The Eagles will appear at the Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena on March 6th.
Tickets go on sale 11/20 at 10 a.m from Ticketmaster.
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: Jacksonville.com: Lifestyles: CONCERT REVIEW: Eagles still in the fast lane 03/07/05.
The Eagles played for three hours Sunday night to a sold-out crowd at Veterans Memorial Arena. Too bad they didn't play more Eagles songs.
Oh, the big hits were there, from the early country rock of Lyin' Eyes and Peaceful Easy Feeling through the later horn-driven funk of The Long Run. But of the 29 songs the band played, nine of them were solo hits by band members Joe Walsh, Don Henley or Glenn Frey. At one point the band played six solo songs in a row -- Frey's You Belong to the City, Walk Away from Walsh's days with the James Gang, Henley's Sunset Grill, Walsh's Life's Been Good, Henley's Dirty Laundry and Funk 49, another old James Gang song. They were all good tunes done extraordinarily well, but don't you go to an Eagles concert to hear Eagles songs? Couldn't they have slipped in Witchy Woman or Best of My Love instead?
But that's really a minor complaint. When the Eagles were being the Eagles, they were pretty astounding. Augmented by a four-piece horn section, two keyboardists, an extra drummer and an additional guitarist, the band sounded as tight as they did on that old 8-track of Their Greatest Hits 1971-75 that you wore out back in high school.
Henley's voice was a little gruff early in the show, but he warmed up as the evening went on. He was all over the place, playing drums on some songs, standing center stage and singing others, and even picking up a guitar now and then.
Frey's voice has dropped a bit, but still has that same warm, mellow tone it had back in the New Kid in Town days. His lead on Take it to the Limit, originally sung by departed bass player Randy Meisner, was one of those "goosebump moments" you get at a really good concert. And Frey showed that he's a much better electric guitar player than people give him credit for.
Bass player Timothy B. Schmit pretty much melted the heart of every lady in the house with his strong, high vocals on I Can't Tell You Why and Love Will Keep Us Alive.
Walsh, who proclaimed from the stage that he's gone "from being one of the Top 10 national drunks to being sober," still sounds like your crazy uncle at a karaoke bar. It's remarkable how someone can croak through lead vocals the way he does, then join in harmonies that are some of the prettiest you've ever heard.
Sobriety may not have done much for Walsh's voice, but his guitar playing has never sounded better. He mostly stayed in the background for the first half of the show, allowing guitarist Steuart Smith to take most of the leads. But when he stepped forward on Already Gone, the last song of the first set, it was like seeing an old friend after many years.
The second set wasn't all solo songs. There was a nice Tequila Sunrise, Frey poured everything he had into Heartache Tonight, and Walsh and Smith swapped killer leads on Life in the Fast Lane.
After a stunning encore version of Hotel California, the band came back -- for more solo songs, of course. It was fun to see Frey rocking out on Walsh's Rocky Mountain Way, a crowd favorite, but people started heading for the exits during Henley's All She Wants to Do Is Dance. That's too bad for them, because they missed the third encore, which was about as Eagles as you can get -- Take it Easy and Desperado.
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