Well, at least one of them then, though tellingly Schmidt is probably the most anodyne of them all!
Anyway, this thread has me now listening to the Desperado remaster, "faithless women" and all that ... ... love the Eagles' obsession with jiltin' wimmin when Henley and Frey coined the phrase in their groupie devouring heyday to lear'em, lov'em, leav'em (alluding to their trick to fly their "victims" in with the band Lear jet which apparently never failed to impress).
Tequila Sunrise plays ... I gotta tell this: When I first had a cocktail card before me, I knew nothing of cocktails except a Bloody Mary and a Pina Colada, so I ordered a Tequila Sunrise because I knew the song (unaware that that had been about a drink, I thought Tequila was a place in Mexico, which it possibly also is)!!! Years later I was embarrassed by someone quipping "that's a lady's drink". I still order it to this day and always think of the song and Glenn Frey when I do. My less than manly choice of cocktails is therefore directly influenced by The Eagles.
PS: Love the busy bass playing in Outlaw during the end - also one of the few darker songs sung by Frey.
As for Schmit, I actually do like his vocals. Being in a band with so many great singers, though, it's natural that he still wouldn't get to sing much. As has been noted, of course, he got the job because he could play AND sing.
I haven't seen the details of how the Eagles derived maximum benefits from groupies. I can only imagine. However, life being what it is and the opposite sex being so well-armed in the "game" of love, I'd bet that at least a few of the Eagles actually did experience being stung by faithless women in real life. Just speculation on my part, though.
I'm no expert on mixed drinks, but I've never heard a Tequila Sunrise referred to as a lady's drink. It seems to me it's just a regular drink. A Singapore Sling is a lady's drink.
As for the bass playing on "Desperado," I've listened to that album so many times that when I finally decided I'd stop just singing to it and actually play the bass to it, I found that I could effortlessly play the bass to every song. But it was the natural way I'd play, not the way Randy Meisner would do it. It made me appreciate his bass playing more than I might normally have. Although that was quite some time ago, in a way, that was a kind of turning point for me. It made me realize that Randy Meisner's bass playing was pretty damned good, and maybe mine wasn't quite so good as I had thought. Better that than to overrate one's self, but stark reality can sometimes be more stark than originally planned.
I've never been in a band that covered an Eagles song. However, after listening to some of those Eagles covers on YouTube, it seems to me it might be a good idea if more people realized sounding as good as the Eagles is not easy. Thinking that you're doing so might be kind of delusional.