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ks - Posted - 08/01/2009: 17:29:27
COOL!.Thanks for posting.Who is playing the banjo and bass guitar?
ess4439 - Posted - 08/01/2009: 17:47:21
Not sure about the bass player but the banjo player is Bernie Leadon. When you think about all the songs these guys wrote and all the millions of records they sold, Leadon is probably one of the most heard banjo picker's ever. 
Leigh - Posted - 08/01/2009: 18:09:17
I think the bass player is Timothy B. Schmidt. Weird bass for him to be playing, he is your quinessential minimalist.
eagleisland - Posted - 08/01/2009: 18:24:28
quote:
Originally posted by Leigh
I think the bass player is Timothy B. Schmidt. Weird bass for him to be playing, he is your quinessential minimalist.
Nope - it ain't Timothy Schmidt (who came to the Eagles after playing with Poco. He joined the band in '77). That's Randy Meisner. eagleisland "I was halfway to Old Kentucky when the drugs began to kick in." - Hunter S. Monroe
Dragonnail1 - Posted - 08/01/2009: 18:28:20
thanks, thats pretty cool
Mark
"got banjo"?
Studebaker Hawk - Posted - 08/01/2009: 18:32:55
I believe the performance on the YouTube videos was done sometime during the 1974-75 line-up of the group. Tim Schmidt wasn't a member then. Here's how the look of the Eagles evolved throughout the years:
19711974
Glenn Frey vocals, guitars, keyboards, harmonica
Don Henley vocals, drums, percussion, guitar
Bernie Leadon vocals, guitars, banjo, mandolin
Randy Meisner vocals, bass, guitar
19741975
Glenn Frey vocals, guitars, keyboards, harmonica
Don Henley vocals, drums, percussion, guitar
Bernie Leadon vocals, guitars, banjo, mandolin
Randy Meisner vocals, bass, guitar
Don Felder guitars, mandolin, vocals, keyboards,
19751977
Glenn Frey vocals, guitars, keyboards, harmonica
Don Henley vocals, drums, percussion, guitar,
Randy Meisner vocals, bass, guitar
Don Felder guitars, mandolin, vocals, keyboards,
Joe Walsh guitars, vocals, keyboards,
19771980
Glenn Frey vocals, guitars, keyboards, harmonica
Don Henley vocals, drums , percussion, guitar,
Don Felder guitars, mandolin, vocals, keyboards,
Joe Walsh guitars, vocals, keyboards,
Timothy B. Schmit bass, vocals
19801994 14 year "vacation"
19942001
Glenn Frey vocals, guitars, keyboards, harmonica
Don Henley vocals, drums, percussion, guitar
Don Felder guitars, mandolin, vocals, keyboards
Joe Walsh guitars, vocals, keyboards
Timothy B. Schmit bass, vocals
2001current
Glenn Frey vocals, guitars, keyboards, harmonica
Don Henley vocals, drums, percussion, guitar
Joe Walsh guitars, vocals, keyboards,
Timothy B. Schmit bass guitar, acoustic guitar, vocals
aletheia - Posted - 08/01/2009: 19:51:34
Yes, Bernie was the prime mover of the band in the early days.
David
"A man that plays the banjo has got it made. It never interferes with any of his pleasures in life." --Stringbean
Bill Rogers - Posted - 08/01/2009: 20:31:30
What's made the Eagles so great is that they've always been able to sing superbly.
Bill
gunnah - Posted - 08/01/2009: 21:06:00
Desperado is my favorite Eagles album. Great music from start to finish.
RB-1 - Posted - 08/02/2009: 00:59:17
There's many a bluegrass band that could only wish for having their vocals together the way the Eagles did.
Seeing these video's, Bernie proves singing lead and playing appropriate, fitting banjo can go together very well.
I'd better go out and practice again.....
Too bad the banjo sounds like cr@p, but then, those were the ages of banjo non-tone, so this was no exception to the norm...
I agree with some comments in the videos, that losing Leadon and getting Walsh ( no matter how good I rate his el. guitar playing) was a loss for the band.
RB-1 plays with Half A Turn & Heartstrings
http://www.halfaturn.nl
http://home.hccnet.nl/e.beurskens/S...tstrings.htm
silvioferretti - Posted - 08/02/2009: 03:35:17
Well, yeah, the banjo sounded like crap, but IMO it was due more to the need to make it heard through the mess of cymbals and acoustic and electric guitars (they had to jack up the frequencies that set the banjo apart) than to "period" choices. After all, even Crowe's banjos sounded limited and restrained - in comparison to other settings - when he played with drums, steel etc. But those vocals... maaaaann...
"If you''re gonna have a vice, try to find one that will keep you outta jail and maybe alive a little longer" - Alvin Youngblood Hart.
Silvio Ferretti http://www.scorpionmusic.com
http://www.redwinemusic.net
ess4439 - Posted - 08/02/2009: 13:15:56
It's Sunday so just take it easy. Just for fun. Try playing along with this. I think the term for the banjo timing is double time. If you try to play say a forward roll, it's just way to slow. You need to play two forward rolls in the same amount of time. Sorry no banjo in this video, Bernie was too busy on the guitar. I didn't realize it was Bernie lay'n down some of those classic Eagles guitar breaks.
I have found when playing along with this, your left hand does't need to be as active as in bluegrass. It's more about playing with a good solid roll. You still need to through in standard licks, just not as often.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPos...ture=related
Edited by - ess4439 on 08/02/2009 13:18:58
Bryan - Posted - 08/02/2009: 18:40:36
the original recorded version of TIE featured Bernie playing banjo during the electric guitar break (a little faintly) and then more prominently during the last verse. Since he was doing the lead guitar in TIE this would explain why there are no vid versions of him playing banjo during TIE (hard to play 2 instruments at once on stage but easy in the studio (overtracking)
Look for TIE on Eagles Greatest Hits -the original complete with banjo is on that
And yes , a geat song to play banjo on even for us lesser mortals .Our band has been doing it for years. It's about 140BPM so not too too fast, fast . Just moving along nicely
Bryan
pastorharry - Posted - 08/03/2009: 02:00:28
In my waitin' tables days I waited on alot of stars, rockstars, superstars, etc. some were cool, some not. Randy Meisner was about the nicest guy I ever waited on period.Randy made you feel like someone special and a good friend at the same time, (he was also a great tipper!).
BTW; In my opinion Bernie is doing some fine picking in those videos.
Isaiah 38:20
Edited by - pastorharry on 08/03/2009 02:09:23
Mopick - Posted - 08/03/2009: 06:42:09
Wow, I'm having a flashback to 1974. I lived in Poplar Blulff Missouri and we had cable TV. I got 12 channels and one of them was the one that Don Kirshner's Rock Concert came on. My friends from the country would come to my house on Friday nights to watch Rock Concert and it was a special treat when the Eagles came on.
I went to the "Hell Freezes over" concert in Tampa in 1995. My wife surprised me with tickets for Christmas. I was lucky they added Tampa Bay to the second half of the tour after Glen Frey had his liver transplant. I was undergoing treatment for Hepatitis C at that time, so I could really relate to Glen.
Then I ran into Joe Walsh in Orlando in the late 90's. They were doing a concert in Orlando. I was going to a little Radio Shack on Colonial Drive next to the Infinite Mushroom, to get a cell phone battery. I noticed a stretched limo parked out front. I was on crutches on one leg and the limo driver got out and opened the door to the store for me. Joe was there with his family buying a karaoke machine for Don Henley's birthday. A Radio Shack karaoke machine. I said 'Hey Joe." He told me they were staying at a private residence (a mansion) in Orlando. I asked him for a back stage pass and he just smiled and reached in to his wallet and handed me..........a guitar pick. I know. You thought I was going to say he handed me an All Areas Pass. I wish. But he did give me a guitar pick.
I do love all the Eagles stuff with Bernie Leadon and the banjo. Especially "Take it Easy."
I live in the mountains.....
The mountainous region of Central Florida.
Sugarloaf Mountain; 312 feet above sea level.
Randy
flake - Posted - 08/03/2009: 06:58:09
Randy----I met Joe (in 1990, I think) when I was in----guess where?-----Orlando. He came by Full Sail while I was there. We had a chance to play around a little. I'll never forget him sitting at a keyboard, playing the intro to Desperado, beautifully and flawlessly, and then as that last note was dying out, looking up and saying, "You know......that ain't the right key, is it?" 
He was a hoot.
mike
Destined for greatness........but pacing myself.
Nosferatu - Posted - 09/12/2009: 22:10:26
quote:
There's many a bluegrass band that could only wish for having their vocals together the way the Eagles did.
They can and do. It's called "We'll do it in the mix." Thank you, "Count" Hugh "A flute without holes, is not a flute. A donut without a hole, is a danish." -- Zen philosopher Basho
dmiller - Posted - 09/12/2009: 22:49:34
quote:
Originally posted by Nosferatu
quote:
There's many a bluegrass band that could only wish for having their vocals together the way the Eagles did.
They can and do. It's called "We'll do it in the mix."
Thank you,
"Count" Hugh
"A flute without holes, is not a flute. A donut without a hole, is a danish." -- Zen philosopher Basho
I remember seeing New Grass Revival back in the early to mid 1970's when Courtney picked banjo for them.
The gig I was at, Sam Bush was wearing a tee-shirt that said:We'll Fix It In The Mix. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 
Nosferatu - Posted - 09/12/2009: 23:04:11
'We'll Fix It In The Mix.'
I've heard that a time or two
Thank you,
"Count" Hugh
"A flute without holes, is not a flute. A donut without a hole, is a danish." -- Zen philosopher Basho
Nosferatu - Posted - 09/12/2009: 23:10:09
The 'standing on the corner' was at the park where the highway made 'the turn...' I first met them before they were Linda's back up band.
Thank you,
"Count" Hugh
"A flute without holes, is not a flute. A donut without a hole, is a danish." -- Zen philosopher Basho
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