While I was searching for Timothy articles I came across this interesting interview with Randy
http://www.smoothjazznow.com/intervi...dy_meisner.htm
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While I was searching for Timothy articles I came across this interesting interview with Randy
http://www.smoothjazznow.com/intervi...dy_meisner.htm
Thanks for this find. I love Randy's attitude about his fans!
It's a great interview, isn't it? I've read it a couple of times over the last 9 months. Sounds like such a sweet guy.
That's a great interview. Thanks for posting it, TF. I particularly like the bit about the wildlife around his home - that's very sweet.
interesting to hear he sings Already Gone, although I'm not sure he is 'the voice of' AG! :wink:
Well, he was "already gone" from the Eagles. ;) Still, I can't imagine him doing it instead of Glenn.Quote:
Originally Posted by glenneaglesfan
Wow! That was so cool. Thanks for posting that TF.
Can you imagine him singing Take It Easy? He does that one too with the World Classic Rockers. And he does it pretty well. If anyone wants to hear it, I can email it, or I can email to Soda to put it wherever.Quote:
Originally Posted by SodaScouts
It would be great if you could e-mail that to me, RG. I'd love to hear it and I'd be happy to post it for anyone else as well.
Thanks for posting it. Very interesting.
I mentioned this article in the 'Imposter' thread. it's short, but Randy comes over as a really nice guy.
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c9...assicRandy.jpg
Randy Meisner
The Eagles’ first bassist likes life out of the limelight.
Randy Meisner found international fame as a founding member of the Eagles. A talented bassist and a versatile singer/songwriter, Meisner delivered the Eagles’ 1975 smash million-seller Take It To The Limit. He remained an integral part of the Eagles throughout the groups’ 70s heyday, before leaving in 1977 after the completion of the Hotel California tour. He went on to release several solo albums and today spends his free time playing gigs with the World Class Rockers, a band comprised of former members of Journey, Steppenwolf, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Santana and Toto. Classic Rock grabbed him for a quick chinwag.
You’re very underrated as a bass player – your lines in the Eagles are very melodic.
I loved R&B and the bass players on the Motown stuff were great. They really inspired me. I can’t read music. Once I learn a part it’s there. My bass playing came real naturally. In the Eagles’ rehearsals that’s how a lot of the songs would come together. Everyone would bring their own little thing of how they played, and that’s what made the sound of the band. On Hotel California [Don] Felder designed that bass part and I played it. Boy, it was a rough one to sing and play at the same time. That took a while to learn.
With Don Henley and Glenn Frey writing the majority of the Eagles’ material, was it difficult for you to get your own songs recorded?
No. Everybody was welcome to write a song. I didn’t write as much, that’s all. I’d bring in a song and they’d tell me if they liked it and often they’d say: “Let’s finish this sucker.”
How did Take It To The Limit come about?
We drank a lot of beer at the Troubadour – Randy Newman, Steve Martin, Jim Morrison, all these people that we’d know hung out here. We’d go down there and have a few beers. That’s how I started Take It To The Limit. I went back to my house one night from the Troubadour. It was real late at night. I was by myself and started singing and playing. ‘All alone at the end of the evening…’ That’s where it started. I had a couple of verses. Don and Glenn [Frey] helped me finish it just in time to get it on the record.
I was nervous about doing that song live. I wouldn’t have spotlights on me. I just didn’t want to be in the limelight.
Have you come to terms with the Eagles’ legacy?
It’s just good to know that kids nowadays are listening to it. It’s long-standing music. They’re good songs. They lyrics are really good and the way that they were produced and the way that we played them. That’s why on Hotel California we were so precise and wanting to make it so perfect. We made sure we got it so good.
Here's something odd - I went to the World Class Rockers' official site and Randy wasn't mentioned. I wonder if he's left the group to do that Doobie Brothers thing?
Edited to add: Nevermind, I found him mentioned as a "special guest star." This makes me think that he's getting a different group together for the Doobie Brothers thing.
That was interesting, Gef. Thanks.
Randy doesn't seem to harbor too many ill feelings and seemed very upbeat. :D
Randy does seem to be a genuinely nice guy.
What Doobie Brothers thing?
I couldn't help but notice the contrast with 'somebody else'. No whining about how he couldn't get his songs recorded, giving credit where it's due, and what seems to be genuine modesty.
Never mind my question--I just saw the answer in the other thread.
The April edition of Reccord Collector has interviews with Randy and Don F. I'll post them up as images here. If you save the image you should be able to zoom in enough to read it. I'll try and send the original to Soda so that she can pdf it.
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c9.../RCRandy_1.jpg
Thanks GEF. You are a saint! :wink:
Thanks for posting that GEF. Randy seems like a sweetheart. :)
I'm having the same problem with this article, how do I copy it so I can read it?
See the Felder interview thread!
I wanted to revive this thread and let everyone know that the classic rock interview was taken from a longer interview that was done in 2006. I found the longer interview on eaglesfans.com. It's the one called Randy Meisner Takes it to the Limit One More Time and it's broken into 5 pdfs.
I just found this online. It's from 1996.
Sorry if this has been posted somewhere else.
http://www.rockhistorybook.com/inter...dymeisner.html
Thanks for posting these interviews. I love reading them - even if I may have seen them before, posting them again gives a person a chance to revisit and maybe get reminded of something they've forgotten. Besides, not everyone has seen them before.
This question from the second interview made me laugh:I bet Randy was thinking, "Wow, this guy is naive." lolJohn- Do you still hang out with Don Henley and Glen Frey?
Randy - Well, not really.
I had forgotten this:
Randy - [The reunion album with Poco] wasn't very good. (Laughing) I had done some recording with Richard Marx and he wrote a song for me. Then we all got back together and it was really fun actually. Let me tell you what really happened. This was going down around the time of the Persian Gulf War and our management had arranged all these things on military bases. We had all this merchandising to sell and when we got to all these army bases we were playing to empty crowds because all the troops were in the Persian Gulf. After that we played a few more things but I ended up paying all this money for merchandising rather than making money on it. We did make a record and I thought it was good. Richie Furay is a minister in Boulder, Colorado. So, when we went out we had to change our lyrics like on the song "Hearts on Fire" we had to change the line "I had myself a tall one waiting in the bar I didn't want to leave here until I had her in the car" it got to Richie. I had to respect Richie but one night we were playing in Toronto and the crowd was really good and I sang the original lyric and Richie got kind of upset about that. Also, Jimmy Messina couldn't sing "I had her in the backseat" on his song. I really got frustrated with that because we weren't singing the original lyrics of these songs so I left. We did finish the tour but I didn't make a penny. We did travel all over and we went to Europe for a month to promote this whole album. Out of a month we played twenty four days and we would get up at five in the morning, go to every radio station in Europe and plug this album. It didn't do a darn bit of good. So, I have had my road work, you know? (Laughing)To do all that work and not make a cent! Yikes! And then having to "clean up" the lyrics - I understand why they were asked to do it but I can also understand why Randy balked - especially if he wasn't making any money!John - I read a bit of "Take it to the Limit."I wonder what in particular he regrets saying? Interesting.
Randy - Yeah, there were a couple of [books written about the Eagles]. It's like catching someone at a wrong time when everyone was kind of angry at everyone else. You say things that you really don't mean. These people want the dirt and they forget that most of the time there was not any dirt. Most of the time we got along really well. Years later you read it and its dirt and you think why in the hell did I say that about him whether it's Glen or Henley. For God sakes were just people. It was a time where there was a little resentment.
You know what - I think I'll do like I do with the other Eagles have a "Randy Meisner in the Press" thread. :: going off to do some merging ::
In reading that, I was a little saddened by this:
"Meisner admits he was initially upset and depressed about not being asked to be a part of the reunion tour. He says the band even rejected his suggestion that he join them on stage for several songs at the group's Rose Bowl concert in Pasadena."I get why they didn't approach him for the "resumption" tour, but I do wish they would have let him do a special "guest spot" on a show or two.
Me, too. I would like to see Randy Meisner play with the Eagles once again.
I don't see how it would have hurt him in any way.
As for the band not being sentimental - I would hesitate to make such sweeping statements. Just because they don't often display it doesn't mean they're incapable of it.
I was making a generalisation. However it appears that they certainly displayed lack of sentimentality on this occasion.
If Randy himself would have liked to appear with them, then perhaps they should have at least considered it, but having a former member receive a huge ovation for singing Take It To The Limit while the replacement bass player looked on is not something that I can imagine them wanting to happen.
I understand.
I haven't decided what I think about the Eagles and sentimentality. I'm not sure that Eagles band members' feelings are necessarily sentimental or nostalgic by nature, but I guess that the fans could think that going back in time would amount to a sentimental or nostalgic expression.
To add a guest performer, the Eagles could appear on stage at the same time and play a song together as a group, including Randy Meisner;--or, alternatively; one or a few of the band members could temporarily excuse themselves from the stage and return after a special guest appearance that could include Randy Meisner.
Either format might not be too distracting to alter the audience's reception of the band.
I guess this isn't really a mention in the press - it's a mention in a song - but I still thought it worth noting!
Listen here: http://www.reverbnation.com/tunepak/3363096
Definitely!!
"I dreamed that I could sing like Randy Meisner"....
I like it! :thumbsup:
Not sure where else to put this but wanted to share. Someone sent me this link about an auction of Randy's farm property (or one of them).
http://www.helbergnussauction.com/ev...-farm-auction/
Wow - good find Austin. Thanks for letting us know. Even though it's Randy's, this city girl is gonna have to pass on a 73-acre farm in Nebraska. :grin:
It looks like the auction has already taken place. Wonder who won?
whoever bought his farm better take good care of it...or :machinegun:
wow how cool and intresting is that.
Wonder if it is a real working farm?