Originally Posted by
Freypower
I'm sorry but given that three of Glenn's songs were cut from the DVD I can't look at them as part of it, when they are not available.
The excuse for the Henley solo songs was that he was the big solo star & therefore more people would have been more familiar with his work. At least that is what I presume; it was never explained. But, as has been said on this board many times, they also performed some band songs in which Henley was utterly dominant - Wasted TIme, Desperado & most notoriously The Last Resort during which the rest of the band may as well have left the stage.
If it was Glenn who insisted that some of the songs he did be dropped while Don was pushed forward to the point of absurdity, it is yet another example of how Glenn put the 'band' ahead of himself. His altruism & selflessness was one of the most admirable parts of his character, something which his detractors consistently ignore. Don, on the other hand, is never criticised for his prominence in the HFO DVD. People seem to take it as read that he's the star. Couldn't he have been uneasy at it? Couldn't he have said 'hey, Glenn, man, this is the Eagles. Don't you think you deserve a bit more screen time'? He may have done, of course. Who am I to assume he didn't.
The HFO tour at least corrected the balance. It was the only tour when Glenn did two solo songs - SB as well as YBTTC. This eventually dwindled to none, of course. To be fair there were no Henley solo songs in HOTE either. But Walsh songs... God yes. On & on they went (that is how I felt; I am well aware that many people saw those songs as crowd pleasers).
And now what have we got: Because now there is no Glenn at all, the others think it's OK to go on without him, just having others sing his songs, because it doesn't matter. And the point is, with sad irony, perhaps he paved the way for this himself.