"I would write track ideas - introductions, verses, choruses, solos - and I'd put them on a cassette and give them to Don and Glenn.
If he hears something, he'll write a melody or he might work with you on finishing it. Just write progressions and put them on a cassette. But he told me when I first joined the band, if you want to write songs with Henley, just give him music pads. That's how I met the Eagles, through Bernie.
"Bernie Leadon, who had been an original founding member of the band, and I were in a high school band together in Gainesville, Florida. He can't pick up a guitar and write chord progressions he can't sit at a piano and write music underneath him. "The one thing about Don Henley is, he's a great singer, great lyricist and a great songwriter, but he doesn't play anything. Sometimes I'd sing a melody, and other times I'd just give them the track. I had a little Teac four-track tape recorder, and I'd go in and make these tracks. "No, actually, for every project we worked on, every album, I submitted song ideas, and in the case of Hotel California, the album, I'd say I turned in 15 or 16 ideas. How well were the songs you wrote received in the Eagles? Was it hard getting compositions by Don Henley and Glenn Frey?
0 kommentar(er)
