My Seventies Music

Tag: Eagles

  • Jackson Browne – “The Load Out”/”Stay”, “Running On Empty”, “Take It Easy” and “Tender Is The Night”

    In the late Seventies Jackson Browne wrote a song about being a rock musician on tour called “The Load Out”, which morphed into “Stay”, and featured David Lindley on slide guitar/lap steel guitar (and a falsetto voice on the chorus).

    I don’t really remember “The Load Out” part too much, but “Stay” (Oh won’t you stay Just a little bit longer Oh, Please please stay Just a little bit more…) has stuck in my mind all these years.

    In 1978 Jackson Browne and David Lindley, together with supporting artists, played “The Load Out” and “Stay” live in England at the BBC Television Centre in the Shepherds Bush Theatre in London:

    Another track by Jackson Browne I really like, but either didn’t know or had forgotten it was by him, is “Running On Empty”:

    For some reason I connected that song with Bruce Springsteen, and now I see why: the two are friends and have often sung the song together, as here:

    Jackson Browne co-wrote “Take It Easy” with Eagles member and neighbour Glenn Frey, which was a hit for that group. Here is his version:

    Like so many others, when the Seventies ended, Jackson Browne went on to produce more great music, such as “Tender Is The Night” in 1983, here in a live version from 1986 on German television’s Rockpalast (looks a bit like a long haired Tom Cruise 🙂 ):

    Night night, sleep tight…

    Paul

  • The Eagles – “Ol’ 55” and “Desperado” (and “Already Gone”)

    I first heard “Ol’ 55” from the Eagles in 1975 (I only found out just now, 35 years later, that it was actually written by Tom Waits…)

    It was on an early album before they really took off and became mainstream after Joe Walsh joined them.

    Here’s a live version from 1974:

    And, from the same album, “Desperado”:

    Let me know how you like them!

    Paul

    But wait, there’s more…

    Sorry, I just couldn’t resist another one, also from this album – “Already Gone”:

    I’m outta here (already gone… see me… I’m gone…really…)

  • “Rocky Mountain Way” by Joe Walsh

    “Rocky Mountain Way” by Joe Walsh of The James Gang fame has always been one of my favourites from the Seventies.

    Definitely a touch harder than the “America” tune we had yesterday….

    If you’re into blues/slide guitar and all kinds of effects, then this piece from the album “The Smoker You Drink, The Player You Get” is for you.

    In fact I like it so much that I decided to do videos of more than one version today. 🙂

    So first here he is after moving on from The James Gang, with his band Barnstorm, still looking quite young:

    In 1977 Joe played “Rocky Mountain Way” with the Eagles, to whom he brought a somewhat harder touch… (this was the year of their giant hit album “Hotel California”). Unfortunately the video of that one has been removed “due to a copyright claim by Eaglesrecordingcompany”…

    So instead, much more recently, here Joe still shows how it’s done:

    I first heard this song and the album “The Smoker You Drink, The Player You Get” with its iconic cover at a student party in Palmerston North, New Zealand. Actually I don’t remember the rest of the album, but these guitar riffs and the image of the old biplane have stayed with me ever since…

    Hope you like it too!

    Paul

    P.S. While updating the videos I just came accross a collection of over 75 Joe Walsh tracks you might like to check out, including “Life’s Been Good” (warning though, there are ads for things like Heinz ketchup in between some of the tracks!):

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