Randy Meisner's wife found shot dead

lowend1 · March 07, 2016, 02:04:27 PM

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.

nofi · March 07, 2016, 04:32:44 PM

sounds fishy AND stupid. i bet nancy grace would love to discuss this with you.

Dave W · March 07, 2016, 08:37:13 PM

I agree. Accidents like this do happen, but considering what else had just happened with Randy, it's suspicious as hell.

Nancy Grace.

Just having to see her ugly mug or hear her voice should be classified as cruel and unusual punishment.

westen44 · March 07, 2016, 10:03:41 PM

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.

lowend1 · March 08, 2016, 10:09:07 AM

Clearly, he / they had some issues. From 2015:
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/former-eagles-member-randy-meisner-allegedly-threatened-murder-suicide-20150709

Basvarken · March 08, 2016, 10:51:09 AM

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...

Pilgrim · March 08, 2016, 11:50:20 AM

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.

lowend1 · March 08, 2016, 03:43:31 PM

He's now under a 72-hour psych watch after threatening to kill himself.

Pilgrim · March 08, 2016, 03:57:04 PM

That's just bad juju all around.

uwe · March 09, 2016, 05:17:03 AM

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.

*** 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.

Pilgrim · March 09, 2016, 09:42:01 AM

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.

Basvarken · March 09, 2016, 09:46:30 AM

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...

Pilgrim · March 09, 2016, 03:01:53 PM

Quote from: Basvarken on March 09, 2016, 09:46:30 AM
If only those fish realised the water is severely poisoned...

Don't worry, we're immune. We spent our entire history developing an immunity to Iocane powder.....

Dave W · March 09, 2016, 08:38:59 PM

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.

uwe · March 10, 2016, 12:00:09 PM

True, the Eagles have a bad track record of being card-carrying misogynists ...

I just hope that ole Randy didn't ...

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.