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Post by H2IZCOOL on Jul 27, 2008 21:06:35 GMT -5
OK ... I have tried to post this about five times already today, but we have been having little intermittent power failures all day long. It's just enough to reboot the computer, but nothing else goes out. Most annoying. So finally I put the playlist up on MS Word, and then the power really went out - for about 2 hours. Now things seem to be better - so here we go. Like I said in the other post, it was about 3 1/2 hours of music. Two sets plus two, two-song encores. The Eagles dressed like elder statesman of Rock, which they are. Dark suits, white shirts, dark ties. The suit jackets came off at times, but Don Henley put his back on for the final song of the night. They sounded great. The only mini flaw that I sensed was Timothy B. Schmit struggling just a bit with some of the high notes on "I Can't Tell You Why." For the most part, they were in good voice, the guitar work was fantastic especially Joe Walsh (who also sang better than I have ever heard him before,) and their designated lead guitarist - a guy named Steuart Smith, who has been touring with them at least since the Farewell I Tour. They lost nothing musically with Smith replacing Don Felder. They sang a total of 31 songs, including nine (there are 20 in the album) from "Long Road Out of Eden", a bunch of old Eagles favorites and several of the solo hits of Don and Joe (surprisingly not Glenn, however). The first set included much of their country-rock music whereas the second set began with some soft acoustic stuff and lighter rock stuff and then built into a quite extended series of their harder rockers. The only disappointments: They didn't sing Best of My Love, Tequila Sunrise and Already Gone. -- Actually I don't think they have sung Best of My Love in any of their concerts since the reunion. When they recorded Long Road Out of Eden Glenn Frey was quoted as saying that it would most likely be their last album, and in fact, the final track of the album., "It's Your World Now" sounds like nothing more than a farewell song. Not only did they not sing it in their concert, choosing to finish with "Desperado", which has become their standard final encore song, but also, Glenn, who acted as spokesperson about 75% of the time said "we hope to see you again soon." I hope so! Nancy's comment: They really looked like they were enjoying what they were doing. - Especially Joe Walsh. -- Oh, and now Nancy has a crush on Don Henley!  The Playlist (with Lead singer in parentheses): FIRST SET How Long – (Glenn and Don) – From Long Road Out of Eden Busy Being Fabulous (Don) – From Long Road Out of Eden I Don’t Want To Hear Anymore (Timothy) – From Long Road Out of Eden Guilty of the Crime (Joe) – From Long Road Out of Eden Hotel California (Don) Peaceful Easy Feeling (Glenn) I Can’t Tell You Why (Timothy) Witchy Woman (Don) Lyin’ Eyes (Glenn) Boys of Summer (Don) In the City (Joe) The Long Run (Don) INTERMISSION SECOND SET No More Walks In the Woods (All) – From Long Road Out of Eden Waiting In the Weeds (Don) – From Long Road Out of Eden No More Cloudy Days (Glenn) – From Long Road Out of Eden Love Will Keep Us Alive (Timothy) Take It To The Limit (Glenn) Long Road Out of Eden (Don) Somebody (Glenn) – From Long Road Out of Eden Walk Away (Joe) One Of These Nights (Don) Life’s Been Good To Me (Joe) Dirty Laundry (Don) Funk 49 (Instrumental Joe and Glenn) Heartache Tonight (Glenn) Life In The Fast Lane (Don) ENCORE ONE Rocky Mountain Way (Joe) All She Wants To Do Is Dance (Don) ENCORE TWO Take It Easy (Glenn) Desperado (Don) |
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Post by Ken on Jul 28, 2008 23:38:32 GMT -5
Wow a 3 1/2 hour show! amazing! That is odd that there were no solo "Glenn songs" performed (you would think maybe "Smuggler's Blues" at least and Joe could handle the slide guitar parts  . I'm a big fan of Joe's, his playing, songwriting, humour etc. I'm suprised to hear Timothy was struggling with some of the high notes. He has one of the most amazing voices I've ever heard, but like any singer, you can have an off night, and they are getting older. I'm glad you had a great time, Ed. |
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Post by H2IZCOOL on Jul 29, 2008 7:23:33 GMT -5
Wow a 3 1/2 hour show! amazing! That is odd that there were no solo "Glenn songs" performed (you would think maybe "Smuggler's Blues" at least and Joe could handle the slide guitar parts . I'm a big fan of Joe's, his playing, songwriting, humour etc. I'm suprised to hear Timothy was struggling with some of the high notes. He has one of the most amazing voices I've ever heard, but like any singer, you can have an off night, and they are getting older. I'm glad you had a great time, Ed. It was definitely surprising that Glenn didn't do a solo also, Ken. In their Farewell I Tour he did You Belong To The City. I guess he stayed busy with his spokesperson/group-leader role.  I want to show you something funny, Ken, about Timothy's singing. I'm going to do it on the next "reply" on this thread. |
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Post by H2IZCOOL on Jul 29, 2008 7:43:16 GMT -5
Just to show you how people's opinions are different, (and if they don't agree with me, they are definitely wrong! ;D )I wanted to post the concert review from yesterday's Washington Post. "The Eagles, Not Quite Taking It to the Limit
By Dave McKenna
Special to The Washington Post
Monday, July 28, 2008; Page C01
The Eagles don't do medleys. That, and a barrage of non-oldies, kept music history's fifth-best-selling pop act from getting to all its hits Saturday at the Verizon Center, even with a show that had two sets and ended about four hours after it began.
The band treated the crowd to (or made it endure) about half of last year's double disc, "Long Road Out of Eden." A few fine moments resulted, the best being the nearly a cappella "No More Walks in the Wood," which brought the Eagles into Crosby, Stills and Nash territory.
Yet even though this was the band that made laid-back almost a prerequisite in rock in the 1970s, most of the new material -- including "Too Busy Being Fabulous," "No More Cloudy Days," "Somebody" and the title track -- conveyed enough of a peaceful, easy feeling to put the crowd to sleep. And the cliches got silly thick during "Waiting in the Weeds." (In a matter of mere verses, Don Henley sang "every dog will have his day," "the dream was over," "go down in flame," "floating on the breeze," "the outskirts of this lonesome town," "the flavor of the week" and "fallen out of your good graces.")
When Timothy B. Schmit sang Paul Carrack's mellow "I Don't Want to Hear Any More," he summarized how an awful lot of folks felt about the new stuff.
The four main members (Henley, Schmit, Joe Walsh and Glenn Frey) eventually began taking turns in the spotlight to render one incredibly golden oldie after another. ("The Eagles Greatest Hits 1971-1975" remains the best-selling LP of all time, with more than 29 million units moved.)
Schmit lacks the star power of his mates, but he nailed every falsetto note on 1979's "I Can't Tell You Why," the night's most soulful ballad and the closest thing to R&B in the Eagles songbook.
Henley, who bounced from guitar to congas to a full drum kit, shined brightest with his first vintage offering of the night, the period piece from 1976 "Hotel California." As he sang his solo hit "Boys of Summer," with all its built-in wistfulness -- "Don't look back! You can never look back!" -- the mostly middle-aged fans in the full house ignored the advice and nodded nostalgically. They'd paid a lot of money to look back.
Walsh, still playing the goof, provided the night's rockingest moments. He delivered non-Eagles fare including the James Gang's "Funk No. 49," "Walk Away" and "Rocky Mountain Way." He moved to his solo songbook for "Life's Been Good," as the backdrop showed dozens of very old photos of him and other Eagles. (For follicular reasons, late-model Henley looks absolutely nothing like his young self.)
Many of Frey's songs, however, haven't aged a bit. "Peaceful Easy Feeling" remains a timeless piece of casual pop -- too casual to be played by guys in dark suits and ties, which was the Eagles' uniform on this night. Frey kept things light and funny with his song introductions, too: He dedicated "Lyin' Eyes" to "my first wife, Plaintiff," and introduced "Witchy Woman" as a song "from our satanic country rock rhythm and blues period."
While those lines surely have been dropped around the globe, Frey tailored some banter to the D.C. crowd. Before "Take It Easy," he said the idea to form the Eagles came to him and Henley after an early 1970s gig at the Cellar Door, when they were both members of Linda Ronstadt's backing band.
Even sweeter local color came via Steuart Smith, an Arlingtonian and area bar-band veteran who has become in essence the fifth Eagle. Smith, who co-produced the new record and wrote more songs on it than either Walsh or Schmidt, took almost every guitar lead of the night. For fans who remember Smith's days playing for mere dozens of folks in area dives with Root Boy Slim and Switchblade, watching and hearing him nail some of the most famous licks in pop history in a full arena was like seeing a kid from the local community theater filling a lead role on Broadway."Interesting, no? Readers comments including mine, were nearly 100% in disagreement with McKenna (although a couple of people agreed with him about the suits). (Clothing IMO, is just about the least important thing at a concert.) Anyway, this was my response to the review. [Note: where I said I agreed with the comments, I meant those by other people who had replied to McKenna's article.] "I agree with most of the comments so far. I think Mr. McKenna must have been somewhere watching a scrimmage of the PHILADELPHIA Eagles, rather than at the Verizon center.
The show was fantastic!
First of all, if you go to a concert called "The Long Road out of Eden" tour, what did you EXPECT them to play? I was actually a bit disappointed that they didn't play more from that album, but I really couldn't gripe; they gave us about 3 1/2 hours of fantastic music, including most of their hits. We got a little flavor of just about everything from their long careers.
Ironically, the only flaw I found was that, counter to whatever McKenna was hearing, Timothy B. Schmit was NOT able to hit the high notes on "I Can't Tell You Why" with the clarity and strength that he did in the past. It was a pretty good effort - but just not quite there. Far Different from Mr. McKenna's review, which was not even in the right arena!"To be honest, I can't understand how McKenna could have even thought that Timothy hit all the high notes on "I Can't Tell You Why." He apparently has no ear for music at all -- or knows so little about the song that he doesn't know what the right notes are. Either way, he shouldn't be writing reviews.  |
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Post by Ken on Jul 30, 2008 12:48:29 GMT -5
Just to show you how people's opinions are different, (and if they don't agree with me, they are definitely wrong! ;D )I wanted to post the concert review from yesterday's Washington Post. "The Eagles, Not Quite Taking It to the Limit
By Dave McKenna
Special to The Washington Post
Monday, July 28, 2008; Page C01
The Eagles don't do medleys. That, and a barrage of non-oldies, kept music history's fifth-best-selling pop act from getting to all its hits Saturday at the Verizon Center, even with a show that had two sets and ended about four hours after it began.
The band treated the crowd to (or made it endure) about half of last year's double disc, "Long Road Out of Eden." A few fine moments resulted, the best being the nearly a cappella "No More Walks in the Wood," which brought the Eagles into Crosby, Stills and Nash territory.
Yet even though this was the band that made laid-back almost a prerequisite in rock in the 1970s, most of the new material -- including "Too Busy Being Fabulous," "No More Cloudy Days," "Somebody" and the title track -- conveyed enough of a peaceful, easy feeling to put the crowd to sleep. And the cliches got silly thick during "Waiting in the Weeds." (In a matter of mere verses, Don Henley sang "every dog will have his day," "the dream was over," "go down in flame," "floating on the breeze," "the outskirts of this lonesome town," "the flavor of the week" and "fallen out of your good graces.")
When Timothy B. Schmit sang Paul Carrack's mellow "I Don't Want to Hear Any More," he summarized how an awful lot of folks felt about the new stuff.
The four main members (Henley, Schmit, Joe Walsh and Glenn Frey) eventually began taking turns in the spotlight to render one incredibly golden oldie after another. ("The Eagles Greatest Hits 1971-1975" remains the best-selling LP of all time, with more than 29 million units moved.)
Schmit lacks the star power of his mates, but he nailed every falsetto note on 1979's "I Can't Tell You Why," the night's most soulful ballad and the closest thing to R&B in the Eagles songbook.
Henley, who bounced from guitar to congas to a full drum kit, shined brightest with his first vintage offering of the night, the period piece from 1976 "Hotel California." As he sang his solo hit "Boys of Summer," with all its built-in wistfulness -- "Don't look back! You can never look back!" -- the mostly middle-aged fans in the full house ignored the advice and nodded nostalgically. They'd paid a lot of money to look back.
Walsh, still playing the goof, provided the night's rockingest moments. He delivered non-Eagles fare including the James Gang's "Funk No. 49," "Walk Away" and "Rocky Mountain Way." He moved to his solo songbook for "Life's Been Good," as the backdrop showed dozens of very old photos of him and other Eagles. (For follicular reasons, late-model Henley looks absolutely nothing like his young self.)
Many of Frey's songs, however, haven't aged a bit. "Peaceful Easy Feeling" remains a timeless piece of casual pop -- too casual to be played by guys in dark suits and ties, which was the Eagles' uniform on this night. Frey kept things light and funny with his song introductions, too: He dedicated "Lyin' Eyes" to "my first wife, Plaintiff," and introduced "Witchy Woman" as a song "from our satanic country rock rhythm and blues period."
While those lines surely have been dropped around the globe, Frey tailored some banter to the D.C. crowd. Before "Take It Easy," he said the idea to form the Eagles came to him and Henley after an early 1970s gig at the Cellar Door, when they were both members of Linda Ronstadt's backing band.
Even sweeter local color came via Steuart Smith, an Arlingtonian and area bar-band veteran who has become in essence the fifth Eagle. Smith, who co-produced the new record and wrote more songs on it than either Walsh or Schmidt, took almost every guitar lead of the night. For fans who remember Smith's days playing for mere dozens of folks in area dives with Root Boy Slim and Switchblade, watching and hearing him nail some of the most famous licks in pop history in a full arena was like seeing a kid from the local community theater filling a lead role on Broadway."Interesting, no? Readers comments including mine, were nearly 100% in disagreement with McKenna (although a couple of people agreed with him about the suits). (Clothing IMO, is just about the least important thing at a concert.) Anyway, this was my response to the review. [Note: where I said I agreed with the comments, I meant those by other people who had replied to McKenna's article.] "I agree with most of the comments so far. I think Mr. McKenna must have been somewhere watching a scrimmage of the PHILADELPHIA Eagles, rather than at the Verizon center.
The show was fantastic!
First of all, if you go to a concert called "The Long Road out of Eden" tour, what did you EXPECT them to play? I was actually a bit disappointed that they didn't play more from that album, but I really couldn't gripe; they gave us about 3 1/2 hours of fantastic music, including most of their hits. We got a little flavor of just about everything from their long careers.
Ironically, the only flaw I found was that, counter to whatever McKenna was hearing, Timothy B. Schmit was NOT able to hit the high notes on "I Can't Tell You Why" with the clarity and strength that he did in the past. It was a pretty good effort - but just not quite there. Far Different from Mr. McKenna's review, which was not even in the right arena!"To be honest, I can't understand how McKenna could have even thought that Timothy hit all the high notes on "I Can't Tell You Why." He apparently has no ear for music at all -- or knows so little about the song that he doesn't know what the right notes are. Either way, he shouldn't be writing reviews. LOL! He must be deaf! |
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Post by Dawn on Jul 30, 2008 13:20:33 GMT -5
I'm guessing this Dave McKenna went to the show with a bias against the Long Road material and it colored his perception of the performance of the album's content, no matter how good it actually was. You're right, a reviewer should be able to more accurately judge the performance on its own merits, and not so much on his own preferences.
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Post by H2IZCOOL on Jul 30, 2008 16:17:12 GMT -5
I'm guessing this Dave McKenna went to the show with a bias against the Long Road material and it colored his perception of the performance of the album's content, no matter how good it actually was. You're right, a reviewer should be able to more accurately judge the performance on its own merits, and not so much on his own preferences. I think you're right, Dawn, about him having a bias against "Long Road." The funny thing is that if people were looking for new material with the first new studio album for the Eagles in 28 years, they'd have a right to be disappointed - nearly every song in "Long Road" is in some way reminiscent of a song from their heyday. "How Long" is in the same frame as "Take It Easy", "What Do I Do With My Heart" (which they unfortunately did not perform at the concert) is very close to "Best of My Love", and the title track is a modern day Hotel California. I look at "Long Road" as a piece of new nostalgia, and don't feel cheated by it at all. The fact that McKenna somehow felt cheated is one thing, but he felt cheated for the wrong reasons. The bottom line may be that he does not know the first thing about the Eagles. -- and maybe Ken is right. He's deaf! |
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Post by Ken on Aug 1, 2008 11:23:41 GMT -5
Ed.
I forgot to ask, how was the sound for the concert?
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Post by H2IZCOOL on Aug 2, 2008 22:10:15 GMT -5
Ed. I forgot to ask, how was the sound for the concert? Really good, Ken. The stage was at one end of the oval, and we were at the other, second level, but straight on. It was plenty loud and very clear. No echoes like you'd get in some places. |
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Post by Ken on Aug 4, 2008 17:35:59 GMT -5
Ed. I forgot to ask, how was the sound for the concert? Really good, Ken. The stage was at one end of the oval, and we were at the other, second level, but straight on. It was plenty loud and very clear. No echoes like you'd get in some places. Excellent! |
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. I'm a big fan of Joe's, his playing, songwriting, humour etc.
