"River of Dreams": The link is a live version! And it's a minute shorter than the studio cut (http://youtu.be/QDHoLDrHGdM)? Decisions decisions. Studio: Opening pianner wants to be "Desperado" real bad. Here comes the sax...God, this intro is endless. Wisely cut from the live take. Another Glenn self-help anthem. He confesses he's not "A Modern Man" and owns up to owning a Camaro in the same tone of voice. I bet he felt this was a "Springsteen move" Bland Bland Bland. Oddly, for a guy who loves making him some long codas, this one just kind of...stops.
While I have the floor, remember how in the Eagles doc they reveal that the lads got to together for some exploratory rehearsals in 90-91, and the sole holdout was not Henley (who, riding high on TEoTI, really had no need to be associating with the old gang other than to piss Geffen off, which in retrospect was probably the idea) but Frey, whom I can see ensconced in a high dollar LA studio mixing sax overdubs and thinking to himself, "Who needs those assholes? Eagles schmeagles! Wait'll they get a load of...Strange Weather!" You know that's how it went down too.
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 27 February 2015 07:04 (nine years ago) link
alfred, what is that photo? Was Glenn in a pilot for some early '90s Mod Squad revival?
― col, Friday, 27 February 2015 15:55 (nine years ago) link
from that show, I think.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 27 February 2015 15:57 (nine years ago) link
South of Sunset, Glenn's one and done private detective show.
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 27 February 2015 17:05 (nine years ago) link
"I've Got Mine"
http://s1.ticketm.net/tm/en-au/dbimages/122911a.jpg
http://youtu.be/NZznBNMiZas
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 2 March 2015 11:56 (nine years ago) link
wow, Glenn gets slightly subversive, using high yuppie signifiers like synth chimes and a grotesque "Heat Is On" sax in the service of an anti-rich screed. Well, sort of. Main takeaway is: "I make a small donation/what else can I do?"
― col, Monday, 2 March 2015 15:41 (nine years ago) link
and it was the single!
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 2 March 2015 15:42 (nine years ago) link
Glenn's political stuff goes down a lot smoother than Don's by this point
― col, Monday, 2 March 2015 15:45 (nine years ago) link
well, that sax is like swallowing a cat o' nine tails.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 2 March 2015 15:48 (nine years ago) link
Surely it helps that for Glenn "politics" is a means to hit on women at the Hyatt Courtyard bar.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 2 March 2015 15:49 (nine years ago) link
well, yeah
― col, Monday, 2 March 2015 15:50 (nine years ago) link
whereas for Don "politics" is a 50-question test with essays, due in an hour.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 2 March 2015 15:50 (nine years ago) link
LOL. mixed so high that whenever it shows up it's like it's on a bombing run
― col, Monday, 2 March 2015 15:52 (nine years ago) link
"I've Got Mine": Another live version! Found the studio cut, Sax isn't quite as loud. Triggered "boom" samples on the bridge Oh So '91. "Moral Malnutrition?" Really dude? Again with how it sucks to be rich thing. Some nice organ licks on the fade. Grooves like a single. Still too long.
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 4 March 2015 03:38 (nine years ago) link
"Brave New World"
http://www.nndb.com/people/926/000024854/glennfrey03.jpg
http://youtu.be/Nlcg-4OCkig
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 4 March 2015 11:50 (nine years ago) link
lyrically I don't know what's going on here---Glenn's a tenant being driven off his land by some evil landlord? Is he imagining himself as a Native American? I suppose it's all some tortured metaphor for how he and his lady aren't getting along lately. So lots about freedom and holding the line.
padded as all hell---guitar and synth solo, a refrain repeated about eight times, a great bit of Glenn emoting around 4:30 "BRAVE NEW WORLD!! AAAGHAAH!" & then it tries to become a dance track in its last minute
― col, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 12:59 (nine years ago) link
"Brave New World": Is it me, or does seem like Glenn was really leaning on his entertainment library for titles and such on this album? As for this song, he's really hitting on some generic Springsteen circa-Human Touch (which was being recorded around the same time). That closing piano stuff would be at home in a House mix, it's true. He must have heard some one night while eating out at Spago or something.
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 6 March 2015 05:54 (nine years ago) link
Glenn's contribution to the foreclosed-farm pop genre.
― bit of a singles monster (Eazy), Friday, 6 March 2015 07:21 (nine years ago) link
a Glenn Frey song called...
"Delicious"
http://youtu.be/rQcR_dHWtKU
http://eaglesfans.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83452345769e2010536f3b96a970c-320wi
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 8 March 2015 14:19 (nine years ago) link
is he trying to go for a Heavy Nova thing here, just cheaper-sounding? I hope Glenn was hoarse for a week after straining to sing this piece of gunk.
― col, Monday, 9 March 2015 12:31 (nine years ago) link
did you get to the part where he praises her "sweet juices runnin' down her fingertips"?
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 9 March 2015 12:48 (nine years ago) link
"A Walk in the Dark"
http://www.rockandrollcollection.com/images/eagles/glenn_frey_01.jpg
http://youtu.be/b-4xrmOUSWo
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 March 2015 18:08 (nine years ago) link
"and if you do, wear armor"
Surrender to the rapture, deep within, no, no, fight it and get the hell out of there, lady
― col, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 19:13 (nine years ago) link
"Delicious": Glenn's trying to keep up with 1986--first the Reagan song bites Afterburner, now this one cops Robert Palmer with a Prince-esque semi-falsetto. Nice backing track that Frey farted on.
"A Walk In The Dark": Henley-esque backing...jeez, this audio encode reeks. Sounds like Glenn also heard some "Wicked Game" while at Spago. Doesn't need to be 5+ minutes long.
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 12 March 2015 03:34 (nine years ago) link
Third-world five-star-hotel lounge music.
― bit of a singles monster (Eazy), Thursday, 12 March 2015 03:41 (nine years ago) link
aka Fifty Shades of Glenn
next: appropriate title...
"Before The Ship Goes Down"
http://www.glennfreyonline.com/images/Ep3ShakalaWins.jpg
https://youtu.be/KofEm6VZbCE
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 12 March 2015 12:03 (nine years ago) link
this presages Donald Fagen's last solo album.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 12 March 2015 12:04 (nine years ago) link
yeah, this does have a Fagen feel to it but its dull arrangement & cliche-ridden and gross ("feel my lovin' cup"?) lyric are pure Glenn. There's something unnerving in how fundamentally generic this music is
― col, Thursday, 12 March 2015 17:37 (nine years ago) link
"Big Life"
http://www.glennfreyonline.com/images/Ep1Split60-40.jpg
https://youtu.be/TtBZyZQExUY
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 15 March 2015 12:16 (nine years ago) link
two more tracks? eight more?
this is just fucking awful; is he trying to parody "Big Time" or just figured he'd rip it off for an album track that no one but the engineer and we sad few have ever heard?
― col, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 11:53 (nine years ago) link
Actually, we reviewed "Part of Me, Part of You" last month, so we've finished Strange Weather and this dismal project.
"Ain't it Love"
https://youtu.be/Qjso4bFM3so
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Qjso4bFM3so/hqdefault.jpg
boogie down with Glenny now!
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 March 2015 13:40 (nine years ago) link
oh, this is kinda sorta mediocre! good enough for a finale.
Takeaways from this thing? '80s Glenn wasn't as awful as I thought and Don even had some bonafide good tracks. But the '90s and 00s were just dismal for these guys. CD bloat (both in track length and number), middle age crankiness, calcified humorlessness; just toxic music.
― col, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 14:08 (nine years ago) link
I'm disappointed Frey wasn't worse.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 March 2015 14:20 (nine years ago) link
FWIW, there are a handful of stray 2000-era Henley items (duets and tribute album stuff), and we somehow missed his 90s duet with Trisha Yearwood. But I understand stopping here.
I've really busy as of late, so I'll catch up on the these Glenns later on tonight maybe. Listening to these things really slams the brakes on one's day in a way the Eagles never could quite muster.
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 18 March 2015 21:15 (nine years ago) link
In the wild, heard "Sunset Grill" at Corner Bakery, followed soon after by Roxy Music's "Avalon." Hearing the two next to each other made me think that "Sunset Grill" is, sound-wise, like a kind of slightly gaudier American version of the Avalon mellow electronic sound.
Also, thanks to this thread, was reminded of the literal nature of:These days a man makes you somethingAnd you never see his faceBut there is no hiding placeDown at the Sunset Grill
http://i1.wp.com/www.rockandrollgps.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Sunset-Grill-on-Sunset-Boulevard.png
― ... (Eazy), Monday, 11 May 2015 23:40 (nine years ago) link
In the wild: "The Last Worthless Evening" in Publix.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 19 May 2015 21:56 (nine years ago) link
Don not going quietly. But using "authentic" singers, tho'
http://www.countryweekly.com/news/don-henley-previews-new-country-album-cass-county
― col, Friday, 10 July 2015 21:17 (eight years ago) link
Two Preview Tracks from Cass County: http://donhenley.com/news/254803
― Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 26 July 2015 18:38 (eight years ago) link
So...
Anyone up for moderating a McCartney 1974-1986 thread?
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 26 July 2015 18:51 (eight years ago) link
From http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/country/6655654/merle-haggard-50-years-music
Then there's a new recording, "The Cost of Living," that Haggard cut on Don Henley's album Cass County, due Sept. 25. A noted perfectionist, Henley got an excellent performance from Haggard, but the process tested the latter artist's patience."I was just about ready to tell him to go get f--d," says Haggard, "but we got it."
"I was just about ready to tell him to go get f--d," says Haggard, "but we got it."
― Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 20:52 (eight years ago) link
what did Don 'n' Glenn have to say about Hag?
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 21:19 (eight years ago) link
DON: Hearing Merle on the AM dial in my little town in Texas was a big revelation for me. Like any young buck in a two-stop light town, I couldn't wait to get out and away to see the world, but songs like "Mama Tried" and "I Take A Lot of Pride In Who I Am" gave a dignity to the people and places around me I hadn't seen before. Of course, his politics were a problem, but he's since seen the light.
GLENN: I dealt with it by changing the lyrics in my head. For example, I would take it as "If you won't suck it, beat it, or you'll see the Fuckin' side of me!" Much better.
DON: Well, yeah.
― Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 22:20 (eight years ago) link
Cass County streaming on NPR:
http://www.npr.org/series/98679384/first-listen
― half the staying power of Erasure (Eazy), Thursday, 24 September 2015 04:43 (eight years ago) link
Just heard this at Fuddrucker's. Shazamed it just in time. Some band called Custom Kings have done aan earnest ukulele-heavy cover of "Boys of Summer".
― Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 14 October 2015 21:35 (eight years ago) link
I've made my peace with "You Belong to the City," despite his letting the sax cover up for a half written song.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 8 February 2016 01:10 (eight years ago) link
The Glenn tributes in the new RS are pretty good. Apparently in his final days he was writing material for a solo album and (I shit you not) working on an Eagles songbook musical for Broadway.
― "Damn the Taquitos" (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 8 February 2016 01:18 (eight years ago) link
Also: I went to a record show last week, and one of the dealers had displayed a sealed vinyl copy of Soul Searchin' for $12. Didn't buy, still livin' right.
― "Damn the Taquitos" (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 8 February 2016 01:23 (eight years ago) link
it's the politics of contraband
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 8 February 2016 01:33 (eight years ago) link