History of the Eagles Part One Page #16

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and we couldn't be sure

it was going to work.

So we better have Felder.

The Eagles reunion had better have

at least one of the two of them,

and hopefully both.

Irving called me up and

said that Don and Glenn

and Joe had gotten together, and

they were talking about doing

something, and would I be

interested in doing it?

I said, "Absolutely. "

One thing led to another,

and finally Irving

and Don Felder picked him

up and drove him to rehab.

I made a commitment to them

that I would clean up...

.. and that I would be in the band

.. if that's what they wanted to do.

So help me through the night

Help me to ease the pain...

I'm really, really grateful

to those three guys...

Tell me it's all right...

Because I had... a really

good reason to get sober.

And as soon as I got sober,

we started rehearsals.

He was a hard-headed man

He was brutally handsome

She was terminally pretty

She held him up, and

he held her for ransom

In the heart of the cold, cold city

He had a nasty reputation as a cruel dude

They said he was ruthless,

they said he was crude...

From that first phone call from Irving

to showing up on a rehearsal

stage to start putting together

a show for MTV was only a matter

of weeks, if not a month.

Life in the fast lane Surely

make you lose your mind...

'It was a little scary

rehearsing for the MTV thing.

'Normally, I think people would

have their act down a few weeks,

'at least, before entering

into something like that,

'but we just dove in headfirst. '

'Well, even though we had

rehearsed really well,

'for the first time to walk

out on stage and actually

'play as a band in public and kind of

put the key back into the ignition

'and turn it over for the first time,

it was really a lot of nerves. '

- Are we going the right way?

- Glenn.

'Not having played as a group

in 14 years, the first night,

'there was a lot of terror. '

Gentlemen, good to be with ya.

Hope I'm with ya all night!

LAUGHTER:

- Have a good one, OK? OK.

- Showtime! Showtime! Showtime!

CHEERING:

'The audience was very kind,

and they were with us.

'And that was good, but it was rough. '

Just another day in paradise

You stumble to your bed

You'd give anything to silence

Those voices ringing in your head

You thought you could find happiness

Just over that green hill

You thought you would be satisfied

But you never will.

'Even when we went onstage, we

were definitely a little tight.

'Until, I think, Henley forgot the words

'to one of the new songs... '

You want to start again?

I'll tell you what.

This is television, so we get

to do this till we're happy.

I thought... Now, I thought you

didn't remember the third verse.

- That was only the second verse!

- I know.

I know the third verse.

'That was sort of the icebreaker, though.

'That was a good thing, ultimately. '

I feel like Tommy Smothers.

LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

We didn't think getting back

together was quite as legitimate

unless we had some new material,

so we're going to put forth several

new songs for you this evening.

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

This first one Timothy B Schmit

is going to sing for you.

This is called Love Will Keep Us Alive.

I was standing

All alone against the world outside

You were searching

For a place to hide

Lost and lonely

Now you've given me the will to survive

When we're hungry, love

will keep us alive...

After selling 100 million records

worldwide, was it real pressure

on you to write the new material

for the Hell Freezes Over album?

We didn't really look at

it as a body of new work.

It was more of a retrospective

piece of material.

And we look forward to writing some

new material, perhaps in the future.

We can't keep recycling this material,

although it seems to be working just fine.

LAUGHTER:

Don and I were trying to figure

out how to write another song,

and, I mean, really, if we could.

We hadn't written anything

together since, like, '78.

So it was a little awkward at first,

just getting back into the groove.

Yeah. So, we go, one...

OK, here we are starting out at one, two...

During The Long Run album,

there were a lot of sessions with

Don and I where nothing got done.

We were both a little bit

reticent to introduce

our ideas for fear that

they weren't good enough.

So when we sat down to do it again

in '94, my first worry was,

"Is it going to be as

hard as it was in 1978?"

We were sitting around, "What are we

going to write about?" and stuff.

And he said, "Well, I've got

this one title, Get Over It. "

And he sort of proceeded to

tell me what it was that was

pissing him off - all these

people going on television

and everything that's wrong with

them is somebody else's fault.

"I'm just sick of all this whining,

"and so I'm going to write a

song called Get Over It. "

The intro, straight Chuck Berry.

Never play a seventh, right?

So, then I said, "I think

"maybe a Chuck Berry riff would be

a good way to tell that story. "

Time out. Do you want to play the...?

You want to do it on slide?

And then Felder and I will just

play power chords low and high.

And those guys will play

Chuck Berry low and high.

And we can do Get over it.

A couple little of them

slide answer licks is cool.

My favourite thing is when Don

and Glenn co-write stuff.

I like to play guitar to that.

- You want me to sing it, or do you want to wait?

- It's ten to six.

You can sing it at ten

to six or five to six.

- Do it again?

- Yeah, we'll do it twice.

Yeah, you could write it in to the mic.

LAUGHTER:

Captioned for hard of hearing.

'It was really liberating. '

We both walked out of the session

and went, "God, we can still do it.

"I can't believe it. We

just wrote a song together.

"Maybe we can write some more. "

Turn on the tube and what do I see?

A whole lotta people crying,

"Don't blame me"...

That was a really good feeling.

It was a great sort of

artistic reconciliation for us

to have been able to sit down

and write that song together.

Get over it!

Get over it!

All this bitching and

moaning and pitching a fit

Get over it! Get over it!

Get over it!

APPLAUSE:

We did Hell Freezes Over, and

then we went out on the road.

That was the question on everyone's mind -

what if we got back together,

and no one showed up?

What kind of love have you got?

You should be home but you're not

A room full of noise and dangerous boys

Still make you thirsty and hot...

'We set it up to be a three-month reunion.

'I went back to my wife, and I

had two young kids at the time. '

I said, "I don't know if

you're going to recognise me.

"I don't know what this

is going to do to me.

"But I hope I don't change too much.

Hang in there with me. "

Tell all your girlfriends

Your "been around the world" friends

Talk is for losers and fools

Victim of love, I see a broken heart

I could be wrong but I'm not

Victim of love, we're not so far apart

What kind of love have you got?

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