Glenn Frey Online turns 5!
Well, it's hard to believe, but I officially opened Glenn Frey Online 5 years ago today, on Glenn's birthday back in 2005.
I really got into the Eagles, especially Glenn, hardcore in the summer of 2005 and decided that since there wasn't a Glenn Frey site around, I would make one. At the time, I never even expected to see him or the Eagles perform live, much less meet him. I just wanted to make a site that would feature him.
It started small. I spent months just figuring out and coding the layout (I had just taken a class in .css coding and was itching to try it out).
There was no message board, no downloads (except one mp3 and one video which I cycled weekly), no rotating sidebar, no "fun facts," no solo tour archive, no golf archive, no "Quotable Frey," no filmography with screen shots and video clips.... in fact, I didn't even know of the existence of some of the videos back then (ie, River of Dreams). I did have one wallpaper, about four avatars, and four icons for folks to download.
The biggest section back then was my super-thorough Eagles / Frey discography, with everything transcribed from the lyrics down to the liner notes. It took me FOREVER to do that.
Since I was starting from scratch and had so little content, I remember putting every little mention of Glenn I got through Google alerts on the front page! lol
But I kept adding content... and adding.... and adding...
After a couple years, I made the other sites, and therefore got more and more and more and more on my plate.... so much so that I kind of feel overwhelmed. I'm still glad I did them, though! Each guy deserves his own fan site.
But Glenn Frey Online is the flagship. It's the one that started it all, and it is the one I am most proud of.
Thanks to everyone who has contributed to this site - there are so many people who have sent me stuff and helped me gather content - and of course thanks the people who visit it and have made it #1 on Google for several years now.
And of course, thanks to Glenn Frey, whose music inspired it all in the first place.
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As many of you know, I have been a huge Eagles fan from the band's beginning and always had shared my love equally between Glenn and Don. However, just a couple of weeks before GFO opened, I had attended the Eagles concert in Oakland, CA where Glenn stole my heart and 'chose' me forever. So right in the middle of my new obsession with him, I was elated to learn Soda had made a fansite for him. Not too long after that, she started Flip City, which was the very small private message board predecessor to The Border. And as they say - the rest is history. It has been great being along for the ride and these sites have literally changed my life.
