Track Listing

1. Get Over It
2. Love Will Keep Us Alive
3. The Girl From Yesterday
4. Learn To Be Still
5. Tequila Sunrise
6. Hotel California
7. Wasted Time
8. Pretty Maids All In A Row
9. I Can't Tell You Why
10. New York Minute
11. The Last Resort
12. Take It Easy
13. In The City
14. Life In The Fast Lane
15. Desperado

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5721 in Music
• Released on: 1999-06-18
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Dimensions: .20 pounds
• Running time: 74 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
Indeed, there were many who thought that it would take an event as cataclysmic as the one described in the album title to get these seminal 1970s soft-rockers back together. But here they are, revisiting some of their most beloved tunes as well as four new ones, on this mostly live, largely acoustic disc. Frey, Henley, Walsh, Schmit, and Felder tackle iconic Eagles standards like "Hotel California", "Tequila Sunrise", "Take It Easy", "Desperado", and "Life in the Fast Lane" and new tunes like "Get Over It" and "Love Will Keep Us Alive" with the smoothly cocky assurance that originally made them icons. --Scott Schinder

CD Description
In a disappointing year of virtual reality performances, the Eagles' highly touted tour of America was a triumphant affirmation of enduring pop values, from a band that literally wrote the stylistic book on the singer-songwriter/rock'n'roll synthesis during the '70s. And as a band member jokes in adroll intro to their live set, "For the record, we never broke up, we just took a 14 year vacation".
So now we have one of the most anticipated reunions in rock history.
Certainly the internal pressures which tore the band apart haven't been papered over, judging from post-tour statements. From the outgrowth of all that creative tension is a remarkably tight live set, and a four-song prologue of new Eagles material, all as fresh and melodious as the originals.
Not surprisingly, the strongest of the new tunes, "Get Over It" and "Learn To Be Still", come from collaborations involving Don Henley. The latter a dark folkish ballad offering reassurance in the face of life's small, bitter defeats, the formera four-on-the-floor, chicken fried rocker which decries theself-victimisation of Americans. And their live rendition of classic tunes really hold up: all are brimming over with elements of country, R&B and blues, sedate, funky grooves, seamless five-part harmonies and sweet soaring guitar solos and duets--all the sounds and flourishes which add up to the Eagles trademark California rock.

Customer Reviews

The album that proved they'll be there forever.
I became an Eagles fan when I was barely a teenager; and re-replaying their studio albums countless times on my cheap little turntable, how would I have wished to be able to see them in concert. But I was living in Germany and they were far away in California; and their tours didn't always include Europe, let alone my little corner of it. What was worse, my mother, horrified by TV pictures of fans being trampled to death at rock concerts, had imposed a strict ban on any such undertaking. When the ban was finally lifted, the Eagles had split. I was dead certain I'd missed the chance to see them live forever.

Then came 1994, the year that Hell Froze Over. To say that I was thrilled is an understatement. I snatched up their new live album the instant I had heard about it. (Oh my God! A new album, and live, too!) Ok, so it only had four new tracks recorded in the studio. But that was understandable; they were going on tour and put more emphasis on rehearsal than on the recording of new songs. And what killers those new songs were - right up there with the best of their work. In addition, the album included almost all my favorite Eagles tunes ... or almost all those of my favorites that I knew they'd performed live before, anyway. "Hotel California" in particular blew me away. This had always been the quintessential Eagles song to me; the song that got me hooked on their music in the first place and that best expressed all that they stood for. And now I was to have yet another version of that song, as great as the one on the "Eagles Live" album and as the original studio version; acoustic this time, with a beautiful new intro. But not only "Hotel California" - every song sounded as great on this album as any of their studio releases and the 1980 "Live" compilation ... or greater, if that was possible, not only because of the crystal clear quality of the recording but also because greater maturity, if anything, had even added to their live performance. No need to prove anything any longer; they had created something that people would always love, and they knew it. (Glenn Frey later wrote, in the booklet accompanying the Eagles' 2000 "Selected Works" collection, that they extended the "Hell Freezes Over" tour to a full two years not only because they had so much fun playing together but also because they themselves realized that they sounded better than they ever had in the 1970s.) Especially Don Henley's rendition of "The Last Resort" stands out in my mind to this day: it was as emotional as he'll ever get - and this was not the twenty-something who had written the song years ago; this was the guy who, in the years since then, had founded the Walden Woods Project and set out on a little crusade of his own to save the land once walked by Henry David Thoreau. If you can't hear it in his voice, watch the video and you'll understand.

It took me some time to be able to acknowledge the humor in Henley's opening remark that they had "never split; [we] just took a fourteen year vacation." But eventually I decided that if they can make light of it, who am I to complain. "Got back together with my friends the Eagles," Don Henley then joked during his performance of "Funky New Year" at the Millennium Concert ... "did a few shows, broke up, got back together, broke up, got back together, broke up, got back together ..." And Glenn Frey wrote, in the booklet accompanying the "Selected Works" compilation which contains the Millennium Concert CD, that while at the end of the "Hell Freezes Over" tour they thought that "[t]he Eagles saga would now have a happy ending" and "the final chapter written, [we] could all move on," he wasn't sure exactly what was going to happen next: "The stars could be doing a number again right now and, as always, I'd be the last one to know. ... We had the last part of a millennium to get our act down, and a whole new thousand years just opened up. You never know how things can go ... I'll just keep my eyes on the stars ..."

Well, Glenn, I guess Hell did Freeze Over for good, and the stars did do another number. You guys are touring again as I write this; not quite in the formation that once got me hooked on your music, but you're still there, and you've even promised us a new album (to be released next year). So I've decided not to take the name of your current tour ("Farewell Tour") all too literally: With this band, I will never rule out anything – ever again.

A classic
I must confess to being a big fan of the Eagles anyway, but Hell Freezes Over surpasses all of their previous albums in terms of both quality and value for money. All of the tracks (bar except In the City) are of exceptional quality, demonstrating the Eagles at their very best. If you're a fan of the Eagles you'll absolutely love this. If you're not a a fan but interested in hearing a classic kind of rock sound then this is the album for you. The rendition of Hotel California in particular is one of the best musical arrangements i've heard in a long time.

Blown Away
I was driving home late one night skipping through radio stations when I came across an amazing piece of accoustic guitar. I carried on listening and to my surprise it kicked into Hotel California (Live). I went out and brought this CD the next day and was blown away.

Classic Eagles fare. If you like the Eagles you'll love this CD. All the best wrapped into one package. Superb.