Uh oh. Given Randy's past history, this doesn't sound good...
http://www.guitarworld.com/artists-artist-news-news/wife-eagles-co-founder-randy-meisner-found-dead/28809
UPDATE: Police have cleared Meisner - apparently she was looking in a closet for something and discharged the gun. A tragic accident.
sounds fishy AND stupid. i bet nancy grace would love to discuss this with you. :puke:
I agree. Accidents like this do happen, but considering what else had just happened with Randy, it's suspicious as hell.
Nancy Grace. :puke: Just having to see her ugly mug or hear her voice should be classified as cruel and unusual punishment.
I've never heard anyone with such a whiny voice as Nancy Grace. But what's most obvious about her is how she so clearly envies pretty women.
When I first read about this incident, I didn't know what to think. Because it seems some stuff I had read about Randy Meisner several years ago wasn't even true. I had read that he was very ill and would never get better, etc. Whatever is going on, this is obviously a great tragedy about his wife.
Clearly, he / they had some issues. From 2015:
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/former-eagles-member-randy-meisner-allegedly-threatened-murder-suicide-20150709
Quote from: Dave W on March 07, 2016, 08:37:13 PM
Accidents like this do happen
They don't when you don't have a gun...
As usual, the most dangerous thing to handle is an "unloaded" gun.
That goes with other assumptions we make which turn out to make asses of all of us. Unfortunately a fatal assumption in this case...and yes, the timing is very odd.
He's now under a 72-hour psych watch after threatening to kill himself.
That's just bad juju all around. :sad:
Quote from: Basvarken on March 08, 2016, 10:51:09 AM
They don't when you don't have a gun...
Alas!, Rob, preaching gun control to our American friends is like telling fish not to swim in the water! But you do wonder why the gun was loaded and unsecured in a closet as opposed to a gun cabinet.*** And why his wife was looking for it in the first place.
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Because you need a loaded gun in a handy location in case anything happens? I assume that Studio City, LA, is not that type of a neighborhood and that the royalties from Take it to the Limit alone would have allowed the Meisners to afford a neighborhood security and then some. Very tragic for both.
Quote from: uwe on March 09, 2016, 05:17:03 AM
But you do wonder why the gun was loaded and unsecured in a closet as opposed to a gun cabinet.*** And why his wife was looking for it in the first place.
None of us can answer the second question, but the answer to the first is clear: carelessness, stupidity and incompetence in handling firearms. Stronger terms can easily be applied, like criminal negligence.
Quote from: uwe on March 09, 2016, 05:17:03 AM
Alas!, Rob, preaching gun control to our American friends is like telling fish not to swim in the water!
If only those fish realised the water is severely poisoned... :-X
Quote from: Basvarken on March 09, 2016, 09:46:30 AM
If only those fish realised the water is severely poisoned... :-X
Don't worry, we're immune. We spent our entire history developing an immunity to Iocane powder.....
(http://unrealitymag.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/wes.jpg)
You don't leave a loaded firearm unsecured -- even if it was in a case -- if you're living with a known crazy man who has threatened other people (and himself) with firearms in the past. Ideally you wouldn't even be living with that crazy man.
An hour and a half earlier she reported that he was waiving a BB gun and acting erratically. If her death really was an accident, I suspect she wasn't just randomly moving things around in the closet. She may have been trying to protect herself. If he didn't actually shoot her, I find it hard to believe he isn't indirectly responsible.
True, the Eagles have a bad track record of being card-carrying misogynists ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp-Eub0i7J4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCoFc661GZU
I just hope that ole Randy didn't ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7hmF_IX9Ic
Oh my, looking at this now, Randy always seemed like the nicest and most down to earth Eagle on stage (best shirts too, a grunge role model), what demons did get the best of him? :-\ And what a brilliant, yet unaffected and even humble performance of that classic - he even gets those falsettos at the end down pat, just immaculate.
One of the issues for him with that last song was his inability to hit that note and the persistent badgering to perform it (and others) at the end of his tenure... :sad:
I think he did pretty darn well on that performance (and is obviously relieved about, just watch the end of the vid). Once he left and the eagles continued to perform the song, no other Eagle could hit those notes or even attempted to (I believe Frey sung it later on). Though I always wondered why they didn't let Timothy B. Schmitt with his countless sessions-hardened mock-Bee Gees falsetto have a go at that track. He should have had the range to do it though his voice doesn't have the non-chalant natural purity of Meisner's.