Comments on: “Rolling Stone” Flies With The Eagles http://idolator.com/392421/rolling-stone-flies-with-the-eagles Music News, Reviews, and Gossip on Idolator.com Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:30:15 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: pc bass fishing game http://idolator.com/392421/rolling-stone-flies-with-the-eagles/comment-page-1#comment-2085512 pc bass fishing game Wed, 24 Nov 2010 08:33:49 +0000 d03df3011e56855d342118619e9e7eab#comment-2085512 Hi, good post. Awesome Job once again. I really like visiting your blog for the reason that the writers usually publish informative postsFabulous writeups... I plan to bookmark this blog. I believe I will subscribe to this feed also. I can't live without fishing. Hi, good post. Awesome Job once again. I really like visiting your blog for the reason that the writers usually publish informative postsFabulous writeups… I plan to bookmark this blog. I believe I will subscribe to this feed also. I can’t live without fishing.

]]> By: Cos http://idolator.com/392421/rolling-stone-flies-with-the-eagles/comment-page-1#comment-581922 Cos Thu, 22 May 2008 05:37:19 +0000 d03df3011e56855d342118619e9e7eab#comment-581922 <p>What? No mention of "The H is O"?</p> What? No mention of “The H is O”?

]]> By: Clevertrousers http://idolator.com/392421/rolling-stone-flies-with-the-eagles/comment-page-1#comment-581932 Clevertrousers Wed, 21 May 2008 08:48:46 +0000 d03df3011e56855d342118619e9e7eab#comment-581932 <p>You know, I actually like Anthony DeCurtis, but KK's description of him as 'a Baby Boomer Boswell who can be counted on for grade-A genuflection" did make me giggle.</p> <p>The only things I ever really liked about teh Eagles are Joe Walsh and "Take It Easy". Other than that... meh...</p> You know, I actually like Anthony DeCurtis, but KK’s description of him as ‘a Baby Boomer Boswell who can be counted on for grade-A genuflection” did make me giggle.

The only things I ever really liked about teh Eagles are Joe Walsh and “Take It Easy”. Other than that… meh…

]]> By: Anonymous http://idolator.com/392421/rolling-stone-flies-with-the-eagles/comment-page-1#comment-581942 Anonymous Wed, 21 May 2008 08:40:07 +0000 d03df3011e56855d342118619e9e7eab#comment-581942 <P>Thanks for the article. I actually want to read the Eagles story now. BTW...Felder also has a book out now that is pretty solid.</P> Thanks for the article. I actually want to read the Eagles story now. BTW…Felder also has a book out now that is pretty solid.

]]> By: Captain Wrong http://idolator.com/392421/rolling-stone-flies-with-the-eagles/comment-page-1#comment-581952 Captain Wrong Wed, 21 May 2008 08:19:09 +0000 d03df3011e56855d342118619e9e7eab#comment-581952 <p>@<a href="#c5818052">Chris Molanphy</a>: Actually, pretty music all post 70s oil crisis vinyl sounds like shit including a majority of modern 180 gram pressings. Few exceptions, but the average platter today can't hold a candle to what was the norm in the 50s and most people, if they were totally honest, wouldn't pick a modern LP over a CD.</p> <p>Anyway, the Eagles...yeah, the Long Run is the only of their albums I can tolerate. And "King of Hollywood" is pretty damn ironic, isn't it? This column almost made me give a damn about the Eagles. Almost... ;)</p> @Chris Molanphy: Actually, pretty music all post 70s oil crisis vinyl sounds like shit including a majority of modern 180 gram pressings. Few exceptions, but the average platter today can’t hold a candle to what was the norm in the 50s and most people, if they were totally honest, wouldn’t pick a modern LP over a CD.

Anyway, the Eagles…yeah, the Long Run is the only of their albums I can tolerate. And “King of Hollywood” is pretty damn ironic, isn’t it? This column almost made me give a damn about the Eagles. Almost… ;)

]]> By: Mike P. http://idolator.com/392421/rolling-stone-flies-with-the-eagles/comment-page-1#comment-581962 Mike P. Wed, 21 May 2008 07:05:05 +0000 d03df3011e56855d342118619e9e7eab#comment-581962 <p>I am perversely interested in this Eagles cover story, mainly because I miss Charles M. Young and the heyday of <i>Musician Magazine</i></p> I am perversely interested in this Eagles cover story, mainly because I miss Charles M. Young and the heyday of Musician Magazine

]]> By: Cam/ron http://idolator.com/392421/rolling-stone-flies-with-the-eagles/comment-page-1#comment-581972 Cam/ron Wed, 21 May 2008 07:00:34 +0000 d03df3011e56855d342118619e9e7eab#comment-581972 <P>-Young states that the Eagles are selling "$175 tickets to hordes of or Middle Americans who would never pay that kind of moola in the age of foreclosure to hear rhythmic declamation over a drum machine, orgasmic melisma, morbid snarling or other forms of contemporary vocalization."</P> <P>Ugh, that reminds me of my favorite scene in "The Big Lebowksi": "I've had a rough night,man, and I hate the fucking Eagles!"</P> -Young states that the Eagles are selling “$175 tickets to hordes of or Middle Americans who would never pay that kind of moola in the age of foreclosure to hear rhythmic declamation over a drum machine, orgasmic melisma, morbid snarling or other forms of contemporary vocalization.”

Ugh, that reminds me of my favorite scene in “The Big Lebowksi”: “I’ve had a rough night,man, and I hate the fucking Eagles!”

]]> By: Chris Molanphy http://idolator.com/392421/rolling-stone-flies-with-the-eagles/comment-page-1#comment-581982 Chris Molanphy Wed, 21 May 2008 06:52:05 +0000 d03df3011e56855d342118619e9e7eab#comment-581982 <p>Better than usual column - thanks, Your Former Anonymousness.</p> <p>I'm printing the '78 Eagles piece to read on the plane while away this weekend. But scanning it quickly, two bits of 30-year-old lore leap out at me in an everything-old-is-new-again way:</p> <p><b>[Azoff says:] "There's a lot of outright fraud in the music business-ticket scalping for example. If you have a $200,000 gross at the L.A. Forum, I would guess that about $400,000 changes hands. At the Eagles' next date there, we are considering selling the thousand best seats direct to the scalpers for twenty dollars apiece and giving the extra $9.50 a seat to charity. I've tried everything else to beat them."</b></p> <p><i>You can either regard the above wistfully--front-line concert tickets for 12 bucks!--or realize that the StubHub scams we're seeing nowadays were inevitable.</i></p> <p><b>"Yeah, we hurt when we didn't get an Eagles album last year," admits Joe Smith, chairman of the board of Elektra/Asylum Records. "You fall $15 million short in your projections, you hurt. We all need that record now, but there's no guarantee how it will do. The business is soft these days. A lot of new bands have come out since the Eagles last released an album. I am very curious to see how deep this album will penetrate."</b></p> <p><i>Elektra '78 : EMI '08 :: Eagles : Coldplay. (I guess that would makes Damon Albarn the modern-day Linda Ronstadt.) Also: "soft" business in '78?! Clearly Elektra screwed up in the late '70s by blowing off disco.</i></p> <p><b>"We drive to Henley's mansion and become full monsters until the next afternoon, commiserating that it is pointless to spend all this time making a record when vinyl is so lousy that your music ends up sounding as if it were being played under a bowl of Rice Krispies."</b></p> <p><i>Pointing out the above to all my favorite vinyl snobs who wonder why that evil, evil compact disc was ever invented. Because vinyl pre-'90s sounded like shit, folks! They weren't selling 180-gram back then!</i></p> Better than usual column - thanks, Your Former Anonymousness.

I’m printing the ‘78 Eagles piece to read on the plane while away this weekend. But scanning it quickly, two bits of 30-year-old lore leap out at me in an everything-old-is-new-again way:

[Azoff says:] “There’s a lot of outright fraud in the music business-ticket scalping for example. If you have a $200,000 gross at the L.A. Forum, I would guess that about $400,000 changes hands. At the Eagles’ next date there, we are considering selling the thousand best seats direct to the scalpers for twenty dollars apiece and giving the extra $9.50 a seat to charity. I’ve tried everything else to beat them.”

You can either regard the above wistfully–front-line concert tickets for 12 bucks!–or realize that the StubHub scams we’re seeing nowadays were inevitable.

“Yeah, we hurt when we didn’t get an Eagles album last year,” admits Joe Smith, chairman of the board of Elektra/Asylum Records. “You fall $15 million short in your projections, you hurt. We all need that record now, but there’s no guarantee how it will do. The business is soft these days. A lot of new bands have come out since the Eagles last released an album. I am very curious to see how deep this album will penetrate.”

Elektra ‘78 : EMI ‘08 :: Eagles : Coldplay. (I guess that would makes Damon Albarn the modern-day Linda Ronstadt.) Also: “soft” business in ‘78?! Clearly Elektra screwed up in the late ’70s by blowing off disco.

“We drive to Henley’s mansion and become full monsters until the next afternoon, commiserating that it is pointless to spend all this time making a record when vinyl is so lousy that your music ends up sounding as if it were being played under a bowl of Rice Krispies.”

Pointing out the above to all my favorite vinyl snobs who wonder why that evil, evil compact disc was ever invented. Because vinyl pre-’90s sounded like shit, folks! They weren’t selling 180-gram back then!

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