You can hear Joe very clearly during Take It to the Limit from the HOTE concert, on 'spent my life running 'round'. Felder can be heard at some point on New Kid in Town too, I will have a look next time I watch it thought as I can't remember exactly where. In more recent Eagles performances, I have noted that Joe doesn't do backing vocals on some 'all in' moments: there's a video of Long Road Out of Eden in Austria where Joe doesn't sing any vocals at all, be it the chorus or the outro, the latter of which seemed to feature everybody else. There were also a couple of occasions it happened when I saw them on the HOTE tour, alas I've forgotten which now!
Just wanted to bump this thread as I have a bit of a query.
I know that there are no harmony vocals on The Disco Strangler, but I'm starting to wonder if it might not be the only Eagles song with none. My question is - are there any harmony/backing vocals on the studio version of Learn To Be Still? I was listening to the song recently and I really don't hear anyone other than Don H on vocals throughout the song. Is there anything I'm missing, or is it genuinely just him singing?
I've never heard any backing vocals on Learn to Be Still, I did keep meaning to post to that effect. As much as I love it, it really does belong on a Henley solo album.
"After the Thrill is Gone" doesn't have any backing/harmony vocals that I can hear. I think that's the first Eagles track not to have them.
(I mean other than the parts where the co-leads are singing harmony together; this may not be what JCL means).
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Right or wrong, what’s done is done
It’s only moments that you borrow...
There's a fair few where the only backing vocals are odd 'ooh' or 'aah' (I'm not sure of their proper name!), such as Wasted Time.
Another one is that You Are Not Alone has only very subtle background harmonies in the second verse.
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I think you're selling those oohs and aahs a little short there thelastresort. Didn't Glenn say ooohs for $000s.
I love the early live versions of Desperado where the band's oohs and aahs aren't drowned out by strings and the mighty Hotel California album is awash with them.