The Eagles: Credit or Blame where its due.

Love them or hate them, you can't deny the Eagles' influence. Here are seven things we can blame, or thank, the Eagles for. Cultural criminals or musical heroes? You decide.
1- Good country rock -- Ryan Adams once cited the Eagles as a conceptual model for his band, Whiskeytown, meaning that different songwriters in the group would be spotlighted. Alas, Whiskeytown turned out to be a one-star band. But the Eagles' combination of popcraft, twang and vocal harmonies provided a pleasing sonic blueprint for other acts to follow, including Fleetwood Mac and Firefall as well as Whiskeytown.

2- Punk rock - The Sex Pistols, Ramones, Clash and other punk bands arose in direct response to the slickness of 1970s rock, and rock of that period didn't get much slicker than the Eagles.

3- High-dollar nostalgia - Triple-digit ticket prices weren't unprecendented a decade ago, but they were almost unheard of outside bthe big cities. The the Eagles "Hell Freezes Over" reuion tour came to Raleigh in 1994, with a top price of $97 (compared to $50 for the Rolling Stones' Carter-Finley Stadium show that same year). People howled in protest -- but they also bought the tickets, which seemed to open the floodgates. Everyone from Kiss to the aforementioned Sex Pistols have since mounted comeback tours, usually at stratospheric prices. Compared to Paul McCartney's $250 tickets in Raleigh in 2002, tonight's top Eagles price of $115 is a relative bargain.

4- Bad country rock - Every legacy has two sides, and a lot of what came out of Nashville during the 1990s sounded like denatured Eagles. For a sample, check "Common Thread: The Songs of the Eagles," a 1993 tribute album on which Little Texas, Diamond Rio, Travis Tritt and other country stars do dull-as-dirt covers of Eagles songs.

5- "Almost Famous" -- Writer/director Cameron Crowe based Stillwater's Russell Hammond, the principle rock-star character of his autobiographical 2000 film, on Eagles co-leader Glenn Frey. "Just make us look cool" was a direct quote from Frey, according to Crowe.

6- "Life in the Fast Lane" -- The '70s would have been unimaginable without this definitive song from 1976's "Hotel California," which gave a perfect summarizing tag line to California's image of lifestyle decadence.

7- "Don Henley Must Die" -- In 1990, roots-punk song-and-dance man Mojo Nixon put out this ditty (punchline: "Don't let him get back together with Glenn Frey"). Two years later, Henley himself appeared onstage at a Nixon show in Texas to sing it with him. For the first and last time ever, Nixon was struck speechless. But he recovered a few years later to do a song savaging the Eagles' former impresario, "Bring Me the Head of David Geffen."


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Oasis would never do that.

Score one for Oasis.

to see their ripoff shite.

"Man, I had a rough night and I hate the fucking Eagles."
:D

they were a great and incomparably influential band

They wrote some truly great songs


blame

more than two of them were among the biggest assholes ever to take the stage

they neutered rock n roll

n/t

Hey, I like hatin' on the Eagles as much as the next punk-rock-lovin' fella, but I gotta give credit where credit is due: they wrote some decent songs in their day.

I saw Don Henley, Glenn Frey and Timothy B. Schmidt play at a fundraiser for Salazar last September. It was a good show. Henley is a hardcore Democrat.

I saw Don Henley, Glenn Frey and Timothy B. Schmidt play at a fundraiser for Salazar last September. It was a good show. Henley is a hardcore Democrat.

He just wasn't ready for the superbowl. And he let himself get sick beforehand.

I first saw them, oh, had to be back around the summer of 76 or so (things were a little smoky back then, may be off on that date a little) playing on a ball diamond in Cedar Falls, Iowa - had never heard of them before the show....they were warming up for Steely Dan...they stole the show, really rocked, all their albums were actually a little disappointing compared to that event. As I recall tickets were around $6.00.