Re: Album Release Date and After Hours Website With Interview and Album Discussion!!
I teach class in 20 minutes. I sure hope they interview Glenn before then!
ETA: He's on now! Woot!
Highlights:
- For Pebble Beach pre-game concerts, he started doing songs from the 40s at the request of a guy named "Clint" who was running things. Michael Bolton told him he should make a record of songs like that because he sounded great and the material was "suited to his voice." As a result, he started cutting demos and everybody thought they sounded great.
- He felt that any of his favorite songs that were "piano and voice" were appropriate for After Hours.
- Glenn says no matter how big your house is, you can only have one bed (with regard to how successful he is).
- The DJ (Mark? Brian?) brings up his role in Jerry Maguire and kind of summarizes his scene where he's on the phone with Tom Cruise. Glenn tells a story about how he got the part. He says Cameron Crowe called him to read for him, and at first it was for the Beau Bridges part - Bridges played a Texan. Glenn wanted to try to work on a Texas accent for the character. Crowe, apparently to avoid waiting for Glenn to perfect an accent, instead offered him the part of the team manager who blows Cruise off. Crowe told him, "I think you won't have any problem blowing off Tom Cruise." Glenn says, "Cameron thought I would be confident enough to do this." Glenn then compliments Cruise's professionalism.
- He's asked about Don Johnson; is he still friends with him? Glenn says although he doesn't see Johnson enough, whenever they get together, it's just like old times. The DJ tells him Don Johnson is playing somebody's father on some show (he named it but I didn't hear it clearly) and Glenn thinks that's cool.
- The DJ brings up Stevie Nicks and how she loves to come on their program. He says some successful classic rock groups just rely on back catalog and don't do new stuff. He asks where the Eagles are headed and Glenn makes jokes like "We're headed for walkers." He repeats the "Hotel California lap blanket" joke. He says "the clock is ticking" and they go "year by year" but this year is a quiet one.
- He says the DVD documentary about the Eagles is getting made by Alex Gibney who directed Smartest Guys in the Room about Enron and has won other awards for other projects. Glenn says he wanted someone who got nominated for/won "Best Documentary" at the Academy Awards to direct the project because he wants the best. Glenn hopes it'll be out by Christmas.
[My dang phone rang so I missed some of this! BOOOOO]
- Glenn gets complimented about duplicating the sound of the original recordings onstage when the Eagles play live.The DJ compares him to Paul McCartney that way. Glenn believes that's "so cool."
- The DJ asks him if it's a pain to get all the Eagles to work together, or if it's still creative and fun. Glenn says it's creative and fun most of the time. The biggest problem is the geography and Don living over in Dallas and Joe liking to go all over the place. He says Don had to sacrifice in order to make the commitment to finish Long Road Out of Eden. He also says no one wants to neglect their kids to make new music.
- He says the Eagles are "floating through this year" despite the fact that it's their 40th anniversary because they don't want to "muck things up" when some bands are doing their 50th anniversary tours.
- He's gonna play live with the Santa Monica high school orchestra at the Wiltern. These are the kids in his video.
- Rehearsals are going fantastic. He's going to play in New York City with the NYU orchestra.
- He's going to be on the Today show!
- He mentions the video on his official site.
- Glenn calls Joe "a big kid who happens to shred on the guitar."
- The DJ wants Glenn to act more. Glenn says he doesn't actively pursue acting, but if someone calls him up, he's interested! The DJ jokes that he loved Glenn in Titanic and Glenn says, "I know. Didn't I drown great?" then when the DJ replies "You broke my heart" Glenn adds, "I'm drowning again next month." lol!
No mention of new tour dates, I'm afraid.
Gotta run to class now!
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Originally Posted by VAisForEagleLovers
Seriously, Hollywood needs to get their act together and offer more parts to Glenn!
Well, maybe he'll pull an orchestra out for at least one of the others... shoot, I'm going to four out of six, and somehow I still manage to miss out?! Dang, I wanna go to the Wiltern show bad!
