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Location: Charlotte NC | For anyone interested, if you get the Bravo channel, there is a 2hr Eagles concert from 9PM to 11PM Eastern on tonight Thursday. (Like right now). Some folks I know caught it last night on NBC and said it was pretty good. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Saw it last night...lotta Taks
I really like the way they are arranging their tunes these last few years. Pretty good show for a bunch of old farts. |
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Location: south east Michigan | I'm watching it now.
I can't think of another band that has a tighter live sound.
I remember being a big fan of Walsh with the James Gang. |
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Location: East Tennessee | Saw it last night too. They still sound great.
i was intrigued by the double neck, the 12 string looked like 8 tuners on one side, 4 on the other. The camaramen never show really good shots of the instruments. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Yeah, you would think that cameramen would realize we care more about seeing the instruments than Joe Walsh mugging for the helmet cam! |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by stephent28:
Yeah, you would think that cameramen would realize we care more about seeing the instruments than Joe Walsh mugging for the helmet cam! or at least the director.
I was kinda waiting for the main camera to focus right into his helmet-cam, so that we might see directly the genius of his timing. |
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Location: Rego Park, NY, | I was channel surfing last night and found the concert on the Bravo Channel. I caught it right at the beginning. Great concert |
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| The DvD is coming out in about 2 weeks. Their previous Dvd concert has become the standard when it comes to DVD Dts sound quality. I saw these guys during this "farewell" tour and they were fantastic. Joe Walsh appeared to be brain dead in the first half of the show; then, he rocked the place during the second half. I'll be seeing them perform again in October/November. They may be getting up there a bit in age, but the crowd was a wide mix of ages and types of people. There's an article about them in the current guitar world acoustic magazine where one of them explains why they use Takamines on stage. Among the snobby of the acoustic world, Takamine doesn't get much praise; however, when you see performer after performer (from local bar to huge stadiums) using them you have to give the guitars some credit. Takamine must be doing something right. |
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Location: NJ | The Taks have become the Ovation of the wooden box guitars - sturdy, good-sounding, relatively inexpensive, utilitarian acoustic guitars for live applications . . .
Saw the Eagles back in '77 ("Hotel California" Tour). GREAT show!! Don Felder & Randy Meisner were still in the band, and they sang/played everything themselves - no ancillary guitarist/keyboardist/percussionist . . . .
The "warm-up" was some up & coming singer/songwriter that was JUST starting to get airplay . . . . . some "Buffett" guy . . . |
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Location: Evansville,IN | I seen the Eagles twice in their earlier years. Not many do a live performance as well as them, with the exception of Electric Light Orchestra (ELO). Two of the best concerts I've been to, and I went to a lot of them. :D |
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Location: Tennessee | Joe Walsh appeared to be brain dead in the first half of the show Joe himself attributes the way he looks and acts to the fact he was shot in the head when he was 18 or 19 and survived. |
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Location: Isle of Man, UK | Was lucky enough to catch the guys live back in their 2001 Europe tour. That was the best GBP35 I've ever spent.
Never imagined they would come on at 1930 with no support, have a little break halfway through, and then play straight through til after 2230. Stunning sound, proper music, and they really looked like they were doing what the program notes said - playing for the love of it.
May new bands today learn something from these cats. (Eagles... whatever!)
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Location: Fayetteville, NC | The Eagles are outstanding . Especially those tight harmonies!I didn't get to see all of The NBC show and I don't have Bravo so I'll wait for the official DVD release. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | I have always been a big Eagles fan but in this show I was a little disappointed. To paraphrase a Matt Smithism... they looked (and sounded) like they were working more than playing. |
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | I saw the Eagles back in 1975 right before they released "One Of These Nights"...they performed it during the concert, and also did a spooky version of "Journey Of The Sorcerer" with Bernie Leadon on mandolin. I miss Bernie....after he left, I lost much of the affection I had for the group.
The night I saw them, they had this guy from Illinois opening for them....what was his name???....oh, yeah....Dan Fogelberg......
(I hope Dan is recovering----nothing new on his website, I'm afraid)
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Location: NJ | the eagles never did much for me.
Love Joe walsh though |
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Location: Florida | Saw the show the other night.....Joe Walsh looks like he NEEDS to retire, but he can still play that guitar..... |
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Location: Florida | Originally posted by Gospel Guitar Guy:
i was intrigued by the double neck, the 12 string looked like 8 tuners on one side, 4 on the other. The camaramen never show really good shots of the instruments. I was wondering if you saw that....and they never do show the instruments well, I was trying to see what Joe Walsh was playing during "Life's been good" |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | He was playing a Carvin. |
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Location: SoCal | He's endorsing them in their latest catalog. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Taped the show.
As you who know a little about me probably would guess, my son and I used to do a few Eagles songs back when we were country rock. Joe Walsh is the ultimate 70's guitar player, destroyed by the experience, but survived and kept his talent even though he lost his brain. You had to be there to understand, there were too many choices and they all were bad, some of us took the safe road and avoided the hard stuff and became better, some dove into the mix and became victims.
Listen to "Snow Blind" by the late Hoyt Axton, a song writer whose mother wrote "Heartbreak Hotel"
That song tells the whole story. |
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | That's a good song....Steppenwolf does it on their album "7". I think the whole title is "Snow Blind Friend". It definitely does give the feel of the times.
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Right on Roger
It would be great if you could post the lyrics if you have them, if not, I'll look through my tapes and see if I can write them down and post them. It was a song that reflected the times almost perfectly. |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Artist: Steppenwolf Lyrics
Snowblind Friend Lyrics
Words and music by Hoyt Axton
You say it was this morning when you last saw your good friend
Lyin' on the pavement with a misery on his brain
Stoned on some new potion he found upon the wall
Of some unholy bathroom in some ungodly hall
He only had a dollar to live on 'til next Monday
But he spent it on some comfort for his mind
Did you say you think he's blind?
Someone should call his parents, a sister or a brother
And they'll come to take him back home on a bus
But he'll always be a problem to his poor and puzzled mother
Yeah he'll always be another one of us
He said he wanted Heaven but prayin' was too slow
So he bought a one way ticket on an airline made of snow
Did you say you saw your good friend flyin' low?
Flyin' low
Dyin' slow |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Awesome lyrics..
Now I want to hear the song. |
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Heads up Eagles fans (The band)
