Friday, May 8, 2020

The Eagles - Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA, 6-8-1994

Sometimes when I'm putting these albums together, things work out so nicely that it's almost uncanny. This is one of those times. :) I just posted a bootleg of the Eagles performing a full concert for MTV Unplugged in 1994. After doing two shows for MTV, the Eagles went on a lengthy tour. When I was getting ready to post that concert yesterday, I wondered if they'd played some songs on that tour that they didn't play for MTV Unplugged. I'd expected maybe a couple, because the Unplugged show was two hours long and included lots of big hits. To my surprise, I found a concert from two months later in 1994 that had almost another hour and a half of different songs!

So I've made this album. It contains absolutely zero songs in the MTV Unplugged concert I just posted, making it the ideal complimentary album to that one. And while the song quality for the Unplugged show is fantastic, this is nearly as good. It too comes from a soundboard, with the audience noise fairly low compared to the music from the band.

The Eagles are one of the most successful musical acts of all time, and Don Henley, Glenn Frey, and Joe Walsh had lots of solo success on top of that. The Unplugged show was dominated by Eagles hits and only had a smattering of their solo hits. This recording, by contrast, has a much higher percentage of solo material, including some all-time classics, like "The Boys of Summer," "Life's Been Good," and "Rocky Mountain Way." Including the quasi-bonus tracks (which I will explain below), only five of the songs here were originally done by the Eagles, while 12 were not. In a way, I think this is the more interesting concert in that it allows you to hear Eagles versions of solo songs.

As for those three quasi-bonus tracks, after all the hits the Eagles played at the MTV Unplugged concert, and then at this concert, there are still more big hits that they didn't include! Three of them - "Walk Away," "Sunset Grill," and "The Long Run" - were done for a concert 10 years later that was released on video. So I've included them. You might or might not want to keep them, depending on what you think of adding in performances from a full decade later.

Note though that even with those three songs included, there are still more big hits not included, such as "Witchy Woman," "Turn to Stone," "All Night Long," "A Life of Illusion," "The End of the Innocence," "The Last Worthless Evening," "The Heat Is On," and more.

01 Victim of Love (Eagles)
02 talk (Eagles)
03 New Kid in Town (Eagles)
04 talk (Eagles)
05 Ordinary Average Guy (Eagles)
06 talk (Eagles)
07 Lyin' Eyes (Eagles)
08 talk (Eagles)
09 You Belong to the City (Eagles)
10 The Boys of Summer (Eagles)
11 Funk No. 49 (Eagles)
12 Dirty Laundry (Eagles)
13 Smuggler's Blues (Eagles)
14 Life's Been Good (Eagles)
15 All She Wants to Do Is Dance (Eagles)
16 Amazing Grace [Instrumental] (Eagles)
17 Rocky Mountain Way (Eagles)
18 Already Gone (Eagles)
19 Walk Away (Eagles)
20 Sunset Grill (Eagles)
21 The Long Run (Eagles)

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For the album cover, I used another photo of the band at their MTV Unplugged concert. I suspect it's from the concert video of that. I found surprisingly few good photos from their 1994 tour, other than that.

11 comments:

  1. actually, the band is called Eagles - no The.

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    1. True. But let's be realistic - everybody calls them the Eagles. Heck, they've even released albums with titles like "The Very Best of the Eagles."

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    2. That was a Glenn Frey idea. He thought it sounded more like a Detroit Street Gang without the "The". Opinions differ on that, though ;-)

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    3. That's no reason to be actively inaccurate.

      And it was only two official releases that got the band's name wrong, neither of which involved the band themselves in their construction.

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    4. Wow, some people are looking for reasons to complain, huh?!

      In their later years, they would always introduce themselves with "We're the Eagles from Los Angeles". They didn't say "We're Eagles from Los Angeles", which is probably a good thing, considering how stupid that sounds.

      So, how about you lighten up there, buddy...

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  2. Paul! Just wanted to tell ya that I stumbled upon your site and love it! It's like if I had a created a site based on my tastes. Thanks for sharing and be well!

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  3. I love your site but living in the UK I just hate zippyshare. keep up the good work.

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  4. On the plus side. This is amazing...

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  6. Paul,
    The link for this show is now dead. Although I already have the show from another source, I would like to have the three extra songs you have appended to the show. Would you be so kind as to repost a working link for this show? Thanks in advance for your generosity.
    Sax and Guitar

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