EAGLES
The Long Run (alt.)
The Long Run
I Can't Tell You Why
In the City
The Disco Strangler
Take a Ride (Heavy Metal)* [Heavy Metal soundtrack]
Heartache Tonight
King of Hollywood
Rivers (of the Hidden Funk)* [There Goes the Neighborhood]
The Sad Cafe
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Saturday Night
Seven Bridges Road
Wasted Time
Hotel California*
Take It to the Limit* [Hotel California - 40th Anniversary Expanded Edition]
New Kid in Town* [Hotel California - 40th Anniversary Expanded Edition]
Doolin-Dalton - Reprise II
Desperado
Life in the Fast Lane*
Take It Easy*
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I was inspired to do this one by a recent post on Albums Forgotten Reconstructed. In the spirit of using the proposed half studio / half live 2LP idea, I used the LA Forum versions in the the original order like the late Glenn Frey wanted. I cut the two weakest studio cuts (IMO) and replaced them with a couple Don Felder tracks that were started but left unfinished during The Long Run sessions (or rather 'The Long One" as it was begrudgingly starting to become for the frustrated band). Felder would sing the song himself on the soundtrack to the animated film Heavy Metal. The other tune--originally titled "You're Really High, Aren't You?" (something like that) was subsequently finished by Joe Walsh for his next solo album, There Goes the Neighborhood. For the live disc, I followed the running order close as I could from the LA Forum gigs. I sourced the Hotel California 40th Anniversary Expanded Edition and the Eagles Live 1976-80 project from the Albums Forgotten Reconstructed page to get the versions not on the original 1980 LP and cut the redundant ones already on the studio side. Overall, I think it's a better listen than the original counterparts. R.I.P., Glenn Frey.
I was inspired to do this one by a recent post on Albums Forgotten Reconstructed. In the spirit of using the proposed half studio / half live 2LP idea, I used the LA Forum versions in the the original order like the late Glenn Frey wanted. I cut the two weakest studio cuts (IMO) and replaced them with a couple Don Felder tracks that were started but left unfinished during The Long Run sessions (or rather 'The Long One" as it was begrudgingly starting to become for the frustrated band). Felder would sing the song himself on the soundtrack to the animated film Heavy Metal. The other tune--originally titled "You're Really High, Aren't You?" (something like that) was subsequently finished by Joe Walsh for his next solo album, There Goes the Neighborhood. For the live disc, I followed the running order close as I could from the LA Forum gigs. I sourced the Hotel California 40th Anniversary Expanded Edition and the Eagles Live 1976-80 project from the Albums Forgotten Reconstructed page to get the versions not on the original 1980 LP and cut the redundant ones already on the studio side. Overall, I think it's a better listen than the original counterparts. R.I.P., Glenn Frey.
Originally "The Long Run" was supposed to be a double album, but all the songs were supposed to be studio tracks. If you can descramble "Long Run Leftovers" track from the band's box set you might be able to figure out what all those missing tracks were supposed to be.
ReplyDeleteYeah, according to Don Felder's book 'To the Limit', a double LP of studio tracks was wishful thinking on somebody's part, lol. The band struggled to complete finishing songs it seems...judging by "Random Vicitims, pt. 3" from that 'Selected Works' box. According to Felder, it wasn't ALL that funny, heh. I know he wrote a couple of riffs that became the two songs I included on here. The song that became "Rivers (of the Hidden Funk)" was given to Don Henley initially to write lyrics and he told Felder 'he knew just what to do with it'--but never got around to it. Joe Walsh helped himself to the unfinished track via their manager Irving Azoff who told Felder about Walsh's using the song (not so much asking) after the fact. Felder had once planned to write lyrics and sing them on his own album. This would only add to the tension that would keep them apart that much longer. I hadn't heard of the live album being put together with the studio LP until I read it on that Albums Forgotten Reconstructed site. Good stuff!
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