Article: Eagles to kick off tour in North Charleston (Post and Courier)

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.

Comments

[mnk]

It really sucked how they sold those tickets in North Charleston, SC. You had no choice of seats. We were there at 5:00 AM and were #16 in line. They didn't allow any choice-you had to take whatever they offered. The $49.50 seats were the two rows at the very top of the coliseum. The ten rows behind that were $75.00 and all the rest $120.00. Our seats are two levels up from the back of the floor seats-for $120.00. I love the Eagles and I paid but the seats were not priced fairly. The Eagles deserve to make money but their management should pay more attention to how its being made.