The Eagles - The Long Road Out of Eden - October 30th!
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June 09, 2007 You Heard it Here First: October 30th for New Eagles Album We just got back from the Henley concert. We'll type more tomorow because we're kind of zonked out after drinking mojitos in the bar while sitting next to James Gandolfini (and some other Sopranos dudes). Anyway....Don announced at the show that the new Eagles album will be out on October 30th. Let the celebrating and bitching begin...... ___ WOOHOO |
Glad to hear it finally has a date. Think about it -- the first new studio album since The Long Run in 1979! Can't wait to hear how it came out (and hope that "Hole In The World" is not an indication of the direction this album is headed).
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I have mixed feelings about a new Eagles album.
I LOVED "The Long Run" and thought it was the perfect album to be their last as a studio release. Dark, deep and brooding with flashes euphoria and brilliance. I just feeling this new one will be nothing but disappointing. |
http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/..._id=1003618801
Eagles Prepping New Studio Album, Tour The Eagles July 31, 2007, 10:30 AM ET Gary Graff, Detroit The Eagles are planning to take flight with a long-awaited new album and a tour. Guitarist Joe Walsh tells Billboard.com that the album -- the Eagles' first full-length studio set since "The Long Run" in 1979 -- is "almost out. We're just finishing vocals and mixing it. We're all finally signing off on it." Walsh says that all of the band members -- himself, Don Henley, Glenn Frey and Timothy B. Schmit -- wrote songs for the album, which he says "go in some really, really new, different directions. It's hard to compare to anything that I hear out there now." For his songs, however, Walsh "went rock'n’roll," including one "extended" track with "a middle full of guitar statement" and another that's "full-on rock'n'roll. I didn't want us to be too ballad-y here. We need some stuff we can play live, so I made sure there was that element in the record." Walsh says the band, which took this year off the road to hunker down on the album, plans to tour extensively in 2008. The guitarist is hardly sitting at home, however. Though he's put the James Gang on ice until he has more time to dedicate to it, he's playing 13 solo shows in the next month, beginning tonight (July 31) in Saratoga, Calif. Walsh has recruited a band of well-credentialed young players such as Gia Ciambotti (Bruce Springsteen, Lucinda Williams) and Drew Hester (Lisa Marie Presley, Foo Fighters), who he says "are really kicking me in the pants." "I love the energy and the attitude of a younger band, especially on stage," Walsh says. "I'm less cautious and less ... professional, I guess. I just like to rock'n'roll, and they're making me want to do it more." Walsh adds that he's jonesing a bit to do some solo recording again but, not surprisingly, says, "I don't think I would cancel being an Eagle and resurface with a solo career. I love being in the Eagles, and we're not really done yet." |
TomOpus - I also loved The Long Run. It's actually has some of my favs by them - Those Shoes and In The City come to mind. Will get this for sure on release day even if I do have to go to a damn Wally World for it. ;)
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I want to personally thanks these old farts for instituting the jacking up of prices to all rock concerts when they first reunited.
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http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdail...ur-time-again/
8/13/07, 5:49 pm EST Don Henley Talks New Eagles LP When the Eagles last got back together it was 1994, and Don Henley shared his sentiments with the world by naming their live album Hell Freezes Over. Now we’re two short months from a new Eagles album — their first studio release in twenty-eight years – only this time, Henley saw it coming. Performing at one of his West Coast solo dates in Primm, Nevada, on Saturday, the Eagles drummer delivered a powerful two-hour set on guitar, playing some obligatory hits (“Boys of Summer,” “All She Wants to Do Is Dance”) and other unexpected favorites, including an acoustic “The End of the Innocence” and mesmerizing “Hotel California.” Backstage before the show, Henley also talked openly for the first time about the new Eagles disc (slated to hit stores in October) as they prepare for their only six performances of 2007 — two of which will take place October 18th and 20th at the premiere of the new Nokia Theater L.A. Live. “They say everything in life is a matter of timing,” Henley said. “And the time seems right for us to do this.” Henley explained that other pursuits — including raising their children and working on their solo careers — have kept the Eagles from “doing this” sooner. “I think it’s okay to go away for a while,” he explained. “We’ve had some conflict within the group, and in terms of songwriting and recording, we just didn’t feel like it up until now.” The disc they will release in October, tentatively titled Long Road Out of Eden, has finally brought the group back to the studio. Recorded over the last few years in an undisclosed L.A. studio, Henley confirmed that the album will be distributed exclusively through Wal-Mart for the first twelve months. “People will be getting value for their money,” Henley said. The band recorded around twenty songs for the effort. The Eagles, who have had one of the fiercest love/hate relationships in rock & roll, broke up in 1981. (One infamous conflict that led to the split came in 1980; while onstage at a concert in Long Beach, California, Glenn Frey and Don Felder allegedly spent the night threatening to kick each other’s asses backstage.) “It may never be like it was in the past,” Henley said, but he’s proud to be part of “a band who knows when to sit one out … creatively, it was our time to get back in the studio,” he added. -- Natalie Zfat |
You guys do know that it's only gonna be available at Wal-Mart, right? (ala Garth Brooks)
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Originally Posted by erlong
You guys do know that it's only gonna be available at Wal-Mart, right? (ala Garth Brooks)
Your point? |
I'm surprised that it'll be a Wal-Mart exclusive. They must have worked out a really sweet exclusive deal. Still, seeing how those Garth Brooks albums sat on the shelves until they hit the discount bin, I wonder if they'll take a sales hit with this.
I couldn't make Don Henley's Primm show, but I've got very nice seats for the Vegas show at the Phantom theater in The Venitian on 9/15. I'll post here if he plays any new material at the show. |
Can't wait. Love the Eagles.
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New single is out today. It's called How Long, written by JD Souther. They used to cover this live back in the 70s before they had a catalog of material to work with. The video is supposed to be on Yahoo! at 12 midnight ET next Monday.
Also starting Monday, you can also pre-order the album at eaglesband.com and get a free download of How Long. :up: |
New single can be heard at www.eaglesband.com or www.myspace.com/eaglesmusic
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Thanks for the link, I like the new single. I think it was a good idea to dip back into the early JD Souther material. It would also have been a nice idea to have Jackson Browne and Linda Ronstadt do some guest vocal appearances on the album as a nod to history.
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A physical copy of the group's first studio album in 28 years will be priced at $11.88; digitally, it will cost a dollar less. Fans who pre-order "Long Road Out of Eden" through the Wal-Mart, Sam's Club or Eagles Web sites will receive an immediate download of the album's first single, "How Long." Here is the track list for "Long Road Out of Eden": Disc one: "No More Walks in the Wood" "How Long" "Busy Being Fabulous" "What Do I Do With My Heart" "Guilty of the Crime" "I Don't Want To Hear Anymore" "Waiting in the Weeds" "No More Cloudy Days" "Fast Company" "Do Something" "You Are Not Alone" Disc two: "Long Road Out of Eden" "I Dreamed There Was No War" "Somebody" "Frail Grasp on the Big Picture" "Last Good Time in Town" "I Love To Watch a Woman Dance" "Business As Usual" "Center of the Universe" "It's Your World Now" From billboard.com - Revised Chart Policy Lands Eagles At No. 1 Spoiler:
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Wow, it's a double album! Really looking forward to it. Unfortunately, my Henley Vegas show got cancelled which really sucked since I had front-row Mezzanine seats. :(
Album cover reminds me of : http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/...6649c010.L.jpg and http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/...ML._SS500_.jpg |
The first single is all country-fied? Bah, I'll pass on that one. I like my Eagles with a rock flavor.
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Originally Posted by Michael Allred
The first single is all country-fied? Bah, I'll pass on that one. I like my Eagles with a rock flavor.
Have you heard it? It reeks of Already Gone musically. So its country with a really really nice rock aftertaste. Walsh kills it on guitar (but what's new?) |
Nice to see that the 10 years it's taken them to get this album done have at least resulted in a double album!
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Cool. Thanks for the info. Guess I'm have to make my way to Wal-Mart on 10/30.
Originally Posted by DaveWadding
Performing at one of his West Coast solo dates in Primm, Nevada, on Saturday, the Eagles drummer delivered a powerful two-hour set on guitar, playing some obligatory hits (“Boys of Summer,” “All She Wants to Do Is Dance”) and other unexpected favorites, including an acoustic “The End of the Innocence” and mesmerizing “Hotel California.”
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Originally Posted by Gambit
Cool. Thanks for the info. Guess I'm have to make my way to Wal-Mart on 10/30.
Question for the Eagles aficionados out there, how well does Henley play the guitar? I never knew he played guitar, or is this something he has been doing recently? |
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Originally Posted by DaveWadding
Have you heard it? It reeks.
Oh, I've heard it, alright. I like the Eagles stuff quite well, especially with Walsh, but I really hate the new song. WAAAAAYYYYY too country-sounding. They'd progressed to a much more "rock" style when they last released new product, and I don't like this "regressive" sound. |
Wednesday, Nov. 7 The Eagles perform on CMAs
The Eagles to perform on CMA Awards: http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/n...5-eagles_N.htm <HR>October 12, 2007
The Billboard Q&A: The Eagles' Don Henley Spoiler:
Spoiler:
<HR> "I just turned 60... I'm thrilled and delighted. None of us ever thought it would go on this long. But we are a determined bunch of guys. We take our time, we are not afraid of the passage of time" -- Don Henley |
Where is Don Felder?
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Originally Posted by salamander2
Where is Don Felder?
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Originally Posted by salamander2
Where is Don Felder?
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Originally Posted by derekjet
I want to personally thanks these old farts for instituting the jacking up of prices to all rock concerts when they first reunited.
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Originally Posted by aintnosin
He was fired from the band in 2001.
Yeah it kinda sucks. When he joined the band is when they really really got interesting to me. The 2 songs he contributed to on On the Border are scorchers (Already Gone and Good Day in Hell) and it just got better for them from there. |
Well, it's finally here. I can't believe I'm finally picking up the album that I expected to get shortly after Hell Freezes Over came out in the mid-90's. Will be stopping by Wal-Mart (shudder) on my way home today. Looking forward to listening to it tonight.
Rolling Stone Review (3 1/2 out of 5 stars) Long Road Out of Eden," the ten-minute centerpiece of this two-CD, twenty-song album, epitomizes everything that is familiar, surprising, overstretched and, in many ways, right about the entire set. The song echoes the title hit of 1976's Hotel California, the Eagles' defining monument to mirage, money and no escape. But this time the desert is overseas and oil is the new champagne. When drummer Don Henley sings, "Now we're driving dazed and drunk" in a grainy, plaintive voice, it is an entire nation at the wheel, "bloated with entitlement, loaded on propaganda." That is brassy censure from a band that, in the Seventies, embodied Hollywood vainglory, shining its klieg-light guitars and vocals on the low roads through high living with an often wicked insight that only comes from knowing each mile intimately. But there is a potent restraint to "Long Road Out of Eden," in the bleak, hollow mix of acoustic guitar and electric piano in the verses and the overcast sigh of the harmonies. There is empathy, too, for the soldier on night patrol, with dirty work to do and everything to lose. "I'm not counting on tomorrow/And I can't tell wrong from right," Henley sings. "But I'd give anything to be there in your arms tonight." That's not self-interest -- just the purest need. The resemblance in title between this album and the Eagles' last studio record, 1979's The Long Run, is no coincidence. Henley and singer-guitarist Glenn Frey, the band's surviving founders, have always written and sung about asphalt and distance —: getting as far from responsibility as possible, crawling home, bruised and maybe wiser, when the fun runs out. And making Long Road Out of Eden was a protracted haul in itself. Henley, Frey, guitarist Joe Walsh and singer-bassist Timothy B. Schmit reportedly worked on the album for six years, and the Topanga-country gallop "How Long" goes back much further. Written by veteran compadre J.D. Souther, it is a previously unrecorded relic of the group's early-Seventies live sets. But the Eagles' original studio albums were all models of clenched-gleam detail, and Long Road suffers from sprawl. "Center of the Universe" makes the most of its bare bones -- the circular-staircase effect of the guitars -- and "Waiting in the Weeds" lets the lyrics carry the impatience ("I heard some wise man say that every dog will have his day/He never mentioned that these dog days get so long"). But Schmit's sweetly sung spotlights are Eighties-ballad sugar. Walsh's "Last Good Time in Town" is a wry cantina-swing sequel to "Life in the Fast Lane" -- staying home apparently is the new going out -- and he cuts through the salsa-lounge grooming with James Gang-era guitar. Seven minutes, though, is a long time to sing about doing fuck-all. Henley and Frey still find easy pickings in bad behavior. In "Fast Company," Frey affects a Prince-like falsetto over a chilled-funk stroll, playing an old-timer who can't even remember the action he used to get. "Busy Being Fabulous" is classic Eagles saloon-band shine about an errant filly, except this one is a mom who can't tell the difference between raising kids and being one. And Henley may be having a grim laugh at the Eagles' own expense in the materialist rant "Business as Usual": "A barrel of monkeys, a band of renown/But business as usual is breakin' me down." Nothing, of course, is business as usual in the music industry, and the Eagles, now running their own label, have chosen Wal-Mart as the album's exclusive retailer. There is an inevitable contradiction in buying a record that attacks corporate greed and blind consumerism in songs like "Do Something" and "Frail Grasp of the Big Picture" from a superchain with a bleak record on employee rights and health care. But Long Road Out of Eden is available direct at Eaglesband.com for $11.88, a bargain even with the misfires -- and worth it for the title song alone. DAVID FRICKE |
Not a bad album but those Timothy Schmidt icky sweet love songs stop the album in it's tracks. Does this guy know how to write anything but dull love songs? I never thought he fit in with the band, especially when they toughened up their sound and started rocking out a bit more.
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Didn't realize this was out. I will be picking it up today.
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Originally Posted by cungar
Not a bad album but those Timothy Schmidt icky sweet love songs stop the album in it's tracks. Does this guy know how to write anything but dull love songs? I never thought he fit in with the band, especially when they toughened up their sound and started rocking out a bit more.
I'll have to give it more listens to see if I change my mind, but I still can't believe they'd release material like this in 2007. |
I also consider Timothy B. Schmit's material to be shit for the most part, although I must admit, "I Can't Tell You Why" is one of my favorite Eagles songs.
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Well, I'm not too impressed by the new stuff I've heard (four tracks so far). It sounds like throwaways/filler from the early records...no fire at all. Especially the crappy single. No one I've asked has liked it, yet I hear it on every rock station, regardless of genre (classic, oldies, new rock, alternative [!] )
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I really like the double CD. It's not great throughout, but it does have its moments.
As for Felder, he's written a book that reveals a lot of dirt on the Eagles. I think that it is blocked from release in North America for now, but it will be released in the UK soon. |
Never had it at my local Wal Mart.
Many Joe Walsh songs? |
These rock legends are old and you can't expect them to put out music as good as they did 30 years ago. Give em a break.
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Originally Posted by movieking
As for Felder, he's written a book that reveals a lot of dirt on the Eagles. I think that it is blocked from release in North America for now, but it will be released in the UK soon. how would it be blocked and how would you know that? |
Originally Posted by wm lopez
These rock legends are old and you can't expect them to put out music as good as they did 30 years ago. Give em a break.
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