Wasted Time (Live at The Forum, Los Angeles, CA, ).Seven Bridges Road (Live at Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, CA, ) [2018 Remast.Life's Been Good (Live at Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, CA, ).New Kid in Town (Live at The Forum, Los Angeles, CA, 10/20-22/1976).The Long Run (Live at Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, CA, ).I Can't Tell You Why (Live at Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, CA, ).Heartache Tonight (Live at Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, CA, ).Hotel California (Live at Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, CA, ).You can find order links for these breakout releases below!Įagles, Eagles Live (originally Asylum LP K62032, 1980 - reissued Elektra/Rhino LP 603497845507, 2021) ( Amazon U.S. Eagles Live, Long Road Out of Eden, and The Millennium Concert hit record shelves and digital storefronts on April 2. Long available as part of the Selected Works 1972-1999 CD box set and most recently featured on the career-spanning Legacy box set, this is the first time the Millennium Concert recording has been issued on standalone vinyl (though still in its abbreviated, 12-song sequence), complete with a deluxe gatefold.Įach reissued Eagles title utilizes the same masters and stampers as the Legacy set, so if you missed out on the big box, now's the chance to add these to your collection. Fittingly, it was recorded on Decemat LA's Staples Center. Of most interest to fans will likely be The Millennium Concert. Now, fans will be able to find the album on record shelves once more, packaged in a gatefold and boasting printed inner sleeves. A 2-LP configuration was pressed up at the time but in limited quantities. Schmit, sideman Steuart Smith, and another longtime friend, Jack Tempchin. Don Henley and Glenn Frey rekindled their songwriting partnership, and the album contained songs from Joe Walsh, Timothy B.
Souther's "How Long" which the Eagles had sung in concert but never on record. It explicitly recaptured the band's original sound with a cover of band pal J.D. And Henley may be having a grim laugh at the Eagles’ own expense in the materialist rant “Business as Usual”: “A barrel of monkeys, a band of renown/But business as usual is breakin’ me down.Long Road Out of Eden marked the band's return to the studio by way of a double-CD set that was originally released as a Wal-Mart exclusive. “Busy Being Fabulous” is classic Eagles saloon-band shine about an errant filly, except this one is a mom who can’t tell the difference between raising kids and being one. In “Fast Company,” Frey affects a Prince-like falsetto over a chilled-funk stroll, playing an old-timer who can’t even remember the action he used to get. Henley and Frey still find easy pickings in bad behavior. Seven minutes, though, is a long time to sing about doing fuck-all. Walsh’s “Last Good Time in Town” is a wry cantina-swing sequel to “Life in the Fast Lane” - staying home apparently is the new going out - and he cuts through the salsa-lounge grooming with James Gang-era guitar. But Schmit’s sweetly sung spotlights are Eighties-ballad sugar. “Center of the Universe” makes the most of its bare bones - the circular-staircase effect of the guitars - and “Waiting in the Weeds” lets the lyrics carry the impatience (“I heard some wise man say that every dog will have his day/He never mentioned that these dog days get so long”). “But I’d give anything to be there in your arms tonight.” That’s not self-interest - just the purest need.Įagles Add Shows to Rescheduled 'Hotel California' Tourīut the Eagles’ original studio albums were all models of clenched-gleam detail, and Long Road suffers from sprawl. “I’m not counting on tomorrow/And I can’t tell wrong from right,” Henley sings. There is empathy, too, for the soldier on night patrol, with dirty work to do and everything to lose. But there is a potent restraint to “Long Road Out of Eden,” in the bleak, hollow mix of acoustic guitar and electric piano in the verses and the overcast sigh of the harmonies. That is brassy censure from a band that, in the Seventies, embodied Hollywood vainglory, shining its klieg-light guitars and vocals on the low roads through high living with an often wicked insight that only comes from knowing each mile intimately. When drummer Don Henley sings, “Now we’re driving dazed and drunk” in a grainy, plaintive voice, it is an entire nation at the wheel, “bloated with entitlement, loaded on propaganda.” But this time the desert is overseas and oil is the new champagne. The song echoes the title hit of 1976’s Hotel California, the Eagles’ defining monument to mirage, money and no escape. “Long Road Out of Eden,” the ten-minute centerpiece of this two-CD, twenty-song album, epitomizes everything that is familiar, surprising, overstretched and, in many ways, right about the entire set.
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