Live

by

Eagles

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"Eagles Live" is my favorite live album. The songs have excellent edits between different years of performances. I have heard of the studio enhancing rumors too, and they are obvious in a few places. Great sound quality all around, and excellent performing! My only regret is the playlist. The Joe Walsh songs came out great but seem out of place for this collection. And why did they include the "Doolin-Dalton Reprise II?"(obviously a Bill Szymczyk studio creation) So many other classic tunes should have been substituted in place of LBG, ANL, and Doolin Dalton... Perhaps there were no pristine multitrack recordings fit enough to work into the collection. The total playing time is about 77 minutes-- so much more could have been inserted here. Hopefully someday the album will be remastered with extra tracks.

The Eagles put out some good albums before Hotel

California, and Hotel California was nearly a great record.

They followed Hotel California with the lethargic "The

Long Run" and this contractual fulfillment.

Four reasons to hate this album:

1) Dull as dust. No surprises, no significant changes to the

arrangements relative to the studio albums, no compelling

reason to listen to this.

2) The least live "live" album in history. A comparison of this

album with bootleg versions of the same shows demonstrates

just how overdub/rerecord crazy the Eagles went with this.

No warts, just airbrushed mediocrity.

3) Dull, unsurprising, uninteresting song selections, save

a modest Steve Young cover (good song, bland performance)

4) A rip off: This set runs less than 78 minutes and could

easily fit on one CD. Why is it on 2 CDs even after the

1999 remastering? Why, for the same reason that they are

still selling the chintzy short vinyl era greatest hits

album for full price: Money grab.

Skip this one.

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