Keepin' the dream alive!! *G*
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Keepin' the dream alive!! *G*
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Originally Posted by eaglesvet
Wow, it is nice to be back from chaperoning my daughter's spring break trip. I see Don has been busy giving interviews while I have been gone (we took laptops but our condo did not have wi-fi access :???:) and he is his usual articulate, biting, intelligent, passionate self. I love it!
The Columbia Tribune article was great. I loved reading his views on Robert Christgau (I had to Google him), the Internet, blogs, and "annoying reporters and sloppy, lazy journalism." And speaking of annoying reporters, he really zings it to the reporter in the Cleveland interview as only Don can! This completely cracked me up:
"But that line in the song has little or nothing to do with alcoholic beverages. It's a sociopolitical statement. My only regret would be having to explain it in detail to you, which would defeat the purpose of using literary devices in songwriting and lower the discussion to some silly and irrelevant argument about chemical processes."
No one can craft a response like he can. I bow to the master. :bow:
An oldie but a goodie that came up on my Google alert while I was gone:
Don Henley Finds His Thrill at The Sunset Grill
(Blast from the past)
Michael Fremer
2009-03-01
http://www.musicangle.com/feat.php?i...rmat=printable
Thanks for posting that, DF. And welcome back!
Don's response to the Hotel California question cracked me up too. He blew that interviewer out of the water.
Yes DF thank you. Great interview.
I especially like this:
“Are you somebody? I think you’re someone!” the buxom woman exclaimed in a thick Eastern European Dr. Ruth (Good Sex) Westheimer voice. Down at the Sunset Grill, Don Henley’s well-kept cover is finally about to be blown. The woman, who’s probably served the veteran rock star hundreds of cheeseburgers, is finally getting the picture. “You…you are Don Henley!” “Yes,” Henley sheepishly admits. “You are so…so intelligent! she exclaims. “When you write [in the song, “Sunset Grill”] about ‘the old man there from the old world, to him it’s all the same, calls the customers by name’ —how do you know that?”
Before Don can answer, the East Berlin-born woman disappears, returning with “the old man,” her Viennese-born husband, Joe. His reaction to meeting the artist whose song is making his burger stand famous is to shrug and shuffle off back to the kitchen.
I enjoyed that part too, FFL. The whole article was quite an interesting read. Thanks DF.
That was a great read DF. Thanks!
Live interview in Detroit --Don't think anyone has posted this yet. Really good!! Talks about shutting down My Space pages etc... :worried:. Interesting about BOML--I think maybe they should try to redo it his way more R & B--it would be different at least.
http://dd.wcsx.com/?p=1795
Thanks for posting that, TBF. That was a great interview. That's the Don I just LOVE to hear!
I myself would never have brought the subject of chemistry up with the Don, nor did I ever even think of it when I listened to this song. Now that his truly illustrious answer has been posted, which I love, I have to beg ignorance...what in fact is the sociopolitical statement that line is making? I was only 7--8 years old in '69, so I am using that as my alibi.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ive always been a dreamer