December 18, 1976 (12 pages)

Music Eagles are flyin’ By MARY CAMPBELL AP Newsfeatures When Glenn Frey and Don ’ Henley were playing in Linda Ronstadt’s backup band, they thought “how nice it would be to have a band with more singers who could all play good.” So they, and John Boylan, Miss Ronstadt’s manager, put _ such a band together, in 1971. In the summer of 1975, Time magazine called that group, the Eagles, in which four of the five take vocals, ‘‘the top U.S. rock band.’”’ : And the Eagles have done nothing about flying down “from that peak. On Dec. 1 the ‘‘Hotel —_ two million copies. Frey and Henley wonder whether any other artist’s album ever shipped that many, then decide that recent Elton John and Stevie Wonder albums probably did. The first Eagles album, group’s new LP, California,’’ from it came three hit singles, high Woman” and ‘Peaceful Easy Feeling.” The American pop music listening public discovered the Eagles right away. Each of the six Eagles albums, all on Asylum Records, has sold more than a million copies. The biggest single is “Take It to the Limit,” released last December and sung by Randy Meisner. The new single is ‘New Kid in Town’ and ‘Victim of Love,” which Henley and Frey believe is the first single record with two ‘play sides” since Carole King’s ‘It’s Too Late’ and “I Feel. the Earth Move.” “We live in Southern California and we’re a song band,” Frey says. “I think that is something dominant in California groups like the song Beach Boys; Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young; the Byrds; Buffalo Springfield. There’s 2 ES ©, East Coast “We don’t write guitar rifts or rock ’n’ roll tracks for somebody to scream over. We write, etched with respect for the popular. song.” Frey and Henley are talking on extension phones from Los Angeles to a reporter in New York. The timber of their voices is similar and they say they don’t need to be quoted individually, they think pretty much alike anyway. Frey and Henley do most of the song writing for the Eagles, with Henley writing more of the words and Frey more of the music, though both write both, sometimes separately, sometimes together. Henley says, ‘‘Writing songs is still a mystery to me. I don’t know how we get from the concept to.the end of the song. But I know it’s hard work. We agonize over prepositions; we take. it very seriously. “The trick about writing ering your standards. One hit single, ‘‘Lyin’ Eyes,” they figure was a winner because it ‘applies to ambiguity and being innocuous,”’ Frey says. “We represent the Southwestern ambience to a lot of people,” the two Eagles say. “People relate this to our earlier period, 1972 and '73, and the ‘Desperado’ album when we were writing about the musician as seen in relation to outlaws.”’ : “On the Border,” the 1974 album,. also was in that vein but ‘One of these Nights,” in 1975, went on to other topics. They’re an American band now, not a Southwestern or a ¢ California band, the Eagles in. Bernie Leadon, who joined Frey and Henley with Meisner in 1971, left late last year, to be replaced by Joe Walsh. The album, ‘‘The Eagles: their Greatest Hits 1971-1975” was ‘ released in February 1976, giving the Eagles time to work on the old songs with Welsh as . amember and to work up new . chart of Dec. 4. , “We knew Joe and Felder would get off like bandits playing guitar together,’’ the Eagles spokesmen say, “but keyboard Nevada County lingget — Saturday, December 18, 1976 — Page 5 play only the best-selling singles of the moment. When they got top40 acceptance with their very first singles, they say they were “happy to be able to think what we can do better instead of what are we doing wrong. “Some people equate commercial success with low content. Ninety per cent of the time they’re right. GARY. 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Music Eagles are flyin’ By MARY CAMPBELL AP Newsfeatures When Glenn Frey and Don ’ Henley were playing in Linda Ronstadt’s backup band, they thought “how nice it would be to have a band with more singers who could all play good.” So they, and John Boylan, Miss Ronstadt’s manager, put _ such a band together, in 1971. In the summer of 1975, Time magazine called that group, the Eagles, in which four of the five take vocals, ‘‘the top U.S. rock band.’”’ : And the Eagles have done nothing about flying down “from that peak. On Dec. 1 the ‘‘Hotel —_ two million copies. Frey and Henley wonder whether any other artist’s album ever shipped that many, then decide that recent Elton John and Stevie Wonder albums probably did. The first Eagles album, group’s new LP, California,’’ from it came three hit singles, high Woman” and ‘Peaceful Easy Feeling.” The American pop music listening public discovered the Eagles right away. Each of the six Eagles albums, all on Asylum Records, has sold more than a million copies. The biggest single is “Take It to the Limit,” released last December and sung by Randy Meisner. The new single is ‘New Kid in Town’ and ‘Victim of Love,” which Henley and Frey believe is the first single record with two ‘play sides” since Carole King’s ‘It’s Too Late’ and “I Feel. the Earth Move.” “We live in Southern California and we’re a song band,” Frey says. “I think that is something dominant in California groups like the song Beach Boys; Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young; the Byrds; Buffalo Springfield. There’s 2 ES ©, East Coast “We don’t write guitar rifts or rock ’n’ roll tracks for somebody to scream over. We write, etched with respect for the popular. song.” Frey and Henley are talking on extension phones from Los Angeles to a reporter in New York. The timber of their voices is similar and they say they don’t need to be quoted individually, they think pretty much alike anyway. Frey and Henley do most of the song writing for the Eagles, with Henley writing more of the words and Frey more of the music, though both write both, sometimes separately, sometimes together.

Henley says, ‘‘Writing songs is still a mystery to me. I don’t know how we get from the concept to.the end of the song. But I know it’s hard work. We agonize over prepositions; we take. it very seriously. “The trick about writing ering your standards. One hit single, ‘‘Lyin’ Eyes,” they figure was a winner because it ‘applies to ambiguity and being innocuous,”’ Frey says. “We represent the Southwestern ambience to a lot of people,” the two Eagles say. “People relate this to our earlier period, 1972 and '73, and the ‘Desperado’ album when we were writing about the musician as seen in relation to outlaws.”’ : “On the Border,” the 1974 album,. also was in that vein but ‘One of these Nights,” in 1975, went on to other topics. They’re an American band now, not a Southwestern or a ¢ California band, the Eagles in. Bernie Leadon, who joined Frey and Henley with Meisner in 1971, left late last year, to be replaced by Joe Walsh. The album, ‘‘The Eagles: their Greatest Hits 1971-1975” was ‘ released in February 1976, giving the Eagles time to work on the old songs with Welsh as . amember and to work up new . chart of Dec. 4. , “We knew Joe and Felder would get off like bandits playing guitar together,’’ the Eagles spokesmen say, “but keyboard Nevada County lingget — Saturday, December 18, 1976 — Page 5 play only the best-selling singles of the moment. When they got top40 acceptance with their very first singles, they say they were “happy to be able to think what we can do better instead of what are we doing wrong. “Some people equate commercial success with low content. Ninety per cent of the time they’re right. GARY. Free Estimates885-0421 Serving Nevada, Placer El Dorado and Amador Counties : os TANKO Hwy 49 & Luther Road (1460 Canal Street) Auburn, Calif. “Take It Easy,” ‘‘Witchy 35-10-12.News ieee eon : in 8:30 5-10-12-Phyilis 6-Infinity Factory epee : 3-5-10-12-News 69-Music of Christmas 7-13-$20,000 Pyramid ae eee oe 6Getting On Oe Ses _ bar i ag alt ee ee ee al 7-13-Liberty Bowl: Bruins vs. Crimson : Shey =e ee He = @-Dick Van Dyke on coe & Tommie 12:30 3-Phil Donahve 13-All My Children piece a le : 9:30 3-Movie: “The Loneliest Runner” 5-10-12-As the World Turns %-NMovie 44-Emergency One! $-10-12-All's Fair 7-All My Children 40-Captain’s Cartoons 6:30 2-1 Love Lucy 9:55 36-News 9-Jeanne Wolf With . . 4:002Betman 3-5-10-12-News 10:00 2.40-News 13-To Tell the Truth , %Sanford and Son ; Garden Simpact: Suicide, A Cry For Life 44-Leave it To Beaver Mike Dougies — 7:00 2-Star Trek 9-Documentary Showcase: ‘Giving 1:06 2-Movie 13-My Three Sons 3-De Colores Birth’ . 7-13-Ryan’s Hope Doody 56-9-News 0-12-Executive Suite 31-P.T.L. Club / 13-36-Merv Griffin 40-Movie 1 4:30 2-Gilligan’s island 12-Jacques Coustesu 10:38 44.Best of Groucho 44-Beverly Hillbillies 3-Mary. Hartman 4-Pat Boone 11:68 2-Liars Club 1:25 36-News 5-Mite Doigies ~ 44-Adamn-12 35-6-9-W-12-13-News 1:38 3-Doctors _ 13-Family Afteir 7:30 3-Hollywood Squares 31-P.T.L. Cub 7-13-One Life to Live 44-Superman 6Black Per on the News 44-Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman 36-Movie 4:55 36-News 9. Newsroom 19:38 2-40-Love, American Style 44-Gomer Pyle, USMC $:00 2 Partridge Family W-Match Game PM Carson 2:00 3-Another World a7-Newe 44-Hogan’s Heroes Simpect: Suicide A Cry Fer Life -«§IO-T2-All in the Family 69-Mister Rogers 7:33 3News 6o.News : _9.Womantime 12-Emergency One! 0:60 2-Movie: “The Cwisimes Tree” Tihovie: Second Now __ Ab Huck and Yoo! and-Priendl “ iva Hs 3 Hoapite! vat Feverite Martian Sbaevie: "Courageous Mr. Pane