lunes, 17 de diciembre de 2018

Eagles Live 1976-80. (Unreleased version. Sequenced correct).



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.