The Eagles

Для меня Eagles - это прежде всего New kid in town (совершенно обалденная кода) и Try and love again. Да и вообще вся "Калифорния" - вполне ничего.

А у них ещё очень качественные концертники,любо дорого слушать!!!

WKH***
New Kid In Town - это, конечно, вещь, но, на мой взгляд, есть у них еще пара композиций не хуже - Tequila Sunrise и Lieing Eyes (ну и "Отель..." с Take It Easy, конечно тоже)

Fred

Да я просто к кантри не очень хорошо отношусь...

Wallrussian
Eagles в начале карьеры одно время были аккомпанирующим составом для Линды Рондштат, наемными музыкантами не более того. Возможно за тот период они сыгрались, и решили выступать самостоятельно.

В журнале Classic Rock(за июнь кажется) имеется большущая статья о творческом пути орлов.
Они были ещё и любителями роскошных вечеринок,которые не всегда хорошо заканчивались для музыкантов.
Перед распадом они выпустили двойной концертник.

А кто сказал, что "Ежики" распались? Еще в июне они были в туре (возможно, прощальном?). Ан нет, в октябре они должны ехать на азиатские гастроли.
https://www.beatles.ru/postman/forum_messages.asp?cfrom=1&msg_id=8910&cpage=1&forum_id=3 А покаместь Хенли выступает соло.

Круто ежели так.

Кстати сабж в американском хит-параде всех времен стоят на третьем месте, после Битлов и ЛЗ. Не хило.

Всем, кто чувствует, что Иглз это не только HC рекомендую послушать их второй альбом – "Desperado", который еще называют "первым концептуальным альбомом в кантри-роке". Там даже реприза есть, как в Sgt. Pepper.
Образ рок-музыканта романтизируется путем сравнения оных с ковбоями Дикого Запада. Сюжет построен на реальной истории банды Билла Дулина и братьев Далтонов, обезвреженной в Коффивилле. Все треки пронизаны единым содержанием, события разворачиваются хронологически. Показывается путь впечатлительного юноши, с увлечением осваивающего игру на гитаре/ оружие, надеющегося, что это уведет его от обычной рутинной жизни, но в итоге вынужденного вкушать все "прелести" жизни рок-музыканта или гангстера – "easy money, faithless women, red-eye whiskey for the pain".

Кантри-рок преобладал у Иглзов, пока в их составе были гитарист Берни Ледон, игравший также на банджо и мандолине, и басист Рэнди Мейснер. После их ухода в песнях стало больше блюзовых интонаций - т.е. все равно ощущается приверженность коренным американским стилям. Так что Орлов по праву можно назвать "народными артистами" у себя в Америке. Посмотреть, что из себя представляли Иглз в начальный период карьеры, можно, скачав файл http://www.eaglesfans.com/downloads/eagles/CentralPark73.rm ("Take It Easy" в real video, 5,71 мб).

От первоначального квартета на протяжении всей карьеры сохранился тандем Глен Фрей/Дон Хенли. На весь мир Иглз прославились уже как квинтет - с соло-гитаристами Доном Фелдером и Джо Волшем, сыгравшими эффектную дуэль в концовке "Калифорнии". Басист Тимоти Б. Шмит пришел на место Мейснера, не выдержавшего изнурительных гастролей в поддержку HC, и записал с группой последний альбом перед распадом.
Воссоединилась группа в 90-х в этом же составе - Фрей/Хенли/Волш/Фелдер/Б. Шмит, записав известное концертное видео "Hell Freezes Over" (как сказал Фрей во вступлении к нему, "for the record, we never broke up, we just took a fourteen-year vacation"), и стала гастролировать. Затем Дон Фелдер (автор музыки к HC) был не без скандала уволен из группы, и последн. несколько лет Иглзы играют как квартет с разными дополнительными музыкантами, в таком составе приезжали и в Москву в мае 2001.
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Eagles Guitar Expected To Highlight Swampy Auction

An autographed Takamine guitar signed by all members of The Eagles and given to tour manager Wane Swampy Jarvis at the end of their Australian Hell Freezes Over tour is expected to be a highlight of the Wane Swampy Jarvis auction in Sydney this Sunday.

"The guitar was a favourite of Wane's" his wife Kerri tells Undercover News. "He was a huge Eagles fan. They signed it for him after the Hell Freezes Over tour" 10 years ago.

The value if the guitar is estimated be worth more than $10,000 when the auction takes place on Sunday.

AC/DC and The Rolling Stones items are also expected to fetch big bucks with an Angus Young jacket expected to go for between $6,000 to $8,000 and the Forty Licks setlist from Toronto autographed by all members of The Rolling Stones and AC/DC expected to fetch between $5000 and $6000.

For Kerrie, the items are hard to let go. "I really do feel after 14 months of putting this together it is time to let go and move on" she says.

Most of the items up for auction have been kept in boxes in their garage for years. "We only had half a dozen items framed and mounted in the house" she says. "Wane kept all of the memorabilia in boxes in the garage. Whenever we moved house, we had to look for a house with a double garage. Not for the cars, but for the memorabilia".

The auction will take place at Bonhams and Goodman, 7 Anderson Street, Double Bay NSW this Sunday from 1pm.

Fans interstate and overseas can log onto the website and bid live for the items as well.

You can view the items for the auction and find the link to bid live at www.waneswampyjarvis.com

Taking it to the limit

Rock icons the Eagles look set to thrill the Asian masses soon, and the band’s Singapore concert stop on Oct 18 is bound to attract loads of Malaysian fans. BEVERLEY HON goes the distance and speaks to Glenn Frey, one of the Eagles’ founders.

THE Eagles once said that they would only get back together, “Oh, when hell freezes over.”

And when the band finally did put behind the years of bad blood for their first reunion in 1994, the result was the California rockers’ multi-platinum Hell Freezes Over album and a reunion tour which raked in a whopping US$75mil in ticket sales.

This year, the Eagles take flight again – charting new territories. Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Joe Walsh and Timothy B. Schmit will be making their way to Asia in October for concerts in Singapore, Hong Kong and Bangkok as part of the band’s current Farewell I worldwide tour. Since Kuala Lumpur is not on the list, the band’s Malaysian following is expected to head across the causeway on Oct 18 when the Eagles play the Singapore Indoor Stadium.

Now that we know how the Hell Freezes Over tour got its name, just how did Farewell I come about?

“Don Henley said that when we started touring again in 2001 and we just thought it was hilarious. He thought it was pretty funny to call it Farewell I because it’s sort of a joke,” revealed guitarist Glenn Frey during a phone interview from Brentwood, Los Angeles.

“We don’t know how long we’re going to continue, we sort of take it year by year. But God, in case this is supposed to end, we decided we should call it Farewell I and then if we change our minds, we’ll do Farewell II.”

Frey added that the moniker is just their way of poking fun at themselves and other acts that have retired but keep coming back and claiming to put on the final performance. On that note, can an artiste ever say never?

“Well, that’s hard to say. I’ve learnt with this band to never say never. There never ceases to be certain surprises in the lifespan of this strange bird,” laughed Frey.

Frey and drummer Henley formed the Eagles in 1971 and the band went on to sell millions of albums, scoring several hit songs in the process, including Best of My Love, One of These Nights, New Kid in Town, and the popular Hotel California.

The group’s line-up at the time of their disbandment in the early 1980s comprised Frey, Henley, Walsh, Schmit and guitarist Don Felder, whom they later booted out of the band in February 2001. The Eagles were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in January 1998.

The Farewell I tour in this region and dates in Japan and Australia will see the Eagles spending 50 days away from home, a relatively short period when you think about the kind of non-stop touring the band used to do in the 1970s.

“When you’re younger you can stay out on the road for a lot longer. You can do a lot of things for a lot longer when you’re younger. We’ve been out on the road for a long time but the difference now is that we take a lot better care of ourselves. We’re not party animals. We’ve had to retire that part of our life so it’s a little bit easier when you’re not outraging,” said the 56-year-old.

So does he miss the debauched days of booze, drugs, women and song?

“No, no. Glad I survived and glad to be moving on. But that’s the way we all are now,” Frey answered.

So having been there, done that and seen it all, is there anything the Eagles are or aren’t tired of hearing?

“We’re not tired of hearing applause,” Frey quipped.

“We never get tired of hearing people clap so it’ll be fun to come and play Singapore for the first time,” he said, adding that the band is excited about their Asian gig since they will be playing in places they have never been to before.

But what has happened to the new Eagles album? In 2001, the Eagles decided to work on a studio album and loaded their equipment into the studio on Sept 10 to start playing the next day – the very same infamous Sept 11 that changed America and the world.

“So we took a couple of days off just because no one really felt like anything that we were doing was very important. And then when we came back, one of the first tracks that we cut was Hole in the World and that song is sort of a lament about the sad fact that we can’t seem to get along,” recalled Detroit-born Frey. That tune was tacked on to the band’s The Complete Greatest Hits album released last year.

According to the guitarist-singer-songwriter, the band has recorded a few tracks, with some songs close to being finished. The group stopped recording for a while and then decided that they wanted to do this Asian tour. Frey thinks they may have a discussion early next year on how they want to proceed with the album.

And the fact that they don’t all live in the same town anymore makes recording this studio album even more difficult – Frey and Schmit live in Los Angeles while Walsh is in San Diego and Henley, in Texas. Recording the new album will mean time away from their families.

“Our lives are so much bigger now. We have so many other interests. First and foremost, everybody’s got a family and then also solo interests like charity work, playing private shows and acting. There’s a lot more to life these days than just the Eagles,” said Frey.

“(When) we were in our 20s, nobody was married. We were able to devote 24 hours a day to the Eagles. We all lived in LA and we were much more dedicated because we had the time. Now, it’s a little more difficult. Maybe some day, we’ll work it out, get enough material and complete it to put out a full CD. Or maybe we’ll try to work up a couple of new songs and play new material when we come to Asia,” he added.

The band’s Asian stint will also see them being away during their country’s crucial election month. Frey says that the group has thrown its support behind Democrat John Kerry and will “have to vote absentee ballot.”

Of late, American musicians and singers have been showing an increased interest in politics and have faced some kind of backlash for doing so. Linda Ronstadt was booed at then booted out of the Aladdin Hotel Casino in Las Vegas on July 18 after she praised Fahrenheit 9/11 director Michael Moore and dedicated the Eagles tune, Desperado, to him while Henley was recently booed for making political comments between songs during his concert at the Pacific Amphitheatre in Orange County, California.

Megastar Bruce Springsteen along with the Dixie Chicks, R.E.M., the Dave Matthews Band, Pearl Jam, James Taylor, John Mellencamp and Bonnie Raitt will be in the Vote for Change tour in an effort to unseat President George W. Bush in the upcoming election. Springsteen’s announcement to participate in the anti-Bush concert tour prompted a candidate for US Senate to come up with a “Boycott the Boss” television spot that shows her urging her supporters to not buy Springsteen’s music as a show of solidarity to Bush.

“Hey, there’s nothing wrong with exercising your democratic rights to say what you want to say. George W. Bush has polarised our country with his outrageous behaviour in domestic and foreign policy so everybody’s got an opinion now,” commented Frey.

“The people in power in our country own all the television stations and radio stations and we, as artistes, just have our little PA systems. So if Linda Ronstadt wants to say something and dedicate Desperado to Michael Moore, I think she’s got every right to do it and if people in the audience don’t like or want to hear it, they can get up and walk out.

“The Eagles support John Kerry and we hope that for everybody’s sake, we can have a new president. I have a lot of Republican friends and we have to live together but like Bruce said, this isn’t just about what party you’re in. This is where you think we’re going. I know it’s a big issue right now,” he added.

On the personal front, the guys in the Eagles do their fair share of charity work. Frey says that they like giving back because they have been very fortunate and very blessed. Frey personally prefers helping children as he feels they tend to be the victims most of the time.

“Once you have problems when you’re an adult, that’s another story but kids usually never create the problems they face. Somebody else did. So it’s always nice to help out. There are economically disadvantaged kids in America and we try to help them out as much as possible but not in a loud way. God likes a quiet giver. We all continue to try to do our part,” he explained.

http://star-ecentral.com/news/story.asp?file=/2004/8/30/music/8747040&sec=music

The Eagles To Follow-up Hell Freezes Over In Australia
13 November 2004

The Eagles will follow-up the biggest selling music DVD of all time, Hell Freezes Over, with another live disc to be shot in Australia.

Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Joe Walsh and Timothy B. Schmidt unveiled the plans at a media gathering in Melbourne today.

They say they will film the first three Melbourne shows at Rod Laver Arena on November 14, 15 and 17 for the live disc to be released in 2005.

The disc will include the new Eagles songs 'One Day At A Time', written by Joe Walsh, and 'No More Cloudy Days' from Glenn Frey. The two songs made their worldwide live debut at their Perth concert in Thursday night.

Hell Freezes Over was shot in April 1994. The DVD is still sitting at number 2 on the Australian DVD chart after 196 weeks.

Подниму еще одну руку "за" New Kid In Town, "Отель Калифорния" форева туу. А кто скажет, как называется их песня, в которой припев начинается так: "Oh-oh-oh-oh sweet darling - get the best of my love"? Эта мне, пожалуй, больше всего у них нравится.

2Dmitryj:
>"Oh-oh-oh-oh sweet darling - get the best of my love"?
По-моему, так и зовется: "best of my love".

Спасибо, karp!

One of these nights
Роскошная вещь... а далее уже поехало...

Только что закончил смотреть DVD CROSSROADS GUITAR FESTIVAL. При огромном списке супер звезд, Джо Уолш, один из немногих, кто произвел приятное впечатление. Хоть и кривлялся. :)

2Dmitryj:
А как же... I can't tell you why...