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Eagles in Wiesbaden

Stefanie sent us her review and a link to her photos:

A peaceful easy feeling

The “old men” were laid back, they had fun and we, too.
Matured the Eagles, like me. Nevertheless I felt my heart beating when I arrived at the concert place in the middle of Wiesbaden, the capitol city of Hessse, Germany. On the bowling green in front of the “Kurhaus” (Theatre, Casino, cultural place) was space for 10.000 fans. At 20.45 they appeared on stage and at 22.55 h everything was over. The setlist was the one before. So
I knew what will come after each song. Not bad to know this. It was awesome. Glenn Frey welcomed us in Geman. The heart opener. After the seven bridges road. They had fun one stage, it was not only excellent work, what they did. The “grumpy ol’ man” noted that it is not allowed to film the show, and he sees, that people are doing that and that they should stop. He seemed to be determined, but it could be that the beard caused that. For Timothy B. Schmit and his beautiful long hair Wiesbaden unpacked an extra windmachine,  – it was really very windy, but not raining, it cleared up after 6 p.m. even the sun was shining directly in the faced of the Eagles. Joe Walsh was great – he wore a read leather jacket, the rock’n’roller of the band. You could see that the guys had fin, even as Glenn Frey had probs with his guitar on wichy woman. They laughed it away, laid back. Stuart Smith couldn’t convince me in some songs. A guitar doesn’t replace a banjo or mandolin. The drumwork of Don Henley was  gorgeous. If it wasn’t so expensive, I would rather like to go to Cologne tomorrow.

So here are some pictures, but I had the wrong cam with me, it didn’t work
porparly with the zoom. Sorry for that
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The radio station HR1 has a review and a gallery of 44 photos.

Reviews: Eagles in Norway

We are finally starting to get some reviews from Europe.  Sain sent us this short review and setlist from Stavanger:

 

I have just been at the Eagles concert in Stavanger and would like to share with you and other fellow fans.

 

This was a fantastic concert, with a great sound and visuals in the background. The concert was scheduled to begin at 7.30 pm, but there was first a Norwegian warm-up band performing 7-8 songs in Norwegian and the Eagles took the stage at around 9 pm. The setlist was quite different and much shorter to the Eagles show we have used to during the last couple of years. here is the entire setlist:

 

Seven Bridges Road
How Long
Take It To The Limit
Hotel California
Easy Peaceful Feeling
I Can't Tell You Why
Witchy Woman
Lyin' Eyes
Long Road Out Of Eden
Walk Away
Boys of Summer
In The City
The Long Run
Life's Been Good
Dirty Laundry
Funk #49
Heartache Tonight
Life In The Fast Lane

       (encore)

       Take It Easy

       Rocky Mountain Way
       Desperado

 

       So the entire concert lasted for about two hours. The concert was not broken down into      sections  as usual, and there was no break.  Sain has shared some photos from the concert as well.

A local newspaper also has a short review and photo gallery.  Gotta love Don Henley's t-shirt!  A reporter from the paper live blogged the show.....for anyone who can read Norwegian. :)

 

 

Don Henley at Wente Winery

Sounds like it was a much better show than Las Vegas.  Garden party indeed!  Check out the review and photos in the San Jose Mercury News.

Don Henley Weekend Wrap-Up

Back to work today after a quick trip to Las Vegas to see Don Henley at the Red Rock Casino.  No formal reviews from that show, yet, but we did manage to get a few photos.  The Desert Sun in Palm Springs has a great photo gallery and review from Friday's show at Fantasy Springs in Indio.

Photos: Eagles in Chicago

It took awhile, but I finally got all the photos from Chicago uploaded.  There's one gallery for Keith Urban/Dixie Chicks and one for the Eagles.  Enjoy!

The Top 10 Parts of Don Henley's Fall Tour

We just got back to the hotel from the Norfolk show, and thought that since this was the end of Don's tour, we'd sum up what we loved about these shows.

10.  New Boots. Don's not sporting his familiar old work boots, but rather a shiny new pair. They look super-cool.

9.  The "Vibe".  While most people are sick of the suits from the Long Road Out of Eden Tour, with the rest of the band sporting black on black outfits, Lance and Michael Thompson's cool Fedoras and the vintage-cladbacking singers, there's a cool kind of sophistication going on on the stag

8.  Don's guitar playing. He's playing more than we've ever seen him before. It's awesome!

7.  The Jack Nicholson impression.  Yes, many of us have heard the story behind Last Worthless Evening before, but it's evolved into a wonderful tale with an extended Jack Nicholson impression. "Excellent Work, Henley" indeed.

6.  The thought and time Don puts into creating a set-list. His autumnal theme brings home the idea of the passage of time. Don selects songs like "September Song" and "I Put a Spell on You" to set the mood.

5..  Rocking out on the hits.  Don hits his groove in the second half of the show and Dirty Laundry and I Will Not Go Quietly ROCK!

4.  Don's amazing band. Steuart Smith is such a melodic guitar player.  Will Hollis' piano intro to "It Don't Matter to the Sun" is stirring.  Lance and Michael add a cool vibe to the mix and Scott Crago is amazing as always.

3.  Peter Thorn.  We've singled him out because he's new and he is awesome! His guitar solo in Life in the Fastlane shows that he has what it takes and we hope he becomes a permanent member of Don's band.

2.  Hanging out with other fans.  It's always such a pleasure to see old friends and meet new ones at these shows. 

1.  "It Don't Matter to the Sun".  There are no words to describe how perfect this song is. Don's vocals were the best of the night and he puts so much emotion into it. You'd swear he wrote it. It would be a CRIME if he didn't record this (as well as Ghost in this House which he covered in Linden last year). This song was the highlight of both shows we saw...but especially tonight in Norfolk. Amazing. Amazing. Amazing.

Thank you Don for more wonderful shows to add to our memories!

**y'all are right. Because this is rock and roll, we can go to 11. A bonus? Hearing Please Come Home for Christmas

More Timothy B. Schmit

So exciting to have all this Timothy news to post!  LiveDaily has a short review from the LA show and Suus found some rehearsal photos on Chris Farmer's MySpace page.

Eagles TourBlog Update : Milan

All of the Milan goodies (photos, reviews) are up at the TourBlog (as well as a new fan review from Zurich). Seems like Milan was a WILD show.

Photo Galleries From Recent Shows

We've added four photo galleries to our our Long Road Out of Eden TourBlog. Check out great shots from Berlin, Malmo, Vienna and Prague. Looks like y'all have been having AMAZING concert experiences.

Eagles in Sweden

We'll organize the reviews and everything later today, but we wanted to share these great photos from last night's show in Malmo.  How cool is Glenn in those sunglasses?