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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News Articles Out the Wazoo

After digging through Purdue University's archival database of nationwide newspapers dating back to 1985, I found a whole bunch of stuff on Glenn Frey. Here's the results of my research:

• "'Glenn-bo' Frey is Camera-Ready." Toronto Star (Dec. 5, 1986)
• "Running Down Roots." New York Times (Sept. 14, 1988)
• "Ex-Eagle Soaring Into Middle Age." Toronto Star (Sept. 30, 1988)
• "Flying Solo." St. Petersburg Times (Mar. 29, 1991)
• "Last Hurrah." USA Today (May 14, 1992)
• "Rocker Takes It to the Limit. " Sunday Mail, Queensland (Sept. 6, 1992)
• "Resurgent Frey Mixes Old and New." Atlanta Journal and Constitution (Sept. 23, 1992)
• "Frey Puts His Music on Hold." The Oregonian (Oct. 24, 1993)
• "Frey Lured by Siren Song of TV." USA Today (Oct. 26, 1993)
• "Going Into 'Sunset' New Start for Singer." Times-Picayune (Oct. 27, 1993)
• "Winging It with the Eagles." Toronto Sun (April 27, 1994)
• "'It Feels Like Last Week.'" St. Louis Post-Dispatch (July 1, 1994)
• "Cool and Unusual." St. Louis Post-Dispatch (July 8, 1994)
• "The Eagles Have Landed." Times-Picayune (July 19, 1994)
• "Frey's Illness Grounds Eagles in Mid-Tour." Chicago Sun-Times (Aug. 31, 1994) [Also includes related press]
• "Eagles' Frey Trying to Wing It These Days." Boston Herald (Apr. 24, 1998)
• "The Eagles Have Landed - on CD and the Internet." Boston Herald (Nov. 13, 2000)
• "Birds of a Feather: The Eagles Flock Together Again." Rocky Mountain News (June 22, 2001)
• "Rockin' Down That Outlaw Fairway." The Herald (July 14, 2001)
• "Desperadoes Hell Freezes Over (Again)." Herald Sun (Oct. 28, 2001)
• "Eagles Take It Easy." Sunday Mail (July 25, 2004)
• "Revival Instincts." South China Morning Post (July 25, 2004)
• "Where Eagles Dare..." The Straits Times (Oct. 11, 2004)

Also, I found a lot of concert reviews that helped me flesh out the following tour pages - they're linked from individual shows:

• 1988 Little River Band Tour
• 1992 Strange Weather Tour
• 1993 Party of Two Tour (with Joe Walsh)
• Solo Shows Unattached to Tours (mostly 1997-2005)
• Benefit Concert Appearances

Additionally, I updated the biography with mention of the Felder settlement and the new album.

Finally, I added two articles about the Florida 2006 show.

And that's it!


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Download Rotation and New Information

Glenn Frey and Joe Walsh will be playing at another Tiger Woods benefit on October 7! It's in Anaheim, California. According to a recent news release, tickets start at $750. Find out more information on the official Tiger Woods Foundation Site or call (714) 816-1806.

More and more press is coming out about the new Eagles album thanks to Joe and Billboard.com. "The first half of next year" as a probable release time sounds good to me!

Now, for site updates. Barbara attended the Frey private show in Milwaukee and wrote a great review of it. Going back a little further, Jay sent in a few comments on a Party of Two show he saw back in 1993 in Hyannis, Massachusetts.

I also added some comments by Frey on On the Border to the song page in Quotable Frey, and a new Fun Fact that Frey was voted "Most Likely to Inhale" at Dondero High School. Of course, the sitemap has been updated for all this stuff!

Can't forget the downloads for this week - an MP3 of The One You Love from the Del Mar Fair in 1985 and a video of Take It Easy from Japan in 1995.

Frey Sightings

• Frey's comments on hybrids at the Michigan show didn't come out of the blue. As this 2003 article states, he and his wife Cindy have been involved with Laurie David's anti-SUV (and other environmentally harmful vehicles) crusade for a while now. Thanks to SS for the link.
• Miami Vice's incorporation of music such as Smuggler's Blues is blamed for popularizing the marketing of music through television programs in this article in the Age
• This article in the Denver Post asks why the Eagles' Greatest Hits is the best-selling album of all time

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Blogger. Meh.

Blogger hasn't been fixed but I made a new one. Anyway, for the sake of archiving, let me repeat the posts I've done since it broke. Added some photos courtesy of Zermie from Sacramento, plus a photo from the second article mentioned below, to the Farewell 1 Era photo page.

Frey Sightings

• Reviews: Eagles Put on a Classic Show, Honolulu Fans Take It Easy with the Eagles, and Eagles Turn It On in Second Half
• A reporter reminisces about groups that remind him of Manila, one of which is the Eages, here

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