What Are You Listening To?

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This was the album where I started to think the Eagles were getting into a rut. I thought Lyin' Eyes was a boring song; although it's in much the same style as songs like Tequila Sunrise, the tune itself seems incredibly banal by comparison with that former song.

Journey of the Sorceror is a great instrumental. It was used as the theme for the radio adaptation of Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy; I dare say a lot of people became familiar with it without knowing the name of the track or who was performing it.

I still have my souvenir program of Elton John's concert at Wembley Stadium in 1975, at which the Eagles were one of the support acts, along with the Beach Boys, Rufus with Chaka Khan, and Joe Walsh, who at that stage had not yet joined the Eagles. I quote from the booklet:

One of These Nights...finds the band hitting a powerful new stride. .........Or, as Don Henley puts it, "We're no longer that pretty little country band with high-flying harmonies."

Well, that was their take on it. Personally it was those pretty little harmonies that I liked about the early Eagles material. Songs like Take It to the Limit might have been good as stadium rockers, but they left me with a feeling of "heard it all before".

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Way before he was in The Eagles, Bernie Leadon played as a session musician on Bob Lind's 1971 album "Since There Were Circles". Lind has said that out of everyone present, Bernie was the only one there who was not stoned or drunk out of his mind. Now THAT'S professionalism.