New Eagles Album

Russ Tkac · Post by **Russ Tkac** » 5 Nov 2007 9:15 am

I thought it was kind of funny that the long wait of 27 years for new material starts with a 35 year old song. But, they did a great job with it!

Chip Fossa · Post by **Chip Fossa** » 7 Nov 2007 11:18 pm

OK guys...

What is "auto-tune"? I can probably guess and come close, but... what is it?

As far as the Eagles new album - I haven't bought it yet, but have listened to some samples on their website.

UH...not impressed too much.

I'm one of those Eagle fans who felt when Joe Walsh got on board, that was it for the Eagles as I liked them. He really made them more ROCK, than COUNTRY.

He's a great musician and guitarist, but he single-handedly metamorphisized this great band.

I do like some of Joe's influences, don't get me wrong, but I kinda wish they would have stayed more EAGLE-ISH; as we have come to know them since their original inception.

They will never top "Peaceful Easy Feeling" and "Take It Easy". Both songs of which I never, or ever have, not to date, tired of.

Other great obscure tunes: Hollywood Waltz; The Sad Cafe; Midnight Flyer; The Last Resort; Twenty One; Saturday Night; Old '55.

These are beautiful melodic songs. One is actually a waltz - (a dance) - where most music usually originates from. Ya need music to dance to.

The Beatles wrote waltzes and polkas.

I don't hear much of that today; including gifted people who could do it (Eagles).

Just ramblin' on now...I'll give it a rest. Hope you get my message.

JMHO

John Macy · Post by **John Macy** » 8 Nov 2007 6:30 am

Hey Chip,

It's a little computer program that does what it says--can tune monophonic notes automatically (or by graphics manually...)

In the hands of the right person, it can save a magical performance by correcting a note or two here and there...

It can also make a mediocre, pitch challenged singer in to a more in tune, mediocre singer...

Can leave some serious artifacts on the vocal quality if used too hard...In the audio world, Jo Dee Messina records are the poster children for overuse of AT...

That said, I use it all the time when needed...tuned three notes last night on an upright bass that bothered me all week--the rest were awesome...I tune most vocal manually when needed...

Barry Blackwood · Post by **Barry Blackwood** » 8 Nov 2007 6:58 am

Hey Chip, as tired as it is now, don't forget 'Desperado' one of the great ballads of a generation past ....IMO

Dick Wood · Post by **Dick Wood** » 8 Nov 2007 7:23 am

The Eagles are one of those bands that I can listen to and enjoy but if they never made another CD I would never wonder what happened to them.

The new CD is very bland and 20 years from now I doubt we'll be hearing any cover band playing any cuts from it like we did Tequilla Sunrise or Take it Easy.

Bill Hatcher · Post by **Bill Hatcher** » 8 Nov 2007 9:19 am

Did I hear a stat that said this record sold 711,000 copies the first week???

Barry Blackwood · Post by **Barry Blackwood** » 8 Nov 2007 10:49 am

The Power of Wal-Mart.

David Mason · Post by **David Mason** » 8 Nov 2007 1:32 pm

20 years from now I doubt we'll be hearing any cover band playing any cuts from it

For a long list of reasons, good, bad & indifferent, I doubt we'll ever hear another decade of music fossilized, deified and pounded into people's heads the way that the music of 1967 to 1977 has been.

Ray Minich · Post by **Ray Minich** » 8 Nov 2007 6:28 pm

The keyboard artist on "Fast Company" sounds like the dude that was playing behind Bonnie Raitte on the track "Love Letter" from her "Road Tested" CD. Anyone got the inside scoop?

Actually, the whole tune is similar to "Love Letter".

Chip Fossa · Post by **Chip Fossa** » 10 Nov 2007 6:58 pm

Thanks John for that info, and you too, Barry - how could I overlook "Desperado"? - and just so many more great pop-country-stir-your-emotions-type-songs that those guys came up with?

This new CD, what little I've heard of it, just tells me that the Eagles, or rather, Bald Eagles, are out fishing.

And for them, at this time, the salmon aren't running.

Chipper

Marlin Smoot · Post by **Marlin Smoot** » 15 Nov 2007 8:14 am

The Eagles have returned to the place they know so well...the top of the charts! After 2 weeks, their first studio album in nearly a decade is well over Platinum selling 1,070,207 units in just 2 weeks.

The Eagles' Don Henley says there's a misconception that people don't buy records anymore, and he credits Nashville for keeping good music alive: “You know, everybody says that people in our generation don’t by records anymore or CDs anymore. Evidently, that’s not the case; I just don’t think they’ve had anything that they wanted to buy. We’ve just been, and I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again, we’ve been through a really dark period and a bad period of music in this country, I think. And it’s certainly not the first time. But you know, you’ve seen the disappearance of melodies, you’ve seen the disappearance of lyrics that mean anything - except in Country music. In Nashville, the tradition of song writing has been kept alive and it’s certainly where my favorite stuff is coming from these days.”

Eric Jaeger · Post by **Eric Jaeger** » 15 Nov 2007 10:12 pm

Marlin Smoot wrote: The Eagles' Don Henley says there's a misconception that people don't buy records anymore, and he credits Nashville for keeping good music alive: “You know, everybody says that people in our generation don’t by records anymore or CDs anymore. Evidently, that’s not the case; I just don’t think they’ve had anything that they wanted to buy. We’ve just been, and I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again, we’ve been through a really dark period and a bad period of music in this country, I think. And it’s certainly not the first time. But you know, you’ve seen the disappearance of melodies, you’ve seen the disappearance of lyrics that mean anything - except in Country music. In Nashville, the tradition of song writing has been kept alive and it’s certainly where my favorite stuff is coming from these days.”

Mojo Nixon notwithstanding ("Don Henley Must Die"), Nobody ever could call Don Henley stupid. Other adjectives, yes. Not stupid.

-eric

Tony Prior · Post by **Tony Prior** » 16 Nov 2007 2:42 am

I went up to Rhapsody to give it a listen..
no can do..

I'll wait for the Movie which we know is coming.,"back from retirement tour part 5"..but at the end of the day this is a great band....

Bill Hatcher · Post by **Bill Hatcher** » 16 Nov 2007 7:00 am

[quote

Mojo Nixon notwithstanding ("Don Henley Must Die"), Nobody ever could call Don Henley stupid. Other adjectives, yes. Not stupid.

-eric[/quote]

I call him weird. Had some friends hired to play horns on one of his tours. NO one was allowed to walk in what his handlers called Dons "Cone of vision". That meant that where ever he was on stage, NO human was allowed to walk to the side of him where he could actually see you. He had to have his own little perfect universe and no one was allowed to enter it on stage!! Weird.

Marlin Smoot · Post by **Marlin Smoot** » 16 Nov 2007 8:45 am

I think there's a lot of weirdness, not only in music and the Art's but life in general. Not only from today's generation but as far back as the beginning of recorded history...

Greg Simmons · Post by **Greg Simmons** » 16 Nov 2007 8:56 am

I picked it up a few days ago at the W*l-M$rt in Yucca Valley on my recent sojourn to the Hi-Desert (for what's become my annual hang in 29 Palms/Wonder Valley)...a few cuts I could do without, but man, some great tunes to cruise Hwy 62 plus Greg Leisz on steel - what's not to like

Chip Fossa · Post by **Chip Fossa** » 16 Nov 2007 9:44 pm

For David Mason,

Hiya Dave...

I was just reviewing this topic, and I have to say, I enjoy and readily recieve with enthusiasm your very astute observations on things.

But sometimes you confuse me.

So the music from '67-'77 is stuff you outhandedly feel is..........what???

In human life span that's a lot of time - 10 years.

"POUND" was the word in your post that caused me to question you. Uh - it can be read, really, in two ways.

Just wondering if you liked, or didn't like that era you speak of.

Thanks, Dave

David L. Donald · Post by **David L. Donald** » 17 Nov 2007 6:34 am

Let the fossilized chips fall where they may.

Gary Boyett · Post by **Gary Boyett** » 23 Nov 2007 11:55 am

This is interesting.

Nov 23, 12:33 PM EST
Eagles would retire if not for new album:

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The Eagles were ready to hang up their guitars and microphones, but instead they regrouped and recorded their first new album in 28 years.

"We either had to fold our tent or make a record," guitarist Glenn Frey tells CBS' "60 Minutes" in an interview scheduled to air Sunday.

"We were going to be done," Frey says. "And I wouldn't want to have it end ... where ... you're just sort of doing a caricature of yourself, you're just doing a tribute to yourself."

The band's new album, "Long Road Out of Eden," debuted at No. 1 when it was released last month.

"It came out better than I thought," vocalist-drummer Don Henley says. "I think a great many of the songs on it will stand up with the best work we've ever done."

The Eagles had a string of hits in the '70s, including "Hotel California," "Take It Easy" and "Life in the Fast Lane." Henley also had a successful solo career, but he says the Eagles are better together.

"There's a certain sound that we make when we sing together that over the past 35 years has become ingrained in people's minds," he says. "I can't sound like that with anybody else except these guys."

Greg Simmons · Post by **Greg Simmons** » 23 Nov 2007 12:00 pm

where ... you're just sort of doing a caricature of yourself, you're just doing a tribute to yourself."

I guess Hell would have to freeze over for that to ever happen

Gordy Hall · Post by **Gordy Hall** » 23 Nov 2007 12:11 pm

I've always liked the Eagles, in all their versions. With all respect, I offer this portion of a song that I played long ago and far away. Some guy named Chris wrote it..

It's another Eagles song
Hope it don't last too long
It just goes on.

The lyrics are so namby-pamby
They will probably win a Grammy
It just goes on.

Every night when the sun goes down
They're on every radio in town
Gor god's sake turn it down....

It's another Eagles song
Hope it don't last too long
It just goes on.
It just goes on.
It just goes on.
It just goes on.
It just goes on.

Richard Sevigny · Post by **Richard Sevigny** » 23 Nov 2007 2:45 pm

Marlin Smoot wrote:I think there's a lot of weirdness, not only in music and the Art's but life in general. Not only from today's generation but as far back as the beginning of recorded history...

Yeah, once you realize that life is patently absurd you give up trying to make sense of it and go with the flow.

Webb Kline · Post by **Webb Kline** » 25 Nov 2007 9:50 pm

I call him weird. Had some friends hired to play horns on one of his tours. NO one was allowed to walk in what his handlers called Dons "Cone of vision". That meant that where ever he was on stage, NO human was allowed to walk to the side of him where he could actually see you. He had to have his own little perfect universe and no one was allowed to enter it on stage!! Weird.

A friend of mine has drum teched for Henley a lot over the years and he says that's both hilarious and pure BS.

Dean Salisbury · Post by **Dean Salisbury** » 26 Nov 2007 2:36 am

To me this is the worst album they have done. However, I cannot knock their playing as these guys are really good musicians without a doubt and they have been around for years. I just knock the songs as I would have thought since these guys really are not together that making this album all or most of the songs should have been knock out songs and they were not.

One would almost think they just put this album out for a quick killing of bucks knowing their fans would purchase anything. A real shame and to me a waist of money. In talking to many people who like me who are advid fans and have all their music, this is the worst cd that they have put out. Unfortuately!

Dean from NY

Mark Edwards · Post by **Mark Edwards** » 26 Nov 2007 3:39 am

60 minutes did a piece on the Eagles last night, stating that although this would probably be their last album together "unless somewhere down the road they need the money" (I doubt that) and they credit this album to creativity? You could tell that there was some major thickness in the air between members of the band. It was almost like they hated being in the same room together unless they were singing. Is this a bad album? Probably, it has been 28 years since their last album together and unless they can put the ego's aside "Henley stated after being questioned about what was the major problem within the band" "It's about who's writing this or that song, who is co-writing, who is going to be on the record etc..."
Guys they started as a band, made hits as a band (although they have each made their own way in the music business) and they traveled as a band, To much testosterone in one room. The Eagles are to good and I understand that with success comes battered and bruised egos. I just wished they could set all that aside and make some of the music they used to make, change is hard. If ya'll get a chance to see that 60 minute segment check it out.....

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This album is a real let down