Eagles - Don Kirshner's Rock Concert, 1974:
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- KVRian
- 1106 posts since 8 Mar, 2025
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- KVRAF
- 11950 posts since 31 Aug, 2013 from Someplace else
When they were still hungry. Good band. Don't much care for the personalities, but whatever.
Don Kirschner. The guy who brought us The Monkees.
Don Kirschner. The guy who brought us The Monkees.
“The Generals sat, and the lines on the map, moved from side to side.”
― Pink Floyd
― Pink Floyd
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- KVRAF
- 11950 posts since 31 Aug, 2013 from Someplace else
Lol. I'd loved to have seen Hendrix open for them.
I can't listen to the Monkees since my brother died in 2014. Or, watch the show.
I just had a YT short in my feed about how Don Felder was fired by fax.
Saw them the Hotel California tour, March, '77.
I can't listen to the Monkees since my brother died in 2014. Or, watch the show.
I just had a YT short in my feed about how Don Felder was fired by fax.
Saw them the Hotel California tour, March, '77.
“The Generals sat, and the lines on the map, moved from side to side.”
― Pink Floyd
― Pink Floyd
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- KVRAF
- 26033 posts since 20 Oct, 2007 from gonesville
I actually did go to a Monkees show with Hendrix opening. I don't remember it. I saw Hendrix a bit later, May 9, 1969. I was 12, my mother went with. This is specifically why I became a guitarist and quit drums. He wasn't doing schtick, it was guitar solo heaven.
Nesmith was an interesting songwriter, Dolenz sang well. But the tracks except for Nesmith were played by top studio cats. The Venn diagram between say Monkees 2nd album (iirc) and Lumpy Gravy would shock some people.
I also still dig Head. Written largely by Jack Nicholson.
Timothy Carey "don't nevah, but nevah make fun of no cripples!"
Nesmith was an interesting songwriter, Dolenz sang well. But the tracks except for Nesmith were played by top studio cats. The Venn diagram between say Monkees 2nd album (iirc) and Lumpy Gravy would shock some people.
I also still dig Head. Written largely by Jack Nicholson.
Timothy Carey "don't nevah, but nevah make fun of no cripples!"
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- KVRAF
- 11950 posts since 31 Aug, 2013 from Someplace else
I saw Head when I was a teen. The only thing I remember was Peter Tork whistling or humming Strawberry Fields Forever. Rest is a blank.
I have their into album.I've known all the songs since it came out. I used to play The Monkees Theme when I busked, as well as I'm A Believer. Oh yeah, Not Your Steppingstone.
The wrecking crew and professional songwriters like Carole King and Neil Diamond.
I have their into album.I've known all the songs since it came out. I used to play The Monkees Theme when I busked, as well as I'm A Believer. Oh yeah, Not Your Steppingstone.
The wrecking crew and professional songwriters like Carole King and Neil Diamond.
“The Generals sat, and the lines on the map, moved from side to side.”
― Pink Floyd
― Pink Floyd
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- KVRAF
- 26033 posts since 20 Oct, 2007 from gonesville
My main memories of Head are Timothy Carey, who is always a gas, and Zappa walking a... afaict a very large cow, telling Davey Jones after a number that... belongs on Broadway, really cornball: "That was pretty white." "So am I, what can I tell ya" Then FZ "You've been working on your dancing, though." and "Doesn't leave a lot of time for your music. You should spend more time on it, because the youth of America depends on you to show them the way."
NIcholson says he was taking a lot of acid at the time. Zappa prob'ly wrote his own bit.
The Eagles were, or became a good band for the type IMO, particularly with Joe Walsh. Overexposure to such... no mas
NIcholson says he was taking a lot of acid at the time. Zappa prob'ly wrote his own bit.
The Eagles were, or became a good band for the type IMO, particularly with Joe Walsh. Overexposure to such... no mas
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- KVRAF
- 16136 posts since 13 Nov, 2012
Maybe the two groups should have joined into one, then they could have been The Meagles or The Eonkees.
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- KVRAF
- 16136 posts since 13 Nov, 2012
jancivil wrote: Mon Jul 28, 2025 3:44 pm My main memories of Head are Timothy Carey, who is always a gas, and Zappa walking a... afaict a very large cow....
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- addled muppet weed
- 111275 posts since 26 Jan, 2003 from through the looking glass
head is great!!! both the album and movie!
eagles not really on my radar, know a few of the hits, and have probably heard more but didnt know its them.
they sound like theyre pretty good, just not something i relate to. i know these days they have issues with one another, as usual over money. root of all evil.
eagles not really on my radar, know a few of the hits, and have probably heard more but didnt know its them.
they sound like theyre pretty good, just not something i relate to. i know these days they have issues with one another, as usual over money. root of all evil.
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- KVRAF
- 11950 posts since 31 Aug, 2013 from Someplace else
I stopped listening to The Eagles for decades, really. I am more into progressive rock, and not MOR hitmakers. I bought a greatest hits CD a while back, and have only recently loaded it into Apple Music. I listen to it, now and then. I used to play a bunch of their songs on gee-tar, but that ended with my Pink Floyd/Genesis phase.
I got asked to play Hotel California almost as much as I was asked to play Stairway (you should hear me mangle that, hahahahaha).
The concert I saw in March 1977 was excellent, though. They were really tight, and they were showing off songs from Hotel California for the first time.
The way they fired Don Felder was cold, though. Reminds me of the Hunter S. Thompon quote about the music industry.
I got asked to play Hotel California almost as much as I was asked to play Stairway (you should hear me mangle that, hahahahaha).
The concert I saw in March 1977 was excellent, though. They were really tight, and they were showing off songs from Hotel California for the first time.
The way they fired Don Felder was cold, though. Reminds me of the Hunter S. Thompon quote about the music industry.
“The Generals sat, and the lines on the map, moved from side to side.”
― Pink Floyd
― Pink Floyd
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- KVRAF
- 26033 posts since 20 Oct, 2007 from gonesville
This video's lede when I watched it was "The Eagles were REALLY, REALLY nasty"
just as well it was changed as the bit occurs at the very end of the piece.
This guy looks like he gets on well with everyone, so...
just as well it was changed as the bit occurs at the very end of the piece.
This guy looks like he gets on well with everyone, so...
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- KVRAF
- 26033 posts since 20 Oct, 2007 from gonesville
In I think it was 1975 I and the bass player from our teenage original prog band set out to have a group that would play covers in bars and that whole sound.
OF COURSE we learned Stairway. I don't recall what else we learned. But this group was not meant to be. Before we had a drummer, I know that at least once we met at the bass player's house compleat with the basement rec room, to go over it.
We found a singer that was a dead ringer for David Lee Roth. of course that's in hindsight, I don't think DLR was known to anybody. He liked Rick and me, but this guy was the perfect egoist asshole lead singer type.
So, we did at least one rehearsal with a drummer, at his parents' basement rec room. They had several German shepards that had the run of things, and the place smelled unbelievably bad. Now this drummer's parents were OG Italian Fascists; the walls were decorated with photographic evidence of this, including them with Mussolini. They weren't civilians that went along with it or like that, these pictures had them in full military regalia.
Sp after whatever passed as a rehearsal under these circumstances was over, we're in the front yard.
Not-Really-David Lee Roth sez to son of fascismo "Ya know, I've been working my ass off all day in the sun, and I swear to God you smell worse than I do". I think this was going to be our last run-through.
So sometime later (not a lot later) I see in the newspaper this singer had died during a rehearsal wtih another band. The drummer of that one had thrown the hihat contraption at the guy which found its mark, piercing his heart.
OF COURSE we learned Stairway. I don't recall what else we learned. But this group was not meant to be. Before we had a drummer, I know that at least once we met at the bass player's house compleat with the basement rec room, to go over it.
We found a singer that was a dead ringer for David Lee Roth. of course that's in hindsight, I don't think DLR was known to anybody. He liked Rick and me, but this guy was the perfect egoist asshole lead singer type.
So, we did at least one rehearsal with a drummer, at his parents' basement rec room. They had several German shepards that had the run of things, and the place smelled unbelievably bad. Now this drummer's parents were OG Italian Fascists; the walls were decorated with photographic evidence of this, including them with Mussolini. They weren't civilians that went along with it or like that, these pictures had them in full military regalia.
Sp after whatever passed as a rehearsal under these circumstances was over, we're in the front yard.
Not-Really-David Lee Roth sez to son of fascismo "Ya know, I've been working my ass off all day in the sun, and I swear to God you smell worse than I do". I think this was going to be our last run-through.
So sometime later (not a lot later) I see in the newspaper this singer had died during a rehearsal wtih another band. The drummer of that one had thrown the hihat contraption at the guy which found its mark, piercing his heart.