I was working on that now defunct station here in L.A. and Glenn Fry’s wife opened a foundation in Aspen, CO, for underprivileged inner-city kids. The foundation provides an opportunity for these kids who have never smelled mountain air, or rode a horse, to see what it’s like. That put Glenn on the interview trail to promote the foundation. Normally the Eagles, being the Eagles, just don’t or didn’t at that time do random interviews with morning DJ’s.
So I’m really up for it since the Eagles are one of my personal favorite bands. There I was on the air and Glenn, as promised, comes by. We start our on-air conversation, with him talking about what his wife was up to. Then we come around to my Eagles experience, interjected into the conversation.
I tell him how when I heard “Take it Easy” for the first time I ran into the program director's office and said, "Hey we need to play more Eagles!"
The program director reaches under his desk and pull out an Eagles album and says, "If you want to hear more Eagles take the album home and play it, and if you wanna get along with me you need to be objective!"
Translation: we only play the hits. I told Glenn about that exchange, and went on to say apparently we were very objective since we wound up playing a lot of Eagles songs, to which Glenn responded by saying, "Yes Jim, we knew we made it when we would be driving down the road, and hearing one of our records on air."
Glenn has since taken up golf like me. He’s a "Lefty" like Phil Mickelson, and I see him every year on TV at the AT&T Pro-Am at Pebble Beach on the Monterey peninsula.
Question: How many more "Farewell Tours" are in store for the Eagles? Many more I hope!
by JIM CARSON
I was working on that now defunct station here in L.A. and Glenn Fry’s wife opened a foundation in Aspen, CO, for underprivileged inner-city kids. The foundation provides an opportunity for these kids who have never smelled mountain air, or rode a horse, to see what it’s like. That put Glenn on the interview trail to promote the foundation. Normally the Eagles, being the Eagles, just don’t or didn’t at that time do random interviews with morning DJ’s. 