All I can say right now is O-M-G!!! My mind needs time to process it. I can barely wait till tomorrow night for Part 2.
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All I can say right now is O-M-G!!! My mind needs time to process it. I can barely wait till tomorrow night for Part 2.
I was just gonna say...all y'all have had about 10 minutes to pick yourselves up off the floor and start speaking coherently again...:partytime:
HOW WAS IT????
I am blown away. Seriously. The story, the music, the pictures, all totally awesome. Brilliant to use Wasted Time as the background song that deals with the break-up.
My friend Michele lived in SoCal as all this took place. During the photo shoot scenes for the Eagles album cover, we paused it and she gave me the history of the Joshua Trees and the area, and that her mother lives nearby there. Then during the scenes of the 'gunfight' for Desperado she was sure that was from a western-type town that was near her mother as she was growing up. So it was very interesting hearing her talk about the perspective of 'regular people' who lived there.
There were a few times strong words were said, two very opposing view points, but mostly between Geffen and the whole band and Irving. Geffen still seems to be a little shocked that the guys weren't so grateful to him they'd forgive him anything.
I think I'll turn the TV back on and watch it again!
LOVED. IT.
I have to say that the sound quality was excellent. My tv doesn't have surround sound or anything special & the songs just jump right out at you with amazing clarity!!
I'm trying to digest the whole thing, because it wasn't exactly what I was expecting. I enjoyed it, but I don't feel that I really learned anything new that I didn't already know...
One thing I had never seen was that very small footage they show of Tim with Poco....OMG!!!!!! OMG!!!! OMG:love:
Absolutely fascinating...to hear their story from their own mouths instead of hearing it second hand...was priceless as a fan...I had tears in my eyes by the end...Tomorrow night 8 PM cannot come fast enough!!!
OMG!!!!!!! LOVE!
Totally awesome !! Can't wait for Part 2 !!
:brickwall:SOMEONE tell me some concrete details!!
The desert photoshoot...Wrong Beach...heck, just tell me about Randy's segments!!!! Pleeeeeeeeeazse?!?!
The Randy segments were very short. He looks so young in the footage from the 70's and in the current interviews he looks a lot older then the rest of the band. He seems very happy looking back in the current interview.
Randy was interviewed but not much. They went into detail about how he got to the point that he didn't want to and refused several times to sing TITTL and that at one point told him "Fine, f-you and why don't you just quit then". I had no clue that he had refused that much to sing it.
Went into great detail about Wrong Beach and even played the audio and printed it on the screen about the threats and what was being said between the songs, etc.... During this, in the background, Wasted Time was playing. Very, very dramatic and it about tore me up watching and hearing it.
Bernie seems to think in retrospect that he shouldn't have poured the beer over Glenn's head.
Joe operates a chainsaw pretty well! They showed the clip of Keith Moon putting the Rolls Royce in a swimming pool. He talked about the time he and John Belushi spray painted their jeans to get into restaurant. What was it Glenn said? Joe was a great fit for the band, he brought a lot of new personalities to the band? I can't remember the exact quote.
I loved when Joe made the comment something like "something very scary was that I met Keith Moon and he liked me." :hilarious:
And Glenn said "we gave Joe a chainsaw for his birthday". :hilarious:
I thought Randy looked good considering everything. He also did a great job with being interviewed.
I was also surprised with how open Glenn and Don H were. The whole segment with the VOL song surprised me. I had read Don F book so I knew he was supposed to sing it but even in his book DF didn't go into all the detail Don H and Glenn did. Don F seemed to accept it in DH and GF favor both in the book and the movie. I was surprised that the band decided not to have him sing it and then left Irving to tell him the news while Don was cutting the track. I am not a diehard Felder fan but I think he took that better then I would have. (please no one kill me JMO)
I think that's what I did liked most about the movie is that you didn't have just the pat answers I've read in the interviews. You get to see and hear it out of their young mouths. I felt that everyone interviewed in the band was pretty respectful of each other and looked back on the past in a very accepting and honest way. I think that's what got to me.
I agree, Rebecca. I LOVED the honesty!!!
OK--- everyone who saw it--- the naked guy by the lake--- I think it was Randy? Am I right?
Michele and I were talking about that. I told her, for all we know, they were up front and honest with him on things before that and it didn't go well. Or not.
Did I mention Michele showed up here with pink champagne? :grin:
I wish I had HD service, then I'd be able to see it better. Maybe it's not anyone we know (the naked guy). I should mention, I went through it frame by frame. Agonizing process... :lie:
I don't think so cause it looks like the same guy that sitting with the naked girls but i could be wrong, i will bow to a Randy expert.
BTW Some of those early pictures of Randy he really looked good. :woah: I like the BABY-FACE without the facial hair :thumbsup:
Here's a nice review from the Washington Times.
http://communities.washingtontimes.c...rt-1-showtime/
[QUOTE=VAisForEagleLovers;211798]Michele and I were talking about that. I told her, for all we know, they were up front and honest with him on things before that and it didn't go well. Or not.
That kind of what I assumed in Felder's book that Don H just sang it to see how it'd sound and then they all decided it would be best to have DH sing VOL but then IA, DH, and GF said the new story in movie so I don't know why they'd change the story to that if its not the truth because it doesn't make them look good. :confused:
Speechless. The best thing I've ever watched in my life, and this is one of the best nights in my life.
And Joe was so great as always, he seems so genuine, level and content with everything in his interviews. Even destroying things. He the sort you just want to hug once he puts the chainsaw down of course :partytime:
Siiiiigggghhhhhh....
Thanks for the early reviews, gang!! Can't wait to see it!!
I was thinking of ordering two copies (one for my dad)...wonder when pre-order will be available...??
cant wait for the dvd..
[quote=RebeccaLovesEagles;211801]Felder's version in his book is obviously not the correct version & Felder probably decided to use it so as it would sound less humiliating. He presumably did not run his version past the others. He changed a lot of things to make himself look better.
Thanks for your thoughts but it doesn't sound as if there was much new in it.
i think it sounds like it was awsome and fabulous:thumbsup:
From a high level, no there wasn't. Not to those who follow the band like we do. But it was interesting to hear other's perspectives, the nice things Jackson had to say, JD, Seger. It was amusing when JD added his two cents about listening to Jackson write songs, it apparently got on his nerves! It was amazing to see footage of Glenn and Don backing up Linda. I'd read it in a review, but it was good to see.
I didn't know that Doctor My Eyes was a song or the song that Jackson was writing when Glenn and JD lived above him.
[quote=Freypower;211807]I think when Felder said that he knows Henley's voice is better than pretty much anyone's, he wasn't trying to make himself look better. I think he was just disappointed because he thought he would be singing it.
To have Irving take him out & have Henley do the vocal behind his back, I thought was just kind of sneaky.
In the past, Glenn has said it was "Jamaica Say You Will" that he heard again and again, but JD mentions "Doctor My Eyes" and "The Pretender" specifically - I wonder how many others they heard?
One problem I had with the doc: they would often discuss a certain time period and then show a photo from a different time - like talk about Don's days in Shiloh and then show a photo of him behind a drumkit from 1979, or talk about Joe destroying a hotel room in 1976 while showing footage of a video from 1986 which was parodying that behavior (an uninformed person watching the doc would probably think that was real footage of Joe destroying a hotel).
I understand why they do that kind of thing but I don't like it.
As for that lake footage, were those naked dudes even Eagles at all? I think it might have been stock footage of naked hippies thrown in as "illustrative" of what was going on rather than actual footage of them... rather gratuitous!
For someone like me who is a hardcore and has seen almost all of the footage before, I still found a few new tidbits - for instance, I didn't know that Glenn wrote "such a fine sight to see" In addition to the other lines he wrote of TIE. He was also explicitly acknowledged as being a lyricist on the song "Hotel California." The Long Night at Wrong Beach as it's shown here reflects Felder's take on it as given in his book rather than ones Glenn has given in the past, but overall there seems to be a general consensus on how things broke down (despite omissions about the more personal aspects of their feelings). Joe states in a very open and honest manner that he used humor to mask his insecurities, and that he was intimidated by Glenn and Don. That takes guts to admit. Those are just a few nuggets. There are several others.
However, an objection from some might be that extensive background segments were done on Don and Glenn, but the rest of the guys didn't even get their home state mentioned. Many photos of the band were cropped to just Don and Glenn. Some might say it was "The History of Glenn Frey and Don Henley in the Eagles." Of course, they are the only original members still around!
Randy may look old, but he seems to be in his right mind. That's good.
Bernie's gained quite a bit of weight since 2004 but is as forceful and blunt as ever. Gotta love it!
I do think it was a bit unfair of Glenn to say that Felder didn't like playing benefits because he wanted to keep the money. He plays benefits all the time nowadays. Of course, one could argue that is a recent development and he didn't feel that way in the 70s.
I most enjoyed the rare photos and old footage, which had me squee-ing with delight. I can't wait for tomorrow night!
I just watched it again...loved it more the second time!...there's so much in it...it takes a while to digest it all...will need to watch it some more I think!!!
and...I got teary watching the end again!
I checked the Showtime guide and Sunday from 3:00PM to 6:00 pm the
show will be on again. Since it's 3 hours it must be the entire show.
Well, Seems like it's a "Thumbs Up" :thumbsup: from all of you........Makes me even more excited for April!! :partytime:
I haven't had time to read all of your thoughts properly - I have to dash out now - but I will when I get back...Thanks everyone! :spin:
This is killing me! But I'm so glad to read all of the rave reviews and stunned comments... I'm guessing it was good. ;)
Soda, I was thinking this very thing while trying to get to sleep last night. It's probably a common thing to do in documentaries like this, but these guys had so much 'real' footage, you tend to assume that what you're seeing is from the time period discussed.
The quote here from an earlier review, when Glenn said this is was said during the VOL segment. Felder said about Don's better vocals, then Don said that it didn't make any sense for Felder to sing it, that having Felder demand to sing it would be like Don demanding to play lead guitar on HC. Then Glenn followed with this quote.
I thought the above quote was hilarious. I was in a serious state of mind listening and when DH said that i burst just out laughing. :rofl:
I've heard DF sing Hotel California and VOL and he sounded good but picturing DH with a double neck guitar would be cool to see. :woah: