<![CDATA["Rolling Stone" Flies With The Eagles - Idolator Comments]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/idolator.com.png <![CDATA["Rolling Stone" Flies With The Eagles - Idolator Comments]]> http://idolator.com Thu, 22 May 2008 01:37:19 EDT Thu, 22 May 2008 01:37:19 EDT http://idolator.com/392421/rolling-stone-flies-with-the-eagles <![CDATA["Rolling Stone" Flies With The Eagles]]> http://idolator.com/392421/rolling-stone-flies-with-the-eagles#c5829963 What? No mention of "The H is O"?

Cos

]]> 33:392421:c5829963 Thu, 22 May 2008 01:37:19 EDT <![CDATA["Rolling Stone" Flies With The Eagles]]> http://idolator.com/392421/rolling-stone-flies-with-the-eagles#c5821496 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...

Clevertrousers

]]> 33:392421:c5821496 Wed, 21 May 2008 16:48:46 EDT <![CDATA["Rolling Stone" Flies With The Eagles]]> http://idolator.com/392421/rolling-stone-flies-with-the-eagles#c5821254 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.

antistar2000

]]> 33:392421:c5821254 Wed, 21 May 2008 16:40:07 EDT <![CDATA["Rolling Stone" Flies With The Eagles]]> http://idolator.com/392421/rolling-stone-flies-with-the-eagles#c5820620 @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... ;)

Captain Wrong

]]> 33:392421:c5820620 Wed, 21 May 2008 16:19:09 EDT <![CDATA["Rolling Stone" Flies With The Eagles]]> http://idolator.com/392421/rolling-stone-flies-with-the-eagles#c5818446 I am perversely interested in this Eagles cover story, mainly because I miss Charles M. Young and the heyday of Musician Magazine

Mike P.

]]> 33:392421:c5818446 Wed, 21 May 2008 15:05:05 EDT <![CDATA["Rolling Stone" Flies With The Eagles]]> http://idolator.com/392421/rolling-stone-flies-with-the-eagles#c5818310 -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!"

Cam/ron

]]> 33:392421:c5818310 Wed, 21 May 2008 15:00:34 EDT <![CDATA["Rolling Stone" Flies With The Eagles]]> http://idolator.com/392421/rolling-stone-flies-with-the-eagles#c5818052 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!

Chris Molanphy

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