I saw the Eagles bio movie...Henley and Frye are awful people. They demanded that they get a disproportionate cut of reunion tour money...Felder left, Walsh and Timmothy B Schmidt stayed.
I like the early Eagles music when they had Bernie Leadon and Randy Meisner.
After Walsh joined, their sound became somewhat meh, IMO.
Sometimes vocals just don’t blend on a track. It depends on the melody and surrounding sounds as well. Just having a big name doesn’t mean you’ll blend with every other vocalist.
Almost the same thing happened to Mark knopfler. He was hired to play guitar on one of their songs. He played for hours and they included just a couple of minutes in the final cut.
It can’t be the case that anyone cared back them. Background voices were not money makers. And Steely Dan tried 100’s of studio musicians, often not using their parts. The eagles were already very big so the money was not important to them. I think his use of the word “fire” is just for click bait. Its better to say, they just did not use the material in the final release recording. With Steely Dan this was common.
Here is a funny, engagingly produced skit on the topic, generally:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMTI8vg7A5U
Steely Dan has held up well.
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Henley ... horrid! I think Frye was far left, too, but not as bad as Henley.
Odd that one of the lines in the song (Peg) is...
“It will come back to you”
Great thread and posts.
Get back, Jack, do it again.
Turn up the Eagles, the neighbors are listening.
When I think of Michael McDonald I think of that SCTV skit that has him running around all over the place to do his backing vocals.
“Turn up The Eagles the neighbors are listening”.
The Eagles backed up on Seger’s Fire Lake.
Jimmy Buffett (and others) back up on the Eagles The Greeks Don’t Want No Freaks off The Long Run album as the Monstertones.
Don Felder WAS Hotel California. He wrote the music while away with his wife and daughter while on vacation. Of course Frey and Henley co-opted the fame.
Glenn Frey is a bit dubious, but Henley is a Grade A POS.
The Eagles were the Fathers of country rock with Bernie Leadon being the driving force.
If told I could only take five albums to exile with me for the rest of my life on St Helena Aja would be one I’d grab.
I am by no means a Michael McDonald fan but his performance on “Peg” is astonishing. They layered vocal tracks he laid down, harmonizing with himself but with half a note’s separation, and with NO autotune, all pure talent.