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itsagoodday
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 Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 12:36 pm Post subject: the chainsaw on the bus |
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"Remember" that "insident" on the VH1 Behind the Life of Chris Gaines that left us all scratching our heads??
Do you think there is any relationship to this I just read in the Moses Avalon book, Confessions of a Record Producer(3rd edition) on page 12 in the section on manager pros?
SUPER MANAGER
Legendary record man "Swervin'" Irving Azoff once managed the mega-group the Eagles. During a tour at the height of their career, one California hotel was unable to provide adjoining suites for the "Hotel California" songwriters. Swervin' Irving drove to a hardware store, purchased a chainsaw, went to the hotel, and turned two seperate rooms into one suite by sawing down the wall between.
Being prudent and realizing that he would not be able to be there whenever the Eagles needed on-site remodeling, he had a carrying case made for the saw so that the group could take it on the tour with them.
Now that's hands-on management.
I myself have never heard of this chainsaw episode with the Eagles but I have to laugh, knowing Garth's fetish with the walls coming down in the music business and Chris' with the walls between us as individuals. 
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itsagoodday
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| Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 12:44 pm Post subject: |
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Just found this interesting tidbit on the web. There isn't much I dare say!
| Quote: | You Couldn’t Get Much Higher
by Mike Gange
To the Limit: The Untold Story of the Eagles
by Marc Eliot
Little, Brown $34, 370 pages
Think of the musical group the Eagles and the first things that comes to mind are beautiful harmonies, awesome guitar licks, and that mysterious Hotel California. But the California supergroup of the 70's was not originally FROM California and was anything but harmonious behind the scenes.
To the Limit: The Untold Story of the Eagles by Marc Eliot is a fascinating account of how The Eagles came to be THE supergroup of California rock and how their creative collaborations behind the scenes and gentle harmonies on stage and record became a battle ground for their super-sized egos.
Marc Eliot knows Rock music. His previous work includes Down Thunder Road: the Story of Bruce Springsteen and Rockonomics: The Money Behind the Music. In this unflinching look at The Eagles, Eliot shows his attention to detail and his ability to research his subjects.
To the Limit is really the story of Don Henley and Glenn Fry. While all the members of the band’s various incarnations are mentioned, Henley and Frey, and to a much lesser extent Randy Meissner and Joe Walsh, are chronicled from the time they picked up their first musical instruments. Henley and Frey became the recognized voices of the Eagles, known both for their unique sound and for their ability to compose songs that enjoyed lengthy stays atop the music charts.
To the Limit is also the story of the Eagles downfall. The book tells of massive egoistical battles for control of the music, ownership of the songs and leadership of the band. Eliot does not shy away from showing the people behind the band, musicians and management alike, at their drug abusing worst. For example, Joe Walsh once had a drug crazed-penchant for taking a chainsaw to the hotel room furniture whenever the band was on the road, while the despicable manger Irving Azoff, loyal only to the boys in the band, would stand by with a suitcase full of one hundred dollar bills to give to hotel personnel to make the complaints go away. Although its about the Eagles, this book is really a look at that whole rock-n-roll lifestyle, where the musicians and everybody around them enjoys such unlimited access to drugs and sex that many poor choices and decisions get made.
The best parts of this book are the stories behind the band’s well known Rock Anthems. Eliot quotes Henley describing Hotel California: "A fire and brimstone, unholier than thou autobiographical piece. It is one of the most luxuriously haunting, personally ambivalent spiritual excursions in the history of Rock and Roll." The song opens and closes with one of the most immediately recognizable signatures in pop music, the clanging twin guitar riffs of Don Felder and Joe Walsh. All that music was written by Felder. Henley says "Felder created the music track and although we rerecorded it, basically all the parts were there. I put the melody on top while driving around in my car."
Eliot is a smooth writer who not only explores the idiosyncracies of the band but who nicely unravels some of their music too. He shows how he understands the band, their time and their music as he writes: "J.D. Souther’s ‘New Kid in Town’ returns the Eagles to the more specific and accessible turf of teenage boyland, capturing a precise and spectacular moment immediately familiar to any guy who ever felt the pain, jealousy insecurity rage and heartbreak of the moment he discovers his girl friend likes someone else better and has moved on. This is the kind of adolescent angst rock and roll does best and no one did better than the Eagles." Amen to that.
Mike Gange teaches Media Studies and Journalism at Fredericton High. |
http://www.frankwbaker.com/eagles.htm
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itsagoodday
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| itsagoodday wrote: |
Although its about the Eagles, this book is really a look at that whole rock-n-roll lifestyle, where the musicians and everybody around them enjoys such unlimited access to drugs and sex that many poor choices and decisions get made. |
Isn't this exactly what Garth is trying to point out with the Chris Gaines project?? And why Chris Gaines is ultimately sacrificed?
The fact that many in the industry and just plain folks just laugh and mock Garth and just don't "get it", tells me Garth ain't gonna quit until we finally get the message!!
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itsagoodday
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They just keep coming! Hope it's ok I share them!! 
| Quote: | An exclusive interview with Irving Azoff
by David Adelson
Hits December 18, 1989
Have you ever trashed a hotel room or somebody’s office?
Yes, but I recently gave a very major artist some very good advice on hotel trashing. It’s not so bad to trash hotels, but he was using guns to do it, and I thought that hotel trashing should stop short of shooting guns. Hotel trashing is cool, but to shoot guns is a little bad for your image.
Is it true that you and Joe Walsh were at a Holiday Inn where they didn’t have suites, so you supplied them with one?
Yeah. Holdiay Inn, New Haven, Connecticut. Walsh was having an insomnia attack. He had his electric chain saw along. He was next door, but there was no adjoining door, so I made one. Marshal Tucker was also on the bill, and Toy Caldwell and some other folks were walking around the circular Holiday Inn with mike stands, punching holes in the ceiling. It was horrible, what with police and everything. It was just horrible. (laughs)
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http://www.eaglesfans.com/info/articles/not_amy_irving.htm
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