I’ve been enjoying an audio of one of Glenn’s solo concerts, and thought these comments he made about his kids were cute.
“I wish we had more time so that I could tell you about my three kids. Oh my god. Ok, I’ll tell you a little about my three kids."
"I have a fourteen year old daughter. To her, I’m an idiot, ok. She looked at me at twelve and thought “I’m not sure that he knows everything.” At fourteen she said “I know you don’t know everything.” So that’s my daughter. Except I keep telling her “You’re going to have to get a car, and I’m the DMV. So you’d better work out all that, all that early morning and late afternoon anger, because I’m going to be the guy who gets you the car, or doesn’t get you the car.”
“My son, my twelve year old son, has an aptitude for sloth. He’s going to have to be a musician, because all he’s going to do is sit around and play guitar in our house until we kick him out.”
“My three year old son, Otis; Otis is, he’s the fifth Eagle. He is, like he’s, uh – he watches these - we’ve been working on this video from Melbourne, so we use it now like a babysitting tool. Otis, ‘cause he’s seen a couple of shows, actually he was at Nassau and Continental Airlines out east last month. Otis gets up at 6, and Otis goes, like, ‘til 9 at night, and, like Joe Walsh and myself, he doesn’t want to sleep.
“So anyway, that’s my kids. That’s why I’m tired, that’s why I’m here. This is my chance to sleep. Ladies and gentlemen, I tell you right now that getting up at 5.30 in the morning to go to Bermuda looks like a good night’s sleep compared with things at the Frey house.”
“And, anyway, I love my kids…”
For non US readers, DMV is the Department for Motor Vehicles.
(From Microsoft Encarta)
Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, NY, 6/4/05
Continental Airlines Centre, East Rutherford, NJ, 8/4/05
(Concert information from the fastlane 2005 tourblog, with thanks)