Eagles Mentions in the Press (2006 - 2017)

[Koala]

Found this interview today
Have no clue of when this interview is.
The translation is from me.... so mistakes possible!

http://www.allgemeine-zeitung.de/region/kultur/musik/10407030.htm

The Eagles still fly - The Eagles"in an interview before concert in Wiesbaden
　
Till this day the Eagles embody the American Way of Life like no other band.
Their album „Their Greatest hits (in 1971-1975)“ is valid as bestselling in the US history of music. Worldwide they are one of the biggest public magnets.
On 19 June the band appears on the Bowling Green in Wiesbaden.
Band founder and singer Don Henley, guitarist Joe Walsh and bassist Timothy B. Schmit talk about her career.


　
Mr Henley, Mr Walsh, Mr Schmit, the pop music from today helps itself with pleasure of the aesthetics and ideas of the 1960s and 1970s.
Does explan this the persistent success of the Eagles which come from this era?

Henley: I read again and again, the Eagles are a band from the 1970s. It sounds as if we were not more popular today.
In reality, we play around the world in sold-out stadiums and arenas.
The 1970th were probably our our most creative time, at that time one could hear us really on every Radiostation. But also our today's albums sell a million times.


For the fans of the Eagles a show is incomplete without „Hotel California“.
Have you one day thought to leave out your recognition song simply?

Henley: No, we do not think about suicide.
People have certain expectations of us, we are not an experimental band, we are fairly predictable.For it we are massacred by critics quite a lot.But just because the audience likes us as we are, it gives us still. People have an emotional connection to the original versions, which they know from the radio.That is why they come to our concerts. Young people are discovering the Eagles in the record collection of her parents.
Walsh: Most songs I play like in the sleep, but "Hotel California" for me is still a challenge.One must be quite awake and concentrated to do the double guitar-solo perfectly.Steuart Smith and I go here at the same time and very quickly the frets. The song has complicated nuances. It's not supposed to sound like a derailed train.


　
The surreal looking „Long Road Out Of Eden“ - A song about the end of the American Empire - was referred to as your "Hotel California" for the new age.

Henley: I do not know. . . "Long Road Out Of Eden"is a political, while "Hotel California" is more of a sociological statement.
Steuart Smith plays here, by the way, the magnificent guitar.
If we now write a song like this, then we do, especially for ourselves. "Long Road Out Of Eden" will never be used on the radio. In America anyway. But let him play regularly at our shows.
　

Between the reunion of the Eagles in 1994 and the album "Long Road Out Of Eden" were 14 years. What was the reason?

Henley: We were busy with other things, raised families, god children. After we had got together in 1994 again, we were non-stop on tour.If you've written songs like "Hotel California " one wants to hold the level at all costs.I love the new stuff is not bad, they are simply not rooted so deeply in the hearts and minds of the people. The spirit of the 70s is not repeatable. A part of the Eagles is nostalgia, another still very relevant.


　
How has the band dynamics changed, since the Eagles are back together?

Schmit: If one becomes older, the priorities move. We are not young and hungry and do not live together anymore in a big house. But when we meet, we are working very hard on our music.
Moreover, we pursue all solo projects.These breaks are very important for the band.
　


What motivates you after all these years in the music business?

Schmit: The audience is our life energy.The Eagles are the only rock band from the 70th which all members and ex-members are still alive. Now I am 63 and am asked over and over again whether I slowly think of stopping. No, this I do not see long yet.As long as I have a clear head and I can think of something
I will write songs. I can still do this if I sit in the wheel chair.
　
In the summer you come to Germany. Do you know any German bands?

Henley: Of course, the Scorpions, for example.There's also this heavy metal band Rammstein.What is more likely for young people.Which will be just as deaf as we are today. (laughs)
　
　
　
　
　
　
　
　
　
　
　
　
　
　

[sodascouts]

Thank you so much for this discovery and translation! Very interesting. I think Tim exaggerates a bit about being the only popular 70s band with all of its current and former members still living. Fleetwood Mac, while currently a band of four, has 12 ex-members, all of whom are still alive. Surely there must be more examples, although right off the top of my head I can't think of any others with all past and present members living.

I do understand what Tim means, though. The "rock'n'roll lifestyle" of self-abuse that results from an unrestrained pursuit of illicit pleasures comes with a cost, and many have paid the ultimate price.

[GlennLover]

Thank you so much, Koala, for translating that for us. You did a great job!

[Freypower]

Thank you so much for this discovery and translation! Very interesting. I think Tim exaggerates a bit about being the only popular 70s band with all of its current and former members still living. Fleetwood Mac, while currently a band of four, has 12 ex-members, all of whom are still alive. Surely there must be more examples, although right off the top of my head I can't think of any others with all past and present members living.

I do understand what Tim means, though. The "rock'n'roll lifestyle" of self-abuse that results from an unrestrained pursuit of illicit pleasures comes with a cost, and many have paid the ultimate price.

Dire Straits, Genesis, Moody Blues as far as I know have all ex-members living.

[Koala]

Dire Straits, Genesis, Moody Blues as far as I know have all ex-members living.

At least with Genesis 1 ex-members is dead: John Mayhew he was the drummer on the Trespass album.

[Ive always been a dreamer]

Thanks for posting and translating that article, Koala! Great job and a very interesting read.

[tbsfan]

Since the interview was translated from English to another language then back to English something could have been lost in the process.

Thank you so much for this discovery and translation! Very interesting. I think Tim exaggerates a bit about being the only popular 70s band with all of its current and former members still living. Fleetwood Mac, while currently a band of four, has 12 ex-members, all of whom are still alive. Surely there must be more examples, although right off the top of my head I can't think of any others with all past and present members living.

I do understand what Tim means, though. The "rock'n'roll lifestyle" of self-abuse that results from an unrestrained pursuit of illicit pleasures comes with a cost, and many have paid the ultimate price.

[Koala]

Since the interview was translated from English to another language then back to English something could have been lost in the process.

Really of course I can have made mistake by the translation. I've also has extra written that mistakes are possible.
However, the text was translated only from in German in in English. Why should I translate an English text?
To the quote of Soda in you post, in the German article it goes really about it that Timothy means,that the Eagles, from the 70s, the only band are in which all members or ex members still live!

[sodascouts]

I'm sure Koala's translation is essentially correct and that Timothy was just making a broad generalization. There's certainly nothing wrong with that - I'm sorry if I seemed to be criticizing him. I was just making an observation and wasn't trying to nit-pick what he said, but I can see how I might have come off like that.

[EaglesKiwi]

Really of course I can have made mistake by the translation. I've also has extra written that mistakes are possible.
However, the text was translated only from in German in in English. Why should I translate an English text?
To the quote of Soda in you post, in the German article it goes really about it that Timothy means,that the Eagles, from the 70s, the only band are in which all members or ex members still live!

I think tbsfan meant that the Eagles would have been interviewed in English to start with, then the interview had to be translated for its original publication in German.

(By the way, from my own very limited knowledge of German, Koala's translation of this paragraph is spot on).