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Your favorite singer in the Eagles?
- Thread starter Chrisk-K
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Randy Meisner - Take it to the limit is the perfect Eagles song
When two of the people that call you their favorite band are members of Steely Dan you know you are doing something right.
Frey was my favorite vocalist. What amazed me about these guys, as distinct as the voices were, how well the blended was astounding.
VG will tell you HE'D rather Glenn Frey was still there.
But I can not think of anyone better suited in so many ways for them to bring in, especially while the rest of them are good singers on their own, the secret to the Eagles is that harmony blend, THAT's what pays the bill, and exceptionally tricky to find the right person to plug into that. VG does it beautifully.
- Mar 19, 2013
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Have to go with Henley and co. on One of These Nights.
I honestly can’t think of another song, to me at least, that sounds more 70s-ish than the intro to One of These Nights.
I honestly can’t think of another song, to me at least, that sounds more 70s-ish than the intro to One of These Nights.
Ha ha ha ha..........you beat me to it. Every time I hear The Eagles in a sentence, I always think of The Big Lebowski and The Dude's comment to the cab driver!
I'd include the YouTube clip but it has the "F" bomb. Don't want to get a warning.
Favorite singer in The Eagles? Probably Frey. He has a kind of down to earth type of vocal sound. All combined together, one of the best harmony singing groups ever!
Too bad that Top 40 radio played them to death over the decades. So, I kind of agree with The Dude.
Schmidt for the win.........Schmidt, Glenn Hughes, and Richard Page are probably my favorite male bassist/vocalists
Hughes, Sir Paul, Sting, Lynott and Cetera are my top 5 bass-playing vocalists.
agreed
also agreed. one of the best song interpreters ever
tough choice but...henley {those shoes, disco strangler... the long run album}, walsh, frey, meisner (get off, randy!).
Seems it's popular to hate on the eagles but those cats ruled the airwaves of my youth and the airwaves of my youth ruled.
I know it's in the rules, but any reference to the dreaded swear words that cannot be written, always makes me smile a little, so quaint and so 1950. (no insult to the moderators, or those who are offended by swear words) It's not like we don't hear the word all the time out in the real world, or know what's meant (so we say it in our heads) when someone types **** me, or something similar. Or dodges the blasphemy rule with the word 'Dog'.
Anyway, sorry for the aside, now back to the Eagles. Truly a excess of riches in the vocals department and they always seemed to manage to recruit another great voice that fitted in, with each change of personnel.
Grak (pictured here on the right). Krawh was great, too, of course. But there's a certain rasp in Grak's upper register that carries the choruses like no other Eagle.
By all means, it always has and always will be Randy Meisner. Most folks think Take it To The Limit is all he did that was good. (Which I like, but.,.)
Not so. This song below has always been my favorite lead by him. It’s also the first one I’d heard by him. Btw, his harmonies are unmistakable. Just being sentimental.
Not so. This song below has always been my favorite lead by him. It’s also the first one I’d heard by him. Btw, his harmonies are unmistakable. Just being sentimental.
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Another Poco fanboy here. And don’t forget the New Riders of the Purple Sage, another great country rock band of that vintage.
