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Eagles - Documentary (Showtime)
By: Mac Date: February 12, 2013, 5:34 pm
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[glow=red,2,300]Eagles [/glow]- Documentary (Showtime)
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I'm looking forward to this.
[quote]One of the buzzed-about movies at the Sundance Film
Festival is “History of the Eagles Part 1,” an in-depth look at
one of America’s essential bands (which has notable ties to
Michigan, thanks to Royal Oak’s own Glenn Frey).
The documentary, which debuted over the weekend at the Park
City, Utah, event, is coming to Showtime next month. It will air
at 8 p.m. Feb. 15. “History of the Eagles Part 2” will debut the
following night, Feb. 16, at 8 p.m.
“History of the Eagles” was produced by Oscar winner Alex
Gibney, who has tackled big issues with films like “Enron: The
Smartest Guys in the Room.” It was directed by Alison Ellwood,
who edited that film.
Using new interviews, previously unseen home movies and rare
performance footage, the two parts follow the band’s soaring
climb in the 1970s and its breakup in 1980, as well as the
post-split lives of the group’s members and the Eagles reunion
tour in the early 1990s.
The Los Angeles Times reported Frey’s comments from a news
conference shortly before the Saturday screening of Part 1 at
Sundance. The metro Detroit native talked about the
behind-the-scenes access that finally will be given to worldwide
fans.
“We have not overexposed in the last 42 years,” said Frey.
“There’s a lot that’s been left to people’s imaginations. For
us, it’s an opportunity to sort of give people a view of what it
was like to be running around the country in the 1970s, making
records …”
“… Growing up in public,” added fellow Eagles singer-songwriter
Don Henley.
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Re: Eagles - Documentary (Showtime)
By: Chiprocks1 Date: February 12, 2013, 6:45 pm
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Don't have Showtime. Gah! Remind me when this drops on DVD as
it's something I would definitely check out.
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Re: Eagles - Documentary (Showtime)
By: Mac Date: February 13, 2013, 2:57 pm
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I'll keep and eye and ear open.
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Re: Eagles - Documentary (Showtime)
By: Mac Date: February 13, 2013, 3:00 pm
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Re: Eagles - Documentary (Showtime)
By: Mac Date: February 16, 2013, 9:02 am
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Got to sit down and watch Part 1 of the Eagles documentary. It
was a typical, yet I found it somewhat entertaining, but more
importantly informative.
I've been a fan of both the Eagles and Joe Walsh for years and
never could figure out the connection. The documentary went into
great detail of how this occurred and it all makes sense now.
It begins with Don Henley stating all members past and present
will be heard here with no holding back. I don't know about the
holding back, but they did allow everybody to say their thoughts
on the history. Including Don Felder who has had some ugly
conflicts with Glenn Frey and Don Henley. As much as I think
Henley and Frey held back from their dislike for Felder, I think
it was very evident there are huge issues with these two that
remain today.
This is also pure opinion, but after reading Felders book Heaven
and Hell: My Life in the Eagles (1974-2001) and watching the
guys speak, Frey and Henley's talent also was very tyrannical. I
could only imagine what it must have been working with those
guys. Sure, they come off as nice guys in the documentary, but
even the bits and pieces display some rather intimidating
personalities.
I loved the rather large portion they devoted to Joe Walsh.
They spent about the first 30 minutes of the 2 hours just going
over the very beginnings for the group. The remaining time was
on their growing success up through the last album The Long Run.
Throughout was plenty of music, concert footage, backstage
footage, all kinds of unseen stuff. A lot it of not that
interesting. Since they had so little time left, they did not go
into album development that much, but concentrated on specific
songs and their evolution.
Still, it was more entertaining to see video footage than just
looking over a well documented book like The Eagles: An American
Band
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Tonight, I imagine will pick up with the breakdown and then the
following years of reunions. I could be wrong. :)
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Re: Eagles - Documentary (Showtime)
By: Chiprocks1 Date: February 16, 2013, 9:04 am
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How many Parts, er....hours is this? 2 parts = 4 hours?
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Re: Eagles - Documentary (Showtime)
By: Mac Date: February 16, 2013, 9:05 am
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3 hours total.
2 last night, 1 tonight.
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Re: Eagles - Documentary (Showtime)
By: Mac Date: February 17, 2013, 4:36 pm
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So I kinda missed the last hour. I did see about 20 minutes. I
need to check it out on demand. The part I did see, Henley and
Frey were pissed at Felder again and made statements. Again, not
typical of a documentary, but something they wanted to point
out.
Felder made statements how he missed the music and band, shed a
tear and walked out.
Anyway, I'll catch up soon.
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Re: Eagles - Documentary (Showtime)
By: Mac Date: February 22, 2013, 11:11 am
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[glow=red,2,300]Don Henley Says a Former Eagle Will Return to
the Band for Upcoming Tour[/glow]
[quote]Eagles singer-songwriter and drummer Don Henley is
releasing a new solo album in May, and in an interview to
promote that upcoming work, he let slip that a former member of
the Eagles will return to the band for an upcoming tour — though
he declined to say which one.
Henley has been working off and on in Nashville for his new
record, collaborating with original Tom Petty and the
Heartbreakers drummer Stan Lynch. Titled ‘Cass County’ after the
Texas county where he was born, Henley says the album “leans
towards country. Some of it’s traditional country, some of it is
what you might call alt-country, and I’ve got a lot of
interesting guest vocalists and musicians on there with me. I
made a lot of the album in Nashville. Some of it was recorded
here in Dallas and some of it was recorded in Southern
California. I’m pretty pleased with it.”
The Eagles were the subject of the recently-premiered
documentary ‘The History of the Eagles,’ which offers a window
into the group’s long-held secrets. “We were always a pretty
private band,” Henley says. “We didn’t allow a lot of access to
our little entourage there. Partly, of course, because of our
behavior.”
But some of that material made it into the film through private
footage, causing Henley to add, “I’ve got a lot of explaining to
do to my kids.”
The Eagles will tour this summer with a greatest hits show
billed as ‘The History of the Eagles’ as a nod to the
documentary. Henley says it “could very well be our last . . .
we’re gonna include at least one former band member in this tour
and kinda go back to the roots, and how we created some of these
songs. We’re gonna break it down to the fundamentals and then
take it up to where it is now.”
Though he declined to reveal who will be rejoining the group, he
acknowledged it wouldn’t be guitarist Don Felder, who trashed
Henley and Glenn Frey in his memoir.
“That was easy, wasn’t it?” Henley quipped.[/quote]
Country? WTF Don. That's not his style. Wait, the Eagles...
Country... Gahhhhhhhh
No Seriously, his solo work is no where near country.
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Re: Eagles - Documentary (Showtime)
By: Chiprocks1 Date: February 22, 2013, 11:15 am
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My money is on Mick Fleetwood coming back. Yes, he was the
founding member and just chose to remain in obscurity all these
years.
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