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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. >> let's 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 of the times and the profession, the way we behaved wasn't really all that remarkable. the creativ...

>> 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. that's what usually happened. i'd get a verse or two done. and they would help fill in the blanks.

Fire. >> we were just a bunch of kids. we were just playing around. >> there's a picture that's 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 didn't 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 they'd catch outlaws in those days. knead stand them up for display. people never tired of looking at the corpse of a bad boy. >> we all felt when we were doing it and as it was delivered really remarkable record on the part of...

>> 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 door...

>> 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 brought in. it had no title, no lyrics and no melody. glenn and i sat down and hammered down the rest ...