Conference mr1pst::music

    re: -1
    
    Sorry, Hell already froze over some time ago.  They now have lights 
    at Wrigley Field.
    
    jim  :+)
    
    

    ...alan..you must let us know if and when you know if they are doing
    shows aroundd here........i'd love to see these guys....with my luck
    the shows will sell out before i know they're on sale!.....like what
    happened with the allman bros. shows at the orpheum next week....i am
    mega- bummed......*sniff*.....;'(.........../k

    I don't think hell had to freeze over for Henley, Frey, and Walsh,
    etc., to realize how much money they could make on a reunion tour. 
    They must've needed some extra cash.  :-)
    
    Actually, I would like to see them, though.
    
    Lorna
    

    I'd be interested in seeing them again...my first concert was The
    Eagles
    
    July 26, 1976  Foxboro Stadium
    Boz Scaggs, Fleetwood Mac, The Eagles
    
    my second concert   March 14 ??, 1977  Springfield Civic Center
    Jimmy Buffet, The Eagles
    
    love Timmy Schmidt's work with Poco, but I'd love to see Randy Meisner
    and even ol' Bernie Leadon back too...
    
    actually, the Eagles do a video with Travis Tritt, "Take It Easy" and
    it's all those guys...Don Felder sure looks different, well for that
    matter, so do Frey & Henley, but we've seen those changes, whereas
    Felder was hiding in the woods or something...

    I saw them at the same '76 concert.  Had a great time.  I wouldn't mind
    seeing them again especially if they do DESPARADO - my all time
    favorite Eagles song.
    
    Mo
    

  They ought to do it right and, as a lesson to their fawning country
  musician descendants, devote their reunion tour to the Roy Acuff songbook.

  Just a thought.   8)
  
  My first arena show was the Eagles opening for CSNY at Boston Garden.
  They were pretty good, pre-fame.   JBC

    Eagles opening for J Geils Band, Palace Concert Theater, Providence R.I.,
    1972

    I'm gonna buck the trend here. Though I liked a few of their songs
    overall I got to the point where I really despised the Eagles. Reason? 
    They were so overplayed in the 70s I don't care to ever hear their 
    music again. In general, much of their music was too mellow for my
    taste... it got flat out boring. It made me want to scream when Hotel
    California would come over the airwaves (for the gazilnth time). 
    
    Since they broke up I have enjoyed Henley's solo career much more than
    I ever enjoyed the Eagles as a group. Frey and Walsh's solo career, in
    my estimation, lacked creativity and anything of lasting artistic 
    substance.
    
    Hey, to each their own...
    
    Curt

    
    re.8 - I agree.
    
    "Take it Easy" makes me cringe worse than the schlockiest of 70's
    Top-40 ("not that there's anything wrong with that"[Seinfeld])
    
    It all sounded like luded-out El Lay laid-back yuppie pseudo-country 
    umbrella-drink music to me.
    
    - Sean (implicit :^)'s for all)

    
    Is this the much-heralded "Our Investments Aren't Doing Quite as Well
    as We Thought They Would" Tour ?
    
    				:-) - Jim
    

    I saw that Foxbore show too....and about 10 other shows before and
    after that one...I want to see them again...as for the over play, yeah
    that sucks but what band who seems to make it big doesn't get killed by
    the radio (or MTV for that matter)
    
    my biggest problem with the Eagles music is the fact that my On the
    Border LP had a skip that I still can't get out of head when I listen
    to the CD now ! drives me nuts ! I even sing it with the skip :')
    
    Chris

    I was at the '77 Springfield Civic Center show as well.  Ah yes, those
    general admission shows.  I remember (vaguely) being toward the front of
    that line when the doors opened.  I could have lifted my feet and still
    gotten in without touching.  It was almost like popping through the
    door into the building.  Got great seats.
    
    Glenn 

    I loved The Eagles music - and I'm not ashamed to say it - :-), but
    despite all the concerns I've seen over the years I never got around to
    seeing them.  So, I'd welcome the chance.
    
    I have seen Don Henley perform alone with an acoustic guitar, and
    thought it did a fantastic job, and I saw Glen Frey open for Tina
    Turner, at the Centrum, back in '85 (I think) and I actually enjoyed
    his band more than I did Tina.  (Although, I liked her, too.  I just
    liked him better, more my type of music I guess.)
    
    As .5 said, Desperado is probably my favorite Eagles song, and probably
    one of my all-time favorite songs, as well.  I, also, love Take It To
    The Limit, too.
    
    Actually, when I think about it, I don't think The Eagles were ever
    played too much for me.  :-)
    
    Lorna
    

    re: singing with the skip...
    
    I know the feeling. There are still songs I mentally fade out and
    go "K-CHUNK" right in the middle of because that's where it happened
    on the 8-track release...
    
    Edd

    oh god ! you too, I didn't say anything about 8tracks as I didnt want
    to date myself, btw I still have one that works great ! its bolted to 
    the roof of my dad's celler work shop...belting out John Denver tapes 
    :')

    Hell will Never Freeze_Over with An Eagles ReUion.
    They're A Satanic_Band!Listen to"Hotel Calafornia"Back_Wards..
    and Lines like.."They Stab it with &^&^(*&,But they just Can't kill
    The_Beast."
    California..69...=Anton LeVay
    Stay_Away,Children!!
    
       Crazy_Don't_Be_Tempted_Al

    Don Henley must die! Poke a sharp stick right in his eye!
    
    Bill Message

re: .17

>                          -< To Quote Mojo Nixon... >-
>
>    Don Henley must die! Poke a sharp stick right in his eye!
    
Don't let him get back together with Glenn Frey!

They must be hard up - they annouced the Eagles would play here in Denver at 
Fiddler's Gren. Admission? For the best seats in the house - $300!!!!!

The article went on to say (and I really love this) that people were already 
paying this much to ticket brokers so this was a way to make sure that the artists 
(poor suffering folks that they are) would get their just rewards.

Well, I liked this band a lot. Still listen to their cds. But I wouldn't pay $100 
let alone $300 to see them. Or anyone. Well, I might pay $100 to see Elvis, but 
only if he did a nice long tribute to Roy Acuff.

Paul

    To continue with the Henley-bashing ( sorry, fans )
    
    Denis Leary - "Why doesn't Don Henley have "Shoot me, I'm old" tattooed
    on his forehead??"
    
    	But seriously, I enjoy some of the Eagles stuff, none of Glenn
    Frey's solo works, some of Joe Walsh's and most of the songs off of Don
    Henley's _Building the Perfect Beast_ album. but virtually nothing he's
    done afterwards.  He just seems way too P.C. for my liking ( Not that
    there's anything *wrong* with that :-) )
    
    				- Jim

    re. ,17 Mojo Nixon and Don Henley
    
    Last time Mojo Nixon was in Austin here, he played at the infamous
    bar/club -- Hole in the Wall.
    
    Guess who sat in with him on "Don Henley Must Die?" You guessed it --
    Don Henley (who is always in Austin promoting an environmental or
    political cause. Or as the real story goes, chasing women and hanging
    out at the local music scene).
    
    True story. Written up on the local music rag and confirmed from a good
    friend/radio dj.
    
    At least Mr. Henley has a sense of humour.
    
    Curt

    I can't understand why Joe Walsh ever joined the Eagles in the
    first place. They seemed too layed back for his style. I have
    enjoyed Joe before the Barnstorm days. "The smoker you drink the
    player you get" is still a nice album which gets airplay in my
    house. Some old James Gang as well.
    
    Jim C.
    

    Re: .22
    
    
    $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

    Yeah, money sure does make strange bedfellows. Too bad really.
    I was hoping it was something more altruistic like helping out
    a friend or something. How naive of me. ;-)
    
    Jim C.
    
    

    I find it amusingly hypocritical when these politically correct artists
    do things for $$$$$  for themselves
    
    OK, ok, they may show up at "benefits" and all those other PC things to
    do, but it doesn't hurt them either, does it...  

    Well Joe and Don Felder are buddies, as Don F. played on some of Joe's
    albums before he joined the Eagles and did at least one tour....Joe
    just fit in somehow...also Bernie had left the band and they needed the
    3rd guitarist...
    
    Chris

    I think Don Henley is rather good looking.  (He has all his hair and
    has not gotten fat, etc.)
    
    Lorna
    

    RE:.26
    
    As I recall after Bernie left, the Eagles were trying to decide which
    direction to go...stay countryish or go more rock.  The two
    considerations for replacements, who also had the same management
    company, were Dan Fogelberg and Joe Walsh.  They decided to go with a
    harder rock sound and that's how Joe came into the picture.
    
    _stew-

    re. .27
    
    When Don Henley was here in Austin last time a friend of mine ran into
    him at a club. His comment to me was that someone else at the club had
    to point him out because "he put on so much weight he was
    unrecognizable."
    
    Amazing what those baggie shirts will do for ya. Witness the Travis
    Tritt video.
    
    CV
    
    p.s. I like Travis Tritt's version of Take It Easy better than I do the
    Eagles version. And I am no big country-western fan either.

    How is this going to work for Glenn Frey? I read something a couple of
    weeks ago about his record company suing him for not delivering on
    his album deal. If I remember right, his contract called for 4 albums
    and he's only done 2...
    			Jim

    I can count 3  release by Glen, 
    
    the Allnighter
    
    Strange Weather
    
    and he released a Live one just last year....
    
    and I know theres one other one that has smoe soul type tunes....
    
    unless he had a new contract 

I have the following Glenn Frey albums (I am
pretty sure it is all of them)

	No Fun Aloud
	The Allnighter
	Soul Search'n
	Strange Weather
	Live

-tim

    A number of folks have asserted, as though it were established fact,
    that the (only) reason for the reunion is money.  That may or may not
    be so.  Where is your evidence, other than unsupported claims about the
    various members' financial status?  
    
    Steve

    In .22, I was the first to suggest money (originally in a tongue in
    cheek answer to why Joe Walsh joined the band).   
    
    Joe probably didn't join the band only for money since he was friends
    with the Eagles (in fact, the story circulated in the press at the time
    was that Joe was asked to join *before* Don Felder, but when he turned
    them down the first time, they went with Don) but face it, if you had a
    chance to join a top-selling rock band and still do your solo thing,
    wouldn't you?
    
    If the Eagles wanted to get together and have some fun playing
    together, they hardly need to mount a huge tour, they could do what
    Neil Young, Van Morrison and McCartney have done in the past, just show
    up at some small club or theater unannounced and play.  So at *some*
    level, money has to be an issue.  Certainly it's a relatively easy way
    to make some money for those members who have had less success since
    the band broke up (Schmit, Walsh and Felder) and an easy shot in the
    arm for Glenn Frey's career.  Frey and Walsh did a tour last years that
    was well received, so maybe they figured the time was right.  After
    all, with people paying $75 to hear Dave Gilmour's flog the Floyd
    songbook, the public is clearly ready to pay to see their old faves.
    
    I certainly wouldn't hold it against the band to tour for the money.
    It's well deserved if they have the fans who are willing to pay.  I
    have nothing against musicians getting some payback for their work. 
    Anybody who thinks that the rock industry is fueled by altruism is
    crazy.  
    
    							Brian

    RE .33
    
    	Well, personally, I was jus' kiddin' :-)

    re .33, yeah, I was just kidding about the money, too.  I'm sure part
    of it is a desire to recapture the glory of their past fame, too.  :-)
    
    Honestly, I don't care why they are touring, I just hope I get tickets
    to see them!  I loved their music, and would love to have a chance to
    hear them play it again.
    
    Lorna
    

        >Honestly, I don't care why they are touring, I just hope I get tickets
        >to see them!  I loved their music, and would love to have a chance
        >to hear them play it again.
    
    Thank you Lorna........
    
    steve

Hey, I don't know for sure why they are reuniting. I was sota glad to see it 
happen since I never had the opportunity to see them in the 70's. But it seemed 
plain that when their manager annouces they'll get $300 for seats it makes me 
kinda wonder. Sure, they'll be cheaper seats in  the house I imagine, but paying 
even, say $35 to sit 100 yds away... I'm not so sure about that.

On the other hand, we have to remember that these guys are musicians AND 
businessmen. Heck, if I had benn in a band like that and had the chance to regroup 
and play say 50 dates (?!) and have the tour gross about $25M would I do it? 
Probably.

Paul

    Yow!  $300?!  I missed that point in your first posting, Paul (just
    went back and re-read it).  That satisfies my criteria for evidence
    that a major, perhaps the principal, reason for the reunion is
    financial.  About the only tour I'd pay $300 to see would be a reunion
    of The Beatles (all four of them), with Buddy Holly and Jimi Hendrix as
    openers.
    
    Steve

    I heard on the radio this morning that the Eagles will be at Great
    Woods, Aug. 5, 6, and 7. Tickets go on sale Monday morning.
    
    Ann

Just read in yesterday's (4/14) ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS that the Eagles will play in 
Denver at Fiddler's Green in June - two shows - June 18-19 (I think).

Reserved seats are $76. Lawn seats $43. No mention of the special section for the 
financially secure.

Sorry, but this is still a bit too much for me. I'll listen to the albums.

BTW, anyone who has ever listened to the Eagles LIVE album should know that it DOES 
NOT represent what you may hear in concert. That particular album had so much 
re-recording, editing, and post-production work that it would be fair to say that the Eagles 
may not be that great live. Friends who saw them said that they were not nearly so tight as 
they appear to be on their studio albums.

This is not a knock. I still like the studio work. Just don't expect to hear HOTEL 
CALIFORNIA note for note.

Finally, I have to say that Joe Walsh put together those  great guitar parts for HOTEL, and 
I think that they stand up as one of the neatest and most memorable of all rock guitar 
breaks. Right up there with BLACK MAGIC WOMAN.

Paul
 

    well I've seen them 12 times and yes they are very good if not great
    live (back then at least) who knows now ! but from what I've seen of
    the few members who have been touring they still got it and I'd bet
    they will be just fine doing a greatest hit show....
    
    Chris

    I saw the Eagles in Austin, TX in '79 or '80...Hotel Calif tour, I
    think. Anyway, they were so incredibly tight and well mixed, I thought
    I *was* listening to a CD!  The harmonies and instrumental parts were
    not only played note for note, but in many cases were embellished
    nicely.  Felder and Walsh were locked together on Hotel CA like they
    had been rehearsing since birth.....I'll never forget it.  It was one
    of the best live performances I've ever seen.  The problem is, I will
    expect the same or better quality in 1994 that I got 14 years ago, and
    I may be dissapointed......I wonder if it's worth $75+ to find out.....
    
    steve

    any tour dates available yet?
    
    	ann

They are going to be here in Hotlanta July 17th and 18th.  I really like this
group, but I just paid $100.00 each for tickets.  I have never paid this amount
for tickets from a scalper, let alone face value.   Not really sure why they
are charging so much.  Henley used to give some of it to Walden Woods, but I 
would say that he is trying to buy Beverly Hills at this rate.

None the less, I paid my money and I will go.  Hopefully this will be a good
show.   I have seen DH in concert a few times (including Red Rocks) and you
will not be disappointed.  "Hotel" was pretty impressive with his touring band,
as was the other Eagles music he played.  I hope they have a backup ready for
Joe Walsh, I can't picture him finishing the tour.   I have seen interviews
with him and he doesn't seem to be all there.  He also seems a little bitter
about his Eagles experience.

Henley has been quoted in articles as saying that a reunion would be good for
members of the group that have fallen upon bad times.  Maybe the some of the
money from the high price of these tickets will go to the non-songwriting
part of the band that did not benefit from all of their success.  My plan is
just to enjoy the music and the moment.  

Welcome to the Hotel California,

Paul

    Any update on Eagles tour dates.
    I'm in the UK so would really like to know what dates and venues they
    are doing in Europe. I was too young to see the last UK tour.
    Thanks for any help.
    The band I'm with cover some Eagles numbers;
    	Desparado, Take it Easy and Lyin' Eyes.
    I love doing them and they seem to go down well with all ages, even
    the over 60's! When we were told we did Desparado better than the
    Eagles, by a very big Eagles fan, I was well pleased ;-)
    Do you think they might be looking for support in the UK? :-))
    Phil.

    they'll be appearing at the TARGET CENTER in minneaplis on October 25.
    tickets on sales this coming saturday.
    
    	ann

    If anyone sees the UK dates for the Eagles can they please post them
    here asap. I'll be waiting/watching. I guess a UK appearance would be a
    sell-out so I'd like to get in early.
    Cheers,
    		Phil.

    Are there any updates on the shows already performed (good or bad)??
    If anybody remembers what they played at the show would be great too.
    
    mg
    

    Saw an ad in todays Boston Globe for State Line? ticket agency. They
    are selling tickets for Great Woods for below face value. Hope they
    take a bath.

    
    	So, what's up with this tour, has anyone heard any reviews
    	or better yet, anyone went to one of the Eagles shows ???
    
    	9 days and counting !!!!
    
    	Gilley

re: .52

>    All I can tell you is that my teenager decided not to go to the Eagles
>    Concert and now I have 2 tickets for this Sunday August 7, on the lawn
>    at Great Woods and can't find anyone to buy them from me.
>     If you know someone, Have them E-mail me CSSREG::Lamy or DTN264-6808.
>    I'll let them go for below face value!
    
Geez, if I spent $100 for the tickets and my teenager "decided not to go"
I'd be rather furious, to say the least.

-Hal

    I'd be furious if my teenager wanted to go

    
 >                 <<< Note 622.54 by DREGS::BLICKSTEIN "db" >>>
 >                             -< At those prices >-
 >
 >    I'd be furious if my teenager wanted to go
    
      But Dave!  ....   uh, never mind....  :^)
    
    - Sean

    Sean, 
    
    The difference between me and a lot of people is that I don't think
    that the fact that I find those prices ridiculous means that they
    shouldn't be charging them if people are willing to pay that.
    
    I did see the funny faces, but I wanted to make that clear since
    your joke is based on false notion that there's ANY inconsistency with 
    what I've said in the scalping topic and what I said in .54.
    
    There simply isn't.

       Saw Sunday nite's show at Great Woods and it was pretty good. I'm
    not a big Eagles fan but enjoyed it anyway. They came out at 8:00 and
    played until just after 11:00 with a 15-minute intermission. They also
    performed 3 encores, with "Desperado" and "Take it Easy" beinng the
    last 2 songs.
       They opened the show with "Hotel California" and included in the
    first set were "Lyin' Eyes", "Heart of the Matter" and "New Kid in
    Town".
       The 2nd half of the show was much more uplifting. After opening the
    2nd half with "Tequila Sunrise", they strung a bunch of upbeat songs
    together such as "Boys of Summer", "Life in the Fast Lane", "All She 
    Wants to do is Dance", "Already Gone" and "Rocky Mountain Way".
       All in all, it was a great show but I wouldn't pay what a lot of folks
    paid to see them.   

    Sorry to go on about this, but...
    Any signs of a UK date?

    I was at Sunday nights show at Great Woods.  We sat about 5 rows
    in front of the mixing board, dead center to the stage.  The sound
    was excellent.  They could have cut a CD, they sounded so good.
    Being born in '63, I was hitting my music days in the mid seventies,
    so this was like a flashback to my childhood.  I think Hotel California
    was one of the first albums I ever bought.  I found it in a box
    yesterday in mint condition, but my record player was packed away
    when the cd player arrived.
    
    I went down with 3 friends in a rented limo, had a cookout in the
    parking lot and had a blast.
    
    Joe Walsh's "Ordinary Average Guy" rendition stole the show, and
    Desperado during the second encore topped it all off.
    
    Don Henley dedicated a new song, "Get Over It" to a local radio
    station.  Seems WBCN has been really downing the Eagles for
    overcharging for tickets.
    
    They did say that this was not a reunion, but a resumption with
    new albums to come.

I went to the middle show of the Eagles three day stay in Atlanta.  If a 
concert can be worth $100.00, this was it.  It was great hanging around the
CNN center (adjacent to the OMNI) drinking beers and talking to people before
the show.  Good thing the concert was indoors because it was absolutly dumping
outside.  The review here said that they played 24 songs, I thought there were
more.  It was really arranged well with Eagles songs at the beginning, then
Joe Walsh, Don Henley, and Glenn Frey doing a few songs each from their solo
careers.  I think Timothy B. Schmitt did one of his as well.  They then
finished with more Eagles tunes, with Desperado as the finale.  My girl friend
was only a casual Eagles fan going in, but claimed that it was one of the
best concerts she has been to.  

If you are lucky enough to have the Eagles come near your town, don't listen
to all the complaining about ticket prices and go see one this years best 
concerts.

As far as questions about U.K. tour dates, I would be very surprised if they
did go overseas.  You could probably check with Rolling Stone magazine.  They
have tour dates for the period that the issue covers.  There may be a telephone
number you can call to find out for sure.


Paul

    
     Heard on the news last night, that the tour has been cancelled until 
    next year. Illness of one of the band members.
    
     Also, the CSN tour has been cancelled since David Crosby is waiting
    for a liver transplant.
    
    Dave
    

    
>>     Heard on the news last night, that the tour has been cancelled until 
>>     next year. Illness of one of the band members.
    
Glen Frye has a stomach problem and will be having surgery soon. 

   

	As Jay Leno mentioned last night....who would have thought
	that the healthest musician on tour this fall would be
	Keith Richards!! :-)

	Dave

Does anyone know when the Eagles MTV Unplugged show
that was taped earlier this year is going to air. I
heard it would be sometime in the fall, but have not
heard anything since.

I hope I did not miss it !

-tim

    When I was checking with MTV about the Clapton special (date to be
    announced) I noted that the Eagles special will be televised Oct
    26th @ 9PM.  I think there will be a few other dates, but the 26th
    was the only one I wrote down :-(
    
    Karen
    

    Here in UK, the Eagles have been advertising a concert on 24th/25th
    June 1995 in Germany.
    Same record (again), has anybody got any UK dates to post?
    I believe they have been published (somewhere!)
    Phil.

Hi,
UK calling, again...

Satellite channel VH-1 aired the Eagles concert before Christmas. I've just
seen a tape and was extremely impressed! They did about 15 numbers, including
some new songs.

I've been told that they have added a further date to their European
appearances, in Paris (July 1995).
The rumour is they don't plan to come to the UK because they can't get enough
money from tickets sales. Apparently they are only appearing if they can be
guaranteed to get mega-money... what about the fans:-(
They must have some serious financial difficulties if they can't afford to tour
the UK. If Michael Jackson, REM, Madonna, Stones, Pink Floyd, etc, can make it
why can't The Eagles? I know bunches of people waiting for any UK dates.... 

I've been scanning the music mags but still haven't spotted any UK dates,
or contact details, other than an original German date announcement,
in "The Sunday Times".
Have any more details come out regarding Glen Frey? Has he recovered? Are
they back on tour?

Regards; Phil.L�
                                    

                                    
Last I heard was that Frey was fully recovered from a bout with
diverticulitis(sp?). A stomach disorder of some type.

The Eagles are said to be continuing their tour.

Heard this on the radio.

    they will be here in minneapolis on Feb 20/21. unfortunatly, i won't.

    
    If anyone has access to it, could someone please post the 1995 tour
    schedule.
    
    Thanks
    RG

    Eagles are playing Wembley Arena (UK), Saturday 13th July 1996.
    Tickets are not yet on general sale.
    Gulp; Phil....