Eagles - The Long Run (1979) (LP) - €10,00

The Long Run is the sixth studio album by American rock group the Eagles. It was released in 1979 by Asylum Records in the United States and the United Kingdom. 

This was the first Eagles album to feature bassist Timothy B. Schmit, who had replaced founding member Randy Meisner, and the last full studio album to feature Don Felder before his termination from the band in 2001.

This was the band's final studio album for Asylum Records. It also turned out to be their last studio album during their original tenure, as the Eagles disbanded in 1980; even though they reunited in 1994, they did not release another studio album until 2007's Long Road Out of Eden.Three singles were released from the album, "Heartache Tonight", "The Long Run", and "I Can't Tell You Why". "Heartache Tonight" reached No. 1 on the singles chart and won a Grammy Award. 

Three years in the making (which was considered an eternity in the '70s), the Eagles' follow-up to the massively successful, critically acclaimed Hotel California.

"Heartache Tonight" was an old-fashioned rock & roll song sung by Glenn Frey, while "I Can't Tell You Why" was a delicate ballad by Timothy B. Schmit, the band's newest member. Only "The Long Run," a conventional pop/rock tune with a Stax Records R&B flavor, bore the stamp and vocal signature of Don Henley, who had largely taken the reins of the band on Hotel California. 

Henley also dominated The Long Run, getting co-writing credits on nine of the ten songs, singing five lead vocals, and sharing another two with Frey. 

This time around, however, Henley's contributions were for the most part painfully slight. Only "The Long Run" and the regret-filled closing song, "The Sad Café," showed any of his usual craftsmanship. 

The album was dominated by second-rank songs like "The Disco Strangler," "King of Hollywood," and "Teenage Jail" that sounded like they couldn't have taken three hours much less three years to come up with. 

(Joe Walsh's "In the City" was up to his usual standard, but it may not even have been an Eagles recording, having appeared months earlier on the soundtrack to The Warriors, where it was credited as a Walsh solo track.) 

Side one

1.  The Long Run - 3:42  

2.  I Can’t Tell You Why - 4:56  

3.  In The City - 3:46  

4.  The Disco Strangler - 2:46  

5.  King Of Hollywood-  6:28  

Side two

1.  Heartache Tonight - 4:26  

2.  Those Shoes - 4:56  

3.  Teenage Jail - 3:44  

4.  The Greeks Don’t Want No Freaks - 2:20  

5.  The Sad Café - 5:25

Eagles

• Don Felder – backing vocals, guitars, organ on “The Long Run”, talkbox on “Those Shoes”
• Glenn Frey – vocals, acoustic and electric rhythm guitars, keyboards, lead guitar on “I Can’t Tell You Why” and “King of Hollywood”
• Don Henley – vocals, drums, percussion
• Timothy B. Schmit – vocals, bass guitar
• Joe Walsh – vocals, guitars, keyboards, talkbox on “Those Shoes”

Additional personnel

• Jimmy Buffett – backing vocals on "The Greeks Don't Want No Freaks"
• The Monstertones – backing vocals on “The Greeks Don’t Want No Freaks”
• David Sanborn – alto saxophone on "The Sad Café"
• Bob Seger – backing vocals on "Heartache Tonight" (not credited in liner notes)
• Joe Vitale – piano, electric piano

Production

• Bill Szymczyk – producer and engineer
• Ed Mashal – engineer
• David Crowther – assistant engineer
• Mark Curry – assistant engineer
• Phil Jamtaas – assistant engineer
• Bob Stringer – assistant engineer
• Bob Winder – assistant engineer
• Ted Jensen – mixing, remastering
• John Kosh – art direction, design
• Jim Shea – photography

Notes

Release:  1979

Format:  LP, Vinyl

Genre:  Country Rock

Label:  Asylum Records

Catalog#  AS 52181

Vinyl:  Goed (VG)

Cover:  Goed (VG) (Gatefold)

Prijs: €10,00