And now ... Glenn Frey

Queue on 18/1/2016 at 23:14

It's a bad time to be in entertainment and your late 60s.

(http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/glenn-frey-eagles-guitarist-dead-at-67-20160118#ixzz3xdZIL4zA) http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/glenn-frey-eagles-guitarist-dead-at-67-20160118#ixzz3xdZIL4zA

Tomi on 19/1/2016 at 00:31

Mott The Hoople drummer Dale Griffin also passed away today at the age of 67.
It's certainly not a good month to be a famous musician from the 1970's... :erg:

In all honesty I've never been a huge Eagles fan; not because I don't like them ('Hotel California' is damn amazing and the few other songs that I remember hearing are also decent), I just never got around to listening to them for some reason. Of course their greatest days were well before my time (but then again that goes for many of my favourite artists!), but I have a feeling that they must have been much bigger in the USA than they were in Europe.

I actually watched a documentary film about Eagles only a few weeks ago, and promised then that I would check out some of their music. Well, of course I didn't - I'm lazy and forgetful - but I suddenly remembered that I've got some Eagles greatest hits compilation on vinyl lying around somewhere, so I think that tonight would be the perfect time to find it and give it a listen.

RIP all the (relatively) young dudes... do I win the worst pun of 2016 award for that?

[video=youtube;mfwVfEXJhQQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfwVfEXJhQQ[/video]

fett on 19/1/2016 at 02:32

Fuck this whole thing. All of it. Just fuck it.

Medlar on 19/1/2016 at 12:10

The after life is rocking...

nickie on 19/1/2016 at 17:34

This is a dreadful month.

Purgator on 19/1/2016 at 19:39

Honestly, I dread reading the news or putting the TV on these days. R.I.P. Glenn.

Dia on 20/1/2016 at 11:28

I am already so done with this year.

Rest in peace, Mr. Frey.

Yandros on 20/1/2016 at 20:44

This year continues to suck. I'm dreading when Tony Iommi goes - he's been battling cancer for a few years now and they're done touring. Too bad I'm not a Stones fan... Keith Richards will probably outlive all of us.

Tocky on 23/1/2016 at 04:55

We all go and it is never pretty. He had some greatness shared though. By all means listen to some of the early Eagles. It is well worth it. There are songs like "Wasted Time" that never got air time but are so spot on and poignant. And "Life in the Fast Lane"? Please. Never a better song to screw to. Yeah. Death. Punch it in the crotch for me on the way down. I'm going to live forever.