Don in the Press/Blogs/etc.

[GlennLover]

dan.brown@sunmedia.ca

[Prettymaid]

This was an interesting article. Some of the questions we've posed here lately were answered. And I love it that he called Joe a lion.

[Troubadour]

I thought you might like that bit, PM!

Thanks for posting, GL. Let's hope they make that spring/summer tour a definite!

[Brooke]

Very interesting! Thanks GL!

This part: I would eventually like to write my autobiography, and maybe a separate book with a more detailed account of my life in the Eagles.

I'd love to read that!

As for touring, hmmmmmm.

[GlennLover]

I really hope he does the autobiography!!!

[Freypower]

I realise that Don is constrained in what he can say about the Eagles. I understand the 'west of the Mississippi' tour, but.... but.... I know it's too early, I know that.... and even that is apparently not 'definite'.

I had hoped that he might have come up with at least one positive comment about President Obama. Oh well.

[luvthelighthouse]

After reading and hearing several interviews from Don, he tends to common theme that he will continue writing songs, but may not continue touring and likes to focus on family and the kids.

Funny thing though, "if" he should stop solo touring in two years, won't his kids be at the age that they aren't going to want to hang out w/Dad? They'll be into the friend phase and hanging out w/them all the time. I'm not saying this is good or bad, just simply pointing it out.

I've also learned that he gives himself the out of, he may want to stop touring, but honestly, I think it's a part of him now. The one thing that always sticks out to me is the one interview where he said, (paraphrasing) that when you pick up an instrument, it's to fit in. I speculate that over time, Don (as well as others in the public eye) enjoys not only "fitting in" but being at the top of his echelon. I'm sure the applause and people coming to see him (solo or as an Eagle) are food that his ego needs. Again, not good or bad, just the feeling I get. I feel Glenn would be just fine if he never stood in front of an audience again... but I don't get that vibe from Don at all.

Overall, I enjoyed the interview and as always, Don's honesty.

[TimothyBFan]

"Brown: How hopeful are you about the new administration in Washington?
Henley: In its present condition, with its rabidly partisan, corporate-controlled congress; its biased, infotainment-obsessed, ratings-driven news media (which is now being supplanted by amateurs on the Web), and its chronically uninformed and bitterly divided electorate, I’m not sure that the U.S. can be effectively led or governed by anybody, anymore."

Every once in awhile, Don will say something that I so totally agree with that it scares me.

BTW-write that book Don and please press upon the rest of the band that their fans would love to read a book by each one of them!

[eaglesvet]

After reading and hearing several interviews from Don, he tends to common theme that he will continue writing songs, but may not continue touring and likes to focus on family and the kids.

Funny thing though, "if" he should stop solo touring in two years, won't his kids be at the age that they aren't going to want to hang out w/Dad? They'll be into the friend phase and hanging out w/them all the time. I'm not saying this is good or bad, just simply pointing it out.

I've also learned that he gives himself the out of, he may want to stop touring, but honestly, I think it's a part of him now. The one thing that always sticks out to me is the one interview where he said, (paraphrasing) that when you pick up an instrument, it's to fit in. I speculate that over time, Don (as well as others in the public eye) enjoys not only "fitting in" but being at the top of his echelon. I'm sure the applause and people coming to see him (solo or as an Eagle) are food that his ego needs. Again, not good or bad, just the feeling I get. I feel Glenn would be just fine if he never stood in front of an audience again... but I don't get that vibe from Don at all.

Overall, I enjoyed the interview and as always, Don's honesty.

I think your points are right on the money.

I really thought that interview was very enlightening, probably because we never hear anything from any of the boys on the "entertainment grapevine." Whenever other artists nowadays give interviews, it's usually to confirm or refute something Entertainment Weekly or Star Magazine has already leaked !

I wonder who Low Stars is and what they think now??

And Don is never at a loss for words when it comes to politics...it's just that he took a stand not to take a stand.

[Fan_For_Life]

Nice lenghty interview. Sometimes I wonder if he has a stash of answers that he vicariously uses, instead of typing a answer eveytime he's asked the same question over and over. Either way the insight is great. Thanks for sharing.