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Together. didn't they? >> don and i both tried to have relationships while we were members of the eagles. but it was almost like the eagles trumped everything. >> when the eagles became successful, we challenged all the rules. like when david geffen left asylum records and sold everything to warner brothers and started his new empire, let's be frank, when we signed that contract we were idiots. we knew nothing about the business. we had poor legal representation. nobody looking out for us. >> remember, bands don't really get record royalties usually ever. so they get money from touring but the...

Real burned. ♪ spent the last year back in mountain way ♪ ♪ couldn't get much higher >> the first thing that happens is you get some kind of label. and you've got to live up to it. and then you just get caught in that. and i forget what the second thing is. [ laughter ] ♪ you know i've always been a dreamer ♪ ♪ spend my life running around ♪ and it's so hard to take >> it's hard. it's like living two lives. i have a family, three kids. and it's just hard to live in between that line, you know, of being out on the road and being away for a month. ♪ keep on turning out and burnin...

Talking ♪ ♪ you're prisoners walking through this world all alone ♪ >> there have been articles and things that identify me with the l.a. sound. it's sort of like me and jackson brown and the eagles. all of us are reaching out for other musical influences all the time. >> the so-called southern california sound was developing. it was fresh, it was different it was unique. it was a melting pot. people moving here from all over the united states to pursue their dream. actors, musicians, managers, agents. want a bee like me. i picked up the phone and called david geffen who was just startin...

T >> it's a very artist oriented company. whatever we want to do, we support them. if we believe in them, we'll stick with them whether they make it or not. >> jackson was our conduit to david geffen. he was the first one to get signed by geffen's new asylum record label. >> we all walk in geffen's office, and we basically said, here we are. >> bernie leadon boldly says to geffen, well, do you want us or not? >> they were dieing to sign with me. i think they were very ambitious, particularly glenn. glenn wanted to have a hit band. i loved the way don sang. we all had hopes for it. >> all of a ...

>> it was during that period of time that i met glenn frey because we were on the same label called amos records. some of the things that struck me when i first met glenn were things that we had in common. both of our dads made a living in the automotive industry. glenn and i loved old cars, especially cars from the '50s. he had a '55 chevy he named g d gladys. we drove around los angeles in gladys. >> watch the new singers and songwrie songwriters at the troubadour club. >> it was the center of the universe. it was a seminal place, a place to be seen and see. they had a night called hoot nigh...