Discussion of Eagles Documentary "History of the Eagles"

[shunlvswx]

To tell the truth, I'm glad they were honest. I think I just didn't expect what came out of Glenn's mouth. So you have to think for those who aren't Eagles fans or just becoming fans would had painted Glenn not being nice. I kinda didn't like Don in this either.

Like I said earlier, I didn't know the Eagles history. I'm still a newbie and I was born a few months before they broke up. So some of this stuff was new to me. I never was a Glenn or Don fan growing up, but I knew about them. I was mostly into R&B and rap.

Forgive for saying this, but my mother didn't like me listening to white music growing up, but that didn't stop me as I got older. Now I love all types of music and I mostly love the oldies especially from the 70s and 80s. I even started to like country in the mid 90s and I remembered Travis Tritt doing the TIE video with the Eagles. I remembered when the Common Thread album won Album of the Year at the CMAs. I didn't know at that moment that was the first time they've been together in years.

I kinda was nervous to give my opinion about the documentary knowing I would get the not so nice opinion from people. I think I'll just go back to reading post.

[sodascouts]

For the most part I'm in agreement with you, but the way the filmmaker presents a subject can influence how it affects the viewer. So having Glenn and Don Henley speaking to camera against a blackground is quite different to the way the others were interviewed - usually in a recording studio or music room - and I wondered what the director/producer was aiming for.

That is designed to highlight those guys as the storytellers. The others are presented as people whose commentary augments the men who are the center of the tale: Henley/Frey. Again, their unity and their status as the heart of the band is the overarching theme. People may not agree with that approach, but apparently Gibney and Ellwood thought it was the way to go.

Do you feel that the documentary did a good job in showing the band members as they are?

Without knowing them, it's hard to say, but film rarely captures all the nuances of someone's personality.

[sodascouts]

I kinda was nervous to give my opinion about the documentary knowing I would get the not so nice opinion from people. I think I'll just go back to reading post.

Wow, Shun, if you think the responses to you were "not so nice," I don't even know what to tell you - except that people who can't even handle polite disagreement maybe aren't ready for a thread like this yet.

I suggest you go peruse the less controversial threads. We are happy to have you but I just went back and read the responses to you and I am astonished you are complaining about them. Like I said, this is obviously the wrong thread for you.

[Ive always been a dreamer]

Do you feel that the documentary did a good job in showing the band members as they are?

I agree with Soda that it's hard to judge when we don't actually know these guys as individuals or the details of the band dynamics. However, from everything I ever read or saw, I do think the documentary gave us a fairly accurate overall idea of how the band functioned.

[Glennhoney]

Yes. It's peculiar. It's something I've always been proud of, I have to admit.

..same here..

[GlennLover]

Another favourable review of the doc http://www.montrealgazette.com/enter...200/story.html

[sodascouts]

Thanks for that!

Don worries they're not relevant anymore... Well he shouldn't stress about it. Their music enriches people's lives. If that's not relevant, what is?

[VAisForEagleLovers]

Thanks, GL! I enjoyed reading it!

[Prettymaid]

Glenn Frey comes across in the documentary as the driving force, a gifted writer and arranger but also a tough task master. “We were like the odd couple,” laughs Henley, recalling early days as roommates in L.A. “He would make a mess and I would clean up after him.

This part cracked me up! It should have been in the doc. Lol

[shunlvswx]

I love in the documentary in the beginning when Don says, "It's something that you can't do forever, you know? This is not a lifetime career that we can do, you know. So--" And Glen goes, "It's not." That was so funny.

I was thinking about that statement Don was saying and it has really been lifetime career for them. Even though they broke up for 14 years, they kept busy.

I have to say. I'm very impressed with Glenn's piano and guitar skills. I was watch the other DVD specials and he amazes me. I know he said in the documentary that he stopped playing the piano at 12 years old. I was wondering to myself was it hard to go back to playing the piano after years of stopping. I know he would be rusty, but it looks like it wasn't hard.