RIP GLENN FREY

67 is way too early. Report sounded like he had been VERY ill. “Eagles founder Glenn Frey died of complications from rheumatoid arthritis, acute ulcerative colitis and pneumonia”. RIP Glenn.

https://youtu.be/JoGweOFqapU

6-7 years ago I saw (too late) that Frey had just played at a bar in the “Brainerd Lakes Area” of MN. Maybe they pid him his going rate, but I suspected that he either had family in the area or liked to get out of SoCal. He was from Detroit, so maybe he just like northern lake country. I figured he must be a decent guy to play a small bar in the sticks. I’m sure he didn’t need what little they could pay him. Seemed like a good guy.

There are some great documentaries on the Eagles … check out the two piece on Netflix. If one can believe what is being presented , the band members fought terribly over money at times. How sad. Glenn is now gone …. so what was the point of decades of anger and bitterness. There’s a message there for all of us.

The music of my teenage years and beyond…The Eagles (and Fleetwood Mac.)

No other music takes me back there the way they do.

This is a sad day indeed. RIP Glenn Frey.

I frankly thought the Eagles sucked. And it is well known by the family of this curmudgeon that I detest the song ‘Hotel California’ to my very core. Really hate that song.

I was in the ballroom of the only hotel in town in Kostrome Russia in 2006, when a Russian delighted to show me his new cell phone played his ring tone for what he presumed would be my huge western approval. That ring tone? The despicable Hotel California.

I was horrified. Our junk music knows no boundaries. You can’t escape it anywhere.

Forget Hotel California:

I asked my mother when I was young why she read the obituaries in the newspaper every day. She told me that one day, I too, would know many of the names there. It seems after ~40 years on this earth I have reached that point. I never was much of an Eagles fan as they were before my time and my dad wasn’t into them, but ‘The Boys of Summer’ still graces every mixed tape/CD/iPod shuffle I’ve ever had…it’s still a good song, even some 30 years later.

I will admit however to using ‘Hotel California’ to describe a residence bathroom in university…its lock would randomly malfunction…we would joke ‘you can check out whenever you want, but you can never leave’…a good friend of mine spent 4 hours in that bathroom until the floor don rescued him.

…piss off.

WIp is right. What a piece of shit stanley is. I personally despised that worthless fag David Bowe, but I didn’t piss on his RIP thread here. Fuck you, stanley. And you too EL dipshit, for high-jacking the thread with a non-Eagles video.

Have we tipped the iceberg , or is it true that the magic of music waned as the years flew by?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1890m-yfk8&list=PL97Pw8BUdIryaKrTCHNujkAy_KCWMzv3u

I’m not sure how you couldn’t like their music. It was the perfect blend of North and South, East and West. That was as American a sound as Jazz. It served as the soundtrack of the late 70’s-80’s

That documentary was one of my favorites, the way it told the traditional rags to riches, by your bootstraps American story. And the underlying message that if you wanted success it took hard work.

“Around nine o’clock in the morning I’d hear Jackson Browne’s teapot going off with this whistle in the distance, and then I’d hear him playing piano… Jackson would get up, and he’d play the the first verse and first chorus and he’d play it twenty times, until he had it just the way he wanted. And then there would be silence, and then I’d hear the teapot go off again, and it would be quiet for ten or twenty minutes. Then I’d hear him start to play again, and there was a second verse. So then he’d work on the second verse and he’d play it twenty times. And then he’ go back to the top of the song and he’d play the first verse and the first chorus and the second verse another twenty times until he was really comfortable with it… And I’m up there going, so that’s how you do it: elbow grease, time, thought, persistence.”

-Glenn Frey

R.I.P.

I saw them in the mid 1990’s they were nothing short of incredible. I saw Joe Walsh separately in concert, he opened for the Doobie Brothers, he just blew them away. Funny he looked like a hobo, but his guitar playing was some of the best I have ever seen in concert. I remember when he joined the Eagles sometime in the 1975 or 1976, at the time it was a big deal. RIP Glenn, you will live forever in the legacy of your music.
Bob.