These Guys Were Cooler Than The Eagles!

[Floogeldy]

In some ways.

[enigmatic]

1. This guy was cooler than The Eagles, and much much better..

[Floogeldy]

2. Really?

Because that guy looks like a DORK to me!

B-)

[enigmatic]

4. Gram Parsons was the Patron Saint Of Cool..

As well as one hella songwriter..

[Floogeldy]

8. Is that who that is?

I never saw him look so dorky before. Heh. Sorry.

B-)

[enigmatic]

15. How about this?

Gram in his faboo Nudie Jacket:

[Floogeldy]

21. It's true.

He is a God.

Does he still haunt that old motel where he's buried?

B-)

[enigmatic]

24. I always wanted to go there!

And the slab where they burned his body, too; I never made it there. When I ever come back to the US that's going to be a roadtrip..

[newscott]

3. The words Eagles and Cool

should probably not collide in the same sentence.

[mojavekid]

13. Amen. n/t

[jonnyblitz]

5. I don't recognize them but most bands to me are cooler

than the Eagles (blech) so i would probably agree with you even though i don't know who they are..

[Catch22Dem]

10. Poco...

Randy Misner left Poco to help form the Eagles and Timothy B. Schmit stepped in to replace him in Poco. When Misner left the Eagles, Schmit stepped in to replace him there as well. Well, you don't really "replace" Misner, but you get my drift.

[Floogeldy]

12. What do you think about Frey singing "Take It To The Limit" live?

I don't think it's so great at all. They lower the key to G, too.

B-)

[enigmatic]

17. Frey sings "Take it To The Limit" now??

Oh God...

[mac56]

18. Who sings "Peaceful Easy Feeling"?

That was always Bernie Leadon's song.

[Floogeldy]

20. Actually

Frey has always been the vocalist on that song.

B-)

[mac56]

22. Really?

Did Bernie write it?

[Floogeldy]

27. Jack Tempchin

Tempchin wrote it, and the Eagles weren't the first to record it. There was an artist from texas that did it before Eagles did. I can't remember the artist's name, though. I hope someone can. Here is a pic of an original draft of Tempchin trying to formulate the song:

[mac56]

28. You rock!

Man, I never knew.

[Floogeldy]

29. Not me!

Tempchin rocks!

He wrote "Already Gone," too. ;)

B-)

[Floogeldy]

19. With none of the vocal acrobatics at the end.

They skip that completely.

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Oh well, at least they probably have to throw some money Randy's way every time they perform it.

[Catch22Dem]

25. No one, and I mean no one...

Can belt out that song like Randy Misner. No one!

[enigmatic]

16. I always loved "The Blue And The Gray" album...

Probably my favorite of theirs. Richie Furay was a God too, though he wrote his best song (Kind Woman) w/ the Buffalo Springfield..

[peekaloo]

6. The guy in the middle became less cool as an Eagle.

*proud member of the Jeff Lebowski "I've had a bad day and I hate the fuckin' Eagles, man" Club*

:hide:

[Catch22Dem]

7. Similar sound and a commonailty in members

That helps. I think Timothy B is great!

[Floogeldy]

9. Yea

Eagles abandoned their country/bluegrass influences. I'm glad Poco didn't.

B-)

[mac56]

11. These guys were WAY cooler than the Eagles.

[leftofthedial]

36. you got that right!

:thumbsup:

[AntiCoup2K4]

14. Wasn't Randy Meisner in an early version of Poco as well?

Hell, they're the Eagles farm team. Or at least for bass players with high voices.

[chaska]

23. Oh forget all those clowns, what about Rusty Young?

Hellacious steel player for Poco.

[Floogeldy]

31. Um . . .

. . . Rusty Young is God. :)

And, no, he is not Neil Young's brother (in case anyone was wondering).

B-)

[EstimatedProphet]

26. You make it sound like that's a tough thing to pull off

C'mon, aluminum siding salesmen are cooler than the Eagles!

[Floogeldy]

32. Heh heh

You gotta be a young one. :)

Believe me, during the decade of the 70's, Eagles were VERY cool.

B-)

[EstimatedProphet]

34. I went through the 70's

and I remember they had about one cool album-then...yuck.
ABBA outcooled them! To say nothing of Fleetwood Mac.
Sorry, didn't like the Eagles then, or now.Gotta side with the Dude on this one. Give me Creedence (if you can't come up with any Dead)

[HEyHEY]

30. That isn't a hard accomplishment

[Floogeldy]

33. Of course.

Not TODAY.

But at the time. ;)

B-)

[CanuckAmok]

35. Okay, the guy in the middle is Neil from the Young Ones...

...who are the other two?