First live album of the Californian group "Eagles",
recorded during the promotional tour of the Lp "Hotel California"
1976/78 and the final tour of 1980 corresponding to the album "The Long
Run", since the band was already in the process of separation .
This double Lp, published on November 7, 1980, was
made by the commitment that was made with the label Elektra / Asylum Records.
Five of the 14 songs that make up this live recording were rescued from the
archives, as the Eagles had planned to publish their next work: "The Long
Run" as a double album, where one part would be studio and the other live
extruded of the concerts recorded in Los Angeles - The Forum in
October of 1976, the days 19,20 & 21. But finally it only left the part of
study in September of 1979.
The rest of "Eagles live" belongs to the
three concerts held at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, on July 27, 28
and 29, 1980, plus an extra song "life in the fast line" of
the contest on July 31 at the Long Beach Arena, a charity concert with a
view to raising funds for the campaign of Democratic Senator Alan Cranstona;
however it became the starting point that marked the end of the first season of
the Eagles as a group since 1971, due to a very strong discussion between Glenn
Frey and Don Felder. Declared from then and until many years after
irreconcilable enemies. So much so that Frey refused to join the band to
do the overdubs or even talk to his former colleagues, so the recording was
done in an unusual way. With Glenn Frey and the rest of the group separated by
distance. One in Los Angeles and the others in Miami, exchanging
the material by mail: “Federal Express”.
As this double Lp did not bring anything new, since
all the live versions had their study counterpart, the group was asked to
register two new songs to include them in the album, but there was no way, they
rejected it, despite the fact that he offered them a non-negligible amount of
two million dollars of the time., a million per song. So it had to resort to an
unreleased track recorded live: "Seven bridges road", which
was also released on single.
By then, Glenn Frey had already made his own
interpretation of this work, with an order closer to how the songs had been
played live, since he wanted the recording to be as sincere as possible, at
least as far as the setlist, fleeing the typical purely commercial live album,
turned into a "Greatest hits".
This is the real setlist in which the songs were
played in concert::
1.Saturday night.
2.Seven bridges road.
3.Hotel California.
4.New kid in town.
5.I can tell you why.
6.Wasted time.
7.Take it to the limit.
8.Doolin-Dalton (Reprise II).
9.Desperado.
10.Heartache tonight.
11.The Long run.
12.Life´s been good.
13.life in the fast line.
14.take it easy.
15.All night long.
But the record company ordered the final order,
looking not only for the themes to fit in the space allocated on each side, but
doing everything that Glenn Frey did not want something that annoyed him even
more by charging everyone against having been put against him. , including
producer Bill Szymczyk. But it did not matter, the Eagles separated
definitively after the publication of this double Lp Bit.ly/76egs80 and did
not return until 14 years later, with a new and second stage that ended in
January 2016 after the death of Glenn Frey, founding member of the group.
Below is an unpublished remix of this fabulous live show by the Eagles that
put an end to a whole series of successes and excesses as well. A great, great
concert that should not be missed and less now that I present it to you as it
was played live, remastered, remixed and without alterations in the order of
the songs, as Glenn Frey had wished. Rest in peace.