Met my fiancée at an Eagles show in 2014. Can't say I remember much of the show but I'll be forever indebted to Mr. Frey and The Eagles.
NonDawg Glenn Frey has passed away
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The link below is a great documentary, BBC from 2007. Hotel California: LA from the Byrds to the Eagles It's an hour and a half so I didn't embed it on here but it's extremely well done.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyIleDCJ7G0
Oops! Forgot about those two! So that would be the top three imo in no particular order.
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Depends on your perspective. If you were old enough, as I was, to see and listen to the great mid to late sixties bands, you might have a point. However there was nothing much going on in the seventies until late and if you came of age musically at that time then they were the top band in that decade and early 80s.
And who doesn't like the Smuggler's Blues episode of Miami Vice?
A part of me died yesterday as well........the Eagles, one of the greatest bands of all time, right up there with the Beatles.
You're right, you only had the Grateful Dead, Stones, Allman Bros, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, Leon Russell, JJ Cale, The Who, and Pink Floyd all in their prime in the 70s.
The Eagles are gum on these bands' shoes.
DAMMIT. We went over to Auburn for the next show, and and got all jacked up when we heard that JB was going to open. We wound up with the Amazing Rhythm Aces as the opener but we did get JD Souther who played the whole concert with the Eagles. I swear there were 200 guitars on and behind the stage. There were at least 6 guys who did nothing for 3 hours but run back and forth, tuning and carrying guitars to the stage.
You continue to be stupider and stupider. For the record , Jimi Hendrix od'ed in 1970, so to include him among " in their prime" in the 70s is a bit of a stretch even by your standards.
It just depends on your taste in music but they are definitely not the gum on those bands shoes. I can appreciate the Grateful Dead but personally I never liked them. All a matter of taste. The Who, the Allman Brothers, great legendary bands but I would rather listen to the Eagles. All the matter of taste. JJ Cale? Seriously? He was great and an influential guitarist but most people have never even heard of him. There's plenty of guitarist that were better than Glenn Frey nobody's saying he was a great guitarist but he was one of the greatest members of one of the greatest bands of all time. The Eagles influenced the hell of a lot more musicians than JJ Cale.
I'd rather listen to Stevie Ray Vaughn any day than Jimi Hendrix but that doesn't mean Stevie Ray was better. But it's universally known that they are about all time greats. you're being overly opinionated and treating it as an absolute.
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I'll swap you Jimi Hendrix for Led Zeppelin (my mistake leaving them off).
If you think "Witchy Woman", "Tequila Sunrise", "Life in the Fast Lane" can compete with any of the catalog of the bands I mentioned then...well, yeah not sure where to go next here.
Have you really ever read a lot of the lyrics of those two artists songs that you just listed? Not the deepest most thoughtful stuff ever written on many of their songs. And while Led Zeppelin is one of the greatest blues rock bands of all time it's widely known but they're also some of the biggest plagiarists of all time. Just unbelievable musicians.
I bet you've never even heard the song, The Last Resort
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If you haven't seen The History of the Eagles on Showtime you should. It was really well done. I'm sure they'll re-air it now
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Duane and Berry died in '71 and '72 respectively. After Duane died, they weren't the same, and they were the only concert I ever walked out on around '73. Jimi Hendrix died in 1970. Jim Morrison died in 1971, but his last performance was in '70.
Leon Russell was a minor act, even though I saw him at Boston Garden, not a real headliner. More of a lack of anyone else worth seeing. I'd have rather seen the tour with Joe Cocker. Yes was worthwhile and so was Jethro Tull and ELP but there is always longevity vs decline and relevancy to be considered. Their last really good albums were early 70s. Never was into Pink Floyd, I'd have put them with Black Sabbath, Uriah Heep camp etc. more of a British curiosity to me. Cale? a minor leaguer, but a very good songwriter.
An Eagles competitor for best rocker in the mid-seventies would be Peter Frampton.
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I liked the Grateful Dead, but they went through periods of greatness (Keith and Donna) and periods of awfulness (the rest of the decade). 70s guitarists like SRV that would be relevant as bigger bands broke up were Robin Trower, Roy Buchannan, etc. Everyone has an opinion, yep.
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I'm not gonna get into the Eagles argument, but I think you are wrong about JJ Cale. A ton of huge musicians cover his songs.
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I'd put Page/Plant up there. As well as Garcia/Hunter.
You are right about this I knew about the Eric Clapton covers of after midnight and cocaine but I looked it up and he did have a lot of other bands cover some of his stuff and it's a pretty impressive list
I guess those songs compete very well based on the fact that The Eagles Greatest Hits is the #2 selling album of all time behind only Michael Jackson's Thriller. That is based on units sold and those are the numbers that render your argument as silly.
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First off, you need to learn to spell his name correctly and secondly, you must be an IDIOT, with a statement like that. Maybe you did not like their music, but they sold 1 million records a month for 18 straight months. The only singer to have a bigger selling album than the Eagles was Michael Jackson. So a lot of people believe that they were a great band and oh by the way, Glenn Frye was a very good singer.
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Well if we can't leave out hometown boys I'm going with Bell/Houser and Isbell/Coley/Hood hahaBerry-Buck-Mills-Stipe
(Gotta have the backs of the hometown boys)
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Disliking the music they created in no way makes the Eagles less of a band. You're entitled to your opinion, but their record sales would indicate you are massively disagreed with on this. If you don't enjoy the music, feel free to listen to something else.
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I saw most of those bands. Most disappointed with the Stones. Eagles=pure talent. Live in Australia dvd best music of all time. Only band you named that was even close as a live band was ABB.
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I don't hate the Eagles, but what talent are you speaking of? Pure vocals/harmony? There's no way you saw Grateful Dead and think the Eagles are a better live performance than them.
Men don't like Justion. Only sissies and little girls. And no the masses don't like Bieber-you may tho.
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Yeah everything I've posted in this thread indicates that. Even Frey himself said without Henley they were basically Air Supply. Speaking of sissies and little girls…
I saw the dead twice. Bought 8 tract tape of Working man blues. They were good but the Eagles were the ultimate live performers. The dead got sloopy at times.
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