Michael Jones Posted July 13, 2010 Posted July 13, 2010 While out on my rounds this morning I passed an electrical shop, which had the Eagles' Life In The Fast Lane blaring out. Nope, thought I. I've heard the Eagles so many times that I really don't think I ever need to hear them again. One of our forum members has a funny tale about the fate of an Eagles DVD in his store. Want to tell it?
bigburner Posted July 13, 2010 Posted July 13, 2010 Michael, perhaps the Eagles weren't to blame and instead the glare of the hi-fi in the shop smeared the inner detail during the loudest passages or possibly there was a splashy overemphasis from the leading edges of hard transients? Or perhaps you don't ever need to hear the Eagles again? I started feeling the same way about the Rolling Stones three years ago after a lifetime of adoration. Nigel.
NeilNZ Posted July 13, 2010 Posted July 13, 2010 Hehehe... Yes indeed. The Eagles will get to experience Hall Freezing Over first hand if I have my way. After one too many views of said DVD it was flung into the cockroach infested depths of the well at EHF Newmarket.... you can see it forlornly shining up at you if you look carefully. Diana Krall met a similar fate...
Bevan J Posted July 13, 2010 Posted July 13, 2010 I wondered why you decided to part with your DCC Gold 'Hotel California'? I only play them once in a blue moon and I admit to liking their country rock albums up to and including 'Hotel...'.
Brian Ono Posted July 14, 2010 Posted July 14, 2010 I always refer back to Desperado .The rest is great on a hits compilation.They still represent an era and style in pop music.
Ernie1553552694 Posted July 14, 2010 Posted July 14, 2010 Last thing I remember, I was Running for the door I had to find the passage back To the place I was before ’relax,’ said the night man, We are programmed to receive. You can checkout any time you like, But you can never leave!
TD19 Posted July 14, 2010 Posted July 14, 2010 Michael Jones;127345 wrote: ... which had the Eagles' Life In The Fast Lane .... Saw Joe Walsh playing that in 'Stratpack' on the Arts channel a couple of weeks ago ... not bad at all.
kiwizig Posted July 14, 2010 Posted July 14, 2010 Brian Ono;127453 wrote: I always refer back to Desperado .The rest is great on a hits compilation.They still represent an era and style in pop music. Many times I have played Doolin-Dalton from Desperado. Their best album in my opinion.
Daddy Dom Posted July 14, 2010 Posted July 14, 2010 Believe it or not, The Carpenters' version of "Desperado" is an absolute corker. It's just like having a Clayton's Eagles, and much better for you, too! DD
bigburner Posted July 15, 2010 Posted July 15, 2010 TonyD;127464 wrote: Saw Joe Walsh playing that in 'Stratpack' on the Arts channel a couple of weeks ago ... not bad at all. I'm shocked. I have that DVD and the only track I can remember is Gary Moore doing "Red House" (which ain't half bad). It's a DVD that made minimal impression on me. I blame The Eagles. Nigel.
ilikecrumpets Posted July 15, 2010 Posted July 15, 2010 The blame for the BP oil well disaster in the Gulf of Mexico has been partially apportioned to the music of The Eagles. Fact.
St.Noah Posted July 16, 2010 Posted July 16, 2010 They ceased to be of interest pretty much right after Desperado. Still have their first two, plus a greatest hits (I've never owned a copy of Hotel C). But I do remember when I first heard that Nixon had been impeached - went straight back to my student flat & played Desperado at full whack in his grubby honour. Seemed fitting at the time I guess.
jasper1553552693 Posted July 16, 2010 Posted July 16, 2010 I have to agree with the "Desperado " comments in the previous posts . A very fine album and one that kept a 15 year old and his mates very happy at parties in the mid-seventies. I knew it was good then and I know it is still good now and even when Hotel California came out a couple of years later you just knew it wasn't as good even though the hype machine was in top gear. It is the only Eagles album I have bothered to re-purchase over the years.
bretty_d Posted July 17, 2010 Posted July 17, 2010 Hotel California has some very lazy lyric writing: So I called up the Captain, 'Please bring me my wine' He said, 'We haven't had that spirit here since nineteen sixty nine' Since when did wines become spirits? And he could have used the word "vintage"!!!!
Ernie1553552694 Posted July 17, 2010 Posted July 17, 2010 Lazy or license? No one escapes the Eagles. Love em or loathe em...
bretty_d Posted July 17, 2010 Posted July 17, 2010 Fleetwood Mac at first look are not a million miles away from the Eagles/ Highly polished 70's pop/rock. But the Eagles are soulless and cold, whereas Fleetwood Mac injected life into their creations... Ernie;127791 wrote: Lazy or license? No one escapes the Eagles. Love em or loathe em...
Ernie1553552694 Posted July 17, 2010 Posted July 17, 2010 Strange stuff lies beneath the surface of the banal. FM just had weirder relationships and harder drugs to play with. Comes out in the material IMHO.
a poindexter Posted July 17, 2010 Posted July 17, 2010 brettyd;127787 wrote: Hotel California has some very lazy lyric writing: So I called up the Captain, 'Please bring me my wine' He said, 'We haven't had that spirit here since nineteen sixty nine' Since when did wines become spirits? And he could have used the word "vintage"!!!! i've always interpreted it to mean "that's the spirit" as in that their having a good time . not meaning that wine is a spirit. i could well be wrong though (i usually am:))
kiwizig Posted July 18, 2010 Posted July 18, 2010 Found this on the net hope it sheds some light on the meaning of Hotel California This is about materialism and excess. California is used as the setting, but it could relate to anywhere in America. Don Henley in the London Daily Mail November 9, 2007 said: "Some of the wilder interpretations of that song have been amazing. It was really about the excesses of American culture and certain girls we knew. But it was also about the uneasy balance between art and commerce." On November 25, 2007 Henley appeared on the TV news show 60 Minutes, where he was told, "everyone wants to know what this song means." Henley replied: "I know, it's so boring. It's a song about the dark underbelly of the American Dream, and about excess in America which was something we knew about." Actually, the most accepted theory is that Hotel California talks about "high life" in So. California during the time the song was written. It talks about a being trapped in the high life, and having to deal with many obsessions - especially drugs. Many of the lines mentioned in the other review of this song present on this site are a direct reference to drugs: "We are all prisoners here of our own device" - you choose to live the high life, and then are stuck to them; "You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave" - as an artist, you can always step away from the spotlight, but you'll always be stuck to it somehow; "this could be heaven or this could be hell" - once more, a reference to the high life, and also to the high during a drug run, and the low after wards; "And in the master's chambers, They gathered for the feast The stab it with their steely knives, But they just can't kill the beast" - a reference to buying drugs for someone, doing the drugs, and still wanting more."
Brian Ono Posted July 18, 2010 Posted July 18, 2010 Wasnt some of it based on Carlos Castenada`s Journey to Ixtlan? Found this on the web which makes interesting reading "The line "They stab it with their steely knives but they just can't kill the beast" is a reference to Steely Dan. The bands shared the same manager and had a friendly rivalry. The year before, Steely Dan included the line "Turn up the Eagles, the neighbors are listening" on their song "Everything You Did."
kiwizig Posted July 18, 2010 Posted July 18, 2010 I guess we will never really know the true meaning of the song but I do know this in a drunken haze I have heard it played very loud in the early hours of the morning at many parties I have been to throughout the years and you also might have a point Brian to the Steely Dan reference I also found this on the web. "The Eagles were impressed by the way that Steely Dan could make what they described as 'junk sculpture' songs where they took weird disjointed lyrics, combined them with great music, and turned out hits. In fact, this song evolved in the reverse style of song making, with the great guitar parts of Don Felder laid down first, and then lyrics added later. Although 'HC' has many disctinct images and unusual twists of phrases, there is no meaning behind it other than to describe a fictional place in the desert that Henly/Frey may have visited on a drug-induced head trip and not in their cars. It also skewers the decadence and opulence in which every southern Californian was living, or attempting to live at that moment in the late seventies."
Ernie1553552694 Posted July 18, 2010 Posted July 18, 2010 Yeah, it seems the great operatic composers worked that way too. Verdi & Puccini worked with librettists to complete their operas. Are we talking apples and apples though?
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