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Originally Posted by Moosedog
I'm excited.....bought tickets to see the Eagles in March! The same week I'll probably be seeing Gordon in Saginaw! 
Vickie |
I envy you that week of seeing both Lightfoot and The Eagles ! MO the Eagles may not have quite invented Southwestern Rock, but they sure as hell made it a definate type and ubnique sound, an influence to many to this day. Even the name Southwestern Rock as a genre of music to my recollection did not exist before the Eagles. I think it was born more on the Desperado album - the 2ndor 3rd of theirs. Unless anyone questioned the new genre as beibng genuinely unique, The Desperado album put their quadaries to rest. With old west sounding songs like 'Dueling Dalton', Tequila Sunrise, and that great haunting song 'Bittercreek'. Even the cover of the album - the band dressed in genuine-looking dusty working-man clothes, or gunslingers who didn;t put their money into fancy duds and flash, worn boots, hats that looked stomped-on by a mad bull that ate loco-weed, and some fo those great riffs they laid down on that album almost defined the Eagles as band.
Don Henley and Glenn Frey IMO were the genius behind it all, with Frey the Rocker moreso, such as the after-Eagles days when he write those great theme songs like 'The Heat is On' for Miami Vice; and his same time period geat rockers with citified saxophone like 'You Belong to the City' - he left his Southwest behind in the dust. Then Din Henley emerged with that great string of hits such as Sunset Grill, The Boys of Summer New York Minute etc., left him sittin a big enough pile of cash that he could write whatever he wanted to - and did. He out to use more his literature background by specifically naming Huxley and Fitzgerald in that great song (danged if I remember the name) about Satan living in disguise in the city, voice-over for the bad one courtesy of the guy that played worf in Star The TNG Michael Dorn.
Didn't mean to go on so much - it goes w/o saying the greatness of Lightfoot we can agree on in here, and add the Eagles in one week - yee haw !
Have fun Vickie/Moosedog.
