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GLENN FREY
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My Life In Music
Bobby Gillespie
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IVEN THE CONTROVERSY that our recent Top 200 Albums Of All Time
list seems to have caused, I guess I should be wary of using the words
“Greatest” and “Ever” in too close proximity to one another. Still,
working on this issue of
Uncut,
I’ve been reminded that whenever
I’m asked about the greatest gigs I’ve ever seen, I always mention a night spent
with Jeff Buckley in 1994.
In the 1960s, Bunjie’s coffee bar, just off London’s Charing Cross
Road, was a hang-out for Dylan and Paul Simon. By the mid ’90s,
the subterranean nook was an anachronism, but on March 18,
1994, it hosted one last legendary show. Enthralled by an advance
copy of Jeff Buckley’s debut EP, “Live At Sin-é”, I’d travelled to New
York the previous month to catch one of his solo shows, and been
stunned by what I saw. When he fetched up on this side of the
Atlantic in mid-March, I suppose I stalked the poor guy.
On March 15, Buckley played a short support set to a few amazed
insiders at the Borderline. Two days later, aesthetes were virtually
scrapping to get into a claustrophobic show Upstairs At The Garage
where, legend has it, John McEnroe carried Buckley’s amp. The next night found
Buckley in Bunjie’s cellar, distributing white roses to the lucky few of us who’d
managed to scam our way in. Bunjie’s was too hardcore to bother with mics, and the
somersaulting range of Buckley’s voice was more apparent than ever.
He played for an hour or so, and wanted to play longer, but the venue was closing.
Then someone came in and said he could carry on at the 12-Bar, another muso club
just down the road. Buckley marched out of the club carrying his guitar, and we all
followed him with our roses. Even at the time, it felt like we were living out a romantic
fantasy. At the 12-Bar, Buckley tried to play every song he’d ever heard: The Smiths,
Led Zeppelin, some heartfelt Liz Frazer and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan impressions, until
he pretty much had to be carried off the stage.
There have been times when I’ve questioned my memories of the whole evening,
which is one of the reasons I’m thankful for the arrival of a new Buckley collection,
You And I,
and Graeme Thomson’s feature about it. Many of the songs that Buckley
played at the 12-Bar turn up on
You And I,
dating from a February 1993 recording
session in New York.
“I was sucked in by his voice and guitar playing,” his A&R man, Steve Berkowitz,
tells Graeme. “The way he was singing and playing these songs, which were mostly
covers, seemed fully orchestrated. Yet it was casually done, it seemed spontaneous
and unrehearsed.”
He believed, I suppose, his time had come…
I N STA N T K A R M A !
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Glenn Frey at an
Eagles show at the
Oakland Coliseum,
Califorinia, 1977
LAST FLIGHT
TAKE IT TO
THE LIMIT…
GLENN FREY (1948-2016)
The indefatigable Eagle remembered by JD Souther,
Don Felder and more: “We all looked to him for direction.”
G
LENN FREY WASN’T the first
aspiring songwriter to be drawn to
California in the 1960s, but he made
his mark more emphatically than
most. Arriving in LA from Michigan
in 1969, aged 20, Frey met fellow Detroit native
JD Souther and began gigging at the Troubadour
as country-folk duo Longbranch Pennywhistle.
The downstairs neighbour in their Echo Park
apartment, meanwhile, was another young
hopeful, Jackson Browne.
Longbranch Pennywhistle’s debut LP tanked,
yet it was the start of a songwriting coalition that
fed directly into Frey’s next project. In 1971,
Souther recommended Frey to his girlfriend,
Linda Ronstadt, then on the lookout for a backing
band. Frey hit it off immediately with her
drummer, Don Henley, whom he’d first bumped
into at the Troubadour. The
pair swiftly set about
forming what became The
Eagles, with the addition of
Bernie Leadon and Randy
Meisner, and began
rehearsing at Ronstadt’s
place. “Glenn and I had
broken up as a duo only
months before,” recalls
Souther now, who
continued to collaborate
with The Eagles, “but they
already sounded like a
fantastic four-piece band.
Don and Glenn really
planned and executed that thing perfectly.
I viewed The Eagles as a
fait accompli
– they were
always going to tour their butts off and make the
right records. These seamless, beautiful records.
And we all made each other better musicians
and songwriters.”
One of the first acts signed to David Geffen’s
Asylum label, The Eagles scored an instant
hit with 1972’s debut single “Take It Easy”,
co-written by Frey and Browne. It was the
beginning of an intense, often combustible,
career that saw the band define the soft-rock
epoch of ’70s California in much the same
way as The Beach Boys had embodied the
previous decade. “Glenn was the one who
started it all,” said Henley in a statement,
“Glenn just kind
of ran the show.
He was stacked
with aces from
every suit that you
could name”
DON FELDER
released after Frey died in January of
complications from rheumatoid arthritis,
ulcerative colitis and pneumonia. “He was the
spark plug, the man with the plan. He had an
encyclopedic knowledge of popular music and
a work ethic that wouldn’t quit. He was funny,
bull-headed, mercurial, generous, deeply
talented and driven.”
The bedrock of The Eagles’ commercial success
was their ability to absorb the smooth harmonies
of country music and roll them out for a rock
audience, sweetened by deft melodies and glassy
guitar hooks. Under Frey’s stewardship, the
band diligently scaled up the SoCal sound for
a global audience, peaking with 1976’s
Hotel
California.
At the last count, the album has sold
in excess of 32 million copies. “Glenn was by
far the leader of the band,” recalls guitarist
Don Felder, who joined
The Eagles in 1974.
“We all looked to him
for direction. He was a
great organiser and just
kind of ran the show.
He also had a great sense
of humour and was really
fun to write with, as far as
song conceptualisation.
Glenn had a brilliant gift
for being able to see the
picture of what the song
should be and then break
it down scene by scene,
verse by verse. The
combination of his perspective and Henley’s
literary skills, and different people’s musical
beds underneath, was a magical one.”
Frey’s gift for shaping The Eagles’ songs led
his bandmates to dub him ‘The Lone Arranger’.
This brought with it a wider vision. “All those
images synonymous with California – palm
trees, sandy beaches, bikinis, movie stars,
Hollywood Boulevard – had run through our
minds when each of us had first made our way
to the West Coast,” adds Felder, who co-wrote
Hotel California’s
title track with Frey and
Henley. “So Glenn started talking about how we
could use that concept as a framework for the
album. The foundation for a lot of the songs on
Hotel California
developed from Glenn’s initial
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