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Saturday, November 01, 2014

History of the Eagles

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Friday night I got up to water the plants and had trouble getting back to sleep, so I rang up NetFlix on the iPad and stumbled over "History of the Eagles." I was never really an Eagles fan; they came along after I was married and had a family, etc., and by then I listened to talk radio in the car. Anyway, the next thing I know the sun was up! The thing is 3 hours and 7 minutes. Needless to say, I was fascinated; it's the best (after Spinal Tap - that was real, wasn't it?) band documentary I've seen. Daily Motion breaks it into 4 parts and I've embedded part one as a sampler; but NetFlix is the way to go.

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Rodger the Real King of France 11/01/2014 09:51:00 AM 10 Comments

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Anonymous said...: If you like Spinal Tap youll LOVE A Mighty Wind. Same guys and same treatment of the Folk music era.
Tim; 11/1/14, 10:07 AM
Rodger the Real King of France said...: I was disappointed by Mighty Wind after Christopher Guest's nonpareil "Waiting for Guffman,and "Best in Show."; 11/1/14, 10:40 AM
Anonymous said...: The Eagles movie was interesting. I had no idea that Glenn Frey was such an asshole.

I never listened to the band when they were a country rock outfit -- the sound was syrupy and boring. The band only took off when Joe Walsh joined them and made them sound like an actual rock band.

Also: Frey was yammering on about all their songwriting and hits, but I would take ANY Joe Walsh album (Barnstorm, So What? etc) over all the Eagles albums.

Frey and Henley write what I call "3rd-person" songs -- observational stuff like Paul McCartney does. Good songs, but basically soulless.

Joe Walsh writes songs about himself: personal notes on his life and feelings, with a wry, self-deprecating wit (e.g. Life's Been Good To Me, Vote For Me and Analog Man). When his songs aren't like that, they're unbelievably thoughtful (The Confessor) or poignant: I defy anyone to listen to the songs he wrote after the death of his baby daughter and not be moved to tears.

Frey/Henley's ditties pale by comparison. Yeah, they are The Eagles -- no doubt about that -- but Walsh is the soul of the band, and Frey never ONCE admitted that in the movie.

Plus, they're a bunch of Lefty assholes.; 11/1/14, 1:32 PM
Anonymous said...: Sorry; that last post was mine.

-- Kim; 11/1/14, 1:34 PM
Rodger the Real King of France said...: Left assholes to be sure, but that.s the norm with rockrers. W
ell done Kim.; 11/1/14, 1:50 PM
Anonymous said...: Ted Nugent knows where you live, Rodge... and so does Gene Simmons.

Kim; 11/1/14, 2:24 PM
Anonymous said...: Kim nailed my opinion of Fry after watching this a while back, too. And I'm not so sure about Henley either, for that matter.

Sir H the Comet; 11/1/14, 6:21 PM
MAX Redline said...: So you pee on your plants at night?; 11/1/14, 6:58 PM
El Jefe said...: I've had a rough night, and I hate the fucking Eagles, man - The Dude; 11/3/14, 10:43 AM
Jason in KT said...: The article on Grantland was excellent and inspired me to watch it. You hit the nail on the head, it's Spinal Tap only it's all true.

http://grantland.com/features/the-eagles-greatest-hit/

Grantland used to be a great website until the SJWs ruined it.; 11/3/14, 12:52 PM

Saturday, November 01, 2014

History of the Eagles

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