Monday, April 17, 2023 10pm ET: Feature LP: Eagles – Hell Freezes Over (1994)

Hell Freezes Over is the second live album by the Eagles, released November 8, 1994. The album is the first to be released after the Eagles had reformed following a fourteen-year-long break up. The band’s lineup was that of the Long Run era: Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Don Felder, Joe Walsh, and Timothy B. Schmit. It contains four new studio tracks and eleven tracks recorded live in April 1994 for an MTV special. Two Top 40 Mainstream singles, “Get Over It” and “Love Will Keep Us Alive”, were released from the album. It also features an acoustic version of “Hotel California”. The four new studio recordings are the last to feature Don Felder, who was fired from the band in 2001.

The album went to No. 1 on the Billboard album chart upon its release where it stayed for two weeks. The album has sold over 9 million copies in the United States.

Hell Freezes Over was also released in video form on VHS, LaserDisc and DV

1. “Get Over It” 3:31
2. “Love Will Keep Us Alive” 4:03
3. “The Girl from Yesterday” 3:23
4. “Learn to Be Still” 4:28
5. “Tequila Sunrise” 3:28
6. “Hotel California” 7:12
7. “Wasted Time” 5:19
8. “Pretty Maids All in a Row” 4:26
9. “I Can’t Tell You Why” 5:11
10. “New York Minute” 6:37
11. “The Last Resort” 7:24
12. “Take It Easy” 4:36
13. “In the City” 4:07
14. “Life in the Fast Lane” 6:01
15. “Desperado” 4:17

Don Henley – drums, acoustic guitar, percussion, vocals
Timothy B. Schmit – bass guitar, vocals
Glenn Frey – electric and acoustic guitar, piano, keyboards, vocals
Don Felder – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, pedal steel guitar, mandolin, vocals
Joe Walsh – electric, acoustic, and slide guitar, organ, vocals
John Corey – piano
Scott Crago – percussion, drums
Timothy Drury – keyboards, vocals
Stan Lynch – percussion
Jay Oliver – organ, keyboards, piano
Paulinho Da Costa – percussion
Gary Grimm – percussion
Brian Matthews – Electro-Theremin
Al Garth – trumpet on “New York Minute”
Burbank Philharmonic Orchestra – backup on “New York Minute”

Saturday, April 15, 2023 3pm ET: Number One Album: Feature LP: Eagles – Hotel California (1976)

Hotel California is the fifth studio album by American rock band Eagles. Released on December 8, 1976, by Asylum Records, Hotel California was recorded by Bill Szymczyk at the Criteria and Record Plant studios between March and October 1976. It was the band’s first album with guitarist Joe Walsh, who had replaced founding member Bernie Leadon, and is the last album to feature founding bassist Randy Meisner. The front cover is a photograph of the Beverly Hills Hotel by David Alexander.

Hotel California topped the US Billboard Top LPs & Tapes chart. At the 20th Grammy Awards, the title track won Record of the Year, and “New Kid in Town” won Best Arrangement for Voices. The album was also nominated for Album of the Year but lost to Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours. Three singles were released from the album, with the title track and “New Kid in Town” topping the Billboard Hot 100 and “Life in the Fast Lane” reaching No. 11.

Hotel California is one of the best-selling albums of all time. It has been certified 26× Platinum in the US, and has sold over 32 million copies worldwide, making it the band’s best-selling album after Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975). It has been ranked as one of the greatest albums of all time. In 2003 and 2012, it was ranked number 37 on Rolling Stone’s list of “The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time”. A 40th anniversary special edition of Hotel California was released in November 2017.

1. “Hotel California” 6:30
2. “New Kid in Town” 5:04
3. “Life in the Fast Lane” 4:46
4. “Wasted Time” 4:55
5. “Wasted Time” (Reprise) 1:22
6. “Victim of Love” 4:11
7. “Pretty Maids All in a Row” 4:05
8. “Try and Love Again” 5:10
9. “The Last Resort” 7:25

Don Felder – guitars, backing vocals, pedal steel guitar on “The Last Resort”
Glenn Frey – guitars, backing vocals, keyboards, lead vocals on “New Kid In Town”
Don Henley – drums, percussion, lead vocals, backing vocals, synthesizer on “The Last Resort”
Randy Meisner – bass, backing vocals, lead vocals on “Try and Love Again,” guitarrón on “New Kid in Town”
Joe Walsh – guitars, keyboards, backing vocals, lead vocals on “Pretty Maids All In A Row”

Tuesday 3/14/23 8pm ET: Feature LP: Eagles – Desperado (1973)

Desperado is the second studio album by the American band the Eagles. It was recorded at Island Studios in London, England, and released April 17, 1973. The songs on Desperado are based on the themes of the Old West. The band members are featured on the album’s cover dressed like an outlaw gang; Desperado remains the only Eagles album where the band members appear on the front cover.

Although the title track is one of the Eagles’ signature songs, it was never released as a single. The song “Desperado” was ranked number 494 on Rolling Stone’s 2004 list of “The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time”. The album did yield two singles, “Tequila Sunrise” and “Outlaw Man”, which reached number 64 and number 59 respectively. The album reached number 41 on the Billboard album chart and was certified gold by the RIAA on September 23, 1974, and double platinum on March 20, 2001.

Desperado was the last Asylum Records album to be distributed in North America by Atlantic Records (catalog no. SD 5068), prior to Asylum’s mid-1973 merger with Elektra Records by Asylum’s, Elektra’s and Atlantic’s parent company, Warner Communications.

1. “Doolin-Dalton” 3:26
2. “Twenty-One” 2:11
3. “Out of Control” 3:04
4. “Tequila Sunrise” 2:52
5. “Desperado” 3:36
6. “Certain Kind of Fool” 3:02
7. “Doolin-Dalton” 0:48
8. “Outlaw Man” 3:34
9. “Saturday Night” 3:20
10. “Bitter Creek” 5:00
11. “Doolin-Dalton”/”Desperado” (Reprise) 4:50

Glenn Frey – acoustic and electric guitars, vocals; keyboards, harmonica
Don Henley – drums, vocals; acoustic guitar
Bernie Leadon – electric and acoustic guitars, vocals; banjo, mandolin, dobro
Randy Meisner – bass guitar, vocals

Friday 2/10/23 10pm ET: Feature LP: Eagles – On The Border (1974)

On the Border is the third studio album by American rock group the Eagles, released March 22, 1974. Apart from two songs produced by Glyn Johns, it was produced by Bill Szymczyk because the group wanted a more rock‑oriented sound instead of the country-rock feel of the first two albums. It is the first Eagles album to feature guitarist Don Felder. On the Border reached number 17 on the Billboard album chart and has sold two million copies.

Three singles were released from the album: “Already Gone”, “James Dean” and “Best of My Love”. The singles peaked at numbers 32, 77 and 1 respectively. “Best of My Love” became the band’s first of five chart toppers. The album also includes “My Man”, Bernie Leadon’s tribute to his deceased friend Gram Parsons. Leadon and Parsons had played together in the pioneer country rock band Flying Burrito Brothers, before Leadon joined the Eagles.

This is the first album by the Eagles to be released in Quadraphonic surround sound. It was released on Quadraphonic 8-track tape and CD-4 LP. A hidden message carved into the run out groove of some vinyl LPs reads: “He who hesitates is lunch”.

1. “Already Gone” 4:15
2. “You Never Cry Like a Lover” 4:00
3. “Midnight Flyer” 3:55
4. “My Man” 3:29
5. “On the Border” 4:23
6. “James Dean” 3:38
7. “Ol’ ’55” 4:21
8. “Is It True?” 3:14
9. “Good Day in Hell” 4:25
10. “Best of My Love” 4:34

Glenn Frey – vocals; acoustic rhythm guitar; electric rhythm guitar; lead guitar; slide guitar; piano
Don Henley – vocals, drums
Bernie Leadon – vocals; lead, acoustic and rhythm guitars; banjo; pedal steel
Randy Meisner – vocals, bass guitar
Don Felder – lead guitar on “Already Gone” and slide guitar on “Good Day in Hell”
Al Perkins – pedal steel guitar (on “Ol’ 55”)

Wednesday 12/7/22 11pm ET: Feature LP (1975): Eagles – One Of These Nights

One of These Nights is the fourth studio album by the Eagles, released in 1975. The record would become the Eagles’ first number one album on Billboard’s album chart in July that year, and yielded three Top 10 singles, “One of These Nights”, “Lyin’ Eyes” and “Take It to the Limit”. Its title song is the group’s second number one single on the Billboard Hot 100. The album sold four million copies and was nominated for Grammy Album of the Year. A single from the album, “Lyin’ Eyes”, was also nominated for Record of the Year, and won the Eagles’ first Grammy for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals.

One of These Nights is the last Eagles album to feature guitarist Bernie Leadon, who left the band after the One of These Nights tour and was replaced by Joe Walsh. The seventh track, “Visions”, is the only Eagles song on which lead guitarist Don Felder sang the lead vocals, despite his desire to write and sing more songs. The album was the band’s commercial breakthrough, transforming them into international superstars. They went on a worldwide tour to promote the album.

1. “One of These Nights” 4:51
2. “Too Many Hands” 4:43
3. “Hollywood Waltz” 4:04
4. “Journey of the Sorcerer” 6:40
6. “Lyin’ Eyes” 6:22
7. “Take It to the Limit” 4:49
8. “Visions” 3:58
9. “After the Thrill Is Gone” 3:56
10. “I Wish You Peace” 3:45

Glenn Frey – vocals, guitars, piano, electric piano, harmonium
Don Henley – vocals, drums, percussion, tabla
Bernie Leadon – vocals, guitars, banjo, mandolin, pedal steel
Randy Meisner – vocals, bass guitar
Don Felder – vocals, guitars, slide guitar

David Bromberg – fiddles (“Journey of the Sorcerer”)
The Royal Martian Orchestra – strings (“Journey of the Sorcerer”)
Albhy Galuten – synthesizer (“Hollywood Waltz”)
Jim Ed Norman – piano (“Lyin’ Eyes”, “Take It to the Limit”), orchestrations, conductor, string arrangements
Sid Sharp – concert master
The Eagles – string arrangements

Friday 12/2/22 9pm ET: Feature LP: Eagles – The Long Run (1979)

The Long Run is the sixth studio album by American rock group the Eagles. It was released September 24, 1979, on Asylum in the United States and the United Kingdom. This was the first Eagles album to feature Timothy B. Schmit, who had replaced founding member Randy Meisner, and the last full studio album to feature Don Felder before his termination from the band in 2001.

This was the band’s final studio album for Asylum Records. It also turned out to be their last studio album as the Eagles disbanded in 1980 until 2007’s Long Road Out of Eden after the band had reformed in 1994.

Three singles were released from the album, “Heartache Tonight”, “The Long Run”, and “I Can’t Tell You Why”. “Heartache Tonight” reached No. 1 on the singles chart and won a Grammy Award. The album was certified 7× Platinum by the RIAA and has sold more than eight million copies in the US.

1. “The Long Run” 3:42
2. “I Can’t Tell You Why” 4:56
3. “In the City” 3:46
4. “The Disco Strangler” 2:46
5. “King of Hollywood” 6:27
6. “Heartache Tonight” 4:27
7. “Those Shoes” 4:57
8. “Teenage Jail” 3:44
9. “The Greeks Don’t Want No Freaks” 2:21
10. “The Sad Café” 5:35

Don Felder – guitars, organ, vocals
Glenn Frey – vocals, guitars, keyboards
Don Henley – vocals, drums, percussion
Timothy B. Schmit – vocals, bass guitar
Joe Walsh – vocals, guitars, keyboards
Jimmy Buffett – backing vocals on “The Greeks Don’t Want No Freaks”
The Monstertones – backing vocals
David Sanborn – alto saxophone on “The Sad Café”
Bob Seger – backing vocals “Heartache Tonight” (not credited in liner notes)
Joe Vitale – piano, electric piano

Friday 11/11/22 10pm ET: Feature LP: Eagles – Hotel California (1976)

Hotel California is the fifth studio album by American rock band Eagles. Released on December 8, 1976, by Asylum Records, Hotel California was recorded by Bill Szymczyk at the Criteria and Record Plant studios between March and October 1976. It was the band’s first album with guitarist Joe Walsh, who had replaced founding member Bernie Leadon, and is the last album to feature founding bassist Randy Meisner. The front cover is a photograph of the Beverly Hills Hotel by David Alexander.

Hotel California topped the US Billboard Top LPs & Tapes chart. At the 20th Grammy Awards, the title track won Record of the Year, and “New Kid in Town” won Best Arrangement for Voices. The album was also nominated for Album of the Year but lost to Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours. Three singles were released from the album, with the title track and “New Kid in Town” topping the Billboard Hot 100 and “Life in the Fast Lane” reaching No. 11.

Hotel California is one of the best-selling albums of all time. It has been certified 26× Platinum in the US, and has sold over 32 million copies worldwide, making it the band’s best-selling album after Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975). It has been ranked as one of the greatest albums of all time. In 2003 and 2012, it was ranked number 37 on Rolling Stone’s list of “The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time”. A 40th anniversary special edition of Hotel California was released in November 2017.

1. “Hotel California” 6:30
2. “New Kid in Town” 5:04
3. “Life in the Fast Lane” 4:46
4. “Wasted Time” 4:55
5. “Wasted Time” (Reprise) 1:22
6. “Victim of Love” 4:11
7. “Pretty Maids All in a Row” 4:05
8. “Try and Love Again” 5:10
9. “The Last Resort” 7:25

Don Felder – guitars, backing vocals, pedal steel guitar on “The Last Resort”
Glenn Frey – guitars, backing vocals, keyboards, lead vocals on “New Kid In Town”
Don Henley – drums, percussion, lead vocals, backing vocals, synthesizer on “The Last Resort”
Randy Meisner – bass, backing vocals, lead vocals on “Try and Love Again,” guitarrón on “New Kid in Town”
Joe Walsh – guitars, keyboards, backing vocals, lead vocals on “Pretty Maids All In A Row”

Monday 11/7/22 9am ET: Feature Artist: Glenn Frey

Glenn Lewis Frey (November 6, 1948 – January 18, 2016) was an American singer, guitarist and a founding member of the rock band Eagles. Frey was the co-lead singer and frontman for the Eagles, roles he came to share with fellow member Don Henley, with whom he wrote most of the Eagles’ material. Frey played guitar and keyboards as well as singing lead vocals on songs such as “Take It Easy”, “Peaceful Easy Feeling”, “Tequila Sunrise”, “Already Gone”, “James Dean”, “Lyin’ Eyes”, “New Kid in Town”, and “Heartache Tonight”.

During the hiatus of the Eagles from 1980 to 1994, Frey embarked on a successful solo career. He released his debut album, No Fun Aloud, in 1982 and went on to record Top 40 hits “The One You Love”, “Smuggler’s Blues”, “Sexy Girl”, “The Heat Is On”, “You Belong to the City”, “True Love”, “Soul Searchin'” and “Livin’ Right”. As a member of the Eagles, Frey won six Grammy Awards and five American Music Awards. The Eagles were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998, the first year they were nominated. Consolidating his solo recordings and those with the Eagles, Frey had 24 Top 40 singles on the Billboard Hot 100.

From about 2000, Frey had suffered from rheumatoid arthritis, which affected his joints. The medication that he was prescribed to control the disease eventually led to colitis and pneumonia and in November 2015, the Eagles announced they were postponing their appearance at the Kennedy Center Honors because Frey required surgery for intestinal problems and needed a lengthy recovery period. Because of complications from pneumonia, he never had the surgery and was placed in a medically induced coma at Columbia University Medical Center. Frey died there on January 18, 2016 at the age of 67 from complications of rheumatoid arthritis, acute ulcerative colitis and pneumonia. Medications for rheumatoid arthritis or ulcerative colitis can compromise the immune system’s ability to fight off pneumonia. In January 2018, Frey’s widow filed a suit against Mount Sinai Hospital and gastroenterologist Steven Itzkowitz for the wrongful death of Frey.

Frey was publicly mourned by his friends, fellow musicians and bandmates including Don Henley, Randy Meisner, J. D. Souther, Jack Tempchin, Irving Azoff, Linda Ronstadt, Don Felder, and Bob Seger. At the 58th Annual Grammy Awards, the remaining members of the Eagles and Jackson Browne performed “Take It Easy” in his honor. A life-sized statue of Frey was unveiled at the Standin’ on the Corner Park in Winslow, Arizona, on September 24, 2016, to honor his songwriting contributions to “Take It Easy”, made famous by the Eagles as their first single in 1972. The road which runs next to the high school (now a middle school) that he attended in Royal Oak, Michigan bears his name.

Friday 7/29/22 1am ET: Feature Live LP 2020: Eagles – Live from the Forum MMXVIII (2020)

Live from the Forum MMXVIII is a live album and concert film from the Eagles. It records the concerts at the Forum in Inglewood, California that took place over three nights in September 2018. It is the first release to feature new band members Deacon Frey and Vince Gill alongside Don Henley, Joe Walsh, and Timothy B. Schmit. Deacon, son of former band member Glenn Frey, and Gill joined the band following the passing of elder Frey in 2016. It was released on October 16, 2020 in a variety of formats, including CD, DVD and Blu-ray.

In 2016, after Glenn Frey died, the Eagles went on a hiatus as Don Henley decided that the band would not play again. However, Henley reversed his decision and it was announced in March 2017 that the Eagles would perform in two festivals featuring classic rock bands jointly organised by their manager Irving Azoff, starting with The Classic West festival held at the Dodger Stadium in July that year. Henley brought in Frey’s son Deacon to perform with the remaining members of the Eagles in these shows. According to Henley, in order for the band to continue, “the only way it felt justified to me was to have family blood in the band”. They were also joined by Vince Gill after he performed at the Kennedy Center Honors in tribute to the Eagles in December 2016, and who “fit like a glove” according to Henley. The band then announced that a North American tour featuring Deacon Frey and Vince Gill would begin in March 2018 in Chicago, followed by a world tour in 2019.

The tour included a three-night stop (September 12, 14, and 15, 2018) at the Forum in Los Angeles, California where the concerts were recorded. The recordings of the concerts were compiled into a 26-song live album and a concert film.

The film of the concert was directed by Nick Wickham and filmed on 14 4K cameras. It premiered on ESPN on July 5, 2020, the first time a concert was aired on the sports network.

The recordings were released on October 16, 2020 in multiple audio and video formats and in various configurations, including a super deluxe box set with Blu-ray, two CDs and four LPs.

“Seven Bridges Road”
Joe Walsh: “How ya doin?”
“Take It Easy”
“One of These Nights”
Don Henley: “Good evening, ladies and gentlemen”
“Take It to the Limit”
“Tequila Sunrise”
“In the City”
Timothy B. Schmit: “Hey, everybody, that’s Joe Walsh”
“I Can’t Tell You Why”
“New Kid in Town”
Don Henley: “Just want to thank all of you…”
“How Long”
Deacon Frey: “Hello, everybody…”
“Peaceful Easy Feeling”
“Ol’ ’55”
“Lyin’ Eyes”
“Love Will Keep Us Alive”
Vince Gill: “How about a nice hand for California, man…”
“Don’t Let Our Love Start Slippin’ Away”
“Those Shoes”
“Already Gone”
“Walk Away”
Joe Walsh: “Is everybody OK?”
“Life’s Been Good”
“The Boys of Summer”
“Heartache Tonight”
“Funk #49”
“Life in the Fast Lane”
“Hotel California”
“Rocky Mountain Way”
“Desperado”
“The Long Run”

Wednesday 7/13/22 1am ET: Live Track Show

Tonight:

Rod Stewart, Fleetwood Mac, Joe Cocker, CCR, Genesis, Pink Floyd, Alice Cooper, Dave Matthews Band, Rockpile, Jethro Tull, Chuck Berry, Neil Young, Who, America, Iron Maiden, Tori Amos, Supertramp, Three Dog Night, Daryl Hall and John Oates, Specials, Air Supply, Sheryl Crow, Melissa Etheridge, Wings, Queen, Cars, Firehouse,

Friday 7/15/22 1am ET: Live Track Show

Tonight:

Kenny Loggins, Supertramp, Dave Matthews Band, Elton John, Kelly Clarkson, Honeydrippers, Bon Jovi, Sha Na Na, Chuck Berry, Disturbed Featuring Myles Kennedy, UFO, Doors, Rolling Stones, Los Lonely boys with Ronnie Milsap, Bonnie Raitt, Metallica with the San Francisco Symphony, Van Morrison, Duran Duran, Fleetwood Mac, Peter Frampton, Grand Funk, Scorpions

Wednesday 7/13/22 1am ET: Live Track Show

Tonight:

Paul McCartney & Wings, Jethro Tull, Bon Jovi, Al Stewart, John Fogerty, Foreigner, Doobie Brothers, Eric Clapton, Elton John, Neil Young, Ozzy Osbourne, Queen, Rolling Stones, Mavis Staples, Journey, Robert Plant, Joe Cocker, Sly & The Family Stone, Nick Lowe, Nils Lofgren, Eagles, Def Leppard

Friday 7/8/22 1am ET: Live Track Show

Tonight: Live music from

Keb’ Mo’, John Denver, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Who, Rolling Stones, Eagles, Supertramp, Firehouse, Peter Frampton, Tom Petty, Def Leppard, Stevie Nicks, Kiss, Billy Joel, Queen Featuring Elton John, Pat Benatar, Eagles, Cheap Trick, Eric Clapton, Bruce Springsteen, Roger Waters, Bee Gees, Barenaked Ladies, Ike & Tina Turner

Wednesday 7/6/22 1am ET: Live Track Show

Tonight:

Cheap Trick, Rolling Stones, Fleetwood Mac, Everything But The Girl, Specials, Jimi Hendrix, Elton John, Journey, Neil Young, Heart, Korn, Def Leppard, Metallica, Roy Orbison, Radiohead, Who, Harry Chapin, Carole King, Sara Bareilles, Nils Lofgren, Steve Winwood, Eagles, Rolling Stones with Ike and Tina Turner, Doobie Brothers, Queen

Friday 6/17/22 1am ET: Live Track Show

Tonight we feature:

Paul McCartney & Wings, Alicia Keys, Joe Bonamassa, Elton John, Fleetwood Mac, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Jason Aldean, John Denver, George Michael, Ike & Tina Turner, Eagles, Otis Redding, Pink Floyd and more . . .