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!

Happy Independence Day!

Hope all the Americans had a Happy Independence Day! I'd meant to do this update earlier, but it was time to see the fireworks and I had to save it for when I got back. However, belatedly, I'd encourage you to listen to a live version of Better in the USA to enhance those patriotic feelings!

Now, as I've posted before, I got a bit backed up on updates for GFO. As a result, I've got a huge amount to dump on you now. Here goes:

Multimedia downloads: an MP3 of Chug All Night from Lenox in 1974 and a video of Lyin' Eyes from Seattle 1976, in honor of the song winning the One Of These Nights Survivor game.

Wallpapers: three wallpapers by Maleah.

MP3s: I finally got a Japanese copy of Strange Weather and added a MP3 of the studio version of Ain't It Love to the Fun Stuff Downloads (Great song!)

Photos: new photos can be found in the One of These Nights gallery, the Hotel California gallery, the Long Run gallery, the Allnighter gallery, the Soul Searchin' gallery, the Strange Weather gallery, the South of Sunset gallery, the late nineties gallery, the millennium gallery, the Farewell 1 First Legs era, and the Farewell 1 Last Legs era.

Golf pages: more screen shots have been added to the Pebble Beach 2007 page.

Tour pages: I've made a page for the recent Starkey Benefit, including photos, and added material to the Irvine 1982 show, the Revlon 2004 Benefit, the Lupus LA 2006 Benefit, and the Las Vegas Cannery Show in 2004 (including a review by Mag.)

Frey sightings:

• It has been reported by sites such as Undercover that Don Henley has announced that the Eagles album will be out on October 30. However, when a spokesman for Henley was asked about it, he had no comment on the matter. Make of that what you will. I think we can at least have cautious optimism.

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More Pure Delighter for Your Desktop

I've put up two new Allnighter era wallpapers - one is Too Cool and the other is for those with simpler tastes - Up Close and Personal. Enjoy!

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Wallpapers, Hall of Famers

Once again, the downloads are rotated - the MP3 for this week is Heartache Tonight from Irvine, CA in 1982, and the video is Take It Easy from the Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame Induction in 1998.

I also put up a new wallpaper of the guys from 1975.

Frey Sightings

• This site claims the album will come out in June; no official word yet, though, so don't count on it.

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Updates, Updates, Updates

Since my trip out of town, I've been remiss on updating. Here's some new stuff:

New downloads: a video of Lyin' Eyes from Houston 1976, and a MP3 of Peaceful Easy Feeling from Frey's solo show at Casino Rama 2005.

New wallpaper: This one is from HFO.

New articles: Scanned in articles from Circus (1973), BAM (1982), and Rolling Stone (1990). While doing research for the golf section of the site, I also came across a nice article about his charity work in The Patroit Ledger (2000).

New video: I put up a pretty good quality version of Frey's video Livin' Right, and redid the screen caps for it. (Note: there is both a .mpg and .wmv version of the file. I've decided I'm going to put up .wmv aka "Windows Media Video" compressed versions of all permanent GFO videos because the loss of quality is not great and the download size is more manageable for people with dial-up. For those who want the highest quality, however, I will still put up .mpg versions).

Frey Sightings

• This article from Inside Bay Area contains a quote from Frey about playing in the rain on Saturday
• This article from SFGate.com has a quote from Frey on receiving the invitation for Pebble Beach
• This article from the Golf Channel has a quote from Frey on which Eagles song best represents the game of golf

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Downloads and Wallpaper and Baseball

The downloads for this week are an MP3 of the Eagles performing Tequila Sunrise from the second night of the Hell Freezes Over taping; the video is Already Gone from Christchurch, New Zealand in 1995.

I made a new Glenn Frey early-90s-era wallpaper - check it out on the Glenn Frey / Eagles Wallpaper page.

I also added some .pdf files of articles I scanned from Rolling Stone about the 1978 RS vs. the Eagles baseball game here and here, written by Frey/Henley and RS guys respectively. What a hoot!

Frey Sightings

• In this article from the Toronto Star, Frey is quoted as saying "Art is a dog on Neil Young's porch." Sounds deep.
• Golfer Joey Sindelar names Frey as one of the celebrities who he's enjoyed meeting at pro-am golf tournmaments in this Star-Gazette article.

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On the Loose with Downloads

Added an MP3 of the Frey/Tempchin song On the Loose. Glenn doesn't sing it, but since he co-wrote it and it's out of print, I thought it would be of interest.

I also made a new wallpaper from a photo I found in an old Takamine ad.

And finally, I rotated the downloads. The video this week is Peaceful Easy Feeling off of the BBC 1973 show. It's a fat file, but very good quality. The audio is another song from Yury: Frey doing You Belong to the City on the Mark and Brian radio show.


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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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Another wallpaper!

Again, by request, another wallpaper. I aim to please - and also it's a reason to put off working on my dissertation like the chronic procrastinator that I am.


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New wallpaper

By request - a new wallpaper.


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Downloads, downloads

This week, I put up a video of the Eagles doing Smuggler's Blues at Christchurch (yow!) and an MP3 of Heartache Tonight from Tokyo 1979, when it was still a "new song." Those can be found on the Glenn Frey/Eagles Download page.

I also decided that since I have some room on my server, I can put up a collection of some of the best live stuff on the Live Treat Video Downloads page.

Finally, my latest wallpaper is Hotel California Glenn and can be found on the Glenn Frey Wallpaper Page.


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He took a plane across the sea to some foreign land

My latest wallpaper has a traveling theme. It can be found on the Glenn Frey/Eagles Wallpaper page.


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Aw, can't we have just a little fun?

I made a No Fun Aloud-themed wallpaper which can be found here.


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Long Run Era Wallpaper

A wallpaper created from a live shot of Glenn during the Long Run tour can be found o the Glenn Frey Wallpaper page.


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Call On Me

I made this wallpaper at the request of Julie G. Enjoy!


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Ain't nothing like the real thing, baby

As you guys probably know by now, I love spoofing stuff, and for my latest wallpaper I spoofed those old vintage Coca-Cola ads. I dug up some of them and messed with them and created a Freyed version which can be found on the Glenn Frey/Eagles Wallpaper page. (Yeah, I know he did a commercial for Pepsi, not Coke, but in the photo I used he IS holding a Coke so it's all good).

ANOTHER wallpaper!

Need a dose of happiness? Try my new wallpaper! It can be found here.


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Frey/Henley Wallpaper

Can't decide whether you'd rather look at Frey or Henley? This wallpaper is for you!


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No More Cloudy Days Wallpaper

For people who like to have wallpapers of gorgeous skies, I made a wallpaper with a "No More Cloudy Days" theme. You can find it on the Glenn Frey Wallpaper page.


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Film Noir Wallpaper

A black and white wallpaper from the Allnighter era can be found here.


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