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♪ >> we did that session. i think it was like three hours. and then i packed up and went home, not thinking any more about it than it was just another session. the next day glenn called me and asked if i would like to join the band. i said, absolutely. >> lets do another one. >> do it right! >> the banter that would go on in between takes was hysterical. i took to running a two track to pick up these silly things. >> we were young men with raging hormones and something to prove. in the context...

>> we got to doing this outlaw album and we had eight songs finished and we needed two more. randy came up with how the guy became an outlaw. and how he became a guitar player. ♪ he was a farm boy ♪ ♪ raised in a small family ♪ he kind of had a craving ♪ something no one else could see ♪ ♪ ♪ they said that he was crazy ♪ ♪ he ran off to the city ♪ and warned around in the streets. >> that kind of started it. thats what usually happened. id get a verse or two done. and they ...

Fire. >> we were just a bunch of kids. we were just playing around. >> theres a picture thats on the back of the album, a lot of reality in it, all of the agents and managers and road managers. all of the guy who is didnt play are standing up alive with badges and guns. and the four eagles at the time and jackson and i are all dead, bound up like they used to do when theyd catch outlaws in those days. knead stand them up for display. people never tired of looking at the corpse of a bad boy. >> w...

>> i think henleys and glenns 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 gr...

>> we were all alphas, and we were all very assertive and powerful in our own way. you could bring in a great track to john and glenn and be really excited about it. this happened to felder. ♪ >> i wrote the track for "victim of love". it was going to be a followup song on the hotel california record for me to sing. ♪ >> i have no recollection of anybody being promised anything. "victim of love" was not brought to the band as a complete song. it was simply another chord progression felder br...

>> i was caught in the middle a lot of times. sometimes i would agree with bernie. but most of the time i would agree with glenn. glenn and i always wanted the band to be a hybrid, to encompass blue grass and country and rock n roll. there was a part of bernie that really resisted that. after a while it became a real problem, particularly between bernie and glenn. >> finally we were at the orange bowl in miami. we were backstage talking about what our next move was going to be. what our plans we...

Chicagos done it. groups last longer than they used to, you know. shit dont float. ♪ ♪ >> 90% of the time being in the eagles was a [ bleep ] blast, you know? i was living the dream. ♪ he was a hard-headed man ♪ he was brutally handsome >> we never, in our wildest dreams, figured on being this successful and lasting this long. ♪ she held him up >> we were a bunch of guys out there touring the country. we had a little private plane. we had parties after the shows. we had a good time. we...

And glenn johns was of the opinion that we werent really capable of that. >> i think he had been bombarded by loud aggressive rock n roll for many years. at that point in his life he wanted mellow people and mellow music. we werent exactly at the same stage in life. >> frey sort of took over more. he had this desire to be something that i didnt really feel they were capable of doing. >> he and glenn frey were like oil and water. they clashed frequently. in the studio, glenn johns was pretty much...

Parties ♪ >> we had three guitar players finally so we could rock a bit. so it was a good time. good time for me. good time for don. ♪ life in the fast lane ♪ surely make your lose your mind ♪ >> everybody was really happy. then. ♪ life in the fast lane ♪ everything all the time ♪ life in the fast lane >> it was going really fast and probably too fast. >> there was turmoil within the band. we put a lot of pressure on ourselves. glenn used to say we made it and it ate us. >> its har...

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