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Some Night to Remember; Some Night to Forget
Promoting “The Long Road out of Eden,” The Eagles returned to Los Angeles, where they rightfully belong
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Right next to a dark desert highway, with cool wind blowing through your hair, you sit at the Hollywood Bowl and let the sound take over. There may not be any pink champagne on ice around or any mirrors on the ceiling, but there is a varied crowd of all ages, Heineken, Coors Light, and the warm smell of 4:20 rising through the air.
The Eagles started out their last night at the Hollywood Bowl with some songs from their new album. “The Long Road out of Eden” is the first full studio album the group has produced in 28 years, and according to an interview Don Henley gave to CNN, it is also “probably the last Eagles album.”
Introductions followed the first set of songs, as Glen Frey introduced the group as “the ancient ones,” joking “this is the Eagles’ assisted-living tour.” He introduced backup musicians on the tour, playing on a variety of instruments and then went on to introduce the “ancient” members of the group to loud audience recognition. “There’s Don Henley…he’s pretty good.”
What followed was an entire section of the concert devoted to reminiscing, on the part of the Eagles and likely a very large part of the audience. They went through all the classics, from “Witchy Woman” and “Hotel California” to “One of these Nights” and “Take it to the Limit.”
The audience lit up in recognizing every other song, or literally, just lit up. Meanwhile, Frey continued to muse over their youth, talking about nights spent at Dan Tana’s, starting out and living not too far from the Hollywood Bowl itself. The memories included all sorts of debauchery. “We did everything fast in 1975, ladies and gentlemen,” Frey made sure to note.
Playing “till curfew,” as they promised, the Eagles, ever so coolly closed out a very memorable night with the trance-like “Desperado,” as the crowd shuffled out of the historic concert venue.