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One of these nights
One of these crazy old nights
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We're going to find out,
pretty mama...
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A funny thing happened
right when we broke up.
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1980 is when the format
classic rock hit American radio.
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So, even though
the band broke up,
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they kept playing
our songs all the time.
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It was like
we never went away.
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We were still
on the radio.
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I'm a-running down the road
Trying to loosen my load
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I got seven women
on my mind...
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Somebody once told me people
didn't just listen to the Eagles.
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They did things
to the Eagles.
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They went on fandangos
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and drove across the country
with 3 of their high-school buddies.
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Take it easy...
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People broke up
with their girlfriends.
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Every time
I try to walk away
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Something makes me
turn around and stay
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Cos I'm already gone
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And I'm feeling strong...
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People quit their jobs
or changed their lives.
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They did things to
the Eagles.
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Hey there,
how are you?
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It's been a long time...
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Songs from that album have even
been played in outer space.
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And they used to pipe the music
up to the space shuttle to wake
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the astronauts up
in the morning.
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Shortly after having a breakfast
of steak and eggs and toast,
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he then put on
his space suit...
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And heroes,
they come and they go...
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He was a hard-headed man,
he was brutally handsome
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She was
terminally pretty...
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On a dark desert
highway
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Cool wind in my hair...
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That song has really
gotten around.
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...Rising up through the air
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Up ahead
in the distance
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Saw a shimmering light
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Head grew heavy
and my sight grew dim
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I had to stop
for the night...
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There's been a lot of
conjecture about how
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and why
we got back together.
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We began to realise that
we'd been away for 14 years.
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Maybe we could have that rarest
of things in American life,
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which is a second act.
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A second chance.
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Thank you.
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When we stopped,
I was really sad.
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Like, What are we
going to do?
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I sleep all day out
all night
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I know
where you're going
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I don't rock you act
that way
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You don't think
it's showing...
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I was pretty devastated.
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I had only been part of it
for barely 3 years,
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and I'd loved it.
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When we're hungry
Love will keep us alive...
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We created this monster, and
it took its toll on all of our lives.
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Maybe some day
we will find
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That it wasn't really
wasted time...
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Somebody was quoted as saying
the Eagles would get back together
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when hell freezes over.
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So,
hell froze over.
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We're all ready. The gentleman
in blue over there.
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After the acrimony and
the bitterness that marked
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the demise of the band, it must
have been a long road to reunion.
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Can you just take us through
the steps that you went through
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on the road
to reunification?
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No.
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Anybody want that one?
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No, really,
it's a fair question.
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From the time that
we disbanded in 1980,
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there were always offers on
the table for us to get back together.
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It started with
the first US Festival,
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and Steve Wozniak wanted to
pay us a million dollars.
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I said no.
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I needed to do
something else.
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The heat is on
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It's on the street
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The heat is... on!
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I called my first solo album
No Fun Aloud because I was having
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so much fun.
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It was so liberating to know
that whatever I did
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was going to be more fun than what I
just did for the last 3 years on
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The Long Run album.
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I knew I wanted to have a
songwriting partner, so I
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asked my friend Jack Tempchin if he
wanted to write some songs together.
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And Jack's a
very bright guy lyrically,
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and so I started working
with him.
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He had become a disciplined
co-writer with Don Henley,
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and when the Eagles broke up,
he just wanted to let go
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and have some fun
with music.
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So we were fiddling around with
some grooves, and one of us said,
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You belong to the city.
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And then we're going,
Oh, yeah, yeah. That's it.
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Cos you belong
to the city
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You belong to
the night...
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You just show up
and good things happen.
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I make my living off
the evening news...
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Henley's solo career was
really, really successful.
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Going solo was the
scariest part of my life.
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All she wants to do
is dance, dance...
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The whole MTV thing was a difficult
transition for me to make.
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The Eagles, at one point,
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had been accused by some
critic of loitering onstage.
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So it was difficult for us
loiterers to make
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the transition to the world of
choreography and costume and acting.
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She wants to party
She wants to get down...
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Did I benefit from MTV?
Yes, I did.
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I made a couple of videos
that won some MTV awards.
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Nevertheless, I would just as soon
have skipped the whole thing,
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because I considered myself,
first and foremost, a songwriter
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and a recording artist.
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I didn't really want
to be an actor, too.
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Nice, huh?
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The guy who sold it to me
said it was a lemon.
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But I'm telling you,
it may look like a cow,
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but she runs like
a stallion.
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I always like to take a
good-bye look at America.
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Just in case it's my last.
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I acted in television,
in movies.
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I wasn't thinking about getting
back together with the Eagles.
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The guy's got
an attitude problem.
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He listens to me.
I can help you with that.
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Cameron would call me up
and say,
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'Glenn, I gotta find somebody
that's not going to take
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any shit off Tom Cruise, and
I think you're the guy.
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We have history,
Dennis.
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Oh, yeah. We got history
all right, Jerry.
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No, no, no. Dennis.
Dennis, Dennis. Don't, don't!
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Nobody on the road
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Nobody on the beach
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I feel it in the air
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The summer's out
of reach...
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I signed Don Henley
to Geffen Records.
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You might say,
since the Eagles sued me
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at Asylum Records, why he did
come with me at Geffen Records?
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David uses
the same pick up lines
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every time he comes
a-courtin'.
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You know how much I care
about you as an artist.
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You know what a big fan
I am of yours.
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And so I bought it a second
time and I signed with him.
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And then things
started to fall apart.
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I produced several hits, but I could
feel the support somehow waning.
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Don got into arguments with
them over things like budgets,
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videos, artwork,
things like that.
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I recall Don starting
to write letters to them
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referring to them as
Nickel and Dime Records.
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When you feel like your label
is not supporting you,
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it's completely
deflating.
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I used to call him
Golden Throat.
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I thought he was
an incredible singer.
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But, by nature, he's a malcontent.
He's always been a malcontent.
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And, that's just life.
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So I just said one day, I'm not
going to record for you anymore.
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I'm leaving. And so
he sued me for 30 million.
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Happily ever after fails
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We've been poisoned
by these fairy tails
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The lawyers dwell on
small details...
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My wife has MS,
and they deposed her,
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dragged her all the way
from Texas
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to Los Angeles to sit her down
in front of his attorneys and ask
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her a bunch of pointless questions,
because she didn't know anything.
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I thought
that was really low.
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I said to Irving over
the Henley contract,
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I'd sooner die
than let you fuck me.
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You'd better win
this case.
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It was settled, you know, and that
was the end of that relationship.
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Offer up
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your best defence
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This is the end...
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This is the end
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of the innocence.
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I've realised now that
we have adult rock stars.
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You don't have to give this up
when you turn 30 or 35 or 40.
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I'll always make records and
write songs. I've got to do them.
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Otherwise, I'd go nuts.
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This is a tune that was written
with my new friend Mike Campbell
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and my old friend
John David Souther.
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'When the band broke up,
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Glenn started writing songs
with Jack Tempchin.
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I guess the rift
between Henley
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and Frey probably spread to
between Frey and me.
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Glenn and I had had some
outrageously fun times together.
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And then Don and I did
for a decade or so.
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Been trying to get down
to the heart of the matter
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But my will gets weak and
my thoughts seem to scatter
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But I think
it's about forgiveness
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Forgiveness, even if, even if,
you don't love me anymore.
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How have you changed
as musicians over the years,
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both as a group and
individually?
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Your whole mandate
is just to improve.
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Life is about
improvement,
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whether it's as a musician or as
a singer or as a songwriter or
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just all the other
different hats we all wear.
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So, hopefully,
we're just getting better.
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We've been doing this quite
a long time now on and off,
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and we feel like we've
got it down pretty good.
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And, in fact, we've had 5 days off,
and we're ready to go now.
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When the Eagles
first broke up,
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I wasn't quite sure what
I was going to do with myself.
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So I just hustled.
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I went just as a singer
with Toto,
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I played bass for Jimmy Buffett,
I went out with Warren Zevon
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and Dan Fogelberg, and stuff
I wouldn't have necessarily done.
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I sang on Poison records
and Twisted Sister,
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although you'll never see
my name.
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They never
gave me credit.
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That was more like
yelling.
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It's not all going to be
the greatest thing in the world.
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But if you can work and support
yourself and your family, it's good.
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OK, next question. Gentleman
in the front here, Richard.
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What position do you think
rock'n'roll takes now about drugs?
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We came from a generation that
experimented with all kinds
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of substances, of course.
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I think our message is that
you can be a damn good rock band
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without all that stuff.
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I'd like to propose a toast to
dedicate this song to you, to us.
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The drinking man's
musician, Joe Walsh!
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I ended up an alcoholic.
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And very fond
of cocaine.
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If I was awake,
I was...
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I was doing that stuff.
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Good morning,
rock fans.
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'In the very early years,
it had briefly worked.'
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And then you chase it when
it doesn't work anymore.
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And I chased it
for years and years.
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If you look at
your reflection
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In the bottom
of the well
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What you see is only
on the surface...
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Could Hemingway have written
like that if he was sober,
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or could Hendrix
have played like that
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if he didn't experiment
with hallucinogenics?
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Probably not.
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I used that one for years and years,
and it never occurred to me
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that all those people
are dead.
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They got further and
further away from reality.
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- Should I look at you or the camera?
- Look at me.
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I ended up...
in bad shape.
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I wanna live
with a cinnamon girl
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I could be happy
the rest of my life
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With a cinnamon girl
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A dreamer of pictures
I run in the night...
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'I had hit bottom.'
245
00:15:18,966 --> 00:15:23,323
And I knew that
I was done and that...
246
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I would probably die
if I kept going.
247
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Mom, send me money right now
I'm gonna make it somehow
248
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I need another chance...
249
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Joe was a mess.
250
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He was around a bunch of people
that were really just enablers.
251
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Nobody wanted to
intervene.
252
00:15:44,992 --> 00:15:49,232
Nobody wanted to tell him he had a
drug problem or a drinking problem.
253
00:15:49,233 --> 00:15:52,870
Everybody was just
going along with Joe.
254
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I remember what we all did
when it was an art form.
255
00:15:58,188 --> 00:16:03,864
And I'd like to fight
to get it back to that.
256
00:16:03,865 --> 00:16:06,864
And I was very, very happy
in the Eagles.
257
00:16:06,865 --> 00:16:09,941
I was just going to say I'm sorry
we broke up, but we didn't break up.
258
00:16:09,942 --> 00:16:11,380
We just stopped, I think.
259
00:16:11,381 --> 00:16:15,342
We just said, you know,
The heck with the '80s.
260
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Song 3, take 6.
261
00:16:17,701 --> 00:16:22,057
In 1990, we tried to get
together to refuel it.
262
00:16:22,058 --> 00:16:25,978
Everybody was in on that, but
Glenn wasn't involved yet.
263
00:16:28,575 --> 00:16:33,332
Irving got us together
- Timothy, Joe, myself, and Don Henley.
264
00:16:33,333 --> 00:16:35,651
Glenn was supposed
to join us in the studio,
265
00:16:35,652 --> 00:16:38,049
and he was going to bring
some songs in,
266
00:16:38,050 --> 00:16:40,328
and we were going to start
making another record.
267
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So, we started rehearsing,
the four of us, then we got a call,
268
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I think about the third or fourth
day in the studio, saying that
269
00:16:46,970 --> 00:16:53,046
Glenn had refused to come be
part of it, to join the party.
270
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So we just stopped.
271
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He was still,
I'm not doing this.
272
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To tell you the truth,
273
00:16:59,283 --> 00:17:02,000
I was having a fine time
doing what I was doing.
274
00:17:02,001 --> 00:17:04,399
There's more to life
than being in the Eagles.
275
00:17:04,400 --> 00:17:06,439
The moment was always
going to be kind of
276
00:17:06,440 --> 00:17:08,157
when Glenn was ready
to do it again.
277
00:17:08,158 --> 00:17:10,716
I think Henley would have been
more willing than Glenn.
278
00:17:10,717 --> 00:17:13,599
For me, personally, I think
that I had proved pretty much
279
00:17:13,600 --> 00:17:17,195
everything that I needed to
prove in my solo career.
280
00:17:17,196 --> 00:17:19,395
I had won a couple of
Grammys and had a few hits
281
00:17:19,396 --> 00:17:21,194
and some
successful tours.
282
00:17:21,195 --> 00:17:23,831
And I had founded
the Walden Woods Project.
283
00:17:23,832 --> 00:17:26,430
When you're a solo artist,
you have to take responsibility
284
00:17:26,431 --> 00:17:30,669
for everything - every mistake,
every bad record, every sour note.
285
00:17:30,670 --> 00:17:32,028
But when
you're in a band,
286
00:17:32,029 --> 00:17:34,747
you get to share the praise and
the blame with your bandmates.
287
00:17:34,748 --> 00:17:36,946
So, I was OK with the notion
of maybe going back
288
00:17:36,947 --> 00:17:39,407
and being in a band again.
289
00:17:41,426 --> 00:17:44,302
The thing that sort of
turned my head
290
00:17:44,303 --> 00:17:46,702
was the release of
the Common Thread album.
291
00:17:46,703 --> 00:17:48,742
Irving and Don
went to Nashville
292
00:17:48,743 --> 00:17:52,220
and they talked a bunch of people
into recording some Eagles songs,
293
00:17:52,221 --> 00:17:54,859
with the royalties going to
the Walden Woods Project.
294
00:17:54,860 --> 00:17:58,217
I'm a-running down the road
trying to loosen my load...
295
00:17:58,218 --> 00:17:59,938
I don't know who asked me,
but they said,
296
00:17:59,939 --> 00:18:02,256
Travis Tritt's going to do
a video of Take It Easy
297
00:18:02,257 --> 00:18:05,616
and he wants to know if you
guys will be in the video.
298
00:18:05,617 --> 00:18:08,414
I said, Well, OK.
299
00:18:08,415 --> 00:18:11,853
Take it easy
300
00:18:11,854 --> 00:18:14,331
Take it easy...
301
00:18:14,332 --> 00:18:16,931
Never really talked to Travis
about whose idea it was.
302
00:18:16,932 --> 00:18:20,770
I think Irving probably had
a hand in that whole thing.
303
00:18:20,771 --> 00:18:23,689
Was I trying to put the band back
together by doing Common Thread?
304
00:18:23,690 --> 00:18:25,207
No.
305
00:18:25,208 --> 00:18:27,369
Was I waiting
for the moment? Yeah.
306
00:18:27,370 --> 00:18:31,805
...Understand, just find a
place to make your stand
307
00:18:31,806 --> 00:18:35,924
Take it easy...
308
00:18:37,484 --> 00:18:41,040
In the Travis Tritt video, there
was a little bandstand scene
309
00:18:41,041 --> 00:18:44,241
and we all picked up our
instruments and started playing.
310
00:18:44,242 --> 00:18:48,399
I was thinking,
Guys, come on!. You know?
311
00:18:48,400 --> 00:18:51,316
'It's interesting -
after years pass,
312
00:18:51,317 --> 00:18:54,554
you really sort of remember
that you were friends first.
313
00:18:54,555 --> 00:18:57,195
You have a lot of
common history together
314
00:18:57,196 --> 00:18:59,475
and a lot of shared
experiences.'
315
00:18:59,476 --> 00:19:02,473
I remembered mostly
the good stuff.
316
00:19:02,474 --> 00:19:05,270
I didn't really think
about the bad stuff.
317
00:19:05,271 --> 00:19:08,069
I just remembered how much
we genuinely had liked each other
318
00:19:08,070 --> 00:19:10,670
and how much fun
we'd had.
319
00:19:11,989 --> 00:19:14,947
We realised, after the success
of the Common Thread album
320
00:19:14,948 --> 00:19:17,866
that there were still
a lot of people out there -
321
00:19:17,867 --> 00:19:20,904
a whole lot of people - who
wanted to see us play again.
322
00:19:20,905 --> 00:19:23,423
Sometimes there's
a little bit of serendipity
323
00:19:23,424 --> 00:19:26,544
involved in this, and I think
what happened is everybody's life
324
00:19:26,545 --> 00:19:32,500
started to line up in a way that
now it made sense for all of us.
325
00:19:32,501 --> 00:19:36,139
And we discussed it.
326
00:19:36,140 --> 00:19:39,898
Joe and Don came up and sat in at
a benefit that I did in Aspen.
327
00:19:39,899 --> 00:19:41,936
'We had a meeting
in Aspen.'
328
00:19:41,937 --> 00:19:47,294
I was one of the first guys that
they wanted to try it out on.
329
00:19:47,295 --> 00:19:50,535
Joe was buzzed.
It was 1.00 in the afternoon.
330
00:19:50,536 --> 00:19:55,652
And he would say,
Hey, I'm there, man. I'm fine.
331
00:19:55,653 --> 00:19:58,011
Don't worry about me.
332
00:19:58,012 --> 00:20:00,000
But Don and I
333
00:20:00,001 --> 00:20:03,207
could both tell that he wasn't fine,
and we were worried.
334
00:20:03,208 --> 00:20:04,846
They said what
they wanted to do.
335
00:20:04,847 --> 00:20:08,007
They wanted to try it,
get back together again.
336
00:20:08,008 --> 00:20:11,246
They didn't know what I
would say, but I said,
337
00:20:11,247 --> 00:20:17,564
I understand, and,
yeah, I can get sober.
338
00:20:18,043 --> 00:20:23,280
Somewhere along
the way I found the meaning
339
00:20:23,281 --> 00:20:26,238
Woke up dreaming
340
00:20:26,239 --> 00:20:30,759
Along the way
341
00:20:31,918 --> 00:20:37,795
Never quite seems
the same when you awaken
342
00:20:39,036 --> 00:20:45,232
And making up for
the time is such a price to pay
343
00:20:46,072 --> 00:20:52,110
Then they take the dream away
and it just ain't fair...
344
00:20:53,908 --> 00:20:56,445
We had to get Joe
into some sort of rehab,
345
00:20:56,446 --> 00:20:59,365
and we couldn't be sure
it was going to work.
346
00:20:59,366 --> 00:21:00,963
So we better have Felder.
347
00:21:00,964 --> 00:21:04,364
The Eagles reunion had better have
at least one of the two of them,
348
00:21:04,365 --> 00:21:05,963
and hopefully both.
349
00:21:05,964 --> 00:21:08,881
Irving called me up
and said that Don and Glenn
350
00:21:08,882 --> 00:21:12,260
and Joe had gotten together, and
they were talking about doing
351
00:21:12,261 --> 00:21:14,619
something, and would I be
interested in doing it?
352
00:21:14,620 --> 00:21:16,779
I said, "Absolutely".
353
00:21:17,899 --> 00:21:21,336
One thing led to another,
and finally Irving
354
00:21:21,337 --> 00:21:25,235
and Don Felder picked him up
and drove him to rehab.
355
00:21:25,695 --> 00:21:30,795
I made a commitment to them
that I would clean up
356
00:21:31,253 --> 00:21:36,411
and that I would be
in the band
357
00:21:36,412 --> 00:21:39,769
if that's what
they wanted to do.
358
00:21:39,770 --> 00:21:43,128
So help me
through the night
359
00:21:43,129 --> 00:21:48,326
Help me
to ease the pain...
360
00:21:48,327 --> 00:21:52,124
I'm really, really grateful
to those three guys.
361
00:21:52,125 --> 00:21:54,604
Tell me it's all right...
362
00:21:54,605 --> 00:22:03,360
Because I had a really
good reason to get sober.
363
00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:11,237
And as soon as I got sober,
we started rehearsals.
364
00:22:27,851 --> 00:22:32,889
He was a hard-headed man
He was brutally handsome
365
00:22:33,289 --> 00:22:36,428
She was
terminally pretty
366
00:22:36,708 --> 00:22:41,104
She held him up, and
he held her for ransom
367
00:22:41,105 --> 00:22:44,784
In the heart of
the cold, cold city
368
00:22:45,104 --> 00:22:49,981
He had a nasty reputation
as a cruel dude...
369
00:22:52,222 --> 00:22:55,818
From that first phone call
from Irving
370
00:22:55,819 --> 00:22:59,096
to showing up on a rehearsal
stage to start putting together
371
00:22:59,097 --> 00:23:03,657
a show for MTV was only a matter
of weeks, if not a month.
372
00:23:03,658 --> 00:23:08,094
Life in the fast lane. Surely
make you lose your mind...
373
00:23:08,613 --> 00:23:12,911
'It was a little scary
rehearsing for the MTV thing.
374
00:23:12,912 --> 00:23:17,548
'Normally, I think people would
have their act down a few weeks,
375
00:23:17,549 --> 00:23:20,630
at least, before entering
into something like that,
376
00:23:20,631 --> 00:23:24,567
but we just dove
in headfirst.'
377
00:23:32,724 --> 00:23:36,261
'Even though we had
rehearsed really well,
378
00:23:36,262 --> 00:23:38,699
for the first time to walk out
on stage and actually
379
00:23:38,700 --> 00:23:42,899
play as a band in public and kind of
put the key back into the ignition
380
00:23:42,900 --> 00:23:47,339
and turn it over for the first time,
it was really a lot of nerves.'
381
00:23:48,639 --> 00:23:50,595
- Are we going the right way?
- Glenn!
382
00:23:50,596 --> 00:23:54,276
'Not having played as a group
in 14 years, the first night,
383
00:23:54,277 --> 00:23:56,875
there was
a lot of terror.'
384
00:23:57,415 --> 00:24:00,973
Gentlemen, good to be with ya.
Hope I'm with ya all night!
385
00:24:01,292 --> 00:24:06,250
- Have a good one, OK? OK.
- Showtime! Showtime! Showtime!
386
00:24:13,867 --> 00:24:18,786
'The audience was very kind,
and they were with us.
387
00:24:18,787 --> 00:24:22,824
And that was good,
but it was rough.'
388
00:24:23,103 --> 00:24:26,061
Just another day
in paradise
389
00:24:27,262 --> 00:24:30,861
You stumble to
your bed
390
00:24:32,540 --> 00:24:35,979
You'd give anything
to silence
391
00:24:36,899 --> 00:24:41,137
Those voices
ringing in your head
392
00:24:42,376 --> 00:24:46,536
You thought
you could find happiness
393
00:24:47,414 --> 00:24:51,293
Just over that
green hill
394
00:24:52,253 --> 00:24:56,330
You thought
you would be satisfied
395
00:24:57,250 --> 00:24:59,768
But you never will.
396
00:25:00,001 --> 00:25:03,609
Even when we went onstage,
we were definitely a little tight.
397
00:25:03,610 --> 00:25:06,566
Until, I think,
Henley forgot the words
398
00:25:06,567 --> 00:25:09,245
to one of
the new songs...
399
00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:20,878
You want to start
again?
400
00:25:20,879 --> 00:25:22,759
I'll tell you what.
401
00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:27,637
This is television, so we get
to do this till we're happy.
402
00:25:27,638 --> 00:25:32,133
I thought you didn't remember
the third verse.
403
00:25:32,134 --> 00:25:34,395
That was only
the second verse!
404
00:25:34,396 --> 00:25:36,393
I know the third verse.
405
00:25:36,394 --> 00:25:38,571
'That was sort of
the icebreaker, though.
406
00:25:38,572 --> 00:25:40,171
That was a good thing,
ultimately.'
407
00:25:40,172 --> 00:25:42,732
I feel like
Tommy Smothers.
408
00:25:46,990 --> 00:25:51,367
We didn't think getting back
together was quite as legitimate
409
00:25:51,368 --> 00:25:53,026
unless we had some
new material,
410
00:25:53,027 --> 00:25:56,626
so we're going to put forth several
new songs for you this evening.
411
00:25:57,385 --> 00:26:01,145
This first one Timothy B Schmit
is going to sing for you.
412
00:26:01,146 --> 00:26:04,183
This is called
Love Will Keep Us Alive.
413
00:26:04,184 --> 00:26:06,482
I was standing
414
00:26:06,483 --> 00:26:11,899
All alone against
the world outside
415
00:26:13,818 --> 00:26:16,538
You were searching
416
00:26:17,816 --> 00:26:21,456
For a place to hide
417
00:26:23,695 --> 00:26:25,972
Lost and lonely
418
00:26:25,973 --> 00:26:31,652
Now you've given me
the will to survive
419
00:26:33,852 --> 00:26:40,049
When we're hungry,
love will keep us alive...
420
00:26:42,287 --> 00:26:46,183
After selling 100 million records
worldwide, was it real pressure
421
00:26:46,184 --> 00:26:50,045
on you to write the new material
for the Hell Freezes Over album?
422
00:26:52,642 --> 00:26:55,361
We didn't really look at it
as a body of new work.
423
00:26:55,362 --> 00:26:58,840
It was more of a retrospective
piece of material.
424
00:26:59,041 --> 00:27:02,358
And we look forward to writing some
new material, perhaps in the future.
425
00:27:02,359 --> 00:27:05,037
We can't keep recycling
this material,
426
00:27:05,038 --> 00:27:08,418
although it seems
to be working just fine.
427
00:27:10,955 --> 00:27:15,352
Don and I were trying to figure out
how to write another song,
428
00:27:15,353 --> 00:27:17,512
and if we could.
429
00:27:17,513 --> 00:27:20,270
We hadn't written anything
together since, like, '78.
430
00:27:20,271 --> 00:27:25,450
So it was a little awkward at first,
just getting back into the groove.
431
00:27:26,870 --> 00:27:29,546
Here we are
starting out at 1, 2...
432
00:27:29,547 --> 00:27:31,227
During The Long Run
album,
433
00:27:31,228 --> 00:27:34,585
there were a lot of sessions with
Don and I where nothing got done.
434
00:27:34,586 --> 00:27:36,703
We were both a little bit
reticent to introduce
435
00:27:36,704 --> 00:27:39,184
our ideas for fear that
they weren't good enough.
436
00:27:39,185 --> 00:27:43,620
So when we sat down to do it again
in '94, my first worry was,
437
00:27:43,621 --> 00:27:47,002
Is it going to be
as hard as it was in 1978?".
438
00:27:48,380 --> 00:27:51,638
We were sitting around, "What are
we going to write about?, and stuff.
439
00:27:51,639 --> 00:27:55,276
And he said, I've got
this one title, Get Over It.
440
00:27:55,277 --> 00:27:58,015
And he sort of proceeded
to tell me what it was that was
441
00:27:58,016 --> 00:28:01,492
pissing him off - all these
people going on television
442
00:28:01,493 --> 00:28:05,075
and everything that's wrong with
them is somebody else's fault.
443
00:28:05,076 --> 00:28:07,632
I'm just sick
of all this whining,
444
00:28:07,633 --> 00:28:10,751
and so I'm going to write
a song called Get Over It.
445
00:28:10,752 --> 00:28:16,790
The intro, straight Chuck Berry.
Never play a seventh, right?
446
00:28:18,328 --> 00:28:20,926
So, then I said, I think
447
00:28:20,927 --> 00:28:24,326
maybe a Chuck Berry riff would be
a good way to tell that story.
448
00:28:24,327 --> 00:28:27,244
Time out.
Do you want to play the...?
449
00:28:27,245 --> 00:28:29,164
You want to do it
on slide?
450
00:28:29,165 --> 00:28:31,881
And then Felder and I will just
play power chords low and high.
451
00:28:31,882 --> 00:28:34,482
And those guys will play
Chuck Berry low and high.
452
00:28:34,483 --> 00:28:37,519
And we can do
Get over it.
453
00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:40,519
A couple little of them
slide answer licks is cool.
454
00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:45,398
My favourite thing is when
Don and Glenn co-write stuff.
455
00:28:45,399 --> 00:28:47,957
I like to play guitar
to that.
456
00:29:06,948 --> 00:29:10,308
- You want me to sing it, or do you
want to wait? / - It's 10 to 6.
457
00:29:10,309 --> 00:29:14,145
You can sing it
at 10 to 6 or 5 to 6.
458
00:29:14,146 --> 00:29:16,803
- Do it again?
- Yeah, we'll do it twice.
459
00:29:16,804 --> 00:29:19,725
Yeah, you could write it
in to the mic.
460
00:29:20,503 --> 00:29:23,582
Captioned for
hard of hearing.
461
00:29:28,621 --> 00:29:31,479
It was really liberating.
462
00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:35,516
We both walked out of the session
and went, God, we can still do it.
463
00:29:35,517 --> 00:29:37,635
I can't believe it. We just
wrote a song together.
464
00:29:37,636 --> 00:29:39,815
Maybe we can write
some more.
465
00:29:39,816 --> 00:29:41,313
Turn on the tube
and what do I see?
466
00:29:41,314 --> 00:29:44,154
A whole lotta people crying,
Don't blame me...
467
00:29:44,155 --> 00:29:46,432
That was a really
good feeling.
468
00:29:46,433 --> 00:29:50,190
It was a great sort of
artistic reconciliation for us
469
00:29:50,191 --> 00:29:53,950
to have been able to sit down
and write that song together.
470
00:29:56,249 --> 00:29:57,869
Get over it!
471
00:29:58,129 --> 00:30:00,000
Get over it!
472
00:30:00,486 --> 00:30:05,205
All this bitching and
moaning and pitching a fit
473
00:30:05,206 --> 00:30:08,044
Get over it!
Get over it!
474
00:30:24,758 --> 00:30:26,917
Get over it!
475
00:30:31,055 --> 00:30:35,694
We did Hell Freezes Over,
and then we went out on the road.
476
00:30:38,512 --> 00:30:42,028
That was the question
on everyone's mind -
477
00:30:42,029 --> 00:30:45,509
what if we got back together,
and no one showed up?
478
00:30:49,507 --> 00:30:54,266
What kind of love
have you got?
479
00:30:55,465 --> 00:30:59,863
You should be home
but you're not
480
00:31:01,142 --> 00:31:05,701
A room full of noise
and dangerous boys
481
00:31:06,740 --> 00:31:10,677
Still make you
thirsty and hot...
482
00:31:10,778 --> 00:31:14,096
We set it up to be
a 3-month reunion.
483
00:31:14,097 --> 00:31:17,255
I went back to my wife, and I
had two young kids at the time.
484
00:31:17,256 --> 00:31:19,934
I said, I don't know if
you're going to recognise me.
485
00:31:19,935 --> 00:31:23,013
I don't know what
this is going to do to me.
486
00:31:23,014 --> 00:31:27,091
But I hope I don't change too much.
Hang in there with me.
487
00:31:27,092 --> 00:31:29,290
Tell all your girlfriends
488
00:31:29,291 --> 00:31:32,250
Your "been around
the world" friends
489
00:31:32,251 --> 00:31:36,429
Talk is
for losers and fools
490
00:31:37,807 --> 00:31:43,046
Victim of love,
I see a broken heart
491
00:31:44,485 --> 00:31:47,723
I could be wrong
but I'm not
492
00:31:49,125 --> 00:31:54,601
Victim of love,
we're not so far apart
493
00:31:54,602 --> 00:31:59,239
What kind of love
have you got?
494
00:31:59,519 --> 00:32:02,758
I was on the side of the stage
once at one of their shows
495
00:32:02,759 --> 00:32:06,795
when they first got back together,
and Jack Nicholson was
496
00:32:06,796 --> 00:32:11,513
euphoric listening to this band
play again, you know?
497
00:32:11,514 --> 00:32:17,091
And he said: Repertoire.
498
00:32:18,151 --> 00:32:19,111
What do you want
to hear?
499
00:32:19,112 --> 00:32:22,228
One of these nights
500
00:32:22,229 --> 00:32:25,628
One of these
crazy old nights!
501
00:32:26,949 --> 00:32:29,947
One of these nights...
502
00:32:31,146 --> 00:32:34,285
We didn't know how many people
were going to show up for us
503
00:32:34,286 --> 00:32:37,664
to reunite, but people
came out in droves.
504
00:32:43,461 --> 00:32:46,940
Somebody's
gonna hurt someone
505
00:32:46,941 --> 00:32:49,859
Before the night
is through...
506
00:32:49,860 --> 00:32:52,017
We were sold out
everywhere.
507
00:32:52,018 --> 00:32:55,055
Audiences were having
a fabulous time.
508
00:32:55,056 --> 00:32:56,497
We were having
a good time, too.
509
00:32:56,498 --> 00:32:59,533
There's gonna be
a heartache tonight
510
00:32:59,534 --> 00:33:02,333
A heartache tonight,
I know
511
00:33:05,092 --> 00:33:07,212
Gonna be
a heartache tonight
512
00:33:07,213 --> 00:33:10,611
A heartache tonight,
I know
513
00:33:11,249 --> 00:33:12,729
Oh, I know.
514
00:33:31,482 --> 00:33:33,641
Heartache, baby!
515
00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:40,476
I listened to the guys, and
Joe Walsh, for example,
516
00:33:40,477 --> 00:33:43,515
is playing better and singing
better than I've ever heard him
517
00:33:43,516 --> 00:33:45,936
play in his life
since I've known him.
518
00:33:46,036 --> 00:33:48,994
Hi there,
how are ya?
519
00:33:48,995 --> 00:33:52,672
It's been a long time
520
00:33:52,673 --> 00:33:55,792
I didn't have time
to really sit around
521
00:33:55,793 --> 00:34:01,948
and miss alcohol or cold turkey
from more cocaine or anything.
522
00:34:01,949 --> 00:34:05,428
And I had to go
in front of people
523
00:34:05,429 --> 00:34:09,805
and play and sing sober,
524
00:34:09,806 --> 00:34:12,525
which I hated,
at first.
525
00:34:12,526 --> 00:34:14,224
Ooh, that was scary.
526
00:34:14,225 --> 00:34:20,182
Why do we give up
our hearts to the past?
527
00:34:20,183 --> 00:34:21,900
Yeah
528
00:34:21,901 --> 00:34:29,019
And why must
we grow up so fast?
529
00:34:46,812 --> 00:34:54,369
And all you wishing well
fools with your fortunes
530
00:34:56,028 --> 00:35:00,000
Someone
should send you
531
00:35:00,001 --> 00:35:02,506
a rose
532
00:35:03,325 --> 00:35:06,522
With love from a friend
533
00:35:06,723 --> 00:35:10,041
Nice to hear
from you again
534
00:35:10,042 --> 00:35:15,839
And the storybook
comes to a close
535
00:35:18,240 --> 00:35:23,077
Gone are
the ribbons and bows
536
00:35:26,075 --> 00:35:32,193
Things to remember,
places to go
537
00:35:32,993 --> 00:35:37,912
Pretty maids
all in a row
538
00:35:38,870 --> 00:35:42,589
All in a row.
539
00:35:45,788 --> 00:35:49,345
When Joe first got out of rehab
and we started rehearsing,
540
00:35:49,346 --> 00:35:52,483
he was still pretty dark.
541
00:35:52,484 --> 00:35:55,445
But over the course of that
first year getting sober, I think
542
00:35:55,446 --> 00:35:58,103
he found
happiness again.
543
00:35:58,104 --> 00:36:01,202
He found a way
to be happy.
544
00:36:06,259 --> 00:36:08,497
You look very pretty.
545
00:36:08,498 --> 00:36:11,496
It's OK. Once more.
Oh, now, are you ready?
546
00:36:11,497 --> 00:36:14,075
Father, daughter, take 1.
547
00:36:14,636 --> 00:36:18,193
We got that family thing
to ground us all now.
548
00:36:18,194 --> 00:36:21,872
It's really sort of our common
thread. We've all got kids.
549
00:36:21,873 --> 00:36:27,970
It changes your life and your
perspective on your work, as well.
550
00:36:39,486 --> 00:36:42,724
So, the tour was so enormously
successful that we sort of
551
00:36:42,725 --> 00:36:45,002
didn't want to give that up,
you know?
552
00:36:45,003 --> 00:36:48,323
OK, this is good.
I could do this for a while.
553
00:36:48,324 --> 00:36:50,881
Harry got up
554
00:36:51,521 --> 00:36:54,659
Dressed all in black
555
00:36:55,119 --> 00:36:58,238
Went down
to the station
556
00:36:58,558 --> 00:37:01,736
And he never
came back
557
00:37:02,277 --> 00:37:05,075
They found his clothing
558
00:37:05,076 --> 00:37:09,274
Scattered somewhere
down the track
559
00:37:09,434 --> 00:37:15,471
And he won't be down on
Wall Street in the morning
560
00:37:15,831 --> 00:37:18,951
In a New York minute
561
00:37:22,028 --> 00:37:26,228
Everything can change
In a New York minute
562
00:37:28,025 --> 00:37:30,302
Things can get
pretty strange...
563
00:37:30,303 --> 00:37:33,701
Doing a concert is a strange
combination of conscious
564
00:37:33,702 --> 00:37:35,021
and subconscious acts.
565
00:37:35,022 --> 00:37:37,300
You're not really thinking
about what you're doing
566
00:37:37,301 --> 00:37:39,620
because you know it so well,
you're just doing it.
567
00:37:39,621 --> 00:37:41,179
On the other hand, you have
to put some emotion into it.
568
00:37:41,180 --> 00:37:43,218
When you've got a crowd
that's cheering you on,
569
00:37:43,219 --> 00:37:46,218
doesn't matter how many times
you've sung the song. You just do it.
570
00:37:46,219 --> 00:37:49,097
Lying in the darkness
571
00:37:49,098 --> 00:37:52,216
Hear the sirens wail
572
00:37:52,217 --> 00:37:56,413
Somebody's going
to emergency
573
00:37:56,414 --> 00:37:58,733
Somebody's
going to jail
574
00:37:58,734 --> 00:38:03,610
If you find somebody
to love in this world
575
00:38:03,611 --> 00:38:07,610
You better hang on
tooth and nail
576
00:38:09,170 --> 00:38:12,928
The wolf is always
at the door
577
00:38:14,326 --> 00:38:17,687
In a New York minute
578
00:38:20,406 --> 00:38:24,524
Everything can change
In a New York minute
579
00:38:27,603 --> 00:38:31,880
Things can get a little strange
In a New York minute
580
00:38:33,279 --> 00:38:36,478
We've played all over
the world, and, probably,
581
00:38:36,479 --> 00:38:39,395
if we could write the script,
it was probably a genius move.
582
00:38:39,396 --> 00:38:41,914
Cos when we come back,
it's bigger than ever.
583
00:38:41,915 --> 00:38:46,815
How much money do you expect
to gross with this European tour?
584
00:38:46,816 --> 00:38:48,772
Irving?
585
00:38:48,773 --> 00:38:53,132
- I actually haven't added it up, but
I will tell you that... / - Good answer.
586
00:38:53,172 --> 00:38:58,669
One thing, the costs of being
a touring rock'n'roll band
587
00:38:58,670 --> 00:39:02,667
in Europe are beyond our
wildest imaginations, but this
588
00:39:02,668 --> 00:39:06,825
band is here in Europe because there
was demand for us to be here.
589
00:39:06,826 --> 00:39:11,146
And it's not nearly as lucrative
as anything we've done before.
590
00:39:12,084 --> 00:39:14,763
It isn't?
591
00:39:19,421 --> 00:39:23,219
Offers started coming in
for us to do more shows,
592
00:39:23,220 --> 00:39:25,297
and I just sort of said,
Book some more.
593
00:39:25,298 --> 00:39:27,536
It doesn't have to end now.
Book some more.
594
00:39:27,537 --> 00:39:30,175
Where else can we play?
You haven't been in Europe.
595
00:39:30,176 --> 00:39:31,576
Let's go there.
596
00:39:31,577 --> 00:39:36,214
I heard some people
talking just the other day
597
00:39:37,215 --> 00:39:42,052
And they said you were
gonna put me on a shelf
598
00:39:43,011 --> 00:39:47,071
Let me tell you
I got some news for you
599
00:39:47,369 --> 00:39:50,488
And you'll soon
find out it's true
600
00:39:50,929 --> 00:39:55,607
Then you'll have to eat
your lunch all by yourself
601
00:39:56,445 --> 00:40:00,000
Cos I'm al...
602
00:40:00,001 --> 00:40:03,000
...ready gone
603
00:40:03,083 --> 00:40:08,460
And I'm feeling strong
604
00:40:09,600 --> 00:40:14,917
I will sing
this victory song...
605
00:40:14,918 --> 00:40:16,317
How's it go?
606
00:40:16,318 --> 00:40:21,515
Hoo-hoo-hoo!
My, my, hoo-hoo-hoo
607
00:40:36,030 --> 00:40:40,547
Well I know it wasn't you
who held me down...
608
00:40:40,548 --> 00:40:43,586
We had drawn a line in
the sand and said,
609
00:40:43,587 --> 00:40:46,866
No drugs or alcohol during
any band activities.
610
00:40:46,867 --> 00:40:52,224
And, as a result, we're playing
and singing pretty damn good.
611
00:40:54,661 --> 00:40:59,178
I think the thing that brings
them together is the harmony.
612
00:40:59,179 --> 00:41:03,017
When they start hearing that and
how seamless and how perfect,
613
00:41:03,018 --> 00:41:08,187
they get as thrilled as the audiences
do, that, We can still do this.
614
00:41:28,288 --> 00:41:32,407
We can't really understand it.
It's just the chemistry that works.
615
00:41:32,408 --> 00:41:36,485
And we gave up trying to
understand it. It just works.
616
00:41:36,486 --> 00:41:39,103
We're just going to do
one verse the New Kid.
617
00:41:39,104 --> 00:41:42,420
One verse the New Kid. OK.
Joe's singing Smuggler's Blues.
618
00:41:42,421 --> 00:41:45,260
I'll just do the beginning
of Funk 49.
619
00:41:45,261 --> 00:41:48,861
- And then I'm going to go pee.
- Yeah. / - Then I'll go pee.
620
00:41:48,862 --> 00:41:50,860
1, 2, 3.
621
00:42:06,033 --> 00:42:10,512
Well I'm a-running the road
trying to loosen my load
622
00:42:10,513 --> 00:42:13,651
I got seven women
on my mind
623
00:42:13,871 --> 00:42:17,689
Four that want to own me,
two that want to stone me
624
00:42:17,690 --> 00:42:20,166
One says
she's a friend of mine
625
00:42:20,167 --> 00:42:22,865
Take it easy
626
00:42:22,866 --> 00:42:26,545
Take it easy
627
00:42:26,546 --> 00:42:33,243
Don't let the sound of your
own wheels drive you crazy
628
00:42:33,783 --> 00:42:37,319
Lighten up
while you still can
629
00:42:37,460 --> 00:42:40,780
Don't even try
to understand
630
00:42:40,841 --> 00:42:43,717
Just find a place
to make your stand
631
00:42:43,718 --> 00:42:47,796
And take it easy
632
00:42:51,255 --> 00:42:55,054
Well I'm a-standing on a
corner in Winslow, Arizona
633
00:42:55,055 --> 00:42:57,291
Such a fine sight
to see
634
00:42:57,292 --> 00:43:01,650
It's a girl, my Lord,
in a flat-bed Ford
635
00:43:01,651 --> 00:43:04,808
Slowin' down
to take a look at me
636
00:43:04,809 --> 00:43:07,247
Well, come on, baby
637
00:43:07,248 --> 00:43:10,687
Don't say maybe
638
00:43:11,087 --> 00:43:18,084
I've gotta know if your
sweet love is gonna save me
639
00:43:18,484 --> 00:43:21,402
We may lose
and we may win
640
00:43:21,403 --> 00:43:24,961
Though we will never
be here again
641
00:43:24,962 --> 00:43:28,279
So open up,
I'm climbing in
642
00:43:28,280 --> 00:43:31,159
So take it easy...
643
00:43:31,160 --> 00:43:33,037
All right, boys!
644
00:43:33,038 --> 00:43:37,055
We ended up going all around
the world in about 2 years
645
00:43:37,056 --> 00:43:39,476
and 9 months.
646
00:43:39,477 --> 00:43:44,272
Well, you know
we got it easy
647
00:43:45,592 --> 00:43:51,071
We oughta take it easy.
648
00:43:56,869 --> 00:43:59,907
Thank you, Dublin!
649
00:44:05,265 --> 00:44:10,101
We've learned not to make career
decisions at the end of long tours.
650
00:44:10,102 --> 00:44:12,760
If we break up again, though,
you won't hear about it.
651
00:44:12,761 --> 00:44:16,980
- We'll just go quietly.
- And we'll say we're still together.
652
00:44:18,939 --> 00:44:23,296
They've laughed, cried, fought,
but, most of all,
653
00:44:23,297 --> 00:44:27,176
they have beaten the odds
and are as popular today
654
00:44:27,177 --> 00:44:31,253
as they were in that incredible
summer back in 1972.
655
00:44:31,254 --> 00:44:35,413
It is an honour and a pleasure
to introduce the Eagles.
656
00:44:39,331 --> 00:44:42,410
A lot has been talked about
and speculated about over
657
00:44:42,411 --> 00:44:46,048
the last 27 years about
whether or not we got along.
658
00:44:46,049 --> 00:44:51,127
We got along fine.
We just disagreed a lot.
659
00:44:51,326 --> 00:44:54,884
I was not in the trenches
with this particular band,
660
00:44:54,885 --> 00:44:58,844
so I'd like to thank my predecessor,
Randy Meisner, for being there.
661
00:44:58,845 --> 00:45:00,000
I'm glad that
662
00:45:00,001 --> 00:45:03,121
Randy and Bernie
got recognised.
663
00:45:03,122 --> 00:45:05,441
I think
that's appropriate.
664
00:45:06,881 --> 00:45:08,839
Hey, how you doin'?
665
00:45:08,840 --> 00:45:12,798
It's a good feeling.
Looks good on my resume.
666
00:45:15,878 --> 00:45:19,275
I'd really like to thank Don
and Glenn for writing those songs.
667
00:45:19,276 --> 00:45:24,793
Thank you, guys. It makes
my job real easy. Thank you!
668
00:45:26,812 --> 00:45:29,191
Charming outfit, Joe.
669
00:45:29,192 --> 00:45:31,230
I'd like to, again,
670
00:45:31,231 --> 00:45:34,907
thank Don Henley and Glenn Frey for
writing an incredible body of work
671
00:45:34,908 --> 00:45:39,027
that's propelled this band through
20-some-odd years' worth of life.
672
00:45:39,028 --> 00:45:40,345
Thank you, guys.
673
00:45:40,346 --> 00:45:43,584
When a kid first picks up
a guitar or a drumstick,
674
00:45:43,585 --> 00:45:45,182
it's not really
to be famous.
675
00:45:45,183 --> 00:45:47,503
It's because that kid
wants to fit in somewhere,
676
00:45:47,504 --> 00:45:52,862
he wants to be accepted, and
he wants to be understood, even.
677
00:45:52,863 --> 00:45:57,658
And so, I like to think of
this award as something that is
678
00:45:57,659 --> 00:46:02,377
acknowledging us not for being
famous, but for doing the work.
679
00:46:02,378 --> 00:46:05,777
And I appreciate all the work that
all these guys behind me have done.
680
00:46:05,778 --> 00:46:07,774
I want to thank
Irving Azoff,
681
00:46:07,775 --> 00:46:11,176
without whom
we wouldn't be here today.
682
00:46:11,695 --> 00:46:16,073
As I've said before, he may
be Satan, but he's our Satan.
683
00:46:17,032 --> 00:46:19,811
We're in a dog-eat-dog
business.
684
00:46:19,812 --> 00:46:23,207
Show me anybody that's going
to be responsible for guiding or
685
00:46:23,208 --> 00:46:26,526
managing an artist's career
that's made too many friends,
686
00:46:26,527 --> 00:46:28,486
and I'm going
to show you somebody
687
00:46:28,487 --> 00:46:31,086
that's sold out their artist
and done a crappy job.
688
00:46:31,087 --> 00:46:36,123
So, I was quite proud of Henley's
reference of what he said.
689
00:46:36,124 --> 00:46:40,061
It was more or less, for me,
a validation of a job well done.
690
00:46:40,062 --> 00:46:43,722
A lot of my job was trying to
keep the band from breaking up.
691
00:46:43,723 --> 00:46:47,919
In the '70s, we formed a corporation
called Eagles, Limited.
692
00:46:47,920 --> 00:46:50,640
And that was all-for-one
and one-for-all.
693
00:46:50,978 --> 00:46:53,437
Well, it wasn't
the 3 musketeers.
694
00:46:53,438 --> 00:46:58,594
As our friend JD Souther used to say,
"Time passes, things change".
695
00:46:58,595 --> 00:47:01,472
In talking with Irving about
putting the Eagles back
696
00:47:01,473 --> 00:47:05,029
together in 1994, I said,
Irving, I'm not going to do it
697
00:47:05,030 --> 00:47:08,172
unless Don and I make more
money than the other guys.
698
00:47:09,071 --> 00:47:11,270
We're the only guys
who have done anything
699
00:47:11,271 --> 00:47:13,628
career-wise
in the last 14 years.
700
00:47:13,629 --> 00:47:16,946
We're the guys that have kept
the Eagles' name alive on radio,
701
00:47:16,947 --> 00:47:18,947
television and
in concert halls.
702
00:47:18,948 --> 00:47:22,264
So we came up with a deal
that I was happy with,
703
00:47:22,265 --> 00:47:24,945
and Don was happy with,
Timothy was happy with,
704
00:47:24,946 --> 00:47:28,622
Joe was happy with, and
Don Felder was not happy with.
705
00:47:28,623 --> 00:47:30,740
And I called Felder's
representative.
706
00:47:30,741 --> 00:47:33,459
And I said, Hello, Barry.
This is Glenn Frey.
707
00:47:33,460 --> 00:47:36,659
I'm sorry you happen to represent
the only asshole in the band,
708
00:47:36,660 --> 00:47:38,578
but let me tell you
something.
709
00:47:38,579 --> 00:47:42,095
You either sign this agreement
before the sun goes down today,
710
00:47:42,096 --> 00:47:44,015
or we're replacing
Don Felder.
711
00:47:44,016 --> 00:47:45,455
That's the final deal.
712
00:47:45,456 --> 00:47:48,774
He signs by sunset, or
he's out of the fucking band.
713
00:47:49,174 --> 00:47:50,732
Hung up.
714
00:47:50,733 --> 00:47:55,573
So, he signed the deal,
and we started out on the tour.
715
00:47:55,651 --> 00:47:59,010
I didn't sense a great deal
of camaraderie.
716
00:47:59,011 --> 00:48:00,568
You hardly saw anybody
717
00:48:00,569 --> 00:48:04,047
if it wasn't walking on the plane
or walking onto the stage.
718
00:48:04,048 --> 00:48:06,688
Everyone thought,
If we don't get together,
719
00:48:06,689 --> 00:48:08,406
we won't have problems.
720
00:48:08,407 --> 00:48:11,524
And I think instead of being able
to sit down and have a beer and talk
721
00:48:11,525 --> 00:48:16,162
about stuff and renew a relationship
with everyone, that independent
722
00:48:16,163 --> 00:48:22,280
isolation really didn't add the
comfort necessary to make it work.
723
00:48:22,281 --> 00:48:28,478
Don Felder was never, ever
satisfied, never, ever happy.
724
00:48:30,558 --> 00:48:33,757
A rock band is not
a perfect democracy.
725
00:48:33,758 --> 00:48:35,234
It's more like
a sports team.
726
00:48:35,235 --> 00:48:37,992
No one can do anything
without the other guys,
727
00:48:37,993 --> 00:48:41,591
but everybody doesn't get to
touch the ball all the time.
728
00:48:41,592 --> 00:48:46,229
Time went on, and time went on, and
Felder became more and more unhappy.
729
00:48:46,230 --> 00:48:49,428
Couldn't appreciate the amount
of money he was making,
730
00:48:49,429 --> 00:48:52,969
more concerned about
how much money I was making.
731
00:48:57,887 --> 00:49:00,865
If Don Felder
really thought about it,
732
00:49:00,866 --> 00:49:04,501
it really was he wanted it to be
a -band- band in the purest
733
00:49:04,502 --> 00:49:08,381
sense of the words, we're all
going to get equal songwriting,
734
00:49:08,382 --> 00:49:12,179
singing, expression stuff, and
this was not a hippie commune.
735
00:49:12,180 --> 00:49:14,218
And everything for them
736
00:49:14,219 --> 00:49:17,258
really goes back to those
2 words: song power.
737
00:49:18,699 --> 00:49:23,836
We finally made the decision that
we won't be working with him anymore.
738
00:49:24,136 --> 00:49:28,374
It just broke my heart.
It's not just playing with Joe.
739
00:49:28,375 --> 00:49:31,053
I miss these guys.
740
00:49:31,054 --> 00:49:34,492
But I really missed the
friendship and the music.
741
00:49:37,690 --> 00:49:39,689
OK.
742
00:49:41,489 --> 00:49:45,088
Glenn and I, when it comes time
to make band decisions,
743
00:49:45,089 --> 00:49:47,046
usually stick together.
744
00:49:47,047 --> 00:49:50,884
It's difficult for 4 or 5 people
to have an equal say.
745
00:49:50,885 --> 00:49:54,403
Here we are 40 years later,
and we're doing OK.
746
00:49:54,404 --> 00:49:57,283
We're one of the few bands
that can say that.
747
00:49:57,284 --> 00:50:00,000
The novelty of the Eagles
being back together
748
00:50:00,001 --> 00:50:02,821
and those fews new songs
that we had
749
00:50:02,822 --> 00:50:05,180
on the Hell Freezes Over
album is one thing.
750
00:50:05,181 --> 00:50:07,398
But we needed
to make a record.
751
00:50:09,158 --> 00:50:12,556
Considering that we haven't
made a record in so long,
752
00:50:12,557 --> 00:50:17,555
we spent a good 2-and-a-half years
making Long Road Out of Eden.
753
00:50:17,556 --> 00:50:20,791
We finally figured out that
we just needed to do what we do.
754
00:50:20,792 --> 00:50:23,231
This really goes back to
the essence of what we do best,
755
00:50:23,232 --> 00:50:25,290
which is singing and
songwriting.
756
00:50:25,291 --> 00:50:28,030
A lot of harmony singing
on this album.
757
00:50:28,031 --> 00:50:32,387
There's a hole
in the world tonight
758
00:50:32,388 --> 00:50:38,647
Don't let there be a hole
in the world tomorrow...
759
00:50:39,165 --> 00:50:42,183
Big tragedies like that
make you think, as a parent,
760
00:50:42,184 --> 00:50:44,602
what kind of world
is coming up?
761
00:50:44,603 --> 00:50:46,481
What's going
to happen next?
762
00:50:46,482 --> 00:50:49,362
What's the world going to be
like when my kids are grown?
763
00:50:50,341 --> 00:50:54,578
After September 11th, our
immediate visceral reaction,
764
00:50:54,579 --> 00:50:57,998
our gut reaction, resulted
in Hole In The World.
765
00:51:01,036 --> 00:51:05,935
Don't let there be a hole
in the world tomorrow...
766
00:51:05,936 --> 00:51:08,732
The Eagles have written and
sung plenty of love songs
767
00:51:08,733 --> 00:51:11,771
over the years, but we've also
written and sung songs
768
00:51:11,772 --> 00:51:14,409
that have to do with
what's going on in the wider world.
769
00:51:14,410 --> 00:51:16,888
We've never shied away
from social commentary.
770
00:51:16,889 --> 00:51:19,248
We think it's part of a
rich tradition that dates all
771
00:51:19,249 --> 00:51:21,048
the way back
to medieval times.
772
00:51:21,049 --> 00:51:23,728
And so
we still engage in it.
773
00:51:24,727 --> 00:51:28,446
No more walks
in the wood
774
00:51:29,405 --> 00:51:33,245
The trees
have all been cut down
775
00:51:34,763 --> 00:51:37,922
And where once
they stood
776
00:51:39,081 --> 00:51:45,059
Not even a wagon rut
appears along the path...
777
00:51:46,000 --> 00:51:49,717
The writings and the ideas
of Henry David Thoreau
778
00:51:49,718 --> 00:51:52,594
and Ralph Waldo Emerson
had a huge impact on me.
779
00:51:52,595 --> 00:51:55,593
They got me through some
very difficult times in my life,
780
00:51:55,594 --> 00:51:58,754
one being when my father
was stricken with heart disease,
781
00:51:58,755 --> 00:52:02,591
and provided a lot of
spiritual support for me.
782
00:52:02,592 --> 00:52:06,189
When I found out in 1980 that
part of Walden was going to be
783
00:52:06,190 --> 00:52:07,951
destroyed by
commercial development,
784
00:52:07,952 --> 00:52:11,827
I decided that was something
I needed to help fight.
785
00:52:11,828 --> 00:52:15,187
So I ended up founding
the Walden Woods Project.
786
00:52:15,188 --> 00:52:18,944
And we are in our 27th year now,
and we've accomplished a great deal.
787
00:52:18,945 --> 00:52:22,745
It's been one of the most rewarding
things that I've ever done.
788
00:52:22,746 --> 00:52:27,023
We and the trees
and the way
789
00:52:27,602 --> 00:52:31,840
Back from
the fields of play...
790
00:52:32,940 --> 00:52:35,816
The lyrics to that song
were originally a poem
791
00:52:35,817 --> 00:52:38,978
written by a great American
poet named John Hollander.
792
00:52:38,979 --> 00:52:42,956
No more walks
in the wood.
793
00:52:55,330 --> 00:52:58,649
Don had this title,
Long Road Out of Eden.
794
00:52:58,650 --> 00:53:01,486
Timothy goes over, and
he picks up an acoustic guitar.
795
00:53:01,487 --> 00:53:04,884
And I go over to the keyboards
and Joe grabs a guitar
796
00:53:04,885 --> 00:53:06,446
and Don goes on the drums.
797
00:53:06,447 --> 00:53:10,604
And we start making up
this sort of musical story called
798
00:53:10,605 --> 00:53:15,503
Long Road Out of Eden,
a story of, really, the war in Iraq.
799
00:53:16,203 --> 00:53:20,040
Moon shining
down through the palms
800
00:53:20,560 --> 00:53:25,198
Shadows moving
on the sand...
801
00:53:25,199 --> 00:53:28,076
And it was, like,
the last resort.
802
00:53:28,077 --> 00:53:31,914
It was another opus,
another David Lean movie.
803
00:53:31,915 --> 00:53:39,173
And it's a long road
out of Eden.
804
00:53:40,073 --> 00:53:41,909
We finally got through,
805
00:53:41,910 --> 00:53:44,389
and we finally made
Long Road Out of Eden.
806
00:53:44,390 --> 00:53:46,390
And we didn't give it
to a record company.
807
00:53:46,391 --> 00:53:48,627
We made a deal
with Walmart.
808
00:53:48,628 --> 00:53:52,786
This was the first major artist
to do a direct-to-retail release
809
00:53:52,787 --> 00:53:55,064
and bypass the major
record companies.
810
00:53:55,065 --> 00:53:56,744
It was phenomenally
successful.
811
00:53:56,745 --> 00:53:58,423
The album
entered at number 1.
812
00:53:58,424 --> 00:54:02,261
It gave, I think, the whole industry
hope that it could find a new
813
00:54:02,262 --> 00:54:03,861
and different way
to reach its fans.
814
00:54:03,862 --> 00:54:05,900
They're becoming
a much greener company,
815
00:54:05,901 --> 00:54:07,340
and that
was important to me.
816
00:54:07,341 --> 00:54:10,778
And the other good thing was that
our fans got 20 songs for 12 bucks.
817
00:54:10,779 --> 00:54:14,219
It was basically a double album, and
they weren't charged double for it.
818
00:54:16,938 --> 00:54:20,934
Don said, I got a title for a song:
Busy Being Fabulous".
819
00:54:20,935 --> 00:54:23,415
And I thought,
What a great title.
820
00:54:23,416 --> 00:54:27,613
I came home
to an empty house
821
00:54:28,172 --> 00:54:30,650
And I found
your little note...
822
00:54:30,651 --> 00:54:33,091
And then Don wrote,
Don't wait up for me tonight,
823
00:54:33,092 --> 00:54:34,809
that was all she wrote.
824
00:54:34,810 --> 00:54:37,828
Don't wait up for me
tonight
825
00:54:37,829 --> 00:54:40,328
And that was
all she wrote...
826
00:54:40,329 --> 00:54:41,847
And then we were off
on the story.
827
00:54:41,848 --> 00:54:46,345
You were just too busy
being fabulous
828
00:54:48,205 --> 00:54:51,404
Too busy
to think about us...
829
00:54:53,003 --> 00:54:56,520
Busy Being Fabulous,
Don and Glenn had gotten it
830
00:54:56,521 --> 00:55:00,000
to a certain state, and I came up
with some stuff for the bridge and
831
00:55:00,001 --> 00:55:02,418
tweaked
what already exist.
832
00:55:02,419 --> 00:55:05,476
I was very involved
in the Long Road record.
833
00:55:05,477 --> 00:55:08,035
I've always been a lot happier
getting into the entire project,
834
00:55:08,036 --> 00:55:11,635
arranging stuff, producing
the stuff, co-writing the stuff.
835
00:55:11,636 --> 00:55:14,953
Like, Waiting In The Weeds
and Business As Usual
836
00:55:14,954 --> 00:55:16,953
were co-writes with Don.
837
00:55:16,954 --> 00:55:22,710
Getting Steuart Smith in the band
was a real shot in the arm.
838
00:55:22,711 --> 00:55:25,200
He's such
a terrific musician.
839
00:55:30,689 --> 00:55:32,306
It's a great solo.
840
00:55:32,307 --> 00:55:35,826
It's like stepping into
a space suit.
841
00:55:36,107 --> 00:55:39,583
It is strange
to be playing that song.
842
00:55:39,584 --> 00:55:43,379
The reaction is terrific, and
you bask in that excitement.
843
00:55:43,380 --> 00:55:45,762
But I didn't write it.
844
00:55:51,140 --> 00:55:54,219
I'm one part hired gun, but
also one part collaborator.
845
00:55:54,220 --> 00:55:58,977
I'm one of the guitar players.
But I'm not an Eagle.
846
00:55:59,376 --> 00:56:02,375
I don't know what it's like
to be one of those guys.
847
00:56:02,376 --> 00:56:03,733
3, 4!
848
00:56:05,773 --> 00:56:08,013
My kids were looking
on the Internet,
849
00:56:08,014 --> 00:56:12,810
and they found this show
that the Eagles had done in 1974.
850
00:56:17,329 --> 00:56:21,127
I was in my office watching TV,
and my kids come in and say,
851
00:56:21,128 --> 00:56:22,606
Hey, Dad, come here.
852
00:56:22,607 --> 00:56:24,684
You got to take a look
at your hair.
853
00:56:24,685 --> 00:56:26,604
And one of the songs
was How Long.
854
00:56:26,605 --> 00:56:29,882
But if I never see
the good old days
855
00:56:29,883 --> 00:56:32,683
Shining in the sun
856
00:56:33,922 --> 00:56:37,082
I'll be doing fine
and then some
857
00:56:39,959 --> 00:56:42,577
Tell me how long...
858
00:56:42,578 --> 00:56:46,396
How Long was
from my first solo album.
859
00:56:46,397 --> 00:56:48,917
They found that cos Cindy saw it
on YouTube and said,
860
00:56:48,918 --> 00:56:50,074
Glenn, what's this?.
861
00:56:50,075 --> 00:56:51,952
And he said,
It's a song of JD's.
862
00:56:51,953 --> 00:56:54,434
She said,
You didn't cut it, did you?.
863
00:56:54,435 --> 00:56:58,352
How long, how long
rock yourself to sleep
864
00:57:05,869 --> 00:57:10,008
JD wanted it on his solo album,
so we never recorded it.
865
00:57:10,009 --> 00:57:13,864
My wife said, "Hey, that sounds
like a hit Eagles song".
866
00:57:13,865 --> 00:57:18,404
Everybody feels all right you know
I heard some poor fool say
867
00:57:18,405 --> 00:57:20,702
Somebody
868
00:57:20,703 --> 00:57:24,742
Everyone is out there
on the loose
869
00:57:24,981 --> 00:57:32,519
Well, I wish I lived in the land
of fools, and no one knew my name
870
00:57:33,657 --> 00:57:38,177
But what you get is not
quite what you choose
871
00:57:40,016 --> 00:57:43,733
Tell me, how long,
how long
872
00:57:43,734 --> 00:57:46,331
Woman will you weep?
873
00:57:46,332 --> 00:57:47,973
They are
the American band.
874
00:57:47,974 --> 00:57:51,890
Yeah, they pretty much
encompassed the '70s, didn't they?
875
00:57:51,891 --> 00:57:53,448
And took it all in.
876
00:57:53,449 --> 00:57:56,608
That's a long time to
still have a musical impact,
877
00:57:56,609 --> 00:58:01,166
and it's due to this
incredibly crisp, tight,
878
00:58:01,167 --> 00:58:05,522
extraordinarily good record-making
band and the presence of good songs.
879
00:58:05,523 --> 00:58:08,122
But it's also now taken
on this other thing, too,
880
00:58:08,123 --> 00:58:11,520
where it's everybody through
the band wants to remember a
881
00:58:11,521 --> 00:58:14,081
'70s that they may
or may not have had.
882
00:58:14,082 --> 00:58:17,919
Good night, baby
rock yourself to sleep
883
00:58:17,920 --> 00:58:21,358
Sleep tight, baby rock
yourself to sleep
884
00:58:21,359 --> 00:58:27,037
Bye-bye, baby rock
yourself to sleep.
885
00:58:39,351 --> 00:58:42,429
This band could go play
stadiums all over the country,
886
00:58:42,430 --> 00:58:45,929
and people know
these songs so intimately.
887
00:58:51,526 --> 00:58:55,625
They last.
The songs last.
888
00:58:56,504 --> 00:58:59,262
I have one small plaque
on my wall.
889
00:58:59,263 --> 00:59:03,223
It says, "Presented to the Eagles
to commemorate the best-selling
890
00:59:03,224 --> 00:59:05,901
album of the 20th century,
891
00:59:05,902 --> 00:59:08,298
with sales in excess
of 26 million units".
892
00:59:08,299 --> 00:59:12,339
That century's gone, so
nobody's going to top that.
893
00:59:14,776 --> 00:59:17,214
What's it like to be
an Eagle now?
894
00:59:17,215 --> 00:59:20,095
It's just part of my life.
I do normal things.
895
00:59:20,096 --> 00:59:24,772
I go to the market, and once in a
while, somebody comes up to me.
896
00:59:24,773 --> 00:59:26,932
I don't walk around
being an Eagle.
897
00:59:26,933 --> 00:59:29,890
I'm an Eagle when
it's time for me to be.
898
00:59:29,891 --> 00:59:33,729
I made sure the dishes were done
before you guys came today.
899
00:59:33,730 --> 00:59:35,689
You know?
900
00:59:52,002 --> 00:59:54,359
He was a
hard-headed man
901
00:59:54,360 --> 00:59:57,679
And he was
brutally handsome
902
00:59:57,680 --> 01:00:00,000
She was
terminally pretty
903
01:00:00,879 --> 01:00:05,275
She held him up and
he held her for ransom
904
01:00:05,276 --> 01:00:09,036
In the heart of the cold,
cold city
905
01:00:10,274 --> 01:00:14,032
He had a nasty reputation
as a cruel dude
906
01:00:14,033 --> 01:00:18,389
They said he was ruthless,
they said he was crude
907
01:00:18,390 --> 01:00:22,149
They had one thing in common
they were good in bed
908
01:00:22,150 --> 01:00:27,066
She'd say, Faster, faster,
the lights are turnin' red
909
01:00:27,067 --> 01:00:29,506
Life in the fast lane
910
01:00:29,507 --> 01:00:32,145
Surely make you lose
your mind
911
01:00:32,146 --> 01:00:34,144
Life in the fast lane...
912
01:00:34,464 --> 01:00:38,383
I love everybody
in the band like a brother.
913
01:00:38,384 --> 01:00:43,480
To be part of a real band -
914
01:00:43,581 --> 01:00:45,458
a REAL band -
915
01:00:45,459 --> 01:00:50,778
is something that not all
musicians get to do in their life.
916
01:00:52,137 --> 01:00:57,696
And I'm real lucky to have
that chapter in my book.
917
01:01:04,013 --> 01:01:09,371
Rock'n'roll saved my life.
It changed my life tremendously.
918
01:01:09,870 --> 01:01:14,727
And as Mick Jagger so
famously and eloquently said,
919
01:01:14,728 --> 01:01:17,766
It's only rock'n'roll,
but I like it.
920
01:01:17,767 --> 01:01:20,204
I think that one of the reasons
that Glenn and I
921
01:01:20,205 --> 01:01:23,003
wanted to write songs is
because rock'n'roll music got us
922
01:01:23,004 --> 01:01:27,122
through junior high and through
high school and those difficult
923
01:01:27,123 --> 01:01:29,281
times when you're searching
for your identity
924
01:01:29,282 --> 01:01:31,081
and wondering
who the heck you are,
925
01:01:31,082 --> 01:01:33,760
trying to get girls to notice you,
and wondering why
926
01:01:33,761 --> 01:01:36,759
the football players are
doing so much better than you are.
927
01:01:37,040 --> 01:01:41,918
At the end of the day, it was
and still is about the music.
928
01:01:42,876 --> 01:01:47,354
You know, I've always
been a dreamer...
929
01:01:47,355 --> 01:01:50,472
I regret that I didn't handle
some of the adversity
930
01:01:50,473 --> 01:01:53,354
that the Eagles faced
in the late '70s better.
931
01:01:53,355 --> 01:01:54,792
Fortunately, for me,
932
01:01:54,793 --> 01:01:58,709
I've had another chance to be
the leader of the Eagles, another
933
01:01:58,710 --> 01:02:04,228
chance to be Don's partner and do
this work again and play this music.
934
01:02:04,229 --> 01:02:08,305
And in this second run, I think
I've done a pretty good job
935
01:02:08,306 --> 01:02:14,343
of keeping the peace and keep the
band together, keep everybody happy.
936
01:02:14,344 --> 01:02:16,463
So here we are.
937
01:02:17,003 --> 01:02:18,541
Still doing it.
938
01:02:18,542 --> 01:02:23,620
You gotta take it
to the limit
939
01:02:23,621 --> 01:02:27,679
One more time.
940
01:02:35,455 --> 01:02:37,414
Thank you.
941
01:02:42,532 --> 01:02:45,011
That's it! That's it!
942
01:02:46,491 --> 01:02:48,011
Bye-bye.
943
01:02:50,371 --> 01:02:51,968
We wanted longevity.
944
01:02:51,969 --> 01:02:55,108
It wasn't a hobby for us.
It wasn't a game.
945
01:02:55,109 --> 01:02:58,825
It wasn't a pleasant diversion.
It was a life.
946
01:02:58,826 --> 01:03:01,026
It was a calling.
It was a career.
947
01:03:01,027 --> 01:03:03,524
It was worth it.
948
01:03:06,523 --> 01:03:09,281
We went to China
last year.
949
01:03:09,282 --> 01:03:13,200
We're still breaking
new ground 40 years later.
950
01:03:13,561 --> 01:03:15,358
Back in the late '70s,
951
01:03:15,359 --> 01:03:18,198
Neil Young sang a song about
the emerging punk ethic.
952
01:03:18,199 --> 01:03:20,236
And the pivotal line
in that song was,
953
01:03:20,237 --> 01:03:22,795
It's better to burn out
than it is to rust.
954
01:03:22,796 --> 01:03:24,834
And I'm not sure
that even Neil himself
955
01:03:24,835 --> 01:03:28,194
subscribed to that sentiment, but
I don't see rust as a bad thing.
956
01:03:28,195 --> 01:03:33,431
I have an old 1962 John Deere
tractor that's covered with rust,
957
01:03:33,432 --> 01:03:35,269
but it runs like a top.
958
01:03:35,270 --> 01:03:38,350
The inner workings
are just fine.
959
01:03:38,351 --> 01:03:42,149
You better
let somebody love you
960
01:03:42,448 --> 01:03:45,786
Let somebody love you
961
01:03:45,787 --> 01:03:51,944
You better
let somebody love...
962
01:03:51,945 --> 01:03:55,903
To me, that rust symbolises
all the miles driven
963
01:03:55,904 --> 01:04:01,021
and all the good work done and
all the experiences gained.
964
01:04:01,580 --> 01:04:06,619
Before it's too
965
01:04:08,377 --> 01:04:12,895
late.
966
01:04:20,573 --> 01:04:24,290
From where I sit,
the rust looks pretty good.
967
01:05:02,756 --> 01:05:06,312
When somebody is around 40 years,
it means they've got something,
968
01:05:06,313 --> 01:05:08,631
something that people want.
And the Eagles have that.
969
01:05:08,632 --> 01:05:11,432
To me, the Eagles
really expressed a mood.
970
01:05:11,433 --> 01:05:13,510
California was
the place of dreams.
971
01:05:13,511 --> 01:05:16,109
It was a time of
limitless possibilities.
972
01:05:16,110 --> 01:05:19,869
I think they were a defining
moment in the rock'n'roll world
973
01:05:19,870 --> 01:05:21,388
that I love.
974
01:05:21,389 --> 01:05:25,545
You couldn't really love the
Eagles music and be an Eagles fan
975
01:05:25,546 --> 01:05:28,904
and actually know them and not
aspire to greatness yourself.
976
01:05:28,905 --> 01:05:32,345
I'm not really into legacies. People
talk to me, What's your legacy?.
977
01:05:32,346 --> 01:05:34,222
I'm here now.
978
01:05:34,223 --> 01:05:38,420
I'm doing what I want to do, and
I'm trying to make stuff happen.
979
01:05:38,421 --> 01:05:40,541
I see the Eagles
in the same way.
980
01:05:40,542 --> 01:05:43,019
They're not in the '70s.
981
01:05:43,020 --> 01:05:45,178
They're in
2012 and 2013.
982
01:05:45,179 --> 01:05:47,537
And whatever
they're doing now artistically,
983
01:05:47,538 --> 01:05:49,217
that's what's important.
984
01:05:49,218 --> 01:05:53,734
In the long run
In the long run
985
01:05:53,735 --> 01:06:00,892
We can handle some resistance
If our love is a strong one
986
01:06:00,893 --> 01:06:03,290
Is a strong one
987
01:06:03,291 --> 01:06:07,890
People talkin' about us
they got nothin' else to do
988
01:06:07,891 --> 01:06:12,487
When it all comes down
we will still come through
989
01:06:12,488 --> 01:06:17,926
In the long run
Ooh, I want to tell you
990
01:06:17,927 --> 01:06:20,445
It's a long run
991
01:06:22,364 --> 01:06:27,201
You know I don't understand why
you don't treat yourself better
992
01:06:27,202 --> 01:06:31,400
Do the crazy things
that you do
993
01:06:32,320 --> 01:06:34,799
Cos all the debutantes...
1501
01:31:42,949 --> 01:31:46,430
and they started to customise
their writing to fit in with it.
1502
01:31:48,109 --> 01:31:54,988
...Day by day
It's only fair to wait...
1503
01:31:54,989 --> 01:31:57,268
I think that the Eagles
started breaking up
1504
01:31:57,269 --> 01:31:59,909
during the recording
of Hotel California.
1505
01:31:59,910 --> 01:32:04,428
There were creative tensions, but
there was always tension tensions.
1506
01:32:04,429 --> 01:32:07,107
By the time we got to
recording Hotel California,
1507
01:32:07,108 --> 01:32:10,028
if the song wasn't good enough
to survive the amount of time
1508
01:32:10,029 --> 01:32:12,549
we were working on the record,
it didn't make it on the record.
1509
01:32:12,550 --> 01:32:15,108
Perfection is not
an accident.
1510
01:32:15,109 --> 01:32:17,107
'Our goal was just to be
the best we could be.
1511
01:32:17,108 --> 01:32:19,028
'We wanted to get better
as songwriters'
1512
01:32:19,029 --> 01:32:21,828
and as performers,
and we worked on it.
1513
01:32:23,828 --> 01:32:28,187
Don and I felt like there was
no space now for filler, and
1514
01:32:28,188 --> 01:32:33,029
Don Felder, for all of his talents
as a guitar player, is not a singer.
1515
01:32:34,987 --> 01:32:38,905
Felder wanted to write more, sing
more, and Felder had kind of
1516
01:32:38,906 --> 01:32:42,867
demanded that, I'm going to sing
two songs on Hotel California.
1517
01:32:48,907 --> 01:32:51,427
We were all alphas,
1518
01:32:51,428 --> 01:32:56,587
and we were all very assertive
and powerful in our own way.
1519
01:32:56,588 --> 01:33:01,227
You could bring in a great track
to Don and Glenn
1520
01:33:01,228 --> 01:33:03,706
and be really excited
about it.
1521
01:33:03,707 --> 01:33:05,147
This happened to Felder.
1522
01:33:09,746 --> 01:33:12,307
I wrote the track for
Victim Of Love.
1523
01:33:12,308 --> 01:33:16,227
It was going to be a follow-up song
on the Hotel California
1524
01:33:16,228 --> 01:33:18,666
record for me to sing.
1525
01:33:18,667 --> 01:33:21,386
...Victim of love...
1526
01:33:21,387 --> 01:33:24,704
I have no recollection of anybody
being promised anything.
1527
01:33:24,705 --> 01:33:28,305
Victim Of Love was not brought
to the band as a complete song.
1528
01:33:28,306 --> 01:33:31,867
It was simply another chord progression
that Don Felder brought in.
1529
01:33:31,868 --> 01:33:35,305
It had no title, no lyrics,
and no melody.
1530
01:33:35,306 --> 01:33:37,586
Glenn and I and
JD Souther
1531
01:33:37,587 --> 01:33:40,904
all sat down and
hammered out the rest of it.
1532
01:33:40,905 --> 01:33:42,385
We did let
Mr Felder sing it.
1533
01:33:42,386 --> 01:33:45,985
He sang it dozens of times over
the span of a week, over and over
1534
01:33:45,986 --> 01:33:47,065
and over again.
1535
01:33:47,066 --> 01:33:49,345
It simply didn't come up
to band standards.
1536
01:33:51,745 --> 01:33:55,463
Victim Of Love had been recorded
with Felder as the lead vocalist,
1537
01:33:55,464 --> 01:33:58,823
and my job was to take
Don Felder out to lunch or dinner
1538
01:33:58,824 --> 01:34:02,105
while they went in the studio
and put Henley's vocal on it.
1539
01:34:02,106 --> 01:34:05,785
...What kind of love
have you got?
1540
01:34:07,945 --> 01:34:12,784
Irving took me out and said
that everybody in the band
1541
01:34:12,785 --> 01:34:15,303
thought that it was better
if Don sang that.
1542
01:34:15,304 --> 01:34:18,025
And it was a little bit
of a bitter pill to swallow.
1543
01:34:18,026 --> 01:34:21,383
I felt like Don was taking
that song from me.
1544
01:34:21,384 --> 01:34:24,703
I'd been promised a song
on the next record.
1545
01:34:24,704 --> 01:34:28,062
But there was no real way
to argue with my vocal versus
1546
01:34:28,063 --> 01:34:29,302
Don Henley's vocal.
1547
01:34:29,303 --> 01:34:32,222
There was no way to argue with
anybody's vocal in the band
1548
01:34:32,223 --> 01:34:34,425
compared to Don Henley.
1549
01:34:40,824 --> 01:34:44,263
Felder demanding to sing that song
would be the equivalent of me
1550
01:34:44,264 --> 01:34:47,102
demanding to play lead guitar
on Hotel California.
1551
01:34:47,103 --> 01:34:49,324
It just
didn't make sense.
1552
01:34:52,823 --> 01:34:56,123
If you look at my vocal
participation in the Eagles
1553
01:34:56,124 --> 01:35:00,000
over the course of
the 1970s, I sang
1554
01:35:00,001 --> 01:35:01,582
less and less.
1555
01:35:01,583 --> 01:35:04,624
It was intentional.
We had Don Henley.
1556
01:35:09,703 --> 01:35:17,502
Don and Glenn's position was,
This is the best thing for the Eagles.
1557
01:35:17,503 --> 01:35:19,662
And Don Felder
never forgot that.
1558
01:35:20,784 --> 01:35:25,863
...What kind of love
have you got?
1559
01:35:32,062 --> 01:35:34,380
Get it! Get it!
Run! Run! Run!
1560
01:35:34,381 --> 01:35:36,103
Shit!
1561
01:35:37,742 --> 01:35:39,342
This is a real healthy thing.
1562
01:35:39,343 --> 01:35:43,620
It promotes good feelings,
among... the guys,
1563
01:35:43,621 --> 01:35:46,580
and it keeps us from
killing each other.
1564
01:35:46,581 --> 01:35:49,100
Where's my glove?
Who's got my glove?
1565
01:35:49,101 --> 01:35:51,020
If we can yell at each other
on a baseball field,
1566
01:35:51,021 --> 01:35:54,699
then we don't have to yell at
each other when we're working.
1567
01:35:54,700 --> 01:35:58,220
- Get all my frustrations out.
- What frustrations?
1568
01:35:58,221 --> 01:35:59,779
I haven't been
getting laid.
1569
01:35:59,780 --> 01:36:04,101
We try to get out and play softball
with the crew if we have a day off.
1570
01:36:04,102 --> 01:36:08,380
- Swing, batter!
- Oh, it's gone, it's gone. It's gone.
1571
01:36:08,381 --> 01:36:11,301
Something to help
release the tension.
1572
01:36:11,302 --> 01:36:14,498
That's really what I do
to keep from going crazy.
1573
01:36:14,499 --> 01:36:16,622
How do you keep from
going crazy, Joe?
1574
01:36:18,821 --> 01:36:20,581
Well...
1575
01:36:24,221 --> 01:36:25,740
I tell you, I just...
1576
01:36:27,701 --> 01:36:32,059
In the press and the media,
it was presented that we were
1577
01:36:32,060 --> 01:36:37,700
constantly at war, and I can't say
that's exactly the case.
1578
01:36:42,060 --> 01:36:47,138
We were interacting and
we were all intense.
1579
01:36:47,019 --> 01:36:48,939
Glenn said to me one time,
1580
01:36:48,940 --> 01:36:53,418
I get nuts sometimes
and I'm sorry.
1581
01:36:53,419 --> 01:36:54,778
Hey, Joe.
1582
01:36:54,779 --> 01:36:58,858
But that tension
had a lot to do with
1583
01:36:58,859 --> 01:37:01,499
fanning the artistic fire.
1584
01:37:02,940 --> 01:37:09,059
Having that dynamic was
important in making the music.
1585
01:37:11,059 --> 01:37:14,298
We're rehearsing now,
and before we're even playing
1586
01:37:14,299 --> 01:37:16,937
and guys are just noodling around
and getting their amps going
1587
01:37:16,738 --> 01:37:17,979
and stuff,
we hear Joe go...
1588
01:37:21,738 --> 01:37:23,738
Do-do-do-do-do.
1589
01:37:23,739 --> 01:37:27,418
And everyone would kind of go,
What did you play?
1590
01:37:27,419 --> 01:37:29,018
Play that again.
1591
01:37:29,019 --> 01:37:33,456
That was an exercise I was doing
because it's a coordination thing.
1592
01:37:33,457 --> 01:37:35,659
It's like one of
these deals.
1593
01:37:36,777 --> 01:37:40,578
So, I was doing that to warm up,
and they said, "What is that?".
1594
01:37:40,579 --> 01:37:44,538
And I said, That's just
something I have, you know?.
1595
01:37:45,658 --> 01:37:46,936
There you go.
1596
01:37:46,937 --> 01:37:48,496
That's the lick.
1597
01:37:48,497 --> 01:37:51,058
That's what we should
build the song around.
1598
01:37:57,897 --> 01:38:01,775
I was riding shotgun in a Corvette
with a drug dealer on the way
1599
01:38:01,776 --> 01:38:03,577
to a poker game,
and the next thing I knew,
1600
01:38:03,578 --> 01:38:07,495
we were going about 90 miles
an hour, holding big time.
1601
01:38:07,496 --> 01:38:10,216
I was like, Hey, man.
What are you doing?.
1602
01:38:10,217 --> 01:38:12,615
And he looked at me,
and he grinned.
1603
01:38:12,616 --> 01:38:14,617
He goes,
Life in the fast lane.
1604
01:38:16,616 --> 01:38:20,256
And I thought, immediately,
Now, there's a song title.
1605
01:38:20,257 --> 01:38:25,536
Life in the fast lane
Surely make you lose your mind
1606
01:38:25,537 --> 01:38:27,497
Life in the fast lane...
1607
01:38:32,056 --> 01:38:33,854
Then they put out
the greatest hits.
1608
01:38:33,855 --> 01:38:36,576
There was a period
where we sold a million records
1609
01:38:36,577 --> 01:38:38,455
a month for 18 months.
1610
01:38:38,456 --> 01:38:42,336
It's a little-known fact that
the Eagles had the biggest-selling
1611
01:38:42,337 --> 01:38:45,415
album of the 20th century.
1612
01:38:45,416 --> 01:38:51,935
But the music business never ever
got honest of its own volition.
1613
01:38:51,936 --> 01:38:54,613
No record company ever
went to an artist and said,
1614
01:38:54,614 --> 01:38:55,893
You've done a great job.
1615
01:38:55,894 --> 01:38:58,255
We're going to increase
your royalties.
1616
01:38:58,256 --> 01:39:01,375
So we created
our own promotion company.
1617
01:39:01,376 --> 01:39:03,853
We created our own
management company.
1618
01:39:03,854 --> 01:39:05,735
We had our own
booking agency.
1619
01:39:05,736 --> 01:39:07,254
Stop any time.
1620
01:39:08,694 --> 01:39:11,895
Take it to the limit...
1621
01:39:13,695 --> 01:39:20,853
We achieved an amount of success
beyond our wildest imagination,
1622
01:39:20,854 --> 01:39:24,374
and Randy really
had trouble with it.
1623
01:39:26,134 --> 01:39:30,134
Randy used to have trouble singing the high
note at the end of Take It To The Limit.
1624
01:39:30,135 --> 01:39:34,413
...Come on
and take it to the limit
1625
01:39:34,414 --> 01:39:36,534
One more time
1626
01:39:38,814 --> 01:39:41,372
Take it to the limit...
1627
01:39:41,373 --> 01:39:44,732
Oh, yeah, I was always
kind of scared, basically.
1628
01:39:44,733 --> 01:39:47,773
What if I don't hit it right?.
It was a pretty high note.
1629
01:39:53,694 --> 01:39:58,373
And in the middle of the fade, you
crank the volume knob and go, What?!
1630
01:39:58,374 --> 01:40:00,000
Randy could do it,
1631
01:40:00,001 --> 01:40:06,374
but if you made him do it,
Oh, no, man, I...
1632
01:40:06,773 --> 01:40:13,212
...One more time.
1633
01:40:13,213 --> 01:40:16,013
- Thank you.
- Randy Meisner.
1634
01:40:17,292 --> 01:40:19,011
He'd call the
road manager and say,
1635
01:40:19,012 --> 01:40:21,370
Tell Glenn I don't want to do
Take It To The Limit any more.
1636
01:40:21,371 --> 01:40:24,010
Take it out of the set.
I confronted him about this.
1637
01:40:24,011 --> 01:40:25,210
I called him up,
and I said,
1638
01:40:25,211 --> 01:40:29,410
Randy, there's thousands of people
waiting to hear you sing that song.
1639
01:40:29,411 --> 01:40:32,090
You just can't say, 'Fuck them.
I don't feel like it.'.
1640
01:40:32,091 --> 01:40:33,769
Do you think I like
singing Take It Easy
1641
01:40:33,770 --> 01:40:35,610
and Peaceful Easy Feeling
every night?
1642
01:40:35,611 --> 01:40:36,930
I'm tired of those songs,
1643
01:40:36,931 --> 01:40:39,852
but there's people in the
audience who've been waiting
1644
01:40:39,853 --> 01:40:42,891
years to see us do
those songs.
1645
01:40:42,892 --> 01:40:46,932
We just got fed up with that and
just said, OK, don't sing it.
1646
01:40:46,933 --> 01:40:51,650
Why don't you just quit? You
say you are unhappy, quit.
1647
01:40:51,651 --> 01:40:56,412
Randy never knew how great
he was. He wasn't alpha.
1648
01:40:58,171 --> 01:41:02,131
Confrontations
were really hard for him.
1649
01:41:02,132 --> 01:41:05,649
All I want to see is 5 guys happy
playing together,
1650
01:41:05,650 --> 01:41:07,091
and that's what
makes the music.
1651
01:41:12,330 --> 01:41:14,728
We were backstage and
the crowd was going wild.
1652
01:41:14,729 --> 01:41:17,689
And our encore number was
Take It To The Limit.
1653
01:41:17,690 --> 01:41:21,168
People loved that song, they went crazy
when Randy hit those high notes.
1654
01:41:21,169 --> 01:41:23,128
But Randy didn't want to do
the song that night.
1655
01:41:23,129 --> 01:41:25,769
He'd been up partying all night
with a couple of girls
1656
01:41:25,770 --> 01:41:28,809
and a bottle of vodka, and Glenn
kept trying to talk him into it.
1657
01:41:28,810 --> 01:41:32,009
He said, Man, the people want to
hear that song. You've got to do it.
1658
01:41:32,010 --> 01:41:34,129
And Randy
kept saying no.
1659
01:41:34,130 --> 01:41:36,848
So after about the third or fourth
time that Randy refused, Glenn
1660
01:41:36,849 --> 01:41:39,650
just backed up a couple of steps
and said, Fuck you then!.
1661
01:41:41,770 --> 01:41:45,407
There were police officers standing
backstage and when they saw us
1662
01:41:45,408 --> 01:41:47,889
about to go at it,
they started to move in
1663
01:41:47,890 --> 01:41:52,488
and Henley turned right to the cops
and said, Stay out of this!
1664
01:41:52,489 --> 01:41:56,290
This is personal and it is
private, real fucking private!.
1665
01:41:58,170 --> 01:42:01,288
The writing was on the wall
and Randy was going to leave.
1666
01:42:05,248 --> 01:42:09,727
There was only one person to ever
replace Randy Meisner in the Eagles
1667
01:42:09,728 --> 01:42:12,329
and in my mind it was
Timothy B Schmit.
1668
01:42:14,288 --> 01:42:19,609
He replaced him in Poco, and
plugged in and sang the same parts.
1669
01:42:21,288 --> 01:42:24,366
And I remember sitting with Irving
and saying, Irving, I think
1670
01:42:24,367 --> 01:42:28,606
we should get Timothy Schmit.
He said, I just saw Timothy.
1671
01:42:28,607 --> 01:42:31,365
I was out on the road when the
guys in Poco were in the hotel bar
1672
01:42:31,366 --> 01:42:34,967
and Timothy was smashed out
of his mind, he was jacked up.
1673
01:42:34,968 --> 01:42:36,727
You sure about this?.
1674
01:42:36,728 --> 01:42:39,886
I said, Irving, if you had
been in a band for 11 years
1675
01:42:39,887 --> 01:42:43,686
and you were still making 250
a week working 40 weeks a year,
1676
01:42:43,687 --> 01:42:46,646
maybe you would be a little
smashed up yourself.
1677
01:42:46,647 --> 01:42:51,566
They asked me to join their band
before I had even played
1678
01:42:51,567 --> 01:42:53,486
a note of music
with them.
1679
01:42:53,487 --> 01:42:56,446
I just said, Where do you
want me? When?
1680
01:42:56,447 --> 01:42:58,607
I am definitely in.
1681
01:42:58,608 --> 01:43:02,045
We want to introduce you to
the newest member of our band.
1682
01:43:02,046 --> 01:43:06,005
He is our new bass player and we
got him from a really fine band, Poco.
1683
01:43:06,006 --> 01:43:09,485
Please give a nice Houston, Texas
welcome to Timothy Schmidt.
1684
01:43:14,287 --> 01:43:17,566
I went on the road with them
in 1978 as the new guy.
1685
01:43:17,567 --> 01:43:22,326
...Your smile
is a thin disguise...
1686
01:43:24,087 --> 01:43:27,925
And I heard a few, Where is
Randy? from the audience.
1687
01:43:27,926 --> 01:43:31,086
But I knew it was a good move
for them and me.
1688
01:43:37,046 --> 01:43:42,005
There were a lot of decisions
business-wise that needed to be made
1689
01:43:42,006 --> 01:43:46,643
in a secret session, Glenn and Don
and Irving in the back of the plane.
1690
01:43:46,644 --> 01:43:48,805
I didn't like that
I wasn't part of that,
1691
01:43:48,806 --> 01:43:53,844
but I knew that it was good
for the Eagles.
1692
01:43:53,845 --> 01:43:57,644
Don Felder
REALLY did not like it.
1693
01:43:59,004 --> 01:44:01,842
Glenn and I saw ourselves
as the leaders of the band
1694
01:44:01,843 --> 01:44:04,005
but other people saw us
dictators.
1695
01:44:04,006 --> 01:44:08,763
You just cannot have 5e leaders
in a band. It does not work.
1696
01:44:08,764 --> 01:44:11,444
People have to do
what they do best.
1697
01:44:11,445 --> 01:44:17,004
There is all this undercurrent
and resentment and plotting
1698
01:44:17,005 --> 01:44:22,284
and complaining and I'm sure Timothy
thought, "What have I got myself into?".
1699
01:44:22,285 --> 01:44:26,122
I was just really happy to be there
and all these tensions, it is
1700
01:44:26,123 --> 01:44:29,642
not that I did not feel it, but
I had no idea how deep it was.
1701
01:44:29,643 --> 01:44:33,402
In my experience, all rock 'n'
roll bands are on the verge of
1702
01:44:33,403 --> 01:44:35,044
breaking up at all times.
1703
01:44:37,524 --> 01:44:40,922
The band at that point had begun
to split up into factions.
1704
01:44:40,923 --> 01:44:44,961
Don Felder, in an effort to gain more
control, had co-opted Joe Walsh,
1705
01:44:44,962 --> 01:44:49,281
so much of the time it was Felder
and Walsh against me and Glenn.
1706
01:44:49,282 --> 01:44:52,961
And at that point, even Glenn and I
were beginning to have our differences.
1707
01:44:52,962 --> 01:44:55,483
It was tearing
the band apart.
1708
01:44:56,404 --> 01:45:00,000
The magic ingredient that
made the band successful was
1709
01:45:00,001 --> 01:45:01,721
the relationship
between Don and Glenn.
1710
01:45:01,722 --> 01:45:05,601
Through years of touring,
years in the studio, all of that
1711
01:45:05,602 --> 01:45:10,162
friction really started driving a
wedge in between that relationship.
1712
01:45:13,082 --> 01:45:16,082
It reached a point where
we were just tired of each other.
1713
01:45:16,083 --> 01:45:21,681
Tired of the hoopla, tired of touring,
tired of pretty much everything.
1714
01:45:21,682 --> 01:45:25,400
At that point, song-writing
was becoming very difficult.
1715
01:45:25,401 --> 01:45:28,443
How much sleep did you guys get?
When did you get finished loading up?
1716
01:45:28,444 --> 01:45:32,602
- 2 o'clock? / - 5.30.
- 5.30 this morning? / - Yeah.
1717
01:45:32,603 --> 01:45:37,561
After the success of Hotel California
- Grammy winner, mega sales -
1718
01:45:37,562 --> 01:45:42,201
top that, and we show up at the
studio and nobody has one song done.
1719
01:45:46,361 --> 01:45:48,482
I don't know
what we will do first but...
1720
01:45:50,160 --> 01:45:54,600
I had enough of a piece where
they both went "That's great.
1721
01:45:54,601 --> 01:45:57,879
Let's develop that", and I was
really pleased that they wanted to
1722
01:45:57,880 --> 01:46:01,681
develop that one because it
came out more as an R&B song.
1723
01:46:04,401 --> 01:46:06,520
And it is very simple.
1724
01:46:06,521 --> 01:46:11,400
Very simple instrumentation,
very simple arrangement.
1725
01:46:14,800 --> 01:46:17,240
There's a lot of air
in it.
1726
01:46:19,880 --> 01:46:22,240
That's why it works.
1727
01:46:24,000 --> 01:46:29,719
Look at us baby
Up all night
1728
01:46:29,560 --> 01:46:34,000
Tearing our love apart
1729
01:46:35,600 --> 01:46:40,279
Aren't we the same
two people who live...
1730
01:46:40,280 --> 01:46:45,160
About halfway through, Don comes up
to me and says, There's your hit.
1731
01:46:47,160 --> 01:46:53,598
...Every time
I try to walk away
1732
01:46:53,599 --> 01:46:57,077
Something makes me
turn around and stay
1733
01:46:57,078 --> 01:47:02,639
And I can't tell you why...
1734
01:47:04,478 --> 01:47:11,519
We are on top of the world. We are
young. We were overdoing everything.
1735
01:47:19,958 --> 01:47:22,998
There was a lot of chemical
dependency going on within
1736
01:47:22,999 --> 01:47:24,917
the band
and that was rough.
1737
01:47:26,399 --> 01:47:30,196
During all of that time of writing
and recording The Long Run,
1738
01:47:30,197 --> 01:47:32,876
and all the time on the road
that we were on the road doing
1739
01:47:32,877 --> 01:47:35,478
The Long Run,
we were all using cocaine.
1740
01:47:36,758 --> 01:47:40,275
When we first started snorting coke
it was like a writing tool.
1741
01:47:40,276 --> 01:47:43,678
Do a couple of bumps and kind of
get started talking about stuff,
1742
01:47:43,679 --> 01:47:49,036
get yourself going and launch
into some sort of idea for a song.
1743
01:47:49,037 --> 01:47:53,357
But in the end, cocaine brought
out the worst in everybody.
1744
01:47:54,437 --> 01:47:57,757
Yes, this half hour of the show
is brought to you by cocaine,
1745
01:47:57,758 --> 01:47:59,117
the makers of hits.
1746
01:48:02,716 --> 01:48:05,555
...In the long run
1747
01:48:05,556 --> 01:48:09,515
Ooh I want to tell you
it's a long run...
1748
01:48:09,516 --> 01:48:13,794
Making that album was excruciating.
We were just completely burned out.
1749
01:48:13,795 --> 01:48:17,155
We had driven ourselves really
hard for almost a decade
1750
01:48:17,156 --> 01:48:18,716
and we were just fried.
1751
01:48:20,156 --> 01:48:23,394
It was long too. The days
and hours would drag on, it would
1752
01:48:23,395 --> 01:48:26,076
feel like we were not
getting anything done.
1753
01:48:33,316 --> 01:48:35,756
It was more painful than
Hotel California.
1754
01:48:35,757 --> 01:48:37,955
It was more of a
painful birth,
1755
01:48:37,956 --> 01:48:42,115
because all the stuff was going on
and we were getting pretty frazzled.
1756
01:48:44,995 --> 01:48:50,756
And the record company didn't
care if we farted and burped.
1757
01:48:52,874 --> 01:48:56,953
They would put that out.
They didn't care.
1758
01:48:56,954 --> 01:49:01,793
When can we have it?. Because that
was their whole corporate quarter.
1759
01:49:01,794 --> 01:49:04,274
Who can go the distance?
1760
01:49:04,275 --> 01:49:09,034
We will find out
in the long run
1761
01:49:09,035 --> 01:49:11,193
In the long run...
1762
01:49:11,194 --> 01:49:16,033
At that point, we inked in
The Long Run as the title.
1763
01:49:16,034 --> 01:49:21,113
I think Henley said, I know what
to call this one. Look at us.
1764
01:49:21,114 --> 01:49:23,354
...We can handle
some resistance...
1765
01:49:25,435 --> 01:49:27,913
Hold it. Stop.
1766
01:49:27,914 --> 01:49:29,434
That is it.
1767
01:49:31,313 --> 01:49:34,993
Eagles, The Long Run,
song 2, take 1.
1768
01:49:34,994 --> 01:49:38,311
It was a struggle, an endless
start, stop, start, stop.
1769
01:49:38,312 --> 01:49:40,354
We called it
The Long One.
1770
01:49:42,273 --> 01:49:44,511
It was the beginning
of the end.
1771
01:49:44,512 --> 01:49:47,073
Even though I don't think
I saw it right then.
1772
01:49:51,000 --> 01:49:53,431
There were a lot of things
building up
1773
01:49:53,432 --> 01:49:56,193
and a lot of things I tried to
overlook for the good of the band,
1774
01:49:56,194 --> 01:50:00,000
and ultimately I just couldn't
look past some of this any more.
1775
01:50:00,001 --> 01:50:04,273
And it festered because we
didn't talk about these things.
1776
01:50:05,714 --> 01:50:07,752
It finally came to a head
in Long Beach.
1777
01:50:07,753 --> 01:50:11,232
We were doing a benefit for
Senator Alan Cranston.
1778
01:50:11,233 --> 01:50:13,590
He was concerned about a lot
of some of the same issues
1779
01:50:13,591 --> 01:50:16,433
we were concerned about,
including environmental destruction
1780
01:50:16,434 --> 01:50:19,471
and the war, so
we wanted to support him.
1781
01:50:19,472 --> 01:50:21,110
Felder didn't like us
doing benefits,
1782
01:50:21,111 --> 01:50:23,952
he just thought that was money that
should be going into his pocket.
1783
01:50:23,953 --> 01:50:27,871
Why are we doing it for
Jerry Brown or anti-nukes?.
1784
01:50:29,311 --> 01:50:32,991
Are you willing
to sacrifice?
1785
01:50:32,992 --> 01:50:38,190
Alan Cranston and his wife are
coming around to personally thank
1786
01:50:38,191 --> 01:50:40,870
every member of the Eagles
for doing this.
1787
01:50:40,871 --> 01:50:45,269
I was very uninformed
about politics, I couldn't care
1788
01:50:45,270 --> 01:50:49,311
less about politics, I didn't even
know or care who Alan Cranston was.
1789
01:50:50,391 --> 01:50:52,629
Senator Cranston went up
to Felder and said,
1790
01:50:52,630 --> 01:50:55,428
I want to thank you, and Felder
looked at the Senator and said,
1791
01:50:55,429 --> 01:50:59,031
You're welcome, and then as he was
turning away he said, I guess.
1792
01:50:59,032 --> 01:51:00,349
I guess.
1793
01:51:00,350 --> 01:51:03,429
I guess.
And Glenn heard it.
1794
01:51:03,430 --> 01:51:07,110
And I just...
got really mad.
1795
01:51:07,111 --> 01:51:10,308
I was drinking a long-necked Bud
and walked into the tuning room
1796
01:51:10,309 --> 01:51:12,471
while Walsh and Felder was
and took the beer bottle
1797
01:51:12,472 --> 01:51:16,509
and threw it against the wall
and smashed it.
1798
01:51:16,510 --> 01:51:17,950
I stormed out.
1799
01:51:17,951 --> 01:51:24,509
I got more mad and more mad. By the
time we went on stage, I was seething.
1800
01:51:24,510 --> 01:51:26,107
I wanted to kill Felder.
1801
01:51:26,108 --> 01:51:28,629
Thank you again very much
from all the Eagles,
1802
01:51:28,630 --> 01:51:31,869
and for Senator Cranston for coming
out here and checking it out.
1803
01:51:33,269 --> 01:51:34,790
1, 2, 3, 4.
1804
01:51:40,270 --> 01:51:44,388
A lot of tensions
between Glenn and Felder
1805
01:51:44,389 --> 01:51:50,667
and the real manifestation
of it came that night.
1806
01:51:50,668 --> 01:51:56,428
Somebody is going to hurt
someone before the night is through...
1807
01:51:56,429 --> 01:51:58,828
So now we are
playing the show
1808
01:51:58,829 --> 01:52:02,069
and trying to act like everything
is OK and we get through the songs,
1809
01:52:02,070 --> 01:52:07,468
and I just keep looking over at him,
You ungrateful son of a bitch.
1810
01:52:07,469 --> 01:52:10,427
There's going to be
a heartache tonight
1811
01:52:10,428 --> 01:52:13,147
A heartache tonight,
I know...
1812
01:52:14,588 --> 01:52:18,545
Just seeing that, I really saw
how serious it was at that show.
1813
01:52:18,546 --> 01:52:21,387
They were fighting on stage,
Szymczyk has audio of it.
1814
01:52:21,388 --> 01:52:23,906
You are a real pro, Don,
all the way.
1815
01:52:23,907 --> 01:52:27,026
Yeah, you are too, the way you handle
people, except for the people you pay.
1816
01:52:27,027 --> 01:52:28,305
Nobody gives a shit
about it.
1817
01:52:28,306 --> 01:52:31,387
Fuck you, I have been paying you
for 7 years, you fuckhead.
1818
01:52:32,588 --> 01:52:35,146
So it starts getting
towards the end of the set
1819
01:52:35,147 --> 01:52:38,864
and I am looking at him going,
Three more songs, asshole.
1820
01:52:38,865 --> 01:52:41,745
And I am looking at him
and I am ready to go.
1821
01:52:41,746 --> 01:52:44,066
I can't wait to get
my hands on him.
1822
01:52:45,187 --> 01:52:48,907
When we get off the stage,
I am going to kick your ass.
1823
01:52:48,908 --> 01:52:51,427
Fucking kill you.
I can't wait.
1824
01:52:54,027 --> 01:52:58,786
When that kind of stuff is on stage
and you're in front of people,
1825
01:52:58,787 --> 01:53:00,427
you've got problems.
1826
01:53:06,107 --> 01:53:07,266
Thank you very much.
1827
01:53:08,586 --> 01:53:13,225
We got through the show and it just,
all hell broke loose backstage.
1828
01:53:14,545 --> 01:53:18,745
When the set ended, he was out ahead
of me, took his cheapest guitar...
1829
01:53:24,946 --> 01:53:29,305
...busted it in a million pieces, jumped
into his limousine and drove off.
1830
01:53:31,587 --> 01:53:35,385
And that was it. That was really
the straw that broke the camel's back.
1831
01:53:37,226 --> 01:53:38,864
Well, baby,
there you stand...
1832
01:53:44,865 --> 01:53:48,866
Someone wrote the Eagles
went out with a whimper not a bang,
1833
01:53:48,667 --> 01:53:50,265
which was true.
1834
01:53:51,946 --> 01:53:58,464
...Oh my God, I can't believe
it is happening again...
1835
01:53:58,465 --> 01:54:03,065
I didn't want to hear it. This was
like my super dream had come true.
1836
01:54:03,066 --> 01:54:06,184
...And it looks like
the end...
1837
01:54:07,585 --> 01:54:11,822
So I called Glen and I said,
What is the status? What is going on?
1838
01:54:11,823 --> 01:54:14,705
Is this thing really broken up?.
He said, Yeah, it is over.
1839
01:54:17,344 --> 01:54:23,063
We were beat and it was really
affecting the foundational core,
1840
01:54:23,064 --> 01:54:26,982
the soul of the band.
We hit the wall.
1841
01:54:26,983 --> 01:54:30,143
You work, work, work,
you get up to a peak
1842
01:54:30,144 --> 01:54:37,981
and then it is almost invariably people
head-butt and, "Whose band is it?.
1843
01:54:37,982 --> 01:54:41,783
And, I am in charge. And, "No,
you are not. And there you go.
1844
01:54:41,784 --> 01:54:49,584
...You never thought you'd be
alone. This far down the line...
1845
01:54:49,843 --> 01:54:53,701
We had always said that we wanted
to step off the wave just before it
1846
01:54:53,702 --> 01:54:56,763
crashed into the beach.
And we did.
1847
01:54:57,502 --> 01:55:00,000
...You're afraid
1848
01:55:00,001 --> 01:55:04,383
it's all been wasted time...
1849
01:55:08,000 --> 01:55:13,302
...The autumn leaves have
got you thinking...
1850
01:55:15,782 --> 01:55:19,461
The Beatle guys say they never
thought, McCartney never thought that
1851
01:55:19,462 --> 01:55:23,940
band was going to last more than
2 years, because no pop band did.
1852
01:55:23,941 --> 01:55:26,782
I think it's part of it.
It comes together, it's magic
1853
01:55:26,783 --> 01:55:28,700
and it falls apart.
1854
01:55:28,701 --> 01:55:34,941
But how cool that it even
happens at all.
1855
01:55:34,942 --> 01:55:38,420
...I could have done
so many things, baby...
1856
01:55:38,421 --> 01:55:39,900
It was magical.
1857
01:55:39,901 --> 01:55:42,500
...If I could
only stop my mind...
1858
01:55:42,501 --> 01:55:45,939
They wrote a lot of great, great
songs that will be celebrated
1859
01:55:45,940 --> 01:55:47,980
and listened to and loved
for a long time.
1860
01:55:50,861 --> 01:55:56,819
We managed to represent
that period of time in the '70s,
1861
01:55:56,820 --> 01:56:01,940
Southern California, which was
very artistically creative.
1862
01:56:03,380 --> 01:56:10,699
I hope that is remembered like
the roaring '20s are, you know?
1863
01:56:10,700 --> 01:56:12,540
Our generation and
what we did.
1864
01:56:14,980 --> 01:56:19,139
...You can get on with
your search Baby
1865
01:56:19,140 --> 01:56:24,579
And I can get on
with mine
1866
01:56:24,580 --> 01:56:30,819
And maybe some day
we will find
1867
01:56:33,220 --> 01:56:38,659
That it wasn't really
wasted time.
1868
01:56:44,778 --> 01:56:47,979
We set out to become a band
for our time, but sometimes
1869
01:56:47,980 --> 01:56:53,339
if you do a good enough job,
you become a band for all time.
1870
01:57:10,217 --> 01:57:13,977
On a dark desert
highway
1871
01:57:13,978 --> 01:57:17,416
Cool wind in my hair
1872
01:57:17,417 --> 01:57:20,777
Warm smell of colitas
1873
01:57:20,778 --> 01:57:24,537
Rising up
through the air
1874
01:57:24,538 --> 01:57:27,377
Up ahead in the distance
1875
01:57:27,378 --> 01:57:31,136
I saw
a shimmering light
1876
01:57:31,137 --> 01:57:33,418
My head grew heavy
and my sight grew dim
1877
01:57:33,419 --> 01:57:36,896
I had to stop
for the night
1878
01:57:36,897 --> 01:57:40,577
There she stood
in the doorway
1879
01:57:40,578 --> 01:57:43,416
I heard the mission bell
1880
01:57:43,417 --> 01:57:45,896
I was thinking
to myself
1881
01:57:45,897 --> 01:57:49,336
This could be heaven
or this could be hell
1882
01:57:49,337 --> 01:57:52,935
Then she lit up
a candle
1883
01:57:52,936 --> 01:57:56,335
And she showed me
the way
1884
01:57:56,336 --> 01:58:02,776
There were voices down the corridor
I thought I heard them say...
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