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1/18/2016

Glenn Frey, RIP

Filed under: General — Patterico @ 3:17 pm



This is just horrible. First David Bowie and now this.

I have been learning some David Bowie songs lately on the piano and guitar. I have a feeling that some Eagles songs are going to make their way into the rotation as well.

49 Responses to “Glenn Frey, RIP”

  1. los angeles doesn’t make eagles no more

    happyfeet (831175)

  2. Their music never did much for me – that whole desperado-schtick – but they were big in their day. Frey and Henley definitely had a knack for songwriting and picking out songs written by many others that they could put their signature on. Another one bites the dust…

    Colonel Haiku (aacf41)

  3. R.I.P. Mic Gillette trumpet and trombone player for Tower of Power. Great Funk out of Oakland.

    mg (31009b)

  4. This is going to a long, sad year, I think.

    Icy (8c543e)

  5. I like that silly fellow Mojo Nixon. He had this song:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEet3RwQnaY

    And I am VERY sad about it. Frey was a decent cat, and Henley a ginormous poseur. Sigh.

    A bit of a smile from Mojo here:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpb4ZAAP6Z4

    And you are right, Icy. Winter is coming.

    Simon Jester (2708f4)

  6. You forgot to mention the glorious villain from Diehard and Quigley Down Under, Alan Rickman.

    May he rest in peace.

    Steve57 (17e737)

  7. No, Steve, I was saddened about Alan Rickman and David Bowie’s losses. I enjoyed the acting and singing of both. And what I liked best was that, as they aged, they became more genuine and interesting. Entropy always has its way with all of us, sure.

    I think Rickman enjoyed chewing the scenery.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhfuuKiTcYQ

    Simon Jester (2708f4)

  8. I’m still going to miss his talent, SJ.

    Steve57 (17e737)

  9. Henley’s routine of bringing teen-aged girls back to his rock star pad and getting them wrecked on teh coke and having fun with ’em in the hot tub worked well for him until one OD’d and nearly died in 1981 kinda sorta took the shine off the chrome.

    Frey was reported to be a little disagreeable at times… but most people are.

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  10. R.I.P. Dale “Buffin” Griffin, drummer for Mott the Hoople

    Icy (8c543e)

  11. Read somewhere this past week that Bowie was going to be the guy who kicked off the Great Rock Icon Die-off and that it was going to have a big psychological effect on baby boomers.

    But, hey, tramps like us… Sparky we were born to die.

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  12. I write that and Icy delivers a gut punch. Not Mott! Mass extinction!!!!!!!!

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  13. And the hits keep comin’… RIP David St. Hubbins, rhythm guitarist for Spinal Tap…

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  14. Steve #8: me too. I’m silly. When I see some musician or actor acting nicely on a chat show, I think that they might be that nice person. So it was with Alan Rickman and David Bowie. But I have seen musicians and actors being complete jerks quite often.

    As for David Bowie, I love this bit he did with that awful Ricky Gervais. It’s really funny.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv6mEv_rDdE

    Simon Jester (2708f4)

  15. David Bowie, I never got him. I understood a lot of people did. Many of whom I considered sane and reasonable. So maybe there was something wrong with me. So when he died the last thing I wanted to do was to say or even think a word that could be considered ill.

    But Alan Rickman? I got him. This one hit home.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qdw-Mr8WNTw

    Quigley Down Under Official Trailer #1, Alan Rickman (1990) Download HD

    Steve57 (f61b03)

  16. I hope nobody took insult. The point isn’t that I’m right. Just that tastes vary. Rickman’s death hit me harder, is all.

    Steve57 (f61b03)

  17. I watched Galaxy Quest again over the weekend for the first time since 2000… still a very funny movie.

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  18. Great moments in movie history.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwDmV1KWrKQ

    Quigley Down Under Shootout

    Steve57 (f61b03)

  19. I was in the waiting room at the iPhone hospital, waiting for my Samsung Galaxy SIII to get out of surgery. She was having her charging port swapped out, which is no doubt an outlawed form of genital mutilation in most first world countries.

    But the surgery didn’t take as much time as I expected. So I wasn’t able to discover from the
    aged, ancient Glamour magazine I was reading what Scarlett Johansson wants in a relationship.

    But whatever it is, I’m sure I’m it.

    Steve57 (f61b03)

  20. I’m with Steve57 on the late Bowie. never got him and i tried quite a bit in the 80s to do so as whe was popular with some of my peers. I kind of got that he was innovative.

    Not so much concerning Alan Rickman. Sorry, but while i can watch his craft work I can not forget that he was an active Corrie Propagandist and supported her views on Israel. I would recommend watching his performance in ‘Die Hard’.

    Glenn Fry? ouch, that stung quite a bit. ah well.

    seeRpea (18b26a)

  21. No relation, I assume.

    Kevin M (25bbee)

  22. Two non-musical things which I really liked about Frey were 1) His genuine love for sports and his relationship with ESPN’s Chris Berman, and 2) His acting turn on Wiseguy back in the day (1989). He played a music producer/artist who had a sense of decency on a fantastic story arc involving Tim Curry and Paul Whitfield as out-sized music industry titans. Glenn held his own over a bunch of episodes which was NOT an easy thing to do with that cast. Deborah Harry was also a fantastic addition to the cast for this story arc.

    RIP.

    Ed from SFV (3400a5)

  23. seeRpea, I wasn’t so much endorsing Rickman’s politics as stating that I was more affected by his work than I was by Bowie’s.

    And again this is purely a matter of taste.

    Steve57 (f61b03)

  24. re #24: didn’t think i implied you did Steven57 , no such implication intended.
    Everyone has their own limit when a performers politics gets in the way.

    seeRpea (18b26a)

  25. I remember that show, Ed… watched it faithfully. Can’t remember the guy who played the lead, but I think I’ve seen him on Twitter, he seems to be conservative.

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  26. Glenn Frey went from hard rock to rock hard.

    https://www.pinterest.com/pin/149181806378917783/

    Gazzer (0fe101)

  27. I was just playing Hotel California.
    Another Glen Frey song kind of topical Heartache Tonight – The Eagles in Miami Nov 22, 2013.

    The Eagles songs take depression, and give it a beat you can tap along with.

    papertiger (c2d6da)

  28. I saw them on their reunion tour. I’m glad I did; it was a fantastic show.

    aphrael (3f0569)

  29. …Ruining Bruce Willis’ Christmas, he more or less inaugurated what ought to be an Oscar category – Best Brit Villain in a Hollywood Blockbuster. Hans Gruber is a German terrorist but played by Rickman with an icy Englishness so irresistible that, as political correctness scared the studios off any too obviously ethnic bad guys, he paved the way for a decade of supercilious sneering anglo-psychos – Jeremy Irons, Gary Oldman, Charles Dance… Rickman himself was hard to beat on this turf: indeed, he brought something of his Die Hard English villainy to the ascetic, bespectacled Eamonn de Valera opposite Liam Neeson in the Irish biopic Michael Collins. One wonders whether Kevin Costner had any regrets about letting him steal the show quite so thoroughly as the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves – although it’s hard to think of anyone else who could pull off lines like, “No more merciful beheadings! And call off Christmas.”…

    Steve57 (f61b03)

  30. I am a life long guitar player. I saw the EAGLES way way way back when, on the HOTEL CALIFORNIA TOUR. It was a huge stadium concert in Milwaukee, and I actually enjoyed the “mellow” Eagles. It took me many years to appreciate how effing good the Eagles were. Henley singing and drums, Frye and Felder and of course Joe Walsh on guitar, and Timothy B Schmidt on BASS and HEAVENLY PERFECT and HIGH HARMONIES. Good Lord, T.B.Schmidt was an awesome piece of that band. The EAGLES got better and better and better. They WERE/ARE PRO’S, true PROFESSIONALS. I admire that. Tom Petty and his HEARTBREAKERS are similar. Maybe I like Petty’s songs and ROCK N ROLL better, but the true PROFESSIONAL seamless nature of their LIVE performances are AWESOME.
    RIP Glenn.

    Gus (7cc192)

  31. “As for the Eagles themselves, they weren’t really my bag, baby, as the star of the legendary British group Ming Tea would say. And I had a chuckle watching their recent documentary on Netflix last year hearing what Frey claims ostensibly broke up the band in 1980 – a fight between Frey and “Hotel California” songwriter Don Felder, because the latter musician wasn’t respectful enough of future Keating Five star Alan Cranston and his wife at a fundraising gig the Eagles played to line that California Democrat’s campaign coffers. Wikipedia claims Felder sneered, “You’re welcome – I guess,” to Cranston’s wife “as the politician was thanking the band backstage for performing a benefit for his reelection.”

    – Ed Driscoll

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  32. I have great respect for Felder and Walsh’s abilities. Frey and Henley were lefty, no-nuke, d-bag Glummer Twins…

    There… I said it.

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  33. Walsh could play.

    mg (31009b)

  34. Artistes often have EGO’s the size of Hussein Odrama. How this occurs is a mystery.

    Gus (7cc192)

  35. Bye the bye. This coming May will see the next coming of the Valdez Fly in.

    http://www.valdezflyin.com/

    I’ve always considered Texas the southern end of Alaska. Or, Alaska the northern end of Texas.

    Six of one, half dozen of the other. Take your pick.

    Steve57 (f61b03)

  36. I liked Smugglers Blues by Frey and have always liked Nirvana’s acoustic cover of Bowies “Man who sold the world”
    Some local guys had a soccer team called the Diamond Dogs and they were good, so they’d blast that bleepin song before the game and then after when they won.
    I made it a personal mission to run a shut out on them so I didn’t have to listen to it…

    steveg (fed1c9)

  37. oh

    if frey had UC, it can make anyone grumpy.
    That stuff can cause gout of the eye, arthritis to major joint along with the expected bowel issues. Sometimes it seems better not to eat during a flare up so you don’t crap your guts out on the seat of the car or blow up a bathroom at the top of the squat down to the toilet.
    I have Crohns which is very similar to UC and have literally destroyed restrooms with something that came on in less than two minutes. No feeling of any problem then suddenly a gurgle and severe cramping which I named the “two minute warning”.
    They are nasty, filthy, painful diseases. The arthritis is a bonus in some auto immune disorders and often when my body gets creaky and stiff, or if my hands can’t grip, I know I’m headed into a bout…. may last a day, a week, two months

    steveg (fed1c9)

  38. hoping you beat this, steveng

    mg (31009b)

  39. steveg.

    mg (31009b)

  40. Good Lord, Steveg, that sounds miserable and tough to have to deal with. Best wishes. I

    As for Frey, “Heartache Tonight”, was a good vocal in my book. Could not abide “Budgie Smuggler’s Blues”

    Colonel Haiku (2601c0)

  41. steveg, all the best. Honto ni.

    Steve57 (f61b03)

  42. All I have to say is that Hotel California is easy and lots of fun to play on the guitar. Give it a try.

    Titan Mk6B (a6da0b)

  43. That David Bowie and Glenn Frey have died is less sad, musically, than that Justin Bieber is still alive.

    Gabriel Hanna (64d4e1)

  44. Trivia question

    What was the song playing on the radio that Dude took exception with?

    papertiger (c2d6da)

  45. peaceful easy feeling
    lol, papertiger.

    mg (31009b)

  46. Thanks everyone.
    I have it easier by far than most.
    Good genetics layered over it helps.

    steveg (fed1c9)


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