..... "After fourteen years holiday" (Frey), 1994 was finally "hell still frozen." In the aftermath, the reunited group presented on tour alongside their old material few new songs. After all ex-members appeared as septet in 1998 and included in the "Rock and Roll Hall of Fame" found, as a result of flared up again disputes on 6 February 2001 guitarist Don Felder was fired, so that the band from then on, as to their early days, operates as a quartet .....
...... Which is now 28 years after (the packed in a final-black cover) "The Long Run" a new studio album presents. In their 20 new songs the band members leave on 2 CD (!) To hear the experiences and stylistic elements of her covered in four decades musical journey. Crossover of country, folk, rock, Latino, Tex-Mex, blues, funk, soul, jazz and so on, wide-ranging something for everyone! While the compositions of Don Henley and Glenn Frey, not least because of their successful solo careers in the late 1980s and early 1990s, often explore other paths, just remember the contributions of the last to the group of beaten, former "Poco" Timothy B. Schmit -Mitgliedes , always adhere to the roots of the group. Finally Schmit was also the one who succeeded in 1994, the fractious group drumming together again. This also explains why his pieces is the soft material the CD. However, Frey's "It's Your World Now" (CD 2 / Track 9) awakens with its mariachi horns sentimental memories of "Tequila Sunrise" .His sugar sweet "I Love To Watch A Woman Dance" (2/6) recalls "Strange Weather - Live In Dublin "(1993). The former rock guitarist of the James Gang, Joe Walsh, is also become quite tame, not least because he is well be "Instrumentalduellant" from the "Hotel California", the outcast from the Adler Paradise Don Felder, is missing. Contrary to the title of the album is next musical therefore probably interpersonal peace has returned, because Freys Vision "I Dreamed There Was No War" (2/2) has 32 years after Bernie Leadons "Journey Of The Scorcerer" with the second Instrumental Group , realized at least for its current members. However, the brand is once again the polyphonic singing, in which the respective main songwriter also takes over the lead vocals. A true rarity is gesangesparitätische "How Long" (1/2). In Frey and Henley alternate in this "typical" Eagles song as lead singer from which composed by John D. Souther and by himself already in the same year as her first album "Eagles" was published. Other highlights in addition to the excellent music are particularly Henleys socio-politically critical, sometimes philosophical lyrics. Apart from the lyrics of his "Frail Grasp On The Big Picture" (2/4), it is mainly the text lines of the theme song "Long Road Out of Eden" (2/1), which agree to the audience of recent events thoughtfully:
Moonlight between the palms, shadows scurrying across the sand
Someone whispers the 23rd Psalm, a Certified dusty gun in his trembling hands.
Someone just tried to stay alive, he has to keep promises he, across the ocean
has far away and in deep slumber, given.
The stars shine silence in the blackness of the endless sky,
Cold Silvery satellites, ghostly caravans pass by.
Galaxies unfold, new worlds are born, pilgrims
and prodigies crawl into dawn,
but it's a long way from paradise beyond.
Music blaring from a caravan, on a sunny day on the highway in the good old USA.
Lunch at the petroleum club where you smokes fat cigars and lies exchanges:
"Give me a slice of the barbecued brisket,
gives me a piece of fine walnut cake. "
The highways fibrillation, the phones strum their song.
We're going to Utopia and the map says we arrive soon.
The captains of the old order holding convulsively on the reins and assure
that our inner torments just growing pains are,
but it's a long road from paradise beyond.
Instrumental Part
At home I was still so sure the way was so clear to me.
But now I wonder what we should here.
I trust no longer on tomorrow. Good and evil, I can no longer distinguish.
But what I would give for night to lie today in your arms.
We meander down the American highway.
By the waste on the roadside, the wrecks and the bloated claims
and propaganda loaded cultural garbage, we go spongy gaze and drunk.
We were already on the road to Damascus and to the road to Mandalay,
have the spirit of Caesar struck down the Appian Way,
who said "it's hard to stop the gluttony,
if you acquired a taste for first time but the road to empire is a bloody waste. "
See the bitten apple, the power of the tools,
to all knowledge in the world benefits the fools nothing
on the long road from paradise beyond.
The limited edition of double album offers to the many (inter alia 1994 by Bon Jovi) gecoverten "Please Come Home For Christmas" (1980) and "Hole in the World" (2004) two additional sweets. Not only as a Christmas present recommended for all old, new / young fans and those who can still be there. 5 stars Amazon.
