Glenn in the Press/Blogs/etc.

I like that it shows that the success of the Eagles benefited others within their circle of friends. Not everyone has to be a superstar. Jack's obviously very content with what he has. Maybe that's one of the reasons why he was able to work so well with Glenn over the years.

I thought this was an interesting observation:

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When I talk to my son and I say, "it's kind of hard to get paid anymore," he says, "Well, you know, Dad, the period where writers got paid was kind of just in your lifetime. It didn't happen that much before and it's not going to happen after. You just have to look at that as an anomaly."

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I'm still surprised that so many of the big names of the seventies didn't make a fortune for themselves.

Quite a few of them didn't write their own songs.

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Originally Posted by UndertheWire

I thought this was an interesting observation:

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Originally Posted by Jack Tempchin in Huffington Post

When I talk to my son and I say, "it's kind of hard to get paid anymore," he says, "Well, you know, Dad, the period where writers got paid was kind of just in your lifetime. It didn't happen that much before and it's not going to happen after. You just have to look at that as an anomaly."

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Yes, this is something I've noted as well. The trope of the "starving musician" has been around for ages for good reason. It wasn't until the era of rock'n'roll that making music was considered a way to get rich. After the money started rolling in for successful musicians, people started reading about their private jets, their multiple opulent homes, their fancy cars, their extravagant lifestyles... and suddenly kids playing in garages weren't saying "I want to be a musician," they were saying "I want to be a rich rock star." Many people became musicians in order to make money; to some, money wasn't a nice benefit of making good music, it was the goal. Making music was simply the means to that end.

Maybe once music is no longer perceived as a pathway to wealth, it'll be more about the art again. You won't become a musician unless you are truly dedicated to your craft.

Unfortunately, because so many of that generation got into music for the payday and the successful ones came to expect riches to rain down upon them with every release, you'll now hear many of them say things like, "Why create new music if it's not going to make me a lot of money?" If they won't make millions of dollars, they're not interested. They also make dire predictions that in the future, no one will ever want to make music because there's not enough money in it. It's inconceivable to them that anyone would want to make music without the possibility of becoming wealthy as a result of their efforts.

They're wrong, though. From what I've seen, most of the new breed of musicians create music because they love it, because it's in their blood. It's a calling, not a entrepreneurial effort. They want to make enough to earn a living and they want to become famous in order to be heard by a wide audience, but they don't expect to become multimillionaires. The pendulum has swung back.

ETA: I realize I'm speaking in generalities; plenty of people from the older generation got into music for the love of it, and there are younger people still expecting to get rich. However, based merely upon my own observations, I assert that the shift in overall mentality does exist.

This article takes a look at all 38 soundtracks to reach Billboard #1 since Purple Rain. All I can say is that 1985 was a most excellent year and I'd like to have it back.

http://www.vulture.com/2014/08/numbe...rple-rain.html

Yep, I agree - Glenn Frey was killing it in 1985. And it would have been a great idea if Prince had found a way to incorporate Glenn Frey in the 1989 Batman soundtrack. :thumbsup:

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Really enjoyed the website! Jeff Alborell turned me on to this tribute to Detroit's garage bands. I played keyboards in the Mushrooms and the Heavy Metal Kids with Glenn Frey.
Jeff played with my brother Gary Burrows who founded the Four of Us of which glenn played rhythm guitar briefly. My brother gary and I left michigan and moved to Los Angeles hoping to make it in the music business. On a interesting note my brother gary and I formed a group in Los Angeles and we needed a bass player. We knew Glenn Frey was living in North Hollywood and we went to his apartment where he lived with J.D. Souther to try to recuit Glenn into our group. He wasn't interested. J.D. Souther and him formed the group Longbranch Pennywhistle that had a regional hit in Western United States before he and Don Henley played with Linda Ronstadt as a sidemen. They left to form the Eagles.
The listing of venues and who played there filled in some
memory gaps like the Mushrooms playing at SilverBell ski lodge and the Southfield Music Festival in July.
steve burrows

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http://www.motorcitymusicarchives.com/guestbook1.html

Ooh - interesting! Thanks UTW!

Yes, thank you, UTW! Love these tidbits of info that pop up every now & then!

Interesting... I'm sure others here knew this but I did not.

http://www.avclub.com/article/bob-se...campaign=feeds

Interesting! I didn't know that. I guess it wasn't meant to be, but it would have been cool to hear Glenn do it.