Rest in Peace, Glenn Frey

Dead at 67.   Lemmy, David Bowie…   Even Dan Haggerty…   Sad, but I barely cared.    They never made a song that inspired or moved me to do something.   Glenn Frey did.     His whole band did.

For all the deaths the last few months, this one sorta sucks.    I didn’t know the guy, or he knew me:  but I lived a lot of life listening to his songs.  I’ve kicked up a foot on a few footpegs listening to Lyin’ Eyes, screaming the lyrics while crossing some Nevada or Arizona Desert on a bike.    I’ve stood on a corner of Winslow Arizona on ol’ route 66, where they still commemorate the song he wrote with them.    I’ve been to a town I just learned the name of, and woke up to a Tequila Sunrise.   Pulled me out of a few funks.

The Eagles, just made an impact on me.    They’ve turned into some of  my favorite riding songs.

They Inspired me.    They Still will.

This is a favorite:    Glenn came up with the lyric after being in a bar, seeing all these “kept Women” as he called them, cheating on their husbands.    Us normal people would just sit and notice, but Glenn made a song about it, and told a story out of it.      It’ll always be my favorite Eagle song:

 

Glad he sung it.    Rest in Peace, Glenn Frey.     We’ll keep listening to the music.   Thank you, for doing what you did.

 

 

 

 

 

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