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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.

You're welcome.
HISTORY OF THE EAGLES 2013 PART 1 by GTO3000TT

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10 comments:

  1. Anonymous11/1/14, 10:07 AM

    If you like Spinal Tap youll LOVE A Mighty Wind. Same guys and same treatment of the Folk music era.
    Tim

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  2. Rodger the Real King of France11/1/14, 10:40 AM

    I was disappointed by Mighty Wind after Christopher Guest's nonpareil "Waiting for Guffman,and "Best in Show."

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  3. Anonymous11/1/14, 1:32 PM

    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.

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  4. Anonymous11/1/14, 1:34 PM

    Sorry; that last post was mine.

    -- Kim

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  5. Rodger the Real King of France11/1/14, 1:50 PM

    Left assholes to be sure, but that.s the norm with rockrers. W
    ell done Kim.

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  6. Anonymous11/1/14, 2:24 PM

    Ted Nugent knows where you live, Rodge... and so does Gene Simmons.


    Kim

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  7. Anonymous11/1/14, 6:21 PM

    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

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  8. MAX Redline11/1/14, 6:58 PM

    So you pee on your plants at night?

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  9. El Jefe11/3/14, 10:43 AM

    I've had a rough night, and I hate the fucking Eagles, man - The Dude

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  10. Jason in KT11/3/14, 12:52 PM

    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.

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