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06/30/09 Belfast, IRE Odyssey Arena
Discography
07/02/09 Dublin, IRE RDS Arena 07/04/09 Glasgow, Scotland Hampden Park 07/07/09 Birmingham, England NIA 07/08/09 Birmingham, England NIA 07/11/09 Manchester, England MEN 07/12/09 Manchester, England MEN 07/16/09 Hamburg, Ger Colorline Arena 07/18/09 Arnhem, Netherlands Gelredome 07/21/09 Madrid, Spain Sports Palace 07/22/09 Lisbon, Portugal Atlantico Pavilion
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What's kind of interesting was that the Eagles formed out of basically being session musicians for Linda Ronstadt. They played backup to Ronstadt and on her self-titled 1972 album. I suppose the band knew a good thing when they saw one and recorded their own songs that same year. By the time 1976 rolled around, they clearly had a certified hit with the album and title track "Hotel California".
Of course, by the time I was listening to Eagles on "oldies" radio station, they had already broken up. Don Henley was going strong on his solo albums, particularly with his third, The End of the Innocence, in the late 80s/early 90s. Incidentally, I did pick up the album on the strength of strong singles "New York Minute", "The Heart of the Matter", and "The End of the Innocence", via the now-defunct BMG club.
I was happy to find that Don Henley just released a special greatest hits album called The Very Best of Don Henley (released on June 16th on Geffen Records/Universal). Fans who waited a week will want to get the deluxe CD with DVD for a few extra dollars (totally worth it).
Although the track listing is pretty similar to his earlier greatest hits album, Actual Miles (in fact, the first 10 songs are exactly the same order), what set The Very Best of Don Henley apart is that all the tracks have been remastered. And trust me, "The Boys of Summer" and "Dirty Laundry" will never sound better than this. You can clearly hear every beat and sound effects of the 80s music technology!
Nearly 10 years have passed since Henley's last album, Inside Job, three if you count Eagles' Long Road Out of Eden (a six-year project!), so it's really nice to hear some of Henley's best songs collected in one CD. Relive your childhood hits of the 80s and 90s. For the (newer) generation that's not familiar with Henley or Eagles, it's an attractive starter compilation.
As for the DVD, besides from the six music videos ("The Boys of Summer", "All She Wants to Do is Dance", "The Last Worthless Evening", "The Heart of the Matter", "Everything is Different Now", and "For My Wedding"), there are four bonus "DVD audio". I find these dvd audio to be kind of useless for the average consumer, because we normally don't listen to audio on the DVD player. But for the music collector, it's actually nice that they were able to squeeze on some of the lesser-known songs like "Love Rules" and "Through Your Hands".
Currently, Henley is playing some stadium dates through Europe with the Eagles. Hell is still frozen, I guess.
06/29/2009 09:43:26 ♥ vu (
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