![]() Almost immediately their grievances were countless. Unlike many bands who achieve dickishness in escalating proportion to their success, the Eagles seemingly needed no prompting. The Eagles were a machine built on umbrage and limitless material gain. These hand-picked panel members are all music enthusiasts who consume music at a pace roughly equivalent to an average 18-wheel driver on trucker speed. In an attempt to finally achieve convergence, I conscripted a panel of experts that included radio legend and rock historian Tom Scharpling, treasured cultural critic Rob Sheffield, and celebrated singer-songwriter Will Sheff to reexamine the case against the Eagles 50 years after they first thrust their way into the mainstream. Why are the Eagles the most unloved band to ever sell a hundred million records? Where and when did all of this start and is there any chance for this cognitive dissonance to be resolved? They are, and have always been, dedicatedly off-putting. That episode was not a discrete phenomenon-this has always been Henley and Frey’s modus operandi. Millennials might have first heard of “Hotel California” when emergent supernova Frank Ocean sampled it on Nostalgia, Ultra in 2011, a flattering occurrence to which Don Henley responded by referring to the culture-shifting Ocean as “a talentless little prick.” A couple generations now know them as the Dude’s most hated band in The Big Lebowski. ![]() Secondly, they have a way of turning up in the strangest contexts. For one thing, their infuriatingly precise mix of rock and roots essentially created the template for contemporary country music radio, with its brick-walled story songs and note-perfect ripping solos. But the songs were burned into my memory forever.įifty years after the Eagles’ first release, they continue to exert a monolithic familiarity. All the harmonies, honky-tonk men, and scarlet women made me intuitively uncomfortable. As adults drank beer and children capered in pools, the Eagles’ soft rock provided uneasy companionship. What matters is that you know them: “ One of These Nights,” “ Desperado,” “ New Kid in Town,” friggin’ “ Hotel California.” During my suburban Long Island upbringing, their smooth sounds were the other thing you heard besides Billy Joel at any given barbecue. ![]() Or be difficult and don’t concede that point. Their songs are, let’s face it, incredible. They were led by the dueling macho songwriters Don Henley and Glenn Frey. They made a federal case over whether you called them the Eagles or just Eagles because they said it was just Eagles. They were the cockiest commingling of self-styled swinging rods that ever smugly rocked and countried their way to the top. They were the talented rookie athlete who never shut up. I’m talking about the Eagles from Los Angeles-the most successful country-rock band ever to aggressively straddle the globe. No, not the Philadelphia Eagles (though that too is complicated) or bald eagles (for whom I experience a patriot’s unnuanced love). He is a retired American musician, singer, songwriter and founding member of the Eagles.Many relationships in life are conflicted, but none anywhere is more so than my own to the Eagles. Bernie Leadon (guitars, vocals): Born JIn Minneapolis, Minnesota Randy Meisner (bass guitar, vocals) :Randall Herman Meisner was born in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, the second child and only son of farmers Herman. He has Irish, English and Scottish ancestry. He is the son of Hughlene (McWhorter) and C. Don Henley (drums, vocals): Donald Hugh Henley was born in Gilmer, Texas, and grew up in the small northeast Texas town of Linden. One of his earliest bands was called the Subterraneans, named after Jack Kerouac's novel, and included fellow Dondero High School classmates Doug Edwards (later replaced by Lenny Mintz) on drums, Doug Gunsch and Bill Barnes on guitar, with Jeff Hodge on bass. Glenn Frey (guitars, vocals):īorn in Detroit, Michigan, on Novemand raised in nearby Royal Oak, Frey studied piano at age five, later switched to guitar, and became part of the mid-1960s Detroit rock scene. Founding members-were recruited by Linda Ronstadt as band members, some touring with her, and all playing on her third solo album, before venturing out on their own on David Geffen's new Asylum Records label. With five number-one singles and six number-one albums, six Grammy Awards and five American Music Awards, the Eagles were one of the most successful musical acts of the 1970s in North America. The Eagles are an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1971.
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