Fast Company

I prepared the Fast Company lyrics page, as well as the Bonus CD index page. It's so great to have something new to put up!

I also added an old article from a 1977 issue of Phonograph Record which I thought had some interesting insights into band dynamics. Enjoy!


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NEW Eagles songs!

If you head to your local Walmart or go to Walmart.com, you'll find a bonus CD packaged with Farewell 1 which contains two never-before-heard songs and a studio version of No More Cloudy Days! The two new songs are Fast Company (lead sung by Don Henley; written by Henley/Frey) and Do Something (lead sung by Timothy B. Schmit mainly - Henley sings one of the bridges; written by Henley/Schmit/Steuart Smith). You may have to ask for help if you don't see it right away, and if the sales associates don't know what you're talking about, have them look it up in their system. I had to do that, but I eventually got it!


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Happy Thanksgiving!

Hope everyone finds at least one thing to be thankful for today, even if you don't technically celebrate the holiday. As Glenn Frey said in 1992, "You get up in the morning, you go out there, you fight, you slug away, you deal with different obstacles we have in our life - but we have to extract joy from living every single day." Best wishes and joy to all on this Thanksgiving.


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Deep Thoughts with Glenn Frey and Don Henley c. 1977

I added an article from the 1977 Crawdaddy to the site. Read Frey's ruminations on Earth as a "transient place" because it is "moving through time" while refusing to explain lines from Hotel California because it would "betray [our] poetry." Read Henley express how Hotel California is about "the universe" and how the songs of the Eagles are more "street" than Bruce Springsteen's. Gotta love it. Seriously, it is an interesting article overall, even if the author seems a bit unimpressed with the guys.

Added a new section to Quotable Frey: Quotes on Family Life. It only has two entries right now, but I'm sure that will grow as I come across more.


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Happy early birthday Joe!

Tomorrow (Monday the 20th) is Joe Walsh's birthday, so for this week's downloads I put up an audio from the "Party of Two" show in Devon, PA 1993 - Walsh and Frey share vocals on Life in the Fast Lane. For the video, it's Help Me Thru the Night from the Don Kirshner Rock Hour 1975, filmed in Australia. It was a "Walsh and Friends" show - and Frey, of course, is one of the friends. A lovely song.


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Amgen Summerfest 2005 and Downloads Updated

Added another show to the Solo Tour Database - the Amgen Summerfest 2005 show he did the July before last. Lots of photos! And since the Farewell 1 Era Photo Page got so big, I've now divided it into "Farewell 1 - First Legs" and "Farewell 1 - Last Legs" (hehe). For the downloads, I put up a video version of one of the Take It Easys from last week - Seattle 1976 (warning: dark picture). The MP3 is You Belong to the City from the Casino Rama show in 2005. Great outro!

Frey Sightings

• Two mentions of the Frey show for SMACNA on Oct. 11. The SMACNA Newsletter has a snippet and a photo. This article in the Air Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration News is more of a commentary, but it discusses the show.
• The Eagles are on the VH1 Classic show "Class of 1977" which is playing today, Nov. 12 and tomorrow, Nov. 13 at 5:00 pm Eastern.

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Hell Freezes Over Screenshots Out the Wazoo

I meant to have this ready for yesterday, but there was just so many of them! So I'm putting them up today: my new and improved batch of screen shots from Hell Freezes Over. And yes, there's quite a lot of them, but... they just all looked so dang good! I hope whoever did the hair for that won some kind of coiffure-Emmy.

And on a personal note: Welcome to the world, my brand-new niece Sophia Grace, born at 5:30 am today!

Frey sightings:

• Bob Seger mentions Frey in regard to playing the Van Andel arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan in The Grand Rapids Press

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Happy Birthday to Glenn Frey!

Well, it's the big day - November 6. Glenn Frey turns 58! Here's a little graphic I made. I also added a quite a few photos for the occasion to the galleries, mostly courtesy of K.C. I'll let you go through those yourself and check those out - there's too many to link to! I'll be adding some more stuff throughout the day. So let's start celebrating!

• Check out this photo of little Glenn celebrating his birthday in 1950
• See this clip of JD Souther wishing Glenn a happy birthday in 1976
• In case you think Glenn is getting up there, watch this clip of Glenn from Expedition Earth putting age into "geological time" perspective
• Download the latest wallpaper (it has a GFO theme, since this is also the site's birthday)
• For message board frequenters, check out the twelve new avatars
• Listen to the now-complete "Take It Easy" series of downloads
  

Frey Sightings

• The Eagles played Walmart's party last week, as mentioned in this article

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Back!

I'm back, just in time for Glenn Frey's birthday tomorrow and the site anniversary. For the special occasion, I'm doing a series of downloads of Take It Easy over the years. Right now I have the 70s ones up, but I'll add more during the day until we get to modern times. Also, I put up a video of Partytown from Tokyo 1986. It fits the celebratory theme, even if its hedonistic "message" is not applicable!

Frey Sightings

• As mentioned previously, Walmart has officially announced a deal with the Eagles, according to Yahoo finance.
• Bill Simmons of ESPN mentions an old clip of himself and Glenn Frey outside the Hotel California as part of a lament to the fact that no one remembers the show "Too Close for Comfort" anymore. Hey, I remember it, even though Mom never let me watch it. Hehe.
  
• Lots of birthday announcements on those "Celebrity Birthday" things like this one, whichI won't bother to continue to list here!

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