organic. he would simply place a few mikes around the room and off you go. rather than placing a microphone on each and every drum, he would put three microphones on the drum kit. he was used to recording people like led zeppelin. i said to glenn, i want the base drum to be louder. he said if you want it louder, hit it harder. i hit it has hard as i could but i couldn t hit it as hard as john bonnham. he had a bunch of rules that didn t suit me and some of the other guys, too. you know, no getting high in the studio. no drinking in the studio. i agreed wholeheartedly with johns regarding drugs and alcohol in the studio. we d get more work done and it would be better work. when i got the opportunity to produce and therefore be in the chair, i decided i would no longer put up with that. somebody said to me the other night that i was the designated driver in the 60s and early
oyeah he wanted to see the lights flashing and listen to the thundering nobody expects there to be a concept album with western cowboys music. don henley was from texas. he was a cowboy. glenn was from detroit. he wanted to be a cowboy. because i knew all these guys had a little cowboy inside of them, i took them to western costumes. i just said, pick out your persona. their premise was that if they had lived 100 years ago in 1872, they probably would have been gun slingers. everybody s going to be firing in the direction of this building right here. jackson, jd, boyd you all got to be in the picture ready? one, two, three! we fired so many blanks that there was a cloud of smoke hanging over this western town. and the fire department came because they thought it was a
we didn t know much about the business at that point. we were pretty naive. going down to the swamp river country some day we kicked around in the l.a. clubs for a while, played the whiskey, played some of the clubs in the south bay area. and nothing really happened for us. jd and i were looking for any place to play. we had heard about this guy jackson brown. he d been playing the same clubs we had but we had never seen him perform. california, mr. jackson brown. thank you. there were a bunch of gigs that they had and some gigs that i had that they would show up at my gigs and me at their gigs. we became really good friends. we started talking about where do you live and what s going on. and jackson said, you know, you should come down to echo park, rent s real cheap. glenn got the apartment next to my apartment. and this apartment cost like $125 or something a month, you know? and i needed to economize so i moved into the basement underneath glenn s place which i co
i think henley s and glenn s lyric writing really came to a head. they became real honest to god songwriters. during a recording of it, i thought that we were onto something. i knew we were onto something. we were in a really creative phase. and it just so happened that bill sims had pushed record. thank god. 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
glenn, because they sang so good and they were writing stuff i could never come close to writing. not as big as that. big. bigger. big. bigger. this is big. and that s bigger. applebee s new loaded chicken fajitas. now only $10.99.