Strong move by both camps

Win-win

My first time seeing the Eagles was on this very tour at the Omni in Atlanta. Fantastic show. The opener.. was Fleetwood Mac.

I guess it was the Tour before 7/03/76.

Good one robert!  You had me going all sorts of "WTH Eagles!!" etc. until I opened your post.  Hard to believe an album they made for strictly contractural reasons ends up selling millions of records and is the biggest seller ever... that's Rock N' Roll.  Long may it live!

@stratdal I recently listened to a recent Don Henley interview and Henley was asked about The Eagles Greatest Hits being the biggest selling album in music history and he said the band didn't have anything to do with it. It was completely the record label's idea and the band was actually irritated about it because they had to delay their next album and they didn't like the order of the songs. The lable did respond to their producer and altered the order of the songs to satisfy the band. 

In 1991 the label which by then owned the Capricorn albums put out 1969-1979 A Decade Of Hits by the Allman Brothers Band and it had sold over 2 million copies by 1995, far more than the new albums the ABB put out in the 1990's. 

The band not only had nothing to do with the release or song selection, Butch Trucks was very irritated about it. The band got no money off the sales of the album due to Phil Walden and the Capricorn bankruptcy. 

The song writers of course had to be paid royalties and it also irritated Butch that Gregg and Dickey made, he said " millions" ( probably a million dollars each and the writers of One Way Out and Statesboro Blues made money) on his blog and the Idlewild South studio version of In Memory of Elizabeth Reed was included and Butch expressed anger on his blog at Dickey for not giving Butch a writing credit on that song as Butch wrote the drum part and some changes. 

I responded on the blog why he didn't ask Duane Allman about it and Butch said he did talk to Duane and Duane sided with Dickey and said the person who brings the song to the band owns the song. What the band does with it is arranging. 

Butch eventually did say when Gregg showed the band Whipping Post it was a slow ballad. That Berry Oakley came up with the bass intro and bass line and Butch came up with a new time signature for Whipping Post and he and Oakley didn't get a piece of Whipping Post either. It's all Gregg. 

The Eagles had similar disagreements too so it's not unusual for band fussing. 

Bernie Leadon quit as did the original bass player over band squabbles and guitarist Don Felder was fired. 

Henley said he and Glen decided they are running the Eagles and Felder didn't respect that and pushed for some of his ideas to be used then Felder insulted Senator Allen Cranston at a show and Glen and Felder almost came to blows right on the stage. Afterwards Glen and Henley agreed to fire Felder who was heavily involved in Hotel California, their biggest selling new album. 

"I'd love to see Derek sit in on this one. Maybe let Susan sing a verse."

The Eagles are not known for impromptu jamming, but I heartily agree! 

That's an old video, but a great one, with Glenn Frey, Randy Meisner and Don Felder still on board.  The Eagles are an incredible, talented band, and I own an expanded, two disc, "Best Of".  It's great.  But I would not go see them since Glenn Frey passed away some years back (if TTB were opening, yeah, I'd go).  I'm sure they're still really good live, with Henley, Walsh, and Vince Gill on board.  But for me, well, Frey was always the one who really did it for me.

Really don't care about Derek sitting in with the Eagles but would love to see, and can't imagine it won't happen, is Joe Walsh sitting in with TTB. Joe says he LOVEs the ABB

@robslob Henley said in the recent interview that the Eagles were over when Glen died. They would never play again. 

But after a year their manager called Henley and said there are so many people out there who want to see the band play and pitched Henley with the idea of using Glen's son. Henley said he eventually warmed to the idea and when they played together he reminded Henley so much of Glen, Henley said he almost got tears in his eyes. 

For some reason they decided Glen's son couldn't do it by himself and they asked Vince Gill who had the voice and guitar chops to fit in and he accepted and officially joined the Eagles. 

So to sum up Don Henley had dissolved the Eagles until their manager convinced Henley there was a way to play again without Glen. 

The Eagles were an opening band - for Procol Harum. VA Beach Dome Summer 1972.

@cyclone88  They opened for Yes around the same time.  One of my first concerts was Yes with the Eagles at Georgia Tech Coliseum.  Procul Harum opened for Jimi Hendrix on several shows.  This is where Robin Trower decided to switch from a Les Paul to a Strat - having borrowed Jimi's during sound checks.  I still would've like to have seen a Hendrix-opened Monkees show!

EDIT:  upon further research, Trower borrowed Martin Bare's Strat at a Procul/Tull show.  He was more seriously Strat-inspired upon discovering Hendrix - at a show opened by Procul Harem.  

@rusty Looking back, Procol Harum & Yes were established bands when The Eagles had just officially formed & signed. They were considered a West Coast band so opened & played in smaller eastern/southern venues to introduce them to the East Coast. I don't want to think about a Hendrix opening Monkees tour.

Yes the Eagles formed in 1972 but eventually became one of the biggest rock bands in history. Perhaps the biggest since the Beatles. It may be the Eagles are bigger than the Stones. 

I remember reading years ago that Don Henley is the wealthiest drummer in the world next to Ringo Starr. 

I was living near Greensboro, N. C. in 1968 and the Monkees played at the coliseum with Hendrix opening. About 70 percent of the sold out crowd were not apparently familiar with Jimi and they didn't like it it seemed. 

It was like having a twin bill at a drive inn movie and it's Fiddler on the Roof and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly on the bill. 

I had seen Hank Marvin, Merle Travers and the Ventures use a whammy bar to put some vibrato coloring on a note here and there but Jimi was insane. He was LOUD!!!!! and his cords and rhythm were unique and his finger vibrato was unlike anything before except some blues players. Nobody had played an electric guitar like that. 

This is billed as a Derek Trucks interview but after watching it is clear Derek did not sit for this. It's all flash back. 

Derek has mentioned several guitar players who are his greatest influences. Here five are quoted from Derek. Three I knew about and two I didn't. 

Found a written interview with Joe Walsh and he is a Derek Trucks fan. Joe said his manager came in the dressing room and said this 10 year old kid wants to met you. So Joe said let him come in. It was Derek Trucks who wanted to meet Joe and talk about slide guitar. Joe said he showed Derek some licks and was blown away with Derek at 10. 

And Joe continues to be a Derek Trucks fan. Perhaps Joe got TTB on those three shows which is huge for TTB. Those shows should be absolute sell outs and no doubt thousands of people will see TTB for the first time and see/hear just how good that band is. 

Here is Joe showing off his guitar skills