Originally Posted by
eaglesvet
I promised Nancy I would mention the NJ-specific banter Glenn joked about during the early part of his show, somewhere around the time he sang "Peaceful Easy Feeling" and "Tequila Sunrise." He had been reminiscing about the Eagles' early hits, and commented about the "days when the Eagles couldn't get arrested in Manhattan." (This is the only part of the reference I didn't get...can anyone enlighten me??) Anyway, he went on to say that back in those days, when they had Max's Kansas City and CBGB's in NYC, there was a famous venue in NJ called the Capitol Theater in Passaic. (An aside from 'moi'–the Capitol was a concert hall in the 70's and 80's that featured legendary performances by a host of major musicians–the Boss, Grateful Dead, and more. Apparently, the house video system produced quite a few high-quality B&W concert bootlegs back in the day.) Glenn said that when the Eagles played the Capitol, he can remember a bunch of young guys in Pendleton shirts (I'm assuming preppy?) who yelled out, "Tell us about the desert!" He shouted back to them something to the effect of, "I can't tell you about it. There's nothing to say...you just have to be there!"