The lowdown on The Eagles – Liverpool arena 30/06/2019
The title speaks for itself.
Full review in comments.
The best place to start:
Sat at home last Friday
The absolutely essential masterpiece(s):
It’s the Eagles…
The Eagles – Liverpool arena 30/06/2019
On the banks of the Mersey,
Cool wind in my hair,
Warm smell from the burger van
Wafting up through the air.
So, Friday 28th June, nothing planned & the lovely Carol gets a call from her son.
Long story cut short, we were offered 2 tickets to see the Eagles if we fancied them.
After 2 days of thinking that there must be a catch (if something sounds too good to be true, it invariably is), we find ourselves inside Liverpool arena waiting for the fun to start.
Two & a half hours later I was thinking that it was one of the finest concerts I had ever seen. They started strongly (the harmonies were amazing) & it just got better. I really had forgotten how many brilliant songs that they had knocked out over the years.
My beloved wife Carol tended to like the more mellow, countrified songs whereas a combination of my hearing loss (wear the ear protectors at work kids) & my general musical tastes meant that I enjoyed the rockier stuff more.
Truth be told, both of us had plenty of songs for us to be really happy.
Obvious highlights? – there really were so many it was hard to pick, but a huge up for the double whammy of life’s been good followed by boys of Summer about 3/4 of the way in – absolutely fantastic.
All too soon they were waving to us saying that we were a great audience blah blah blah, then a Mexican trumpet solo led us into Hotel California.
The place erupted, thousands of people giving it welly – I definitely had something in my eye at the end of that…
Couple more encores then it was out & trying to get the last train home.
What a show , Fantastic night.
I must say that the screen work was the best I have ever seen at a concert.
Finally, I was amazed to be told by Joe Walsh that he & Sir Ringo are brothers in law.
Please excuse my rambling on, I have never been much of a writer, but I hope this post conveys a little of how wonderful it all was.
PS – did I mention that the tickets were free?
I absolutely love The Eagles and that was a great review!
I see someone’s been livin’ it up at the Hotel Scallyfornia.
I’ll get me trainees.
Plenty of hubcaps at the Hotel Scallyfornia
Cheers Jack. Free! Nice, as Eagles ticket prices are bloody expensive.
How did they go covering for Glenn Frey? Who did his vocals ?
Glenn’s son is filling his shoes.
Wonder if Joe Walsh manages to get anything signed?
– Pleeeeeeease, Ringo!
– No. Peace and love, Joe.
Repeat every Christmas.
Nice to see the Eags get good review, often being scorned for being more successful than their influences and forbears. Confess I was surprised they got straight back on the road after Glenn died, a son deputising not always a good move, but I feel they had been Don and Joe show for some time and not uncompetitively
Awesome. Great review that makes it particularly galling to be back here in the office after a few days off with the roof windows open and the amp up loud. I would love to see the Eagles play live, and I know I’d be howling along to HC with everyone else come the encore. They sound-tracked a big stretch of my glory days. Too fast to live, too young to die, bye-bye.
Lucky you Jack. Like VV I would love to see Eagles (apparently theres no definite article, but it’s all wrong) and apparently Deacon Frey is a sound alike and look alike for his old man which is all good.
I would rather have root canal surgery (coming up soon) than see The Eagles, but I enjoyed the review.
When you get your teeth done, perhaps you could ask them to check out the ears at the same time?
LMFAO !
Crikey, the friendliest place on the internet strikes again!
Actually I like a few songs especially the one that Gene Clark wrote, but not a band I have the slightest interest in seeing.
Fantastic stuff. My dad and my brother saw them at Wembley Stadium the other week and had a great time.
I saw them at Mancs Arena about ten years ago and it was a great show.
Irrespective of what I (or anyone else) thinks of them, just to hear the call and response of the guitar outro to Hotel California was breathtaking.
An icon in the history of rock ‘n roll.
Have I got me apostrophe in the ‘wrong place?
No, you just need another one after the n to show the elision of the d in the theoretical “and” as well as the a. Otherwise it’s short for “rock an roll” which doesn’t make any sense. Much like this fucking post.
See also: G n’ R = Guns nd Roses.
I have grade B O-level English, I’ll have you know.
B O level? All you could afford was Bang and Olufsen. Poor lad, you had it rough thy knows.
Graid BO leval English. My spilleng stinks.
I’ve suspected from an early age that I was ‘apostrophe averse’.
Thank God I came here for ‘correction.
(Hurr)
I call it apostrophe rage. (Only on the Afterword). (Hey TMFTL – the house band)