ROFL!! Just mentioned!
Now we know the reason for the migraine you complained about in the other thread...
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ROFL!! Just mentioned!
Now we know the reason for the migraine you complained about in the other thread...
LOL at your description of EagleFever, evet!
Aw, thank you!Quote:
Originally Posted by eaglesvet
I am an information addict and when I start getting into something, I want to know as much as I can about it. I started getting back into their music through seeing Don Henley with Stevie Nicks in 2005, and as a result I began listening to and finding out more info on the Eagles.
After listening to the Very Best again and again and again, I got so into Glenn that I decided to do a site for him which opened on his birthday in 2005 (I had some prior website experience, so that wasn't too hard, albeit time-consuming). In the process of gathering material for Glenn Frey Online, I learned more and more and more... then I started doing the other sites and learned even more... and now here I am!
....and we THANK YOU SODA for being an info addict............:thumbsup:
EV, maybe you should submit that definition to wikpedia!
:rofl: That is fantastic, ev! :applause:Quote:
Originally Posted by eaglesvet
Honestly, it should be a part of the joining The Border process just to let newbies know what might happen when becoming addicted to our guys! :laugh:
What do you call someone who has had this condition for 30 years, 1979 - 2009? I have been keeping quiet about this, but any suggestions on how I can celebrate this milestone will be appreciated.
Well Fp, I don't know what you call it. It's pretty much indescribable and I'm sure you will think of some way of celebrating.
Get this. Tonight I was putting away records for 2008 and came upon an old diary that I had lain in a basket, waiting to be read again to see what was in it. It's been in this basket for years. Probably 3 or 4. I decided to read through it to see if there was anything interesting.
Tuesday, November 23, 1976 entry: "I took off work early today so we could go see The Eagles with Joe Walsh and John David Souther in St. Louis." :shock:
I have been trying to find this date for years! I knew the approximate year (76, 77, 0r 78), but could not remember exactly, for the life of me. Proof at last!
Going on with the entry: "It was great! They sang all the songs off of the albums we have plus some from their new album 'California Hotel'. :eyebrow: :lol: I've waited to see them for so long and I wish it wasn't over! I love them!"
I THOUGHT I loved them then. I had no idea what that would turn in to! :crazy: Of course, there was nothing else with the diary. No ticket stubs, no pins, picks, or anything else! :-x But yet, I'm so happy to find this out!
What a treasure Brooke! I'm so glad you enjoyed the songs from California Hotel! ;)
And FP - wow! That's a landmark indeed! Maybe we should try to schedule a chat party or something around it.
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Originally Posted by Brooke
Brooke, I'm sorry, I edited your post when I meant to quote it. I can't claim anything like this, although I've been a fan since 1975. The fact that you got to see them back then is just amazing. Also I notice you refer to 'the Eagles with Joe Walsh'. It was hard to believe he'd joined them permanently, wasn't it?
My 30 year thing refers to the release of The Long Run. Need I say more? It is a specific 'event' if you like. :confused: :idea: :help: :shy: :fainting: :jawdrop: :iloveyou:
(the foregoing was a brief emoticon description of how I felt that day).
Ahh-yeah-the old California Hotel album! :hilarious: That's great!!
I remember when "California Hotel" :hilarious: came out, my brother called and told me the Eagles had released such a great album, he was going to put it on cassette for me so I could listen in my car. I used to drive around listening to that cassette so much, I probably wore it out. I was blown away the first time I heard it...and the second and third, etc., etc.:thumbsup:
Aahh FP--I also remember that day well--I remember opening up that gatefold and taking one look at the most handsome face I had ever seen and forever fell in love with a certain long haired bass player! :inlove:Quote:
Originally Posted by Freypower
...oh God, and remember their picture in the "Long Run" album...it was probably the first great picture of the band from all their albums...and oh, Mr. Frey looked gorgeous with his new haircut...sigh..
Good heavens, Willie. It looks as if it happened for both of us around the same time (the date in my case was October 2, 1979).Quote:
Originally Posted by TimothyBFan
I became a fan of the Eagles when "Take It Easy"(Eagles) rivaled "Ramblin' Man"(Allman Brothers) climbing the top 40 charts in 1972; and when "Witchy Woman became a hit single. I was in junior high school (middle school) listening to A.M. radio after school.
Ah, you're a veteran too, Lisa. Glad to see you posting - welcome!
Hey Lisa! Glad to meet you! You got me beat by only a few years...I was hooked in '75. Welcome to the Border...I'm sure you will love it here. Give you something to do instead of shoveling all that snow I presume you are having up in the snow belt of NY. I went to college in the Finger Lakes, one of my favorite places in the whole world to go back to !
Yup FP--I was a huge Eagles fan from the first album and I gradually became a bigger fan with each album, especially after Joe joined the group BUT when Long Run came out and I took one look at the picture in the gatefold, well, I believe that is when it turned from fandom to obsession! Tho I do not remember the exact date.Quote:
Originally Posted by Freypower
I remember those days too Lisa, although I was a junior in HIGH school! :shh: Great times they were!Quote:
Originally Posted by Lisa
Welcome to The Border. It's a great place to be if you love The Eagles! :nod:
Hey Lisa and Welcome! The Border is a great place for us mildly (sometimes not so mildly) Eagles obsessed individuals! As far as How did *I* Become an Eagles fan? Im still trying to figure that out myself. I'll let you know when I do :thumbsup:
Thanks for the all of the welcomes. (I feel very welcomed now). Snow belt upstate--brrr, Arctic & Great Lake zone for part of the winter--snow shovel, no. I didn't buy one.
Hi Lisa!
Welcome from me too! I think you will really enjoy this board-all of us have one thing in common-our love for the Eagles!
The first time I remember being aware of the Eagles was in 1973, my junior year of college. My boyfriend (who would soon become my husband), was given a copy of Desperado to review for the school paper. I told him if he didn't give it a great review, I wouldn't marry him-lol. (Just kidding, I hadn't even heard the album YET) When I did hear it, I just loved it,and yes, he gave it a fantastic review.:thumbsup: We ended up getting married on July 22, 1973, a certain Mr. Henley's 26th birthday. I like to imagine Don celebrating his birthday, while we were celebrating our wedding!:partytime:
I would also like to welcome you to the Border, Lisa!! Have fun browsing the site and posting. This is a wonderful community of Eagles fans and we're glad to have ya here. :thumbsup:
I thought I'd revive this thread and tell you all how I got into the Eagles and specifically Randy.
My Eagles fandom actually started with Don Henley. Sometime in the latter half of 2006, I was looking through my mom's CDs and came across The End of the Innocence. I hadn't heard of the artist but the title sounded familiar. I put it in the CD player and listened to the title track and I loved it (its still one of my favorite songs.) It was a month or two before I found out Don was in the Eagles. I had heard of the band but had never really listened to the songs. So I got on the internet and looked up a few of the songs that I knew the titles of (Take it Easy, Witchy Woman, Hotel California, and Desperado) and listened to them. I liked them but I didn't look up any of the bands other songs.
In early 2007 (January or February) I was in one of my classes when my teacher decided to put on some music while we were doing our work (I was in my second year of high school at this point.) The CD he put on was Greatest Hits 1971-1975. I really liked it so I decided to go and buy it. Around that time I saw an ad in walmart that the Eagles were about to release their first new album in 28 years. I thought it was cool that they were putting out a new album after all that time. After that I started looking up information about the band.
I remember being really excited when the How Long video came out because it was the first new song I was hearing. That video was the first time I put names with faces and voices. It was around this time that I took notice of a certain bass player (but not the one you're probably thinking of.)
I thought Timothy was cute and had a good voice. I looked up some of his solo songs on youtube and really liked them. I went looking online for his solo CDs and couldn't find them. I searched a while but eventually gave up (I've got four of his CDs now but I didn't have any until Expando came out.) My attention had drifted back to Henley by the time Long Road Out of Eden came out (even though I still liked Timothy.) I bought it the day it came out and liked it a lot. It was the first studio album that I bought (I had greatest hits, greatest hits volume 2, and the very best of.)
At the end of the year is when I took notice of the band's former bass player. After listening to Take it to the Limit one day I decided to look up some of Randy's solo songs on youtube. I listened to a couple of them and really liked them. Early in 2008 I decided to try and find his solo albums. I found a few of them on iTunes. I downloaded Love Me or Leave Alone and Live in Dallas. After listening to them I was hooked! I went back and downloaded Randy's first album. Later that year I got the rest of Randy's solo stuff.
Might I say you have very good taste!!! :thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by whitcap
Glad you discovered them. See---you did learn something in school on that day!! :hilarious:
And look how far you've come!
Awwwww I love your story WC! Really cute. If i played music to my students while they were working I'd possibly be fired! You were lucky your tutor had such a good taste in music!
Thanks for sharing that WC!
Thanks, for telling us your Eagles story!
Wc, that's great! Thanks for telling us 'how it all started' for you! What a smart teacher you had, too!
I'm glad you shared your story with us, wc. I love reading all the different ways that us fans discovered and got hooked on the band and/or various band members.
Long story but here goes! :)
A family friend had been trying to get me into music, and to play guitar. So I tried to learn, never took it seriously and pretty much blew it off. Unfortunately in 2007 (January), he was in a horrific car crash, a fence came through the car and mangled his face. The short story of that is that he is on a trach and feeding tube. Very sad. It makes me sad we never got to jam. He had Epilepsy and apparently had a seizure as he was driving. He knew it was coming as he was heading to work and turned the car headed home but never made it there in time and had a seizure and drove into a fencerow. Very sad.
The next month (February), I took his advice on how to take guitar seriously. He said "go through your parents albums and listen to every one of them, and get into music and be a music lover first, you gotta love music to play guitar". So that's what I did. I listen to a LOT of music I liked, some I loved. But NONE made me go "Wow, I wanna be a musician". Then I found my parents copy of Hotel California. I put it on, and the very second the title track started in, it gave me chills. It was a life-changing song. When I heard the solo I knew I liked the 2nd half of it better, and said "I wanna be a guitar player!!!!". :guitar:
That day I went, got my guitar I had from my previous attempts and printed out the basic "cowboy chords" off the internet and got to it. I later found out that part of the solo was none other than Joe Walsh. Then I found out he played and sang Life's Been Good, which I came across on the radio one day. I found out about all members past and present and their history and was able to associate their solo songs with the Eagles members and started listening to their whole catalog. At that time it was Eagles through The Long Run as far as studio albums go. I did listen to Eagles Live and HFO. Then I found F1.
I really fell in love with Hotel California, and that song IS my favorite song of all time. My favorite guitar intro of all time. My favorite guitar solo of all time. My favorite album of all time, made by my favorite band of all time. That song means a lot as because I have posted before, I've had a rough life with all of my medical problems and live at home disabled and listening to their music helped me, and most importantly got me into guitar playing and gave me something to do and enjoy than just sitting around bummed out. Then a couple years after I started I came across this guitar store, a mom and pop store, and became great close friends with the owner. He and I started what became The Stone Eagles. We started as a classic rock cover band (and with about half of our set eventually being Eagles songs, we decided we needed to become a tribute band! :D). Then we started taking it more seriously and becoming a tribute band. We don't dress like the Eagles, but we try to nail the music as close as we possibly can for our audience and that's more important.
So that's how I got into being a fan of the Eagles, and even more so a fan of Joe Walsh. I like Don Felder too, he and Joe are my favorite guitar duo of all time, but I like Joe a little bit more. My favorite former member is Don Felder. I like Randy Meisner's bass playing too. I like Bernie Leadon's playing too but I'm not a huge straightahead country fan. I dig some of it when mixed with rock.
And that's the end of the story. I owe it to this band because I became happier and became a guitar player. I feel Hotel California changed my life. :)
Two "thumbs up" Austin!:rockguitar:
So glad the guys inspired you like that & that the music has enriched your life. I'm sure they would be moved by your story. I know Glenn is very touched by stories like this (as I've seen in television clips & read in articles).
What I didn't get into in my post is my medical problems and the life I've had but it really impacted me. It got me playing music, which has made my medically disabled life a bit brighter. I have a benign but inoperable spinal tumor and am in lots of pain plus I have endocrine and other orthopedic problems (arthritis, osteoporosis, herniated discs) everyday but music and playing with my band makes me happier. It gives me a purpose to live for.Quote:
Originally Posted by GlennLover
I would love to meet the band and tell them my story. And the ability to play a song with them. That is my dying wish. I don't know if it will ever happen, but one can hope and dream I guess. I'd be content with just meeting them and saying "Thanks". That's really what it comes down to. It made my life a better place. I remember I was rushing to get out and now I'm much happier and a lot less miserable. I can't work, but I do get to play with my band and it makes me happy and feel somewhat productive and that I'm contributing something, in this case it is music. I try to entertain but also uplift others. :)
That's really moving, Austin. Thank you for sharing your story with us.
You're welcome. :) I am glad to. It just goes to show how music can change a person. It did for me because prior to that, I was at my wits end, miserable, and wanting out of life.Quote:
Originally Posted by sodascouts
I am so glad that you get to enjoy music and it has enriched your life. I have worn hearing aids for years and without them I am extremely deaf. It does have it's advantages, I can sleep thru barking dogs and loud parties. I used to fear that I will go completely deaf and won't be able to enjoy music. So far the hearing aids have worked but I have a lot of touble talking with people on the phone.
I pray that your health issues will improve and that you can enjoy and play music for a very long time.
WOW---Isn't it amazing what music can do!?!? Thanks for sharing your stories!
These stories truly are uplifting and if there is one thread the Eagles should read here it's this one.