Eagles' Documentary

[uwe]

Someone who regrets ever having gone to a Don Henley dinner invitation!

[westen44]

 

[uwe]

Gary's lament here:

[westen44]

That's funny, but I'm pretty sure Gary Hart wouldn't see the humor in that.  Of course, you never know.  People with a really healthy sense of humor can sometimes take it as well as they dish it out. 

[uwe]

Life is all about choices: You can either have good old-fashioned fun or have a library erected in your name named after you after your second term expires!  

Donna is now an anti-porn advocate. And she turned down Hugh Hefner.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/25/AR2010062503844.html

[Psycho Bass Guy]

[westen44]

Life is all about choices: You can either have good old-fashioned fun or have a library erected in your name named after you after your second term expires!  

Donna is now an anti-porn advocate. And she turned down Hugh Hefner.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/25/AR2010062503844.html

Everything seems to be falling in place now, except I never did understand the part where Gary Hart invited the media to follow him around. 

[westen44]

That taxi driver is hilarious.  It makes me want to get that movie.  Jeff Bridges is also very amusing. 

[westen44]

I just saw Part 2 of the Eagles documentary.  I had a prior commitment and missed Part 1.  I'd recommend lowering your expectations for anyone planning on watching this.  Of course, Part 1 is probably better.  But it is a run-of-the-mill documentary which makes the Eagles look really bad.  I know they said they weren't going to sugar coat this, but whoever said that was definitely not kidding.  Others may disagree, but this is simply my perception of the documentary. 

[nofi]

i don't care for the eagles that much but i watched it for the back story. no surprises there. although i do like a few of their songs i'm put off the bands general douchbagery and slick west coast veneer.

[Denis]

Hands down my favorite Eagle is Joe Walsh and I've always gotten a kick out of him and his music. Sidenote: his recording engineer happened to be at Mitch Easter's studio and helped my friend's band with the production. That's the record on which my JJ can be heard.

And as far as other Eagles go, I love the two songs Don Felder contributed to "Heavy Metal".

[westen44]

^
I would like Joe Walsh even if he had only been in the James Gang and had only had a solo career.  That documentary made it look like there may be serial killers out there nicer than Glenn Frey and Don Henley, though.  I can see how die-hard fans might have enjoyed it, but I didn't much care for the documentary itself. 

[uwe]

They are just not nice people. Not nice to each other and not nice to third parties. Don Henley wrote notes to chamber maids in hotels how they had folded the tip of the toilet paper roll the wrong way - he wasn't joking, he was genuinely offended. He's that type of person.

That doesn't make them bad musicians or songwriters. Or that Henley can make an observation or two and Frey be a honey-dripping crooner. Bob Dylan isn't always a nice person either.

It's kind of reassuring that The Eagles, behind all the Westcoast piousness and mellow music, are such a dysfunctional and sometimes outright nasty bunch. It would be unbearable if they were actually nice guys and liked each other. Ironically, I played Felder's and Walsh's solo albums for much of the day.

[uwe]

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/don-henley-former-eagle-2013-tour/

An ex-Eagle to rejoin and not Don Felder? That leaves Leadon and Meisner, but what is Schmidt gonna do if Meisner returns unless one of them strums guitar?

The Documentary still seems to be smarting too.

http://therenodispatch.blogspot.de/2013/02/exclusive-eagles-fans-angered-by-new.html

[westen44]

I agree with this article.  That documentary left me forever disillusioned with the Eagles.