Once in a while we would do something completely over the top like that, and it was simply our way of coping with the absurdity of making so much money and being so famous at such an early age. Hey, Lear jets were a lot cheaper then, and when I speak of sending one for Stevie, that kind of thing did not happen every week. But back then we coined the phrase, "Love 'em and Lear 'em." The affair with Stevie lasted off and on for a year or so, and we remain good friends today. If she had a couple of days off, she'd come over and go on the road with us for a while, and then I'd fly her back in time for wherever Fleetwood Mac was supposed to be. One time I chartered a Lear jet and ran her to where I was, and for weeks I got a lot of shit about that from the band. I remember the Eagles were on tour, and so was Fleetwood Mac. It was during this time that I had my brief affair with Stevie Nicks. This was before Irving was married, and we were bacheloring it pretty good. I was in an upstairs corner bedroom of Irving's house. He was the lovable slob."ĭuring the "One of These Nights"/ "Hotel California" period, I lived in Irving Azoff's house on Benedict Canyon, and Glenn lived in Coldwater. I was sort of the housekeeper, the tidy one. We would get up every Sunday, watch football together, scream and yell, and spill things. Burns all over the furniture and carpet, coffee cups all over the place. All around the house he'd leave these little cigarette butts standing on end. Dudes on a rampage.īy '76, '77, Glenn and I were living in a big house that belonged to Dorothy Lamour, up in the hills with a 360-degree view. We'd have girlfriends and live with them for a while, and then we'd get ready to do an album and we'd move back in together. Then we'd get up the next day and do it all over again.Īs we got into making more albums, Glenn and I would go through a series of moving in together and then moving out. So they packed us off to England and stuck us in this little apartment, picked us up, took us to the studio, and then we'd go back to this little apartment and drink ourselves to sleep. Glyn said that although we needed a lot of work, he'd produce us in London. Then Geffen talked Glyn Johns into listening to us. We didn't all agree on things from the beginning, but we were so enamored of one another that it was OK for a while. So when we got back from being on the road with Linda, we recruited those guys. Glenn said we needed to get those guys because they could play the kind of country rock we were all so interested in. He told me about Randy Meisner and Bernie Leadon, who had been with Poco and the Burritos, respectively. So Glenn and I became good friends and we started plotting and planning. I said, "Sure, fine, I'd love it." I'd never really been on the road before. And there's this guy named David Geffen," who I didn't know from Adam, "and there may be a deal in the works if a band could be put together."Īnd he said, "In the meantime, do you want to go on the road with Linda Ronstadt and make 200 bucks a week?" One of the guys left to go play with the Burrito Brothers."Īnd Glenn said, "Me and my partner are breaking up, too. "Please Come Home For Christmas" 12/78 #18 But one night Glenn Frey invited me over to his table and bought me a beer. I just hung around the Troubadour by myself. She was barefooted and scratching her ass. The first night I walked in I saw Graham Nash and Neil Young, and Linda Ronstadt was standing there in a little Daisy Mae kind of dress. I had heard about how legendary it was, and all the people who were performing there. He Troubadour was the first place I went to when I got to L.A. Between him and Don, they seemed unstoppable. A wild personality and a fine vocalist, Glenn was more the pop writer in the Eagles. He provided steady drumming with a husky vocal style and has been brilliant in his solo career as well. Don Henley & Glenn Frey - In Their Own Wordsĭon was the serious Eagle and the writer of the group's more intense songs.
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