Randy Meisner's wife found shot dead

[Highlander]

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...

[uwe]

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.