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He is one of the Eagles' singers as of yesterday. I heard the Don Henley group say, "Well, Don sings." This is Glenn Frey, who joins us here. How do I introduce you? What is the best way to introduce yourself? Oh, hell, you know? I like Twitch, you know, nice, you know, I do a lot of things, okay, oh, you know, you can't just be one thing, but really, really, I guess I would say I'm a songwriter, are you a singer, songwriter, singer, like that? what was that? a great singer-songwriter like James Taylor singer-songwriter yes, Jackson Browne, we don't have that many singer-songwriters nowadays my Taylor Swift would be singer-songwriter mm-hmm right, of course and that's it, well, not me, Jason Mraz, right, yes, you.

I know there are, you know there are some, what was the first hit song you wrote, oh, I helped Jackson Browne finish, take it easy, didn't you live above Jackson? I lived above Jackson, that's right, JD Souther and I lived in a smaller little a

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ment was on the west coast, no, yes, in Echo Park, okay, in Echo, but did you know that Jackson Browne was a big deal? Yes, he and he were more advanced than any of us when we met. when you've written a hit song I think you know it when you've written a good song you know it and I think you know it's important you know it's very difficult you know I don't think you should ever work thinking about hit songs I think our hit record is a byproduct of having written a good song and then made a good record, but you can write, you know, different moments, different struggles that you have, you know, artists will say, you know, I need to fight. to write a better song or do I need to be artificially enhanced here I need to be deep inside you know where you can you can write a better song when you're not happy oh I don't know, not necessarily I don't know I don't believe in anything like that of things, you know, I think you know that all you have to do is write and you have to write every day, so when I write I make sure I do it every day. because then you have productive days but you don't like to just come in after not doing it for six weeks and say hey, I guess I'll see what I can come up with, you know, you just have, you just have to do it, but I don't think you have to be miserable.

I don't think you have to be. It's very funny. You know, when you see guys win on the PGA Tour, you always become a baby or get divorced. This guy was really working on the back nine, you know? No, I don't think it's him, I don't think it's important, you just have to be smart, that's the missing ingredient, what's the first thing a musician should do like we teach athletes, the first thing they should do, oh god, leave a note? I know it's uh, you know, you know, I guess, I guess you're listening right, you know it makes sense, you know, you know how I am, Pete Townsend, yeah, he's lost most of his here, yeah, but does it hurt your hearing? when listening? to Joe Walsh next no, I have, no, I have, I have a hearing problem that has nothing to do with being in the music business, but you know, yeah, I guess I would say that hearing, you know, what It happens with the creative flow, the process there, because eventually you dry out with songs, don't you know?

You know there's something about when you're 22 and sitting in Echo Park hunched over your acoustic guitar trying to figure out how to get a record deal, you know or you know. how to write a couple how to write a couple more songs that will help you get a record deal that's a completely different mentality than sitting down to write songs after you've sold 11 million albums yeah, you know it's a very different experience, a different o Say when you're not fighting, how would you be doing now if this group called the Eagles suddenly emerged? How did music change?

Where what I was in the '70s I wouldn't be on American Idol doing anything or you know? Yeah, you know, I think what I missed the most, I guess, is that it was a pretty simple equation in the '70s, for a young rocker you were trying to make a good album, you were trying to get the tracks on your album. on FM radio you tried to get a couple of singles off your album that would be played on AM radio, there really weren't many interviews, not many, you know you would do, you know there were a couple of national interviews you would do. for the radio and there were three TV

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s, maybe you went to one of those, but that was it, you know, and then you don't have to worry about it as much, now it's much more multi-tentacled, you know, there are so many. different ways that people understand music well if you were young and you just hit the cameras following you around, you'd have TMZ, you'd have all these websites, they'd know who you're dating, um, you'd be on tour with drama, all that stuff.

Well, I think you know, I think that's one of the big challenges now is the ability to protect your identity, you know, when everyone knows everything about you, there's nothing left to imagine, you know, I mean, what would Bob Dylan not? had talked? anyone in 17 years, but everyone, you know what I mean, opens up, opens up to the imagination and I think that's a very powerful ally for an artist who talks to Glenn Frey, one of the founders of the Dan Patrick

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that joins the Eagles. It's harder to be married or in a band married hmm, is it close?

Well, you know, there are similarities, there are similarities, there is give and take, there is forgiveness, there is understanding, you know, a lot of that kind of acceptance, you know, I think I think it's fair. I think it's very similar, but you know the band thing is something that happens when it happens and it's done when it's done, yeah, you're married, you have kids, that's happening 24/7, You know, for the rest of your life, there was a time when The Eagles, however, do they ever break up or do they just fall apart? Well, you know, if you watched the documentary, you knew there were a lot of factors that you know they had. to build up before, ultimately, it was kind of like we were done, we were done.

I have often said that we should have taken a holiday, not a 14-year holiday, we should have taken a one or two year holiday like rocks. He would do or something like that and then come back and work, but we didn't know that at the time. Now you know we've been together again for Oh God, 21 years we got back together in '94, now it's 2015. Did that happen because of him? Know? that wasn't necessary and you're still going back on tour, well yeah, we still have some unfinished business, you know, like I was telling you before, we want to go out and play some of the smaller markets, visit Billings Montana and Sioux Falls. and Grand Forks and Boise and you know Bakersfield, how was life on the road different now that we slept?

I loved anything else. I love music more than partying and I think that was always in the back of my mind. You know we were party animals. You know we never miss work. You know, we always showed up in relatively good shape. How crazy it was! I don't understand how, let's put it this way, we weren't like we weren't, we weren't the stars, but we weren't Amin's blur, I mean, the Osmond brothers, okay, so somewhere you know, somewhere in the middle. , who would do the tour and who. Even though you did the tour, that was good for you, that's bad for you.

We begin. The first person we opened for was Jethro Tull and they didn't tell us anything the entire tour. Have you ever looked at Ian Anderson and tights? and we go, we go, every night, yes, every night with the flute jumping leotard. I know we called it a jumping leotard, but you know, we opened for Procol Harum and that was a big group of guys that we used to hang out with after work and we were in some Holiday Inn bar somewhere and there was a piano and Gary Brooker would go there and they would sing pub songs all night.

We also had a great time. We opened for the Stones in 1975 and, in fact, that's when we used to get Joe Walsh into our band and bring him in for encores and stuff. They were always very kind to us. Were you partying then? Oh yes, oh yes, they were all there. I think that's what you have to understand. I was like the people that were on Charlie's Angels were partying, you know, it's like it didn't matter what television, radio, music, what kind of celebrities would come back then that you socialized with, oh, while people go to the shows, you know we were good. friends with Jack Nicholson you know in the past you know you don't remember much about all that I'll tell you what I'll tell you what I do remember is that I remember when we played when the Hotel California was there.

First we played in New York and then they gave us a big party and all the The world came to see us during the Hotel California tour, so here in New York I was contacted by Teddy Pendergrass Paul Simon, someone I deeply admire, you know? A lot of people like that, well, when we come back and the sports stars, a lot of athletes will come to see us, especially in New York, okay, hold that thought because I want to talk about that, yeah, let's talk about that word and, um, fritzy would do it. would like to sing if he could for you Glenn since you're not singing fritzy he's going to sing fritzy we heard that you in the warm up was watching a cappella I did my best I'm a big fan and it would be an honor to get dessert , your real job, right, this is the rock, that's right.

I'll continue with a Glenn Frey fritzy va acapella fritzy va, you know, maybe we could do a little duet there for two, that would be just a happy little one, yeah, so you could say wait until we go off the air, then you can say you sang with Glenn Frey, okay, okay, we'll get back to Glenn.