Happy Birthday Glenn!

November 6, 1948. A day that will live in infamy...

Just teasing. Happy birthday Glenn! To celebrate, I've gotten caught up on all those updates I've been meaning to do, with the addition of a few special treats.

First off, just for fun, here's a video of JD Souther wishing Glenn a Happy Birthday at a Houston show in 1976 (this is becoming a birthday tradition).

In other multimedia news, I've put up on the downloads page a video of Before the Ship Goes Down from San Diego 1992. It's not the best quality, but as Glenn says in it, "We have to extract joy from living every single day" - appropriate for a day such as this. Also, I've put up an MP3 of Ol' 55 from the Kirshner Rock Concert in 1974. OK, he's 59 not 55, but who's counting? As he has said, "After 40, age is just a number you hide from."

A special birthday wallpaper: Glenn Frey through the years

And some little slide shows I put together tracing the years. Now, perhaps I got a bit carried away making so many, but they're fun for me to do, and I think by the last one (You Are Not Alone), I've started to get the hang of it. I stuck 'em on YouTube for your viewing pleasure!

Glenn Frey Over the Years: Still the Same
Glenn Frey in the 70s: Help Me!
Glenn Frey in the 80s: The Allnighter
Glenn Frey in the 90s: This Way to Happiness
Glenn Frey, current: You Are Not Alone

I've added some material to Quotable Frey - specifically, the pages about family, music, fitness, charity work, and the songs "Walk in the Dark" and "I've Got Mine"

I've added some photos to the galleries - especially check out the Long Road Out of Eden gallery and its new Los Angeles Nokia photos. Other galleries with additions: Eagles LP gallery, The Border gallery , the One of These Nights gallery, the Hotel California gallery, the Long Run gallery, The Allnighter gallery, the Party of Two gallery, the Hell Freezes Over gallery, the late 90s gallery, the new millennium gallery, and the Farewell 1: Last Legs gallery.

I've added a dozen Strange Weather era articles here

I've added show reviews for Ventura 1992, Los Angeles 1992, and San Juan Capistrano 1992

I've fleshed out the Party of Two tour page, which now includes all the dates of the tour. Finally, a comprehensive tour page! My goal is that one day, I'll have comprehensive tour dates for ALL of his tours.

Finally, you can check out the lyrics to Glenn's Long Road Out of Eden songs here.

Hope he has a great day. Rock on, Glenn!

More updates

I switched the downloads again - this week, the video is Take It Easy from Central Park (1972) and the audio is Smuggler's Blues from Yokohama, Japan (1995).

I created a new page detailing the compilations Frey songs have appeared on. Before I compiled this information, I had no idea the Heat Is On had been on so many of those things - it even managed to get included on "Movie's Greatest Love Songs" (?!)

I added information on a few more guest appearances, including the Jake Trout and the Flounders CD where Frey actually appeared on a little video that was on the enhanced CD as well as on an interview snippet. He even sang a verse of the parody entitled Struggler's Blues. I included snippets for download.

I also added details on a few more corporate shows Frey has done, including his concert for the State Farm convention in Las Vegas in September (great photos!) and a Hawaiian Party of Two show from 2005 (more photos)!


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Downloads - finally

Finally got the downloads rotated - the MP3 is Lyin' Eyes from Long Beach 1980 and the video is Livin' Right from Dublin 1992. Watching Glenn Frey get down and get funky in the latter might give you a lift - it helped me momentarily get my mind off of the fact that I have writer's block on my dissertation and that the little I have managed to write sucks.

Frey Sightings

• Lots of press regarding the recent Tiger Woods Benefit. There are mentions in Yahoo! Finance, Golf Digest, Noticias.info, and the OC Register. The press has also been added to the Tiger Woods Benefit page.

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Multimedia Updates and Tiger Woods Benefit Page

I added a page for the recent Tiger Woods "OC Block Party" benefit to the Frey Solo Tour Archive. I also updated the multimedia downloads - this week, it's a MP3 of Take It to the Limit from the Ken Salazar Fundraiser in 2004 and a video of True Love from San Diego in 1992.

Frey Sightings

• According to their newsletter, the Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning Contractor's National Association (SMACNA) is having Glenn Frey play at their convention in Phoenix on October 11.

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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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Solo Tour Archive Expanded

Added information about 30 or so past shows to the Solo Tour Archive. No more information as of yet about NEW dates, though!


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Tour Archive Additions

Found some more information about a couple benefits Glenn did for the National Science Center's Fort Discovery for Kids and his appearance at Earthfest in 1998. I added them to the Benefit page on the Solo Tour Archive.


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Another solo date and new site feature

The Fast Lane has received info that Glenn will do another solo date in Mt. Pleasant, MI on July 20! As of yet a link to buy tickets is not available, but it's exciting news anyway! I'd go, but I'm worried he might be freaked out by me following him around. I sure want to, though!

And this seems like a good time to unveil something I've been working on for a few weeks now: The Glenn Frey Solo Tour Archive. I've done a lot of research but the only way that thing will be filled out is if people send me further information, so please do, if you have it!

Frey Sightings

• A cute article about Winslow, Arizona that mentions Frey is here
• Glenn Frey and the other Eagles are on the list of people one must avoid if concerned about getting bird flu in this joke piece

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