Discussion of Eagles Documentary "History of the Eagles"

Eh, let's not make a federal case out of this. Perm or natural, it looks very sexy!

Today in the subway I saw a HUGE poster for the Eagles DVD! I wanted to take a picture with it, but I was on my way home & there were tons of people around. Maybe tomorrow morning, I will leave a little early to take a photo with it! It was at 51st & Lexington Ave. I wish they had their photos on the posters & the cover...

I watched part two last night. I enjoyed it. It was hard not to watch it with an open mind when I had read so many things about it here. As I said, I think I'm going to skim over this thread again now that I've seen the whole thing.

I did want to mention that I was glad they included snippets of Joe's slower songs, Help Me Through the Night and Pretty Maids. Do you think they did it because of the serious subject matter being addressed, or were they just trying to include all of Joe's work that was recorded by the Eagles?

They seemed to choose the music with care to go along with what was being discussed, so I would imagine they used the slower songs to emphasize the seriousness of the topic. That's only my speculation, of course.

I just watched part one again and made notes.

It's so cool that Don still has that first drum kit that his mom bought for him!

There were some major 'what ifs' - what if Glenn's mom hadn't discovered him and his friend smoking pot. Sounds like Glenn and Bob Seger would have formed their own band. And what about Don meeting Kenny Rogers and talking him into going to hear his band play? Just these two chance occurrences put Glenn and Don in So Cal at the same time so that they were able to meet.

But Glenn never really says how or why he went to California. All he says is that the band he was in at the time was into So Cal rock, like The Byrds.

Also, being a Jackson Browne fan, I loved his segments in the doc, especially the part where Glenn talks about learning how to write songs through his floor and Jackson's ceiling, by listening to Jackson's process. I think it's so cool that Glenn gave props to Jackson by putting that in there!

JD Souther talks about wanting to kill Jackson because he heard the same stuff over and over, and he specifically mentions Doctor My Eyes and The Pretender. But Doctor My Eyes has a date of 1971 and The Pretender 1976. Surely Glenn and JD were not still living above Jackson during the writing of The Pretender. And if JB had been writing The Pretender back in 1971, surely he would have put it on an album before 1976. So I think JD just pulled those songs out of the air.

And speaking of JD, what was with the mega close up every time he was interviewed? Lol!

I wonder how many people said no when asked to be interviewed? Obviously Linda Ronstadt did, if she was asked, and I don't know why she wouldn't be.

I thought it was interesting when Glenn said that he didn't like Gly Johns rules about no drugs or alcohol in the studio, then, in the very next piece, Don says he thought it was a good idea. They were of two different mindsets there.

How did they meet Jack Tempchin? They don't say.

During a concert segment while TIE is being performed, Glenn sings, 'just find a place to play your hand'. I've never heard those lyrics before.

What word is Jackson Browne trying to say while describing the lines Glenn wrote to TIE? It sounds like 'mercurial ...oh wait, auto complete just answered my question! Lol! I was trying to spell what I heard and it corrected me!

Here's a question for Austin. Does Don Felder's guitar part on HC have to be played on a double neck, or is that just for 'looks'?

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Originally Posted by Prettymaid

I just watched part one again and made notes.

It's so cool that Don still has that first drum kit that his mom bought for him!

There were some major 'what ifs' - what if Glenn's mom hadn't discovered him and his friend smoking pot. Sounds like Glenn and Bob Seger would have formed their own band. And what about Don meeting Kenny Rogers and talking him into going to hear his band play? Just these two chance occurrences put Glenn and Don in So Cal at the same time so that they were able to meet.

But Glenn never really says how or why he went to California. All he says is that the band he was in at the time was into So Cal rock, like The Byrds.

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It has been said that Glenn had a girlfriend who went to California & he followed her out there.

Yes, now I remember that being mentioned here on the board. They didn't address it at all in the documentary. But his band went out there, too.

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Originally Posted by Prettymaid

I thought it was interesting when Glenn said that he didn't like Gly Johns rules about no drugs or alcohol in the studio, then, in the very next piece, Don says he thought it was a good idea. They were of two different mindsets there.

How did they meet Jack Tempchin? They don't say.

During a concert segment while TIE is being performed, Glen sings, 'just find a place to play your hand'. I've never heard those lyrics before.

What word is Jackson Browne trying to say while describing the lines Glenn wrote to TIE? It sounds like 'mercurial ...oh wait, auto complete just answered my question! Lol! I was trying to spell what I heard and it corrected me!

Here's a question for Austin. Does Don Felder's guitar part on HC have to be played on a double neck, or is that just for 'looks'?

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Glenn changes the lyrics when performing TIE live, for example on the Live album he sings "Southern California" instead of "Winslow, Arizona".

Felder plays it on the double neck guitar so he can switch back and forth between the 12 string acoustic part and the lead guitar parts.