Chords for Randy Meisner Remembers Fist Fight With Glenn Frey & Other Eagles Regrets

_ _ _ _ _ Randy Meisner shares the moment that he knew the [Bbm] Eagles would be huge.
And he also looks back at that famous fist [Ebm] fight with the late Glenn Frey as we look
at our last interview with bassist and [Bb] singer of the Eagles, former Randy Meisner.
I'm John [Ebm] Boden from RockHistoryMusic.com.
I [B] think when one of these nights came out, because we were doing a [Bb] lot of gigs like Jeff
Rotahl, you know, we were Joe Cocker opening up to these guys.
[Ebm] All of a sudden, I think it was around one of these nights, and I looked at Irving Azoff
and I said, boy, this is big [Bbm] time now.
I could tell it was working.
And it just all of [Bb] a sudden, damn, we [Ebm] got hit with all this stuff.
I mean, it was happening.
It [F] must have been crazy around Hotel California because [Bb] there was such a buzz around that [Ab] album.
Everyone went [Bbm] nuts over it.
Oh, it was.
[Ebm] You know, _ that's when I left.
You know, I did the tour for Hotel California.
Did [Bb] they know you were going to leave?
No, not really.
I mean, Glenn and I got into a little _ [Ebm] fight there.
But it was something that just happened.
[Bbm] It just, _ something happened and we kind of got [Ebm] mad at each other and we took a swing
at each other in Knoxville, Tennessee.
At the time, [Bb] I thought it was just like guys fighting.
But then it got really bad and [Ebm] I just decided at that point, that's when I decided I thought
I better leave because it was getting too, [Bbm] I just didn't like what I was doing anymore.
_ Any regrets leaving the band?
[Ebm] _ _ _ Not really.
I wish I could have left in a different way though.
Yeah.
You [Bbm] know, _ how are you going to be nice when [Bb] you leave?
Well, you know, it's interesting you should [Ebm] say it that way because, you know, most of
us say that about relationships, right?
Or like, love relationships.
We [Bbm] leave them and it's like a marriage, right?
Exactly.
And you go back and you go, well, I wish I could have [Ebm] done, did things a little bit better.
But you know, that's life.
That's the way it goes, right?
Yeah, that's the [Bbm] deal.
It's like you do it and then you got to stand with what you did.
And that's probably the worst part of [Cm] this whole deal is [Db] like these books that were put up.
I read a bit of To The Limit.
There's a couple of them.
And [C] it's like at the time they caught us at a wrong time, I thought.
And that's when everybody was kind of angry [Ab] at each other.
So you [Db] say things that you really don't mean, you know, because you spill all the dirt.
And [Cm] that's what these people wanted.
And you fall into it.
And then years later, like [Ab] now, it's like, [Dbm] why in the hell did I say that?
Or why did Henley say that?
Or why did Glenn or, you know, anybody?
[C] It's like, God damn it, we're just people.
[Cm] And we have, you know, there's a time when [Db] there's a little resentment and all that [Dbm] stuff.
But, you know, when you get older, it's like, why even think [Ab] about it anymore?
It's not worth it.
OK, now enough [Ebm] is enough.
And I think right now is enough is enough.
I hear you.
You [Eb] know, because I don't hold any hatred [Bb] or anything.
It's just like those are the times that would happen.
And now just get on with [Ebm] life and have some fun, you know.
When I talked to Randy Meisner in the summer of 2000, [Eb] he was with the World Classic Rockers,
which included at times because they [Bbm] rotated the members,
Denny [Ebm] Lane, formerly of Wings and the Moody Blues,
and of course, the famous Spencer [Bbm] Davis from the Spencer Davis Group.
And he talked about the fact that being with them [Ebm] was more refreshing in some ways at his age
than being with [Bb] the Eagles back in the 70s,
because you could actually see the cities where he was touring.
When I was with the [Ebm] Eagles, _ I was on my own all the time.
Because [Bbm] all you saw were like the airports, _ the hotel [Ebm] room and the hall.
_ And now when I go with my wife, _ [Bb] we go to the cities and we go [Bbm] antique shopping and do the tourist thing.
And [Bb] actually get [Ebm] to see the city rather than just the hall and the hotel. _ _
And that's what makes it great.
Don't you find it's [Bb] different too now that you're [Eb] older?
You know, as we get older, we're more comfortable in our bodies.
They may ache more, but at least we're more comfortable.
[C] Oh, do they ache?
But you know what [Bbm] I'm saying, though?
You're older now, and doesn't it make a difference being on the road now?
[Eb] You're kind of [Ebm] wiser.
You know what's going on.
You're streetwise.
Yeah, I want to do the tour, like I just said.
[Bbm] Like I want to do the tourist thing.
I want to see the city that I'm playing in.
You know, before, [Ebm] with the Eagles, it was like,
God, we didn't have any time because it was always the interviews,
or [Bbm] like at the hall, doing sound [Gb] checks, and then leave the same night.
It was just like, [C] bam, bam, bam all the time.
[Ebm] Did you guys hang out a lot or did you have time to do it?
Oh, God, we did our amount of [Bbm] that.
We went to a hotel, like Hotel California,
and [Bb] it was like kind of separate limos, and everybody had their [Eb] own thing going.
It was just getting kind of tired.
I'm John Boden.
That concludes our series with Randy [Bb] Meisner.
That's all the clips that we thought were interesting to include.
We may package this all [Eb] together to one long interview
[Ebm] in our [Eb] sister site, which is Aircom Radio Network,
where [Bbm] we kind of shove [Bb] all our long [Fm] interviews [A] that are like,
sometimes an [F] hour long, and we talk to Randy [Ebm] Meisner for an hour and a half.
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