![]() Souther and Bob Seger who co-wrote with Frey and Henley on " Heartache Tonight". However, they managed to put together ten songs for the album, with contribution from their friends J. According to Don Henley, the band members were "completely burned out" and "physically, emotionally, spiritually and creatively exhausted" from a long tour when they started recording the album, and they had few songs. The recording was protracted they started recording in 1978, and the album took 18 months to record in five different studios, with the album finally released in September 1979. The band could not come up with enough songs and the idea was therefore scrapped. The album was originally intended to be a double album. The album was certified 7× Platinum by the RIAA and has sold more than eight million copies in the US. 1 on the singles chart and won a Grammy Award. Three singles were released from the album, " Heartache Tonight", " The Long Run", and " I Can't Tell You Why". It also turned out to be their last studio album as the Eagles disbanded in 1980 until 2007's Long Road Out of Eden after the band had reformed in 1994. This was the band's final studio album for Asylum Records. Schmit, who had replaced founding member Randy Meisner, and the last full studio album to feature Don Felder before his termination from the band in 2001. This was the first Eagles album to feature Timothy B. It was released in 1979, on Asylum in the United States and the United Kingdom. But overall this is an album played with verve, filled with lyrical incisiveness and still retaining the warm smell of colitas, whatever they are.The Long Run is the sixth studio album by American rock group the Eagles. It’s a pale shadow of "Life In The Fast Lane”. Only the falsetto funk of "Fast Company" resorts to TOO many automotive metaphors. "Center Of the Universe" may be one of the best things they’ve EVER done and for real fans there’s also a bona fide treat with the J D Souther–penned "How Long" which dates from their early 70s repertoire.īrimming with lush harmonising that still epitomises the partyed-out mellowness of the Sunshine State (cf: the opening eco-lament "No More Walks In The Wood"), Long Road… is far better than it deserves to be. Even without the sleevenotes you’ll have fun spotting the cynical digs of Don Henley ("Frail Grasp On The Big Picture" is a brutally dark look at the ignorance of Middle America when it comes to politics and culture beyond the back yard), the gonzoid wonkiness of Joe Walsh ("Guilty Of The Crime" and the hilarious ode to growing up and staying in, "The Last Good Time In Town") and the sensitive, country-tinged tracks owned by Glenn Frey ("No More Cloudy Days" and the companion to "Tequila Sunrise" that is the mariachi-flavoured "It's Your World Now" ). ![]() Point taken.īut Long Road… is no miserable trudge through worthy protest songs, it’s also a (predictably) sleek vehicle for all the things Eagles fans love. It’s also beautifully rounded off by a short guitar instrumental called "I Dreamed There Was No War". ![]() It’s their "Hotel California" for the new age a surreal nightmare of excess in foreign parts. A doomy, weary drag through Bush’s Iraq, painting an impressionistic portrait of homesick soldiers lost in the desert and blind to the region’s historical significance, while their commanders try to keep the spirit of the States alive with barbeques and pecan pie: 'bloated with entitlement, loaded on propaganda'. The title track – a ten-minute centrepiece – is the key text here. Walsh's guitar stings like a bee, and you’d be hard-pushed to date this as an album that comes a full 28 years after their last studio effort were it not for its subject matter. Both strengths seem utterly undiminished. While to many the Eagles - and their reputation of a somewhat hedonistic heyday - represent all that went wrong with the Californian dream, it’s also undeniable that not only were these guys players of the highest calibre, they also were not bad at critiquing their own peer group: sniping at coke-fuelled egos from the heart of the white powder maelstrom. Luckily it's all been just about worth it… The difference of course is that Bruce and Shakey have been churning out work on a regular annual basis throughout the 21st century, whereas it took Henley, Frey, Schmit and Walsh a whole SIX years in the studio to get this double album on the shelves. With the Boss and Old Neil back on form, here comes the real West Coast contingency also fired up about war in the Middle East and reflecting on the ageing process in fine style. This is proving to be a big year for elder statesmen of yankee 'Legacy Rock'.
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