I'm getting tired of having to acknowledge the passing of legends... Yesterday
Glenn Frey, co-founder of the
Eagles,
died. The Eagles were so good at the entire Southwest, country-rock crossover thing, they experienced an inevitable backlash -- it became
cool to hate them because of their success (and the 70s-era excess they represented). But the truth is anyone who was raised on
AOR (now known as classic rock) stations, as this
Gen Xer was, knows most of their songs by heart.
I'll choose to remember them not for any of the dozens of popular songs they wrote, but for a cover of a
Steve Young song, "
Seven Bridges Road", they released in 1980 (from "
Eagles Live") as their last single before they
reunited in 1994. For a band that spent most of their time
fighting each other, the five part harmony of this mostly a cappella song was a nice metaphor for what they could achieve together.
Eagles - "
Seven Bridges Road"
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