Originally Posted by
Freypower
I know how strongly you feel about this, but when you write about this you make them sound like a completely different band from what they actually were. Even in the songs you like, when were the guitars every particularly loud or distorted? As for 'not acoustic guitars & harmonies'... a lot of people went to the Eagles for that, not for the small percentage of the sound to which you refer.
Already Gone, Life In The Fast Lane, In The City, Heartache Tonight, Those Shoes, James Dean, Victim Of Love, etc. I don't mean Metallica-level distorted, but I don't mean clean Take It Easy-style guitar either. I realize I'm in the minority but they DID have a good number of rocking songs that I find pretty special. If they only did Take It Easy/Peaceful Easy Feeling type numbers, I wouldn't be a fan. I realize most people are all about the vocals. I find their guitar sound quite underrated here.
I find your statement that you can't imagine the Eagles without Joe or Felder somewhat disingenous as you know very well Felder didn't join until 1974, Joe a year after that & there was no Felder after 2001. As F50 said, you don't have to imagine it. It's a fact.
My statement about imagining was if the band got rid of them after they joined. That's what I mean. I can't imagine the band once they had Joe going on without him. It was hard enough for me to lose Felder. I, of course, realize there was a time where it was just Bernie, and as I stated in my post, I was not real happy with that era of the band. I'm quite aware there was a time in the band where those two weren't in it. I couldn't imagine them going back to that sound, basically, without at least one of those guys.