The Eagles will appear at the North Charleston Coliseum on March 5th.
Tickets go on sale 11/13 at 10 a.m.
If you will be attending the show please post in the comment section. Don't forget to come back after the show and post your review.
Link: Charleston.Net: Local News: Eagles to kick off tour in North Charleston 11/05/04.
It looks like hell will freeze over again in North Charleston.
The Eagles, who brought the group's "Hell Freezes Over" tour to the North Charleston Coliseum a decade ago, will kick off the band's North American tour with a show at the coliseum March 5, according to Coliseum officials.
The Eagles are one of America's most enduring and best-selling rock groups of all time.
It will be nearly 10 years to the date since the iconic '70s group played a sold out show for 10,000 fans at the Coliseum on March 4, 1995.
The tongue-in-cheek name for the band's 1995 tour was a reference to a statement the band made that it would reunite, "when hell freezes over," after the Eagles officially announced the group's split in May 1982.
The group's last South Carolina appearance was in 2003 in Columbia.
"Without question, the Eagles concert in 1995 was the best ever in the coliseum," said Coliseum General Manager Dave Holscher. "Ten years later, people still tell me how much they loved that concert. I always thought it was a once-in-a-lifetime event for us. ... It's a great privilege for the coliseum to be selected as the first venue of the tour."
By mixing rock with folk-tinged country, the Eagles became of the most successful bands of the 1970s.
Fans continued to purchase the group's best-selling records many years after the Eagles split up, which inspired the reunion the band mounted in the mid-1990s.
The Eagles first played together in the early '70s as session musicians.
The original lineup then consisted of Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Randy Meisner and Bernie Leadon.
The band's first, self-titled album went gold in 1973, and Don Felder was added as the Eagles' fifth member for the band's third album, "On the Border."
In 1976, when the group lost Leadon, the band recruited Joe Walsh a few months before releasing "Hotel California."
Getting that "peaceful easy feeling" at The North Charleston Coliseum will come at a pretty hefty price. The most expensive tickets to the March 5 performance will cost $115, up from the band's 1995 show price of $90. Other seats at the band's North Charleston show will range from $75 to $49.50.
Service charges will also be tacked on to ticket prices. All seating is reserved.
It's no surprise then that, according to Rolling Stone magazine, The Eagles were demanding a $750,000 guarantee per concert during 2003. The band held an impressive No. 3 spot on the magazine's "2004 Rock Rich List," just behind the Rolling Stones and Bruce Springsteen.
Other seats at the band's North Charleston show will range from $75 to $49.50, plus service charges.
Tickets for the show go on sale at 10 a.m. Nov. 13 at the Coliseum Ticket Office, and at all Ticketmaster locations (including all Publix grocery stores).
Tickets can be charged by phone at 554-6060, or online at ticketmaster.com.
Link: 'Hell Freezes Over' again.
Toward the end of the Coen brothers' 1998 cult classic, "The Big Lebowski," the film's protagonist, The Dude, finds himself in a taxi cab after a particularly harrowing evening.
Playing on the cab's stereo system is The Eagles' song "Peaceful, Easy Feeling."
"Can you change the station?" asks The Dude, "I've had rough night and I hate the ... Eagles."
While The Dude's comment may not represent the general public's opinion of that seminal rock band, it does highlight an undeniable truth: The music of The Eagles is everywhere, and if you're not a fan, you're out of luck.
The fact that "Eagles: Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975" is the best-selling album of all time is more than just an impressive statistic. It means that there are more copies of that album in circulation than of any other album, and that the probability of an Eagles' song penetrating any given sound-space is extremely high.
Saturday, The Eagles kick off the band's "Farewell I" tour at The North Charleston Coliseum.
While this may or may not be the last time to catch Don Henley, Glen Frey, Joe Walsh and Timothy Schmidt in action, it may be the last time these rock-'n'-roll legends perform at a local venue.
Because of Charleston's relatively small stature on the national music scene, large acts like The Eagles don't often stop here.
Saturday, the Lowcountry will serve as a test market for what is sure to be one of the top grossing tours of the season, and local concertgoers will experience one of The Eagles' most intimate arena performances of the year. While, "intimate arena performance" may seem like an oxymoron, The North Charleston Coliseum does happen to be one of the smaller venues on the "Farewell I" tour.
Having migrated to Los Angeles in the late '60s, the four original members of The Eagles came together playing as hired guns for Linda Ronstadt in 1971.
After signing with David Geffen's upstart record label, Asylum Records, Don Henley (drums), Glen Frey (guitar), Bernie Leadon (guitar/mandolin/banjo), and Randy Meisner (bass) recorded the group's debut album, "Eagles," with producer Glyn Johns in 1972.
The hard rock-shocked listening public immediately ate up the laid-back country-tinged feel of that album's hits, "Take It Easy," and "Witchy Woman."
By the end of 1975, The Eagles had recorded three successful follow-ups, 1973's "Desperado," 1974's "On the Border," and 1975's "One of These Nights," and had reached the Billboard charts six times with the singles, "Tequila Sunrise," "Already Gone," "The Best of My Love," "Lyin' Eyes," "Take It to the Limit" and "One of These Nights."
The replacement of founding guitarist Bernie Leadon by rocker Joe Walsh in 1976 added a welcome rough edge to the band's soft vocal harmonies.
While on a protracted world tour, the band released "Eagles: Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975" in 1976.
The album immediately sold 1 million copies and has sold 24 million more copies in the past three decades.
The Eagles finished out the 1970s with a pair of blockbusters, 1976's "Hotel California" and 1979's "The Long Run."
Although 1980's "Eagles Live" was initially released as a farewell album, The Eagles have reunited on a sporadic basis for the past 25 years.
In 1994, the band released the live album, "Hell Freezes Over," featuring the Top 40 single, "Get Over It."
Most recently, the band has released the anthology, "EAGLES BOXED," and embarked on the aforementioned "Farewell I" tour.
Love 'em or hate 'em, The Eagles are a rock-'n'-roll force to be reckoned with.
And if ticket sales are any indication of willingness, there are roughly 14,000 fans eager to do some reckoning at The North Charleston Coliseum at Saturday night's sold-out performance.
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WHO: The Eagles
WHEN: 8 p.m., Saturday
WHERE: The North Charleston Coliseum
TICKETS: Sold-out show
PARKING: The Coliseum has issued a parking advisory. See page 3-F (or just read the top-right of this page.)
INFO: visit www.coliseumpac.com, or go to www.eaglesband.com.
Thanks to Jon for sending us this!!
Link: The Post and Courier | Charleston.net | News | Charleston, SC.
If there were a contest to see who the most loyal Lowcountry fan of the classic rock band The Eagles was, chances are that Ben and Susan Dellucci would take top prize.
The couple originally had planned to be honeymooning this weekend aboard a luxury cruise ship. That was before Susan won tickets to Saturday night's sold-out show at the North Charleston Coliseum after calling a local radio station in October.
"I had two cell phones set on speed dial, and when they began to play the song (to win the tickets), I handed one phone to my daughter and told her to dial," said Susan Dellucci, who was sitting under a blue canopy in the North Charleston Coliseum parking lot with her husband and several friends prior to the show.
"She said she wasn't going to call, so I dialed both phones and won the last pair of tickets (radio station) The Bridge had at the time." While the couple had planned to begin their new life together on a sea cruise, tickets to one of their favorite music acts took precedence. The couple exchanged vows at a bed and breakfast in downtown Charleston, but opted to postpone the cruise until next weekend.
Asked who her favorite member of the band was, Susan Dellucci thought for a moment, chose Glen Frey, then reconsidered. "Oh wait, if I had to pick one, it would be Don Henley," she said, grinning. "I can change my choice, right?"
A crowd estimated at more than 13,000 greeted The Eagles with a roar as they took to the stage just after 8 p.m. Beginning the show in style with one of many classics, "The Long Run," Henley, Frey and the rest of the members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame act thrilled the audience with a nearly three-hour show.
Old Western-tinged favorites such as "Peaceful Easy Feeling" and "Lyin' Eyes," fit right in with the harder-edged rock of "In the City." After a brief intermission an hour into the show, the band returned to the stage for another 90 minutes of music, including its latest radio hit, "Hole in the World." Frey, Henley and Joe Walsh even treated fans to some of their respective solo hits, including "Dirty Laundry," "You Belong to the City" and "Life's Been Good."
As if 2-1/2 hours onstage weren't enough, The Eagles returned for three encores, with hit songs that included "Hotel California" and "Take It Easy," closing the show with "Desperado."
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