Godspeed Glenn Frey

[rockrat]

Don't know if this is the right place to put this, but found out earlier that the lead singer for the Eagles has passed away.
Been my favorite group for now on about 45 years. I am dumbfounded and shocked. Was hoping to see them again this year, but as he was the founder of the group too, I guess I will just have to live with the memories of the Eagles concerts.

Whenever I would take my daughter to school or wife and I would go into town, they would always complain "do we have to listen to the Eagles every day!!" YEP!! Many times I will miss a phone call cause I have one of their songs loud on the radio.

Godspeed Glen Frey

[JeffinNZ]

He certainly was awesome.

[richhodg66]

The Eagles probably had more of an impact on music during my formative years than anybody else. They are probably the greatest American band ever. It really is sad that he's gone.

[Artful]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCXzFn-vWMQ

:(

[Windwalker 45acp]

one of the best groups.

[Lagamor]

One of the Greatest for sure.
Why did it have to be Glenn? Why not Don?.....too soon?

[LUBEDUDE]

I never thought I was an Eagles fan until I was marking my "favorites" on Pandora. I marked quite a few Eagles tunes. Turns out, I am quite the fan Afterall! :)

I always liked Glenn Frey in the Miami Vice episode of Smuggler's Blues. He did a good job of acting as well.


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[454PB]

I was an Eagles fan from their beginning. I learned last March that they were doing a concert in Billings. I told my wife "we need to go, it's on my bucket list". We did go, it's a 240 mile trip, and it was a wonderful concert. I never thought Glenn would kick the bucket before I did......

[geargnasher]

Wow. Hasn't been a good year for artists. If it hadn't been for newfangled cassette tapes of The Eagles and Dire Straits, I'm not sure how I would have made it through the summer of 1986.

Gear

[Idaho Sharpshooter]

aka the Stone Ponies...

[dragonrider]

Real shame about Glenn Frey, made great music. I have to dig out my Dire straights discs, I had them not long ago and now can't find them. My wife hates Dire Straights you don't think she............noooooo she wouldn't do that, :shock:

[Three44s]

"......... it's a girl my lord, in a flat bed Ford, slowin' down to take a look at me ............ "

Yup, Eagles ............ staple of the "70's" and I think I liked the earlier songs more than the later but I like all of them!

I probably like CCR the very best during their run ......... the Eagles a close second and Three Dog Night third.

RIP Glenn, we'll miss ya!

Three 44s

[Don Purcell]

Mid 70's, the best years of my life. Seemed like everything was good, no worries.

[Clay M]

Mid 70's, the best years of my life. Seemed like everything was good, no worries.

I agree with that. I can listen the Steele Dan's AJA and it takes me right back to '77.

The Eagles were some of the best songsmiths of our time.
I always liked Joe Walsh as well.

[Walla2]

Mid 70's, the best years of my life. Seemed like everything was good, no worries.

Agree with that. Don't want to go back though. They were jim dandy years for sure.

[Ken in Iowa]

I saw the Eagles in Kansas City, about July 1975. The Rolling Stones were the headliner, but the Eagles stole the show. I believe this was one of the first shows with Joe Walsh.

Glenn had a heck of a career. Did you know he sang background on Bob Seger's Ramblin' Gamblin' man?

[marlin39a]

I go through Winslow, Arizona a few times a year. Always have to see the statue there.

[fouronesix]

RIP Glenn Frey. Same vintage and we're dropping like flies. :(
To my ear, here's the best performance they ever did, 1974. This is a Dailymotion video. The sync is a little off but the audio quality is better than the other links to this performance. Check out the riffs by Don Felder- one of the best, IMO.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xkittb_already-gone-by-the-eagles-live-1974_music

[LUBEDUDE]

HBO or Showtime had an excellent 2 part program on the Eagles that is replayed every 6-12 months.

It starts at their beginning through about 2013? Great footage of concerts, behind the scenes, and narrations. Heavily narrated by Glenn Fry. I had no idea about the big dissension between members.

A great program if you can catch it.

[geargnasher]

I agree with that. I can listen the Steele Dan's AJA and it takes me right back to '77.

The Eagles were some of the best songsmiths of our time.
I always liked Joe Walsh as well.

IMO AJA is the best album ever recorded, by anyone, ever. Pure magic.


Lubedude, I'll have to look for that one.

Gear

[Clay M]

IMO AJA is the best album ever recorded, by anyone, ever. Pure magic.




Gear

I agree and 77 was a magic year. So many great albums.
I and going to get the DVD "The making and recording of Aja"

[Artful]

https://www.yahoo.com/celebrity/news/glenn-frey-death-rheumatoid-arthritis-medication-lead-disaster-004653581.html?ref=gs
Glenn Frey’s Death: Rheumatoid Arthritis Medication Can Lead to ‘Disaster,’ Doctor Says

New light is being shed on the medical conditions that contributed to Eagles co-founder Glenn Frey’s death, with a medical expert telling TheWrap that the medications prescribed for Frey’s conditions can lead to “disaster.”
Frey died Monday at age 67. According to the band’s website, the singer and songwriter “succumbed to complications from rheumatoid arthritis, acute ulcerative colitis and pneumonia.”

The group’s manager, Irving Azoff (http://www.thewrap.com/tag/irving_azoff/), told TheWrap that Frey’s medications played a part in his death

“The colitis and pneumonia were side effects from all the meds,” Azoff said. “He died from complications of ulcer and colitis after being treated with drugs for his rheumatoid arthritis which he had for over 15 years.”

While Azoff declined to state which medications Frey was taking, Dr. Marc I. Leavey, an internal medicine specialist at Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore (who did not treat Frey), told TheWrap that medications for rheumatoid arthritis or ulcerative colitis can compromise the immune system’s ability to fight off pneumonia.

“The medications used for rheumatoid arthritis or ulcerative colitis can interfere with the normal immune response needed to fight an infective agent, such as a pneumonia, again leading to disaster,” Leavey said.
Even the disease can lead to life-threatening conditions,Leavey cautioned.
“Rheumatoid arthritis, itself, can produce a condition which can allow ulcerative colitis, pneumonia, or both to become serious enough to threaten a life,” Leavey noted.

“Whether due to the disease or the medications used to treat them, the combination of rheumatoid arthritis, ulcerative colitis and pneumonia is one which would likely require maximal medical effort to fight,” he added.

LaRita Jacobs, a rheumatoid arthritis advocate and Platinum Ambassador with the Arthritis Foundation, explained that rheumatoid arthritis and its treatment can work hand-in-hand to make sufferers more susceptible to other ailments. Unlike other forms of arthritis, it is an autoimmune disease, meaning that your immune system attacks healthy cells. And “by far” the most common treatments for the illness involve chemotherapy, which tends to weaken the immune system.

“You’re kind of getting a one-two punch there; you’re getting both the punch from the disease itself, which plays havoc with you and causes other problems,” Jacobs said. “And then on top of that, you’re trying to manage all of that with drugs that can have some very serious side-effects.”

Compounding matters, Jacobs notes, is that people can take chemotherapy treatment for rheumatoid arthritis for years, longer than they typically do for cancer.

Pneumonia, Jacobs said, is “absolutely” a common (http://www.thewrap.com/tag/common/) danger under those conditions, though it’s also not uncommon (http://www.thewrap.com/tag/common/) for patients to die of an infection, “because you can’t fight it … everything is more dangerous to you.”

Another, overarching danger attached to rheumatoid arthritis, Jacobs said, is a lack of awareness in the general population as the disease is rarely listed as a cause of death.

“Nobody knows how many people die of complications from things like rheumatoid arthritis,” Jacobs said. “It’s under the radar.”

Despite having grappled with such a debilitating disease for so many years, Jacobs said Frey could very well have had his functional periods, such as tours, interviews and television shows, without the public being aware.

“It does wax and wane, and there can be times when you’re faking it pretty well, and nobody knows,” she explained.
However, she noted, that activity would probably have come at a price.

“It wouldn’t surprise me in the least if, after he finished whatever he did, he collapsed for three, four days a week,” Jacobs said.

[Doggonekid]

My two favorite in the band was Glenn Frey and Joe Walsh. One of the best bands there ever was. We are starting to say good-bye to a great era. Bob Seger, Pink Floyd the Mighty Led Zeppelin. Little by little we will loose some of hero's and memories. Come to think of it I have all ready lost a lot of my memories. Oh well RIP whoever we are talking about. O yea Glen somebody.

[Budzilla 19]

One of the greatest. Gone too soon.

[odinohi]

HBO or Showtime had an excellent 2 part program on the Eagles that is replayed every 6-12 months.

It starts at their beginning through about 2013? Great footage of concerts, behind the scenes, and narrations. Heavily narrated by Glenn Fry. I had no idea about the big dissension between members.

A great program if you can catch it.

saw aw it last nite, awesome

[Lloyd Smale]

to me the eagles and pink Floyd will allways be the greatest music ever.