The Eagles "Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975" (1976): Track by Track!

<v Speaker 1>Well, it looks like it's time for a brand new
<v Speaker 1>episode of the Shirley you Can't Be Serious Podcast. And
<v Speaker 1>that's such a fine sight to see. D Graves, you
<v Speaker 1>might have the moon in your eyes, and Jason Colvin
<v Speaker 1>your smile may be a thin disguise, but why don't
<v Speaker 1>you come to your senses? It seems to me some
<v Speaker 1>fine matchups have been laid upon your table. So don't
<v Speaker 1>let the sound of your own podcast drive you crazy.
<v Speaker 1>To everybody else out there, whether you're sleeping in the
<v Speaker 1>desert tonight or standing on a corner checking out all
<v Speaker 1>the flatbed forwards, just take it easy, because the Surely
<v Speaker 1>you Can't Be Serious Podcast is about to take it
<v Speaker 1>to the limit one more time.
<v Speaker 2>All right, everybody, welcome back to the only podcast fueled
<v Speaker 2>by Jolt Cola and cool Ranch Doritos. Cool ch actually
<v Speaker 2>are ideal, But I was starting to death. I was shaky,
<v Speaker 2>and I was like, do you have chips? And I
<v Speaker 2>just I just sat there and read stuff about the
<v Speaker 2>Eagles and just got crumbs all over my Hyes, how's
<v Speaker 2>it going to everybody?
<v Speaker 3>Good to see you again.
<v Speaker 2>Welcome back to the Surely you Can't Be Serious Podcast.
<v Speaker 2>We are here today to talk about arguably one of
<v Speaker 2>the best albums of all time.
<v Speaker 3>Well, it is a compilation album. It's a compilation album,
<v Speaker 3>which is kind of cheating a little but but you're
<v Speaker 3>you're absolutely right, Like pound for pound, there are like
<v Speaker 3>ten perfect songs on this album.
<v Speaker 2>Uh huh. And there are ten songs on this album, right,
<v Speaker 2>and so yeah, So the interesting thing is is that
<v Speaker 2>this album was a record company decision and not a
<v Speaker 2>band decision.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, before you go any further, let's just say this
<v Speaker 3>out front. Yeah, this is the greatest selling album of all.
<v Speaker 2>Time according to most accepted statistics. Yes, that is correct,
<v Speaker 2>Glenn Fry said.
<v Speaker 3>I watched him say that it's sold a million copies
<v Speaker 3>a month for eighteen months in a row.
<v Speaker 2>A week, is that right, a week week.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, that's a lot of albums.
<v Speaker 2>That's a whole lot of freaking This is the first
<v Speaker 2>album to ever receive a platinum certain certification. It has
<v Speaker 2>since gone thirty eight times platinum. Like, I don't know
<v Speaker 2>how many of that is, but that's a dad gum lot.
<v Speaker 2>He got passed for a time as the best selling
<v Speaker 2>album of the twentieth century by Thriller.
<v Speaker 3>Of course.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, but then regained its title in twenty eighteen.
<v Speaker 3>All right, now I just want to do a quick recap.
<v Speaker 3>We have covered Thriller. Yes, we are now covering Eagles
<v Speaker 3>Greatest Hits Volume one. Yes, we've covered acdc's Back in Black.
<v Speaker 3>We've checked off some big.
<v Speaker 2>Sellers, some very big sellers. Yes, And I was, you know,
<v Speaker 2>talking about bands that are the biggest selling bands of
<v Speaker 2>all time. Eagles are number six on bands now a
<v Speaker 2>solo artist. There are several more, you know, get Michael
<v Speaker 2>Jackson and Taylor Swift, all these other folks, right, but
<v Speaker 2>band wise, there are only five bands that have sold
<v Speaker 2>more albums than the Eagles. Would you like to guess?
<v Speaker 3>Well, you pose this question to me today. Yeah, And
<v Speaker 3>right off the bat, I got three out of the
<v Speaker 3>five you did, And then I was like, and then
<v Speaker 3>the last two when you gave them to me, I
<v Speaker 3>was like, oh, yeah, that's easy.
<v Speaker 2>So right, obviously number one.
<v Speaker 3>The Beatles Beatles believe.
<v Speaker 2>Number two is Queen. We've got led Zeppelin in there,
<v Speaker 2>Pink Floyd, and then just ahead.
<v Speaker 3>Of them is a CDC.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah yeah, okay, And so you might be asking yourself
<v Speaker 2>the question, what album could we possibly match this album up?
<v Speaker 2>Against So you're going to have to tune in to
<v Speaker 2>our next episode where we will be talking about Jimmy
<v Speaker 2>Buffett's songs You Know by Heart, which is another huge
<v Speaker 2>compilation greatest Hits album, if you will, And we have
<v Speaker 2>a special little golden nugget that Jason told me today
<v Speaker 2>of how that album and Jimmy Buffett are connected to
<v Speaker 2>this band.
<v Speaker 3>But you have to wait until the end of.
<v Speaker 2>Our podcast today to find out what that little trivia
<v Speaker 2>nugget is, or you know, you could just fast forward when.
<v Speaker 3>You listen to this here. Right when I found that nugget,
<v Speaker 3>I was like, yes, what, Actually, I've got another nugget
<v Speaker 3>that's gonna blow your freaking socks.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, I'm excited.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, So just an overview of this. This album was
<v Speaker 3>produced and released right before Hotel California, which is their
<v Speaker 3>greatest selling album album of all time. Right, Okay, the
<v Speaker 3>record company is like, hey, Hotel California's taken a little
<v Speaker 3>bit long to make you guys are kind of going
<v Speaker 3>slow for us. We want to keep the momentum going,
<v Speaker 3>so let's pump out a greatest Hits album. Well, guess
<v Speaker 3>who is not happy about that at all? Everybody in
<v Speaker 3>the band, particularly Don Henley. Yeah, Don Henley, we've kind
<v Speaker 3>of established in our in our study, he's always kind
<v Speaker 3>of unhappy.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, you said that. David Geffen describes him as a malcontent, Yes,
<v Speaker 2>which I think leads to some really great song lyrics.
<v Speaker 2>But listening to the guy's complain about the studio's decision
<v Speaker 2>to make this greatest hits album, and I'm sitting here thinking,
<v Speaker 2>they just gave you the greatest selling album of all time.
<v Speaker 2>How could you possibly be still upset about that?
<v Speaker 3>That's right? Yeah, you know, Glenn Fryes said, when Don
<v Speaker 3>Henley wasn't happy, nobody in the band was happy. And
<v Speaker 3>then he said, oh, by the way, Don Henley was
<v Speaker 3>never happening. So just a little tibit on this Asylum
<v Speaker 3>is the record company owned by David Geffen, Started by David,
<v Speaker 3>started by David Geffen, which I.
<v Speaker 2>Read his history today too. It's an interesting history as well.
<v Speaker 2>But he was he was in the mail room at
<v Speaker 2>William Morris Agency, right, okay, and he's trying to become
<v Speaker 2>an agent. He has he like, dropped out of college.
<v Speaker 2>He's got no college still to this day, has no
<v Speaker 2>college degree. But to be an agent. You had to
<v Speaker 2>have a college degree. And he's so he's working to
<v Speaker 2>become an agent at the William Morse Agency and then
<v Speaker 2>he tells them, yes, I I got my degree from UCLA. Well,
<v Speaker 2>they of course send something to UCLA saying, can you
<v Speaker 2>confirm that this that David Geffen is a graduate. Well,
<v Speaker 2>UCLA sent a piece of mail that said he's never
<v Speaker 2>attended here, he is not a graduate of this college. Well,
<v Speaker 2>he worked in the mail room, so he not only
<v Speaker 2>got that piece of mail, he edited it to where
<v Speaker 2>it was like, yes, he attended here, and yes he
<v Speaker 2>got his degree here. Wow. And so that's how he
<v Speaker 2>very first became an agent. Of course he gets discovered
<v Speaker 2>later on, but at that point the bells already rung, right,
<v Speaker 2>and so yeah, he hit up Armet whatever his name
<v Speaker 2>is from Atlantic Records about working for him, and he's like,
<v Speaker 2>you know, you should just start your own label, and
<v Speaker 2>so he started Asylum Records, which is basically it was
<v Speaker 2>the Southern California sound. He was the one that had
<v Speaker 2>James Taylor and Carol King and Linda Ronstadt and Crosby
<v Speaker 2>Stills and Nash and so Brown. Yeah, Jackson Brown was
<v Speaker 2>his first artist, which of course we're going to talk
<v Speaker 2>about here in just a second. But David Giffen is
<v Speaker 2>a huge factor in the story of the Eagles, both
<v Speaker 2>good and bad.
<v Speaker 3>Just as a teaser, I saw Don Henley talking about,
<v Speaker 3>you know, they fired David Geff and basically they walked
<v Speaker 3>off from asylum as a group, the Eagles did, and
<v Speaker 3>Geffen sued them, and they're well, they suit each other
<v Speaker 3>and it was just kind of a bad.
<v Speaker 2>You know, there's been multiple lawsuits.
<v Speaker 3>Well, and then then he went to Don Henley and said, hey,
<v Speaker 3>your solo career, why don't you come on back? And
<v Speaker 3>Don Heiley's like, okay, bad feelings suits money.
<v Speaker 2>I heard this quote about people who remarry somebody they divorced.
<v Speaker 2>It's like, it's like drinking milk that's sour and you
<v Speaker 2>put it back in the fridge and you try to
<v Speaker 2>drink it again the next day.
<v Speaker 3>It's still gonna be sour.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, it was pretty interesting. Though Henley clearly has harsh feelings. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>mal content, right right, Okay, the greatest selling album of
<v Speaker 3>all time? Are we ready to dive into this? Let's go,
<v Speaker 3>let's freaking go, let's do it. Okay, wait, wait, wait, wait,
<v Speaker 3>you're getting little excited. I think we should take it easy.
<v Speaker 2>Number one song out of the box.
<v Speaker 4>Take it easy, what do you say?
<v Speaker 3>I mean, I can sing every word of this song.
<v Speaker 3>We've known as our whole lives basically, so you.
<v Speaker 2>Know, I'm putting the band back together and I'm listening
<v Speaker 2>to this album. I'm like, guys, we've got to do
<v Speaker 2>this song because not only is it simple, it's a
<v Speaker 2>crowd pleaser. Everybody will sing along to you. I mean,
<v Speaker 2>you will never go anywhere with this song and people
<v Speaker 2>not be excited and ready to sing the whole song
<v Speaker 2>with you.
<v Speaker 3>I heard Glinn Fry talking about this. He thinks the
<v Speaker 3>reason why this song is so appealing is because we're
<v Speaker 3>coming out of the sixties where everything's kind of angry
<v Speaker 3>and upset, and he's like, hey, let's just take it easy.
<v Speaker 2>Relax people, smoke a dube, chill, have some baoti. So
<v Speaker 2>the song is co written by Jackson Brown, which we
<v Speaker 2>said is on the Asylum Records label with him right, Well,
<v Speaker 2>he actually was. He had been playing similar to them.
<v Speaker 2>They would see each other's shows, and he started talking
<v Speaker 2>to Glenn Fry one day before they're ever even the
<v Speaker 2>Eagles right, sure, and he's like, where are you staying?
<v Speaker 2>And Glenn tells him, He's like, you should go to
<v Speaker 2>Echo Park. The apartments there are great and they're really cheap,
<v Speaker 2>and that's where I live. And so Glenn fry and
<v Speaker 2>his partner Jad Souther, who is a co writer on
<v Speaker 2>many of the Eagles songs right there, many many songs,
<v Speaker 2>they say okay, and they get a place at Echo
<v Speaker 2>Park and Jackson Brown starts coming over and he's like, hey,
<v Speaker 2>you guys got like this kind of extra hidden room
<v Speaker 2>in the basement here. You know, it's not just like
<v Speaker 2>a storage facility or something, you know, right, And he's like,
<v Speaker 2>can I move down there? And so, like the plays
<v Speaker 2>is only one hundred and twenty five bucks a month anyway,
<v Speaker 2>And so now Jackson Brown is getting not free but
<v Speaker 2>really discounted living space below Glenn fry and JD Souther.
<v Speaker 2>But Glenn Frye said that Jackson Brown was the guy
<v Speaker 2>that he learned how to write music from, because not
<v Speaker 2>that Jackson Brown came and taught him, but he said,
<v Speaker 2>you know, we're musicians. We slept late Jackson Brown every morning,
<v Speaker 2>nine o'clock in the morning. I would hear his teapot
<v Speaker 2>go off right, and then he would sit and I
<v Speaker 2>could hear him, you know, through his ceiling and our floor.
<v Speaker 2>I could hear him play the piano, sing the song.
<v Speaker 2>He would do verse one, and then he would do
<v Speaker 2>it again, and he would do it again about twenty
<v Speaker 2>times until he finally got it molded just the way
<v Speaker 2>that he wanted, and they'd be quiet for a while.
<v Speaker 2>Here the teapot go off again, starts on verse two,
<v Speaker 2>does it twenty times until he feels good about it again,
<v Speaker 2>you know, and then he's doing both verses together twenty times.
<v Speaker 2>And Glenn Fry is like, so this is how you
<v Speaker 2>write music. You just have to freaking gut it out,
<v Speaker 2>little elbow grease.
<v Speaker 3>I love it. That's a great story, yeaight. So Glenn
<v Speaker 3>Fry learned from Jackson Brown. They also helped each other
<v Speaker 3>on this song. So Jackson Brown had this song started.
<v Speaker 3>He had the I'm standing on a corner and Winslow
<v Speaker 3>Arizona part, and he's like the kid on Sesame Street.
<v Speaker 3>The guy keeps banging his head on the piano. I've
<v Speaker 3>never finished this right, yes, And Glenn Fry came up
<v Speaker 3>with there's a girl my Lord in a flatbed forward,
<v Speaker 3>slowing down to take a look at me.
<v Speaker 5>I'm standing on a corner and wins the Arizona. Such
<v Speaker 5>a fine side to see. It's a girl, my.
<v Speaker 6>Lord in a plast bed board going down to take
<v Speaker 6>a look at me.
<v Speaker 4>Come on, bab.
<v Speaker 3>Don't say he's the one who came up with that part. Brilliant.
<v Speaker 3>So they piece it together. So Glenn Fry kept bugging
<v Speaker 3>him like, are you gonna finish that song? Yeah? Are
<v Speaker 3>you gonna finish it? It's kind of like your buddy
<v Speaker 3>at the pizza place when you're growing up, are you
<v Speaker 3>gonna fish? Can I have that? So he finally says,
<v Speaker 3>can I finish it for Yeah?
<v Speaker 7>Yeah?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah. Jackson Brown says all right, fine. After turning him
<v Speaker 3>down a couple of times, he said, fine, you take
<v Speaker 3>a crack at it, and he said when he brought
<v Speaker 3>it back, he's like, oh my gosh. Not only did
<v Speaker 3>he finish it, but he said he arranged it far
<v Speaker 3>better than he ever could have.
<v Speaker 2>Yep.
<v Speaker 3>By the way, you could hear the Jackson Browns version
<v Speaker 3>on his nineteen seventy three album True. This is the
<v Speaker 3>first single for the Eagles debut album. Debut single, it
<v Speaker 3>reaches number twelve on the Hot one.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, you got the list.
<v Speaker 3>I of course I wrote down the list.
<v Speaker 2>Do you want to know the list? I want to
<v Speaker 2>know the list, all right.
<v Speaker 3>So there's some songs on here that I know, there's
<v Speaker 3>some just don't remember.
<v Speaker 2>In nineteen seventy two, these are the eleven songs that
<v Speaker 2>people thought at the time were better than take It Easy.
<v Speaker 3>And take it Easy an all time classic. Yeah, a
<v Speaker 3>staple for the Eagles.
<v Speaker 8>Right.
<v Speaker 3>By the way, neither you or I was born at
<v Speaker 3>this moment.
<v Speaker 2>Correct, okay, all right?
<v Speaker 3>Number eleven late we're.
<v Speaker 2>Cooking, though in July I may have you probably were
<v Speaker 2>cooking at that point.
<v Speaker 3>So number eleven, Laila. We talked about it during our
<v Speaker 3>Goodfellow's episode. That's right, Derek and the Dominos.
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<v Speaker 2>Go back to our top eleven songs.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, okay, Number ten Schools Out by Alice Cooper.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, that's a pretty big one, right yeah.
<v Speaker 3>Number nine Rocketman by Elton John Jeez.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, so we've got some pretty big hitters, right, you
<v Speaker 2>got to you? Yeah, I don't know that Schools Out
<v Speaker 2>any gonna, I'm gonna say is better than take it Easy,
<v Speaker 2>but it's definitely a big one, okay.
<v Speaker 3>And then you literally have a whole bunch of crap.
<v Speaker 3>What do we got? I mean, you've got? How do
<v Speaker 3>you do? Where's the love? Daddy? Don't you walk so fast?
<v Speaker 3>If lovin You is wrong? I don't want to be right?
<v Speaker 3>Which remembered that one one's funny? Yeah, Brandy, you're a
<v Speaker 3>fine girl.
<v Speaker 2>That's a big one.
<v Speaker 3>Alone again naturally, too late to turn back now. And
<v Speaker 3>then the number one song that week, lean on Me, Oh,
<v Speaker 3>Bill Withers, Oh that's good when You're not strong. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>that's a good one, your friend.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>So on this song, as we said, it's the lead single, Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>Bernie Leaden is doing the banjo, and you and I
<v Speaker 3>were talking about it and it's like, oh, yeah, there
<v Speaker 3>is a banjo on this song.
<v Speaker 2>So here's what's interesting. We've got this Greatest Hits album
<v Speaker 2>and ten songs, and only three of them have Don
<v Speaker 2>Felter on them. None of them have Joe Walsh, none
<v Speaker 2>of them have Timothy B.
<v Speaker 3>Schmidt.
<v Speaker 2>These are essentially the vast majority of these songs are
<v Speaker 2>just the four original members of the Eagles. And yeah,
<v Speaker 2>I mean when I was introduced to the Eagles, they
<v Speaker 2>had already been broken up for a while, you know,
<v Speaker 2>like it was just what had happened. So I knew
<v Speaker 2>them their whole history, and I'm thinking, okay, yeah, this
<v Speaker 2>is a southern rock band. But then when we started
<v Speaker 2>covering songs in my band in high school, this was
<v Speaker 2>one that obviously came up. And so I start listening
<v Speaker 2>to it with how do I play this ear? And
<v Speaker 2>I'm like, they're banjo playing now. And as it turned out,
<v Speaker 2>my dad happened to own a banjo, and so I
<v Speaker 2>taught myself how to fingerpick a banjo for our performance
<v Speaker 2>at the high school gym.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, fantastic.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. I was in the middle of the gym floor
<v Speaker 2>with a banjo picking away. It was too fun. It
<v Speaker 2>was really fun.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, have you ever been to Winslow, Arizona.
<v Speaker 2>I might have driven through there. I did drive to
<v Speaker 2>Las Vegas, and I feel like it might have been
<v Speaker 2>on the way. I know that Needles is on the
<v Speaker 2>way because of the never been to Spain song by
<v Speaker 2>Hoyd accident. Yeah, headed for Las Vegas, only made it
<v Speaker 2>out to Needles.
<v Speaker 3>I was driving.
<v Speaker 2>I'm like, oh, there's Needles. We must be close.
<v Speaker 3>So I've stopped. We pulled over in Winslow, Arizona.
<v Speaker 2>Did you go to the corner?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah? Yeah, oh yeah, Okay, So there's a big sign
<v Speaker 3>there that says standing on a corner on Winslow, Arizona.
<v Speaker 3>There's a little store there. It's kind of cool. And
<v Speaker 3>then there's a little there's there is a parked a
<v Speaker 3>flatbed ford right there, right there, right there, flatbed Ford.
<v Speaker 2>Well, they've got a statue there too, like it's called
<v Speaker 2>the standing on a Corner park. I think.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, the homeless guy came up to me and asked
<v Speaker 3>for me for money. Okay, I said, hey, dude, take
<v Speaker 3>it easy. Oh my gosh, all right, I've got something
<v Speaker 3>for you on this though. Okay, there's basically a three
<v Speaker 3>act structure to the Eagles career. Okay, okay, to me,
<v Speaker 3>you've got Act one is Glenn Fry, Don Henley, Bernie Leaden,
<v Speaker 3>Randy Meisner. Yep, Okay, maybe Felder kind of bridges that gap.
<v Speaker 2>A little bit a little bit.
<v Speaker 3>Act two is Hotel California Long Run, which that's Joe
<v Speaker 3>Walsh and Timothy be Schpett.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, exit, Bernie Leaden exit, Randy Meisner.
<v Speaker 3>Randy Meisner leaves after Hotel California, right, yeah, and then
<v Speaker 3>you've got hell freezes over.
<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, well you've got the breakup. And then yeah,
<v Speaker 2>you've got a breakup. Yeah, the years off.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>And I remember in the late eighties when I was
<v Speaker 2>really getting into these guys for the first time, I
<v Speaker 2>was just like, I'm just bummed out. I will never
<v Speaker 2>get to see my one of my favorite bands in concert,
<v Speaker 2>including Eagles and also led Zeppelin. And then of course
<v Speaker 2>the Eagles got back together and I did see them
<v Speaker 2>in concert in nineteen ninety four. I believe I saw
<v Speaker 2>them in concert ninety four. Whe'd you see I saw
<v Speaker 2>them in Little Rock, Arkansas? Where'd you see them?
<v Speaker 3>Dallas, Texas?
<v Speaker 2>Well? I bet that that was I bet those shows
<v Speaker 2>are pretty close together.
<v Speaker 3>I guarantee they were right.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. And they were flawless. They were absolutely flawless. Great.
<v Speaker 2>I saw the Rolling Stones play that same year, and
<v Speaker 2>the Stones had a big show, like they had these
<v Speaker 2>giant balloons of these you know, like circus characters and
<v Speaker 2>all this stuff. But they were they didn't sound like
<v Speaker 2>an album. The Eagles sounded like their album. They were
<v Speaker 2>flawless musicians, flawless.
<v Speaker 3>So I got just a couple of stories for you
<v Speaker 3>real quick. So number one, I saw the Eagles on
<v Speaker 3>July third, nineteen ninety four in Texas Stadium.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, so you were nice and cold?
<v Speaker 3>Good lord, Oh my gosh, I still haven't stopped sweating
<v Speaker 3>in that concert. It was so hot, and of course
<v Speaker 3>that was the they had the hole in the roof
<v Speaker 3>so it's not air conditioned.
<v Speaker 9>Oh.
<v Speaker 3>The guy sitting right next to me, like hip to hip,
<v Speaker 3>I told you this story had a shirt off. He
<v Speaker 3>was sweating all over me. He was high as a kite,
<v Speaker 3>acting rambunctious and out of control. He tried to get
<v Speaker 3>it on with his girlfriend in the seat next to me,
<v Speaker 3>just to.
<v Speaker 2>Get it on, get it on. He was you don't
<v Speaker 2>mean make it out.
<v Speaker 3>You mean I mean porkner in the seat next to me.
<v Speaker 3>And I literally was like sitting there. I was like,
<v Speaker 3>this is not gonna happen. This might happen, and I
<v Speaker 3>really she was like no, no, no, maybe, and I
<v Speaker 3>was like, oh my gosh. Thankfully she thought better of
<v Speaker 3>it the last second. But were you really thankful?
<v Speaker 2>I just she said, no, give him the side one
<v Speaker 2>and twenty degrees. All they're gonna do is create a
<v Speaker 2>lot of friction, warm everything more.
<v Speaker 6>So.
<v Speaker 3>The funny thing is Kathy and I got tickets, but
<v Speaker 3>we had to take singles, so she was down a
<v Speaker 3>few rows and like five seats over. We had to
<v Speaker 3>wave each other constantly. But I was going to tell
<v Speaker 3>you this song basically is the reason why they got
<v Speaker 3>back together in nineteen ninety four.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that's absolutely true. So Travis Tritt did a version
<v Speaker 2>of the song. I remember when that album came out,
<v Speaker 2>a bunch of country artists did their version of Eagle songs,
<v Speaker 2>but this was the only one Travis Tritz was the
<v Speaker 2>only one where he got all of the original band
<v Speaker 2>members back together to sing on the song. And that
<v Speaker 2>really is what inspired them to call it good Again.
<v Speaker 3>Right, So I thought this was really funny. So they
<v Speaker 3>come to Travis Tritt and they say, hey, we want
<v Speaker 3>you to participate in this album. It's called Common Thread
<v Speaker 3>Country Artists covering the Eagle songs. He said he was
<v Speaker 3>late to the party and so he's like, They're like,
<v Speaker 3>what do you want to do? And he's like, how
<v Speaker 3>about Desperado. They're like, no, somebody who's already doing it.
<v Speaker 3>He's like, well how about this one. No, somebody's already
<v Speaker 3>doing well, how about this one? And so his attorney
<v Speaker 3>was the one who's like it, take it easy, man,
<v Speaker 3>do that one. He's like, yeah, take it easy, that's
<v Speaker 3>a good one. So Irving Azoff's office calls him and says, hey,
<v Speaker 3>we want you to be the first single. And he's
<v Speaker 3>like wow. He's really flattered, like yeah, he's the lead, right,
<v Speaker 3>And they said what do you want to do for
<v Speaker 3>the video and he's like, wow, I mean crap, I'd
<v Speaker 3>love to have the Eagles join me in the video.
<v Speaker 3>What do you think? He said? Dead silence on the
<v Speaker 3>other end, like nobody's saying anything. And after a few
<v Speaker 3>minutes he's like, that's kind of uncomfortable, and they're like,
<v Speaker 3>why don't you call Glenn. So he's like, that's kind
<v Speaker 3>of weird. You know.
<v Speaker 2>Irving is telling Travis Tritt to call called Glynn, right, okay.
<v Speaker 3>And what he didn't know is that they tried to
<v Speaker 3>ramp this up in nineteen ninety Okay, okay. Felder was in,
<v Speaker 3>Meisner was in, Henley was in. Glenn Fry was like, nope,
<v Speaker 3>screw you guys not doing it.
<v Speaker 2>Uh huh.
<v Speaker 3>So Travis Tritt calls Glenn Fry and says, hey, I
<v Speaker 3>want you to come be in the video with you know,
<v Speaker 3>and so Glen Glenn's like, well, since it's not really
<v Speaker 3>the Eagles, I'll do it if don doesn't.
<v Speaker 2>I assume he did not mean Feld.
<v Speaker 3>He definitely did not mean Felder. He meant Henley. Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>So Travis Tritt's like, oh okay, So he calls Henley,
<v Speaker 3>but he doesn't tell Henley that he's taught to Fry.
<v Speaker 3>Oh okay. Henley's like, I'll do it if Glenn does it,
<v Speaker 3>uh huh. And that's how it's slowly. Then they all
<v Speaker 3>get together. They're at this bar in LA. They're having fun.
<v Speaker 3>They're playing pool and guess what just so happens to
<v Speaker 3>be set up guitars, drums amps. Travis Trittz said he
<v Speaker 3>grabbed a guitar.
<v Speaker 2>Huh.
<v Speaker 3>He started to play Rocky Mountain Way, oh wow, and
<v Speaker 3>Joe Walsh jumps in and then next thing you know,
<v Speaker 3>he's like looking around. He's like the Eagles are playing
<v Speaker 3>for the first time in fourteen years.
<v Speaker 2>The most made of tears. Oh my gosh, could you
<v Speaker 2>could you imagine? Could you imagine? Wow?
<v Speaker 3>That's fantastic. Take it Easy, Take.
<v Speaker 2>It easy man, Okay, Hey, we got to keep going.
<v Speaker 2>There's ten there's nine more fantastic songs that we got
<v Speaker 2>to cover. So all right, so we're done with Take
<v Speaker 2>It Easy. We are on too, Track number two with
<v Speaker 2>Chay with Jay Wollman. Witchy Woman.
<v Speaker 3>Another song featured on Seinfeld. This was the one that
<v Speaker 3>Elaine likes.
<v Speaker 2>She's trying to get to Yeah. Yes. So there's an
<v Speaker 2>episode of Seinfeld where Elaine is dating a guy who
<v Speaker 2>cries when he hears the song Desperado and I Have
<v Speaker 2>I will occasionally tear up on Desperado, but it's for
<v Speaker 2>an entirely different reason. It's a story from my own
<v Speaker 2>personal life, which I will share with you guys when
<v Speaker 2>we get to Desperado. Oh excellent. And if I was
<v Speaker 2>picking between this moment that I'm talking about with Desperado
<v Speaker 2>and playing guitar with Frank Cannon, as you've got to
<v Speaker 2>give up one of the moments in your life, I
<v Speaker 2>would get rid of the Frank Cannon moment. That's how
<v Speaker 2>important this.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, excellent, Yeah, ready to hear that story. Yeah. So
<v Speaker 3>this song was written by Bernie Leaden and Don Henley.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, so Bernie came up with the guitar riff on
<v Speaker 2>this one, which it's it's got kind of that like
<v Speaker 2>the Indians, you know, coming into fight the Cowboys does
<v Speaker 2>sound like an Indian. Yeah, it sounds like that, but
<v Speaker 2>then with a rock edge to it. Sure, So Bernie's
<v Speaker 2>playing that little lick and and Don likes it, and
<v Speaker 2>they're kind of playing with it together. He said. Next
<v Speaker 2>day Don comes in, He's got all the lyrics.
<v Speaker 6>Don shell Man not shed some fire, crazy laugh.
<v Speaker 3>I heard Don Felder talking about how when you would
<v Speaker 3>write songs for Don Henley, what you wanted to do
<v Speaker 3>is create a musical bed for him to lay the
<v Speaker 3>lyrics on, right, and that's what he did best, right.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, So what's interesting. Witchy Woman is based on several things,
<v Speaker 2>but one of the key things that it's based on
<v Speaker 2>is Zelda Fitzgerald.
<v Speaker 3>You know that this is She is the wife of f.
<v Speaker 3>Scott Fitzgerald.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, and so if you don't know who that is,
<v Speaker 2>you need to read more required reading and high school
<v Speaker 2>The Great Gatsby. She is who Daisy was based upon.
<v Speaker 2>And Don Henley was reading her biography that night. He
<v Speaker 2>also happened to be suffering from some sort of fever,
<v Speaker 2>and so he would kind of go in and out
<v Speaker 2>of this fever, and whenever he felt like not so horrible,
<v Speaker 2>he would write down these lyrics inspired by her life.
<v Speaker 2>And she was known as the first flapper of the twenties.
<v Speaker 2>She was there was all kinds of craziness that she
<v Speaker 2>got into, all gims. It drove herself to madness with
<v Speaker 2>a silver spoon. This is probably a reference to the
<v Speaker 2>spoon they would use to take absinthe back in the twenties,
<v Speaker 2>which is something you took with your liquor to give
<v Speaker 2>yourself hallucinations and she literally like she had electroshock therapy
<v Speaker 2>for ten years and tragically, like was in the hospital,
<v Speaker 2>confined to a bed in a locked room with this therapy,
<v Speaker 2>and the hospital catches on fire, and that's how she
<v Speaker 2>meets her demise.
<v Speaker 3>It's pretty rough, strapped to a bed, hospital catches on fire. Yeah, wow,
<v Speaker 3>I do have an interesting story. So one of the
<v Speaker 3>most famous white witches from this era Stevie Nicks. Okay, okay, Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>and of course Don Henley and Stevie Nicks were an
<v Speaker 3>item for on and off for a while.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, and I told.
<v Speaker 3>You I had a great story about Stevie Nicks. Okay,
<v Speaker 3>So she and Don Henley had kind of a rocky
<v Speaker 3>even though they were both singers in a major seventies band.
<v Speaker 3>Of course, Stevie Nicks saying with Fleetwood Mac Don Henley
<v Speaker 3>sang with the Eagles. They they did a lot of
<v Speaker 3>you know, nosecandy together. Well, she became pregnant by him
<v Speaker 3>and ultimately decided to abort the baby. Okay, he was
<v Speaker 3>upset by that, not because I think he wanted a child,
<v Speaker 3>but because he knew she wanted a child. Okay. Well,
<v Speaker 3>she named the baby Sarah. Okay, she wrote a song
<v Speaker 3>called Sarah. It's on the Tusk album and it's about
<v Speaker 3>their baby.
<v Speaker 2>Wow.
<v Speaker 3>So wow, I thought that was interesting.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>And also, of course in nineteen eighty one, on her album,
<v Speaker 3>she has a major hit called Leather and Lace. It's
<v Speaker 3>a duet with Don Henley and it causes liquijoy to
<v Speaker 3>pop out of my eyeballs every time I listen to it. Right,
<v Speaker 3>but I told you she wrote that song. She wrote
<v Speaker 3>it for Waylon Jennings, I think, and his wife. And
<v Speaker 3>the song's leather and Lace. Right, So the guy is
<v Speaker 3>supposed to be leather, the girl's supposed to be lace,
<v Speaker 3>and it's this back and forth to it. Well, he
<v Speaker 3>and his girlfriend broke up, and so she's left holding
<v Speaker 3>this song. So she's like, what am I going to
<v Speaker 3>do with this? Well, the only person that can really
<v Speaker 3>sing this with me is Don and so she played
<v Speaker 3>it for him and the first time and he's like
<v Speaker 3>that sucks. Start again? What? And she's like what. He's like,
<v Speaker 3>this has to be perfect. It's not perfect. Go back
<v Speaker 3>to the drawing board. And so but she gives him
<v Speaker 3>credit because when we know Don Hilly perfection right fielder
<v Speaker 3>called Iguano because he had like he made fun of
<v Speaker 3>me because he had like bat like hearings, so he
<v Speaker 3>could hear these, like all these sounds, right, And so
<v Speaker 3>back to the drawing board, back to the drawing board,
<v Speaker 3>back to the drawing board, until Leather and Lace is
<v Speaker 3>perfect and it is a beautiful song. Yeah, second single
<v Speaker 3>for the Eagles. This reached number nine on the charts.
<v Speaker 3>They don't have it, but the number one song that week.
<v Speaker 3>I can see clearly now by Johnny Nash. A lot
<v Speaker 3>of good songs in the seventies. Yeah, next song on
<v Speaker 3>the album lion Ies.
<v Speaker 2>So how are you able to just create Jim after
<v Speaker 2>Jim after Jim like this? So this one comes from
<v Speaker 2>they would see these beautiful women in the bars that
<v Speaker 2>they were going to in southern California at the time. Yes,
<v Speaker 2>you know, they're watching some very attractive woman talk to
<v Speaker 2>an old, fat dude and Glenn Les leans over to
<v Speaker 2>Dawn and says, she can't even hide those lion eyes a.
<v Speaker 3>Rich old man where she won't have to worry.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, And the other part was that they would they
<v Speaker 2>being the band, they're the kind of model of the lover.
<v Speaker 2>But he said there would be this whole group of
<v Speaker 2>ladies that would be there from eight until midnight, and
<v Speaker 2>then they had to leave because they were kept women,
<v Speaker 2>and so they'd come to have their little moments of
<v Speaker 2>pleasure but eventually have to go back to the man
<v Speaker 2>with the purse.
<v Speaker 3>You know. I called you today and I said, this
<v Speaker 3>is a perfect song among perfect.
<v Speaker 2>Songs I was gonna say, and I said, the whole
<v Speaker 2>album is full of perfect songs.
<v Speaker 5>You can So.
<v Speaker 3>This song was featured on the Urban Cowboy soundtrack. I
<v Speaker 3>talked to my buddy Jay Reid, and he said, you
<v Speaker 3>guys have got to cover the Urban Cowboy soundtrack absolutely,
<v Speaker 3>and I was like, yeah, okay, and He's like, look
<v Speaker 3>at the Hall of Fame members on that soundtrack.
<v Speaker 2>It's an incredible album. Yeah, there's no doubt.
<v Speaker 3>But I'd love to cover it at some point. By
<v Speaker 3>the way, also on the Urban Cowboy soundtrack, All Night
<v Speaker 3>Long by Joe Walsh. Oh. This reached number two on
<v Speaker 3>the charts in nineteen seventy five, only beat out by
<v Speaker 3>Island Girl by Elton John.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, Elton John's really causing them some trouble. By the way,
<v Speaker 2>they hit it big in the Troubadour like they hit
<v Speaker 2>it big. They played in the Troubadour with Linda Ronstad
<v Speaker 2>all of these other characters. But they said they saw
<v Speaker 2>Elton John's American debut in the Troupidour as well.
<v Speaker 3>One more thing, Yeah, Glenn Fry would sometimes dedicate this
<v Speaker 3>song to his wife Plaintiff. We talked about this plaintiff.
<v Speaker 2>Uh huh and uh.
<v Speaker 3>That's his ex wife, Genie Bags, who also appears in
<v Speaker 3>the Smugglers Blues video.
<v Speaker 2>Uh huh.
<v Speaker 3>Go back to our Remidy Vice soundtrack episode. Okay, then
<v Speaker 3>Fry Smugglers Blues.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's a great one.
<v Speaker 3>Next song on the album already gone.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, So this is the second song that Don Felder
<v Speaker 2>appears on on this album. First one was Lion Eyes
<v Speaker 2>that we just talked about. The next one that he's
<v Speaker 2>going to be on is not until we get to
<v Speaker 2>one of these nights. Interesting that they brought Felder on
<v Speaker 2>right because they were a four man band for a
<v Speaker 2>long time. You know, there were this kind of competition
<v Speaker 2>of genres.
<v Speaker 3>I guess you know.
<v Speaker 2>Glenn obviously kind of pushed more for the rock side
<v Speaker 2>of things. Bernie Leaden was definitely more on the country
<v Speaker 2>side of things. But he also said that him leaving
<v Speaker 2>the band for that reason is an oversimplification. He was
<v Speaker 2>like I played a Fender strat, like I'm not I
<v Speaker 2>love rock and roll music. That's not what it was.
<v Speaker 3>It was a whole big.
<v Speaker 2>Mess of things, including it poured beer over That was
<v Speaker 2>the end of it all. Yes, yeah, yeah, And I
<v Speaker 2>mean we we talked about that. These guys. I mean,
<v Speaker 2>you've got basically four alphas. And then Randy Meisner that's true,
<v Speaker 2>who's not, you know, he's just he just wants everybody
<v Speaker 2>to get along, That's right. He wants everybody to take
<v Speaker 2>it easy. And I wonder can.
<v Speaker 3>We just get a peaceful, easy feeling.
<v Speaker 2>I have to wonder if Bernie Leaden, because I guess
<v Speaker 2>Glenn was going off about things that were wrong and
<v Speaker 2>things need to improve and all this other stuff. And
<v Speaker 2>it's at that point that Bernie Leedon takes his beer
<v Speaker 2>and dumps it over the top of glenn head and says,
<v Speaker 2>I don't know if it was why don't you chill
<v Speaker 2>out or why don't you take it easy? But and
<v Speaker 2>I do think.
<v Speaker 3>It's interesting kind of the dynamics of the band when
<v Speaker 3>they started out. You're a four piece, you know, you're
<v Speaker 3>backing band for Linda Ronstadt. Right, you're all kind of
<v Speaker 3>ground level guys, and it takes you a little bit
<v Speaker 3>to figure out that you've got Don Henley, maybe the
<v Speaker 3>greatest voice of the seventies. You've got a Hall of
<v Speaker 3>Fame writing combo of Fryan Henley. It took a minute
<v Speaker 3>for these guys to sort out who was doing what right.
<v Speaker 2>But once they figured it out, my gosh, you just
<v Speaker 2>mentioned it. We should kind of elaborate on that. So
<v Speaker 2>Linda Ronstadt was one of the ones that would play
<v Speaker 2>like every opportunity, would be playing at the Troubadoor. She
<v Speaker 2>was well received, she was having some more success, and
<v Speaker 2>she was going to go tour, and so like her
<v Speaker 2>songwriting partner, manager John Bolin, was like, let's get some
<v Speaker 2>of these guys that play here that are good and
<v Speaker 2>bring them in and have them be kind of your
<v Speaker 2>backing band for your tour, and so he enlists Glynn
<v Speaker 2>Frye yep, and Linda Ronstadt is like, I saw this
<v Speaker 2>band called Shiloh. I think that the drummer is really
<v Speaker 2>good and also a really good singer. He would be great.
<v Speaker 2>His name's Don Henley, Don Henley, Don freaking Henley. So
<v Speaker 2>they get Bernie Leaden and they get Randy Meisner. All
<v Speaker 2>of them together are the backing band for Linda Ronstadt
<v Speaker 2>and it goes really well. And so they're like, you
<v Speaker 2>know what, we want to make you the permanent band
<v Speaker 2>with Linda Ronstadt. And while they're on the road, Glenn
<v Speaker 2>and Don have you know who didn't really know each
<v Speaker 2>other that well, like they're on the same album label,
<v Speaker 2>but that was it, but they were rooming together. And
<v Speaker 2>after rooming together for so many weeks, when they get
<v Speaker 2>this offer, he's like, well, what do you think? And
<v Speaker 2>Don says, I'd really rather just be in a band
<v Speaker 2>with you, yeah, and Glenn is like, I'd really rather
<v Speaker 2>just be in a band with you too, And so
<v Speaker 2>they have to go to John Ballin and Linda Ronstadt
<v Speaker 2>and go, listen, guys, you know, I know that you
<v Speaker 2>gave us two hundred and fifty dollars a week when
<v Speaker 2>we couldn't even afford beer at the Troubadour, but we
<v Speaker 2>just feel like we need to go have our own band.
<v Speaker 2>Not only did they take that well, but they continued
<v Speaker 2>to help them, like we'll talk about Desperado here in
<v Speaker 2>a minute, but oh my god, but Linda Ronstadt's version
<v Speaker 2>of Desperado was probably a deal maker, whereas it had
<v Speaker 2>not been successful before she got involved with it.
<v Speaker 3>To me, that's hard to believe, but is part of
<v Speaker 3>history now right. Already Gone was written by Jack Tempson, Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>and Rob Stranland. Yes. Jack Tempson also wrote Peaceful Easy Feeling,
<v Speaker 3>which we'll talk about here in a minute. So when
<v Speaker 3>Jack Tempson wrote this song, yeah, he wrote in about
<v Speaker 3>twenty minutes. He was at a club, played it for
<v Speaker 3>Glenn Fry.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>So a couple of years later, Glenn Fry goes to
<v Speaker 3>Jack Tempson and said, remember that country song you played
<v Speaker 3>for me that one night, Yeah, called Already Gone. I
<v Speaker 3>think that would make a good rock song. So literally,
<v Speaker 3>Glen Fry goes to the flea market, pulls it off
<v Speaker 3>the bin and turns it into an all time classic.
<v Speaker 2>It's great. Yeah, I think that. Timpson said that what
<v Speaker 2>inspired this song was that there was a bus stop
<v Speaker 2>across the street from where he lived, and so he
<v Speaker 2>and his roommates would just sit and watch girls at
<v Speaker 2>the bus stop out of the window and just fall
<v Speaker 2>in love with them until their bus came along and
<v Speaker 2>took them away, and then they were already gone nice.
<v Speaker 3>Nice. I think this is also the kind of the
<v Speaker 3>first feature of Don Felder in the line notes for
<v Speaker 3>on the Border, You've got Don Henley, Glen Fry, Randy Meisner,
<v Speaker 3>Bernie Leaden, and then it says late arrival Don Felder.
<v Speaker 2>Huh.
<v Speaker 3>But it's his guitar that stands out.
<v Speaker 2>That absolutely rock guitar. Absolutely next song on the album,
<v Speaker 2>Let's do It.
<v Speaker 3>Heavy Hitter, Desperado.
<v Speaker 6>Desper Uh. Why don't you come to you know, Sands,
<v Speaker 6>You've been out riding fans for so long now, Oh
<v Speaker 6>you're a hard one.
<v Speaker 2>I know you got to read talk about liquid joy
<v Speaker 2>coming out of your eyes.
<v Speaker 3>Oh my gosh, an all time great song.
<v Speaker 2>So this the the piano intro to this was inspired
<v Speaker 2>by a Ray Charles song. I believe it was Georgia
<v Speaker 2>on my mind. I could be wrong, but anyway that
<v Speaker 2>it starts off with a strings and what they did
<v Speaker 2>was kind of play the piano the melody of those
<v Speaker 2>strings on the piano, right. But they did actually incorporate
<v Speaker 2>strings into this song as well. Okay, so here you know,
<v Speaker 2>I'm studying the history of the Eagles, the history of
<v Speaker 2>the guys in the Eagles. I always look at past bands.
<v Speaker 2>But one of the bands that I come up with
<v Speaker 2>was Don Henley's band from the sixties, the late sixties. Right,
<v Speaker 2>he's a young man, you know, twenty one in nineteen
<v Speaker 2>sixty eight, just play in little shows, little club shows,
<v Speaker 2>which is trying to make it, just trying to make
<v Speaker 2>it with this band. Felicity is the name of the band. Okay,
<v Speaker 2>And this kind of big musician comes through town and
<v Speaker 2>he's like, Hey, you probably would really enjoy our band
<v Speaker 2>if you would come watch us play. The musician is like, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>I don't really do that, and he's like, I really
<v Speaker 2>really think you would like to hear our music. Why
<v Speaker 2>don't we have a show tomorrow night. Why don't you
<v Speaker 2>just come. You're gonna be in town, just come. You
<v Speaker 2>gonna want to watch a show anyway, just call And
<v Speaker 2>so finally the musicians like, okay, fine, I'll go. He said.
<v Speaker 2>I went and watch him play, and I immediately said
<v Speaker 2>I want to record this band, and so he signed.
<v Speaker 2>He gets Felicity. All the band members of Felicity, they
<v Speaker 2>come and live at his house for four months while
<v Speaker 2>they're recording their new album. They changed the changed the
<v Speaker 2>name of the band from Felicity to Shiloh. Great country
<v Speaker 2>band name, right, that's a great band name for absolutely sure.
<v Speaker 2>The song that comes off of this album that reached
<v Speaker 2>out and grabbed me that I cannot get enough of.
<v Speaker 2>Nice short title. This song is called a simple little
<v Speaker 2>down home rock and roll love song for Rosie.
<v Speaker 6>Thank you.
<v Speaker 9>I've done that, and I listen to it.
<v Speaker 2>I'm like, dang, this is freaking fantastic. But I started
<v Speaker 2>off my search when I heard about this song. I
<v Speaker 2>started off on Spotify. It's not on Spotify, you. I
<v Speaker 2>can't find it streaming anywhere there happens to be a
<v Speaker 2>clip of it, or like the song is on YouTube,
<v Speaker 2>so I found it there.
<v Speaker 3>But I'm like, I want to know what the.
<v Speaker 2>Rest of the songs on this album sound like. So
<v Speaker 2>I'm enlisting you, Chris Webber, and anybody else who's willing
<v Speaker 2>to jump on board help me find the Shiloh that's
<v Speaker 2>the name of the band and the name of the
<v Speaker 2>album album, so that I can hear the rest of
<v Speaker 2>these songs. And I want you guys to just listen
<v Speaker 2>to how awesome this song sounds. I love it and
<v Speaker 2>everybody I send it today. I send it to deaf
<v Speaker 2>Dave and He's like, I love it. I send it
<v Speaker 2>to my dad and he's like that, that's a great song.
<v Speaker 2>It's It's got fifteen thousand views on YouTube. That's like nothing.
<v Speaker 2>It's nothing. It's this beautiful, awesome song with Don freaking
<v Speaker 2>Henley singing, and nobody knows about it. So I want
<v Speaker 2>the album and I want all of you to know
<v Speaker 2>about this incredible, incredible song. It's like the Grandfather of
<v Speaker 2>the Black Crows with Don Henley singing the song so
<v Speaker 2>that Southern groovy love it.
<v Speaker 3>Who is the rock and roll man that they talked
<v Speaker 3>into coming and watching them perform.
<v Speaker 2>I may not have heard of him. His name was
<v Speaker 2>Kenny Rogers, a little band called the First Edition back then.
<v Speaker 2>Kenny Roger, Kenny Rodgers, who did not go to listen
<v Speaker 2>to other bands play, not only heard this band, he
<v Speaker 2>took him and had them live with him and produced
<v Speaker 2>their album.
<v Speaker 3>That's fantasticy freaking Roger, That's fantastic. Yeah, back to Desperado. Okay, Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>this is the song where Don Henley and Glenn Fry
<v Speaker 3>became a team. Yep, Okay, they're kind of their tradition
<v Speaker 3>in the first album was you write a song, I
<v Speaker 3>write a song would come together, we work it, you know,
<v Speaker 3>kind of work it together whatever. Don Helly had been
<v Speaker 3>working on this song since nineteen sixty eight. In fact,
<v Speaker 3>the beginning of it was like Leo, Leo, why don't
<v Speaker 3>you come to your senses? Yeah? Right, and Glen Fry
<v Speaker 3>stepped in and said, hey, can I help you kind
<v Speaker 3>of fill the gaps on this song? And that's when
<v Speaker 3>the partnership was forged.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, he's he. Glenn Fry said that basically it would
<v Speaker 2>be Don would start off with some lyrics and he
<v Speaker 2>would have some music, and then as they kind of
<v Speaker 2>put it together, Don would start doing the music and
<v Speaker 2>he would start filling in the gaps on the lyrics.
<v Speaker 2>And that was just this beautiful little partnership. Okay, so
<v Speaker 2>I said, I had a story. Yes, I'm telling it now.
<v Speaker 3>Okay.
<v Speaker 2>So when I was in high school, I was a
<v Speaker 2>member of a club called the Beta Club Okay, academic club.
<v Speaker 2>But it was like national organization.
<v Speaker 3>Sort of social sad social, keep going.
<v Speaker 2>So they would have big state convention like an Arkansas
<v Speaker 2>with big, huge, like a whole whole club went down
<v Speaker 2>there and there were clubs from high schools all over Arkansas.
<v Speaker 2>And then We went to a national convention in like
<v Speaker 2>a couple of different places, Nashville I think was that year.
<v Speaker 2>But part of this big convention that they have, they
<v Speaker 2>had a talent competition, right, okay, and so this would
<v Speaker 2>this would have been ninety three ninety four ish junior.
<v Speaker 2>And so I find out that they've got this talent
<v Speaker 2>competition and I've just been kind of beginning this band
<v Speaker 2>with lead singer Jeremy Turner, and I'm like, hey, we
<v Speaker 2>should do something. Another member of the club was a
<v Speaker 2>guy who played piano very well, jeff Yancey, who has
<v Speaker 2>since passed away, got ress his soul. But you know,
<v Speaker 2>we're just three high school kids who can play some
<v Speaker 2>music and sing a little bit, right. But one of
<v Speaker 2>the rules of the competition is you cannot go over
<v Speaker 2>three minutes, all right, And so we land on, Hey,
<v Speaker 2>we're gonna do Desperado. Like I had said, we should
<v Speaker 2>do an original song. And they're like, Eh, let's do it.
<v Speaker 2>Let's do Desperado. So this nineties, we're in the mid
<v Speaker 2>nineties doing a song from the mid seventies, right, yep.
<v Speaker 2>And so the song is three and a half minutes long,
<v Speaker 2>three minutes in twenty seven seconds, right, So we're like, well,
<v Speaker 2>what how do we get it under three minutes? So
<v Speaker 2>we got to figure out a way to remove just
<v Speaker 2>enough of it. And if you listen, like the last
<v Speaker 2>like fourteen seconds is really just the strings just kind
<v Speaker 2>of playing out. So it wasn't super worried about that
<v Speaker 2>part of things, right, But basically we what we pulled out.
<v Speaker 3>We were right at three minutes.
<v Speaker 2>It was like three oh one, but we're a little
<v Speaker 2>panicked that that we're going to go over our time limit, right,
<v Speaker 2>And so we get to the competition, and at this
<v Speaker 2>time in history, this is the way things were. I
<v Speaker 2>think we were number thirteen out of fourteen competitors.
<v Speaker 3>I think at least.
<v Speaker 2>Twelve of them saying I will always love it, and
<v Speaker 2>I may not be exaggerating, like it was literally like
<v Speaker 2>I mean, the only like kind of weird difference was
<v Speaker 2>that there was, you know, one girl did the Dolly
<v Speaker 2>Parton version instead of the Whitney Houston version. Like every
<v Speaker 2>like seemed like every single there may have been a
<v Speaker 2>baton towiler in there or something, but basically it was
<v Speaker 2>an overwhelming title wave of I will always love youse, right,
<v Speaker 2>And so then we get up second to the last,
<v Speaker 2>once to go, and we're nervous as crap about this
<v Speaker 2>for three minutes. And so we get up there. I'm
<v Speaker 2>playing guitar, Jeff's on piano, Jeremy singing, and Jeff starts
<v Speaker 2>that piano and my buddy Richie Blue is in the
<v Speaker 2>audience and I can hear him go, and the crowd erupts,
<v Speaker 2>like I mean, it's like a wave. Everybody starts cheering,
<v Speaker 2>and we're in the piano at the beginning of the
<v Speaker 2>song and like, I'm just I'm just kind of you know,
<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna try to remember my chords, and just it
<v Speaker 2>would just periodically swell of people just gasping and amazed.
<v Speaker 2>And so we're getting near the end of the song.
<v Speaker 2>We see the little dude with his little stopwatch like
<v Speaker 2>walking up to the beginning to the front of the state,
<v Speaker 2>like you couldn't hear the last thirty seconds of what
<v Speaker 2>we played because the entire auditorium full of high school
<v Speaker 2>students was standing up, screaming their guts out. And I
<v Speaker 2>have been chasing that moment for the rest of my
<v Speaker 2>life since then.
<v Speaker 3>I can see where that would outweigh the Frank Hannon
<v Speaker 3>moment you know that's incredible, ash.
<v Speaker 2>I mean just it was amazing. We won.
<v Speaker 3>By the way, Sorry, I've got two quick ones for
<v Speaker 3>you on this. I really want to share with you
<v Speaker 3>the chart on where Desperado landed on the charts. Okay,
<v Speaker 3>it wasn't released as a single. One was never released
<v Speaker 3>as a single, Right there, what arguably their second most
<v Speaker 3>signature song never released as a single, shocking. The whole
<v Speaker 3>album was kind of a disappointment.
<v Speaker 2>It was and this, you know, this was the namesake
<v Speaker 2>of the album's true and it just didn't do very well.
<v Speaker 2>And then Linda Ronstadt sang it a little bit differently
<v Speaker 2>and they started emulating the way that she sang it,
<v Speaker 2>and that's the song that everybody loved.
<v Speaker 3>Let's listen to the Linda Ronstadt version of that.
<v Speaker 7>Song, Dessrod, why don't you come to your sensis You've.
<v Speaker 1>Been out run fansis for so long now?
<v Speaker 4>Oh your hard one.
<v Speaker 3>Beautiful?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, she's kind of kill her voice, ah man. And
<v Speaker 2>was hot as a freaking Firecarcter in the seventies. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>and apparently could drink tequila with the boys, just kind
<v Speaker 2>of like Stevie Nicks. Yeah, that's all right, never mind,
<v Speaker 2>Linda Ronstadt. That's a close call for me, honestly.
<v Speaker 6>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>So Jim ed Norman is the guy who was his
<v Speaker 2>band Don Henley's bandmate from Shiloh. He would do the
<v Speaker 2>arrangement for strings on this and another song we're going
<v Speaker 2>to talk about. He in nineteen eighty four became the
<v Speaker 2>president of Warner Brothers Nashville and was president for twenty
<v Speaker 2>years till two thousand and four. Oh nice, and so yeah,
<v Speaker 2>I'm like, oh, poor Shiloh, and nobody amounted to anything
<v Speaker 2>except Don Henley. Wrong, yes, guy too. Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>This song has been covered by the Carpenters, Ringo Star,
<v Speaker 3>Bonnie Rait and Kenny Rogers, interesting, among others.
<v Speaker 2>D and your band that at that time we were
<v Speaker 2>called Maxwell's Loft.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, Maxwell's Loft. There we go. Excellent. I saw a
<v Speaker 3>clip from David Letterman July twenty sixth, nineteen eighty four.
<v Speaker 3>This is a few years after the Eagles had broken up.
<v Speaker 3>Glenn Fry performed Desperado on Letterman. So it is a
<v Speaker 3>same song, different Eagles singing it. It's kind of interesting
<v Speaker 3>to hear that version of it. And he dedicated it
<v Speaker 3>to his friend and former songwriting partner Don.
<v Speaker 2>Hanley, there you go, it's beautiful, got to all right, Yeah, it's.
<v Speaker 3>Stop on your tape player, kick it out, flip it
<v Speaker 3>over for side two. Start off with one of these nights, one.
<v Speaker 8>Of these nights, one of these crazy, We're gonna find out,
<v Speaker 8>gritty Mama. It turns on.
<v Speaker 2>It's another fantastic song. I mean, it's greatest hits right where.
<v Speaker 2>You're not gonna go wrong with any of these. They're
<v Speaker 2>all just absolute killers. Here's something that was not a killer.
<v Speaker 2>Okay to this single released? Do you know this? No,
<v Speaker 2>it's a song called Visions, the only song in which
<v Speaker 2>Don Felder is the lead singer in any Eagles song
<v Speaker 2>in any Eagles album.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, so that's interesting. We need to save some songs
<v Speaker 3>for our Eagles Part two, if we ever get around
<v Speaker 3>to doing that. Sure, Felder had some hard feelings, particularly
<v Speaker 3>between him and Glenn Fry. Yeah, but there's a song
<v Speaker 3>on Hotel California that he felt like he brought to
<v Speaker 3>the band and deserved to sing a song.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, Oh right, yeah, well I got you yeah yeah,
<v Speaker 2>another song right, a different song, yeah, so A Victim.
<v Speaker 3>Of Love was one that he brought. But Henley wrote
<v Speaker 3>the words Fry kind of arranged it, but he had
<v Speaker 3>the kind of the hook. It felt like he should
<v Speaker 3>have been the lead singer on that one, right, And
<v Speaker 3>they were like, Okay, give it a try. He tried
<v Speaker 3>twenty times and they're.
<v Speaker 2>Like, yeah, Irving Asthmov takes him to lunch or dinner
<v Speaker 2>or whatever, and it's like, listen, you know this is
<v Speaker 2>just gonna be better if Don sings it. And there
<v Speaker 2>is something to that because even Glenn, even Glenn Fry,
<v Speaker 2>was like, I don't know if you'd kind of noticed
<v Speaker 2>our catalog, but I sing less and less and that
<v Speaker 2>was by design because we had Don Henley in the band,
<v Speaker 2>so he should be singing all the songs, right. And
<v Speaker 2>then Don Henley says, Don Felder demanding to sing one
<v Speaker 2>of these nights is like me demanding to play the
<v Speaker 2>lead guitar on Hotel California. It just doesn't make any sense, right,
<v Speaker 2>But I got a point, yes, at a great point.
<v Speaker 2>But then Don Felder then has to go, But yeah,
<v Speaker 2>I get it. Every song is gonna be better if
<v Speaker 2>Don Henley sings. It's right. But Don Henley doesn't sing
<v Speaker 2>every song. Glenn sings and Joe Walsh sings and Randy
<v Speaker 2>and then Timothy and like Bernie sings a little bit,
<v Speaker 2>you know, yeah, And so at that point I can
<v Speaker 2>see him going I don't really And I listened to
<v Speaker 2>Visions just I was like, how bad can he really be? Well,
<v Speaker 2>he's listed as lead singer, but it's kind of like
<v Speaker 2>a Beach Boys lead singer where you've got harmonies throughout
<v Speaker 2>the entire song. Yeah, yeah, yeah, So I don't know
<v Speaker 2>how bad he was by himself.
<v Speaker 3>Interesting, by the way, Yes, I have a skull in
<v Speaker 3>my garage, a cow's skull, okay, that was given to
<v Speaker 3>me by a friend, and I painted it like the
<v Speaker 3>cover of One.
<v Speaker 2>Of These Knights, okay, So that it's interesting that you
<v Speaker 2>bring that up, because that skull that's on the cover
<v Speaker 2>of One of These Nights is a piece of art
<v Speaker 2>that is done by the same guy who did the
<v Speaker 2>cover to the Greatest Hits album, right, got the tiny
<v Speaker 2>little eagle skull on there. It's on some blue white
<v Speaker 2>powder which was rumored to be a mount of cocaine
<v Speaker 2>that they snorted after that after they did it, which
<v Speaker 2>is probably not true. But the artist, the artist's name
<v Speaker 2>who did both of these skulls is Elchingadera. Okay it's
<v Speaker 2>a nickname obviously, yes, So I was like el chinga detta.
<v Speaker 2>I was like, what is that? I'm like some search.
<v Speaker 2>It's like, you know, like a widget, Like it's a
<v Speaker 2>little like a watch, you might call it.
<v Speaker 3>Like that's what.
<v Speaker 2>And then another one is like, uh, it's kind of
<v Speaker 2>dirty and not really a nice thing. It's like, you know,
<v Speaker 2>a dab of dung or whatever. And so I was
<v Speaker 2>just like, well, but what's the literal translation? So I
<v Speaker 2>did the Spanish to English translation relation. I put in
<v Speaker 2>el chingadeera and the English's whole. So the artist for
<v Speaker 2>this album and for one of these nights has nicknamed
<v Speaker 2>himself Sthole in Spanish. By the way, yeah.
<v Speaker 3>One of these nights. It's number one. August second, nineteen
<v Speaker 3>seventy five. Okay, okay, here's your top five that week. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>I was cooking at that point, by the way, you
<v Speaker 3>were cooking, and I was. I was toddling at that time. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>by the way, I just before I read this list off,
<v Speaker 3>this was what my parents listened to in the car.
<v Speaker 3>I was raised on the Eagles. Yeah. I went on
<v Speaker 3>a ski trip in nineteen eighty nine and I had
<v Speaker 3>a buddy who popped in a tape Greatest Hits Volume
<v Speaker 3>one on one side, Greatest Hits Volume two on the
<v Speaker 3>other side. And you know, when you're skiing, all you
<v Speaker 3>do you just look out the window at Kansas and
<v Speaker 3>you just listen to music. And it was like being
<v Speaker 3>reacquainted with an old friend. Yeah. So here's your top
<v Speaker 3>five August second, nineteen seventy five. Okay, Number five The Hustle.
<v Speaker 3>You remember that one? Yes, Number four, Please mister Please
<v Speaker 3>by Olivia Newton John remember that one? Number three Jive Talking,
<v Speaker 3>Oh yeah, Beg's G's Yeah, number two I'm Not in
<v Speaker 3>Love by ten CC and number one one of these nights. Okay.
<v Speaker 2>So, on the subject of the Beg's, they actually recorded
<v Speaker 2>this in the same studio that the Beg's were recording in.
<v Speaker 2>Do you know this the one in Miami? I can't
<v Speaker 2>remember where it was, but probably yes, probably, but they
<v Speaker 2>were they were trying to get away from this kind
<v Speaker 2>of country sound that they have, and this is definitely
<v Speaker 2>a different sound, right Yeah. Well, I mean they hung
<v Speaker 2>out with the Beg's a little bit and if you listen,
<v Speaker 2>you've got that four on the floor disco.
<v Speaker 3>Oh, this is the Eagles and Disco.
<v Speaker 2>It really is, and it's inspired inspired by hanging out
<v Speaker 2>with the begs.
<v Speaker 3>By the way, I'd bet my paycheck that it's in
<v Speaker 3>Miami because the jive talking bridge. Oh right, right right,
<v Speaker 3>go back to our Saturday Night Fever episode.
<v Speaker 2>There you go.
<v Speaker 3>Next song on the album's Tequila Sunrise.
<v Speaker 1>It's another Dicky.
<v Speaker 2>I want to say this, like, this is a fantastic song.
<v Speaker 2>It belongs with these other songs. But at the time
<v Speaker 2>that they pulled it, I wouldn't have expected them to
<v Speaker 2>pull it because it's not one of their greatest hits.
<v Speaker 3>It's not a greatest hits.
<v Speaker 2>It's really not. I mean, I love the song, but.
<v Speaker 3>Reach number sixty four on the Hot one.
<v Speaker 2>Hundred, that's not a greatest hit. I mean, when you've
<v Speaker 2>got a band that's got the kind of catalog that
<v Speaker 2>they had at that point, which, by the way, did
<v Speaker 2>we mention that this is coming from four albums? Like
<v Speaker 2>they write four albums in and they're like, all right,
<v Speaker 2>time for a greatest hits album. I mean, that's pretty
<v Speaker 2>quick turnaround. But when you got the catalog that they have,
<v Speaker 2>you could do it right. I knew from my days
<v Speaker 2>as a bartender what a tequila sunrise is, which is
<v Speaker 2>tequila and orange juice and grenadine. It's a nice little
<v Speaker 2>blend of the orange and the red so that it
<v Speaker 2>looks like a sunrise. Right, makes sense. But that's not
<v Speaker 2>what they're talking about when they call this song tequila sunrise. Okay,
<v Speaker 2>this is the sunrise that you see after an night
<v Speaker 2>of shooting straight to Kuila. So when he says, take
<v Speaker 2>another shot of courage, that's the shot of tequila. You
<v Speaker 2>have trouble talking to girls. Shot at tequila. Go to
<v Speaker 2>a r Patreon and good friend of mine have been
<v Speaker 2>playing music's together and we're both nervous about our own singing,
<v Speaker 2>and so we take a shot of courage. At the
<v Speaker 2>beginning of every band press, you.
<v Speaker 3>Know, discussing that their first album cover this one right here.
<v Speaker 2>This one, I'll show it to them. There you go, right.
<v Speaker 3>I thought it was interesting. They went out to Joshua
<v Speaker 3>Tree National Park. They all took a hit of peyote. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>they spent the night in the desert to create this cover. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>that's that's what we got. Yeah, it's pretty bad. It's terrible.
<v Speaker 2>It's terrible. Well, maybe it's because they were all stoned
<v Speaker 2>out of their freaking mind, including the photographers.
<v Speaker 3>Well, but did you see you actually have to take
<v Speaker 3>the album apart to see the full thing.
<v Speaker 2>So the whole idea with the album, it's brilliant, It
<v Speaker 2>is absolutely brilliant. Is that you unfold it and becomes
<v Speaker 2>a poster. Well, apparently David Geffen didn't get the memo
<v Speaker 2>because he sealed it all shut and then so what
<v Speaker 2>you have is you can't open it up at all.
<v Speaker 3>You can't open it up. So when you're looking.
<v Speaker 2>At it right side up on the front and the
<v Speaker 2>backside it's this way. But then when you open it up,
<v Speaker 2>it's all upside down and the inside is literally them
<v Speaker 2>around a fire, So you've got them upside down, like
<v Speaker 2>hanging off of the ceiling. And they got they got
<v Speaker 2>the shot that they got that really they used on
<v Speaker 2>the top of the album. When the peote kicks in,
<v Speaker 2>sometimes you got poop. And so Glenn Fry's like, guys,
<v Speaker 2>I got to go to the bathroom. He's like, I'll
<v Speaker 2>see you, and then he starts walking off. He's like
<v Speaker 2>he gets three hundred yards away, and they're like egle
<v Speaker 2>eagle and there's literally an eagle flying over them, like
<v Speaker 2>the perfect photo opportunity, and yeah, we don't. The eagle
<v Speaker 2>that we have is a drawn picture. It is not
<v Speaker 2>an actual eagle, So I think his bowels robbed them
<v Speaker 2>of some magic on that photo.
<v Speaker 3>But it did give us the name of the band.
<v Speaker 3>By the way, you know that they're not technically the Eagles.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's Eagles Eagles. Yeah, I noticed that as I
<v Speaker 2>was going through. I'm like, I'm always calling them the Eagles,
<v Speaker 2>but it's really just Eagles. But that doesn't sound right. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>I just thought I can't believe I haven't brought it
<v Speaker 2>up for now. I've had a hard day man, and
<v Speaker 2>I hate.
<v Speaker 3>The Big Lebowski. Go back and check out our episode
<v Speaker 3>on that versus Raised in Arizona. Yeah. Have you seen
<v Speaker 3>the movie with Mel Gibson, Kurt Russell, and Michelle Pfeiffer.
<v Speaker 3>I have not seen it. I know of it, but
<v Speaker 3>I have not seen. Is it nothing great? Okay, not
<v Speaker 3>for those not for that star power.
<v Speaker 2>Is it related to the song at all? Or is
<v Speaker 2>it just a okay?
<v Speaker 3>Next song? Yes, next song on the album. Take it
<v Speaker 3>to the Limits. Okay.
<v Speaker 2>We don't have Glenn Fry, we don't have Don Henley,
<v Speaker 2>we have Randy Meisner.
<v Speaker 3>This is the first and only a side single to
<v Speaker 3>be sung by Randy Miser.
<v Speaker 2>Oh only yes, Okay. So he came up with the
<v Speaker 2>lyric of take It to the Limit, came up with
<v Speaker 2>the chorus I think, yeah, and he had the chord
<v Speaker 2>progression and then he said, that's just you know, and
<v Speaker 2>this is just kind of where I get stuck, you know,
<v Speaker 2>first verse, and I'm done. And so then I gave
<v Speaker 2>it to Don and Glenn and they finished it up. Now,
<v Speaker 2>his idea on take It to the Limit was every
<v Speaker 2>day you try to do better than you did the
<v Speaker 2>day before.
<v Speaker 3>Right, that was it?
<v Speaker 2>Not the same idea conveyed for Don and Glenn's version
<v Speaker 2>of the lyrics. But he has this. I mean, it's
<v Speaker 2>it's interesting that this is his only single with the Eagles,
<v Speaker 2>and it's also probably the reason he.
<v Speaker 3>Left the band one hundred percent. So there's that one iconic,
<v Speaker 3>super high falsetto note that he hits the end the
<v Speaker 3>song and it's wonderful and it's fun. And as a fan,
<v Speaker 3>I want to see people. I want to see him
<v Speaker 3>perform that I pay my ticket.
<v Speaker 2>I want to see take it to Glenn.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, one more time? Right, right. Well, Randy Meiser struggled
<v Speaker 3>at little bit with confidence, a little bit with stage fright,
<v Speaker 3>and he would be like, guys, I'm not feeling too well.
<v Speaker 3>I don't think I can do it tonight, right, And
<v Speaker 3>Glenn Fry's like, no, dude, you have to do it.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>People paid money to see you seeing take it to
<v Speaker 3>the limit. You gotta and it's the encore song, right,
<v Speaker 3>you gotta sing this? Yeah, Well, he would try to
<v Speaker 3>whimp out a bunch.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. One night, the night that you're about to talk about,
<v Speaker 2>he had been out partying and drinking heavily with some ladies.
<v Speaker 3>That some girls that's blue and was like, I'm not
<v Speaker 3>doing it and Glenn's like, no, you're doing it. He's like,
<v Speaker 3>I'm not doing it. You're doing it. People are here
<v Speaker 3>to see you do that. I'm not doing it. And
<v Speaker 3>then Glenn Fry's like, well if you then and it's
<v Speaker 3>it's on you.
<v Speaker 2>Why don't you just quit?
<v Speaker 3>Why don't you just quit? That's right?
<v Speaker 2>And that's I mean, and that's what happened. I mean,
<v Speaker 2>it wasn't instantaneous, but it wasn't very long after that
<v Speaker 2>that Randy is like, guys, I don't want to do
<v Speaker 2>this anymore.
<v Speaker 3>Well, that's also that night it becomes physical. They get
<v Speaker 3>in a fist fight.
<v Speaker 2>Oh that's right, hyeah Yeah, and.
<v Speaker 3>The securities there and they try to step in and
<v Speaker 3>Henley's like, you guys, stay out of this. This is
<v Speaker 3>personal band business. And he let him duke it out.
<v Speaker 2>And you know what, I can't think that that had
<v Speaker 2>to be any kind of a fight. I mean, I've
<v Speaker 2>seen Randy Meisner and Glenn Fry grew up in Detroit
<v Speaker 2>and has that Detroit attitude and he looks like a
<v Speaker 2>guy that could throw a fist easy. Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I do think that this song was his greatest
<v Speaker 3>success and probably his reason for exit. Yeah, but I
<v Speaker 3>love the song. I love it. Yeah, It's an amazing song.
<v Speaker 2>What interestingly happens after his departure, he had been with
<v Speaker 2>a band, and we didn't talk about the other bands,
<v Speaker 2>but like Don Hilly was with Shiloh and a couple
<v Speaker 2>of other things, right, and Glenn Fry was with a
<v Speaker 2>band called the Subterraneans and the Mushrooms, and then he
<v Speaker 2>had a duet with JD.
<v Speaker 3>Souther.
<v Speaker 2>But Randy Meisner was in a band called Poco.
<v Speaker 3>Poco.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, and so at the point that Meisner leaves, they're
<v Speaker 2>out there, you know, the high pitched voice that he
<v Speaker 2>had and a bass player, and Irving Azof is like,
<v Speaker 2>who were going to get to replace him? And Glenn
<v Speaker 2>Fry says, well, why don't we just get the guy
<v Speaker 2>that replaced him in Poco? And Irving asthmas like Poko
<v Speaker 2>is a band that's doing nothing. They're about to fall apart,
<v Speaker 2>and I think that guy hates his life and he's like, Irving,
<v Speaker 2>if you'd been playing in a band for ten years
<v Speaker 2>and you're still making two hundred and fifty bucks a week,
<v Speaker 2>wouldn't you be about to be done with it as well? Yeah, well,
<v Speaker 2>the guy that took Randy's place in Poco was a
<v Speaker 2>guy named Timothy B.
<v Speaker 3>Schmidt. Unbelievable. Timothy B. Schmidt joins. Shortly after the release
<v Speaker 3>of Hotel California. Yeah, all right, just a quick countdown
<v Speaker 3>for you. This song reached number four on the Hot
<v Speaker 3>one hundred. Here's your top five that week. This is
<v Speaker 3>November fifteenth, nineteen seventy five. Number five dream Weaver by
<v Speaker 3>Gary Wright. Thank you Wayne's World for bringing that back right.
<v Speaker 3>Number four Take It to the Limit. Number three, Love Machine,
<v Speaker 3>Number two all by myself Eric Carmon, Remember when we
<v Speaker 3>talked about that. Yep and number one December nineteen sixty three,
<v Speaker 3>Oh what tonight?
<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, Okayice nice by the Way Orchestra and this
<v Speaker 2>one again conducted by the old Shiloh band member Jim
<v Speaker 2>ed Norman. It's beautiful, beautiful, love it beautiful.
<v Speaker 3>Next song on the album, Peaceful Easy Feeling.
<v Speaker 2>I love this song. It's great, man, I love it
<v Speaker 2>so much. It is a song in which the title
<v Speaker 2>literally makes you feel the way that it is you
<v Speaker 2>are told to feel.
<v Speaker 3>It's funny how that works out right, as soon as
<v Speaker 3>it starts playing, even before the words come in, I'm like,
<v Speaker 3>I do have a peaceful easy feeling with.
<v Speaker 9>The billion stars, all.
<v Speaker 5>Because I got a piece for.
<v Speaker 3>Easy did not absolutely. This was the third and final
<v Speaker 3>single off their first album.
<v Speaker 2>I heard Glenn.
<v Speaker 3>Frye talk about this. He said, when people listened to
<v Speaker 3>the Eagles, they were doing stuff right. They were traveling,
<v Speaker 3>they were going on vacation, they were on a date,
<v Speaker 3>they were breaking up with a girlfriend, they were getting
<v Speaker 3>a job, whatever. But people did life to the Eagles,
<v Speaker 3>and I think that's true. This is a road trip song.
<v Speaker 2>Oh for sure you know. Oh yeah, yeah, oh yeah.
<v Speaker 3>I've got a funny story about the creation of this song.
<v Speaker 3>You ready for this? Yeah?
<v Speaker 2>All right.
<v Speaker 3>So this song was written by their friend Jack Tempchin,
<v Speaker 3>which we talked about earlier. Okay, he wrote it in
<v Speaker 3>nineteen sixty nine. Okay, one night after a gig. He
<v Speaker 3>was a musician as well, He was waiting for a
<v Speaker 3>waitress at a restaurant. She never showed, so he just
<v Speaker 3>crashed out on the floor at this place, like just
<v Speaker 3>just slept on the floor, yeap. And they're like, oh, okay,
<v Speaker 3>we'll see in the morning. Well, the only thing he
<v Speaker 3>had with him was his guitar. So he writes a
<v Speaker 3>piece of it here, piece of it there. So part
<v Speaker 3>of it was that late night on the floor at
<v Speaker 3>this restaurant. So he moves to La meets JD. Souther,
<v Speaker 3>Jackson Brown, and Glenn Fry, so they help him kind
<v Speaker 3>of further develop it a little bit here and there. Well,
<v Speaker 3>one day he is at the Dirwiner Snitzel in San Diego.
<v Speaker 2>The the dir I mean, I don't know if it's.
<v Speaker 3>The Direner stencil that it's a Dirina.
<v Speaker 2>Stencil, whole chain of them. Yeah, Okay, have you ever
<v Speaker 2>been there. I don't think so.
<v Speaker 3>Good corn dogs, you know, just kind of a corn
<v Speaker 3>dog place. Okay, Okay, okay. So he finishes, writes the
<v Speaker 3>third verse in a booth at this dirrener Stinzel. And
<v Speaker 3>in twoenty twelve, the Mayor of San Diego gives him award,
<v Speaker 3>and they have a plaque at this ter Wienerschnitz where
<v Speaker 3>it says the song peaceful Easy Feeling was completed at
<v Speaker 3>this booth in this restaurant. Okay, and they gave him
<v Speaker 3>the Golden Wiener Award.
<v Speaker 2>I thought, I I thought that went to Huey Lewis.
<v Speaker 2>Go back and check out our hue Lewis and the
<v Speaker 2>New Sports album for that inside story.
<v Speaker 3>According to Jack, that's right. According to Jack Tempchin, lots
<v Speaker 3>of people have Grammys, but not a lot of people
<v Speaker 3>have Golden Wieners. That's fantastic. Love it, I love it.
<v Speaker 3>This song reached number twenty two in nineteen seventy three,
<v Speaker 3>the number one song that week killing Me Softly by ROBERTA. Flack.
<v Speaker 3>It's a good one. It's a good one, okay, yeap.
<v Speaker 3>Last song on the album. The song is called the
<v Speaker 3>best of My Love.
<v Speaker 2>So this is their first number one single March nineteen
<v Speaker 2>seventy five, okay, and it's off the album on the border, it.
<v Speaker 3>Is off on the board, it's the third single. Okay.
<v Speaker 2>So that's kind of a critical album for them because
<v Speaker 2>their previous albums they had done with the producer Glenn Johns.
<v Speaker 2>And you know, when they're ready to record their first
<v Speaker 2>album and they're like, okay, you know, first they had
<v Speaker 2>them go practice and aspen until they got good enough
<v Speaker 2>and wrote enough good songs, right. But then once it
<v Speaker 2>was actually time to record the album, they're like, who
<v Speaker 2>do you want to produce the album? And they saw
<v Speaker 2>Glenn John's name over everything that they loved Zeppelin and
<v Speaker 2>Stones and The Who and all of that, right, and
<v Speaker 2>so they're like, we want Glenn John's and so he
<v Speaker 2>he comes out, he listens to him and he's like, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>I'm not eh, I don't know what you guys are.
<v Speaker 2>You're like rock, You're like country? What is it? I
<v Speaker 2>don't know what we're doing here? And he's walking out
<v Speaker 2>of the studio. He's done, you know, like he's listened
<v Speaker 2>to a bunch of their stuff and he's just like,
<v Speaker 2>I can't I don't know what you guys are, I
<v Speaker 2>don't You're not a rock band, you're not a rockman,
<v Speaker 2>you're not a countryman.
<v Speaker 3>I don't know what you are and I can't do
<v Speaker 3>it right.
<v Speaker 2>And as he's about to leave, somebody's like, hey, why
<v Speaker 2>don't you guys sing that that ballady song that you
<v Speaker 2>guys sing And so they they sing a song called
<v Speaker 2>Silver Dagger, and it's just they're just singing a cappella. Right,
<v Speaker 2>this is just Glenn and Randy and Bernie, and they
<v Speaker 2>would they would open, they would open and take it
<v Speaker 2>easy with this one, usually by singing this song, Okay,
<v Speaker 2>you ready, so here it is that. So this is
<v Speaker 2>what Glenn John hears as he's about to walk out
<v Speaker 2>of the studio. My daddy was a handsome devil.
<v Speaker 8>He had it chain.
<v Speaker 6>From every lea in hearted day for every maid.
<v Speaker 4>He love it.
<v Speaker 3>Irresistible.
<v Speaker 2>And Glenn John's turned around and he said, I now
<v Speaker 2>know what you guys are and he jumped in with
<v Speaker 2>both feet and so he produced. They had they have
<v Speaker 2>to go out to London to produce with him, which
<v Speaker 2>I mean when they're gonna go record in the same
<v Speaker 2>studio the Zeppelin and the Beatles recorded in, right, But
<v Speaker 2>when they get there. Glenn John's has been fed up
<v Speaker 2>with the behavior of rock musicians, specifically the Rolling Stones,
<v Speaker 2>where he would just be like waiting around until Keith
<v Speaker 2>came up with a song, like he was just not
<v Speaker 2>going to do that anymore.
<v Speaker 3>So no drinking, no drugging.
<v Speaker 2>You know, he ran a tight ship and that didn't
<v Speaker 2>sit well with Glenn. Fry Don Henley was like, it
<v Speaker 2>made it better. We were better at our craft by
<v Speaker 2>not being high. That's a good rule. But after three
<v Speaker 2>albums of this kind of done, and so midway through
<v Speaker 2>recording with him on the Border, they're like, you know what,
<v Speaker 2>never mind, we don't want you anymore, and they go
<v Speaker 2>they find Bill Simsic and he finishes the album. This
<v Speaker 2>is one of the songs that Bill Simsck like, the
<v Speaker 2>very first one he gets hold of. And on this album,
<v Speaker 2>if you had one of the original LP vinyl albums,
<v Speaker 2>yeh the you know what Dead Wax is no okay,
<v Speaker 2>So remember the old album. As it got to the
<v Speaker 2>end of the last song on the side, there would
<v Speaker 2>be a little space where like the needle would slide off.
<v Speaker 2>They call it the slide space or something like that. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>the slide off a lot of times there'd be like
<v Speaker 2>some sort of number or something, you know, stamped in
<v Speaker 2>there or whatever. Well, on the Greatest Hits album it
<v Speaker 2>says something like Happy New Year, Glenn, love you Bill,
<v Speaker 2>and I think that has to be Bill Simsck. It's
<v Speaker 2>got to be right.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>But Bill Simsic of course then helps them. I mean
<v Speaker 2>they they obviously didn't need Glenn John's anymore. They were
<v Speaker 2>taking control and knew what they were doing. But that
<v Speaker 2>was this song was kind of the beginning of the
<v Speaker 2>new relationship with Bill Simson.
<v Speaker 3>That's cool, Yeah, that's cool. You know. The creation of
<v Speaker 3>this song I think is interesting too. Glenn Fry was
<v Speaker 3>playing with his guitar and he was trying to tune
<v Speaker 3>it in a way that Joni Mitchell had shown him
<v Speaker 3>earlier yep. And he was just kind of filling around
<v Speaker 3>and that's when he kind of found this song. Then
<v Speaker 3>he gave it to Don Henley, who they would go
<v Speaker 3>to this restaurant called Dantana's all the Time, which is
<v Speaker 3>close to the Troubadoor, and he was sitting in a
<v Speaker 3>booth and he was writing the lyrics to this particular
<v Speaker 3>music that Glenn gave him and finished the best of
<v Speaker 3>my love there which one of these days you and
<v Speaker 3>I need to go to Dantanna's Oh yeah and the
<v Speaker 3>Sunset Girl.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah right.
<v Speaker 3>But in the liner notes for on the Border under
<v Speaker 3>this song, there's a special note there that says thanks
<v Speaker 3>Guido for all the tables, and that's in reference to
<v Speaker 3>the maj Or d who would always help Don find
<v Speaker 3>a space to work.
<v Speaker 2>Nice, pretty cool quo quido, you know.
<v Speaker 3>And the success of this song. This was the third single.
<v Speaker 3>They were a little bit nervous about releasing such a
<v Speaker 3>soft kind of ballady song. But there was a radio
<v Speaker 3>station in Kalamazoo, Michigan who started to play this over
<v Speaker 3>the single that they gave him, which was already gone,
<v Speaker 3>and it started to catch fire. Yeah, And so they
<v Speaker 3>released it as a single, and of course it goes
<v Speaker 3>on major.
<v Speaker 2>They did just a limited release, like of a thousand
<v Speaker 2>copies of it or whatever in Michigan because of that
<v Speaker 2>radio station, and they were gone so quickly. That's what
<v Speaker 2>made them decide, well, let's just go ahead and release.
<v Speaker 3>It fantastic full public.
<v Speaker 10>This is a beautiful song, love it, Get the best
<v Speaker 10>of that, get the best.
<v Speaker 2>Of what an incredible album. I don't know how we're
<v Speaker 2>going to compete with this album. Some people will say
<v Speaker 2>we're not. That's okay, but I promised you a little
<v Speaker 2>tid bet at the end of this that ties our
<v Speaker 2>competitor in, right. Yeah, So Jimmy Buffett is who we
<v Speaker 2>got coming up next episode. We're gonna look at the
<v Speaker 2>songs you know by heart in the Battle Royal of
<v Speaker 2>the two greatest Hits albums. Right, And if you don't know,
<v Speaker 2>Jimmy Buffett had an incredible following of people who would
<v Speaker 2>just literally go from place to place wherever he was playing.
<v Speaker 2>And those people got the nickname the Parrotheads, and you
<v Speaker 2>disclosed me today. I love it when we have these
<v Speaker 2>moments because you were like, Hey, do you know who
<v Speaker 2>gave Jimmy Buffett's fans the name Parrotheads? And I was like, no,
<v Speaker 2>tell us the answer, sir.
<v Speaker 3>Well. After the breakup of the Eagles, Timothy B. Schmidt
<v Speaker 3>went on to play in the Jimmy Buffett band, the
<v Speaker 3>Coral Reefers The Coral Reefers, and as a member of
<v Speaker 3>that band, of course Timothy B. Schmidt was a Eagle.
<v Speaker 3>He gave Jimmy Buffett fans the name Bearheads.
<v Speaker 4>Wow.
<v Speaker 3>How about that?
<v Speaker 2>All right, More fantastic nuggets like that about Jimmy Buffett,
<v Speaker 2>the Coral Reefers, and all of the amazing songs that
<v Speaker 2>you know by heart coming up next episode. Join us then,
<v Speaker 2>Thank you guys so much for tuning in. We hope
<v Speaker 2>you enjoyed the show.
<v Speaker 3>See you next week. Thanks guys. Mister Barlow, Hey, hang on,
<v Speaker 3>this is my Wiener song.
<v Speaker 2>You have a song for your Wiener.
<v Speaker 3>I have got a Wiener story for you on this one.
<v Speaker 2>I use my Wiener.
<v Speaker 8>That's great.
<v Speaker 3>That will be in the outtakes right there.