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Starting a thread for the discussion of the film festival itself. It's from Jan. 17 - 27, 2013, in Park City, Utah. They don't announce the movies until the end of this month, and I'm not clear on when they announce the agenda. Ticket prices vary depending on when you want to go (the first weekend is more expensive and the tickets are hard to get).
Anybody thinking about going?
http://www.sundance.org/festival/
I'd love to go but it doesn't seem logistically workable with its randomizing of tickets. Imagine going there and not being able to see the movie or the guys!
wow...wouldn't that be awesome...to go there for the premiere and see the guys!!!...in my dreams
Really looking forward to the DVD!
The movie at the festival will only be Part 1, 1970 through 1980.
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/blogsbu...ntary.html.csp
:yay::yay::smitten::smitten::D:D
thanks for the post. I am glad to hear we are moving forward. Hope it wins an award at the film festival,.
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Originally Posted by VAisForEagleLovers
Once again, VA, you are on the ball. Thank you!!
It sounds like it's going to be worth the wait --
25 new interviews with all current and former band members, home movies, personal photos, video and memorabilia as well as footage from a show from the Hotel California tour!!! How exciting would it be to attend the premier? Hmmmmm. I'll have to think about that.
Wonderful news! :yay: :yay: :yay:
OK, #1, it's in Utah in January. Brrrr. #2, to get guaranteed seats to the movie of your choice, you need to buy a high $$ package, and since it's the first weekend and not the second it costs even more. #3 those ticket packages are already all sold out. #4 airfare only a month in advance? Major $$. Basically, you could spend a heck of a lot of money to get there and stay there and not be able to get in the door of the movie you want (registration started a month ago and even being one of the first for Individual tickets, there's no guarantee of getting into the movie you want).Quote:
Originally Posted by Henley Honey
Guess I'll save my $$ for a tour... :grin:
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Originally Posted by VAisForEagleLovers
Wow. That was a big, fat, buzz kill. Oh well. Sounds like I'll wait for the DVD release and save myself a fortune.
but do we know when we can get our hot little hands on the DVD?
HH, Oops!! Didn't mean to kill a buzz! I researched it back when you were knee deep in Superstorm Sandy mud and snow, and believe me, if I'd thought this had a chance of working out, I'd have tracked you down and mentioned it!
Of course not!Quote:
Originally Posted by zeldabjr
so they continue to torture us!:evil:
Yeah HH - Soda and I also did some investigating when this was first announced, and it seemed like a real crapshoot for the general public to be able to see a particular film. Just seemed a little too risky to go out there with no guarantee that we'd get to see it, so we dropped the idea pretty quickly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Henley Honey
I would so love to see it. I'm hoping that the DVD can't be too far off if they are premiering it at the festival. At first, I thought they would show it in movie theaters, but with it being 2 DVD's, it's probably too long. So direct to DVD should mean we'll see it sooner rather than later. :pray: :pray: :pray:
Unless they only release Part 1 to theaters...
I am really looking forward to the whole DVD with both parts. Wonder if they'll interview any former Eagles.
The article that VA linked to today says interviews with former members!
And I hate to think that they will release it to dvd in installments also-- Part 1 soon, part 2 a year from now, part 3 four or five years from now :hilarious:. We know how fast the Eagles move on this stuff.
Seriously tho, I am more than excited to hear this. Every little tidbit we get gets more and more exciting and REAL!!!!
OMG, this sounds INCREDIBLE. I can't wait.
But at least we know that it's really, really done!Quote:
Originally Posted by zeldabjr
I wish I could attend the premiere - I bet the guys will be there and I'd love to see them on the big screen. However, this seems to be deliberately designed to keep the plebes like us from doing just that.
Oh well. It sounds amazing. I cannot freaking wait to see it!
WOOT! I'm so excited to hear this! I've been waiting for something like this for a long time... and I know I'm not the only one.
I'm a little giddy with excitement!:partytime:
Another article about the DVD and premier. Not sure what to think about JD's comment about Eden...
http://womc.cbslocal.com/2012/12/04/...t-at-sundance/
Oh well..... I have always disagreed with the 'it should have been a single album' opinion.
I'm with you FP...I like it the way it is!Quote:
Originally Posted by Freypower
Yes, and for a start it's a bit late to raise the issue again, and also which songs would Souther have left out? Not How Long, I bet.... :eyebrow:
What I don't get is why the quote about LROOE is even in an article that's all about the upcoming DVD. It almost feels like they forced it in that direction. I don't remember seeing the CBS Local article about JD, for all we know this was taken out of context or he had better, other things to say that were omitted. Whoever wrote the article seemed to have an agenda of their own. I hate this kind of 'journalism'.
This is the interview:
http://womc.cbslocal.com/2012/11/29/...collaboration/
As you suspected, VA, his alleged discussion of LROOE is not in it, so where did they get it from?
He probably said it and they didn't have the space for it or whatever, and since they had it, they used what they wanted for this article about the DVD.Quote:
Originally Posted by Freypower
I agree with FP that is kinda deja vu all over again to bring up the subject of the double album after this point. For what it's worth, while I understand why some may have thought they would have had a better overall album with only one disc, as a fan, I am thankful that there are two. We discussed this a lot when the album was first released, but, I, too, wonder what songs have been cut if there had been only one disc.
That was my very first thought when I read that. :headscratch:Quote:
Originally Posted by VAisForEagleLovers
I remember all the talk about the double album but I don't understand why it would of been a better overall album had it only been one disc. Were there ever reasons given why that would be? Refresh my memory if anyone else remembers why they thought it would have been better.Quote:
Originally Posted by I've always been a dreamer
And on the topic of what songs would of been cut had it only been one disc--- I cringe to think which ones because the ones I believe that would of been cut would have been songs like Fast Company (one of my faves), Frail Grasp (one of my faves) or, Heaven forbid, one of the only 2 songs that Timothy or Joe had on the album.
I don't think it would have been better as a single album. I like all of the songs.
I'm surprised Don said that it would be better as a single album, the fact that it was a double album allowed him to have those long songs which are so wonderful, especially the super-long title track. He must just be so modest that he undervalues his own work.
In my experience, there are very few FANS who think it should have been a single album. The criticism is coming from "above" and from Henley himself, who was unhappy with the decision to make it a double album and was very vocal about it. Frankly, I thought it was unprofessional. You didn't get your way - too bad. Suck it up and present a united front for the sake of the band.
It still pisses me off. There is indeed a criticism of the material in what both Souther and Henley are saying, and that's not cool. Maybe if Henley hadn't taken up 15% of a disc with ONE SONG, they would have had more room for everyone else. Despite that factoid, I don't think when Henley talks about making LROOE a single disc he's talking about cutting songs like that. No, the ones that would go first would be one of Joe's and one of Tim's, while his epic (with its corresponding epic length) stays.
As for JD Souther, I love him and he has a right to voice his opinion, but I guess he hasn't considered that one of the first songs to go if it had been a single disc might well have been the Joe song "Last Good Time in Town" which he co-wrote. Somehow I think he wouldn't be so keen on a single album if it meant a decrease in his paycheck. Of course, I'm sure he is assuming the songs that would be cut would be other people's, and who cares about them, right? Screw Frankie Miller and his medical bills, drop "Guilty of the Crime," the Joe song Miller co-wrote!
Guess I'm in a bad mood today, lol.
Unfortunately there is another way of looking at this. See Soda's post above.Quote:
Originally Posted by Houston Debutante
Some of the more cynical among us at the time thought that Don would have cut songs sung by the other members & we would have had yet another Eagles album with him singing most of the songs, Glenn maybe two & Joe & Tim one each. That did not happen & I am grateful that it didn't. It was not his decision; it was Glenn's.
I should point out that the title track is my favourite & it is not one that I would have cut.
This is the topic where we discussed Henley's opinions.
https://www.eaglesonlinecentral.com/...read.php?t=620
:eyebrow:I had forgotten about this part---probably on purpose!! WTH? Timothy himself, has said on more than one occasion, he had brought several songs to them and they rejected them. And now I thank them for that because they may have been the same songs that made up Timothy's best album to date! :nahnah: So there!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Don Henley
And for the record---Soda, you are SPOT ON, my friend!!!!
Actually, I think without coming out and saying so, Henley meant that he would've cut some of Glenn's songs. I don't recall the source, but I remember reading in an interview where he inferred that some people wanted to use all of the songs they presented, and I'm pretty sure that he was referring to Glenn's. It was also interesting to read that he didn't even know that Glenn had written "Somebody," which struck me simply incredible.
Glenn didn't write Somebody. Jack Tempchin wrote it (actually he co-wrote it with someone called J. Brannen).Quote:
Originally Posted by scottside
I am well aware that Henley probably wanted to cut Glenn's songs. I decided to soften what I wrote by saying 'the other members'.
The point is that whether Henley liked it or not, at this stage of the band's career, yet another album where he sang 80% of the material would not have been a good idea. At least that is how I feel. I wanted to hear Glenn have a decent quota of songs. I'm not that interested in whether Henley thought they weren't as good as his songs.
If Frey & Henley had made more of an effort to be the great songwriting partnership they used to be, this would not have happened. As I say it seems a shame for the issue to be raised again five years later.
I didn't know about all this. I didn't read much of the press at the time. I also thought the partnership was more equal, Don makes it sounds like Glenn is bossing him around. It surprises me Glenn would do that, he must know how valuable Don is and he's always complimenting him.
Don was just being honest about his feelings so you have to respect that. Maybe he just wanted people to know who were criticizing the choice to make it a double album that it wasn't his fault. I don't agree with him but I can understand why he would want to distance himself from a choice he didn't make if he was embarrassed by that choice.
We don't know what Don would have kept either so maybe he would have dropped some of his own songs, although they are all so wonderful I don't know what he would have dropped.
There's such a thing as being too honest though. What he said about Tim and Joe makes them look pretty bad, some things are better left unsaid at least to the press.
You know I had forgotten how negative Don was about Tim and Joe, too! Maybe it's because after the initial month or so of press, he stopped saying that kind of thing.