Slightly different twist (from Wiki)…You can probably relate to this. SoCal was Rick Nelson’s turf. We grew up watching him on Ozzie and Harriet reruns after school. Rick was a pioneer of the L.A. country rock sound. Randy was his bassist and sung harmony with the voice of an angel.
Here’s the short version: Life with the Eagles was tough for Randy. He drank too much. As time went on, he had trouble hitting the high notes. The final straw was when he couldn’t sing his signature song, Take It To The Limit, one night for the encore. Henley and Frey had enough and sacked him.
According to band colleague Don Felder, Meisner's time in the band was weighed down by his desire to be with his family, as well as the constant bickering between the members, which was still unknown to the public at the time. During the 1976/77 tour in support of the album Hotel California, Meisner was plagued by ill health and exhaustion, as the band toured frequently for over eleven months. Meisner also preferred not to be the center of attention, and said: "I was always kind of shy ... They wanted me to stand in the middle of the stage to sing 'Take It to the Limit,' but I liked to be out of the spotlight."[26] The band was starting to feel the strain in a long tour, and Meisner was unhappy – his stomach ulcers had flared up, and his marriage was also gradually disintegrating.[27] He had been arguing with fellow member Glenn Frey about his signature song, "Take It to the Limit", during the tour, as Meisner was struggling to hit the crucial high notes in the song.[28] At their show in Knoxville, Tennessee, Meisner decided to skip the song as an encore as he had stayed up late and caught the flu, and Frey and Meisner then became involved in an angry physical confrontation backstage.[28] After the altercation, Meisner was frozen out from the band,[27] and Meisner later said: "That was the end. . . I really felt like I was a member of the group, not a part of it."[26] Meisner decided to leave the group after the final date of the tour and returned to Nebraska to be with his family. His last performance was in East Troy, Wisconsin on September 3, 1977.[29] The band replaced Meisner with the same musician who had succeeded him in Poco, Timothy B. Schmit, after agreeing that Schmit was the only candidate.[30]
Meisner formally quit the band in September 1977,[10] citing "exhaustion".[31] On the subject of his abrupt resignation from the band, Meisner later said, "All that stuff and all the arguing amongst the Eagles is over now. Well at least for me."[32]
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Oh. TT.

