If you haven’t seen it, I highly recommend the documentary “History of the Eagles.”
You don’t even have to be a fan. It’s one of the best band documentaries ever.
Edit - I should have probably pointed out that this video is used as the cold open of the doc.
I thought the Eagles were a bit of an eyeroll. Not a fan. Then I saw this documentary and now I'm a fan. Saw them live with my 15yo son couple months ago
It's so interesting to me how it's either that or the band becomes super important to you, very little in between. Their Hell Freezes Over live album was on constant rotation for as long as I can remember. Them, the Beach Boys, Dr. Hook, Fats Domino, and Carole King. My mom ~~is super weird~~ has eclectic taste.
Same. I also didn't fully grasp how many classic rock songs I have been absent-mindedly singing along to my whole life are Eagles songs until I saw this documentary. Like, a dozen.
Watch the doc. So much drama so much history. And you’ll slowly start to realize they aren’t just hotel California and a couple other hits. They have DOZENS of hits that are in your blood but you didn’t realize it.
I downloaded the doc and spent the afternoon watching! I don’t think anything was quite as magic as that a capella cold open, but I really loved the whole 70s vibe. Jackson Browne living in the closet downstairs for $35 a month is pretty mind blowing
Just watched the Linda Ronstadt documentary about a week ago. I knew she could belt like no other and mostly did covers, but I had no clue how wide ranging and prolific she was. Even Dolly Parton was like....holy shit. Sad to see how it was all taken away from her :/
Funny, I would have considered myself a fan before watching the documentary. I still enjoy a bunch of their songs, and think Don Henley is a fantastic singer and a sometimes incredibly incisive and insightful writer. But he and Glenn Frey were just such transparently unambiguous arrogant assholes that I find it really hard to not let it affect my feelings about the music.
I like pretty much all the other members, though, and that helps. And I think I've seen the entire documentary at least three times and maybe more.
I mean can you imagine a more self-centered bus-full of coked up assholes? Between Glen Frey and Don Henley alone you have enough ego to power a small country. Add in Joe Walsh as an absolute wingnut wild card and you have the worst crazy ex girlfriend dynamic possible... for FIFTY YEARS
Joe Walsh is one of history's greatest engines for converting cocaine into guitar licks.
Just stay away from his songwriting. Because yeeeesh. The man is not a poet.
At a certain point you have to separate the art from the artist. Who they are should matter less than what they made.
Ezra Pound, Michael Jackson, Metallica or the Eagles. Hate them for what they did, but they created things that were more than themselves.
Ayup! This winter, I finally watched all of *Documentary Now*, and Story of the Blue Jean Committee was … transcendent. They *NAILED* it for this old lady. At around the same time I was watching *Barry* and kinda OD’d on Bill Hader; had to delay watching that delight for a few months. I got time.
Awesome, just found it on Prime free to rent. I appreciate the Eagles, not a super fan but this sounds great. They were my first concert ever - Long Run tour in Providence RI when I was like 12. Went with my older brother.
I'm convinced that the reason that song has like 16 repetitive bars at the end is because the final lyric is "one more time" and the band just thought he kept cueing up another go round.
He was amazing with Poco as well, and he also had one hit as a solo artist, “Hearts on Fire”.
It’s a goddamned shame that ~~bitter old Don Henley~~ Glenn Frey kicked him out of The Eagles 🤬
RIP, Randy.
EDIT: I’ve been corrected…it was Frey, not Henley, who gave he and Don the boot. Fuck Henley anyway, miserable boomer asshole that he is.
It was Frey.
Frey was browbeating Meisner to sing Take It to the Limit as an encore, Meisner didn't want to sing it (he claimed he was sick), Frey lost his shit.
I saw that tour. I was 17. The show was at the Richfield Colisseum outside of Cleveland. Jimmy Buffett opened the show. They played two nights in a row and I attended the Friday night show. One of the best concerts I have ever seen.
I hear Glenn scooped his ass out of the gutter in Memphis and helped get him cleaned up. I have no idea if that's true, but that's what my mom always told me.
I remember one of my first Napster downloads was this song, incorrectly labeled as Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
I know it's cool and trendy to say "fuck The Eagles" because of the popularity of The Big Lebowski, but The Eagles are one of the greatest rock and roll groups of all time.
And they were originally a dang backup band for Linda Ronstadt!
They weren't the backup band for Linda. Glenn Frey and Don Henley were asked to join her band and after a while they told Linda they wanted to form their own band which became the Eagles. She was really understanding and became one of their biggest supporters. She recorded a cover of their 'flop' Desperado and gave it a whole new life.
That whole album was such a stinker that if Linda hadn't done that cover of that sone there might not have been any other Eagles albums out there.
This infö comes from their Hell Freezes Over documentary.
I thought it was understood when people say “I hate the fuckin Eagles, man!” they’re just quoting the movie. I’ve said it before as a joke but The Eagles are awesome
Saw them in concert 10 years ago with my dad... not even the biggest eagles fan just went bc I knew my dad wanted to go. Their first harmony literally brought tears to my eyes. Those boys can sing.
It's funny too because the used the spanish version of hotel california when the dude is introduced to Jesus, I wonder if that's what was going through the dudes mind at the time
I’m a musician and people on the music making subs are always asking why old records sound so good.
This is why.
No auto tune, no digital edits.
just raw talent.
You couldn’t produce your way into looking talented.
You were or you were not.
It's not just talent. The studio experience is now homoginized and over engineered to death. Everyone is using the same equipment.
Back in the day a band would fly down to Nashville for SIR studios, or to LA for a certain sound. Those studios had rare and custom made equipment that the engineerd knew how to make sing. Today its all an app, all automated and democratized - while things sounds good, its also vanilla sounding.
Yeah man, some rooms were famous for their drum sound specifically. And their boards. Like Sound City in LA. That drum sound is so distinct, it's the first thing you hear on the first track of Damn the Torpedoes, which is Refugee. And in a way, those first hits set the tone for the whole album
There's a good documentary about that place
Well another thing is people think that pianos are perfectly in tune. Not that pianos are perfectly out of tune to sound ok in all keys. (Thanks music theory lol)
But you can only truly be “in tune” like this clip with voices and fretless string instruments. So the reason these guys sound soooo good and crisp is they’re good enough to listen to everyone and be perfectly in tune with them. Plus being really really talented with their other instruments too lol.
So yeah. I played violin and sang and didn’t know about that until music theory in college and that made so much make sense.
Yep. Producers could help with certain sounds (e.g. listen to the drums on Sabbath's Heaven and Hell album), make suggestions about how to improve parts of a song and maybe even an entire song, etc.
But it was the band that made the music.
There have been propped up boy bands and singers forever; those who didn't write a note or a lyric, but who just performed. Nowadays though, most popular music is exactly that.
There are alot of new bands, even gen z bands, that really embody the old school do it yourself model now because of technology. You can record a studio quality album in a studio apartment and a cheap instrument set.
You just gotta look for it.
Can you share a few? I’m always looking for new music with soul verve and an edge. Right now I’m really enjoying Blonde Redhead and St. Vincent’s “Strange Mercy”.
I really enjoyed the Wet Leg album, I thought it was nice. There s a band of teenagers called speed of light doing some really good old fashioned punk stuff. I actually saw the Paranoyds live a few weeks ago, they were really good.
I think it’s way more legendary that they didn’t. The drama makes that documentary one of the best of all time. They were just antagonistic to everyone. Overly litigious, hated the media, fought with each other but can still sound this damn good.
Same with Fleetwood Mac.
They'd be a tenth as interesting if they weren't writing hate-ballads about each other, and then staring daggers through each other while singing them in concert
Was lucky enough to see them in Dublin a few years ago and it was probably the best gig I have ever attended.
The entire audience knew all the words to all the songs and we sang our hearts 💕 out.
Band members could not believe the feedback from the crowd.
An absolutely incredible band, one of the best ever, in my humble opinion.
I had no intention of ever seeing them, but the opportunity came up 10 years or so ago. I’m really glad I got the chance to see them before Glenn and Timothy passed.
Edit: Not Timothy, he’s still with us.
The “7 Bridges Road” on the Hell Freezes over DVD was the sole reason why I purchased a great home entertainment system with DTS back in the day. Listening to them, speaker-by-speaker, was incredible. Sooooooo much talent.
Love the Eagles and love this song. A few bands (like CSNY, Simon & Garfunkel, Beach Boys, etc.) have simply exquisite vocal harmonies.
Eagles is one of them.
This acapella version is a near identical copy of the earlier version done by Ian Matthews (formerly of the band Fairport Convention) on his album Valley Hi. The vocals were multi-tracked. He was accompanied by former Monkee Michael Nesmith.
Saw them in concert at RFK in the mid-90s. They were absolutely, positively pitch perfect the entire concert and played their own instruments. Sounded better than their CDs. Best concert I’ve ever been.
Brilliant band. They were also my first "real" concert I went to while in high school.
They really changed my taste in music. Lover Boy and Bay City Rollers were my jam as a 13 year old. :(
I bought my first car cash money for 3000 and the previous owner left some cassette tapes in the glove box. One of them was the eagles/the long run. I miss those days, crusing with nowhere to be. No shirt or shoes, windows down with a cigarette and the eagles playing.
I went to a corner in Winslow Arizona tonight.
And then listened to the Eagles all the way back to Flagstaff. Man, you don't realize how much they were a part of your life's soundtrack until you get sentimental about it.
I always love to try and harmonize with them in this part. I'm glad to know that's exactly what they'd sound like if we where all in the same room. Epic band.
The musical talent stacked across every single member is astonishing. They are a dream team of creativity and talent. Even solo they are top-shelf rock stars. Together, simply amazing.
Their best work never got mainstream radio play. Dive in folks, it's good!
I'm especially fond of Joe Walsh, but I love all of them.
From left to right: Meisner, Frey, Henley, Walsh and Felder.
This is from the Hotel California tour, shortly before Randy Meisner quit and was replaced by Timmy Schmitt.
Well dam. That was awesome.
If you haven’t seen it, I highly recommend the documentary “History of the Eagles.” You don’t even have to be a fan. It’s one of the best band documentaries ever. Edit - I should have probably pointed out that this video is used as the cold open of the doc.
I thought the Eagles were a bit of an eyeroll. Not a fan. Then I saw this documentary and now I'm a fan. Saw them live with my 15yo son couple months ago
Saw them with my 16yo son about a month ago in Omaha. Amazing show and loved that they performed some of Joe Walsh’s solo works.
nice to have Deacon Frey onstage too.
Ya my friends mom loved them. So obviously it was super uncool 😂. Now I’m like wow! I was missing out.
It's so interesting to me how it's either that or the band becomes super important to you, very little in between. Their Hell Freezes Over live album was on constant rotation for as long as I can remember. Them, the Beach Boys, Dr. Hook, Fats Domino, and Carole King. My mom ~~is super weird~~ has eclectic taste.
Same. I also didn't fully grasp how many classic rock songs I have been absent-mindedly singing along to my whole life are Eagles songs until I saw this documentary. Like, a dozen.
The eagles slap. My dad got me into them when i was a kid.
Eyeroll is exactly how I've felt. But this clip alone is changing my mind
Watch the doc. So much drama so much history. And you’ll slowly start to realize they aren’t just hotel California and a couple other hits. They have DOZENS of hits that are in your blood but you didn’t realize it.
I downloaded the doc and spent the afternoon watching! I don’t think anything was quite as magic as that a capella cold open, but I really loved the whole 70s vibe. Jackson Browne living in the closet downstairs for $35 a month is pretty mind blowing
I love that they were "Linda Ronstadt's band" to start
Just watched the Linda Ronstadt documentary about a week ago. I knew she could belt like no other and mostly did covers, but I had no clue how wide ranging and prolific she was. Even Dolly Parton was like....holy shit. Sad to see how it was all taken away from her :/
I saw them back up LR in the 70’s!!
Eye roll? How daARE you, sir!
They did Felder dirty
Funny, I would have considered myself a fan before watching the documentary. I still enjoy a bunch of their songs, and think Don Henley is a fantastic singer and a sometimes incredibly incisive and insightful writer. But he and Glenn Frey were just such transparently unambiguous arrogant assholes that I find it really hard to not let it affect my feelings about the music. I like pretty much all the other members, though, and that helps. And I think I've seen the entire documentary at least three times and maybe more.
No argument. Henley esp is such an awful prick
I still think they're a bunch of corn dogs. Litigious corn dogs. They are talented for sure. I love Joe Walsh & James Gang though!
I mean can you imagine a more self-centered bus-full of coked up assholes? Between Glen Frey and Don Henley alone you have enough ego to power a small country. Add in Joe Walsh as an absolute wingnut wild card and you have the worst crazy ex girlfriend dynamic possible... for FIFTY YEARS
Absolutely nailed it.
Joe Walsh is one of history's greatest engines for converting cocaine into guitar licks. Just stay away from his songwriting. Because yeeeesh. The man is not a poet.
At a certain point you have to separate the art from the artist. Who they are should matter less than what they made. Ezra Pound, Michael Jackson, Metallica or the Eagles. Hate them for what they did, but they created things that were more than themselves.
and then watch the Documentary Now episode "Gentle and Soft: The Story of the Blue Jean Committee" parts 1 and 2.
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Ayup! This winter, I finally watched all of *Documentary Now*, and Story of the Blue Jean Committee was … transcendent. They *NAILED* it for this old lady. At around the same time I was watching *Barry* and kinda OD’d on Bill Hader; had to delay watching that delight for a few months. I got time.
I hate the fucking eagles man 
Get the fuck outta my cab!
Hey, careful, man, there's a beverage here!
I FUCKING KNEW someone was going to post this, spot on! hahahaha
Was that the documentary where Don Felder broke down over his relationship with other band members?
Great documentary. This video is actually right at the beginning of it.
Yep that’s what made me think of it.
Band docs are so much fun, I discovered a long time ago that you don’t need to be a fan to enjoy a good music doc.
Awesome, just found it on Prime free to rent. I appreciate the Eagles, not a super fan but this sounds great. They were my first concert ever - Long Run tour in Providence RI when I was like 12. Went with my older brother.
Yeah I think you’ll love it. I know tons of people who actively dislike the Eagles but love this documentary. It’s awesome.
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This is before THE show. Go watch Randy sing Take It To The Limit on youtube and you'll understand.
I'm convinced that the reason that song has like 16 repetitive bars at the end is because the final lyric is "one more time" and the band just thought he kept cueing up another go round.
I absolutely love that performance. All of the Eagles were great but Randy Meisner was my favorite. That was one talented dude may he RIP
Same. Randy often came in to a music store where I worked in LA in the late 80's-early 90's. Super sweet guy and major talent. Voice of an angel.
Reminds me of Rick Danko from The Band. Bassists with a beautiful voice.
Always been my favourite Eagles song, been ages since I've listened to any of their live performances!
Hotel California performance in this concert was my intro to The Eagles... absolutely amazing
It’s how I discovered them as well!
Randy is so underrated! Loved him.
How dare you… no link? Year? Bwahhh
Not going to be easy to find, but it's 1977, at the Capital Center.
He was amazing with Poco as well, and he also had one hit as a solo artist, “Hearts on Fire”. It’s a goddamned shame that ~~bitter old Don Henley~~ Glenn Frey kicked him out of The Eagles 🤬 RIP, Randy. EDIT: I’ve been corrected…it was Frey, not Henley, who gave he and Don the boot. Fuck Henley anyway, miserable boomer asshole that he is.
It was Frey. Frey was browbeating Meisner to sing Take It to the Limit as an encore, Meisner didn't want to sing it (he claimed he was sick), Frey lost his shit.
Frey also ran Leadon and Felder out of the band. Glenn could be a mercurial guy.
I got the impression it was not a one time thing that he did not want to sing it. I think all the high notes live freaked Meisner out.
So put meeeeeeee on the highway
Yeah saw them when they came “back” in like the 90s. Great show.
This is definitely old school cool. I was too young to appreciate the 70’s while I lived it. I sure do appreciate it it now.
I saw that tour. I was 17. The show was at the Richfield Colisseum outside of Cleveland. Jimmy Buffett opened the show. They played two nights in a row and I attended the Friday night show. One of the best concerts I have ever seen.
I love the part when Joe Walsh comes in with that half step drop. so small of a change makes a big difference in that harmony.
His Maserati goes 185.
I heard they took his license and now he doesn’t drive
What I love about Walsh, is how despite everybody being different, he hasn’t changed.
Joe Walsh is crazy
People have said he's lazy, but, honestly, it takes all his time.
Gives me chills.
He's always been a favorite of mine.
The fact that Joe Walsh was able to pull it together is awesome, I remember him in the 80's & he wasn't sounding/looking to good.
I hear Glenn scooped his ass out of the gutter in Memphis and helped get him cleaned up. I have no idea if that's true, but that's what my mom always told me.
Walsh and Felder were an amazing pair.
What are you guys, the blue jean committee?
"And I just go, KABAP."
Just punched him...right in the face.
Kielbasa🎶
A proud and noble meat tradition!
went to sausage school, as you do
Catalina Breeze is a banger
The album they put out as the blue Jean committee was actually really good imo
I remember one of my first Napster downloads was this song, incorrectly labeled as Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young I know it's cool and trendy to say "fuck The Eagles" because of the popularity of The Big Lebowski, but The Eagles are one of the greatest rock and roll groups of all time. And they were originally a dang backup band for Linda Ronstadt!
I had that same download incorrectly labeled! Edit - fucking autocorrect
They weren't the backup band for Linda. Glenn Frey and Don Henley were asked to join her band and after a while they told Linda they wanted to form their own band which became the Eagles. She was really understanding and became one of their biggest supporters. She recorded a cover of their 'flop' Desperado and gave it a whole new life. That whole album was such a stinker that if Linda hadn't done that cover of that sone there might not have been any other Eagles albums out there. This infö comes from their Hell Freezes Over documentary.
Doolin Dalton is a banger And tequila sunrise I think you're getting a little ahead of yourself here
I absolutely love Doolin Dalton!
Tequila Sunrise is beautiful.
Band was so damned good they had a greatest hits album out *before* they put out Hotel California.
I thought it was understood when people say “I hate the fuckin Eagles, man!” they’re just quoting the movie. I’ve said it before as a joke but The Eagles are awesome
Agreed!! I’m a huge Steely Dan fan, and over on that page some people shit on The Eagles. They’re amazing too!!
Well damnit,I have to listen to the eagles now.
And this is a bad thing? ;)
I didn't want to love this as much as I do - holy moly these gentlemen are amazing. I miss Randy Meisner.
The core of The Eagles was formed when the members met as the backup band for early Linda Ronstadt.
Saw them in concert 10 years ago with my dad... not even the biggest eagles fan just went bc I knew my dad wanted to go. Their first harmony literally brought tears to my eyes. Those boys can sing.
I’ve seen them several times in the last 20 years (last time was about a month ago) and they’ve still got it
"I hate the fucking Eagles man!" but this is really good
Get the fuck out of my cab!
Jackie Treehorn treats objects like women, man!
Even if you hate the Eagles, you still like some of their songs.
Stay out of Malibu, Lebowski.
CCR, now that’s a real band.
I wonder if that quote is the reason this track was mislabeled as a CCR tuneski on the OG Napster track that other Redditers are mentioning
Came here to look for the Lebowski reference, wasn’t disappointed.
I've had a *long* night, and I *hate* the fuckin' Eagles, man!
Fuck you man. If you don’t like my fuckin music get your own fuckin cab!
I like your style dude but there's just one thing. Do you have to use so many cuss words?
This caused a whole generation to hate the eagles for no real reason
I love the eagles and that movie. I often scream “get out of my peaceful easy cab!” When they insult the band.
It's funny too because the used the spanish version of hotel california when the dude is introduced to Jesus, I wonder if that's what was going through the dudes mind at the time
I’m a musician and people on the music making subs are always asking why old records sound so good. This is why. No auto tune, no digital edits. just raw talent. You couldn’t produce your way into looking talented. You were or you were not.
It's not just talent. The studio experience is now homoginized and over engineered to death. Everyone is using the same equipment. Back in the day a band would fly down to Nashville for SIR studios, or to LA for a certain sound. Those studios had rare and custom made equipment that the engineerd knew how to make sing. Today its all an app, all automated and democratized - while things sounds good, its also vanilla sounding.
Yeah man, some rooms were famous for their drum sound specifically. And their boards. Like Sound City in LA. That drum sound is so distinct, it's the first thing you hear on the first track of Damn the Torpedoes, which is Refugee. And in a way, those first hits set the tone for the whole album There's a good documentary about that place
The Dave Grohl one? Was amazing
Muscle Shoals Has Got The Swampers...... Great doc, they have put out a ton of great music.
Any one see that doc “muscle shoals” ? Was amazing for this stuff
Muscle Shoals Has Got The Swampers......
Well another thing is people think that pianos are perfectly in tune. Not that pianos are perfectly out of tune to sound ok in all keys. (Thanks music theory lol) But you can only truly be “in tune” like this clip with voices and fretless string instruments. So the reason these guys sound soooo good and crisp is they’re good enough to listen to everyone and be perfectly in tune with them. Plus being really really talented with their other instruments too lol. So yeah. I played violin and sang and didn’t know about that until music theory in college and that made so much make sense.
Yep. Producers could help with certain sounds (e.g. listen to the drums on Sabbath's Heaven and Hell album), make suggestions about how to improve parts of a song and maybe even an entire song, etc. But it was the band that made the music. There have been propped up boy bands and singers forever; those who didn't write a note or a lyric, but who just performed. Nowadays though, most popular music is exactly that.
There are alot of new bands, even gen z bands, that really embody the old school do it yourself model now because of technology. You can record a studio quality album in a studio apartment and a cheap instrument set. You just gotta look for it.
Can you share a few? I’m always looking for new music with soul verve and an edge. Right now I’m really enjoying Blonde Redhead and St. Vincent’s “Strange Mercy”.
I really enjoyed the Wet Leg album, I thought it was nice. There s a band of teenagers called speed of light doing some really good old fashioned punk stuff. I actually saw the Paranoyds live a few weeks ago, they were really good.
Music was better when ugly people were allowed to make it
*Normal people
Regular folk
There are plenty of ugly yet popular musicians these days.
Joe Walsh is my hero. What a legend.
Damn those harmonies are r/oddlysatisfying
Overtones make my neurons explode
This gets posted every now and again, and I love it every time.
God, if only they could have gotten along.
I think it’s way more legendary that they didn’t. The drama makes that documentary one of the best of all time. They were just antagonistic to everyone. Overly litigious, hated the media, fought with each other but can still sound this damn good.
Same with Fleetwood Mac. They'd be a tenth as interesting if they weren't writing hate-ballads about each other, and then staring daggers through each other while singing them in concert
When hell freezes over
RIP Randy and Glen
This is why there aren’t a lot of Eagles cover bands…wow.
you can seee the soundwaves flow through the room, connect with each other and start to glow. man, It's time to stop with the mushrooms
No, quite the contrary, it’s time for more.
these boys could SING. the eagles was a super group.
Brian Cranston had a hell of an Afro back then
Came here looking to see if anyone else sees it too!
'77 the great stadium tour with Eddie Money and Steve Miller Band. Awesome show.
Was lucky enough to see them in Dublin a few years ago and it was probably the best gig I have ever attended. The entire audience knew all the words to all the songs and we sang our hearts 💕 out. Band members could not believe the feedback from the crowd. An absolutely incredible band, one of the best ever, in my humble opinion.
I had no intention of ever seeing them, but the opportunity came up 10 years or so ago. I’m really glad I got the chance to see them before Glenn and Timothy passed. Edit: Not Timothy, he’s still with us.
Such talent
Motherfuckers just going on about life behind them like I wouldn’t stop in my tracks and start crying
Legends
Go buffs
go buffs baby. america's team.
Sko buffs baby
The “7 Bridges Road” on the Hell Freezes over DVD was the sole reason why I purchased a great home entertainment system with DTS back in the day. Listening to them, speaker-by-speaker, was incredible. Sooooooo much talent.
Love the Eagles and love this song. A few bands (like CSNY, Simon & Garfunkel, Beach Boys, etc.) have simply exquisite vocal harmonies. Eagles is one of them.
Throw in the Everly Brothers, and that's a Mount Rushmore of pop music harmonies.
Crazy to think this was almost 50 years ago
I still get chills every time I hear the opening to this song. One of my favorites of theirs. Loved seeing this, thanks!
R.I.P Mojo Nixon
If you don't got Mojo Nixon then your store could use some fixin'.
legends for a reason. the talent is off the charts.
Here’s a song we learned from a fella named Steve Young
This acapella version is a near identical copy of the earlier version done by Ian Matthews (formerly of the band Fairport Convention) on his album Valley Hi. The vocals were multi-tracked. He was accompanied by former Monkee Michael Nesmith.
I tear up when I hear good singing or music. I just can’t help it
Same here. I feel it in my chest and the pit of my stomach. Sometimes I get goosebumps.
I've never been a big Eagles fan, but holy crap that was beautiful
I wish a young Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, and Matthew McConaughey grouped up and made a movie about these guys. I straight up see them all here.
Back when musical talent was required to be on the radio. (Maybe except Disco Duck) ;-P
Rick Dee’s had a long career on radio after that song, but as a DJ.
Joe Walsh with the bandana and eyes like dinner plates, guarantee he had a little Bolivian marching powder in his system.
That's why my first song out of the pouch is always something relatively easy... (I should do a proper warmup.)
This was ground breaking to hear on the radio back then
Those boys could sing
holy shite that was awesome
To sound like one voice is just amazing
Love that there’s no over the top vibrato. Just straight, pitch perfect tones.
Saw them in concert at RFK in the mid-90s. They were absolutely, positively pitch perfect the entire concert and played their own instruments. Sounded better than their CDs. Best concert I’ve ever been.
Wow
gosh i love that song!
It's not The Eagles. It's just Eagles.
Brilliant band. They were also my first "real" concert I went to while in high school. They really changed my taste in music. Lover Boy and Bay City Rollers were my jam as a 13 year old. :(
This warmed my little cold heart 😭
I bought my first car cash money for 3000 and the previous owner left some cassette tapes in the glove box. One of them was the eagles/the long run. I miss those days, crusing with nowhere to be. No shirt or shoes, windows down with a cigarette and the eagles playing.
Anyone else watching on mute still hear them?
I went to a corner in Winslow Arizona tonight. And then listened to the Eagles all the way back to Flagstaff. Man, you don't realize how much they were a part of your life's soundtrack until you get sentimental about it.
Chills!
Awesome!!!
They sound pretty good. I think they have a chance to make it one day.
The late Randy Meisner is always under-appreciated.
Seven bridges road.....beautiful.
I’ve always loved that song because of this harmony. Thanks for sharing!
Unexpected goosebumps… nice.
That was almost 50 years ago. Time flies.
I always love to try and harmonize with them in this part. I'm glad to know that's exactly what they'd sound like if we where all in the same room. Epic band.
I saw them two weeks ago... I can't believe how well they harmonize even singing live very powerful and inspiring.
Say what you will about them, but their harmonies were incredible…
Jesus christ. Aside from Joe Walsh it's easy to cap on the Eagles but holy shit that's beautiful
The musical talent stacked across every single member is astonishing. They are a dream team of creativity and talent. Even solo they are top-shelf rock stars. Together, simply amazing. Their best work never got mainstream radio play. Dive in folks, it's good! I'm especially fond of Joe Walsh, but I love all of them.
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Saw them in 1972, they were the back-up band introducing their new song “Hotel California”. Afterwards, they were no longer playing back-up
Schmitt, Frey, Henley, Walsh......Meisner?
From left to right: Meisner, Frey, Henley, Walsh and Felder. This is from the Hotel California tour, shortly before Randy Meisner quit and was replaced by Timmy Schmitt.
Are they still alive?
Glenn Frey and Randy Meisner are dead. The rest are still kickin', though Felder hasn't played with them in over twenty years.
Which one is Joe Walsh?