OT R.I.P. Glen Frey- Eagles Passes Away in NYC

Glen Frey, front man for the Eagles, Passed away today in NYC, at the Young Age of 67.

Not much reported yet, other than Glen had Major Intestinal Surgery a couple of months ago, complications..?

http://www.tmz.com

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/...76238//2016/01/18/glenn-frey-the-eagles-dead/

(excerpt from USA Today)-

"Glenn fought a courageous battle for the past several weeks, but sadly succumbed to complications from Rheumatoid Arthritis, Acute Ulcerative Colitis and Pneumonia," the statement continued. "Words can neither describe our sorrow, nor our love and respect for all that he has given to us, his family, the music community and millions of fans worldwide."

 

Standing on the Corner in Winslow Arizona and it's such a fine sight to see, it's a girl by lord in a flat bed Ford slowing down to take a look at me.

Bought my first Eagles Album in '72, liked their early stuff "Peaceful Easy Felling" was my favorite. RIP Mr. Frey, you were a good one!

 

I like their earlier works as well myself. Not that I didn't like the addition of Joe Walsh, and turn towards Electric-International Infamy. I still prefer those old records, and fine tunes. Even then with two blazing Les Paul's of Felder, then Walsh, the Eagles seemed to of kept their soft tunes intact, to perfection, as much as they rock and rolled...

YF, were you aware, once Frey hit Tinseltown, he became a room mate of Jackson Browne's. JB had wrote approximately 2/3rds of "Take It Easy", (and the lines you quoted are indeed Frey's).... JB had been sitting on that song for quit awhile and often asked by Frey, "when are you going to finish that song". Which JB would say "I will do it soon in time", yet JB never did finish Take it Easy, and after numerous times of Glen asking JB to finish it for Him, that's exactly what Frey accomplished. A great Co-Written Classic Tune.

It's hard to say what is your favorite Eagle tune, I honestly would have to give 2 dozen or more. Honestly I never heard an Eagles tune I did not like, but if one were my favorite, it would be either those 2 noted above, or "A Good Day in Hell" (written for Gram Parsons, as well as "My Man", both in their first real Electric LP- "On the Border". Loved Already Gone too.

Still its hard to say one LP was better than the others, all were great...

But this one tune has always been my favorite off of the Hotel California LP. Written by ex-Poco member Randy Meisner, listen to this tune at the 4:20 mark, as Meisner nails a high long falsetto vocal....

 

I think one reason I've long loved "Take It To the Limit", or "Lyin' Eyes" was due to being fkd over by 2 different (consecutive) Girl Friends, one in 75; the other bitch in 76......a new genre of "crying in a beer music"...

 

Holy shit! they're dropping like flies & they're not even old.

 

I heard this tune on the radio, right after the News of Frey's passing.

Excerpt from Wiki-
The Eagles recorded "Seven Bridges Road" for their Eagles Live concert album, essentially replicating the arrangement of the 1973 Ian Matthews version. According to band member Don Felder, when the Eagles first began playing stadiums the group would warm up pre-concert by singing "Seven Bridges Road" in a locker room shower area: each concert would then open with the group's five members singing "Seven Bridges Road" a capella into a single microphone. Felder recalls that it "blew [the audience] away. It was always a vocally unifying moment, all five voices coming together in harmony."[7] Following the release of the Hotel California album, that set's title cut replaced "Seven Bridges Road" as the Eagles' concert opener, and according to Felder, the band "rarely even bothered to rehearse with it in the shower of the dressing room anymore."[7] The song was restored to the set list for the Eagles' tour prior to the band's July 31, 1980 breakup with the band's performance of the song at their July 28, 1980 concert at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium being recorded for the Eagles Live album released in November 1980. Issued as a single, with "The Long Run" (live) as its B-side, the Eagles' "Seven Bridges Road" reached #21 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 becoming the group's final Top 40 hit until "Get Over It" by the reunited band in 1994. "Seven Bridges Road" also became the third Eagles' single to appear on the Billboard C&W chart, there reaching #55.[8] At the time the Eagles' charted with "Seven Bridges Road" the song's composer Steve Young commented: "I didn't like the Eagles' version at first. I thought it was too bluegrassy, too gospel. But the more I hear it, the better it sounds."[4]

Few I've known have ever heard this tune.
Written by Steve Young, (no not the great QB).

 

Rick, you know how people say, "death comes in three's"???

I wonder is that: Bowie, Rickman and Frey

Or-
Will another infamous musician expire soon, one worth of the R&R Heaven Hall of Fame....?? Make's one wonder....??

 

I once drove through Winslow Arizona before "Take It Easy ever came out and they hit that town right on the head. A studio engineer/musician I worked with in Orlando once commented to me that it was very difficult and good & I'd have to agree. Eagles early stuff was right on the money, I've always preferred my music vanilla.

 

Make it 3, for Heaven's Rock and Roll Band...

Pete Huttlinger, Lead Guitarist (Sideman), for John Denver passed away: Pete Huttlinger. Although Pete was not playing for Denver until the early 90s after John's best work was recorded, and His tours were not like they were in the 70s.....Huttlinger played at Clapton's Crossroads Festival mover than once....

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6844015/pete-huttlinger-guitarist-for-john-denver-dies-at-54

Not sure if the Rock and Roll Fallen Angels Band allows Sidemen into their hallowed halls.......??

 

There is a song by Lacy J. Dalton called 16th Avenue which I've always considered to be a tribute to studio personnel and side men. From my I own experiences I will state that if not for that group songs I recorded would have been half as good. The sidemen and studio personnel have been huge assets to the "stars" no matter what genre of music one professes to like.

 

I often stopped in Kingman, Flagstaff, Winslow, Gallup, Tucumcari, et al., to eat, after crossing through that part of the country dozens of times.

1st time I ever heard Take it Easy, was during a JB concert, approx 6 mos., prior to its release on Vinyl by the Eagles (first). JB's version is damn good, has pedal steel on it, and tho' I'm a JB fan first, Eagles 2nd, the Eagles version is better, IMO. JB also filled in for Bernie Leadon, to do the entire Eagles Set, at the California Jam.....JB was often referred to in those days as the 5th Eagle, until Felder came along....

First time I ever heard it on the radio was in Winslow, turned the radio on, and Voila, I shit you not. Jung's "Synchronicity"...struck...?

 

That line "I want to sleep with you in the desert tonight, with a billion stars all around" really got nest to me. Like those romantic oriented tunes.

 

I totally agree. Some of the best Musicians Musicians began as side men, or "Studio Musicians". Ry Cooder, Russ Kunkel, Leland Sklar, or **Vocalists: Valerie Carter, Nicolette Larson, Karla Bonoff, Wendy Waldman and- I know I'm missing quit a few others...
Some who went on to have great careers of their own, or live in infamy...

James Burton
Instrument: Guitar
Performed With: Elvis Presley, Ricky Nelson, Johnny Cash, Gram Parsons, Bob Denver, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, Elvis Costello, Emmylou Harris, and others


Thomas Lang
Instrument: Drums
Performed With: John Wetton, Peter Gabriel, Asia, Robbie Williams, Kylie Minogue, Tina Turner, and many others


The Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section
Instruments: Keyboard, Drums, Guitar, and Bass
Performed With: The Rolling Stones, Elton John, Percy Sledge, Wilson Pickett, Aretha Franklin, Rod Stewart, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and many more


Billy Preston
Instrument: Keyboard, Organ, Harpsichord, Accordion, Clavinet
Performed With: The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Johnny Cash, Little Richard, Elton John, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, and others


Carol Kaye
Instrument: Bass, Electric Guitar
Performed With: The Beach Boys, The Doors, Ritchie Valens, Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, Frank Zappa, Simon and Garfunkel, and many more

Ray Cooper
Instrument: Percussion
Performed With: Elton John, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, Billy Joel, Art Garfunkel, Weezer, AC/DC, and others


The Wrecking Crew
Instruments: Guitar, Drums, Bass, Keyboard, Saxophone, Trumpet, Trombone, Percussion, Harmonica, Vocals
Performed With: Simon and Garfunkel, The Beach Boys, The Byrds, The Mamas and the Papas, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, The Partridge Family, and many more


Hal Blaine
Instrument: Drums
Performed With: Frank Sinatra, Elvis, The Beach Boys, Simon and Garfunkel, John Lennon, The Supremes, John Denver, The Mamas and the Papas, and many more

**revision, added information

 

I've got an old Jackson Browne Bootleg LP, and 6 more CD's all booties:

During his performance, Jackson was talking to the crowd, who kept chanting the song they wanted him to play, ie "Peaceful Easy Feeling", and I believe that concert was either in Palm Springs or another Southwest Desert town....

JB's response is hilarious, with the fans thinking he was an Eagle, and/or wrote the tune, and tho' he told the audience that wasn't his song, he played it anyway, missing a few stanzas and lyrics along the way....

The guy who did write Peaceful Easy Feeling, Jack Tempchin; I saw at the Palomino Club (next to Nudies Rodeo) in N. Hollywood. Tempchin was a solo act, had his Acoustic Guitars, and a Harmonica, did a helluva version.. of it as well.

He, like I was, just a young kid back then: (excerpt from Wiki-)

Jack Tempchin is an American musician and singer-songwriter, best known for writing the Eagles classic "Peaceful Easy Feeling"[1] and co-writing their hits "Already Gone",[2] "The Girl From Yesterday",[3] "Somebody",[4] and "It's Your World Now".[5]
During the Eagles’ breakup period (1980–1994) he co-wrote with Glenn Frey producing "You Belong to the City", "Smuggler's Blues", "The One You Love", "I Found Somebody" and "True Love".[6]

Among numerous other songs, Tempchin wrote "Swayin' to the Music (Slow Dancing) ".[7] The song was first recorded by the short-lived group The Funky Kings, of which Tempchin was a member at the time. In 1977, the song became a top-10 pop hit for Johnny Rivers,[8] and in 1979 it was a top-10 country hit for Johnny Duncan.[9]


Other compositions include:[10]

• "Someone That You Used To Know" (George Jones)
• "White Shoes" (Emmylou Harris, Randy Meisner)
• "Rollin'" (Glen Campbell)
• "To Feel That Way At All" (Patty Loveless)
• "Somebody Trying To Tell You Something" (Tanya Tucker)
• "You Can Go Home" (with Chris Hillman, recorded by The Desert Rose Band in 1991)
• "Your Tattoo" (Sammy Kershaw)
• "East Of Eden" (Tom Rush)
• "15 Days Under The Hood" (The Paladins, New Riders of the Purple Sage)
• "Who's Been Sleeping In My Bed" (Phantom Blues Band, Candye Kane)
• "Swayin To The Music (Slow Dancin) Johnny Rivers,Funky Kings,and Johnny Duncan

Tempchin has also toured extensively as a solo artist over the years, opening for artists such as Ringo Starr, Jackson Browne, Dave Mason, Poco, Dolly Parton, Karla Bonoff, Chicago, Christopher Cross, Kenny Loggins, Timothy B. Schmit, Barry McGuire, Tom Rush, Al Kooper and Emmylou Harris.[11]

His current band is called Rocket Science, which plays at venues throughout Southern California and beyond.

He is from Encinitas, California.

 

Knew a guy in Orlando back in the late Nineties and early oughts, guitar player and singer and good at both. He could give Freddie Mercury a damn good run on "Bohemian Rhapsody" but his guru was Sting. He put together a band with a repertoire of Sting and other classic Rock tunes. I told him that with his ability he could probably get out there pretty well. His response was he'd remain low key further stating that the biggies had to pay a price for their fame. He may have been right, there are many who got quite famous but departed this world in a manner that I'd not like to.

 

...damnit...this one really hurts.

 

Here's another one....http://hollywoodlife.com/2016/01/18/dallas-taylor-dead-crosby-stills-nash-young-drummer-illness-66/

 

...^^^
Fame and Fortune carry steep prices, for many. I'd like to know more specifics of Frey's "complications" and more about his surgeries, for Chrons et al.

Yes, a Life is too steep a price to pay. Fame; Touring creates Monsters and Mad Men, especially International caliber Legends. The viscous cycles of touring; and all the Vices that come with touring, or simply being a known rock and roller, cutting LP's, having to deal with the public, while doing their best to avoid being seen. The same viscous cycle on a one way street heading into a dead end brick alleyway.

A few come to mind, who turned down the Big R&R Glamour Touring Life; with bands like the Rolling Stones, ie Ry Cooder was asked to replace Brian Jones, & Ry after working on "Let It Bleed" and "Sticky Fingers". Ry said: "NO" to becoming the replacement to Jones. Ry was a family man, with two kids.

Mick Taylor who got the job when Ry declined, was not with the Stones for only 5 years and said "enough"...

Robbie Robertson and most of The Band, called touring quits after 15 solid years, less a few gigs for fun. Robbie emphasized in the Scorcese Film: "The Last Waltz" how he and his band mates, did not want to flame out, like so many prior to 77, so they were calling it quits to touring, with the Last Waltz, recorded on Thanksgiving Day, 1977, with a Feast for 5,000 people....

Rock n Roll is a helluva gig. "It's better to burn out, than to fade away, my my hey hey". I've long respected Musician's like Neil Young, who told a young Pearl Jam group, to put their Producers, Contracts in check, by telling Vedder and Co., to: "make a record when You feel like it", or "Tour when You feel like it". He told 'em to take back their lives and careers, rip up old contracts. Then Neil invited a little known grunge band to open for His International Tour. Instant Karma...!!