Re: Celebration of Glenn's Life - 5 years later
Here's my list of favorite Glenn songs from each Eagles studio album ...
Eagles LP - Take It Easy
Desperado - Tequila Sunrise
On the Border - Already Gone
One of These Nights - Lyin' Eyes/After the Thrill is Gone (tie)
Hotel California - New Kid in Town
The Long Run - Heartache Tonight
Long Road Out of Eden - How Long/Somebody (tie)
Feel free to share your list.
Re: Celebration of Glenn's Life - 5 years later
Here's my favorite Glenn songs from each Eagles album.
Eagles LP - Take It Easy
Desperado - Tequila Sunrise
On The Border - Already Gone (I love the bit at the end when he says "alright nighty-night")
One Of These Nights - Lyin' Eyes (that "my oh my" gives me chills every time)
Hotel California - New Kid In Town
The Long Run - Heartache Tonight
Long Road Out Of Eden - tie between No More Cloudy Days and It's Your World Now (although the latter makes me bawl like a baby, it's still a beautiful song)
Re: Celebration of Glenn's Life - 5 years later
Eagles LP - Take It Easy
Desperado - Out Of Control
On the Border - Already Gone
One of These Nights - After The Thrill Is Gone
Hotel California - New Kid In Town
The Long Run - Heartache Tonight
Long Road Out of Eden - How Long
Re: Celebration of Glenn's Life - 5 years later
As I said in the Remembering thread, I find it hard to believe that five years have passed. I'd only been a hardcore fan for less than a year when Glenn died, but his death affected me like no other celebrity death has. I never ever thought that the death of a person I'd never met could affect me like his did. I went into a deep, depressive funk for well over a month. Eventually, I recovered and went on with my life. The Border was extremely helpful in doing that because I was among like minded people. I did have a silver lining in the end,, though. Glenn's passing made me realize just how much I was wasting my life away doing nothing, and it gave me the final push I needed to start going to college. (What a journey that has been!) These two lyrics have become my philosophy in many ways:
"So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains
And we never even know we have the key"- Already Gone (On the Border, 1974)
"People don't run out of dreams, People just run out of time"- River of Dreams (Strange Weather, 1992)
I decided to honor Glenn by naming my top ten favorite solo songs of his. I, like many others, feel that his solo material is vastly underrated.
10. Partytown
9. Strange Weather
8. River of Dreams
7. You Belong to the City
6. The Heat is On
5. I've Got Mine
4. Call on Me
3. Flip City
2. Long Hot Summer
1. Smuggler's Blues
Re: Celebration of Glenn's Life - 5 years later
Linda Ronstadt gave Glenn the nickname of the "Teen King" in the early days because of his talent for scoring with the younger ladies.
Before they decided on a name, the band referred to themselves as "Teen King and the Emergencies." Other names considered were "The Saltines" and "The Small Frey Dance Band." Thankfully, the Desperados came to their senses and decided on Eagles.
Throughout the years, the band had several nicknames for their fearless leader. Nicknames at various times included Roach (for when he was always bumming joints), Sporticus (for his obsession with sports), and the Lone Arranger (for his individualistic approach towards arrangement of Eagles music, preferring to work alone in the studio).
Re: Celebration of Glenn's Life - 5 years later
Around 1973/74, Glenn had a relationship with Joni Mitchell. Joni wrote the songs "Help Me" and "Car on a Hill" about Glenn.
Also, there has been a lot of speculation that Bob Seger's song "Still the Same" was written about Glenn, although I don't believe Bob ever confirmed it. However, the lyrics certainly fit.
Cameron Crowe does confirm that the character of Russell Hammond in his film "Almost Famous" is based on Glenn.
Here is a link for other bits of trivia and fun facts about Glenn:
http://www.glennfreyonline.com/funfacts.htm
Re: Celebration of Glenn's Life - 5 years later
Here’s my list. I can’t believe it’s been 5 years. I was off 5 years ago when we were told he had died. It’s almost that time for when it was announced.
Eagles LP - Take It Easy
Desperado - Doolin Dalton (even though he shares lead with Don)
On the Border - Ol’ 55
One of These Nights - After the Thrill is Gone
Hotel California - New Kid in Town
The Long Run - Heartache Tonight
Long Road Out of Eden - What Do I Do With My Heart
Re: Celebration of Glenn's Life - 5 years later
As the 70's came to an end and the Eagles took a 14 year vacation, Glenn launched a very successful solo career in the 80's. Glenn had 6 solo songs that charted in the Billboard Top 20 ...
The One You Love - #15
Sexy Girl - #20
Smuggler's Blues - #12
The Heat Is On - #2
You Belong to the City - #2
True Love - #13
Charting at #2, makes The Heat Is On and You Belong to the City the highest charting solo songs for any of the Eagles. Glenn had numerous other singles chart on the Billboard Top 100 and Adult Contemporary charts.
After the success of "The Heat Is On", Glenn was supposed to record "Shakedown" for the Beverly Hills Cop 2 soundtrack. However, he became ill and was unable to record it, so he handed it off to his good friend, Bob Seger. The song ended up going to #1. Tuff luck, Glenn!
Here is a comprehensive list of all of Glenn's released solo singles ...
http://www.glennfreyonline.com/solo/singlesindex.htm
Re: Celebration of Glenn's Life - 5 years later
With Glenn's initial success as a solo artist, he demonstrated an acting ability in his music videos. After the success of the Smuggler's Blues video in which Glenn won an MTV award for Best Concepts video, Miami Vice got Glenn on board to star in a Smuggler's Blues episode.
Once he completed that, Glenn decided to take on some other acting roles. His first film role was in Let's Get Harry in 1986.
Throughout the 80's and 90's, Glenn continued to take on occasional acting roles for television and film.
Click here to view his entire filmography including music videos, TV roles, and film roles.
Re: Celebration of Glenn's Life - 5 years later
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Glenn had many memorable quotes. Here's an interesting one that always amused me ...
On How Eating a Cheeseburger is Like Sex
"Can't wait to get a good cheeseburger. It's so funny... I went to the Hard Rock [in London] and I went to the American Disaster - I got my hamburger - and I picked it up with my hands. Which is what we do, you know - french fries and hamburgers, man, to hell with utensils! You just pick 'em up with your hands and all these people in the restaurants look at you like - 'Whew! What's he doing?!' I see these people with the hamburger, man... You gotta get messy or it ain't no fun! It's just like makin' love!" (London 1973)
I have always loved this quote. I’m eating a cheeseburger for Glenn tonight!