Discussion of Eagles Documentary "History of the Eagles"

[Tiffanny Twisted]

shoes would get my vote too lol althought he could still park them under my side of the bed any day of the week

[RebeccaLovesEagles]

shoes would get my vote too lol

Lol but they sparkle and shine

Though his open shirt makes up for the shoes; who would look at his feet when you can see his chest

Congrats GS

[VAisForEagleLovers]

Lol but they sparkle and shine

Though his open shirt makes up for the shoes; who would look at his feet when you can see his chest :

I only noticed them as I scrolled and the open shirt was off the screen!

[Thirsty&Hot]

Lol but they sparkle and shine

Though his open shirt makes up for the shoes; who would look at his feet when you can see his chest

Congrats GS

haha yess..I did not even notice his shoes!

[RebeccaLovesEagles]

I only noticed them as I scrolled and the open shirt was off the screen!

Thirsty&Hot yess..I did not even notice his shoes!

VA I was just messing. I know we'd all prefer looking at his chest and your right the shoes do make me wonder if he shopped at the Wizard of Oz store.

[Ive always been a dreamer]

I think it's very sweet. Despite how it ended, Don Henley has said that Glenn was always encouraging to Randy, trying to coax him to sing and encourage him, to the point where Henley actually thought he was being over-tolerant. Remember, it was Glenn who wanted Randy to sing TITTL. Back in the beginning, they were smoking pot behind Johns' back while Don Henley and Bernie Leadon were paired off disapproving of the drugs and writing "Witchy Woman." Glenn gave his song "Most of Us Are Sad" to Randy to sing on the first album.

People focus on that last fight, but really, Randy was probably closer to Glenn than he was to anyone else in the band, at least at first.

ITA with you about this, Soda. But, I guess it's just more fun for some people to focus on the salacious stuff.

Lol but they sparkle and shine

Though his open shirt makes up for the shoes; who would look at his feet when you can see his chest

And AMEN sista!!!

[Outlawman13]

MMM I'm always looking at Glenn's chest. LOL God that man is so fine. I had no idea that Glenn and Randy were so close like that.

[sodascouts]

Here's the quote from Don Henley taken from Marc Eliot's To The Limit about how things went down with Randy that shows insight into his relationship with Glenn as well - it goes into more detail than the documentary:

Henley: "Glenn had much more patience with Randy than I did. Glenn tried to help him write his songs and get performances out of him. The night in Knoxville, that was the biggest song in the set. Because he was strung out, he didn't want to sing it. It's that self-destructive thing that rises up in all of us. 'I'll show me!' The truth of the matter is, he was afraid he couldn't hit the notes. The audience didn't give a $hit whether he could hit them or not. They just wanted to hear the song. When he refused to sing it, Glenn calmly went over and tried to console him and said, 'Randy, it's going to be okay, you can sing it, let's just go back out and do it.' Meanwhile, the audience is out there cheering. 'No man, I'm not going to sing the f--king song,' Randy said, snapping at Glenn. Glenn backed up a couple of steps and said, 'Well, f--k you then!' That's when he threw the towel, Meisner took the swing, and everything escalated."

[NYC Fan]

This is very interesting. When I was watching the documentary, I totally got where Glenn was coming from when he wanted Randy to sing the song, and being really upset when he refused. I especially liked the part about how he said people have come to the show to hear it and have waited years to hear some songs, and that they owed it to the fans to sing them. My brother saw them in Ann Arbor in 1976 and said Take it to the Limit was probably the highight of the show and everyone went crazy when Randy hit the high note.

I felt for Randy watching it, because he seems like a really decent guy, but as professionals who are being paid a pretty nice sum of money to go out there and play, I completely understood Glenn's frustration.

Here's the quote from Don Henley taken from Marc Eliot's To The Limit about how things went down with Randy that shows insight into his relationship with Glenn as well - it goes into more detail than the documentary:

Henley: "Glenn had much more patience with Randy than I did. Glenn tried to help him write his songs and get performances out of him. The night in Knoxville, that was the biggest song in the set. Because he was strung out, he didn't want to sing it. It's that self-destructive thing that rises up in all of us. 'I'll show me!' The truth of the matter is, he was afraid he couldn't hit the notes. The audience didn't give a $hit whether he could hit them or not. They just wanted to hear the song. When he refused to sing it, Glenn calmly went over and tried to console him and said, 'Randy, it's going to be okay, you can sing it, let's just go back out and do it.' Meanwhile, the audience is out there cheering. 'No man, I'm not going to sing the f--king song,' Randy said, snapping at Glenn. Glenn backed up a couple of steps and said, 'Well, f--k you then!' That's when he threw the towel, Meisner took the swing, and everything escalated."

[Topkat]

Oh, and in general I am a fan of Felder's. I know that sometimes doesn't come through. I just wish he'd give up his agenda of putting Glenn down in a backhanded way every time someone sticks a microphone in his face. Every time he does it, I lose a little more respect for him.

You know, I don't really think he was putting Glenn down in that statement. It's all in how you interpret it. In all fairness, I do think that Don Henley's solo career was a lot stronger than Glenn's...Now, maybe some people don't agree with that, but Glenn makes like he had some great "acting" career going on, & to be honest, I had no idea he did any acting. The one line he has in that movie Jerry Mcguire, I didn't even notice him, & I did not watch Miami Vice.
Don Henley's album did win some awards & I think his career was a lot stronger than Glenn's. Whatever the other guys did, I didn't really know about. I only heard of that one song "The Heat Is On" from Glenn.