Eagles Mentions in the Press (2006 - 2017)

Another joke bit using the Eagles. It's an article about the impending retirement of Vikings quarterback Brett Favre (Maleah's man). It jokes that Favre has been offered a position in the Eagles as lead singer, replacing Glenn (Favre has recently celebrated the Vikings beating the Cowboys by singing "Pants on the Ground").

Not exactly hilarity, IMHO, but your mileage may vary. Re: ICTYW, I choose to believe that the reference is not an erroneous identification of the lead singer by the author, but rather a reference to the soulful way Glenn sings the answering parts ala "Try to keep your head little girl" during the song.

LOL!! I love the picture in relation to the article. lol It's fitting :hilarious:

I think I can sense a spate of 'soulful, brooding facial expressions' coming up. :singer::eyebrow:

This is a rather long post, but the results are posted after the "contestants" so read on. Eagles are in the mix as is Walch at the end as an individual. I tried to post the entire thing, but there must have been some embedded thing that cut it off. If you are interested, you can read it all at the link below. You'll have to do some scrolling to get it all.

from http://blog.beliefnet.com/bibleandcu.../01/index.html
Ben Witherington on Bible and Culture

So you are seriously stranded on a desert island for 30 days, but the good news is, while it does not have internet or cellphone connectability, what it does have is one way time travel ability rather like the island in LOST. You, by manipulating the rockster machine can import your favorite bands to play for you for a day. So who would you choose? You are only allowed to choose one or the other of the paired items below and only one per day. And is there a band you would want to here last before you are rescued and brought back to the rather sad post-rock era of the 21rst century? Herein you can learn something about your own ancient fav raves. Choose away, and then I will offer another post based on your reported choices, and what they tell you about you.

This might be connected with what Mike posted above but I'm not sure. It is the same blog. You guys might want to read or skim thru it all. There's some stuff about Cat Stevens, Zeppelin, Genesis and many other artists I know a lot of the Borderers love.

http://blog.beliefnet.com/bibleandcu...first-ten.html

I have some comments about his conclusions:

1. Beatles over Stones - yes, every time. But the Stones do have an amazing body of work. There was a sequence of albums which ran as follows: Beggars Banquet, Let It Bleed, Exile On Main Street, Sticky Fingers. Not bad.

2. I disagree that Zeppelin never showed the Who's 'creativity' by writing a rock opera. They didn't have to. Their individual songs are like mini-operas (e.g. Kashmir, Achilles Last Stand, Battle Of Evermore) and in my opinion they were far more varied in style than the Who.

3. I disagree that CSN are individually more talented than the Eagles. They are three men who never really fulfilled their promise (particularly Crosby). You cannot really pick out that many unquestionably great songs (whereas you can with their sometime band mate, Neil Young - he forgets that the 2nd album was CSNY and to me he overrates both in terms of influence). I disagree about CSN being better live.

4. Cat Stevens had at least two landmark albums, Teaser & the Firecat as well as Tillerman. Taylor had Sweet Baby James & a handful of pleasant songs - which included a lot of cover versions.

5. I would have picked the Kinks over the Doors. Apart from a handful of songs the Doors have dated (IMO) whereas the Kinks can take you back to Swinging London any time.

6. I know many people on this board are Foreigner fans but no way (IMO) are they better than Pink Floyd, although perhaps more accessible.

Overall my list would be Beatles/Led Zeppelin/Eagles/Cat Stevens/Janis Joplin/Mamas & Papas/Kinks/Jimi Hendrix/Genesis/Pink Floyd/Joni Mitchell/Chicago/Byrds/Boston (only because of More Than A Feeling)/Aerosmith/Elton John/Phil Collins/Bob Dylan/Police/Cream/Donovan/Kenny Loggins (?!)/Heart/Moody Blues/Fleetwood Mac/Steve Winwood/Cream (So Cream get two goes)!/ZZ Top/Steely Dan and the last pairing is redundant as neither had sustained careers.

Supposedly this radio station spoke to Glenn and Joe but the spelling errors make me question its veracity! At any rate, here is the item:

KSHE95: The Eagles Add More Western Dates

FP and TBF

First off, Willie, thanks for getting the first 10 cut and pasted into a post. I had trouble with my editor with it wanting to cut off right after the intro so I just posted the link.

Some weird choices surfaced in that "poll". Some I agree with and many I didn't. The guy's comments were HIS opinions and I think a lot of them were made to fill space in his blog. It's a lot easier to document a disagreement than rubber stamp the majority <LOL>

I think I know where he was coming from with the Eagles versus CSN. I don't think you could say legitimately that CSN overshown the Eagles. But, CSN were a group trying to bridge a gap between Folk and Rock with a new genre called Folk Rock. The Eagles were doing the same thing by trying to (successfully!) to bridge between Country and Rock with, what else, "Country Rock" <LOL>. CSN were successful in their bridge before Eagles. Maybe that's what his point was. I dunno.

As for vocal talent, both groups were and still ARE superb. Both had unbelievable harmonies and I think maybe that is another reason he stacked the two together in the poll.

It was an interesting read though and gave some food for thought...not just with the Eagles and CSN, but in several of the pairings.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/art...ur.html?cat=33

Thanks for that Koala. I didn't realize until it was spelled out in that article just how many similarities the two bands have.