0:00:02 > 0:00:09This programme contains some strong language
0:00:09 > 0:00:12# One of these nights One of these crazy old nights
0:00:14 > 0:00:18# We're going to find out, pretty mama... #
0:00:18 > 0:00:20A funny thing happened right when we broke up.
0:00:20 > 0:00:261980 is when the format "classic rock" hit American radio.
0:00:26 > 0:00:28So, even though the band broke up,
0:00:28 > 0:00:31they kept playing our songs all the time.
0:00:32 > 0:00:34It was like we never went away.
0:00:34 > 0:00:35We were still on the radio.
0:00:37 > 0:00:40# Well, I'm a-running down the road Trying to loosen my load
0:00:40 > 0:00:44# I got seven women on my mind... #
0:00:44 > 0:00:47Somebody once told me people didn't just listen to the Eagles.
0:00:47 > 0:00:49They did things to the Eagles.
0:00:49 > 0:00:50They went on fandangos
0:00:50 > 0:00:53and drove across the country with three of their high-school buddies.
0:00:53 > 0:00:57# Take it easy... #
0:00:57 > 0:00:59People broke up with their girlfriends.
0:00:59 > 0:01:02# Every time I try to walk away
0:01:04 > 0:01:08# Something makes me turn around and stay...
0:01:08 > 0:01:13# Cos I'm al-l-l-lready gone
0:01:15 > 0:01:20# And I'm fee-e-e-eling strong... #
0:01:20 > 0:01:23People quit their jobs or changed their lives.
0:01:23 > 0:01:26They did things to the Eagles.
0:01:28 > 0:01:30# Hey there, how are you?
0:01:30 > 0:01:33# It's been a long time... #
0:01:33 > 0:01:36Songs from that album have even been played in outer space.
0:01:36 > 0:01:39And they used to pipe the music up to the space shuttle to wake
0:01:39 > 0:01:41the astronauts up in the morning.
0:01:41 > 0:01:44'Shortly after having a breakfast of steak and eggs and toast,
0:01:44 > 0:01:46'he then put on his space suit...'
0:01:49 > 0:01:52# And heroes, they come and they go... #
0:02:04 > 0:02:08# He was a hard-headed man, he was brutally handsome
0:02:09 > 0:02:11# She was terminally pretty...
0:02:19 > 0:02:22# On a dark desert highway
0:02:23 > 0:02:25# Cool wind in my hair... #
0:02:27 > 0:02:30That song has really gotten around.
0:02:30 > 0:02:32# ..Rising up through the air
0:02:32 > 0:02:35# Up ahead in the distance
0:02:36 > 0:02:38# Saw a shimmering light
0:02:38 > 0:02:41# Head grew heavy and my sight grew dim
0:02:41 > 0:02:44# I had to stop for the night... #
0:02:44 > 0:02:46There's been a lot of conjecture about how
0:02:46 > 0:02:48and why we got back together.
0:02:48 > 0:02:50We began to realise that we'd been away for 14 years.
0:02:50 > 0:02:54Maybe we could have that rarest of things in American life,
0:02:54 > 0:02:56which is a second act.
0:02:56 > 0:02:58You know, a second chance.
0:03:00 > 0:03:02CHEERING
0:03:08 > 0:03:10Thank you.
0:03:15 > 0:03:18When we stopped, I was really sad.
0:03:18 > 0:03:21Like, "What are we going to do?"
0:03:21 > 0:03:23# I sleep all day out all night
0:03:23 > 0:03:26# I know where you're going
0:03:26 > 0:03:29# I don't rock you act that way
0:03:29 > 0:03:31# You don't think it's showing... #
0:03:33 > 0:03:35I was pretty devastated.
0:03:35 > 0:03:38I had only been part of it for barely three years,
0:03:38 > 0:03:41and I'd loved it.
0:03:41 > 0:03:47# When we're hungry Love will keep us alive... #
0:03:49 > 0:03:52We created this monster, and it took its toll on all of our lives.
0:03:54 > 0:04:00# Maybe some day we will find
0:04:02 > 0:04:08# That it wasn't really wasted time... #
0:04:11 > 0:04:14Somebody was quoted as saying the Eagles would get back together
0:04:14 > 0:04:16when hell freezes over.
0:04:16 > 0:04:18So, hell froze over.
0:04:18 > 0:04:25# Mmm-m-m-mmm mm-mm-mmm. #
0:04:30 > 0:04:34WOMAN: We're all ready. The gentleman in blue over there.
0:04:34 > 0:04:36After the acrimony and the bitterness that marked
0:04:36 > 0:04:40the demise of the band, it must have been a long road to reunion.
0:04:40 > 0:04:42Can you just take us through the steps that you went through
0:04:42 > 0:04:44on the road to reunification?
0:04:47 > 0:04:49No.
0:04:49 > 0:04:51LAUGHTER
0:04:54 > 0:04:56SCATTERED APPLAUSE
0:04:56 > 0:04:58Anybody want that one?
0:04:58 > 0:05:00No, really, it's a fair question.
0:05:00 > 0:05:03From the time that we disbanded in 1980,
0:05:03 > 0:05:07there were always offers on the table for us to get back together.
0:05:07 > 0:05:09It started with the first US Festival,
0:05:09 > 0:05:12and Steve Wozniak wanted to pay us a million dollars.
0:05:12 > 0:05:14I said no.
0:05:18 > 0:05:20I needed to do something else.
0:05:20 > 0:05:23# The heat is on
0:05:23 > 0:05:26# It's on the street
0:05:27 > 0:05:30# The heat is... on! #
0:05:31 > 0:05:34I called my first solo album No Fun Aloud because I was having
0:05:34 > 0:05:36so much fun.
0:05:36 > 0:05:38It was so liberating to know that whatever I did
0:05:38 > 0:05:41was going to be more fun than what I just did for the last three years on
0:05:41 > 0:05:43The Long Run album.
0:05:45 > 0:05:47I knew I wanted to have a songwriting partner, so I
0:05:47 > 0:05:51asked my friend Jack Tempchin if he wanted to write some songs together.
0:05:51 > 0:05:54And Jack's a very bright guy lyrically,
0:05:54 > 0:05:56and so I started working with him.
0:05:57 > 0:06:00He had become a disciplined co-writer with Don Henley,
0:06:00 > 0:06:03and when the Eagles broke up, he just wanted to let go
0:06:03 > 0:06:05and have some fun with music, you know?
0:06:05 > 0:06:08So we were fiddling around with some grooves, and one of us said,
0:06:08 > 0:06:10"You belong to the city."
0:06:10 > 0:06:12And then we're going, "Oh, yeah, yeah. That's it."
0:06:12 > 0:06:15# Cos you belong to the city
0:06:17 > 0:06:20# You belong to the night... #
0:06:23 > 0:06:26You just show up and good things happen.
0:06:27 > 0:06:31# I make my living off the evening news... #
0:06:31 > 0:06:35Henley's solo career was really, really successful.
0:06:37 > 0:06:40Going solo was the scariest part of my life.
0:06:40 > 0:06:44# All she wants to do is dance, dance... #
0:06:44 > 0:06:47The whole MTV thing was a difficult transition for me to make.
0:06:47 > 0:06:49You know, the Eagles, at one point,
0:06:49 > 0:06:53had been accused by some critic of loitering onstage.
0:06:53 > 0:06:56So it was difficult for us loiterers to make
0:06:56 > 0:07:01the transition to the world of choreography and costume and acting.
0:07:01 > 0:07:05# She wants to party She wants to get down... #
0:07:05 > 0:07:07Did I benefit from MTV? Yes, I did.
0:07:07 > 0:07:10You know, I made a couple of videos that won some MTV awards.
0:07:10 > 0:07:13Nevertheless, I would just as soon have skipped the whole thing,
0:07:13 > 0:07:17because I considered myself, first and foremost, a songwriter
0:07:17 > 0:07:18and a recording artist.
0:07:20 > 0:07:22I didn't really want to be an actor, too.
0:07:23 > 0:07:25Nice, huh?
0:07:25 > 0:07:27The guy who sold it to me said it was a lemon.
0:07:27 > 0:07:30But I'm telling you, it may look like a cow,
0:07:30 > 0:07:31but she runs like a stallion.
0:07:33 > 0:07:37I always like to take a good-bye look at America.
0:07:39 > 0:07:41Just in case it's my last.
0:07:44 > 0:07:46I acted in television, in movies.
0:07:46 > 0:07:49I wasn't thinking about getting back together with the Eagles.
0:07:49 > 0:07:50The guy's got an attitude problem.
0:07:50 > 0:07:53Yeah, well, he listens to me. I can help you with that.
0:07:53 > 0:07:55'Cameron would call me up and say,
0:07:55 > 0:07:57'"Glenn, I gotta find somebody that's not going to take'
0:07:57 > 0:07:59"any shit off Tom Cruise, and I think you're the guy."
0:07:59 > 0:08:01We have history, Dennis.
0:08:01 > 0:08:03Oh, yeah. We got history all right, Jerry.
0:08:03 > 0:08:06No, no, no. No, no, no. Dennis! Dennis! Dennis! Don't! Don't!
0:08:08 > 0:08:10# Nobody on the road
0:08:10 > 0:08:12# Nobody on the beach
0:08:12 > 0:08:14# I feel it in the air
0:08:14 > 0:08:17# The summer's out of reach... #
0:08:17 > 0:08:20I signed Don Henley to Geffen Records.
0:08:20 > 0:08:23Now, you might say, since the Eagles sued me
0:08:23 > 0:08:25at Asylum Records, why he did come with me at Geffen Records?
0:08:25 > 0:08:28Well, David uses the same pick up lines
0:08:28 > 0:08:29every time he comes a-courtin'.
0:08:29 > 0:08:32"You know how much I care about you as an artist.
0:08:32 > 0:08:33"You know what a big fan I am of yours."
0:08:33 > 0:08:36And so I bought it a second time and I signed with him.
0:08:36 > 0:08:38And then things started to fall apart.
0:08:39 > 0:08:44I produced several hits, but I could feel the support somehow waning.
0:08:44 > 0:08:49Don got into arguments with them over things like budgets,
0:08:49 > 0:08:52videos, artwork, things like that.
0:08:52 > 0:08:54I recall Don starting to write letters to them
0:08:54 > 0:08:57referring to them as "Nickel and Dime Records".
0:08:57 > 0:08:59When you feel like your label is not supporting you,
0:08:59 > 0:09:01it's completely deflating.
0:09:01 > 0:09:02I used to call him "Golden Throat".
0:09:02 > 0:09:04I thought he was an incredible singer.
0:09:04 > 0:09:10But, by nature, he's a malcontent. He's always been a malcontent.
0:09:10 > 0:09:12And, you know, that's just life.
0:09:12 > 0:09:15So I just said one day, "I'm not going to record for you anymore.
0:09:15 > 0:09:18"I'm leaving." And so he sued me for 30 million.
0:09:18 > 0:09:22# Happily ever after fails
0:09:22 > 0:09:27# We've been poisoned by these fairy tails
0:09:27 > 0:09:31# The lawyers dwell on small details... #
0:09:31 > 0:09:33My wife has MS, and they deposed her,
0:09:33 > 0:09:34dragged her all the way from Texas
0:09:34 > 0:09:38to Los Angeles to sit her down in front of his attorneys and ask
0:09:38 > 0:09:42her a bunch of pointless questions, because she didn't know anything.
0:09:42 > 0:09:44I thought that was really low.
0:09:44 > 0:09:47I said to Irving over the Henley contract,
0:09:47 > 0:09:50"I'd sooner die than let you fuck me.
0:09:50 > 0:09:52"You'd better win this case."
0:09:52 > 0:09:56It was settled, you know, and that was the end of that relationship.
0:09:56 > 0:10:00# Offer up your best defence
0:10:00 > 0:10:03# This is the end...
0:10:04 > 0:10:07# This is the end
0:10:07 > 0:10:10# Of the innocence. #
0:10:10 > 0:10:13I've realised now that we have adult rock stars.
0:10:16 > 0:10:20You don't have to give this up when you turn 30 or 35 or 40.
0:10:23 > 0:10:26I'll always make records and write songs. I've got to do them.
0:10:26 > 0:10:27Otherwise, I'd go nuts.
0:10:40 > 0:10:44This is a tune that was written with my new friend Mike Campbell
0:10:44 > 0:10:46and my old friend John David Souther.
0:10:46 > 0:10:48'When the band broke up,
0:10:48 > 0:10:51'Glenn started writing songs with Jack Tempchin.
0:10:51 > 0:10:53'I guess the rift between Henley
0:10:53 > 0:10:57'and Frey probably spread to between Frey and me.'
0:10:57 > 0:11:00Glenn and I had had some outrageously fun times together.
0:11:00 > 0:11:03And then Don and I did for a decade or so.
0:11:03 > 0:11:07# Been trying to get down to the heart of the matter
0:11:09 > 0:11:14# But my will gets weak and my thoughts seem to scatter
0:11:14 > 0:11:17# But I think it's about forgiveness
0:11:19 > 0:11:26# Forgiveness, even if, even if, you don't love me anymore. #
0:11:26 > 0:11:30How have you changed as musicians over the years,
0:11:30 > 0:11:32both as a group and individually?
0:11:33 > 0:11:36Well, your whole mandate is just to improve.
0:11:36 > 0:11:38You know, life is about improvement,
0:11:38 > 0:11:41whether it's as a musician or as a singer or as a songwriter or
0:11:41 > 0:11:45just, you know, all the other different hats we all wear.
0:11:45 > 0:11:47So, hopefully, we're just getting better.
0:11:47 > 0:11:49We've been doing this quite a long time now on and off,
0:11:49 > 0:11:52and we feel like we've got it down pretty good.
0:11:52 > 0:11:56And, in fact, we've had five days off, and we're ready to go now.
0:11:58 > 0:12:00When the Eagles first broke up,
0:12:00 > 0:12:03I wasn't quite sure what I was going to do with myself.
0:12:03 > 0:12:05So I just hustled.
0:12:05 > 0:12:07I went just as a singer with Toto,
0:12:07 > 0:12:10I played bass for Jimmy Buffett, I went out with Warren Zevon
0:12:10 > 0:12:13and Dan Fogelberg, and stuff I wouldn't have necessarily done.
0:12:13 > 0:12:15I sang on Poison records and Twisted Sister,
0:12:15 > 0:12:18although you'll never see my name.
0:12:18 > 0:12:19They never gave me credit.
0:12:19 > 0:12:21That was more like yelling.
0:12:23 > 0:12:26It's not all going to be the greatest thing in the world.
0:12:26 > 0:12:30But if you can work and support yourself and your family, it's good.
0:12:30 > 0:12:34WOMAN: OK, next question. Gentleman in the front here, Richard.
0:12:34 > 0:12:37What position do you think rock'n'roll takes now about drugs?
0:12:37 > 0:12:38Oooh.
0:12:38 > 0:12:40SCATTERED TITTERS
0:12:40 > 0:12:45We came from a generation that experimented with all kinds
0:12:45 > 0:12:48of substances, of course.
0:12:48 > 0:12:52I think our message is that... you can be a damn good rock band
0:12:52 > 0:12:54without all that stuff.
0:12:54 > 0:13:01I'd like to propose a toast to dedicate this song to you, to us.
0:13:03 > 0:13:06The drinking man's musician, Joe Walsh!
0:13:06 > 0:13:08CHEERING
0:13:19 > 0:13:22I ended up an alcoholic.
0:13:25 > 0:13:28And very fond of cocaine.
0:13:32 > 0:13:35If I was awake, I was...
0:13:35 > 0:13:37I was doing that stuff.
0:13:39 > 0:13:41Good morning, rock fans.
0:13:41 > 0:13:46'In the very early years, it had briefly worked.'
0:13:50 > 0:13:56And then you chase it when it doesn't work anymore.
0:13:56 > 0:13:58And I chased it for years and years.
0:14:05 > 0:14:08# If you look at your reflection
0:14:08 > 0:14:12# In the bottom of the well
0:14:13 > 0:14:18# What you see is only on the surface... #
0:14:18 > 0:14:22"Could Hemingway have written like that if he was sober,
0:14:22 > 0:14:25"or could Hendrix have played like that
0:14:25 > 0:14:28"if he didn't experiment with hallucinogenics?
0:14:28 > 0:14:30"Well, probably not."
0:14:30 > 0:14:35I used that one for years and years, and it never occurred to me
0:14:35 > 0:14:37that all those people are dead.
0:14:37 > 0:14:40They got further and further away from reality.
0:14:42 > 0:14:45- Should I look at you or the camera? - Look at me.
0:14:49 > 0:14:53I ended up...in bad shape.
0:14:53 > 0:14:57# I wanna live with a cinnamon girl
0:14:58 > 0:15:02# I could be happy the rest of my life
0:15:02 > 0:15:05# With a cinnamon girl
0:15:08 > 0:15:12# A dreamer of pictures I run in the night... #
0:15:14 > 0:15:15'I had hit bottom.'
0:15:17 > 0:15:21And I knew that I was done and that...
0:15:24 > 0:15:27..I would probably die if I kept going.
0:15:27 > 0:15:32# Mom, send me money right now I'm gonna make it somehow
0:15:32 > 0:15:35# I need another chance... #
0:15:35 > 0:15:37Joe was a mess.
0:15:37 > 0:15:42He was around a bunch of people that were really just enablers.
0:15:42 > 0:15:43Nobody wanted to intervene.
0:15:43 > 0:15:47Nobody wanted to tell him he had a drug problem or a drinking problem.
0:15:47 > 0:15:51Everybody was just going along with Joe.
0:15:51 > 0:15:56I remember what we all did when it was an art form, you know?
0:15:56 > 0:16:02And I'd like to fight to get it back to that.
0:16:02 > 0:16:05And I was very, very happy in the Eagles.
0:16:05 > 0:16:08I was just going to say I'm sorry we broke up, but we didn't break up.
0:16:08 > 0:16:09We just stopped, I think.
0:16:09 > 0:16:12We just said, you know, "The heck with the '80s."
0:16:14 > 0:16:16Song three, take six.
0:16:16 > 0:16:20In 1990, we tried to get together to refuel it.
0:16:20 > 0:16:24Everybody was in on that, but Glenn wasn't involved yet.
0:16:27 > 0:16:31Irving got us together - Timothy, Joe, myself, and Don Henley.
0:16:31 > 0:16:34Glenn was supposed to join us in the studio,
0:16:34 > 0:16:36and he was going to bring some songs in,
0:16:36 > 0:16:38and we were going to start making another record.
0:16:38 > 0:16:41So, we started rehearsing, the four of us, then we got a call,
0:16:41 > 0:16:45I think about the third or fourth day in the studio, saying that
0:16:45 > 0:16:51Glenn had refused to come be part of it, to join the party.
0:16:51 > 0:16:52So we just stopped.
0:16:54 > 0:16:56He was still, "I'm not doing this."
0:16:56 > 0:16:57Well, you know, to tell you the truth,
0:16:57 > 0:17:00I was having a fine time doing what I was doing.
0:17:00 > 0:17:02I mean, there's more to life than being in the Eagles.
0:17:02 > 0:17:04The moment was always going to be kind of
0:17:04 > 0:17:06when Glenn was ready to do it again.
0:17:06 > 0:17:09I think Henley would have been more willing than Glenn.
0:17:09 > 0:17:12For me, personally, I think that I had proved pretty much
0:17:12 > 0:17:15everything that I needed to prove in my solo career.
0:17:15 > 0:17:17I had won a couple of Grammys and had a few hits
0:17:17 > 0:17:19and some successful tours.
0:17:19 > 0:17:22And I had founded the Walden Woods Project.
0:17:22 > 0:17:24When you're a solo artist, you have to take responsibility
0:17:24 > 0:17:29for everything - every mistake, every bad record, every sour note.
0:17:29 > 0:17:30But when you're in a band,
0:17:30 > 0:17:33you get to share the praise and the blame with your bandmates.
0:17:33 > 0:17:35So, I was OK with the notion of maybe going back
0:17:35 > 0:17:37and being in a band again.
0:17:40 > 0:17:42The thing that sort of turned my head
0:17:42 > 0:17:45was the release of the Common Thread album.
0:17:45 > 0:17:47Irving and Don went to Nashville
0:17:47 > 0:17:50and they talked a bunch of people into recording some Eagles songs,
0:17:50 > 0:17:53with the royalties going to the Walden Woods Project.
0:17:53 > 0:17:56# Well, I'm a-running down the road trying to loosen my load... #
0:17:56 > 0:17:58I don't know who asked me, but they said,
0:17:58 > 0:18:00"Travis Tritt's going to do a video of Take It Easy
0:18:00 > 0:18:04"and he wants to know if you guys will be in the video."
0:18:04 > 0:18:06I said, "Well, OK."
0:18:06 > 0:18:10# Take it easy
0:18:10 > 0:18:12# Take it easy... #
0:18:12 > 0:18:15Never really talked to Travis about whose idea it was.
0:18:15 > 0:18:19I think Irving probably had a hand in that whole thing.
0:18:19 > 0:18:22Was I trying to put the band back together by doing Common Thread?
0:18:22 > 0:18:23No.
0:18:23 > 0:18:25Was I waiting for the moment? Yeah.
0:18:25 > 0:18:30# ..Understand, just find a place to make your stand
0:18:30 > 0:18:34# Take it easy... #
0:18:36 > 0:18:39In the Travis Tritt video, there was a little bandstand scene
0:18:39 > 0:18:42and we all picked up our instruments and started playing.
0:18:42 > 0:18:46I was thinking, "Guys, come on!" You know?
0:18:46 > 0:18:49'You know, it's interesting - after years pass, you know,
0:18:49 > 0:18:53'you really sort of remember that you were friends first.
0:18:53 > 0:18:55'You have a lot of common history together
0:18:55 > 0:18:58'and a lot of shared experiences.'
0:18:58 > 0:19:01I remembered mostly the good stuff.
0:19:01 > 0:19:03I didn't really think about the bad stuff.
0:19:03 > 0:19:06I just remembered how much we genuinely had liked each other
0:19:06 > 0:19:08and how much fun we'd had.
0:19:10 > 0:19:13We realised, after the success of the Common Thread album
0:19:13 > 0:19:16that there were still a lot of people out there -
0:19:16 > 0:19:19a whole lot of people - who wanted to see us play again.
0:19:19 > 0:19:21You know, sometimes there's a little bit of serendipity
0:19:21 > 0:19:25involved in this, and I think what happened is everybody's life
0:19:25 > 0:19:31started to line up in a way that now it made sense for all of us.
0:19:31 > 0:19:34And we discussed it.
0:19:34 > 0:19:38Joe and Don came up and sat in at a benefit that I did in Aspen.
0:19:38 > 0:19:40'We had a meeting in Aspen.'
0:19:40 > 0:19:45I was one of the first guys that they wanted to try it out on.
0:19:45 > 0:19:49You know, Joe was buzzed. It was 1.00 in the afternoon.
0:19:49 > 0:19:53You know, and he would say, "Hey, I'm there, man. I'm fine.
0:19:53 > 0:19:55"Don't worry about me."
0:19:56 > 0:20:01But Don and I could both tell that he wasn't fine, and we were worried.
0:20:01 > 0:20:03They said what they wanted to do.
0:20:03 > 0:20:06They wanted to try it, get back together again.
0:20:06 > 0:20:09They didn't know what I would say, but I said,
0:20:09 > 0:20:14"I understand, and, yeah, I can get sober."
0:20:16 > 0:20:21# Somewhere along the way I found the meaning
0:20:21 > 0:20:24# Woke up dreaming
0:20:24 > 0:20:28# Along the way
0:20:30 > 0:20:35# Never quite seems the same when you awaken
0:20:37 > 0:20:43# And making up for the time is such a price to pay
0:20:44 > 0:20:49# Then they take the dream away and it just ain't fair... #
0:20:52 > 0:20:54We had to get Joe into some sort of rehab,
0:20:54 > 0:20:57and we couldn't be sure it was going to work.
0:20:57 > 0:20:59So we better have Felder.
0:20:59 > 0:21:02The Eagles reunion had better have at least one of the two of them,
0:21:02 > 0:21:04and hopefully both.
0:21:04 > 0:21:06Irving called me up and said that Don and Glenn
0:21:06 > 0:21:10and Joe had gotten together, and they were talking about doing
0:21:10 > 0:21:12something, and would I be interested in doing it?
0:21:12 > 0:21:14I said, "Absolutely."
0:21:16 > 0:21:19One thing led to another, and finally Irving
0:21:19 > 0:21:22and Don Felder picked him up and drove him to rehab.
0:21:24 > 0:21:28I made a commitment to them that I would clean up...
0:21:29 > 0:21:34..and that I would be in the band
0:21:36 > 0:21:38..if that's what they wanted to do.
0:21:38 > 0:21:41# So help me through the night
0:21:41 > 0:21:46# Help me to ease the pain... #
0:21:46 > 0:21:50I'm really, really grateful to those three guys...
0:21:50 > 0:21:53# Tell me it's all right... #
0:21:53 > 0:22:00Because I had... a really good reason to get sober.
0:22:02 > 0:22:08And as soon as I got sober, we started rehearsals.
0:22:25 > 0:22:29# He was a hard-headed man He was brutally handsome
0:22:31 > 0:22:33# She was terminally pretty
0:22:34 > 0:22:39# She held him up, and he held her for ransom
0:22:39 > 0:22:43# In the heart of the cold, cold city
0:22:44 > 0:22:48# He had a nasty reputation as a cruel dude
0:22:48 > 0:22:51# They said he was ruthless, they said he was crude... #
0:22:51 > 0:22:54From that first phone call from Irving
0:22:54 > 0:22:57to showing up on a rehearsal stage to start putting together
0:22:57 > 0:23:01a show for MTV was only a matter of weeks, if not a month.
0:23:01 > 0:23:06# Life in the fast lane Surely make you lose your mind... #
0:23:07 > 0:23:11'It was a little scary rehearsing for the MTV thing.
0:23:11 > 0:23:15'Normally, I think people would have their act down a few weeks,
0:23:15 > 0:23:18'at least, before entering into something like that,
0:23:18 > 0:23:22'but we just dove in headfirst.'
0:23:31 > 0:23:34'Well, even though we had rehearsed really well,
0:23:34 > 0:23:36'for the first time to walk out on stage and actually
0:23:36 > 0:23:40'play as a band in public and kind of put the key back into the ignition
0:23:40 > 0:23:44'and turn it over for the first time, it was really a lot of nerves.'
0:23:47 > 0:23:49- Are we going the right way?- Glenn.
0:23:49 > 0:23:52'Not having played as a group in 14 years, the first night,
0:23:52 > 0:23:54'there was a lot of terror.'
0:23:55 > 0:23:58Gentlemen, good to be with ya. Hope I'm with ya all night!
0:23:58 > 0:23:59LAUGHTER
0:23:59 > 0:24:03- Have a good one, OK? OK. - Showtime! Showtime! Showtime!
0:24:03 > 0:24:05CHEERING
0:24:12 > 0:24:16'The audience was very kind, and they were with us.
0:24:16 > 0:24:20'And that was good, but it was rough.'
0:24:21 > 0:24:23# Just another day in paradise
0:24:25 > 0:24:28# You stumble to your bed
0:24:31 > 0:24:33# You'd give anything to silence
0:24:35 > 0:24:38# Those voices ringing in your head
0:24:41 > 0:24:44# You thought you could find happiness
0:24:46 > 0:24:48# Just over that green hill
0:24:50 > 0:24:54# You thought you would be satisfied
0:24:56 > 0:24:58# But you never will. #
0:24:58 > 0:25:02'Even when we went onstage, we were definitely a little tight.
0:25:02 > 0:25:04'Until, I think, Henley forgot the words
0:25:04 > 0:25:07'to one of the new songs...'
0:25:17 > 0:25:19You want to start again?
0:25:19 > 0:25:21I'll tell you what.
0:25:21 > 0:25:26This is television, so we get to do this till we're happy.
0:25:26 > 0:25:30I thought... Now, I thought you didn't remember the third verse.
0:25:30 > 0:25:32- That was only the second verse! - I know.
0:25:32 > 0:25:35I know the third verse.
0:25:35 > 0:25:36'That was sort of the icebreaker, though.
0:25:36 > 0:25:38'That was a good thing, ultimately.'
0:25:38 > 0:25:40I feel like Tommy Smothers.
0:25:40 > 0:25:42LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE
0:25:45 > 0:25:49We didn't think getting back together was quite as legitimate
0:25:49 > 0:25:50unless we had some new material,
0:25:50 > 0:25:54so we're going to put forth several new songs for you this evening.
0:25:54 > 0:25:56APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
0:25:56 > 0:25:59This first one Timothy B Schmit is going to sing for you.
0:25:59 > 0:26:02This is called Love Will Keep Us Alive.
0:26:02 > 0:26:04# I was standing
0:26:04 > 0:26:10# All alone against the world outside
0:26:12 > 0:26:15# You were searching
0:26:16 > 0:26:20# For a place to hide
0:26:22 > 0:26:24# Lost and lonely
0:26:24 > 0:26:29# Now you've given me the will to survive
0:26:32 > 0:26:38# When we're hungry, love will keep us alive... #
0:26:41 > 0:26:44After selling 100 million records worldwide, was it real pressure
0:26:44 > 0:26:48on you to write the new material for the Hell Freezes Over album?
0:26:51 > 0:26:53We didn't really look at it as a body of new work.
0:26:53 > 0:26:57It was more of a retrospective piece of material.
0:26:57 > 0:27:00And we look forward to writing some new material, perhaps in the future.
0:27:00 > 0:27:03We can't keep recycling this material,
0:27:03 > 0:27:05although it seems to be working just fine.
0:27:05 > 0:27:07LAUGHTER
0:27:09 > 0:27:14Don and I were trying to figure out how to write another song,
0:27:14 > 0:27:16and, I mean, really, if we could.
0:27:16 > 0:27:19We hadn't written anything together since, like, '78.
0:27:19 > 0:27:22So it was a little awkward at first, just getting back into the groove.
0:27:22 > 0:27:25Yeah. So, we go, one...
0:27:25 > 0:27:28OK, here we are starting out at one, two...
0:27:28 > 0:27:29During The Long Run album,
0:27:29 > 0:27:33there were a lot of sessions with Don and I where nothing got done.
0:27:33 > 0:27:35We were both a little bit reticent to introduce
0:27:35 > 0:27:37our ideas for fear that they weren't good enough.
0:27:37 > 0:27:42So when we sat down to do it again in '94, my first worry was,
0:27:42 > 0:27:45"Is it going to be as hard as it was in 1978?"
0:27:47 > 0:27:50We were sitting around, "What are we going to write about?" and stuff.
0:27:50 > 0:27:53And he said, "Well, I've got this one title, Get Over It."
0:27:53 > 0:27:56And he sort of proceeded to tell me what it was that was
0:27:56 > 0:28:00pissing him off - all these people going on television
0:28:00 > 0:28:03and everything that's wrong with them is somebody else's fault.
0:28:03 > 0:28:06"I'm just sick of all this whining,
0:28:06 > 0:28:08"and so I'm going to write a song called Get Over It."
0:28:08 > 0:28:14The intro, straight Chuck Berry. Never play a seventh, right?
0:28:17 > 0:28:18So, then I said, "I think
0:28:18 > 0:28:22"maybe a Chuck Berry riff would be a good way to tell that story."
0:28:22 > 0:28:25Time out. Do you want to play the...?
0:28:25 > 0:28:27You want to do it on slide?
0:28:27 > 0:28:30And then Felder and I will just play power chords low and high.
0:28:30 > 0:28:32And those guys will play Chuck Berry low and high.
0:28:32 > 0:28:35And we can do # Get over it. #
0:28:35 > 0:28:38A couple little of them slide answer licks is cool.
0:28:38 > 0:28:43My favourite thing is when Don and Glenn co-write stuff.
0:28:43 > 0:28:45I like to play guitar to that.
0:29:06 > 0:29:08- You want me to sing it, or do you want to wait?- It's ten to six.
0:29:08 > 0:29:12You can sing it at ten to six or five to six.
0:29:12 > 0:29:14- Do it again?- Yeah, we'll do it twice.
0:29:14 > 0:29:17Yeah, you could write it in to the mic.
0:29:17 > 0:29:19LAUGHTER
0:29:19 > 0:29:21Captioned for hard of hearing.
0:29:27 > 0:29:29'It was really liberating.'
0:29:29 > 0:29:34We both walked out of the session and went, "God, we can still do it.
0:29:34 > 0:29:36"I can't believe it. We just wrote a song together.
0:29:36 > 0:29:37"Maybe we can write some more."
0:29:37 > 0:29:39# Turn on the tube and what do I see?
0:29:39 > 0:29:42# A whole lotta people crying, "Don't blame me"... #
0:29:42 > 0:29:44That was a really good feeling.
0:29:44 > 0:29:48It was a great sort of artistic reconciliation for us
0:29:48 > 0:29:51to have been able to sit down and write that song together.
0:29:54 > 0:29:55# Get over it!
0:29:57 > 0:29:59# Get over it!
0:29:59 > 0:30:03# All this bitching and moaning and pitching a fit
0:30:03 > 0:30:05# Get over it! Get over it! #
0:30:23 > 0:30:24Get over it!
0:30:24 > 0:30:26APPLAUSE
0:30:29 > 0:30:33We did Hell Freezes Over, and then we went out on the road.
0:30:37 > 0:30:40That was the question on everyone's mind -
0:30:40 > 0:30:43what if we got back together, and no one showed up?
0:30:48 > 0:30:52# What kind of love have you got?
0:30:54 > 0:30:58# You should be home but you're not
0:30:59 > 0:31:03# A room full of noise and dangerous boys
0:31:05 > 0:31:09# Still make you thirsty and hot... #
0:31:09 > 0:31:12'We set it up to be a three-month reunion.
0:31:12 > 0:31:15'I went back to my wife, and I had two young kids at the time.'
0:31:15 > 0:31:18I said, "I don't know if you're going to recognise me.
0:31:18 > 0:31:21"I don't know what this is going to do to me.
0:31:21 > 0:31:25"But I hope I don't change too much. Hang in there with me."
0:31:25 > 0:31:28# Tell all your girlfriends
0:31:28 > 0:31:31# Your "been around the world" friends
0:31:31 > 0:31:34# Talk is for losers and fools
0:31:36 > 0:31:41# Victim of love, I see a broken heart
0:31:43 > 0:31:46# I could be wrong but I'm not
0:31:47 > 0:31:52# Victim of love, we're not so far apart
0:31:52 > 0:31:56# What kind of love have you got? #
0:31:58 > 0:32:01I was on the side of the stage once at one of their shows
0:32:01 > 0:32:05when they first got back together, and Jack Nicholson was
0:32:05 > 0:32:09euphoric listening to this band play again, you know?
0:32:09 > 0:32:14And he said... "Repertoire."
0:32:16 > 0:32:17What do you want to hear?
0:32:17 > 0:32:20# One of these nights
0:32:20 > 0:32:23ALL: # One of these crazy old nights! #
0:32:25 > 0:32:28# One of these nights... #
0:32:30 > 0:32:32We didn't know how many people were going to show up for us
0:32:32 > 0:32:35to reunite, but people came out in droves.
0:32:42 > 0:32:45# Somebody's gonna hurt someone
0:32:45 > 0:32:47# Before the night is through... #
0:32:47 > 0:32:50We were sold out everywhere.
0:32:50 > 0:32:53Audiences were having a fabulous time.
0:32:53 > 0:32:54We were having a good time, too.
0:32:54 > 0:32:57# There's gonna be a heartache tonight
0:32:57 > 0:33:00# A heartache tonight, I know
0:33:03 > 0:33:05# Gonna be a heartache tonight
0:33:05 > 0:33:08# A heartache tonight, I know
0:33:09 > 0:33:11# Oh, I know. #
0:33:29 > 0:33:30Heartache, baby!
0:33:35 > 0:33:38I listened to the guys, and Joe Walsh, for example,
0:33:38 > 0:33:41is playing better and singing better than I've ever heard him
0:33:41 > 0:33:43play in his life since I've known him.
0:33:44 > 0:33:47# Hi there, how are ya?
0:33:47 > 0:33:50# It's been a long time
0:33:50 > 0:33:53I didn't have time to really sit around
0:33:53 > 0:34:00and miss alcohol or cold turkey from more cocaine or anything.
0:34:00 > 0:34:03And I had to go in front of people
0:34:03 > 0:34:08and play and sing sober,
0:34:08 > 0:34:10which I hated, at first.
0:34:10 > 0:34:12Ooh, that was scary.
0:34:12 > 0:34:19# Why do we give up our hearts to the past?
0:34:19 > 0:34:20# Yeah
0:34:20 > 0:34:26# And why must we grow up so fast?
0:34:28 > 0:34:33# Oooh-oooh ooh-h
0:34:44 > 0:34:52# And all you wishing well fools with your fortunes
0:34:54 > 0:34:59# Someone should send you a rose
0:35:01 > 0:35:04# With love from a friend
0:35:04 > 0:35:07# Nice to hear from you again
0:35:07 > 0:35:13# And the storybook comes to a close
0:35:16 > 0:35:21# Gone are the ribbons and bows
0:35:24 > 0:35:30# Things to remember, places to go
0:35:31 > 0:35:35# Pretty maids all in a row
0:35:36 > 0:35:40# All in a row. #
0:35:44 > 0:35:48When Joe first got out of rehab and we started rehearsing,
0:35:48 > 0:35:50he was still pretty dark.
0:35:50 > 0:35:53But over the course of that first year getting sober, I think
0:35:53 > 0:35:56he found happiness again.
0:35:56 > 0:35:57He found a way to be happy.
0:36:04 > 0:36:07You look very pretty.
0:36:07 > 0:36:10It's OK. Once more. Oh, now, are you ready?
0:36:10 > 0:36:12Father, daughter, take one.
0:36:13 > 0:36:16We got that family thing to ground us all now.
0:36:16 > 0:36:20It's really sort of our common thread. We've all got kids.
0:36:20 > 0:36:25It changes your life and your perspective on your work, as well.
0:36:37 > 0:36:40So, the tour was so enormously successful that we sort of
0:36:40 > 0:36:43didn't want to give that up, you know?
0:36:43 > 0:36:46It's like, "OK, this is good. I could do this for a while."
0:36:46 > 0:36:48# Harry got up
0:36:50 > 0:36:52# Dressed all in black
0:36:54 > 0:36:56# Went down to the station
0:36:57 > 0:36:59# And he never came back
0:37:00 > 0:37:03# They found his clothing
0:37:03 > 0:37:06# Scattered somewhere down the track
0:37:08 > 0:37:13# And he won't be down on Wall Street in the morning
0:37:14 > 0:37:16# In a New York minute
0:37:19 > 0:37:21# Ooh-h-h-h
0:37:21 > 0:37:24- # Everything can change - In a New York minute
0:37:25 > 0:37:27# Ooh-h-h-h
0:37:27 > 0:37:29# Things can get pretty strange... #
0:37:29 > 0:37:31Doing a concert is a strange combination of conscious
0:37:31 > 0:37:33and subconscious acts.
0:37:33 > 0:37:35You're not really thinking about what you're doing
0:37:35 > 0:37:37because you know it so well, you're just doing it.
0:37:37 > 0:37:40On the other hand, you have to put some emotion into it.
0:37:40 > 0:37:42When you've got a crowd that's cheering you on,
0:37:42 > 0:37:45doesn't matter how many times you've sung the song. You just do it.
0:37:45 > 0:37:48# Lying in the darkness
0:37:48 > 0:37:50# Hear the sirens wail
0:37:50 > 0:37:55# Somebody's going to emergency
0:37:55 > 0:37:57# Somebody's going to jail
0:37:57 > 0:38:02# If you find somebody to love in this world
0:38:02 > 0:38:04# You better hang on tooth and nail
0:38:07 > 0:38:11# The wolf is always at the door
0:38:13 > 0:38:15# In a New York minute
0:38:17 > 0:38:18# Ooh-ohh-ohh
0:38:18 > 0:38:22- # Everything can change - In a New York minute
0:38:23 > 0:38:25# Ooh-ohh-ohh
0:38:25 > 0:38:29- # Things can get a little strange - In a New York minute
0:38:30 > 0:38:32# Ooh-ohh-ohh... #
0:38:32 > 0:38:35We've played all over the world, and, probably,
0:38:35 > 0:38:38if we could write the script, it was probably a genius move.
0:38:38 > 0:38:40Cos when we come back, it's bigger than ever.
0:38:40 > 0:38:44How much money do you expect to gross with this European tour?
0:38:44 > 0:38:46Irving?
0:38:46 > 0:38:50- I actually haven't added it up, but I will tell you that...- Good answer.
0:38:50 > 0:38:51LAUGHTER
0:38:51 > 0:38:56One thing, the costs of being a touring rock'n'roll band
0:38:56 > 0:39:00in Europe are beyond our wildest imaginations, but this
0:39:00 > 0:39:04band is here in Europe because there was demand for us to be here.
0:39:04 > 0:39:08And it's not nearly as lucrative as anything we've done before.
0:39:10 > 0:39:12It isn't?
0:39:12 > 0:39:14LAUGHTER
0:39:18 > 0:39:21Offers started coming in for us to do more shows,
0:39:21 > 0:39:23and I just sort of said, "Well, book some more.
0:39:23 > 0:39:25"It doesn't have to end now. Book some more.
0:39:25 > 0:39:28"Where else can we play?" "Well, you haven't been in Europe."
0:39:28 > 0:39:29"Well, let's go there."
0:39:29 > 0:39:33# Well, I heard some people talking just the other day
0:39:35 > 0:39:40# And they said you were gonna put me on a shelf
0:39:42 > 0:39:45# Let me tell you I got some news for you
0:39:46 > 0:39:48# And you'll soon find out it's true
0:39:49 > 0:39:53# Then you'll have to eat your lunch all by yourself
0:39:55 > 0:40:00# Cos I'm al-l-l-lready gone
0:40:02 > 0:40:06# And I'm fee-e-eling strong
0:40:08 > 0:40:12# I will si-i-i-ng this victory song... #
0:40:12 > 0:40:14How's it go?
0:40:14 > 0:40:20# Hoo-hoo-hoo! My, my, hoo-hoo-hoo
0:40:20 > 0:40:21GUITAR SOLO
0:40:35 > 0:40:39# Well I know it wasn't you who held me down... #
0:40:39 > 0:40:42'We had drawn a line in the sand and said,'
0:40:42 > 0:40:44"No drugs or alcohol during any band activities."
0:40:44 > 0:40:49And, as a result, we're playing and singing pretty damn good.
0:40:49 > 0:40:54# So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains... #
0:40:54 > 0:40:57'I think the thing that brings them together is the harmony.'
0:40:57 > 0:41:01When they start hearing that and how seamless and how perfect, they
0:41:01 > 0:41:04get as thrilled as the audiences do, that, "We can still do this."
0:41:04 > 0:41:07THEY HARMONISE
0:41:12 > 0:41:17# Ooh-ooh-ooh
0:41:20 > 0:41:26# Ooh-ooh-ooh... #
0:41:27 > 0:41:30We can't really understand it. It's just the chemistry that works.
0:41:30 > 0:41:34And we gave up trying to understand it. It just works.
0:41:34 > 0:41:37We're just going to do one verse the New Kid.
0:41:37 > 0:41:40One verse the New Kid. OK. Joe's singing Smuggler's Blues.
0:41:40 > 0:41:43- OK.- I'll just do the beginning of Funk 49.
0:41:43 > 0:41:47- And then I'm going to go pee. - Yeah.- Then I'll go pee.
0:41:47 > 0:41:49One, two, three.
0:41:50 > 0:41:52CHEERING
0:42:05 > 0:42:09# Well, I'm a-running the road trying to loosen my load
0:42:09 > 0:42:11# I got seven women on my mind
0:42:12 > 0:42:16# Four that want to own me, two that want to stone me
0:42:16 > 0:42:18# One says she's a friend of mine
0:42:18 > 0:42:21# Take it easy
0:42:21 > 0:42:25# Take it easy
0:42:25 > 0:42:31# Don't let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy
0:42:33 > 0:42:36# Lighten up while you still can
0:42:36 > 0:42:39# Don't even try to understand
0:42:39 > 0:42:42# Just find a place to make your stand
0:42:42 > 0:42:45# And take it easy
0:42:50 > 0:42:53# Well I'm a-standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona
0:42:53 > 0:42:56# Such a fine sight to see
0:42:56 > 0:43:00# It's a girl, my Lord, in a flat-bed Ford
0:43:00 > 0:43:03# Slowin' down to take a look at me
0:43:03 > 0:43:06# Well, come on, baby
0:43:06 > 0:43:08# Don't say maybe
0:43:10 > 0:43:15# I've gotta know if your sweet love is gonna save me
0:43:17 > 0:43:19# We may lose and we may win
0:43:19 > 0:43:23# Though we will never be here again
0:43:23 > 0:43:26# So open up, I'm climbing in
0:43:26 > 0:43:30# So take it easy... #
0:43:30 > 0:43:32All right, boys!
0:43:32 > 0:43:35'We ended up going all around the world in about two years
0:43:35 > 0:43:37'and nine months.'
0:43:37 > 0:43:42# Well, you know we got it ea-a-a-asy
0:43:44 > 0:43:49# We oughta take it ea-a-a-a-asy. #
0:43:55 > 0:43:58Thank you, Dublin!
0:43:58 > 0:44:00APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
0:44:04 > 0:44:09We've learned not to make career decisions at the end of long tours.
0:44:09 > 0:44:11If we break up again, though, you won't hear about it.
0:44:11 > 0:44:15- We'll just go quietly.- And we'll say we're still together.- Yeah!
0:44:15 > 0:44:18LAUGHTER
0:44:18 > 0:44:21They've laughed, cried, fought, but, most of all,
0:44:21 > 0:44:25they have beaten the odds and are as popular today
0:44:25 > 0:44:29as they were in that incredible summer back in 1972.
0:44:29 > 0:44:33It is an honour and a pleasure to introduce the Eagles.
0:44:33 > 0:44:35APPLAUSE
0:44:38 > 0:44:41A lot has been talked about and speculated about over
0:44:41 > 0:44:45the last 27 years about whether or not we got along.
0:44:45 > 0:44:48We got along fine. We just disagreed a lot.
0:44:49 > 0:44:53I was not in the trenches with this particular band,
0:44:53 > 0:44:57so I'd like to thank my predecessor, Randy Meisner, for being there.
0:44:57 > 0:45:01'I'm glad that Randy and Bernie got recognised.'
0:45:01 > 0:45:03I think that's appropriate.
0:45:05 > 0:45:07Hey, how you doin'?
0:45:07 > 0:45:10It's a good feeling. Looks good on my resume.
0:45:12 > 0:45:14HE CHUCKLES
0:45:14 > 0:45:17I'd really like to thank Don and Glenn for writing those songs.
0:45:17 > 0:45:22Thank you, guys. It makes my job real easy. Thank you!
0:45:22 > 0:45:24APPLAUSE
0:45:25 > 0:45:27Charming outfit, Joe.
0:45:27 > 0:45:29I'd like to, again,
0:45:29 > 0:45:33thank Don Henley and Glenn Frey for writing an incredible body of work
0:45:33 > 0:45:37that's propelled this band through 20-some-odd years' worth of life.
0:45:37 > 0:45:38Thank you, guys.
0:45:38 > 0:45:41When a kid first picks up a guitar or a drumstick,
0:45:41 > 0:45:43it's not really to be famous.
0:45:43 > 0:45:45It's because that kid wants to fit in somewhere,
0:45:45 > 0:45:51he wants to be accepted, and he wants to be understood, even.
0:45:51 > 0:45:56And so, I like to think of this award as something that is
0:45:56 > 0:46:00acknowledging us not for being famous, but for doing the work.
0:46:00 > 0:46:04And I appreciate all the work that all these guys behind me have done.
0:46:04 > 0:46:06I want to thank Irving Azoff,
0:46:06 > 0:46:08without whom we wouldn't be here today.
0:46:08 > 0:46:10APPLAUSE
0:46:10 > 0:46:14As I've said before, he may be Satan, but he's our Satan.
0:46:15 > 0:46:18We're in a dog-eat-dog business.
0:46:18 > 0:46:21Show me anybody that's going to be responsible for guiding or
0:46:21 > 0:46:24managing an artist's career that's made too many friends,
0:46:24 > 0:46:26and I'm going to show you somebody
0:46:26 > 0:46:29that's sold out their artist and done a crappy job.
0:46:29 > 0:46:34So, I was quite proud of Henley's reference of what he said.
0:46:34 > 0:46:38It was more or less, for me, a validation of a job well done.
0:46:38 > 0:46:41A lot of my job was trying to keep the band from breaking up.
0:46:41 > 0:46:46In the '70s, we formed a corporation called Eagles, Limited.
0:46:46 > 0:46:48And that was all-for-one and one-for-all.
0:46:49 > 0:46:51Well, it wasn't the three musketeers.
0:46:51 > 0:46:56As our friend JD Souther used to say, "Time passes, things change."
0:46:56 > 0:46:59In talking with Irving about putting the Eagles back
0:46:59 > 0:47:03together in 1994, I said, "Irving, I'm not going to do it
0:47:03 > 0:47:06"unless Don and I make more money than the other guys."
0:47:07 > 0:47:09"We're the only guys who have done anything
0:47:09 > 0:47:11"career-wise in the last 14 years.
0:47:11 > 0:47:15"We're the guys that have kept the Eagles' name alive on radio,
0:47:15 > 0:47:17"television and in concert halls."
0:47:17 > 0:47:20So we came up with a deal that I was happy with,
0:47:20 > 0:47:23and Don was happy with, Timothy was happy with,
0:47:23 > 0:47:26Joe was happy with, and Don Felder was not happy with.
0:47:26 > 0:47:28And I called Felder's representative.
0:47:28 > 0:47:31And I said, "Hello, Barry. "This is Glenn Frey.
0:47:31 > 0:47:34"I'm sorry you happen to represent the only asshole in the band,
0:47:34 > 0:47:36"but let me tell you something.
0:47:36 > 0:47:40"You either sign this agreement before the sun goes down today,
0:47:40 > 0:47:42"or we're replacing Don Felder.
0:47:42 > 0:47:43"That's the final deal.
0:47:43 > 0:47:46"He signs by sunset, or he's out of the fucking band."
0:47:47 > 0:47:48Hung up.
0:47:48 > 0:47:52So, he signed the deal, and we started out on the tour.
0:47:53 > 0:47:57I didn't sense a great deal of camaraderie.
0:47:57 > 0:47:58You hardly saw anybody
0:47:58 > 0:48:02if it wasn't walking on the plane or walking onto the stage.
0:48:02 > 0:48:04Everyone thought, "Well, if we don't get together,
0:48:04 > 0:48:06"we won't have problems."
0:48:06 > 0:48:09And I think instead of being able to sit down and have a beer and talk
0:48:09 > 0:48:14about stuff and renew a relationship with everyone, that independent
0:48:14 > 0:48:20isolation really didn't add the comfort necessary to make it work.
0:48:20 > 0:48:26Don Felder was never, ever satisfied, never, ever happy.
0:48:29 > 0:48:32A rock band is not a perfect democracy.
0:48:32 > 0:48:33It's more like a sports team.
0:48:33 > 0:48:36No one can do anything without the other guys,
0:48:36 > 0:48:39but everybody doesn't get to touch the ball all the time.
0:48:39 > 0:48:44Time went on, and time went on, and Felder became more and more unhappy.
0:48:44 > 0:48:47Couldn't appreciate the amount of money he was making,
0:48:47 > 0:48:50more concerned about how much money I was making.
0:48:56 > 0:48:59If Don Felder really thought about it,
0:48:59 > 0:49:02it really was he wanted it to be a "band" band in the purest
0:49:02 > 0:49:06sense of the words, you know, we're all going to get equal songwriting,
0:49:06 > 0:49:10singing, expression stuff, and this was not a hippie commune.
0:49:10 > 0:49:12You know, and everything for them
0:49:12 > 0:49:14really goes back to those two words - song power.
0:49:16 > 0:49:21We finally made the decision that we won't be working with him anymore.
0:49:22 > 0:49:26It just broke my heart. It's not just playing with Joe.
0:49:26 > 0:49:29I miss these guys.
0:49:29 > 0:49:32But I really missed the friendship and the music.
0:49:35 > 0:49:37OK.
0:49:39 > 0:49:43Glenn and I, when it comes time to make band decisions,
0:49:43 > 0:49:45usually stick together.
0:49:45 > 0:49:48It's difficult for four or five people to have an equal say.
0:49:48 > 0:49:52Here we are 40 years later, and we're doing OK.
0:49:52 > 0:49:55We're one of the few bands that can say that.
0:49:56 > 0:50:00The novelty of the Eagles being back together and those few new songs
0:50:00 > 0:50:02that we had on the Hell Freezes Over album is one thing.
0:50:02 > 0:50:05But we needed to make a record.
0:50:07 > 0:50:10Considering that we haven't made a record in so long,
0:50:10 > 0:50:16we spent a good two-and-a-half years making Long Road Out of Eden.
0:50:16 > 0:50:19We finally figured out that we just needed to do what we do.
0:50:19 > 0:50:21This really goes back to the essence of what we do best,
0:50:21 > 0:50:24which is singing and songwriting.
0:50:24 > 0:50:26A lot of harmony singing on this album.
0:50:26 > 0:50:30ALL: # There's a hole in the world tonight
0:50:30 > 0:50:36# Don't let there be a hole in the world tomorrow... #
0:50:37 > 0:50:40Big tragedies like that make you think, as a parent,
0:50:40 > 0:50:42what kind of world is coming up?
0:50:42 > 0:50:44What's going to happen next?
0:50:44 > 0:50:46What's the world going to be like when my kids are grown?
0:50:49 > 0:50:52After September 11th, our immediate visceral reaction,
0:50:52 > 0:50:56our gut reaction, resulted in Hole In The World.
0:50:59 > 0:51:04# Don't let there be a hole in the world tomorrow... #
0:51:04 > 0:51:07The Eagles have written and sung plenty of love songs
0:51:07 > 0:51:10over the years, but we've also written and sung songs
0:51:10 > 0:51:12that have to do with what's going on in the wider world.
0:51:12 > 0:51:15We've never shied away from social commentary.
0:51:15 > 0:51:17We think it's part of a rich tradition that dates all
0:51:17 > 0:51:19the way back to medieval times.
0:51:19 > 0:51:21And so we still engage in it.
0:51:23 > 0:51:26# No more walks in the wood
0:51:27 > 0:51:31# The trees have all been cut down
0:51:33 > 0:51:35# And where once they stood
0:51:37 > 0:51:42# Not even a wagon rut appears along the path... #
0:51:44 > 0:51:48The writings and the ideas of Henry David Thoreau
0:51:48 > 0:51:50and Ralph Waldo Emerson had a huge impact on me.
0:51:50 > 0:51:53They got me through some very difficult times in my life,
0:51:53 > 0:51:57one being when my father was stricken with heart disease,
0:51:57 > 0:52:00and provided a lot of spiritual support for me.
0:52:00 > 0:52:04When I found out in 1980 that part of Walden was going to be
0:52:04 > 0:52:06destroyed by commercial development,
0:52:06 > 0:52:10I decided that was something I needed to help fight.
0:52:10 > 0:52:13So I ended up founding the Walden Woods Project.
0:52:13 > 0:52:16And we are in our 27th year now, and we've accomplished a great deal.
0:52:16 > 0:52:20It's been one of the most rewarding things that I've ever done.
0:52:20 > 0:52:24# We and the trees and the way
0:52:26 > 0:52:29# Back from the fields of play... #
0:52:31 > 0:52:34The lyrics to that song were originally a poem
0:52:34 > 0:52:37written by a great American poet named John Hollander.
0:52:37 > 0:52:40# No more walks in the wood. #
0:52:53 > 0:52:57Don had this title, Long Road Out of Eden.
0:52:57 > 0:52:59Timothy goes over, and he picks up an acoustic guitar.
0:52:59 > 0:53:03And I go over to the keyboards and Joe grabs a guitar
0:53:03 > 0:53:04and Don goes on the drums.
0:53:04 > 0:53:08And we start making up this sort of musical story called
0:53:08 > 0:53:13Long Road Out of Eden, a story of, really, the war in Iraq.
0:53:14 > 0:53:18# Moon shining down through the palms
0:53:19 > 0:53:23# Shadows moving on the sand... #
0:53:23 > 0:53:26And it was, like, the last resort.
0:53:26 > 0:53:30It was another opus, another David Lean movie.
0:53:30 > 0:53:37# And it's a long road out of Eden. #
0:53:38 > 0:53:40We finally got through,
0:53:40 > 0:53:42and we finally made Long Road Out of Eden.
0:53:42 > 0:53:44And we didn't give it to a record company.
0:53:44 > 0:53:47We made a deal with Walmart.
0:53:47 > 0:53:51This was the first major artist to do a direct-to-retail release
0:53:51 > 0:53:53and bypass the major record companies.
0:53:53 > 0:53:55It was phenomenally successful.
0:53:55 > 0:53:56The album entered at number one.
0:53:56 > 0:54:00It gave, I think, the whole industry hope that it could find a new
0:54:00 > 0:54:02and different way to reach its fans.
0:54:02 > 0:54:04They're becoming a much greener company,
0:54:04 > 0:54:05and that was important to me.
0:54:05 > 0:54:09And the other good thing was that our fans got 20 songs for 12 bucks.
0:54:09 > 0:54:12It was basically a double album, and they weren't charged double for it.
0:54:15 > 0:54:19Don said, "I got a title for a song - Busy Being Fabulous."
0:54:19 > 0:54:21And I thought, "What a great title."
0:54:21 > 0:54:25# I came home to an empty house
0:54:26 > 0:54:29# And I found your little note... #
0:54:29 > 0:54:31And then Don wrote, "Don't wait up for me tonight,
0:54:31 > 0:54:33"that was all she wrote."
0:54:33 > 0:54:35# Don't wait up for me tonight
0:54:35 > 0:54:38# And that was all she wrote... #
0:54:38 > 0:54:40And then we were off on the story.
0:54:40 > 0:54:44# You were just too busy being fabulous
0:54:46 > 0:54:49# Too busy to think about us... #
0:54:52 > 0:54:54Busy Being Fabulous, Don and Glenn had gotten it
0:54:54 > 0:54:57to a certain state, and I came up with some stuff for the bridge
0:54:57 > 0:55:00and tweaked what already existed.
0:55:00 > 0:55:03I was very involved in the Long Road record.
0:55:03 > 0:55:06I've always been a lot happier getting into the entire project,
0:55:06 > 0:55:10arranging stuff, producing the stuff, co-writing the stuff.
0:55:10 > 0:55:13Like, Waiting In The Weeds and Business As Usual
0:55:13 > 0:55:15were co-writes with Don.
0:55:15 > 0:55:20Getting Steuart Smith in the band was a real shot in the arm.
0:55:20 > 0:55:23He's such a terrific musician.
0:55:29 > 0:55:30It's a great solo.
0:55:30 > 0:55:32It's like stepping into a space suit.
0:55:34 > 0:55:37It is strange to be playing that song.
0:55:37 > 0:55:41The reaction is terrific, and you bask in that excitement.
0:55:41 > 0:55:42But I didn't write it.
0:55:49 > 0:55:52I'm one part hired gun, but also one part collaborator.
0:55:52 > 0:55:56I'm one of the guitar players. But I'm not an Eagle.
0:55:57 > 0:56:00I don't know what it's like to be one of those guys.
0:56:00 > 0:56:01Three, four!
0:56:04 > 0:56:06My kids were looking on the Internet,
0:56:06 > 0:56:11and they found this show that the Eagles had done in 1974.
0:56:15 > 0:56:19I was in my office watching TV, and my kids come in and say,
0:56:19 > 0:56:21"Hey, Dad, come here.
0:56:21 > 0:56:23"You got to take a look at your hair."
0:56:23 > 0:56:25And one of the songs was How Long.
0:56:25 > 0:56:28# But if I never see the good old days
0:56:28 > 0:56:31# Shining in the sun
0:56:32 > 0:56:35# I'll be doing fine and then some
0:56:38 > 0:56:41# Tell me how long... #
0:56:41 > 0:56:44How Long was from my first solo album.
0:56:44 > 0:56:46They found that cos Cindy saw it on YouTube and said,
0:56:46 > 0:56:47"Glenn, what's this?"
0:56:47 > 0:56:50And he said, "Oh, it's a song of JD's."
0:56:50 > 0:56:52She said, "Well, you didn't cut it, did you?"
0:56:52 > 0:56:56# How long, how long Rock yourself to sleep
0:56:57 > 0:57:00GUITAR SOLO
0:57:04 > 0:57:08JD wanted it on his solo album, so we never recorded it.
0:57:08 > 0:57:12My wife said, "Hey, that sounds like a hit Eagles song."
0:57:12 > 0:57:16# Everybody feels all right you know I heard some poor fool say
0:57:16 > 0:57:18# Somebody
0:57:18 > 0:57:22# Everyone is out there on the loose
0:57:24 > 0:57:30# Well, I wish I lived in the land of fools, and no one knew my name
0:57:31 > 0:57:36# But what you get is not quite what you choose
0:57:38 > 0:57:41# Tell me, how long, how long
0:57:41 > 0:57:44# Woman will you weep? #
0:57:44 > 0:57:46They are the American band.
0:57:46 > 0:57:50Yeah, they pretty much encompassed the '70s, didn't they?
0:57:50 > 0:57:51And took it all in.
0:57:51 > 0:57:55That's a long time to still have a musical impact,
0:57:55 > 0:57:59and it's due to this incredibly crisp, tight,
0:57:59 > 0:58:04extraordinarily good record-making band and the presence of good songs.
0:58:04 > 0:58:06But it's also now taken on this other thing, too,
0:58:06 > 0:58:10where it's everybody through the band wants to remember a
0:58:10 > 0:58:12'70s that they may or may not have had.
0:58:12 > 0:58:16# Good night, baby rock yourself to sleep
0:58:16 > 0:58:19# Sleep tight, baby rock yourself to sleep
0:58:19 > 0:58:25# B-B-B-Bye-bye, baby rock yourself to slee-e-e-ep. #
0:58:37 > 0:58:40This band could go play stadiums all over the country,
0:58:40 > 0:58:43and people know these songs so intimately.
0:58:49 > 0:58:53They last. The songs last.
0:58:55 > 0:58:57I have one small plaque on my wall.
0:58:57 > 0:59:01It says, "Presented to the Eagles to commemorate the best-selling
0:59:01 > 0:59:03"album of the 20th century,
0:59:03 > 0:59:06"with sales in excess of 26 million units."
0:59:06 > 0:59:10That century's gone, so nobody's going to top that.
0:59:13 > 0:59:15What's it like to be an Eagle now?
0:59:15 > 0:59:18It's just part of my life. I do normal things.
0:59:18 > 0:59:23I go to the market, and once in a while, somebody comes up to me.
0:59:23 > 0:59:25I don't walk around being an Eagle.
0:59:25 > 0:59:28I'm an Eagle when it's time for me to be.
0:59:28 > 0:59:32I made sure the dishes were done before you guys came today.
0:59:32 > 0:59:34You know?
0:59:50 > 0:59:52# He was a hard-headed man
0:59:52 > 0:59:56# And he was brutally handsome
0:59:56 > 0:59:58# She was terminally pretty
1:00:00 > 1:00:03# She held him up and he held her for ransom
1:00:03 > 1:00:07# In the heart of the cold, cold city
1:00:08 > 1:00:12# He had a nasty reputation as a cruel dude
1:00:12 > 1:00:16# They said he was ruthless, they said he was crude
1:00:16 > 1:00:20# They had one thing in common they were good in bed
1:00:20 > 1:00:25# She'd say, "Faster, faster, the lights are turnin' red"
1:00:25 > 1:00:28# Life in the fast lane
1:00:28 > 1:00:30# Surely make you lose your mind
1:00:30 > 1:00:32# Life in the fast lane... #
1:00:34 > 1:00:36I love everybody in the band like a brother.
1:00:36 > 1:00:41To be part of a real band -
1:00:41 > 1:00:43a REAL band -
1:00:43 > 1:00:48is something that not all musicians get to do in their life.
1:00:50 > 1:00:55And I'm real lucky to have that chapter in my book.
1:01:02 > 1:01:06Rock'n'roll saved my life. It changed my life tremendously.
1:01:09 > 1:01:13And as Mick Jagger so famously and eloquently said,
1:01:13 > 1:01:16"It's only rock'n'roll, but I like it."
1:01:16 > 1:01:18I think that one of the reasons that Glenn and I
1:01:18 > 1:01:21wanted to write songs is because rock'n'roll music got us
1:01:21 > 1:01:24through junior high and through high school and those difficult
1:01:24 > 1:01:26times when you're searching for your identity
1:01:26 > 1:01:28and wondering who the heck you are,
1:01:28 > 1:01:31trying to get girls to notice you, and wondering why
1:01:31 > 1:01:34the football players are doing so much better than you are.
1:01:35 > 1:01:40At the end of the day, it was and still is about the music.
1:01:41 > 1:01:45# You know, I've always been a dreamer... #
1:01:45 > 1:01:49I regret that I didn't handle some of the adversity
1:01:49 > 1:01:51that the Eagles faced in the late '70s better.
1:01:51 > 1:01:53Fortunately, for me,
1:01:53 > 1:01:57I've had another chance to be the leader of the Eagles, another
1:01:57 > 1:02:02chance to be Don's partner and do this work again and play this music.
1:02:02 > 1:02:06And in this second run, I think I've done a pretty good job
1:02:06 > 1:02:12of keeping the peace and keep the band together, keep everybody happy.
1:02:12 > 1:02:14So here we are.
1:02:15 > 1:02:17Still doing it.
1:02:17 > 1:02:22# You gotta take it to the limit
1:02:22 > 1:02:25# One more time. #
1:02:28 > 1:02:31APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
1:02:34 > 1:02:36Thank you.
1:02:41 > 1:02:43That's it! That's it!
1:02:45 > 1:02:46Bye-bye.
1:02:48 > 1:02:50'We wanted longevity.
1:02:50 > 1:02:53'It wasn't a hobby for us. It wasn't a game.
1:02:53 > 1:02:57'It wasn't a pleasant diversion. It was a life.
1:02:57 > 1:02:59'It was a calling. It was a career.'
1:02:59 > 1:03:01It was worth it.
1:03:05 > 1:03:07We went to China last year.
1:03:07 > 1:03:10We're still breaking new ground 40 years later.
1:03:12 > 1:03:13Back in the late '70s,
1:03:13 > 1:03:16Neil Young sang a song about the emerging punk ethic.
1:03:16 > 1:03:18And the pivotal line in that song was,
1:03:18 > 1:03:21"It's better to burn out than it is to rust."
1:03:21 > 1:03:23And I'm not sure that even Neil himself
1:03:23 > 1:03:26subscribed to that sentiment, but I don't see rust as a bad thing.
1:03:26 > 1:03:32I have an old 1962 John Deere tractor that's covered with rust,
1:03:32 > 1:03:33but it runs like a top.
1:03:33 > 1:03:36You know, the inner workings are just fine.
1:03:36 > 1:03:39# You better let somebody love you
1:03:41 > 1:03:44# Let somebody love you
1:03:44 > 1:03:50# You better let somebody love... #
1:03:50 > 1:03:53'To me, that rust symbolises all the miles driven
1:03:53 > 1:03:58'and all the good work done and all the experiences gained.'
1:04:01 > 1:04:06# Before it's too-o-o-o
1:04:08 > 1:04:12# Late. #
1:04:12 > 1:04:14CHEERING
1:04:18 > 1:04:22'From where I sit, the rust looks pretty good.'
1:05:01 > 1:05:04When somebody is around 40 years, it means they've got something,
1:05:04 > 1:05:06something that people want. And the Eagles have that.
1:05:06 > 1:05:09To me, the Eagles really expressed a mood.
1:05:09 > 1:05:11California was the place of dreams.
1:05:11 > 1:05:14It was a time of limitless possibilities.
1:05:14 > 1:05:18I think they were a defining moment in the rock'n'roll world
1:05:18 > 1:05:19that I love.
1:05:19 > 1:05:23You couldn't really love the Eagles music and be an Eagles fan
1:05:23 > 1:05:27and actually know them and not aspire to greatness yourself.
1:05:27 > 1:05:30I'm not really into legacies. People talk to me, "What's your legacy?"
1:05:30 > 1:05:32I'm here now.
1:05:32 > 1:05:36I'm doing what I want to do, and I'm trying to make stuff happen.
1:05:36 > 1:05:38I see the Eagles in the same way.
1:05:38 > 1:05:41They're not in the '70s.
1:05:41 > 1:05:43They're in 2012 and 2013.
1:05:43 > 1:05:45And whatever they're doing now artistically,
1:05:45 > 1:05:47that's what's important.
1:05:47 > 1:05:52- # In the long run - In the long run
1:05:52 > 1:05:58# We can handle some resistance If our love is a strong one
1:05:58 > 1:06:01# Is a strong one
1:06:02 > 1:06:06# People talkin' about us they got nothin' else to do
1:06:06 > 1:06:11# When it all comes down we will still come through
1:06:11 > 1:06:16- # In the long run - Ooh, I want to tell you
1:06:16 > 1:06:18# It's a long run
1:06:21 > 1:06:25# You know I don't understand why you don't treat yourself better
1:06:25 > 1:06:29# Do the crazy things that you do
1:06:31 > 1:06:33# Cos all the debutantes... #
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