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Eagles Bio
The band formed in 1971 when Linda Ronstadt's then-manager, John Boylan,
extracted Frey, Leadon, and Meisner from their affiliations. They were
short a drummer until Frey phoned Henley, whom he had met at the
Troubadour in Los Angeles. The band backed up Ronstadt on a two-month
tour, then decided to form their own band, the Eagles. Their first
album, Eagles, was filled with pure, sometimes innocent country rock;
their second, Desperado, was themed on Old West outlaws and introduced
the group's penchant for conceptual songwriting. Those two albums were
produced by Glyn Johns, who previously worked with The Beatles, Led
Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, and The Who. The band wanted to rock, but
Johns tended to extract the lush side of the band's double-edged music.
To record their third album, On the Border, they at first worked with
Johns but after completing two tracks, turned to Bill Szymczyk to
produce the rest of the album. Szymczyk brought in Don Felder to add
slide guitar to a song called "Good Day in Hell", and the band was so
impressed that two days later, they invited Felder to become the fifth
Eagle and he accepted. On the Border yielded a #1 Billboard single in
the song "Best of My Love", which hit the top of the charts on March 1,
1975.
The tour ended on July 31, 1980 in Long Beach, California, when tempers
boiled over into what Bill Szymczyk memorably described as "The Long
Night At Wrong Beach." Frey and Felder spent the entire show describing
to each other the beating each planned to administer backstage - "Only
three more songs until I kick your ass, pal," Frey recalls Felder
telling him near the end of the band's set. Felder recalls Frey making a
similar threat to him just as they began to sing "The Best Of My Love."
As soon as the show was over, mayhem broke out. Frey launched an assault
on Felder, who protected himself with his guitar. Within seconds, the
rest of the band had joined in. It took a dozen roadies to pull the
warring factions apart. It was the end of the Eagles, although the band
still owed Warners a live record from the tour. Eagles Live (released in
November 1980) was mixed by Frey and Henley on opposite coasts - the two
decided they couldn't bear to be in the same state, let alone the same
studio, and as Bill Szymczyk put it, the record's perfect three-part
harmonies were fixed "courtesy of Federal Express." After credits that
listed no less than five attorneys, the album's liner notes simply said,
"Thank you and goodnight."
In 1993, an Eagles country tribute album Common Thread was released.
Travis Tritt insisted on having the Long Run-era Eagles in his video for
"Take It Easy. "After the "Take It Easy" video was completed the
following year, the band reunited, after years of public speculation
that it would. The personnel was the five Long Run era members,
supplemented by additional players on stage. The ensuing tour spawned a
live album entitled Hell Freezes Over (named for Henley's statement that
the group would get back together only when hell froze over), and two
singles -- "Get Over It" and "Love Will Keep Us Alive". Controversy
followed on September 12, 1996 when the band dedicated "Peaceful Easy
Feeling" to Saddam Hussein at a United States Democratic Party
fundraiser held in Los Angeles. In 1998, the band was inducted into the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. During the induction ceremony, all seven
former members played together on stage. Several subsequent reunion
tours would follow, notable for their record-setting ticket prices.
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