New Don Henley

dadagoboi · May 07, 2015, 01:26:09 PM

Long rumored Don Henley record is supposedly dropping soon. I'm looking forward to how it's received in today's market.

And, of course, having Uwe explain it all to us.

Pilgrim · May 07, 2015, 02:06:27 PM

That rings a bell - but I think it has been done.

uwe · May 07, 2015, 02:48:07 PM

Dadagoboi, my hourly fee is EUR 650 plus VAT and expenses, but we can discuss a small discount among friends!

I like Henley's voice and songwriting - guilty as charged. His sourpuss demeanor and holier-than-thou attitude is another matter. But sometimes difficult people make great music. That occurs to me while I'm listening here in office to Miles Davis (his Spanish album which is of timeless beauty).

I haven't heard a bad Don Henley album yet and I think I have them all. I even liked Long Way Out of Eden, but I'm partial to The Eagles.

patman · May 07, 2015, 04:05:29 PM

I keep Sketches of Spain in my office, also...one of my favorites.

And yes, Miles was a piece of work.

Highlander · May 07, 2015, 04:12:20 PM

Ah... the end of the innocence...

uwe · May 07, 2015, 04:19:32 PM

Why, Mark hasn't posted in this thread yet, has he?

Highlander · May 07, 2015, 04:34:23 PM

Pre-empting, my dear boy... pre-empting...

TBird1958 · May 07, 2015, 05:14:17 PM

Quote from: uwe on May 07, 2015, 04:19:32 PM
Why, Mark hasn't posted in this thread yet, has he?

You know me!

Dave W · May 07, 2015, 11:05:11 PM

I'd put a Don Henley poster on my wall but I'm fresh out of poison darts.

Pilgrim · May 08, 2015, 10:48:50 AM

I don't dislike Wagner's music because he was an ardent anti-Semite. I don't dislike Henley's music because he's a butt.

Granny Gremlin · May 08, 2015, 11:41:32 AM

Quote from: Pilgrim on May 08, 2015, 10:48:50 AM
I don't dislike Henley's music because he's a butt.

Yeah, there's certainly no reason to resort to ad hominems when there's plenty of reasons to dislike it for being sucky. ... OK there were a few good ones in there (which I suspect I mostly have a smidge of fondness for due to torture-level repetition on local radio in my mom's kitchen in the 80s) but The Eagles can certainly go to easy listening hell (a former boss at my high school era job was a superfan and I never wanna hear any of it again). For such a hardass mean dude he sure sings a lot of sappy ballads, and then there's his voice

uwe · May 08, 2015, 12:05:59 PM

Who let the Cannuck punk in here?

Pilgrim · May 08, 2015, 12:12:39 PM

I liked the Long Way Out of Eden CD too - just not as much as the earlier ones. But there are some good tunes on there.

uwe · May 08, 2015, 01:31:44 PM

I thought The Long Run was their shallowest album by far, once mighty Eagles had turned into lame ducks by then. And I prefer One of these Nights (the album) over Hotel California (the album), I missed Bernie Leadon on the latter (this with all due respect to Joe Walsh, but Bernie gave them that bluegrass influence that fell away forever once he had left). There is not a single weakish track on One of these Nights IMHO and even the cover is iconic in its (granted: faux) mysticism.

Highlander · May 08, 2015, 01:42:12 PM

Had On The Border from release and saw them on the Hotel California tour but too expensive to contemplate these days... did a drive-by of Twickenham when they played there a couple of years back so "heard" them live...

(sort of) saw Leadon playing in a pub in London, post Eagles, with Chris Hillman and Al Perkins...

Uwe might recognise the stage...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRQ1qkGxoR0