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No, it's just that that alternative title is much more easier to type.
I won't spoil the Henley chapter for you but will only say: you'll never listen to "Pretty Maids All in a Row" without being reminded of it :angel:
Yikes, I haven't even read the book and now I'll be thinking of that. I suppose you have to admire his (chemically enhanced) stamina. I have a hard time reconciling that with the current "grandpa" image.Quote:
Originally Posted by NightMistBlue
Aren't there 2 Don Henley chapters? I've only come across one, but I thought that there are 2?
Ever since reading Glenn's chapter, I've had his song The Allnighter stuck in my head. I wonder why? ;) :blush: :sigh:
Can't help you there, I had the audiobook - on cassette! Old school.Quote:
Originally Posted by AlreadyGone95
Lol, old school indeed. I bought the actual book. I've never cared much for audio books.Quote:
Originally Posted by NightMistBlue
Ok I'm intrigued I ordered both. So cheap on Amazon.
I'll have to put it off for a short while. I arrived at my mother's house today for a few weeks-if you know what I mean. :angel:
Well this aint a book but it's good Eagles reading.
EaglesStory by Dick Curtis;
http://www.pugetsoundradio.com/2015/...y-dick-curtis/
Nice find F50! So the Eagles weren't really into drugs that much ....... :hilarious:
I would really love to find out more about Don and that famous bed incident....... He was a bit of an ass there firing Fernandez. Fame obviously got to him at that point.
Not nice Don but as the author said, maybe there were other reasons leading up to Don firing Fernandez or maybe he was just an ass, as you said Lacken and needed to grow up.....
....right now, I'm still thinking of THAT book and Pretty Maids All in a Row :eyebrow:...maybe that's why he needed a King Sized Bed!!!
Cool read! Love the part about the Eagles not being much into drugs, just joints and blow. :hilarious:
I thought that I read somewhere that Fernandez was partially fired because of excessive drug use, but I can't remember.
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Originally Posted by DivineDon
And as far as Don firing Richie Fernandez, I believe Don felt his partying was interfering with his job performance.
And thanks for the link, F50. I haven't had a chance to read the article, but, hopefully, I can later this afternoon. Gotta sign off for now!
Yes, Henley was quoted in the Elliot book as saying Fernandez was a nice guy but a pothead, and it made his job performance unreliable.Quote:
Originally Posted by AlreadyGone95
I'm pretty sure that Don had special bed requirements due to his back problems.... related to drumming and singing at the same time. :drummer:
Apparently, it got so bad that Don played some of the drums on The Long Run album, laid flat on his back. :eyebrow:
How can you play the drums while lying on your back?! You'd have to suspend the drums from the ceiling and that would change their sound, one would think.
Years ago, the Miami Herald interviewed the two ladies who owned Home at Last, the business that found local homes for visiting musicians to rent, usually when they were recording at Criteria. They mentioned that the members of the Eagles wanted to sleep in beds exactly like the ones they had at home: specific types of mattresses, headboards, etc. That must have been mostly due to poor Don and his back problems.
Or maybe they were just being brattish! One of the women said, "They like to call at the last second and say 'Here we come.'" So the women had to then scramble to the warehouse where they kept the special Eagles bedding and find a big, glam house to rent. Usually it was the house pictured on Eric Clapton's 461 Ocean Boulevard album. That's where they stayed when they recorded Hotel California.
I'm amused at the idea of them sharing a house, no matter how glam. Also, that at one point their idea of room trash was having a food fight.
I've heard of Don playing drums while lying on his back. I don't know if it's true or even physically possible. I would think that it would do more damage or cause even more pain!
I just want to be a fly on the wall of one of those houses, especially the one Don and Glenn lived in!
I took a photo of the house in Golden Beach where they stayed during the making of Hotel California. There are a lot of no trespassing signs around so I kept a careful distance. As you can see, the house has been renovated/changed quite a bit since the 1970s but you may be able to recognize bits of it, like the big picture window.
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d1...ps1ta3hy6s.jpg
Cool, NMB! When did you take it?
And thanks for sharing with us crazy people! :oops: just talking about myself there! :wink:
I took it earlier this year, round about March or so. The man who lives there is the former mayor of Golden Beach. He bought the house in 1978. He claims he still has fans writing to his address or coming to the door looking for their favorite musicians! Luckily, he has a sense of humor about it.
Shoot, I'm crazy too. Not full-on crazy (some may disagree!) but I make occasional pilgrimages to sites associated with my favorite bands.
I finally got to Criteria (now called Hit Factory Criteria) a few weeks back. Man, it's hard to believe anything great took place there. The neighborhood is very poor, very blighted. The studio is behind big iron gates and surrounded by run-down apartment houses and funeral homes. Weird!
Love it! Thanks!
Wow, Nmb, so cool that you've been there and done that! :thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by NightMistBlue
That house is very cool and beautiful.
As for the craziness aspect, I'm too young and poor to be able to make excursions to visit many historical music places. I want to go to Muscle Shoals sometime.
Hey, I can say that I've been to Gainsville, Florida about 10 times. That's gotta count for something, right? :hilarious:
I want to go to Muscle Shoals too, real bad! There was an excellent documentary on it in 2013; it's on Netflix. Great, great stuff. Memphis is the other place on my music bucket list.
I'm going to California in a couple weeks and hope to see a few Eagles holy sites: the Troubadour, Lucy's El Adobe, the Lido Apartments. I printed out Soda's itinerary, as shared on these forums several years ago. Thanks, Nancy!
I also used this fella's article as a jumping-off point: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/ho...alifornia.html
That doc is on my "to watch/buy" list. (I don't have Netflix). I wonder if I can buy it from Amazon instant video?
Have fun in California! :)
I'm currently listening to an audiobook of Carole King's autobiography, which she narrates herself. It's excellent, with the added bonus that she occasionally sings a capella.
Eagles content: in 1975, she lived in Trancas Canyon near Malibu. Don Henley and JD Souther lived in a house "just up the hill" from Carole. On November 2nd of that year, Henley threw a party for JD's 30th birthday and invited Carole. It was there she met the guy who would become her third husband, Rick. He made sheepskin coats for Henley, JD and Irving Azoff. He also lived in his van and was psychotic, but that's a whole other story.
The first person Carole spotted at the party was Glenn. She greets him by name and he brushes her off - not harshly, but it's clear he doesn't recognize her. A bit strange, considering Tapestry was the Thriller of its day. Maybe he was just hungry; she mentions he was at the buffet loading his plate with food.
She also mentions Randy Meisner as one of three bass players on James Taylor's Sweet Baby James. Randy was apparently chosen by Peter Asher, James' producer and manager at the time.
:lol: :lol: Well, there is the old proverb that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. I think there may be some truth to this. Nothing distracts a hungry young man. :wink: :grin:Quote:
Originally Posted by NightMistBlue
Ooh! Just read that Carole is going to get the Kennedy Center honors this year at the same ceremony as the Eagles :) I'm sure Glenn won't give her the brush off this time, even if she calls to him while he's in the buffet line.
I gave in and bought the FAQ book last week (just before the competition was announced) and now I've read a lot of it, I can see why there hasn't been a lot said about it. It's a good "starter" book but doesn't have much for an obsessive fan. The author is very careful and there's little gossip, opinion or controversy. The book doesn't have many pictures and those it has are in b&w.
Pros
- it has good perspective - it puts the band into the context of the time, location and the music scene
- it's not just a chronological account as there are chapters on subjects like "the fifth eagle", guitars, romantic entanglements
- the tone is neutral and non-judgemental
- the author gives his sources for quotes
- a few new titbits about the pre-Eagle days
Cons
- very little new and less depth than some of the others
- although the author says he has interviewed many of the people through the years, it doesn't come across
- he raised some interesting discussion points and then covers the subject too superficially
- stupid mistakes that should have been caught (eg getting the year wrong for the Cranston benefit)
From this and other books, I find it interesting that despite Don Henley's stated feelings about privacy, there is a lot more written about his private life than Glenn's. It might be that the press is more interested in Don but I also think it's because Don is less guarded in interviews and over the years has done more publicity.
Thank you for the review, UtW.
"I find it interesting that despite Don Henley's stated feelings about privacy, there is a lot more written about his private life than Glenn's." Good observation! It still astounds me that it's not well known that Joni Mitchell's "Help Me" was written about Glenn. I already mentioned the meticulously researched Sheila Weller biography "Girls Like Us" - even she didn't know about Glenn, and this is an author who tracked down Joni's childhood friends and neighbors in the Canadian hinterlands.
UtW, thanks for reviewing the book! That has helped me decide whether or not to buy it. Probably not!
NMB, I have been searching for years for proof that "Help Me" was actually about Glenn, with no luck. Could you give me a reference for this. ThanksQuote:
Originally Posted by NightMistBlue
The ladies of the forum, to paraphrase a Joni album title! I think it was Soda who said she was told directly by a source who absolutely would know that "Help Me" and "Car on a Hill" are about Glenn.
I wouldn't go to Songfacts for proof but it's a source;Quote:
Originally Posted by GlennLover
http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=5920
They've nothing so far for Car On A Hill but the lyrics are in keeping with the little we know of Glenn... plus he did have "Gladys":
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I've heard that Girls Like Us is going to be made into a movie. I hope Glenn doesn't mind that his friend Jackson Browne will get the credit for inspiring Joni to write those two songs! :)
It was me who was told that.Quote:
Originally Posted by NightMistBlue
Thanks MBM, Funk50 & FP.
I'm currently reading a very well-researched book on the band Bread (don't judge!) by first-time author Malcolm Searles. In his post-Bread career, Jimmy Griffin was in a band with Randy Meisner called Black Tie. They released an album in 1985 called When the Night Comes Falling Down on a small, independent label. OK, all of this is reasonably well known.
What is I believe "new" information for most of us is that Bernie Leadon joined the band on their U.S. promotional tour in early 1986. I don't recall coming across this nugget of info in any Eagles books/interviews/what-have-you. The author cites Billboard reviews of two shows, among other sources.
Black Tie failed to secure major label support and went into dormancy for five years. Bernie's involvement appears to have been confined to that several months in 1986. So it's not earth-shattering stuff, but I thought it was pretty significant and strangely under-reported. Maybe it's just my advanced case of Meisner mania that makes it seem so.