They Will Not Go Quietly: The Official ILM Track-By-Track DON 'n' GLENN Listening Thread

"and if you do, wear armor"

Surrender to the rapture, deep within, no, no, fight it and get the hell out of there, lady

"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.

Third-world five-star-hotel lounge music.

aka Fifty Shades of Glenn

next: appropriate title...

"Before The Ship Goes Down"

http://www.glennfreyonline.com/images/Ep3ShakalaWins.jpg

https://youtu.be/KofEm6VZbCE

this presages Donald Fagen's last solo album.

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

"Big Life"

http://www.glennfreyonline.com/images/Ep1Split60-40.jpg

https://youtu.be/TtBZyZQExUY

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?

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!

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.

I'm disappointed Frey wasn't worse.

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.

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 something
And you never see his face
But there is no hiding place
Down at the Sunset Grill

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In the wild: "The Last Worthless Evening" in Publix.

Don not going quietly. But using "authentic" singers, tho'

http://www.countryweekly.com/news/don-henley-previews-new-country-album-cass-county

Two Preview Tracks from Cass County: http://donhenley.com/news/254803

So...

Anyone up for moderating a McCartney 1974-1986 thread?

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."

what did Don 'n' Glenn have to say about Hag?

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.

Cass County streaming on NPR:

http://www.npr.org/series/98679384/first-listen

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".

I've made my peace with "You Belong to the City," despite his letting the sax cover up for a half written song.

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.

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.

it's the politics of contraband

In The Wild: Glenn's "True Love" on a Yacht-y muzak channel in an Italian restaurant.

http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/nickelback-releases-cover-of-don-henley-dirty-laundry/

kick us when we're down

Chaddie Can't Read

gasface

LOL headline

http://www.twincities.com/2016/08/25/don-henley-lightens-up-a-bit-during-state-fair-performance/

Those fans entered the venue to find numerous signs warning not to shoot video or photographs, and security told those who tried anyway that if they didn’t stop, they’d be escorted out of the Grandstand. (This isn’t a new State Fair policy, I was told, but a demand of Henley, age 69.)

Henley is notorious for his grim demeanor on stage and rarely felt the need to look like he was enjoying himself during the high-priced Eagles reunion tours. Thursday, though, he actually showed a little enthusiasm now and again, and even cracked the occasional smile. At one point, he was talking about how it was “fun” to tour with a full horn section and said, somewhat unconvincingly, “That’s what I’m all about these days.”

love the jab about his age

Don Henley And The Horny Horns

love the jab about his age

GLEN: Used to be every night of the week...now it's a fucking age.

DON: Well, yeah.

worth reviving for some choice Don: http://montrealgazette.com/entertainment/music/qa-don-henley-on-growing-up-in-cass-county-eagles-and-coping-with-the-loss-of-glenn-frey

MG: Were you OK with the Ataris changing “Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac” to “Black Flag sticker” in their Boys of Summer cover?

DH: Not really. No, not really. But I wasn’t upset enough to do anything about it. I just went, “OK. Fine.” And if you noticed, we haven’t heard much from the Ataris since then. You know that story, right, what happened to them?

MG: I can’t remember.

DH: I mean, they wrote some songs, very poorly — they were not very good songwriters — and they put out an album, and the only song that people would want to hear when they did a concert was Boys of Summer. And the lead singer apparently got so angry about it that he had a T-shirt made that said “Who the f— is Don Henley?”, or “Who the hell is Don Henley?” or something like that. And he would apparently wear that on stage (laughs) … and I thought that was really childish. But it was funny at the same time, because it was a clear message to them that they needed to work on their craftsmanship.

Most people mellow with age. Not Henley. Henley's like a finely aged bottle of bleach.

actually, I thought he was more human and approachable than I've read in years

...and all it took was the death of Glenn Frey.

Just heard "Working It" on the local Community College Rock Station. Yikes

Let's remember how much we loved Sexy Girl.

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self-isolate after any contact with Don imo

Crockett and Tubbs recognized that if you wanted to bring down the world’s most dangerous drug dealers you’re gonna want to form an alliance with Glenn Frey. pic.twitter.com/0pdpulfpUe

— Super 70s Sports (@Super70sSports) April 8, 2022

Henley channeling Donald Trump in that interview.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/75/31/18/753118bb1a6437c7938137a0fe00a50d.jpg

Roach joins the Criterion Collection!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmolOw2WUCg

(This video is an extra on their Thelma & Louise release)

Smugglers Blues co written by Temchin? Makes sense I guess , I wouldn’t expect Glenn to be capable of this level of wordplay