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# There are stars
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# in the southern sky
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# Southward as you go
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# There is moonlight
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# and moss in the trees
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# Down the Seven
Bridges Road
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- Pretty close.
- Not too bad.
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It's gonna be about
2 minutes, so come on.
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- Do what you got to do.
- We got to go.
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I need a wrist band.
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It's something that you
can't do forever, you know?
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This is not a lifetime career
that we can do, you know? So...
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It's not?!
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All right, let's go.
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Thank you and good evening. We're
the Eagles from Los Angeles.
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1, 2, 3, 4.
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# Well, I'm running
down the road
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# trying to loosen
my load
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# I got seven women
on my mind... #
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People are always
saying things to me like,
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"You're just like
a normal person".
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And I always say,
"Of course!".
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All right!
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We might be a little more
world-wise
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than some of those kids,
that's all.
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We just maybe have less
innocence than they do, but
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I eat, I sleep, I fall in love,
I fall out of love, I work.
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I do pretty much
the same thing.
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# You got your demons
and you got desires
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# But I got
a few of my own
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# Oooh someone
to be kind to
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# in between
the dark and the light
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# Oooh coming right
behind you
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# Swear I'm gonna find you
one of these nights! #
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We saw a poster of us when
On the Border was made.
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Everybody looked like little kids,
like, arly 20s and stuff.
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And everybody didn't have
their wrinkles and baggy eyes.
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Sort of like a president
when he first takes office.
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And then, like 4 or 5
years later,
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he just walks out,
and his hair is grey,
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and his eyes are drooping,
and he's just really real burned.
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# Spent the last year
Rocky Mountain way
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# Couldn't get much higher! #
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The first thing that happens
is you get some kind of label,
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then you've got to live up to it, and
then you just get caught in that,
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and I forget
what the second thing is!
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# You know
I've always been a dreamer
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# Spend my life
running round
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# And it's so hard
to change
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It's hard.
It's like living two lives.
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I have a family, 3 kids.
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And it's just hard to live in
between that line
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of being out on the road and
being away for a month.
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# Keep on turning out
and burning out
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# And turning out
the same
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# So put me
on a highway
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# And show me a sign
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# And take it to
the limit
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# One more time. #
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Maybe we wouldn't want
to do this any more,
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or maybe we can't do this
any more,
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or maybe nobody will give
a shit if we do this any more.
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# Take it to the limit
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# One more time. #
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Thank you.
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No, I insist. You first.
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Hi, there.
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Lock it up.
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A hearty bunch out there.
He's not even here. Now lock it up.
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Hey, driver, lock 'em up
for us tonight, ok?
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- Out of sight. / - You just
don't know what those kids will do.
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Doggone.
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How about a beer?
Is that what I heard?
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- You got it, brother.
- Don't hurt yourself, young America.
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- Would you like one?
- Yeah, I would like one.
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I'm gonna drink tonight.
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I think they feel like
they're up there,
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like they're on the stage.
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Cos we look like them.
We dress like them.
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Part of it is that,
and part of it's the records.
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I think they just relate
to the songs.
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I think it's 50/50,
I guess.
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The thing is now
is to try to see how long
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we can stay up here at
the top of the mountain.
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It's very narrow and windy
up here.
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We can probably continue doing what we're
doing as long as the songs keep coming.
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That's the only thing
that frightens us,
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is to not be able
to do that any more.
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If we go to the well and nothing comes up,
we would be in trouble. So far, so good.
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I think we can maintain
this for a few more years.
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I don't see why not.
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Other people have. The Rolling
Stones and the Who and the Led...
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and Led Zeppelin. I almost said
THE Led Zeppelin! ...have done it.
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Chicago's done it.
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Groups last longer than
they used to, you know?
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Shit don't float.
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90% of the time, being in
the Eagles was a fucking blast.
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I was living the dream.
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# He was
a hard-headed man
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# He was brutally
handsome... #
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We never in our wildest dreams figured on
being this successful and lasting this long.
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# She held him up... #
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We were a bunch of guys out
there touring the country.
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We had a little private plane.
We had parties after the shows.
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We had a good time. We were
starting to make some money.
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# They took all the right pills
They threw outrageous parties... #
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We had 3 guitar players finally,
so we could rock a bit.
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So, it was a good time, a good
time for me, a good time for Don.
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# Life in the fast lane
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# Surely make you lose
your mind... #
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Everybody
was really happy...
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then.
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# Life in the fast lane
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# Everything,
all the time
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# Life in the fast lane... #
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It was going really fast,
and probably too fast.
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There was turmoil
within the band.
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We put a lot of pressure
on ourselves.
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As Glenn used to say,
"We made it, and it ate us".
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It's hard to be in a group.
It's a bit like being in a marriage,
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if you quadruple it or
quintuple it, in our case.
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They asked Don when the Eagles broke
up, "What was that like for you?"
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And he said
it was a horrible relief.
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And I think that clocks it
pretty well.
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You're a real pro, Don,
all the way.
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Yeah, you are, too.
The way you handle people.
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Except the people you pay,
nobody gives a shit about it.
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Fuck you. I've been paying you
for 7 years, you fuckhead.
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So much stuff
just happened.
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There's a philosopher who says,
"As you live your life,
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it appears to be
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anarchy and chaos
and random events,
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non-related events
smashing into each other
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and causing
this situation".
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And then... then this happens,
and it's overwhelming,
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and it just looks like,
"What in the world is going on?"
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And later, when
you look back at it,
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it looks like
a finely-crafted novel.
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But at the time,
it don't!
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And a lot of the Eagles' story
is like that.
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I'm gonna fuckin' kill you.
I can't wait. I can't wait.
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We might as well start
at the beginning.
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I grew up in Detroit, Michigan.
My dad worked in a factory.
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My mother baked pies
at General Motors.
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I started taking piano lessons
when I was 5 years old.
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That alone could get you beat up
after school in suburban Detroit.
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# And then she said...
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# Just because you've
become a young man now
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# There's still some things
that you don't understand... #
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Detroit was Motown, and so
they played all the Motown hits.
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# Keep your freedom for
as long as you can now
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# My momma told me,
you'd better shop around.... #
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And that was the kind of stuff
that we would listen to.
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I stopped playing piano when
I was 12. It was too much.
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I wanted to do
other things,
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and I think the girl thing
was starting to happen, as well.
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Then the Beatles
came along,
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and my aunt took me down to see
the Beatles at the Olympia.
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It was crazy.
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I remember having a girl that was
standing on her seat in front of me
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fall backwards into my arms,
delirious, going, "Paul, Paul!".
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And I thought,
"Oh, my God!".
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I have a very vivid memory
of seeing the Beatles
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with my parents
on our old Admiral TV set.
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It was like
a bolt of lightning.
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It had a huge impact on me.
It was revolutionary.
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And it was an impact
that would last a lifetime,
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and I know that had
a huge impact on Glenn, too,
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even though we didn't know
each other at the time.
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Linden, Texas, is my hometown. It's a
small town in North-eastern Texas.
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When I was growing up, the
population was about 2,500, 2,600.
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# I can settle down... #
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It's primarily
an agricultural area.
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Some people
worked at the steel mill.
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It's just a typical
small Texas town.
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There's an old courthouse dating
back to before the Civil War
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and one stoplight.
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It's kind of like The Last
Picture Show, you know?
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It was a great place
musically,
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because it was kind of
a cultural crossroads.
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It's really located where the old
South begins to meet the West.
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Linden, Texas, was the birthplace
of Scott Joplin and T-Bone Walker.
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# Yes, time is hard,
baby... #
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Both my parents loved music, so we
had a lot of records in the house.
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I was exposed to music of all
kinds from an early age.
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Country and Western music, Western
swing music, gospel music, Blues...
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Johnny Cash, Hank Williams,
and Patsy Cline.
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# More, more, more
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# Gonna live it up
and tear it down
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# Get in the groove
and paint the town
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# Got a lot of rhythm
in my soul... #
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There was a 50,000-watt
radio station in New Orleans,
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and I heard things on that station
that I didn't hear anywhere else.
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So, I had a lot of radio
coming in.
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And when I would go to work
with my dad,
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he would listen to a station in
Shreveport, Louisiana. KWKH.
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# Say, hey, good lookin!
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# What you got cookin?
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# How's about cooking
something up for me? #
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And that station broadcast a radio
show called the Louisiana Hayride,
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where Elvis Presley made
his first radio broadcast in 1954.
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# Well, that's alright,
Mama
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# That's alright with you
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# That's alright, Mama
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# Just any way
you do
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# That's alright
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# That's alright... #
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The very first rock 'n' roll record
I bought was by Elvis Presley.
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# Anyway you do... #
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My playing the drums was
sort of an organic process.
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I began by beating on my
school books with my fingers
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and with pencils.
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I would beat out
little cadences,
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and I used to drive my classmates
crazy doing that, until, I think,
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one day,
somebody said to me -
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I think it was my friend
Richard Bowden - he said,
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"Why don't you just start
playing the drums?"
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I managed to cobble together
a drum kit from old drums
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that I found stashed in the back
of the band hall at high school.
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And then one day, my mom said,
"Come on, get in the car".
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And she drove me to a town
about an hour and a half away
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called Sulphur Springs, Texas,
to McKay Music Company.
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Much to my surprise,
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she bought me a set of
red-sparkle Slingerland drums
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that I still have today.
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So, I have to give my parents
a lot of credit.
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They bought me
that drum kit
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even though they couldn't
really afford it.
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The first band I was in was a band
with my high-school buddy
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Richard Bowden and another
high-school friend, Jerry Surratt,
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and we played Dixieland jazz music.
Nobody sang. We just played music.
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I went to a high-school party,
and there were 4 kids
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who were freshmen in high
school who were playing.
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I was a junior, and I had a
couple beers that night and said,
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"Hey, do you know Satisfaction?
Cos I can sing it".
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So, I became the lead singer
of the Subterraneans.
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# And I try and I try
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# And I try... #
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I played in the Subterraneans
for a while,
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and then I played in another
band called the Mushrooms.
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The most important thing
that happened to me
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when I was in Detroit
was I met Bob Seger.
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# Yeah
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# I'm gonna tell my tale,
come on! #
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He took me under
his wing.
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He invited me to recording sessions
that he was having,
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so I could see
how records were made.
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I was his mentor.
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He was just so young, and
I liked him right away
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because he was so funny.
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He had a great sense of humour,
and, like me,
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I could see he was really ambitious.
He really wanted to be on the radio.
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He cut a song called
Ramblin' Gamblin' Man.
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He let me play acoustic guitar
on the basic track
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and sing
background vocals.
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# Ramblin' man
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# A gamblin' man... #
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You can really hear Glenn blurt
out on the first chorus.
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He comes out really loud.
Tremendous gusto.
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Of course, that was a national hit
for us, so that was really cool.
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Bob was the first guy that wrote
his own songs and recorded them
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that I had ever met.
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He said,
"if you want to make it,
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you're gonna have to write
your own songs".
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And I said,
"What if they're bad?".
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And he said,
They're gonna be bad".
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He says, "You just keep
writing and keep writing,
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and eventually,
you'll write a good song".
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We were gonna have
a band together.
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He was gonna get rid of
his other guys,
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and I was gonna be
his bass player.
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It didn't work out.
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My mom found me smoking
pot with a friend of mine
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in somebody's basement, and
she called up Seger's manager,
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Punch Andrews, and said,
"Just a minute, not so fast".
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In the years leading up
to the Great Depression,
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my dad had to quit school
after the eighth grade.
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He had to go home and work in
the fields with his brother and sister
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to help support
the family.
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His fondest wish,
in fact, his life's goal,
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was that I would go
to college.
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Every Saturday night,
he would bring home 7 quarters,
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and we'd put them in a piggy bank,
and when those quarters
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amounted to 100, he would
take me to the bank
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and we would buy a savings bond,
a United States savings bond,
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and put that away
for my college education.
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So, between what my dad had saved
and between what I was making
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doing gigs all over Texas
and Arkansas and Louisiana
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on weekends, I paid for
3 and a half years of college.
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They have a world-famous music
department in which I did not excel.
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I took one music course.
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I think it was beginning
theory, and I flunked.
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I made an "F".
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But I didn't really care because
I was an English major.
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After the Mushrooms,
I got invited to join this band
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called the Four of Us.
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Started getting into some
of the California bands -
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the Byrds, Buffalo Springfield,
the Beach Boys.
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Always wanted to go
to California.
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And I got out there,
my mind was blown.
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The vegetation -
I'd never seen palm trees.
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It was just like
a dream come true.
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# So you want to be
a rock'n'roll star?
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# Then listen now
to what I say
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# Just get
an electric guitar...
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The first celebrity
I saw was David Crosby.
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# And when your hair's combed
right and your pants fit tight
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# It's gonna be
all right...
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And he had on that
flat-brimmed hat that he wore
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on the second Byrds album, and
he had a little leather cape on,
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and I just looked and I thought,
"My God, there's David Crosby".
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Zoom,
and we went right by.
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# And in a week or two
if you make the charts
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# The girls'll tear
you apart... #
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And the first person I met
was John David Souther.
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We wanted to get high
and play music.
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There were two of us
with guitars.
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We were listening to a lot of
that sort of interface between
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rock 'n' roll and country
and western music that was
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happening in Southern California
at the time with the Byrds
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and Dillard & Clark and
the Burrito Brothers and Poco.
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# When I last saw you
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# I couldn't find
a reason why
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# I felt kind of blue... #
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There was a lot of great music
of that sort going around then.
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Longbranch
Pennywhistle here.
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I suppose you wonder what that
name meant, and John David and I -
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It was a well-kept
spring back funky women.
329
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The songs weren't
very good.
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I don't think Glenn and I were
very far along as songwriters then.
331
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# Run, boy, run
332
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# You gotta move... #
333
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We were a funny little group,
but we got gigs.
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We managed to play in
some of the folk clubs around LA:
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the Golden Bear and
the Ash Grove.
336
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# Yeah, yeah, oh, yeah
337
00:20:02,337 --> 00:20:06,055
# What condition
my condition was in...
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We had a chance meeting with
Kenny Rogers in Dallas, Texas, one day.
339
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He was coming through town
with the First Edition.
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They were very hot
at the time.
341
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# I tripped on a cloud and
fell-a 8 miles high... #
342
00:20:17,695 --> 00:20:20,134
I remember this
like it was yesterday.
343
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This little kid came up and said,
"Mr Rogers", he said,
344
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"I'm Don Henley, and I'm with
a group called Felicity,
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and we're doing a show tonight, and
we'd love to have you come see us".
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And I said, "I'm really sorry,
but I don't do that.
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I don't just go to clubs
and watch groups."
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He said,
"I really think you'd like us".
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And I thought,
"That's pretty cool", so I did.
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# From the minute that
I met you, baby
351
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# You were hanging
your chains on me
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# And I loved you so
353
00:20:50,255 --> 00:20:55,053
# I nearly
lost my mind... #
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Kenny is a Texas boy, and he was
looking for groups to produce.
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So, I brought them to LA,
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and they literally lived
at my house for about 4 months.
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We changed their name
to Shiloh.
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It was so much fun to take
them into the studio.
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# Well, thank you Mr Big
Time Music Business Man
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# for taking time
to listen to my song...
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With Shiloh, we made one album,
and it had a single called
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"Simple Little Down Home Rock
and Roll Love Song for Rosie".
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Not exactly a short title!
364
00:21:30,293 --> 00:21:32,214
# Just a simple
little down home
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00:21:32,215 --> 00:21:36,173
# rock and roll love song
for Rosie... #
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We didn't know much about
the business at that point.
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We were pretty naive.
368
00:21:39,974 --> 00:21:43,893
# Going down to the swamp
river country some day... #
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We kicked around in
the LA clubs for a while,
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played the Whisky, played some of
the clubs down in the South Bay area,
371
00:21:51,091 --> 00:21:53,293
and nothing
really happened for us.
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JD and I were looking for
any place to play.
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We had heard about
this guy Jackson Browne.
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00:22:01,691 --> 00:22:03,773
He'd been playing
the same clubs we had,
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00:22:03,774 --> 00:22:06,211
but we never
had seen him perform.
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00:22:06,212 --> 00:22:09,890
- This is California. Mr Jackson Browne.
- Ah, thank you, thank you.
377
00:22:09,891 --> 00:22:12,930
'Then there were a bunch of gigs that
they had and some gigs that I had'
378
00:22:12,931 --> 00:22:14,691
that they would show up
at my gigs
379
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and me at their gigs, and
we became really good friends.
380
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And we'd start talking about, "Where
do you live, and what's going on?".
381
00:22:21,932 --> 00:22:26,451
And Jackson said, "You should
come down to Echo Park.
382
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Rent's real cheap".
383
00:22:28,332 --> 00:22:31,410
Glenn got the apartment
next to my apartment,
384
00:22:31,411 --> 00:22:36,130
and this apartment cost like 125
or something a month.
385
00:22:36,131 --> 00:22:39,009
And I needed to economize,
so I moved into the basement
386
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underneath Glenn's place, which
I could get into for 35 a month.
387
00:22:42,689 --> 00:22:46,008
It only had one door. It was really
just kind of an illegal place,
388
00:22:46,009 --> 00:22:49,210
just a cubby-hole, and
that's where Jackson lived,
389
00:22:49,211 --> 00:22:52,729
with JD and I above.
That was it.
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00:22:52,730 --> 00:22:58,009
There was a stereo, a piano, a bed,
a guitar, you know, a teapot.
391
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We slept late in those days, except
around 9 o'clock in the morning,
392
00:23:06,170 --> 00:23:09,048
I'd hear Jackson Browne's
teapot going off,
393
00:23:09,049 --> 00:23:10,731
this whistle
in the distance.
394
00:23:10,732 --> 00:23:14,008
And then I'd hear him
playing piano.
395
00:23:14,009 --> 00:23:16,050
I didn't really know
how to write songs.
396
00:23:16,051 --> 00:23:20,248
I knew I wanted to write songs,
but I didn't know exactly:
397
00:23:20,249 --> 00:23:24,528
you just wait around for
inspiration, what was the deal?
398
00:23:24,529 --> 00:23:28,288
I learned
through Jackson's ceiling
399
00:23:28,289 --> 00:23:31,770
and my floor exactly how to write
songs 'cos Jackson would get up,
400
00:23:31,771 --> 00:23:35,168
and he'd play the first verse
and first chorus,
401
00:23:35,169 --> 00:23:40,008
and he'd play it 20 times until
he had it just the way he wanted.
402
00:23:40,009 --> 00:23:41,729
And then
there'd be silence.
403
00:23:41,730 --> 00:23:44,807
And then I'd hear
the teapot go off again.
404
00:23:44,808 --> 00:23:47,048
Then it'd be quiet for
10 or 20 minutes.
405
00:23:47,049 --> 00:23:49,286
Then I'd hear him
start to play again,
406
00:23:49,287 --> 00:23:51,007
and there was
the second verse.
407
00:23:51,008 --> 00:23:54,486
So, then he'd work on the second
verse, and he'd play it 20 times.
408
00:23:54,487 --> 00:23:56,806
And then he'd go back
to the top of the song,
409
00:23:56,807 --> 00:24:00,126
and he'd play the first verse,
the first chorus and the second verse
410
00:24:00,127 --> 00:24:03,407
another 20 times until he was
really comfortable with it and
411
00:24:03,408 --> 00:24:07,369
change a word here or there,
and I'm up there going,
412
00:24:07,370 --> 00:24:09,287
"So, that's how you do it".
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00:24:09,288 --> 00:24:15,567
Elbow grease, time,
thought, persistence.
414
00:24:23,767 --> 00:24:27,767
# Doctor, my eyes
have seen the years
415
00:24:27,768 --> 00:24:30,526
# And the slow
parade of fears
416
00:24:30,527 --> 00:24:32,567
# Without crying...
417
00:24:32,568 --> 00:24:33,926
I wanted to kill him
sometimes.
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00:24:33,927 --> 00:24:38,206
Jackson would play the same phrase
from Doctor, My Eyes for 6 weeks.
419
00:24:38,207 --> 00:24:41,246
The same thing with The Pretender.
I just wanted to murder him.
420
00:24:41,247 --> 00:24:46,206
# Doctor, my eyes... #
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00:24:46,207 --> 00:24:48,765
And it was during that period
of time that I met Glenn Frey
422
00:24:48,766 --> 00:24:51,645
because we were on the same
label, called Amos Records.
423
00:24:51,646 --> 00:24:53,364
Some of the things
that struck me
424
00:24:53,365 --> 00:24:56,044
when I first met Glenn
were things we had in common.
425
00:24:56,045 --> 00:25:00,000
Both of our dads made a living
in the automotive industry.
426
00:25:00,001 --> 00:25:02,446
Glenn and I loved old cars,
especially cars from the '50s.
427
00:25:02,447 --> 00:25:05,485
He had a '55 Chevy
that he named Gladys.
428
00:25:05,486 --> 00:25:09,525
And we drove around
Los Angeles in Gladys.
429
00:25:09,526 --> 00:25:10,924
Check out the new talent.
430
00:25:10,925 --> 00:25:13,363
There's no better place in town
to catch those new singers
431
00:25:13,364 --> 00:25:15,803
and songwriters than down
at the Monday night Hoot Night,
432
00:25:15,804 --> 00:25:18,483
Doug Weston's world-famous
Troubadour, happening tonight.
433
00:25:18,484 --> 00:25:22,124
The Troubadour club was the
centre of the musical universe.
434
00:25:22,125 --> 00:25:25,165
It was a very seminal place.
It was the place to see and be seen.
435
00:25:26,445 --> 00:25:28,563
Every Monday night
they had an open stage.
436
00:25:28,644 --> 00:25:30,046
It was called Hoot Night.
437
00:25:33,524 --> 00:25:36,205
The Troubadour was the place
to go if you were young
438
00:25:36,206 --> 00:25:40,804
and happening and trying to get
involved in the music scene.
439
00:25:40,805 --> 00:25:42,644
It was happening there.
440
00:25:42,645 --> 00:25:44,082
# California
441
00:25:44,083 --> 00:25:46,643
# Oh, California
442
00:25:46,644 --> 00:25:49,923
# I'm coming home
443
00:25:49,924 --> 00:25:52,803
# Oh, make me feel good
rock'n'roll band
444
00:25:52,804 --> 00:25:54,124
# I'm your biggest fan
445
00:25:54,125 --> 00:25:58,443
# California,
I'm coming home. #
446
00:25:58,444 --> 00:26:00,445
I saw a lot of great acts
at the Troubadour.
447
00:26:00,446 --> 00:26:04,883
# So far away
448
00:26:04,884 --> 00:26:12,082
# Doesn't anybody stay
in one place any more?
449
00:26:12,083 --> 00:26:15,884
# It would be so fine
to see your face... #
450
00:26:15,885 --> 00:26:20,283
I witnessed Elton John's American
debut performance in 1970.
451
00:26:22,564 --> 00:26:27,723
# And it's good old country
comfort in my bones
452
00:26:29,643 --> 00:26:34,122
# Just the sweetest sound
my ears have ever known... #
453
00:26:34,123 --> 00:26:36,883
Everybody who was anybody at
the time played at the Troubadour.
454
00:26:39,203 --> 00:26:40,240
Of course, Linda,
455
00:26:40,241 --> 00:26:43,883
she still has one of my favourite
voices in the business, ever.
456
00:26:43,884 --> 00:26:49,122
# Feeling better
now we're through
457
00:26:49,123 --> 00:26:54,082
# Feeling better cos
I'm over you...
458
00:26:54,083 --> 00:26:57,441
The Troubadour is really responsible
for the entire music scene.
459
00:26:57,442 --> 00:27:00,762
Everything I got, really,
was virtually through either
460
00:27:00,763 --> 00:27:04,360
performing there onstage
or in the bar, you know?
461
00:27:04,361 --> 00:27:06,801
# I'm telling you now, baby
462
00:27:06,802 --> 00:27:09,041
# and I'm going
my way...
463
00:27:09,042 --> 00:27:11,319
I was just started
managing Linda then,
464
00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:14,959
and Linda was going to be a star.
hat voice as big as a house.
465
00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:16,799
There wasn't anybody
in the room
466
00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:18,842
that cared about
anything but that voice.
467
00:27:18,843 --> 00:27:22,481
# I'm gonna say
it again... #
468
00:27:22,482 --> 00:27:24,319
One night, we're down
at the Troubadour,
469
00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:26,961
and John Boylan comes to me -
he's managing Linda Ronstadt -
470
00:27:26,962 --> 00:27:29,920
and he says,
"I'm taking Linda on the road.
471
00:27:29,921 --> 00:27:33,801
We need guys who can sing. You want
to play rhythm guitar and sing?".
472
00:27:33,802 --> 00:27:36,801
I offered him 250 a week,
and he took it.
473
00:27:39,921 --> 00:27:42,239
I went back to him,
I said,
474
00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:45,119
"Can you give me some of
that money right now?".
475
00:27:45,120 --> 00:27:46,958
I think he gave me
50 bucks.
476
00:27:46,959 --> 00:27:50,119
And then I found Don from
this band called Shiloh.
477
00:27:50,120 --> 00:27:52,000
I heard him playing
at the Troubadour.
478
00:27:52,001 --> 00:27:56,400
# I'm coming down... #
479
00:27:56,401 --> 00:28:00,278
I was looking for a job.
Glenn introduced me to John Boylan.
480
00:28:00,279 --> 00:28:02,638
I auditioned at this
little house in Laurel Canyon.
481
00:28:02,639 --> 00:28:05,278
I had listened to her album
hundreds of times,
482
00:28:05,279 --> 00:28:07,798
so I knew the songs
backwards and forwards,
483
00:28:07,799 --> 00:28:11,000
and I guess I passed the audition,
because I got the job.
484
00:28:11,001 --> 00:28:14,599
# I got a feeling
called the blues Oh, Lord
485
00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:17,558
# Since my baby
said good-bye
486
00:28:17,559 --> 00:28:19,199
# And I don't know
what I'll do
487
00:28:20,599 --> 00:28:24,479
# All I do is sit and cry
Oh, Lord
488
00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:27,958
# I've grown so used
to him somehow
489
00:28:27,959 --> 00:28:31,718
# But I'm nobody's
sugar momma now
490
00:28:31,719 --> 00:28:34,157
# And I'm lonesome
491
00:28:34,158 --> 00:28:38,878
# Got the lovesick blues. #
492
00:28:38,879 --> 00:28:40,518
I learned a lot
from Linda.
493
00:28:40,519 --> 00:28:42,597
It was a very formative
experience for me.
494
00:28:42,598 --> 00:28:45,037
And she could hang
with the guys.
495
00:28:45,038 --> 00:28:48,478
She could drink tequila with
the rest of us and hold her own.
496
00:28:48,479 --> 00:28:55,118
# Saving nickels,
saving dimes... #
497
00:28:55,119 --> 00:28:56,516
It was really very ad hoc.
498
00:28:56,517 --> 00:28:59,156
We had a station wagon,
put the gear in the back.
499
00:28:59,157 --> 00:29:02,997
We'd all get in it and drive
to the college and play there.
500
00:29:02,998 --> 00:29:05,996
As a cost-cutting measure,
band members had to share
501
00:29:05,997 --> 00:29:08,995
rooms in those days, so
Glenn and I were roommates.
502
00:29:08,996 --> 00:29:11,835
- What did you guys eat?
- I had a bowl of Rice Krispies.
503
00:29:11,836 --> 00:29:14,317
Ladies and gentlemen,
Linda Ronstadt.
504
00:29:19,917 --> 00:29:23,116
It's funny. I seem to get people at a
critical stage in their development
505
00:29:23,117 --> 00:29:24,395
and they build
their chops.
506
00:29:24,396 --> 00:29:28,237
There's nothing that gets your chops up
better than playing every single night.
507
00:29:28,238 --> 00:29:31,437
# If the same thing
happened to everybody
508
00:29:31,438 --> 00:29:34,156
# That just happened
to me... #
509
00:29:34,157 --> 00:29:37,915
Linda and John Boylan really
like the way Henley and I play,
510
00:29:37,916 --> 00:29:41,836
really like the way we sing
with her, and they start to get
511
00:29:41,837 --> 00:29:45,676
a vision of putting together
a super group to back up Linda -
512
00:29:45,677 --> 00:29:49,035
the best of the new
country-rock musicians,
513
00:29:49,036 --> 00:29:51,475
and we were going
to be part of it.
514
00:29:51,476 --> 00:29:53,515
I remember talking with Don,
and Don said,
515
00:29:53,516 --> 00:29:56,996
"You know, I'd rather, like,
just be in a band with you".
516
00:29:58,076 --> 00:30:00,000
And I said,
517
00:30:00,001 --> 00:30:03,317
"Yes, me too. I'd rather
just be in a band with you."
518
00:30:08,196 --> 00:30:10,713
So, we went to Linda and said,
519
00:30:10,714 --> 00:30:14,154
"We really appreciate everything
you've done for us, and it means
520
00:30:14,155 --> 00:30:18,236
a lot, and we love playing with you,
but we'd like to have our own band".
521
00:30:18,237 --> 00:30:26,237
# If you won't be
with me someday...
522
00:30:27,235 --> 00:30:29,553
I think a lot of people
523
00:30:29,554 --> 00:30:31,912
could get miffed by that,
say, "Wait a second.
524
00:30:31,913 --> 00:30:33,513
I brought you out here,
you know.
525
00:30:33,514 --> 00:30:36,193
I gave you a paying job
when you couldn't afford
526
00:30:36,194 --> 00:30:40,234
your own drinks at the Troubadour
bar, and now you want to quit?".
527
00:30:40,235 --> 00:30:43,754
# Smile... #
528
00:30:43,755 --> 00:30:48,754
Linda was extremely gracious about
the whole thing, as was John Boylan.
529
00:30:48,755 --> 00:30:51,912
They weren't resentful or
bitter at all. They were great.
530
00:30:51,913 --> 00:30:54,275
They were supportive,
as a matter of fact.
531
00:30:54,276 --> 00:30:57,473
# There you go and baby
532
00:30:57,474 --> 00:30:59,912
# Here am I
533
00:30:59,913 --> 00:31:02,073
# Well you left me here
534
00:31:02,074 --> 00:31:06,273
# So I could sit
and cry... #
535
00:31:06,274 --> 00:31:09,152
They started talking about
putting a band together,
536
00:31:09,153 --> 00:31:12,031
and we told them they
should get Bernie Leadon.
537
00:31:12,032 --> 00:31:15,311
I was in several bands
in LA early on, I met Linda.
538
00:31:15,312 --> 00:31:17,234
Then I worked with
Dillard & Clark -
539
00:31:17,235 --> 00:31:21,392
Doug Dillard, banjo player, and
Gene Clark from the Byrds.
540
00:31:21,393 --> 00:31:24,671
And so, now I'm in an
offshoot of the Byrds world,
541
00:31:24,672 --> 00:31:28,430
and then that turned into an
invitation from the Burrito Brothers
542
00:31:28,431 --> 00:31:32,633
from Chris Hillman to come join them
for their second album on A&M.
543
00:31:32,634 --> 00:31:36,272
# Since we got the older
guys to show us how
544
00:31:36,273 --> 00:31:39,833
# I don't see why
we can't stop right now... #
545
00:31:39,834 --> 00:31:43,070
And I was still in the Burritos,
but they had lost Gram Parsons,
546
00:31:43,071 --> 00:31:46,633
and it had changed, and I wasn't
that interested any more.
547
00:31:49,512 --> 00:31:51,750
Bernie was a very
accomplished banjo player,
548
00:31:51,751 --> 00:31:55,271
and he could also play guitar in
what we called the Bindi lick style.
549
00:31:55,272 --> 00:31:58,470
It was pioneered by a fellow
named Clarence White.
550
00:31:58,471 --> 00:32:01,191
And then Glenn told me about
this guy named Randy Meisner who
551
00:32:01,192 --> 00:32:03,029
had been in a band
called Poco.
552
00:32:03,030 --> 00:32:06,110
Randy could sing really high,
and he also played bass.
553
00:32:06,111 --> 00:32:08,870
# It's a good morning and
I'm feeling fine... #
554
00:32:08,871 --> 00:32:10,950
So, Glenn just kind of
asked me one day
555
00:32:10,951 --> 00:32:13,951
if I'd be interested in
starting a group with him.
556
00:32:13,952 --> 00:32:19,711
And he had Henley and Bernie.
That was the first Eagles.
557
00:32:21,192 --> 00:32:24,589
So, the plan was that Glenn and
I would try to recruit Bernie
558
00:32:24,590 --> 00:32:27,832
and Randy, and then we would
all go to David Geffen and see
559
00:32:27,833 --> 00:32:30,750
if he would give us
a recording contract.
560
00:32:30,751 --> 00:32:34,231
In the '70s, Asylum Records
was considered the LA sound -
561
00:32:34,232 --> 00:32:37,311
Joni Mitchell, Crosby,
Stills, Nash & Young,
562
00:32:37,312 --> 00:32:38,510
Jackson Browne.
563
00:32:38,511 --> 00:32:42,711
David Geffen, who started Asylum,
is our patron, you know.
564
00:32:42,712 --> 00:32:46,630
A Medici,
Medici of rock'n'roll.
565
00:32:46,631 --> 00:32:48,929
It's a very artist-oriented
company, and
566
00:32:48,931 --> 00:32:51,268
whatever they want to do,
we support them.
567
00:32:51,269 --> 00:32:53,188
If we believe in them,
we'll stick with them,
568
00:32:53,189 --> 00:32:55,067
whether they make it
or not.
569
00:32:55,068 --> 00:32:57,631
Jackson was our conduit
to David Geffen.
570
00:32:57,632 --> 00:32:59,989
He was the first guy
to get signed
571
00:32:59,990 --> 00:33:02,428
by Geffen's new
Asylum Records label.
572
00:33:02,429 --> 00:33:05,430
So, we all walk in Geffen's office,
and we basically said,
573
00:33:05,431 --> 00:33:06,709
"Here we are".
574
00:33:06,710 --> 00:33:10,109
Bernie Leadon just
boldly says to Geffen,
575
00:33:10,110 --> 00:33:12,668
"Well, do you want us
or not?".
576
00:33:12,669 --> 00:33:14,949
They were dying
to sign with me.
577
00:33:14,950 --> 00:33:17,508
I think they were very ambitious,
particularly Glenn.
578
00:33:17,509 --> 00:33:19,349
Glenn wanted to have
a hit band.
579
00:33:19,350 --> 00:33:21,268
I loved the way
Don sang.
580
00:33:21,269 --> 00:33:23,028
We all had hopes for it.
581
00:33:23,029 --> 00:33:25,786
All of a sudden, we were
signed to Geffen's new label.
582
00:33:25,787 --> 00:33:27,426
They sent us back
to the drawing board.
583
00:33:27,427 --> 00:33:29,787
They said, "You guys need to go
and rehearse some more."
584
00:33:29,788 --> 00:33:31,727
They said, "You need
to write some songs.
585
00:33:31,728 --> 00:33:34,329
You're not really ready
to record yet".
586
00:33:36,828 --> 00:33:39,186
So, they packed us off
to Aspen, Colorado.
587
00:33:39,187 --> 00:33:40,427
It could have been worse.
588
00:33:40,428 --> 00:33:44,148
There were people who were way
higher than any of us had ever been.
589
00:33:46,228 --> 00:33:50,027
It was a Wild West wide-open
town at that point.
590
00:33:55,668 --> 00:33:58,305
We played at a club up
there called The Gallery,
591
00:33:58,306 --> 00:34:00,708
which was located right at
the foot of Aspen Mountain.
592
00:34:00,709 --> 00:34:02,306
# Tryin'
593
00:34:02,307 --> 00:34:05,028
# Got to keep on tryin'
594
00:34:06,468 --> 00:34:08,348
# Tryin'... #
595
00:34:09,789 --> 00:34:12,785
We didn't have a big catalogue
of our own tunes at that point.
596
00:34:12,786 --> 00:34:14,508
We were just
getting started.
597
00:34:17,307 --> 00:34:20,067
We needed to learn how to play
together as a band, and we did.
598
00:34:20,068 --> 00:34:23,266
# The moon is a weeper
599
00:34:23,267 --> 00:34:26,666
# The sun is your clown
600
00:34:26,667 --> 00:34:29,626
# And his way of lovin'
601
00:34:29,627 --> 00:34:32,987
# Is holdin' you down... #
602
00:34:35,067 --> 00:34:37,505
And then it was like, "OK,
we need to make a record.
603
00:34:37,506 --> 00:34:39,385
Who are we going to get
to produce it?".
604
00:34:39,386 --> 00:34:41,467
We wanted to shoot
as high as we could.
605
00:34:41,468 --> 00:34:45,066
Glenn Frey came up with
Glyn Johns as an idea.
606
00:34:45,067 --> 00:34:49,386
Glyn Johns was a name that kept
popping up on records we loved.
607
00:34:51,866 --> 00:34:54,665
The first time
I heard them was in Aspen.
608
00:34:54,666 --> 00:34:57,765
I was not at all impressed,
really.
609
00:35:01,146 --> 00:35:04,504
I thought they were
confused.
610
00:35:04,505 --> 00:35:08,185
Glenn Frey wanted to be
in a rock'n'roll band,
611
00:35:08,186 --> 00:35:11,344
and Bernie Leadon, on the other
side, was one of the greatest
612
00:35:11,345 --> 00:35:13,905
acoustic players, country
players, if you like.
613
00:35:13,906 --> 00:35:16,585
And there was
a bit of a confusion.
614
00:35:16,586 --> 00:35:19,745
I didn't see what all the fuss
was about at all.
615
00:35:19,746 --> 00:35:21,504
So I passed.
616
00:35:21,505 --> 00:35:26,904
We're like, "God dang, what?".
It's not what we expected.
617
00:35:26,905 --> 00:35:31,465
He had worked with Led
Zeppelin, the Who, the Stones,
618
00:35:31,466 --> 00:35:35,463
so he was coming from that,
and he said flat-out,
619
00:35:35,464 --> 00:35:37,504
"You're not that, man".
620
00:35:37,505 --> 00:35:42,943
It isn't always easy to spot
what's hot about an artist
621
00:35:42,664 --> 00:35:45,342
if you go and see them play.
You can see them on a bad night.
622
00:35:45,623 --> 00:35:48,503
It's not necessarily
the fairest way of doing it.
623
00:35:48,504 --> 00:35:52,184
So, I thought, "The best thing
to do would be for me to see them
624
00:35:52,185 --> 00:35:55,583
in a rehearsal situation
where we could converse
625
00:35:55,584 --> 00:35:58,183
and they could play new stuff
and I could stop and start".
626
00:35:58,184 --> 00:36:00,942
And they played the stuff
that they played in Aspen,
627
00:36:00,943 --> 00:36:03,104
and it all sounded
pretty much the same.
628
00:36:03,105 --> 00:36:07,343
I was thinking, "I don't get it.
I still don't get it".
629
00:36:07,344 --> 00:36:12,502
So, we decided
to take a break for lunch
630
00:36:12,503 --> 00:36:14,462
and as we were leaving,
631
00:36:14,463 --> 00:36:17,864
somebody said, "Why don't
we play Glyn that ballad?"
632
00:36:17,865 --> 00:36:24,022
# My daddy
was a handsome devil
633
00:36:24,023 --> 00:36:29,181
# He had a chain
5 miles long...
634
00:36:29,182 --> 00:36:32,261
And it just completely
blew me off my feet.
635
00:36:32,262 --> 00:36:34,542
There it was.
That was the sound.
636
00:36:34,543 --> 00:36:40,621
# From every link
a heart did dangle
637
00:36:40,622 --> 00:36:43,261
# For every maid... #
638
00:36:43,342 --> 00:36:47,061
Extraordinary blend of voices,
wonderful harmony sound.
639
00:36:46,982 --> 00:36:49,341
Just stunning.
640
00:36:49,342 --> 00:36:51,542
And that was it.
I was in with both feet.
641
00:36:51,543 --> 00:36:58,860
# Now I have loved you
like a baby... #
642
00:36:58,861 --> 00:37:00,019
Except that Glyn Johns
643
00:37:00,020 --> 00:37:02,580
didn't want to come to
the United States and work.
644
00:37:02,581 --> 00:37:05,499
He wanted to work in London
in the recording studios
645
00:37:05,500 --> 00:37:08,899
that he was familiar with, and so
they shipped us off to England.
646
00:37:08,900 --> 00:37:11,579
I don't think that any of us
except Bernie had ever been out
647
00:37:11,580 --> 00:37:14,662
of the country, so it was a little
bit like going to the moon for us.
648
00:37:14,663 --> 00:37:19,100
# I'm hanging on to
my peace of mind
649
00:37:19,101 --> 00:37:22,380
# I just don't know
650
00:37:22,381 --> 00:37:24,420
# I'm hanging on
to those good times... #
651
00:37:24,421 --> 00:37:27,179
And I'm stoked.
I'm thinking,
652
00:37:27,180 --> 00:37:30,219
"I'm going to go to Beatle
country with Glyn Johns.
653
00:37:30,220 --> 00:37:31,981
I'm going to record in
the same studio
654
00:37:31,422 --> 00:37:34,218
where Led Zeppelin
did Rock And Roll.
655
00:37:34,779 --> 00:37:37,100
Oh, my God, I can't wait".
656
00:37:37,101 --> 00:37:40,660
We were recorded at
the famous Olympic studios,
657
00:37:40,661 --> 00:37:43,538
where a lot of legendary
records had been made.
658
00:37:43,539 --> 00:37:46,138
Glyn Johns, he had a certain
style of recording,
659
00:37:46,139 --> 00:37:47,458
which was very organic.
660
00:37:47,459 --> 00:37:51,498
He would simply place a few mikes
around the room, and off you go.
661
00:37:51,499 --> 00:37:54,418
Rather than, for example,
placing a microphone on each
662
00:37:54,419 --> 00:37:57,458
and every drum, he would just put
three microphones on the drum kit.
663
00:37:57,459 --> 00:37:59,417
He was accustomed to
recording people
664
00:37:59,418 --> 00:38:01,261
like John Bonham
with Led Zeppelin.
665
00:38:03,299 --> 00:38:05,657
And I said to Glyn, "I want
the bass drum to be louder".
666
00:38:05,658 --> 00:38:08,337
And he said, "If you want it
louder, hit it harder".
667
00:38:08,338 --> 00:38:09,656
And I hit it as hard
as I could,
668
00:38:09,657 --> 00:38:12,699
but I couldn't hit it
as hard as John Bonham.
669
00:38:12,700 --> 00:38:16,179
He had a bunch of rules
that really didn't suit me
670
00:38:16,180 --> 00:38:18,738
and some of
the other guys, too.
671
00:38:18,739 --> 00:38:22,738
No getting high in the studio,
no drinking in the studio.
672
00:38:22,739 --> 00:38:25,377
I agreed wholeheartedly
with Glyn Johns
673
00:38:25,378 --> 00:38:27,777
regarding drugs
and alcohol in the studio -
674
00:38:27,778 --> 00:38:31,897
that we'd get more work done and
that it would be better work.
675
00:38:31,898 --> 00:38:34,817
When I got the opportunity
to produce and therefore
676
00:38:34,818 --> 00:38:38,936
be in the chair, I decided that I
would no longer put up with that.
677
00:38:38,937 --> 00:38:41,178
Somebody said to me
the other night that
678
00:38:41,179 --> 00:38:46,778
I was the designated driver
in the '60s and early '70s.
679
00:38:47,939 --> 00:38:51,256
Glyn had worked with the Rolling
Stones at a time when they went
680
00:38:51,257 --> 00:38:55,618
to the studio and did nothing except
wait for Keith to go down
681
00:38:55,619 --> 00:39:00,296
in the basement and play his guitar
until he came up with some riff.
682
00:39:00,297 --> 00:39:02,457
So, Glyn was impatient.
683
00:39:02,458 --> 00:39:05,456
The Stones
had burned him out on the
684
00:39:05,457 --> 00:39:09,376
"get high in the studio and wait for
something to happen" kind of thing.
685
00:39:09,257 --> 00:39:10,698
Let's go. We're rolling.
686
00:39:12,656 --> 00:39:14,337
1, 2, 3.
687
00:39:27,536 --> 00:39:34,976
# I like the way
your sparkling earrings lay
688
00:39:34,977 --> 00:39:38,616
# against your skin
so brown
689
00:39:42,216 --> 00:39:44,815
# And I wanna sleep
with you
690
00:39:44,816 --> 00:39:47,454
# in the desert tonight...
691
00:39:47,455 --> 00:39:49,934
There were three hit singles
on the first album.
692
00:39:49,935 --> 00:39:52,174
Peaceful Easy Feeling
was written by Jack Tempchin,
693
00:39:52,175 --> 00:39:54,777
who is our friend
and frequent collaborator.
694
00:39:54,778 --> 00:40:00,000
# Cos I got a peaceful
easy feeling...
695
00:40:00,755 --> 00:40:05,894
Peaceful Easy Feeling captures
the time, captures this attitude.
696
00:40:05,895 --> 00:40:08,735
You can feel the wind
blowing across the desert.
697
00:40:13,135 --> 00:40:15,095
# What a feeling
698
00:40:25,535 --> 00:40:29,013
The second hit was Witchy Woman,
which I wrote with Bernie.
699
00:40:30,175 --> 00:40:33,614
Witchy Woman
started as a guitar figure.
700
00:40:33,615 --> 00:40:36,933
Then we were jamming it one day,
and everybody was digging it.
701
00:40:36,934 --> 00:40:39,654
And then Henley came back
the next day with the lyrics.
702
00:40:39,655 --> 00:40:44,733
# Raven hair
and ruby lips
703
00:40:44,734 --> 00:40:49,813
# sparks fly from her
finger tips
704
00:40:49,814 --> 00:40:54,932
# Echoed voices
in the night
705
00:40:54,933 --> 00:40:59,932
# She's a restless spirit
on an endless flight
706
00:40:59,933 --> 00:41:06,094
# Woo hoo,
witchy woman
707
00:41:06,095 --> 00:41:11,533
# See how high
she flies
708
00:41:11,534 --> 00:41:16,051
# Woo hoo,
witchy woman
709
00:41:16,052 --> 00:41:21,733
# She got the moon
in her eye... #
710
00:41:21,734 --> 00:41:24,653
During the time that the Eagles
were on the road for the first album,
711
00:41:24,654 --> 00:41:28,652
we had just come through
the '60s - civil rights movement,
712
00:41:28,653 --> 00:41:31,452
'68 - all the assassinations,
all the rioting.
713
00:41:33,652 --> 00:41:36,811
The Vietnam War still winding up.
Nixon, Watergate.
714
00:41:38,612 --> 00:41:41,810
I really think that part of
the reason that the Eagles
715
00:41:41,811 --> 00:41:44,890
succeeded the way they did
was because the country
716
00:41:44,891 --> 00:41:49,092
and people and young people
needed to feel like things were OK.
717
00:41:49,093 --> 00:41:52,010
So, here comes this song
Take It Easy.
718
00:41:59,012 --> 00:42:01,169
# Well I'm a runnin'
down the road
719
00:42:01,170 --> 00:42:02,931
# Trying to loosen
my load
720
00:42:02,932 --> 00:42:05,930
# I've got seven women
on my mind
721
00:42:05,931 --> 00:42:08,291
# Four that
want to own me
722
00:42:08,292 --> 00:42:09,851
# Two that want to
stone me
723
00:42:09,852 --> 00:42:13,290
# One says
she's a friend of mine
724
00:42:13,291 --> 00:42:16,330
# Take it easy
725
00:42:16,331 --> 00:42:20,009
# Take it easy
726
00:42:20,010 --> 00:42:26,809
# Don't let the sound of
your own wheels drive you crazy
727
00:42:26,810 --> 00:42:30,329
# Lighten up
while you still can
728
00:42:30,330 --> 00:42:33,570
# Don't even try
to understand
729
00:42:33,571 --> 00:42:36,969
# Just find a place
to play your hand
730
00:42:36,970 --> 00:42:40,530
# Take it easy...
731
00:42:44,490 --> 00:42:46,568
Jackson had this song called
Take It Easy.
732
00:42:46,569 --> 00:42:50,690
He couldn't finish the song.
He was stuck in the second verse.
733
00:42:50,691 --> 00:42:55,208
He had, "I'm standing on a
corner in Winslow, Arizona".
734
00:42:55,209 --> 00:42:58,768
And so, I filled in,
"Such a fine sight to see
735
00:42:58,769 --> 00:43:00,888
It's a girl, my Lord,
in a flatbed Ford
736
00:43:00,889 --> 00:43:02,530
slowing down
to take a look at me".
737
00:43:02,531 --> 00:43:06,928
# Well, I'm a standin' on a
corner in Winslow, Arizona
738
00:43:06,929 --> 00:43:09,527
# Such a fine sight
to see
739
00:43:09,528 --> 00:43:13,568
# It's a girl my Lord
in a flat-bed Ford
740
00:43:13,569 --> 00:43:16,127
# Slowin' down
to take a look at me...
741
00:43:16,128 --> 00:43:19,407
Girl, Lord, Ford,
all the redemption.
742
00:43:19,408 --> 00:43:22,449
Girls and cars and redemption
all in this one line.
743
00:43:22,450 --> 00:43:27,209
He's very mercurical. You know
mercurial? Mercurial.
744
00:43:28,208 --> 00:43:30,648
And he's mercurical, too.
745
00:43:30,649 --> 00:43:33,607
# We may lose
and we may win
746
00:43:33,608 --> 00:43:37,167
# But we will never
be here again
747
00:43:37,168 --> 00:43:40,247
# So open up
I'm climbin' in
748
00:43:40,248 --> 00:43:43,487
# So take it easy... #
749
00:43:43,488 --> 00:43:44,728
All right!
750
00:43:51,328 --> 00:43:53,727
Someone once asked
Stephen Stills about the Eagles,
751
00:43:53,728 --> 00:43:57,647
and his response was,
"They just wanted to be us".
752
00:43:57,648 --> 00:43:59,885
But when it came time
to do our album covers,
753
00:43:59,886 --> 00:44:03,245
they suggested that we use
Gary Burden and Henry Diltz.
754
00:44:03,246 --> 00:44:05,447
They had done the first
Crosby, Stills, Nash cover
755
00:44:05,448 --> 00:44:07,727
and some stuff for Joni.
756
00:44:07,728 --> 00:44:09,327
The one
I really remember was
757
00:44:09,328 --> 00:44:12,806
The Mamas & The Papas all
sitting in the bathtub.
758
00:44:12,807 --> 00:44:14,445
That was one of
their album covers.
759
00:44:14,446 --> 00:44:18,206
So, these were the cool guys to
have work on your album.
760
00:44:18,207 --> 00:44:23,485
Gary Burden is about 40 years
old, full beard, long, greyish,
761
00:44:23,486 --> 00:44:26,205
wavy hair,
crystal-blue eyes.
762
00:44:26,206 --> 00:44:31,606
Henry was a sort of magical,
non-invasive photographer guy.
763
00:44:32,686 --> 00:44:34,125
For the Eagles,
764
00:44:34,126 --> 00:44:38,124
it was the peyote spirits which
the American Indians, of course,
765
00:44:38,125 --> 00:44:41,366
ate peyote and had a very,
very spiritual experience,
766
00:44:41,367 --> 00:44:44,445
and they would maybe
meet their animal totem
767
00:44:44,446 --> 00:44:47,885
or they would get
their quest for life.
768
00:44:47,886 --> 00:44:52,405
My deal was always to take
the bands out of their comfort zone.
769
00:44:52,406 --> 00:44:56,126
Take them away from their
girlfriends, from telephones,
770
00:44:56,127 --> 00:45:00,000
from anything, and have them
under my control so that
771
00:45:00,001 --> 00:45:04,085
I could get things to happen
without any interference.
772
00:45:04,086 --> 00:45:06,203
And so,
we would take trips.
773
00:45:06,204 --> 00:45:09,045
Now, how this plan
came about exactly,
774
00:45:09,046 --> 00:45:13,845
today you have to scratch your head,
but this was the plan.
775
00:45:13,846 --> 00:45:16,165
OK, we'll all go
to the Troubadour,
776
00:45:16,166 --> 00:45:19,084
and we'll stay there
till closing time.
777
00:45:19,085 --> 00:45:21,445
And then
we'll drive to Joshua Tree.
778
00:45:21,446 --> 00:45:24,524
# This morning
I don't know... #
779
00:45:24,525 --> 00:45:27,522
We had a bag of peyote buttons,
a bunch of trail mix,
780
00:45:27,523 --> 00:45:30,725
some tequila, and some water,
and some blankets.
781
00:45:30,726 --> 00:45:34,444
And the 7 of us set out
for Joshua Tree.
782
00:45:34,445 --> 00:45:37,642
We got there probably about 4.30
in the morning, parked in this
783
00:45:37,643 --> 00:45:40,883
special place that I don't know
how we found it in the dark.
784
00:45:46,163 --> 00:45:50,963
We all took one peyote button,
put it in our mouths,
785
00:45:50,964 --> 00:45:54,802
and started hiking up to the place
that we were supposed to go.
786
00:45:54,803 --> 00:45:58,881
So, right around the time that
we're getting to the campsite
787
00:45:58,882 --> 00:46:00,642
and we're starting
to build the fire
788
00:46:00,643 --> 00:46:03,643
and starting to cook some peyote
tea, and the first buttons -
789
00:46:03,644 --> 00:46:06,202
everybody's chewing
the first button
790
00:46:06,203 --> 00:46:09,683
and the drug starts coming on
just as the sun is rising.
791
00:46:09,684 --> 00:46:13,603
"Earlybird" by the Eagles
792
00:46:27,163 --> 00:46:30,442
I think everybody got higher
than they ever imagined
793
00:46:30,443 --> 00:46:34,081
anybody could be,
and it was a good thing.
794
00:46:34,082 --> 00:46:36,643
We were after getting
into life deeper
795
00:46:36,644 --> 00:46:39,962
and better and more
and surrendering.
796
00:46:45,121 --> 00:46:50,120
I had to go to the bathroom,
so I left the campsite,
797
00:46:50,121 --> 00:46:54,960
and I hear the guys yelling from
the campfire, "Eagle! Eagle!".
798
00:46:54,961 --> 00:46:59,681
I look up, and it's soaring
right above me. Huge wingspan.
799
00:46:59,682 --> 00:47:03,041
I'm scuffling to get my
pants back up, and I'm slipping.
800
00:47:03,042 --> 00:47:06,160
I fall down, and the bird
just kind of goes,
801
00:47:06,161 --> 00:47:10,960
"Eagles, huh?
Yeah, I don't think so".
802
00:47:13,680 --> 00:47:16,921
The images of
the first album cover
803
00:47:16,922 --> 00:47:21,960
really set the tone for
visually what Eagles are.
804
00:47:21,961 --> 00:47:25,800
Gary designed the album cover
so that it would open up into a
805
00:47:25,801 --> 00:47:32,360
whole poster, and at the bottom
were the Eagles around the campfire.
806
00:47:32,361 --> 00:47:35,360
And then, up at the top,
it would go on up into the sky
807
00:47:35,361 --> 00:47:37,599
and the eagle up
in the sky.
808
00:47:37,600 --> 00:47:40,437
But David Geffen thought
that would be confusing,
809
00:47:40,438 --> 00:47:44,240
and without consulting us or
consulting Gary or the Eagles
810
00:47:44,241 --> 00:47:47,719
or anybody, he told them,
"Just glue it shut".
811
00:47:47,720 --> 00:47:50,158
And so when they glued it shut,
you would get this:
812
00:47:50,159 --> 00:47:52,557
this album, front and back,
and you'd open it up,
813
00:47:52,558 --> 00:47:56,359
and it would be upside-down, which
didn't make any sense to anybody.
814
00:48:02,079 --> 00:48:06,037
The fact was that the success of
the first album scared the hell out of us.
815
00:48:06,038 --> 00:48:08,957
Why me instead of some guy
down the street?
816
00:48:08,958 --> 00:48:11,797
Why me and some friends of mine
who are just as good of musicians
817
00:48:11,798 --> 00:48:15,679
as I am, but it happened to me
and it didn't happen to them?
818
00:48:15,680 --> 00:48:16,957
I don't know.
819
00:48:16,958 --> 00:48:20,517
Success can sometimes be
just as disconcerting
820
00:48:20,518 --> 00:48:22,996
and frightening as failure,
especially
821
00:48:22,997 --> 00:48:26,399
when you have questions about your
own worthiness and your abilities.
822
00:48:26,400 --> 00:48:29,637
It came time to do
another album.
823
00:48:29,638 --> 00:48:32,277
Don and I decided we'd try to
write some songs together.
824
00:48:32,278 --> 00:48:34,957
I had been sitting over
on Aqua Vista.
825
00:48:34,958 --> 00:48:36,196
I was living on the couch,
826
00:48:36,197 --> 00:48:39,238
and I'm just laying there playing
the guitar, and I started going...
827
00:48:39,239 --> 00:48:41,478
# Ding-digga-ding digga... #
828
00:48:41,479 --> 00:48:42,835
I'm thinking,
829
00:48:42,836 --> 00:48:45,638
"Yeah, that's pretty cool, kind
of Roy Orbison, kind of Mexican.
830
00:48:45,639 --> 00:48:47,076
Yeah, I like that".
831
00:48:47,077 --> 00:48:49,276
So, I showed him
that guitar riff.
832
00:48:49,277 --> 00:48:51,838
I said, "Maybe we should
write something to this".
833
00:48:53,956 --> 00:48:58,076
# It's another
tequila sunrise
834
00:48:58,077 --> 00:49:04,037
# Staring slowly
across the sky
835
00:49:06,077 --> 00:49:08,757
# I said goodbye
836
00:49:11,878 --> 00:49:15,477
# He was just a
hired hand
837
00:49:16,956 --> 00:49:22,556
# Workin' on a
dreamy plan to try... #
838
00:49:22,557 --> 00:49:25,074
Songs like "Desperado"
and "Tequila Sunrise",
839
00:49:25,075 --> 00:49:27,650
that's when Glenn and I
began collaborating, and
840
00:49:27,651 --> 00:49:30,236
that's when we really became
a songwriting team.
841
00:49:30,237 --> 00:49:33,237
# Every night
when the sun goes down
842
00:49:35,075 --> 00:49:38,596
# Just another
lonely boy in town
843
00:49:40,116 --> 00:49:46,595
# And she's out
runnin' round. #
844
00:49:46,596 --> 00:49:47,636
Earlier that year,
845
00:49:47,637 --> 00:49:51,635
someone had given Jackson
Browne the book of gunfighters.
846
00:49:52,755 --> 00:49:58,074
It had all the big outlaw groups, Frank
and Jesse, the Doolin-Dalton gang.
847
00:49:58,075 --> 00:50:00,000
We were all just fascinated
with those guys,
848
00:50:00,001 --> 00:50:02,796
and we thought it
would make a great analogy.
849
00:50:02,797 --> 00:50:06,995
For example, we live
outside the laws of normality.
850
00:50:06,996 --> 00:50:10,032
Also, you usually, because of
records or bank robberies,
851
00:50:10,033 --> 00:50:12,835
you usually heard about these
guys before you ever saw them.
852
00:50:12,836 --> 00:50:16,954
They had posters that were
wanted posters up for people.
853
00:50:21,834 --> 00:50:24,475
There just seemed to be
some parallels.
854
00:50:28,994 --> 00:50:31,154
It wasn't really like
we were outlaws,
855
00:50:31,155 --> 00:50:35,195
but I think they did have
their nobler characteristics.
856
00:50:36,234 --> 00:50:43,273
# A life on the road is
the life of an outlaw, man. #
857
00:50:43,274 --> 00:50:44,592
We started talking
about it.
858
00:50:44,593 --> 00:50:48,911
Then we said, "Maybe we should do
an album all about the rebels".
859
00:50:48,912 --> 00:50:50,592
We got to doing
this outlaw album,
860
00:50:50,593 --> 00:50:54,073
and we had 8 songs finished,
and we needed 2 more.
861
00:50:54,074 --> 00:50:58,433
An idea Randy came up with
was how the guy became an outlaw
862
00:50:58,434 --> 00:51:00,634
and how he became
a guitar player.
863
00:51:03,473 --> 00:51:09,833
# He was a poor boy
raised in a small family
864
00:51:11,953 --> 00:51:19,632
# He kinda had a craving For
something no one else could see
865
00:51:20,753 --> 00:51:26,992
# They said that he was crazy
The kind that no lady should meet
866
00:51:28,472 --> 00:51:35,031
# He ran off to the city
Then wandered around in the street. #
867
00:51:35,032 --> 00:51:38,190
I kind of started it, and
that's what usually happened.
868
00:51:38,191 --> 00:51:40,310
I'd get a verse or two,
and then I'm done,
869
00:51:40,311 --> 00:51:42,912
and they would help fill in
the blanks.
870
00:51:45,752 --> 00:51:50,550
# Oh, yeah. He wants
to see the lights a-flashing
871
00:51:50,551 --> 00:51:54,031
# And listen to
the thunder ring. #
872
00:51:54,032 --> 00:52:00,511
Nobody expected there to be a concept
album with western cowboys music.
873
00:52:00,512 --> 00:52:03,910
Don Henley was from Texas.
He was a cowboy.
874
00:52:03,911 --> 00:52:07,390
Glenn was from Detroit.
He wanted to be a cowboy.
875
00:52:07,391 --> 00:52:11,151
Because I knew all these guys
had a little cowboy inside of them,
876
00:52:11,152 --> 00:52:16,310
I took them to Western Costume and
just said, "Pick out your persona".
877
00:52:16,311 --> 00:52:20,229
Their premise was that, if
they had lived 100 years ago,
878
00:52:20,230 --> 00:52:23,948
in like 1872, they probably
would have been gunslingers.
879
00:52:23,949 --> 00:52:27,188
Everybody's going to be firing in
the direction of this building right here.
880
00:52:27,189 --> 00:52:30,467
Jackson, J.D., Boyd, you all
got to be in the picture more.
881
00:52:30,468 --> 00:52:34,469
- We're going to be in there.
- You ready? 1, 2, 3!
882
00:52:40,709 --> 00:52:44,868
And we fired so many blanks that
it was a cloud of smoke hanging
883
00:52:44,869 --> 00:52:46,270
over this western town,
884
00:52:46,271 --> 00:52:52,429
and the fire department came cos'
they thought it was a fire.
885
00:52:52,430 --> 00:52:53,708
Keep firing!
886
00:52:53,709 --> 00:52:56,109
We were just a bunch of kids.
We were just playing around.
887
00:53:04,309 --> 00:53:06,347
The picture that's on
the back of the album,
888
00:53:06,348 --> 00:53:07,787
there's a lot of
reality in it.
889
00:53:07,788 --> 00:53:11,028
All of the agents and managers
and road managers, all the guys
890
00:53:11,029 --> 00:53:15,227
who didn't play are standing up,
alive with badges and guns,
891
00:53:15,228 --> 00:53:19,307
and the four Eagles at the time and
Jackson and I are all dead, bound
892
00:53:19,308 --> 00:53:22,387
up the way they used to do when
they'd catch outlaws in those days.
893
00:53:22,388 --> 00:53:23,827
They'd stand them up
for display.
894
00:53:23,828 --> 00:53:26,987
People never tired of looking
at the corpse of a bad boy.
895
00:53:30,068 --> 00:53:33,347
We all felt, when we were doing it
and as it was delivered, that it
896
00:53:33,348 --> 00:53:38,027
was another really remarkable
record on the part of the band.
897
00:53:38,028 --> 00:53:40,826
It was pretty
extraordinary.
898
00:53:40,827 --> 00:53:43,226
The band and I were
enormously thrilled with it.
899
00:53:43,227 --> 00:53:45,905
They literally carried me
out of the control room.
900
00:53:45,906 --> 00:53:48,028
They chaired me out of
the control room.
901
00:53:48,029 --> 00:53:51,506
# Desperado
902
00:53:51,507 --> 00:53:54,547
# Is there gonna be
anything left... #
903
00:53:54,548 --> 00:53:56,666
"Desperado" comes out,
and it bombs.
904
00:53:58,628 --> 00:54:02,265
Jerry Greenberg was the
Vice President of Atlantic Records.
905
00:54:02,266 --> 00:54:05,026
They were excited to get
the second Eagles album.
906
00:54:05,027 --> 00:54:07,264
We played him "Desperado",
and he said,
907
00:54:07,265 --> 00:54:10,707
"Hmm, that's nice,
that's good, that's nice".
908
00:54:10,708 --> 00:54:15,866
And turned around and said, "God,
they made a fuckin' cowboy record".
909
00:54:15,867 --> 00:54:20,665
# Desperado
910
00:54:20,666 --> 00:54:26,105
# Oh, you ain't gettin'
no younger. #
911
00:54:26,106 --> 00:54:29,624
I was extremely flattered
that Linda recorded "Desperado".
912
00:54:29,625 --> 00:54:32,383
It was really her
that popularized the song.
913
00:54:32,384 --> 00:54:35,226
Her version was very
poignant and beautiful.
914
00:54:35,227 --> 00:54:37,984
# And freedom,
oh, freedom
915
00:54:37,985 --> 00:54:42,024
# That's just
some people talkin'
916
00:54:42,025 --> 00:54:50,025
# Your prisoner is walking
through this world all alone. #
917
00:54:50,946 --> 00:54:53,500
There have been
a lot of articles and things
918
00:54:53,501 --> 00:54:56,064
that identify me
with the L.A. sound.
919
00:54:56,065 --> 00:54:58,583
It's sort of me and Jackson
Browne and the Eagles.
920
00:54:58,584 --> 00:55:00,000
All of us are
reaching out for
921
00:55:00,001 --> 00:55:02,704
other musical influences
all the time.
922
00:55:02,705 --> 00:55:05,743
The so-called southern California
sound was developing.
923
00:55:05,744 --> 00:55:08,422
It was fresh, it was different,
it was unique.
924
00:55:08,423 --> 00:55:10,182
It was a melting pot,
people moving
925
00:55:10,183 --> 00:55:12,864
here from all over the United
States to pursue their dream.
926
00:55:12,865 --> 00:55:17,824
Actors, musicians, wannabe managers,
agents, wannabe, you know, like me.
927
00:55:21,864 --> 00:55:25,063
I picked up the phone cold
and called David Geffen,
928
00:55:25,064 --> 00:55:27,904
who was just starting
Asylum Records.
929
00:55:27,905 --> 00:55:31,783
Long story short, I took a job
as a manager with Asylum.
930
00:55:31,784 --> 00:55:33,023
I was intrigued.
931
00:55:33,024 --> 00:55:36,465
I wanted to know about
the Eagles and meet the Eagles
932
00:55:36,466 --> 00:55:37,784
cos' I was a fan.
933
00:55:38,623 --> 00:55:40,303
Emergency?
934
00:55:40,304 --> 00:55:43,142
I get a phone call.
Glenn Frey's on the phone.
935
00:55:43,143 --> 00:55:45,900
"We need money for Christmas.
Can you book dates?".
936
00:55:45,901 --> 00:55:46,942
I book some dates.
937
00:55:46,943 --> 00:55:49,782
So, I get on a plane and
go out to meet them.
938
00:55:49,783 --> 00:55:52,182
First of all,
the show was fantastic.
939
00:55:52,183 --> 00:55:55,823
Crowd was nothing like I'd seen
a year, year and a half earlier.
940
00:55:55,824 --> 00:56:00,781
- Good evening. Welcome to the
Portland version of... / - Spread Eagle.
941
00:56:00,782 --> 00:56:04,861
Spread Eagle. Tonight, the
promoter gave us chopsticks.
942
00:56:04,862 --> 00:56:07,621
I don't think we ever
checked in a hotel.
943
00:56:07,622 --> 00:56:10,142
We went from there
to a party at a sorority house.
944
00:56:10,143 --> 00:56:14,741
One thing led to another, and
I'd never seen anything like this.
945
00:56:14,742 --> 00:56:16,660
They wouldn't give us
any booze in the bar.
946
00:56:16,661 --> 00:56:18,780
We tried to get some booze,
but they fucked up,
947
00:56:18,781 --> 00:56:21,060
so we may burn the fucking
place down. We're not sure.
948
00:56:21,061 --> 00:56:22,382
I don't think
we went to sleep.
949
00:56:22,383 --> 00:56:24,143
It was Eagle mania.
950
00:56:27,742 --> 00:56:32,341
And then they went off to England to
record "On the Border" with Glyn Johns.
951
00:56:34,063 --> 00:56:36,740
They were quite open
to being produced.
952
00:56:36,741 --> 00:56:39,101
Understandably,
that changed.
953
00:56:39,102 --> 00:56:44,220
They began to be more opinionated
and less insecure, perhaps.
954
00:56:44,221 --> 00:56:47,738
We wanted to play rock 'n' roll
or at least a more rock 'n -roll
955
00:56:47,739 --> 00:56:50,299
version of country music,
and Glyn Johns
956
00:56:50,300 --> 00:56:53,622
was of the opinion that
we weren't really capable of that.
957
00:56:53,623 --> 00:56:56,500
I think he had been
bombarded by loud,
958
00:56:56,501 --> 00:56:58,979
aggressive rock 'n' roll for
many, many years.
959
00:56:58,980 --> 00:57:03,421
At that point in his life, he wanted
mellow people and mellow music,
960
00:57:03,422 --> 00:57:07,899
and we weren't exactly at
the same stage in life.
961
00:57:07,900 --> 00:57:10,580
Frey sort of took
over more.
962
00:57:10,581 --> 00:57:13,057
He had this desire
to be something that
963
00:57:13,058 --> 00:57:15,980
I didn't really feel that
they were capable of doing.
964
00:57:15,981 --> 00:57:22,259
He and Glenn Frey were like oil
and water. They clashed frequently.
965
00:57:22,260 --> 00:57:26,220
In the studio, Glyn Johns was
pretty much a schoolmarm.
966
00:57:26,221 --> 00:57:30,259
He'd push, push, push, you know?
And then he'd say, "That's it.
967
00:57:30,260 --> 00:57:34,058
That's good enough. We're moving on.
You're not a rock 'n-roll band.
968
00:57:34,059 --> 00:57:37,340
The Who is a rock 'n-roll band,
and you're not that".
969
00:57:38,539 --> 00:57:43,058
After each of those records,
the band freaked out and said,
970
00:57:43,059 --> 00:57:45,858
"We've made
a huge mistake.
971
00:57:45,859 --> 00:57:47,459
Glyn Johns missed it".
972
00:57:47,460 --> 00:57:49,296
We actually
had conversations.
973
00:57:49,297 --> 00:57:51,979
"Desperado" hadn't done as well
as the first album.
974
00:57:51,980 --> 00:57:56,458
None of them were thrilled with
the way the record sounded.
975
00:57:56,459 --> 00:58:00,098
We wanted more input into how
our albums were being made.
976
00:58:00,099 --> 00:58:03,977
We wanted more input into
the recording process itself.
977
00:58:03,978 --> 00:58:07,618
Don and I thought that
the vocals were too wet.
978
00:58:07,619 --> 00:58:10,137
There was too much echo
on them.
979
00:58:10,138 --> 00:58:12,577
And he definitely told us,
"Excuse me, that's my echo.
980
00:58:12,578 --> 00:58:15,136
It's my signature. It's my
bloody echo. It stays there.
981
00:58:15,137 --> 00:58:16,659
You don't tell me
what to do".
982
00:58:16,660 --> 00:58:18,818
We needed
to make a change.
983
00:58:21,858 --> 00:58:25,138
I joined the Navy at
the height of the Cold War.
984
00:58:25,139 --> 00:58:28,176
One of the main things they were
doing was looking for Russian
985
00:58:28,177 --> 00:58:30,337
submarines, and you do that
by using sonar.
986
00:58:31,778 --> 00:58:36,097
When I got out, I had a lot of
electronics education, obviously.
987
00:58:36,098 --> 00:58:39,897
And I got a job in a recording
studio here in New York.
988
00:58:40,978 --> 00:58:43,858
The first session I ever saw,
like day 1, day 2,
989
00:58:43,859 --> 00:58:45,816
was a Carole King demo.
990
00:58:45,817 --> 00:58:49,895
She sat down and played piano,
and it was like, "Boy, this is fun.
991
00:58:49,896 --> 00:58:52,057
"These people are having fun here."
992
00:58:55,777 --> 00:58:58,775
I worked my way up through
the ranks, and then, of course,
993
00:58:58,776 --> 00:59:01,054
after engineering for
4 or 5 years, I was like,
994
00:59:01,055 --> 00:59:05,137
"I can produce better than some
of these guys I'm working for".
995
00:59:05,138 --> 00:59:09,016
At the time, I was managing
Joe Walsh, so I played them
996
00:59:09,017 --> 00:59:14,375
Walsh music that I thought was an
example of how it could be edgier.
997
00:59:14,376 --> 00:59:16,734
Joe and I had just finished
an album called
998
00:59:16,735 --> 00:59:19,134
"The Smoker You Drink,
The Player You Get".
999
00:59:19,135 --> 00:59:23,135
And they heard that and said,
"That's what we want to sound like".
1000
00:59:23,136 --> 00:59:26,133
So, Irving arranged for us to have
a meeting with Bill Szymczyk.
1001
00:59:26,134 --> 00:59:29,653
We really only had 2 questions
that we wanted to ask him.
1002
00:59:29,654 --> 00:59:32,894
Do you mind if we have some input
about how much echo is on the vocals?
1003
00:59:32,895 --> 00:59:35,654
And we wanted somebody who
would put a microphone on each
1004
00:59:35,655 --> 00:59:38,657
and every drum so we could have
more control over the mix.
1005
00:59:38,658 --> 00:59:43,575
He said yes to every question, and
so we knew he was the guy for us.
1006
00:59:43,576 --> 00:59:45,134
I said, "OK,
under one condition.
1007
00:59:45,135 --> 00:59:48,576
I have to call Glyn and
make sure it's OK with him".
1008
00:59:48,577 --> 00:59:51,254
So, I called him,
and I said,
1009
00:59:51,255 --> 00:59:54,295
"Glyn, the Eagles
want me to produce them".
1010
00:59:54,296 --> 00:59:55,895
"Better you than me,
mate."
1011
00:59:55,896 --> 00:59:58,334
That's pretty much
how I felt.
1012
00:59:58,335 --> 01:00:00,000
It had come to
1013
01:00:00,001 --> 01:00:03,053
a fairly unpleasant
end.
1014
01:00:03,054 --> 01:00:07,094
So much for Beatle country
with Glyn Johns.
1015
01:00:11,934 --> 01:00:16,014
Let's have a warm round of applause
on a hot afternoon for the Eagles!
1016
01:00:17,854 --> 01:00:20,893
# James Dean, James Dean
1017
01:00:20,894 --> 01:00:23,212
# So hungry and so lean
1018
01:00:23,213 --> 01:00:26,853
# James Dean, James Dean
1019
01:00:26,854 --> 01:00:30,294
# You said it all so clean. #
1020
01:00:31,494 --> 01:00:33,334
Along about
the third album,
1021
01:00:33,335 --> 01:00:38,492
I was having some difficulty
in communicating, I felt, in the
1022
01:00:38,493 --> 01:00:41,973
band, and I was starting to think
maybe I should go at some point.
1023
01:00:41,974 --> 01:00:46,732
They still had this unfulfilled
desire to be a mainstream
1024
01:00:46,733 --> 01:00:49,292
rock band and not just
a vocal band,
1025
01:00:49,293 --> 01:00:52,174
but I think they wanted
to go in a tougher direction.
1026
01:00:54,693 --> 01:00:57,613
Bernie Leadon was a country-based
guitar player, but every time
1027
01:00:57,614 --> 01:01:02,813
I wanted to do a rock 'n-roll song,
he was the lead guitar player.
1028
01:01:04,132 --> 01:01:08,332
# Cos I'm already gone. #
1029
01:01:08,333 --> 01:01:11,132
Every time we wanted to do
something country that Bernie sang,
1030
01:01:11,133 --> 01:01:12,970
I was supposed to be
the lead guitar player,
1031
01:01:12,971 --> 01:01:15,973
and I wasn't a country
musician by any stretch.
1032
01:01:15,974 --> 01:01:19,612
It always felt like we needed
a third guitar player.
1033
01:01:21,453 --> 01:01:25,210
We had met this friend of Bernie's,
this guy named Don Felder.
1034
01:01:25,211 --> 01:01:27,690
We were playing in Boston, and
he came back to visit Bernie,
1035
01:01:27,691 --> 01:01:29,852
and we were jamming upstairs
in the dressing room,
1036
01:01:29,853 --> 01:01:32,412
and this guy
was all over the neck.
1037
01:01:38,131 --> 01:01:39,849
What he brought
was great chops.
1038
01:01:39,850 --> 01:01:42,490
We called him Fingers,
Fingers Felder,
1039
01:01:42,491 --> 01:01:44,052
because he was
an incredible player.
1040
01:01:52,131 --> 01:01:54,611
We did that session.
I think it was like 3 hours.
1041
01:01:54,612 --> 01:01:57,050
And then I packed up
and went home,
1042
01:01:57,051 --> 01:02:00,089
not thinking anything more about it
than it was just another session.
1043
01:02:00,090 --> 01:02:02,770
And the next day,
Glenn called me and asked me
1044
01:02:02,771 --> 01:02:05,170
if I would like to
join the band.
1045
01:02:05,171 --> 01:02:06,290
I said, "Absolutely".
1046
01:02:08,331 --> 01:02:09,928
I'm in heaven.
1047
01:02:09,929 --> 01:02:13,209
- Let's go another one.
- All right, do it right!
1048
01:02:13,210 --> 01:02:17,089
The banter that would go on
in between takes was hysterical,
1049
01:02:17,090 --> 01:02:22,448
and so I took to running a two-track
to pick up these silly things.
1050
01:02:22,449 --> 01:02:26,247
We were young men with raging
hormones and something to prove.
1051
01:02:26,248 --> 01:02:28,768
In the context of the times
and the profession,
1052
01:02:28,769 --> 01:02:31,647
the way we behaved wasn't
really all that remarkable.
1053
01:02:31,648 --> 01:02:34,729
The creative impulse comes from
the dark side of the personality,
1054
01:02:34,730 --> 01:02:37,048
so we worked it good,
you know.
1055
01:02:37,049 --> 01:02:41,128
We did a lot of stupid things,
said a lot of stupid things.
1056
01:02:41,129 --> 01:02:44,489
It was the '70s.
There were drugs everywhere.
1057
01:02:44,490 --> 01:02:49,808
# Cactus sunrise was in my face
Everyone was dying
1058
01:02:49,809 --> 01:02:53,367
# Everyone was lying
and trying
1059
01:02:53,368 --> 01:02:56,967
# Well, rub your belly
in the linseed oil... #
1060
01:02:56,968 --> 01:02:58,488
There you go.
1061
01:03:00,289 --> 01:03:04,487
The heartbreak of psoriasis
has once again descended upon
1062
01:03:04,488 --> 01:03:07,926
the adolescent experience,
and we'll see you later.
1063
01:03:07,927 --> 01:03:09,969
See you at the show
later on tonight.
1064
01:03:09,970 --> 01:03:14,968
The question was who could
handle it? Who could function?
1065
01:03:14,969 --> 01:03:16,008
Who could show up?
1066
01:03:16,009 --> 01:03:18,967
# One of these nights
1067
01:03:21,688 --> 01:03:24,167
# One of these
crazy long nights
1068
01:03:26,567 --> 01:03:29,687
# We're gonna find out,
pretty mama
1069
01:03:31,208 --> 01:03:32,768
# What turns on
your lights
1070
01:03:35,728 --> 01:03:38,167
# The full moon
is calling
1071
01:03:38,168 --> 01:03:40,326
# The fever is high
1072
01:03:40,327 --> 01:03:43,927
# And the wicked wind
whispers and more
1073
01:03:45,607 --> 01:03:47,206
# You got your demons
1074
01:03:47,207 --> 01:03:52,967
# And you got desires
But I got a few of my own
1075
01:03:54,966 --> 01:03:59,045
# Ooooh, someone
to be kind to
1076
01:03:59,046 --> 01:04:02,885
# In between
the dark and the light
1077
01:04:02,886 --> 01:04:07,925
# Ooooh, comin' right
behind you
1078
01:04:07,926 --> 01:04:11,406
# Swear I'm gonna find you
One of these nights
1079
01:04:11,127 --> 01:04:14,445
# One of these days
1080
01:04:14,726 --> 01:04:15,966
There were always girls.
1081
01:04:22,366 --> 01:04:26,043
There were a lot of opportunities
out on the road to entertain
1082
01:04:26,044 --> 01:04:28,325
ourselves with
one thing or another.
1083
01:04:28,326 --> 01:04:32,005
So, we started to perfect
after-show partying,
1084
01:04:32,006 --> 01:04:35,684
and we invented a place
called the Third Encore.
1085
01:04:35,685 --> 01:04:39,284
We did 2 encores in our show, so
the third encore was the party.
1086
01:04:39,285 --> 01:04:43,403
Everybody in the band and everybody
in the crew was given a bunch
1087
01:04:43,404 --> 01:04:47,403
of buttons, and all we said was,
"No weirdos, no strange people, OK?
1088
01:04:47,404 --> 01:04:50,603
If you're going to give a button to
somebody, make it count".
1089
01:04:50,604 --> 01:04:54,923
Totally sick. There's some real warped shit
coming on now, ladies and gentlemen.
1090
01:04:54,924 --> 01:04:58,445
A member of Andy Warthog's pop-bowel
movement has just tried to crash our party.
1091
01:04:58,446 --> 01:05:00,000
Welcome to
1092
01:05:00,001 --> 01:05:04,483
Pittsburgh Spread Eagle.
1093
01:05:04,484 --> 01:05:08,404
We want to just ask these girls why they
think they have to leave now that it's 2:00.
1094
01:05:08,405 --> 01:05:11,003
One thing,
he smells like beer.
1095
01:05:11,004 --> 01:05:13,803
We'd fill the bathtubs up
with Budweiser,
1096
01:05:13,804 --> 01:05:15,962
and we'd have a party
after every show.
1097
01:05:15,963 --> 01:05:19,922
- Your name, please.
- Tammy Farley.
1098
01:05:19,923 --> 01:05:22,681
- Here we have Karen. Karen is
20 years old. / - Is that correct?
1099
01:05:22,682 --> 01:05:26,201
- Yeah. / - What's your name, dear?
- Fuck it, man. / - Pardon? Fuck it.
1100
01:05:26,202 --> 01:05:27,683
Her name's
"Fuck it, man".
1101
01:05:27,684 --> 01:05:30,684
I want to talk about
sex and drugs.
1102
01:05:32,244 --> 01:05:33,763
Who wants to go first?
1103
01:05:33,764 --> 01:05:36,042
I'm not lost for words
on either subject.
1104
01:05:36,043 --> 01:05:39,121
Sex and drugs kind of came as
a big package in the '60s.
1105
01:05:39,122 --> 01:05:42,123
It seemed like everybody,
the sexual revolution
1106
01:05:42,124 --> 01:05:46,884
and the drug thing probably
started out together.
1107
01:05:48,602 --> 01:05:50,203
Didn't they?
1108
01:05:53,002 --> 01:05:56,121
Don and I both tried to have
relationships while we were members
1109
01:05:56,122 --> 01:06:00,324
of the Eagles, but it was always
like the Eagles trumped everything.
1110
01:06:02,283 --> 01:06:06,763
When the Eagles became successful,
we challenged all the rules.
1111
01:06:08,721 --> 01:06:11,240
Like when David Geffen
left Asylum Records
1112
01:06:11,241 --> 01:06:15,320
and sold everything to Warner Bros
and started his new empire.
1113
01:06:15,321 --> 01:06:19,241
Let's be frank. When we signed
that contract, we were idiots.
1114
01:06:19,242 --> 01:06:22,160
We knew nothing
about the business.
1115
01:06:22,161 --> 01:06:26,441
We had poor legal representation,
nobody looking out for us.
1116
01:06:26,442 --> 01:06:31,361
Remember, bands don't really get
record royalties usually ever.
1117
01:06:31,362 --> 01:06:35,640
So, they get money from touring,
but they get publishing money.
1118
01:06:35,641 --> 01:06:38,439
So, in the very beginning,
one thing that Geffen did
1119
01:06:38,440 --> 01:06:41,839
that I thought was great. He had us
form a band publishing company.
1120
01:06:41,840 --> 01:06:44,279
All the band's publishing
went in that.
1121
01:06:44,280 --> 01:06:46,760
The problem was
Geffen had the other half.
1122
01:06:46,761 --> 01:06:49,039
Half the Eagles' publishing,
half of my publishing,
1123
01:06:49,040 --> 01:06:52,880
half of all the artists that he signed
went to Warner Bros, but
1124
01:06:52,881 --> 01:06:55,760
he got them
to return mine.
1125
01:06:55,761 --> 01:06:58,320
Jackson turned me on
to the Eagles.
1126
01:06:58,321 --> 01:07:00,560
He had turned me on to
a lot of artists,
1127
01:07:00,561 --> 01:07:03,040
and I felt I owed him
something.
1128
01:07:03,041 --> 01:07:07,758
And that, not surprisingly, was not
acceptable rationale to the Eagles!
1129
01:07:07,759 --> 01:07:11,641
There's a certain amount of ire,
like, real, you know, like,
1130
01:07:11,642 --> 01:07:14,318
"What the fuck?
1131
01:07:14,319 --> 01:07:16,958
"We didn't get
our publishing back!".
1132
01:07:16,959 --> 01:07:19,957
So, it was the publishing issue and
the fact that the business managers
1133
01:07:19,958 --> 01:07:22,360
and the lawyers were all
shared common guys,
1134
01:07:22,361 --> 01:07:27,479
and did they have a conflict when an
issue came up and which side to take?
1135
01:07:27,480 --> 01:07:29,837
It just makes you feel
like meat.
1136
01:07:29,838 --> 01:07:32,837
It started out as such a personal,
nurturing endeavour
1137
01:07:32,838 --> 01:07:35,637
with Mr Geffen saying,
"I'm going to protect you guys.
1138
01:07:35,638 --> 01:07:37,998
That's why I'm calling
my new label 'Asylum'.
1139
01:07:37,999 --> 01:07:40,799
It's going to be a sanctuary
for real artists".
1140
01:07:40,800 --> 01:07:43,278
He once said to
Irving Azoff,
1141
01:07:43,279 --> 01:07:45,879
"You know, Irving,
this would be a great business
1142
01:07:45,880 --> 01:07:48,798
if there weren't artists".
1143
01:07:48,799 --> 01:07:51,796
Irving was the one guy who
really believed in us,
1144
01:07:51,797 --> 01:07:54,516
that I thought could do
something to help us.
1145
01:07:54,517 --> 01:07:56,956
I basically hired a lawyer
and went in
1146
01:07:56,957 --> 01:08:00,079
after I said, "The Eagles would
like their publishing back,
1147
01:08:00,080 --> 01:08:02,878
to which the obvious
response was, "No".
1148
01:08:02,879 --> 01:08:06,038
He sort of drew a line in
the sand and declared war,
1149
01:08:06,039 --> 01:08:09,277
so I felt, for my survival,
as their manager,
1150
01:08:09,278 --> 01:08:12,716
I needed to prove to them that
I wasn't afraid of Geffen
1151
01:08:12,717 --> 01:08:14,716
and would stand up and.
1152
01:08:14,717 --> 01:08:17,195
The lawsuit was filed
as a last resort.
1153
01:08:17,196 --> 01:08:20,237
I don't think David liked reading
his name in the lawsuit.
1154
01:08:20,238 --> 01:08:22,876
I thought it was incredibly
ungrateful
1155
01:08:22,877 --> 01:08:27,357
and they misrepresented
the facts, but so be it.
1156
01:08:27,358 --> 01:08:29,275
Ultimately,
we settled out of court,
1157
01:08:29,276 --> 01:08:31,116
and I don't believe
it took very long.
1158
01:08:31,117 --> 01:08:32,797
He just wanted to
get rid of us.
1159
01:08:32,798 --> 01:08:37,716
This is our new
record contract.
1160
01:08:37,717 --> 01:08:39,637
Just paper!
1161
01:08:39,638 --> 01:08:42,037
So, then we headed off,
for parts unknown
1162
01:08:42,038 --> 01:08:44,838
with Irving Azoff
at the helm.
1163
01:08:52,636 --> 01:08:55,476
This card game
is called Eagle Poker.
1164
01:08:55,477 --> 01:08:57,476
It's a bastardization
of Red Dog.
1165
01:08:57,477 --> 01:09:02,435
I invented it in Detroit,
Michigan, in 1947,
1166
01:09:02,436 --> 01:09:04,876
one year before
I was born.
1167
01:09:04,877 --> 01:09:10,715
We were big gamblers.
We played poker all the time.
1168
01:09:10,716 --> 01:09:13,754
They should have never
given me money.
1169
01:09:13,755 --> 01:09:17,075
So, we decided we'd go to
the Bahamas to gamble.
1170
01:09:17,076 --> 01:09:20,114
Everybody but Don
was holding.
1171
01:09:20,115 --> 01:09:22,635
I had like 4 joints
in a baggie,
1172
01:09:22,636 --> 01:09:24,913
stuffed down my sock
in my cowboy boot.
1173
01:09:24,914 --> 01:09:26,755
Durkin, the pilot,
has a joint.
1174
01:09:26,756 --> 01:09:30,315
Irving had about 30 Valiums
in a sugar pack.
1175
01:09:30,316 --> 01:09:33,794
There was a couple
of customs officials there
1176
01:09:33,795 --> 01:09:37,073
that asked us to collect all
our luggage and come over,
1177
01:09:37,074 --> 01:09:39,633
and they wanted to search us
'cause we looked terrible.
1178
01:09:39,634 --> 01:09:42,155
We had really long hair
and patches on our jeans
1179
01:09:42,156 --> 01:09:44,153
and a beard and
not slept.
1180
01:09:44,154 --> 01:09:46,714
Now, I'm freaking out.
1181
01:09:46,715 --> 01:09:49,754
Bernie's freaking out.
Irving's freaking out.
1182
01:09:49,755 --> 01:09:51,874
Henley's pissed off.
1183
01:09:51,875 --> 01:09:53,354
Don't touch me.
1184
01:09:53,355 --> 01:09:55,794
The guy proceeds to put us all
in a room together,
1185
01:09:55,795 --> 01:09:59,113
and they start
searching us one by one.
1186
01:10:00,001 --> 01:10:02,794
My greatest fear is that I'm going
to be locked in a jail cell
1187
01:10:02,795 --> 01:10:05,592
with Bernie Leadon.
1188
01:10:05,593 --> 01:10:08,793
So, at this point,
Irving steps in and takes
1189
01:10:08,794 --> 01:10:11,595
one of the Bahamian
customs guys over to the side
1190
01:10:11,596 --> 01:10:13,313
and has a chat with him.
1191
01:10:13,314 --> 01:10:16,475
I'm not sure, to this day,
what Irving said to him.
1192
01:10:19,793 --> 01:10:23,032
The next thing I knew,
they let us pass with no problem.
1193
01:10:23,033 --> 01:10:25,711
It was sort of miraculous,
really, it was,
1194
01:10:25,712 --> 01:10:28,751
because I thought for sure we
were going to be in the slammer.
1195
01:10:28,752 --> 01:10:30,910
It was dumb luck that
this guy bought my line
1196
01:10:30,911 --> 01:10:32,231
and didn't search them.
1197
01:10:32,232 --> 01:10:34,351
That was the day
I decided, Irving Azoff
1198
01:10:34,352 --> 01:10:36,550
was the greatest manager
in rock 'n' roll
1199
01:10:36,551 --> 01:10:39,473
and I would never do anything
without him by my side.
1200
01:10:41,233 --> 01:10:44,113
I had the only seat in a
major championship fight
1201
01:10:44,114 --> 01:10:49,032
to be sitting there when
a lyric was thrown out
1202
01:10:49,033 --> 01:10:51,032
and then hear a track.
1203
01:10:52,032 --> 01:10:56,831
# My on my, you sure know
how to arrange things... #
1204
01:10:56,832 --> 01:10:59,230
I've watched the creative
process with lots of people,
1205
01:10:59,231 --> 01:11:01,992
but I've never seen it the way
it fell in place with them.
1206
01:11:01,993 --> 01:11:04,871
I remember watching
"Lyin' Eyes" written.
1207
01:11:04,872 --> 01:11:07,951
Glenn just had a way of
coming up with a phrase.
1208
01:11:07,952 --> 01:11:10,750
He had written some kind of a tune,
and they were sitting in Tana's
1209
01:11:10,751 --> 01:11:14,710
one night and looking at some young
girl with an older guy at the bar,
1210
01:11:14,711 --> 01:11:17,589
and Glenn said,
"Look at those lyin' eyes".
1211
01:11:17,590 --> 01:11:20,351
And just like that,
wow, there's the song.
1212
01:11:20,352 --> 01:11:26,830
# You can't hide
your lyin' eyes
1213
01:11:26,831 --> 01:11:33,590
# And your smile
is a thin disguise
1214
01:11:33,591 --> 01:11:40,830
# I thought by now
you'd realise,
1215
01:11:40,831 --> 01:11:46,510
# There ain't no way
to hide your lyin' eyes... #
1216
01:11:46,511 --> 01:11:49,828
It was just about all these girls
who would come down to Dan Tana's
1217
01:11:49,829 --> 01:11:53,348
looking beautiful, and they'd be
there from 8:00pm to midnight
1218
01:11:53,349 --> 01:11:55,788
and have dinner and drinks
with all of us rockers,
1219
01:11:55,789 --> 01:11:59,110
and then they'd go home
because they were kept women.
1220
01:11:59,111 --> 01:12:04,270
# On the other side of town,
a boy is waiting
1221
01:12:06,150 --> 01:12:13,789
# With fiery eyes and
dreams no one could steal
1222
01:12:13,790 --> 01:12:19,869
# She drives on through
the night anticipating,
1223
01:12:19,870 --> 01:12:24,747
# Cause he makes her feel
the way she used to feel... #
1224
01:12:24,748 --> 01:12:27,427
When we were doing the
"One of These Nights" album,
1225
01:12:27,428 --> 01:12:29,107
we'd gone through
3 albums,
1226
01:12:29,108 --> 01:12:33,587
and the only people who'd sung on
any hit records were Don and myself.
1227
01:12:33,588 --> 01:12:36,826
And Randy always felt like
he was a lead singer, too.
1228
01:12:36,827 --> 01:12:39,626
And I actually felt that way, too.
I liked his voice.
1229
01:12:39,627 --> 01:12:42,627
So, he brought in the beginnings
of 'Take It To the Limit',
1230
01:12:42,628 --> 01:12:45,950
and it became the Eagles'
first number-1 single.
1231
01:12:45,951 --> 01:12:48,987
# Take it to the limit,
come on,
1232
01:12:48,988 --> 01:12:52,108
# and take it to the limit,
1233
01:12:52,109 --> 01:12:56,668
# One more time,
1234
01:12:56,669 --> 01:13:00,107
# Take it to the limit... #
1235
01:13:00,108 --> 01:13:03,707
The line 'Take It To the Limit'
was to keep trying
1236
01:13:03,708 --> 01:13:08,786
before you reach a point in
your life where you feel
1237
01:13:08,787 --> 01:13:11,826
you've done everything and seen
everything sort of feeling.
1238
01:13:11,827 --> 01:13:15,428
A part of getting old,
and just to take it to the limit
1239
01:13:15,429 --> 01:13:19,666
one more time, like every day,
just keep punching away at it.
1240
01:13:19,667 --> 01:13:22,225
And that's all that I really...
That was the line,
1241
01:13:22,226 --> 01:13:26,147
and from there, the song took a
different, you know, course.
1242
01:13:26,108 --> 01:13:28,667
# Take it to the limit,
1243
01:13:37,307 --> 01:13:42,545
I think everybody in the Eagles
did the level best we could.
1244
01:13:42,546 --> 01:13:44,745
You have to remember
how young we were,
1245
01:13:44,746 --> 01:13:47,744
the fact that nobody had
anything when we started,
1246
01:13:47,745 --> 01:13:50,306
and you got all this stuff
coming at you.
1247
01:13:50,307 --> 01:13:54,465
Meanwhile, you're touring
all the time. It's a lot.
1248
01:13:54,466 --> 01:13:58,664
To Bernie, success on any scale
was synonymous with selling out.
1249
01:13:58,665 --> 01:14:01,864
He wanted us to remain sort
of an underground band.
1250
01:14:01,865 --> 01:14:06,144
We had our problems with Bernie,
and Bernie had his problems with us.
1251
01:14:06,145 --> 01:14:10,505
Some of it was based on him being
able to have a voice in the Eagles
1252
01:14:10,506 --> 01:14:14,545
and record the songs he wanted
to, the way he wanted to.
1253
01:14:14,546 --> 01:14:16,946
We were getting
more and more rocked out,
1254
01:14:16,947 --> 01:14:21,624
and I think Bernie was less
and less happy about that,
1255
01:14:21,625 --> 01:14:24,944
to the point that, one time,
we had worked on a track all night.
1256
01:14:24,945 --> 01:14:26,703
It was a
rocked-out track,
1257
01:14:26,704 --> 01:14:29,064
and we're all sitting behind
the board the next day,
1258
01:14:29,065 --> 01:14:31,423
listening to the various takes
of it, trying to decide
1259
01:14:31,424 --> 01:14:34,743
which take we liked the best.
Bernie hadn't said a word.
1260
01:14:34,744 --> 01:14:38,142
So, I asked him over the board,
I said, "Bernie, what do you think?".
1261
01:14:38,143 --> 01:14:40,666
There's a long pause, and
he gets up, and he stretches,
1262
01:14:40,667 --> 01:14:43,784
and he says,
"I think I'm going surfing".
1263
01:14:43,785 --> 01:14:46,345
And he left.
1264
01:14:53,544 --> 01:14:56,262
I was caught in the middle
a lot of times.
1265
01:14:56,263 --> 01:14:58,182
And sometimes I would
agree with Bernie, but
1266
01:14:58,183 --> 01:15:00,000
most of the time,
I would agree with Glenn.
1267
01:15:00,001 --> 01:15:03,262
Glenn and I always wanted
the band to be a hybrid,
1268
01:15:03,263 --> 01:15:06,781
to encompass bluegrass and
country and rock 'n' roll.
1269
01:15:06,782 --> 01:15:09,102
There was a part of Bernie
that really resisted that.
1270
01:15:09,103 --> 01:15:11,424
After a while,
it became a real problem,
1271
01:15:11,425 --> 01:15:15,183
particularly between
Bernie and Glenn.
1272
01:15:15,184 --> 01:15:17,862
Finally, we were at
the Orange Bowl in Miami.
1273
01:15:17,863 --> 01:15:21,981
We were backstage, and we were
talking about what our next move
1274
01:15:21,982 --> 01:15:24,543
was going to be, what
our plans were supposed to be,
1275
01:15:24,544 --> 01:15:29,781
and I was animated and adamant
about what we needed to do next
1276
01:15:29,782 --> 01:15:32,981
here, there, and everywhere,
and Bernie comes over
1277
01:15:32,982 --> 01:15:36,783
and pours a beer on my head and
says, "You need to chill out, man".
1278
01:15:38,463 --> 01:15:41,582
I have no idea.
It was a spontaneous thing.
1279
01:15:41,583 --> 01:15:45,301
I take that incident now
quite seriously.
1280
01:15:45,302 --> 01:15:48,102
That was a very
disrespectful thing to do.
1281
01:15:48,103 --> 01:15:52,261
Obviously, it was intended
to be humiliating to him,
1282
01:15:52,262 --> 01:15:58,142
I would say, and is something
I'm really not proud of.
1283
01:15:58,143 --> 01:16:00,742
It did illustrate
a breaking point.
1284
01:16:08,221 --> 01:16:10,821
During that time,
we got a couple shows
1285
01:16:10,822 --> 01:16:15,340
opening for the Rolling Stones, and
Irving was managing Joe Walsh.
1286
01:16:15,341 --> 01:16:20,062
Joe Walsh was a bona fide
rock 'n' roll guitar player.
1287
01:16:24,902 --> 01:16:28,100
So, for a couple of those shows,
just for our encores,
1288
01:16:28,101 --> 01:16:30,179
we'd put Joe Walsh
in a road box,
1289
01:16:30,180 --> 01:16:34,421
and we'd come back to do an encore,
and we'd roll the road box out,
1290
01:16:34,422 --> 01:16:37,700
and just like the model
jumping out of a cake,
1291
01:16:37,701 --> 01:16:41,739
we'd open the guitar case,
and there would be Joe Walsh
1292
01:16:41,740 --> 01:16:45,858
with his Les Paul, and he'd climb
out of the box and plug in,
1293
01:16:45,859 --> 01:16:48,981
and the Eagles... We would
play 'Rocky Mountain Way'.
1294
01:16:56,700 --> 01:16:58,619
I loved the way he played.
1295
01:16:58,620 --> 01:17:01,899
I'd loved the James Gang when
I was growing up in Detroit.
1296
01:17:01,900 --> 01:17:06,820
Now I started thinking,
"Joe Walsh for Bernie Leadon".
1297
01:17:08,300 --> 01:17:13,340
# Spent the last year
Rocky Mountain Way
1298
01:17:13,541 --> 01:17:19,138
# Couldn't get
much higher... #
1299
01:17:19,139 --> 01:17:22,298
OK, maybe the vocals
won't be quite as good,
1300
01:17:22,299 --> 01:17:24,780
but, boy, are we going
to kick some ass!
1301
01:17:24,781 --> 01:17:28,378
# Time to open fire
1302
01:17:28,379 --> 01:17:33,338
# And we don't need
the ladies cryin'
1303
01:17:33,339 --> 01:17:37,698
# 'Cause the story's sad... #
1304
01:17:37,699 --> 01:17:40,538
I think one of the things
that I brought into the band
1305
01:17:40,539 --> 01:17:43,897
that was good
for the band was
1306
01:17:43,898 --> 01:17:46,858
to bring it up a notch
when we played live.
1307
01:17:46,859 --> 01:17:50,819
Just keep kicking it in the butt
a little bit, you know?
1308
01:18:19,258 --> 01:18:23,536
All right, D.C.,
come on, give it up!
1309
01:18:23,537 --> 01:18:26,696
I went to a show,
maybe 8 months later,
1310
01:18:26,697 --> 01:18:29,776
and the band are interacting
with each other
1311
01:18:29,777 --> 01:18:34,056
exactly like we did with me
on stage, except instead of me,
1312
01:18:34,057 --> 01:18:38,776
Walsh was up there, and
it just was really, really odd
1313
01:18:38,777 --> 01:18:42,176
to be watching it
and not be part of it.
1314
01:18:42,177 --> 01:18:44,496
So, I actually left that show.
I was just like,
1315
01:18:44,497 --> 01:18:46,375
"This is too weird".
1316
01:18:46,376 --> 01:18:50,774
So, we got Joe Walsh in the band.
That's another adventure,
1317
01:18:50,775 --> 01:18:53,054
because Joe was an
interesting bunch of guys.
1318
01:18:53,055 --> 01:18:55,773
Hey, I tell you what.
If you got firecrackers,
1319
01:18:55,774 --> 01:18:58,414
just wait until you get home,
lock yourself in the closet,
1320
01:18:58,415 --> 01:19:00,455
and light everything
you got, OK?
1321
01:19:03,336 --> 01:19:04,655
Thank you, Joe.
1322
01:19:04,656 --> 01:19:07,735
He brought a lot of levity to just
about everything that happened,
1323
01:19:07,736 --> 01:19:11,095
which was needed
at that time.
1324
01:19:11,096 --> 01:19:14,535
- Heads or tails?
- Heads.
1325
01:19:14,536 --> 01:19:17,054
I could use
a little head myself.
1326
01:19:17,055 --> 01:19:19,973
In those days, you didn't know
what he was going to do next.
1327
01:19:19,974 --> 01:19:23,454
It was fun most of the time,
although not all the time.
1328
01:19:23,455 --> 01:19:25,933
It was fun, depending on
how much you'd had to drink,
1329
01:19:25,934 --> 01:19:28,736
to see a television go sailing
off the 14th-floor balcony
1330
01:19:28,737 --> 01:19:31,974
and into the pool,
as long as nobody got hurt.
1331
01:19:38,375 --> 01:19:41,853
Joe Walsh was the American
King of room trash.
1332
01:19:41,854 --> 01:19:44,694
He had studied
under some of the best.
1333
01:19:44,695 --> 01:19:47,614
One of the most terrifying
things that ever happened to me
1334
01:19:47,615 --> 01:19:51,253
was that Keith Moon
decided he liked me.
1335
01:19:51,254 --> 01:19:54,334
All those Keith Moon
stories are true.
1336
01:19:55,314 --> 01:20:00,000
This guy was full-blown nuts,
and you never knew
1337
01:20:00,001 --> 01:20:02,573
what was coming next.
1338
01:20:09,454 --> 01:20:13,653
Keith was my mentor at chaos,
getting arrested,
1339
01:20:13,654 --> 01:20:17,252
practical jokes,
pranks, room damage.
1340
01:20:17,253 --> 01:20:22,571
# I live in hotels,
tear out the walls,
1341
01:20:22,572 --> 01:20:27,652
# I have accountants pay
for it all,
1342
01:20:27,653 --> 01:20:33,093
# They say I'm crazy,
but I have a good time... #
1343
01:20:38,173 --> 01:20:41,813
One year, we gave him a chainsaw
for his birthday as a joke.
1344
01:20:41,814 --> 01:20:46,771
# Life's been good
to me so far,
1345
01:20:46,772 --> 01:20:50,372
# Yeah, yeah, yeah... #
1346
01:20:50,373 --> 01:20:53,331
By this time, we were eating
in nice restaurants
1347
01:20:53,332 --> 01:20:58,211
and buying expensive wine
and staying in great hotel rooms.
1348
01:20:58,212 --> 01:21:01,490
There were a lot of hotels that
we weren't allowed to go back to.
1349
01:21:01,491 --> 01:21:05,011
We were in Chicago, and we were
staying at the Astor Towers.
1350
01:21:05,012 --> 01:21:07,331
In Chicago,
here's what happened.
1351
01:21:07,332 --> 01:21:11,131
There was a knock on the door,
and in walked John Belushi.
1352
01:21:12,932 --> 01:21:18,451
John wanted to show me
the finer restaurants of Chicago.
1353
01:21:18,452 --> 01:21:20,129
So, we went
to the restaurant,
1354
01:21:20,130 --> 01:21:23,371
and they wouldn't let us in
because we had jeans, and he got
1355
01:21:23,372 --> 01:21:26,210
the maitre d' up to
like a 300 bribe
1356
01:21:26,211 --> 01:21:28,970
and still they
would not let us in.
1357
01:21:28,971 --> 01:21:31,771
And John said, "I know what to do.
I know what to do."
1358
01:21:32,771 --> 01:21:36,531
And the next thing I knew,
we were standing in the alley,
1359
01:21:36,532 --> 01:21:41,890
and he spray-painted my jeans
black and made me do his,
1360
01:21:41,891 --> 01:21:44,091
and we went back,
and we got in.
1361
01:21:46,491 --> 01:21:50,569
We were sitting in these
Queen Anne-period chairs that had
1362
01:21:50,570 --> 01:21:54,208
needlepoint, and when we
stood up, that was all black,
1363
01:21:54,209 --> 01:21:56,970
and the butts of our pants
were jeans again,
1364
01:21:56,971 --> 01:22:01,129
so, we had to kind of back
out of there and leave fast.
1365
01:22:02,291 --> 01:22:04,728
But that was
the beginning of it.
1366
01:22:04,729 --> 01:22:09,048
And so that night,
with much glee,
1367
01:22:09,049 --> 01:22:12,650
Joe set about to set the
world record for room trash.
1368
01:22:14,850 --> 01:22:18,370
John and I did 28,000
of room damage.
1369
01:22:22,569 --> 01:22:26,086
Glenn and Don didn't really ever
approve of the room trashing,
1370
01:22:26,087 --> 01:22:27,446
but they understood it.
1371
01:22:27,447 --> 01:22:29,809
They wanted respect
as rock 'n' rollers,
1372
01:22:29,810 --> 01:22:32,527
and Joe brought
that respect.
1373
01:22:32,528 --> 01:22:35,247
I was insecure always
and afraid,
1374
01:22:35,248 --> 01:22:42,167
so I hid behind all of
my hang-ups with humour.
1375
01:22:42,168 --> 01:22:47,927
I was totally in awe of
Don and Glenn.
1376
01:22:47,928 --> 01:22:53,728
I was intimidated by Don and
Glennv because they sang so good,
1377
01:22:53,729 --> 01:22:59,368
and they were writing stuff I could
never come close to writing.
1378
01:23:01,608 --> 01:23:05,206
After we've just had a bunch of hit
records on One Of These Nights,
1379
01:23:05,207 --> 01:23:08,805
we were under the microscope.
Everybody was going to look at
1380
01:23:08,806 --> 01:23:11,365
the next record we made
and pass judgment.
1381
01:23:11,366 --> 01:23:14,288
Don and I were going,
"Man, this better be good".
1382
01:23:16,328 --> 01:23:19,327
- Look at that. / - It's going
to be quite a nice guitar.
1383
01:23:19,328 --> 01:23:24,407
- Felder, you see this?
- Who tuned this?
1384
01:23:24,408 --> 01:23:25,847
Well, it has no nut.
1385
01:23:25,848 --> 01:23:29,727
With Joe in the band with me,
I wanted to write something,
1386
01:23:29,728 --> 01:23:33,406
musically, that would fit
two guitar players, that we
1387
01:23:33,407 --> 01:23:35,726
could play off
of each other.
1388
01:23:35,727 --> 01:23:39,165
So, I was sitting on a sofa
in Malibu at this rental house
1389
01:23:39,166 --> 01:23:42,084
that I had on the beach.
I was playing this acoustic guitar
1390
01:23:42,085 --> 01:23:45,004
and this introduction
came out, that progression.
1391
01:23:45,005 --> 01:23:47,366
I kept playing it
3 or 4 times.
1392
01:23:47,367 --> 01:23:50,565
I had an old
reel-to-reel tape recorder,
1393
01:23:50,566 --> 01:23:54,124
so I went back and recorded that
introduction to that song and
1394
01:23:54,125 --> 01:23:58,046
laid down that progression, made
a mix of it, and put it on a cassette
1395
01:23:58,047 --> 01:24:02,644
with the other 14 or 15
pieces of music that I had
1396
01:24:02,645 --> 01:24:07,205
assembled, and I gave a copy of
the cassette to Don, one to Glenn.
1397
01:24:07,206 --> 01:24:12,725
Don Felder used to send Henley and I
instrumental tapes, song ideas.
1398
01:24:12,726 --> 01:24:16,565
95% of them were cluttered
with guitar licks,
1399
01:24:16,566 --> 01:24:20,203
and we would listen to these things
and go, "Where do you sing?".
1400
01:24:20,204 --> 01:24:24,123
As Don and I were listening through
one of the Felder cassettes and this
1401
01:24:24,124 --> 01:24:28,645
song came up, we both sort of said,
"Hmm. Now, this is interesting".
1402
01:24:29,805 --> 01:24:33,323
The music sounded to me like
some sort of a cross between
1403
01:24:33,324 --> 01:24:37,765
Spanish music and reggae music, and
that one really jumped out at me.
1404
01:24:38,844 --> 01:24:42,085
So, we set out to write a song
to that progression.
1405
01:24:44,164 --> 01:24:47,405
I'm pretty sure it was Henley's
idea to have a song called
1406
01:24:47,406 --> 01:24:49,444
Hotel California.
1407
01:24:53,124 --> 01:24:56,923
I think Henley's and Glenn's lyric
writing really came to a head.
1408
01:24:56,924 --> 01:25:00,001
They became real honest-to-God
songwriters then.
1409
01:25:02,284 --> 01:25:05,401
During the recording of it,
I thought that we
1410
01:25:05,402 --> 01:25:08,123
were on to something. I knew
we were on to something.
1411
01:25:09,844 --> 01:25:14,043
We were in a really
creative phase,
1412
01:25:14,044 --> 01:25:18,523
and it just so happened that
Bill Szymczyk pushed record.
1413
01:25:20,683 --> 01:25:21,723
Thank God!
1414
01:25:23,604 --> 01:25:27,161
# On a dark desert
highway
1415
01:25:27,162 --> 01:25:30,402
# Cool wind in my hair
1416
01:25:30,403 --> 01:25:33,722
# Warm smell of colitas
1417
01:25:33,723 --> 01:25:36,681
# Rising up
through the air
1418
01:25:36,682 --> 01:25:39,881
# Up ahead in
the distance
1419
01:25:39,882 --> 01:25:43,802
# I saw a
shimmering light
1420
01:25:43,803 --> 01:25:46,162
# My head grew heavy
and my sight grew dim
1421
01:25:46,163 --> 01:25:49,561
# I had to stop
for the night
1422
01:25:49,562 --> 01:25:53,040
# There she stood
in the doorway
1423
01:25:53,041 --> 01:25:56,801
# I heard
the mission bell
1424
01:25:56,802 --> 01:25:58,641
# And I was thinkin'
to myself
1425
01:25:58,642 --> 01:26:02,840
# This could be heaven
or this could be hell
1426
01:26:02,841 --> 01:26:06,160
# Then she lit up
a candle
1427
01:26:06,161 --> 01:26:09,440
# And she showed me
the way
1428
01:26:09,441 --> 01:26:12,720
# There were voices
down the corridor
1429
01:26:12,721 --> 01:26:15,960
# I thought
I heard them say
1430
01:26:15,761 --> 01:26:19,601
# Welcome to
the Hotel California
1431
01:26:21,880 --> 01:26:24,922
# Such a lovely place
1432
01:26:24,923 --> 01:26:28,399
# Such a lovely face
1433
01:26:28,400 --> 01:26:30,719
# Plenty of room
at the Hotel... #
1434
01:26:30,720 --> 01:26:34,641
We've been asked a million times,
"What does that song mean?".
1435
01:26:34,642 --> 01:26:38,279
Don and I were big fans
of hidden, deeper meaning.
1436
01:26:38,280 --> 01:26:42,121
You write songs and
you send them out to the world.
1437
01:26:41,762 --> 01:26:45,040
# ...So I called up
the Captain
1438
01:26:45,401 --> 01:26:47,720
# Please bring me
my wine
1439
01:26:47,721 --> 01:26:49,039
# He said,
1440
01:26:49,040 --> 01:26:54,319
# We haven't had
that spirit here since 1969... #
1441
01:26:54,320 --> 01:26:57,997
And maybe somewhere in that song
is some stuff that's just yours,
1442
01:26:57,998 --> 01:27:00,360
that they're never
going to figure out.
1443
01:27:00,361 --> 01:27:01,599
# ...Far away
1444
01:27:01,600 --> 01:27:05,158
# Wake you up
in the middle of the night
1445
01:27:05,159 --> 01:27:06,957
# Just to hear them say... #
1446
01:27:06,958 --> 01:27:09,037
There has been
a great deal of ridiculous
1447
01:27:09,038 --> 01:27:11,077
speculation about that song
over the years.
1448
01:27:11,078 --> 01:27:14,037
It's really taken on a life
or a mythology of its own.
1449
01:27:14,038 --> 01:27:17,719
It's sort of like the "Paul is dead" thing,
or "Who was the walrus?".
1450
01:27:17,720 --> 01:27:20,998
# ...Bring your alibis... #
1451
01:27:20,999 --> 01:27:24,798
It's been denounced
by Evangelicals.
1452
01:27:24,799 --> 01:27:27,036
We've been accused of all
kinds of wacky things,
1453
01:27:27,037 --> 01:27:29,277
like being members
of the Church of Satan.
1454
01:27:29,278 --> 01:27:32,639
People see images on the
album cover that aren't there.
1455
01:27:32,640 --> 01:27:34,078
Just lunatic stuff.
1456
01:27:34,079 --> 01:27:41,317
# ...And in the master's chambers
They gathered for the feast
1457
01:27:41,318 --> 01:27:45,157
# They stabbed it
with their steely knives
1458
01:27:45,158 --> 01:27:48,396
# But they just
can't kill the beast
1459
01:27:48,397 --> 01:27:51,516
# Last thing I remember
1460
01:27:51,517 --> 01:27:54,517
# I was running
for the door
1461
01:27:54,518 --> 01:28:00,516
# I had to find the passage back
to the place I was before... #
1462
01:28:00,517 --> 01:28:04,158
My simple explanation is it's a song
about a journey from innocence
1463
01:28:04,159 --> 01:28:07,676
to experience.
That's all.
1464
01:28:07,677 --> 01:28:10,837
# ...You can check out
any time you like
1465
01:28:10,838 --> 01:28:13,598
# But you
can never leave... #
1466
01:28:31,836 --> 01:28:37,435
Whereas Felder was technically very,
very good, Walsh brought spontaneity
1467
01:28:37,436 --> 01:28:41,276
to it, and the two of them playing
off each other was just brilliant.
1468
01:29:00,036 --> 01:29:03,635
Out of great respect for each other,
there was always a little
1469
01:29:03,636 --> 01:29:06,234
competition
between Felder and I.
1470
01:29:06,235 --> 01:29:09,756
We always tried to kind of
one-up each other, you know?
1471
01:29:14,715 --> 01:29:17,634
And that's really healthy.
1472
01:29:17,635 --> 01:29:22,113
It always made the song better
when we were kind of,
1473
01:29:22,114 --> 01:29:24,996
"Oh, yeah?
Listen to this."
1474
01:29:32,754 --> 01:29:36,433
We got to the end, where now
is the harmony guitars that are
1475
01:29:36,434 --> 01:29:39,593
playing together, and Joe said,
"We should do something that's like...
1476
01:29:39,394 --> 01:29:41,635
# Da-da-da-da-da-da-da. #
1477
01:29:58,000 --> 01:30:00,000
The ending of
1478
01:30:00,001 --> 01:30:02,237
Hotel California,
that's one of my
1479
01:30:02,238 --> 01:30:05,334
high points of my entire
recording career.
1480
01:30:13,113 --> 01:30:17,792
To have a 7-minute single be
number 1, that was unheard of.
1481
01:30:17,793 --> 01:30:20,911
The record company said, "You got
to do an edit. You got to do an edit".
1482
01:30:20,912 --> 01:30:24,553
And we all said, "No. Take it
or leave it". And they took it.
1483
01:30:26,592 --> 01:30:30,511
We had no idea that that song
would affect as many
1484
01:30:30,512 --> 01:30:32,233
people on the planet
as it did.
1485
01:30:34,672 --> 01:30:35,711
Thank you.
1486
01:30:37,753 --> 01:30:41,791
The rest of the album kind of
developed around that song.
1487
01:30:41,792 --> 01:30:45,792
The album, you could loosely say,
is a thematic album, a concept album.
1488
01:30:48,151 --> 01:30:50,711
Not unlike Desperado,
Hotel California
1489
01:30:50,712 --> 01:30:54,232
was our reaction to what
was happening to us.
1490
01:30:56,191 --> 01:30:59,391
On just about every album we made,
there was some kind of a
1491
01:30:59,392 --> 01:31:04,270
commentary on the music business
and on American culture in general.
1492
01:31:04,271 --> 01:31:07,229
The hotel itself could be taken
as a metaphor not
1493
01:31:07,230 --> 01:31:09,789
only for the myth-making
of Southern California,
1494
01:31:09,790 --> 01:31:12,829
but for the myth-making that is
the American dream because it's a
1495
01:31:12,830 --> 01:31:16,871
fine line between the American dream
and the American nightmare.
1496
01:31:16,872 --> 01:31:22,749
# When you're out there on your
own Where your memories... #
1497
01:31:22,750 --> 01:31:28,311
All the songs we write for this
album can fit inside this concept.
1498
01:31:30,670 --> 01:31:36,109
# ...You were lost until you found
out what it all comes down to... #
1499
01:31:36,110 --> 01:31:39,509
Once the rest of the guys in the band
understood what the song
1500
01:31:39,510 --> 01:31:42,948
Hotel California was about,
it became kind of a theme,
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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