Product Description

The Eagles were riding high on the success of their 1979 album THE LONG RUN when they released this two-LP live set (faithfully reproduced on two short CDs). They were also about to break up, making EAGLES LIVE their unintended swan song. Unintentional or not, EAGLES LIVE makes a nice wrap to the Eagles' not-so-long but incredibly strong run, featuring nearly studio-perfect renderings of the ballads ("Desperado") and country rockers ("New Kid in Town") on which they made their name, and of the tougher rockers they drifted toward later in their career (such as "The Long Run", which Glenn Frey introduces as "our tribute to Memphis, Tennessee"). EAGLES LIVE also includes a harmony-filled cover of Steve Young's lovely "Seven Bridges Road", which turned out to be the Eagles' last pre-reunion hit, and a couple of Joe Walsh solo turns(including "All Night Long", from the 1980 movie URBAN COWBOY). Most of the album was recorded in July 1980; a few tunes from October 1976 are thrown in for good measure. All of it was recorded in California, as an Eagles album should be.

Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Hotel California
2. Heartache Tonight
3. I Can't Tell You Why
4. Long Run
5. New Kid In Town
6. Life's Been Good

Disc 2:

1. Seven Bridges Road
2. Wasted Time
3. Take It To The Limit
4. Doolin Dalton
5. Desperado
6. Saturday Night
7. All Night Long
8. Life In The Fast Lane
9. Take It Easy

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #37825 in Music
• Released on: 1993-01-25
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Live

Customer Reviews

Partially live
This is a fine recording of a great band. However I cannot recommend it and hence it only gets 2 stars.

The reason for this is that you might have thought that with an album cover which says EAGLES LIVE this would actually be a live a album. But no its not, in fact if you read the credits you'll find that there are overdubs added. So it should be called EAGLES LIVE (EXCEPT FOR THE OVERDUBS WHICH WE ADDED AFTER THE CONCERTS). Now if they called it that I probably would have given it 4 stars.

Shame, because the recordings are good, but if I wanted a studio quality recording, I'd have bought the original studio albums. Live is live, it can't be almost live unless its advertised as such!

Eagles Live
After listening to an amazing live version of Hotel California, I decided to buy this CD. It has a good "live feel" to it and the performance itslf is up to the usual Eagles standard. However the actual sound quality is a little dissapointing and I can only describe it as dull and lacking in ambience. If you are not a sound buff and can take this CD for what it is, a brilliant live performance, then buy it. Personally I do not like to hear a first class band with second class sound.

Essential
If you're reading this, you probably already know The Eagles. Sometimes what they played was called country rock, sometimes West Coast rock, sometimes just rock n'roll.

This album doesn't contain very many of their earliest and most country-esque songs (although "Take It Easy" and the manodlin-driven "Saturday Night" are here), and you might wonder why they chose to put two lengthy renditions of Joe Walsh's "All Night Long" and "Life's Been Good" on an Eagles album instead of "Lyin' Eyes" and "The Best Of My Love", but what is on here is great.

The sound is great. The vocals are great. The songs have a nice "live" feel without seeming sloppy. And as always, the musicians are fantastic. The Eagles boasted three of rock's best guitar players at the time these recordings were made, the versatile Don Felder, the idiosyncatic genius Joe Walsh, and the rock-steady Glenn Frey.

Highlights include "Hotel California" (of course), "New Kid In Town", "The Long Run", "Desperado" and "Take It To The Limit" (just listen to Randy Meisner hit an F Sharp near the end!).

This belongs in any music collection. Really, it does.