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my goal was always to take the bands out of their comfort zone. take them away from their girlfriends, from telephones, from anything and have them under my control so that i could get things to happen without any interference. and so we would take trips. now, how this plan game about exactly when today you have to scratch your head. but this was the plan, okay, we ll all go to the troubadour and stay there until closing time. and then we ll drive to joshua tree. we had a bag of peyote buttons, a bunch of trail mix, some tequila and water and blankets. seven of us went out to joshua tree, got there about 4:30 in the morning. parked in a special place that i don t know how we found it in the dark. we all took one peyote ....
Button, put it in our mouth and started hiking up to the place that we were supposed to go. so right around the time that we were getting to the camp site and starting to build the fire and starting to cook some peyote tea and the first buttons everybody s chewing the first button. and the drug starts coming on just as the sun is rising. i think everybody got higher than they ever imagined they anybody could be. it was a good thing. we were getting into life, deeper and better and more and surrendering. i had to go to the bathroom. ....
my, oh my i ve watched the creative process with a lot of people. i ve never seen it the way it fell if place with them. i remember watching lyin eyes. glenn had a way with coming up with a phrase. he had written some kind of a tune and looking at some young girl with an older guy at the bar and glenn said look at those lyin eyes. just like that, wow, there s the song. you can t hide your lyin eyes and your smile is a thin disguise i thought by now you d realize, there ain t no way to hide your lyin eyes it was just about all these girls who come down looking ....
To meet them. first of all, the show was fantastic. crowd was nothing like i d seen a year, year and a half earlier. good evening. welcome to the portland version of spread eagle. the promoter gave us chop sticks. i don t think we ever checked into a hotel. we went from there to a party at a sorority house. one thing led to another. i d never seen anything like this. they wouldn t give us booze in the burn. we may burn this place down. i don t think we went to sleep. it was eagle mania. and then they went off to england to record on the border with glenn johns. we were quite open to being produced. understandably that changed. they began to be more opinionated and less insecure. we wanted to play rock n roll or at least a more rock n roll version of country music. ....
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 night. troubadour was the place the go if you were young and happening and trying to get involved in the music scene. it was happening there. ....