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    The book is Hot Burritos - The True Story of the Flying Burrito Brothers by John Einarson with Chris Hillman.

    Page 208, the Burritos were at the Altamont concert and when their set was done, Sneaky Pete, Chris and Jim Dickson left as the security force, the Hell's Angels, was beating up people in the crowd, and had actually come up on the stage when the Jefferson Airplane played and beat up Marty Balin. So the mood was ugly, it was now dark and the Rolling Stones delayed their performance by 2 hours. Gram Parsons(who worshipped the Stones blindly), Michael Clarke and Bernie Leadon stayed behind. Gram kept telling them that they would get to fly out of there in the helicopter with the Stones. When the Stones finally came out the lights came up but they only played a few songs. Bernie recalled being backstage facing the audience and fights breaking out and people would push away from it and then he would see pool cues coming down and somewhere in all this, that guy got killed, on camera and there was such a press of people that he got passed up and laid on the edge of the stage like a sacrifice. It was such an ugly vibe, the Angels were turning meaner, you could see it in their faces. Jagger stopped singing and tried to calm the Angels down but no deal. Gram left the stage with the Stones and ran to the helicopter and got on with them so Michael Clarke and Bernie Leadon were left behind. They started walking and met a couple of girls Bernie knew from L.A. and got in their car and wound up getting back to Sausalito.

    That's a sort of summary of the article with a few quotes, not my own. But Gram by then was pretty far gone into drugs and alcohol and hero worship of the Stones to the exclusion of everyone else. I've got the movie Fallen Angel about him plus several books and Bernie is in the movie being interviewed along with Chris Hillman. Totally fascinating.
    Wow, thank goodness Bernie was good with the ladies, lol. Seriously, how scary, though.

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    Twenty Thousand Roads: The Ballad of Gram Parsons and His Cosmic American Music by David Meyer

    Backstage Passes and Backstabbing Bastards by Al Kooper

    The Byrds: Timeless Flight Revisited: The Sequel by Johnny Rogan

    For What It's Worth: The Story of Buffalo Springfield by John Einarson and Richie Furay

    Midnight Riders - Story of the Allman Brothers Band by Scott Freeman

    Lynyrd Skynyrd - Remembering the Free Birds of Southern Rock by Gene Odom with Frank Dorman

    Conversations With Tom Petty by Paul Zollo

    Canyon of Dreams - by Harvey Kubernik

    Roadwork by Tom Wright

    Legend: the Story of Poco by Jerry Fuentes

    This Wheel's On Fire by Lavon Helm

    The Eagles by Laura Jackson

    Laurel Canyon by Michael Walker

    Hotel California by Barney Hoskyns

    Desparados by John Einarson

    Heaven and Hell by Don Felder

    To The Limit by Mark Eliot

    The Long Run by Marc Shapiro

    Pickin' Up The Pieces by Richie Furay

    Backstage Pass by Joe Vitale

    Rock Wives by Victoria Balfour

    Crosby, Stills, and Nash by Dave Zimmer/Henry Diltz, photos

    Mansion On The Hill by Fred Goodman

    The Operator by Tom King

    Gilded Palace of Sin by Bob Proehl

    The Notorious Byrd Brothers by Rick Menck

    Join Together by Marley Bryant

    So You Want to Be a Rock and Roll Star by Christopher Hjort

    In Other Words by Anthony DeCurtis

    Tales From The Rock n Roll Highway by Marley Bryant

    Eight Miles High by Richie Unterberger

    Rock n Roll's Strangest Moments by Mike Evans

    Like a Rolling Stone: Tribute Bands by Stephen Kurutz

    Take a Walk on the Dark Side by Gary Patterson

    Hot Burritos: The True Story of the Flying Burrito Brothers by John Einarson with Chris Hillman

    This is all I have at hand right now, other books are stored in the shed. Some have very little connection with the Eagles, others have paragraphs and chapters about them, but Bernie, surprisingly, is mentioned in a lot of these books about the early years.

    The movie about Gram Parsons is Fallen Angel. It was interesting but reinforced my conviction that Parsons is given way too much credit for fusing country music with rock. He was never a favorite of mine either so my apologies to his fans.
    Wow.

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    Nice homework!! Some outstanding reading on that list!

    I'm just reading Twenty Thousand Roads right now, always enjoying reading about Bernie's pre-Eagles rock 'n' roll escapades

    He's like the Waldo of California country rock...everywhere
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    Ok, here's another Bernie treat of him backing Linda Ronstadt from Playboy After Dark in 1970:

    [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ALDTJVP8Tw[/ame]
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    Wow, Bernie sure looks young without the moustache!

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    Quote Originally Posted by sodascouts View Post
    Wow, Bernie sure looks young without the moustache!
    He looks like Napolean Dynamite!
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    This is from a few months ago. Unfortunately, Bernie does not sing lead, but he's on the left playing guitar and looking fit (you can see him when the camera zooms out).

    [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEehHBCn07E[/ame]

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    Bernie looks great. He's always had that rugged charm! He looks fantastic in the 'Hotel California: LA from The Byrds to the Eagles' documentary, too.


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    It's a BBC documentary. A friend was kind enough to record it from the TV and send it to me... I don't think you can buy it, although you may be able to find clips online. It features interviews with Linda Ronstadt, Graham Nash, JD Souther, Bernie, David Crosby, as well as some performance footage. Bernie looks great. He's wearing a black t-shirt and looks very rugged and handsome! I'll try to do some screen caps for you tomorrow, unless someone else can in the meantime.


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    Well, I just had a quick look and I've found a site where you can watch it. (It says you need to download the Veoh player to watch all of it - not sure if you have to pay or not.) But this clip shows you the beginning. Bernie comes on a couple of minutes in!

    http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/ca...179147tPxpBbT6


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