piano and he is a bit arrogant too! :laugh:

One thing I noticed when I read about the Eagles for the first time was that half of them were Scorpio: Frey, Walsh and Schmit or signs of Water: Leadon (Cancer) and Meisner (Pisces). Emotional tension guaranteed! Well...Henley (Leo) added passion and Felder (Virgo) stability :headscratch: :hilarious:

Hey now, lets not be poking fun at Virgos! Haha. I'm one. I actually fit the description of one too, pretty closely. :lol:

[Ive always been a dreamer]

Well I'm so sorry that I didn't get to post on Glenn's birthday, but he was certainly not forgotten. I started my day celebrating his amazing life by wearing my 'After Hours' tee shirt and ended it by going out to dinner and attending a JD Souther show in Nashville with my 'partner in crime', Sodascouts!

I am forever grateful for Glenn and the contributions he made during his life. Although he left us far too soon, he definitely left his mark on this world. To paraphrase his lyrics, I thank goodness every day that he was 'part of something good' and left 'something good behind'. Actually, in true Glenn style, that is quite an understatement.

[EaglesFan86]

I know that my post is late but I would like to add a little something to this existing thread if that's allright with you all :



Thank you Glenn Frey for your contributions & sharing your gifts with this world. You have inspired & encouraged me to not only be a part of something good but to leave something good behind as well.

[Glennhoney]

67 was way too young to die......but better than to see him suffering to an old age....God I miss this man..every day...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Ive always been a dreamer]

GH - to quote him ... "You Are Not Alone"!!!

[Glennsallnighter]

And I concur with that too Dreamer