History of the Eagles Part One Page #13

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to call this one. Look at us. "

.. We can handle some resistance...

MUSIC STOPS:

Hold it. Stop.

That is it.

Eagles, The Long Run, song two, take one.

It was a struggle, an endless

start, stop, start, stop.

We called it The Long One.

It was the beginning of the end.

Even though I don't think

I saw it right then.

There were a lot of things building up

and a lot of things I tried to

overlook for the good of the band,

and ultimately I just couldn't

look past some of this any more.

And it festered because we

didn't talk about these things.

It finally came to a head in Long Beach.

We were doing a benefit for

Senator Alan Cranston.

He was concerned about a lot

of some of the same issues

we were concerned about, including

environmental destruction

and the war, so we wanted to support him.

Felder didn't like us doing benefits,

he just thought that was money that

should be going into his pocket.

"Why are we doing it for

Jerry Brown or anti-nukes?"

Are you willing to sacrifice?

Alan Cranston and his wife are

coming around to personally thank

every member of the Eagles for doing this.

I was very uninformed about

politics, I couldn't care

less about politics, I didn't even

know or care who Alan Cranston was.

Senator Cranston went

up to Felder and said,

"I want to thank you," and Felder

looked at the Senator and said,

"You're welcome," and then as he was

turning away he said, "I guess. "

"I guess. "

"I guess. " And Glenn heard it.

And I just... got really mad.

I was drinking a long-necked Bud

and walked into the tuning room

while Walsh and Felder was

and took the beer bottle

and threw it against the

wall and smashed it.

I stormed out.

I got more mad and more mad. By the

time we went on stage, I was seething.

I wanted to kill Felder.

Thank you again very much

from all the Eagles,

and for Senator Cranston for coming

out here and checking it out.

One, two, three, four.

A lot of tensions between Glenn and Felder

and the real manifestation

of it came that night.

Somebody is going to hurt someone

before the night is through...

So now we are playing the show

and trying to act like everything

is OK and we get through the songs,

and I just keep looking over at him,

"You ungrateful son of a b*tch. "

There's going to be a heartache tonight

A heartache tonight, I know...

Just seeing that, I really saw

how serious it was at that show.

They were fighting on

stage, there's audio of it.

You are a real pro, Don, all the way.

Yeah, you are too, the way you handle

people, except for the people you pay.

Nobody gives a sh*t about it.

F*** you, I have been paying you

for seven years, you fuckhead.

So it starts getting

towards the end of the set

and I am looking at him going,

"Three more songs, a**hole. "

And I am looking at him

and I am ready to go.

I can't wait to get my hands on him.

"When we get off the stage, I

am going to kick your ass. "

F***ing kill you. I can't wait.

Whoa! When that kind of stuff is on

stage and you're in front of people,

you've got problems.

Thank you very much.

We got through the show and it just,

all hell broke loose backstage.

When the set ended, he was out ahead

of me, took his cheapest guitar...

.. busted it in a million pieces, jumped

into his limousine and drove off.

And that was it. That was really the

straw that broke the camel's back.

Well, baby, there you stand...

Someone wrote the Eagles went

out with a whimper not a bang,

which was true.

.. Oh my God, I can't believe

it is happening again...

I didn't want to hear it. This was

like my super dream had come true.

.. And it looks like the end...

So I called Glen and I said, "What

is the status? What is going on?

"Is this thing really broken up?"

He said, "Yeah, it is over. "

We were beat and it was really

affecting the foundational core,

the soul of the band. We hit the wall.

You work, work, work, you get up to a peak

and then it is almost invariably people

head-butt and, "Whose band is it?"

And, "I am in charge. " And, "No,

you are not. " And there you go.

.. You never thought you'd be

alone This far down the line...

We had always said that we wanted

to step off the wave just before it

crashed into the beach and we did.

.. You're afraid it's

all been wasted time...

.. The autumn leaves have

got you thinking...

The Beatle guys say they never

thought, McCartney never thought that

band was going to last more than two

years, because no pop band did.

I think it's part of it. It

comes together, it's magic

and it falls apart.

But how cool... that it

even happens at all.

.. I could have done so

many things, baby...

It was magical.

.. If I could only stop my mind...

They wrote a lot of great, great

songs that will be celebrated

and listened to and loved for a long time.

We managed to represent that

period of time in the '70s,

Southern California, which was

very artistically creative.

I hope that is remembered like

the roaring '20s are, you know?

Our generation and what we did.

.. You can get on with your search Baby

And I can get on with mine

And maybe some day we will find

That it wasn't really wasted time.

We set out to become a band

for our time, but sometimes

if you do a good enough job, you

become a band for all time.

On a dark desert highway

Cool wind in my hair

Warm smell of colitas

Rising up through the air

Up ahead in the distance

I saw a shimmering light

My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim

I had to stop for the night

There she stood in the doorway

I heard the mission bell

I was thinking to myself

This could be heaven

Or this could be hell

Then she lit up a candle

And she showed me the way

There were voices down the corridor

I thought I heard them say...

One of these nights One

of these crazy old nights

We're going to find out, pretty mama...

A funny thing happened

right when we broke up.

1980 is when the format "classic

rock" hit American radio.

So, even though the band broke up,

they kept playing our songs all the time.

It was like we never went away.

We were still on the radio.

Well, I'm a-running down the

road Trying to loosen my load

I got seven women on my mind...

Somebody once told me people

didn't just listen to the Eagles.

They did things to the Eagles.

They went on fandangos

and drove across the country with

three of their high-school buddies.

Take it easy...

People broke up with their girlfriends.

Every time I try to walk away

Something makes me

turn around and stay...

Cos I'm al-I-I-Iready gone

And I'm fee-e-e-eling strong...

People quit their jobs

or changed their lives.

They did things to the Eagles.

Hey there, how are you?

It's been a long time...

Songs from that album have even

been played in outer space.

And they used to pipe the music

up to the space shuttle to wake

the astronauts up in the morning.

'Shortly after having a breakfast

of steak and eggs and toast,

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