Andreas' Review
Kevin's Review
Lars' Review

Andreas' Review

Kevin's Review

First a bit of background info.  This was my third Eagles show.  I saw them on the HFO tour, ’94 in Dallas, ’95 in Austin.  (I’m originally from Texas, but I’m living in Copenhagen, Denmark at the moment) I’m just going to give all of my impressions and thoughts about the show. We had great seats, on the floor, 19^th row center. The Globe is a very nice facility for a concert. And after seeing them in stadiums before, this was like seeing them in my living room.  I’d say that about 13,000 of the 15,000 available seats were filled. From what I can tell, the setlist was the same as Helsinki.  All things considered, this was a tremendous concert.  I admit that I’m a huge fan, however, I am also a full-time professional musician (vocalist, guitarist) so I’m very critical, even of my favorite band.  The guys looked great, and sounded even better.  Don’s voice wasn’t quite at 100%, but he sounded great anyway.  Glenn’s voice has slipped a notch through the years.  He sounded weak on “You Belong To The City” but very strong on others (“Heartache Tonight”) Tim sounded like he always does.  The real surprise was Joe.  His voice sounded great.  He hit the high notes and held them on “In The City”.  And his guitar playing was simply out of this world.  Make no mistake, this guy is still one of the best guitar players on the planet.  His solo at the end of “Already Gone”  was a highlight.  And in the second set he really kicked things up a notch with both his singing and playing on “Funk #49”.  I can’t imagine an Eagles concert without Joe.  Before I say anything about the absence of Don Felder, let me state that I am a big Felder fan.  Steuart Smith is a heck of a player, and he did a very good job.  When the song called for Felder-like precision (“One of These Nights” solo,  fills on “Wasted Time”, etc) he nailed it to the wall.  Surprisingly, Glenn didn’t take on any more of the lead-playing than before. His only solo came at the end of “Dirty Laundry”, followed by Steuart, then Joe. Very cool.  And instead of having Steuart do the intro to “Hotel California” on a double-neck like Felder, the intro was done by one of the keyboard guys.   It didn’t sound as good, but it just wouldn’t have been right in my eyes to have someone else standing up there with a white double-neck Gibson SG doing the intro.  Good call on that one.  Also, the Spanish-flavored trumpet solo leading up to the intro was nice.  Overall, I’d have to say that Felder was missed, but not nearly as much as I expected.  The sound was near-perfect.  The only flaw in the sound was that the bass was very boomy, so much so that it was hard to distinguish the bass notes from one another.  The vocals were crystal clear.  I’m not a big fan of horns, and on some tunes they were a bit overbearing, drowning out guitar solos, which is a guitar players nightmare.  But they sounded good on some tunes like “Sunset Grill” and “Heartache Tonight”.  I’d have to say that the best song of the night was “The Long Run”.  Don came out front (no guitar) and was really into the singing on that one.  There was almost no talk at all between songs, which was a bit annoying.  Glenn did what little talking there was.  One very funny thing happened during “Life’s Been Good”.  After the middle guitar solo, when Joe came back in with the last verse, when he sang the line “I go to Parties, sometimes until 4”,  the horn players blasted out several loud, dissonant notes over his lyrics.  Joe was clearly surprised, turning around with a shocked look on his face, while Glenn doubled over laughing.  Obviously, Glenn had put the horn players up to it, and Joe didn’t know it was coming.  Earlier in the night, during one of Joe’s guitar solos, Glenn was standing next to him, playing rhythm, and Joe reached over and tried to turn one of the tuners on Glenn’s guitar, of course to make it go out of tune.  Glenn swatted at Joe’s hand and moved away from him, and Joe laughed as he kept playing his solo.  So it appeared that they were having a pretty good time up there.  About the only negative thing I can say is that there was too much solo material for my taste.  I love to hear some of them, but I could live with maybe two or three fewer solo tunes (“All She Wants To Do Is Dance”) , and a couple of more old songs like “Outlaw Man” or “On The Border”.  Speaking of solo tunes, “Walk Away” was killer.  The bluesy intros that they have worked up for “Funk #49” and “Heartache Tonight” are very nice.  The show clocked in at exactly 3 hours.  As they left the stage for the last time after “Desperado”, Don said “party in Joe’s room!”. If anyone has any  questions, or if there are any guitar players who would like to know technical stuff like what guitars and amps that Joe, Glenn, and Steuart were using, you can email me at

freeman@adr.dk  

Lars' Review

You sure have something to look forward to…..

3 of the best hours of my life just past, and I'm trying to get myself together and write some lines about them.  It was of course an amazing show.  About 20 minutes late the lights went out and the great trumpet intro of HC came on. Then GF and SS started those familiar guitar notes and the shivers was hitting me for the first time this evening. I was very curious on how SS would take the Felder parts specially in HC and I must say that the fills in the chorus was not good, to much Fender sound on that guitar for those fills, but when it came to the solo, His sound and timing was excellent!!! HC were followed by “New Kid in town”. In the first songs the sound was not perfect, but that became better. Then Henley came out from behind and gave us the first  showstopper with “Wasted time” He had the crowd in His hand and this was a true highlight. In this song though, I missed Felder very much. First set  went on just the same as in Helsinki. The band played superb and one time only I heard a little something in the harmonies that weren't perfect. In the first set TBS sang “Love will keep us alive” and the new arrangement (a little more acoustic) to that song was good. The best part of set one was “Take it to the limit”!!! This is not Randy´s song, it´s GF´s!!

GF seemed very very comfortable signing this song relaxed and laidback from His piano and the band did their absolute best here. The first set ended with “One of these nights”, a song that is very special to me, and Henley's drumming was superb on this one, the special beat on the Hi-hat together with TBS bass lines drove the song to another highlight of set one. “Boys of summer” with GF and TBS on harmony vocals was lovely as always.

Pause and during that one I wondered why they didn't show the “Milleniumfilm” that  would be a good thing to show us on this side of the Atlantics.

7 bridges road” and then right into the “Henley-version of “The long run” this is the song that sounded most fresh all. The new arrangement kicks that “a little boring song” (according to me) into a vital upbeat rock soul classic tune!!! TBS and SS brings “I can't tell You why” to another highlight. SS plays the solo with so much feeling and TBS voice is better than ever. Then JW starts “Walk away”, his best song ever, and the guys are having sooo fun.

I could go on and write about every song but i won´t.  I just gotta share some reflections.

• The horn section gave new intensity to a lot of songs, specially “In the city”, “One of these nights” and as I mentioned above “The long run”.

• The Eagles songs were a good choice, but how do they pick the “solo stuff”? Is it the record companies that makes the setlist?  “You belong to the city” and “Sunset grill” feels so wrong. Pick something from “Inside job” instead. And it's a big shame that TBS  isn't given a chance to do “Every song is You” or something else from “Feed the fire”

• With Felder out of the band there are more room for improvisation. Every guitar part doesn't have to be as on the record. JW is a brilliant guitar player and He shows it all night long. The talkbox solo in “Rocky mountain way” kicked ass, specially the end with the low E-string tuned down lower and lower.

       How great it feels to think about upcoming recording sessions. JW in good shape as the         lead guitarist  tickles my imaginations.

• It hits me as the concert rolls on that TBS is really the “glue” of this band. He is definitely the engine and His bass playing as tight as a slim T-shirt.  He is also a brilliant singer and gives the harmony vocals a chrystallic touch. TBS gets 11 out of 10 this night!!!!

• DH and GF does what You can expect from them. DH had a little problems with the high vocals but His timing and phrasing was as always, the best ones in the world. GF is a rock to lean on. He shows the inside of His soul every time He steps up to the microphone.

Well what more is there to say? Eagles are the best, but we knew that already!!!!