Sunday, September 29, 2013
The Eagles are Still Going Strong
Last night I got the chance to see one of my favorite groups The Eagles at The Target Center as part of their History of The Eagles tour. The current line-up consisted of Glenn Fry, Don Henley, Timothy B. Schmidt and Joe Walsh. Minnesota native and founding Eagle Bernie Leadon rejoined the group for this tour.
The band started out with two unknown songs from their first two albums. Saturday Night sung by Henley from their first album Eagles and Train Leaves Here This Morning from their second album Desperado with lead vocals by Leadon who co-wrote the song with Byrds member Gene Clark. Then they played some of the big hits from those two albums Peaceful Easy Feeling and Witchy Women. This was when the audience got to see if Fry and Henley's voices still held after all these years. They both sounded great and could hit the high notes which is pretty good for two guys in their mid 60's. Then came more hits including the rocker Already Gone and all their other early to mid 70's hits with the exception of Desperado and Take It Easy which I'm sure were being saved for later. One of my favorite parts of the night was when they played Lyin Eyes which is one my favorite Eagles songs. This concert like 38 Special was great because I knew all the words to most of the songs and could sing along. The last song in the first set was Take it to The Limit which was originally sang by founding bass player Randy Meisner. But this time Fry sang lead.
The second part of the performance was comprised of songs from Hotel California and The Long Run, their last two studio albums before the break-up in 1980. I noticed that Fry struggled in hitting the high notes during Heartache Tonight, which I found odd being that he his voice had held up on the other hits. In the second part was when Walsh got the chance to sing songs from his career outside of The Eagles including Life's Been Good the song he's most known for. He also performed The James Gang classic Funk #49. My only complaint was that I would have liked to see Henley perform some songs from his solo career. After more hits the band left and came back four more times playing Hotel California which the solos were played by some unkown guitarist instead of Don Felder who apparently got into a fight with Fry some years back and left the band. They Take It Easy, Rocky Mountain Way and they finished the night off by playing Desperado. This was an amazing and unforgettable night.
Monday, September 16, 2013
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