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First Bowie, now Glen Frey
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First Bowie, now Glen Frey This has been a sad start to the new year. Bowie was that guy that you just could not put in a box. I will always think of him singing, "here am I sitting in a tin can, far above the world, planet Earth is blue and there's nothing I can do" How can you forget Heroes? A love song that you really do not realize is one. He left an stamp on glam rock. Then there is Modern love. Then toss in one of my favorite Christmas songs of him and Bing Crosby singing. He worked with Eno and Fripp. When I was younger I never followed him durning his Glam then androgenous phase. At the time it was just to weird for me. I think I might have missed something. I remember watching this video where he lets Adrian Beleuw play on stage with his band. It was this really funky blues number. He just slides off to the side of the stage and watches. You could see it was not about Bowie but it was about the music. It was always about the Music for Glen Frey. No stage show, make up or props. Like Bowie his voice was clear and understandable. But soulful and sweet. He sang songs about life. He liked harmony and being on time with a back ground vocal. He wrote plainly of love, loss, want and anger. I do not think he saw his music as changing anything in the world, well except maybe ' Get over it'. Don Henely called him my brother and said that even the bands break up of 14 years changed nothing. There are so many feelings I get hearing Desperado. I remember going to Hockey practice in High School and hearing New in Town, so much I got sick of it. Other Eagle songs I never got tired of. They are like old friends. So where does this take us? Well I guess the message is be yourself. You can show your other side. Music may not change the world, but it can make it better. Dave and Glen you have earned a well deserved rest, RIP. Sit back in heaven and see how the rest of us pick up from where you left off. |
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Glenn's passing was like part of my childhood was taken away. I started listening to the Eagles when I was 13 - 14 yrs old and their styles of music formatted to what I like to this day; good harmonies, lyrics that told a story, and a laid back/take it easy feeling (pun intended). His 1st solo album came out at the same time I started hitting the bars, and started getting into things I shouldn't have, so those songs resonated with me also. I remember seeing the Stone Ponies (later the Eagles) back up Linda Ronstadt in a video way back when I saw Don Henley in December and after he threw a guy out from the concert he remarked "I did exactly what Glenn would have wanted me to do in his hometown." Paul Kantner of Jefferson Airplane passed away on Jan. 28th too
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Dale Griffin, drummer for Mott the Hoople passed just 1 week after David. All too sad to the start of 2016 for Rock Music
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