Happy belated birthday!
Happy belated birthday!
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had enough :toast: yet? Or never enough?
too much info on The Eagles (but hell, I got the time..):
"Eagles without xxx are like....." is a rather complicated picture, with a few candidates partisans take sides with.
Joe Walsh is in the video above. He's to the left of Henley, wearing the blue suit. He's always been with them since he first joined the band in 1975.
As background info, many say the band wasn't the same after Bernie Leadon left.
"Take It Easy", "Witchy Woman", "Peaceful Easy Feeling","Tequila Sunrise" and "Desperado"--those the big hits of the Leadon era.
Here's Bernie on guitar, to the left of lead singer Glen Frey. "Take it Easy" from 1973 with no Walsh or Felder on the scene yet.
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Bernie Leadon left in 1975 after the band went in new all-rock direction, with less country-rock. Don Felder's addition to the band that year accelerated this. "Life in the Fast Lane", "New Kid in Town", "Heartache Tonight", and "Hotel California" were the big hits after Leadon left. Joe Walsh was basically hired to take over Leadon's spot.
But that was before "The Long Run", so you might mean Don Felder? He isn't in the video you posted, but his contributions to "The Long Run" song weren't big. Joe did half the slide work, the whole guitar solo and also the organ parts for the studio version of "The Long Run".
Don Felder left the band on bad terms in 1999 and later sued, then wrote a tell-all book. He couldn't stand the way Henley and Frey ran everything with their big control-freak egos, and how that pair also took a bigger share of the profits. Walsh can stand it because he's a pretty easy-going fellow who can put up with the car loads of shit so he can ride the money train for the long run.
Here's "Already Gone" from 1977 with Felder and Walsh. Two minutes into video Felder does a guitar duet with Frey. At 4 minute mark Walsh comes to mic with Frey for duet.
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