My Seventies Music

Jackson Browne – “The Load Out”/”Stay”, “Running On Empty”, “Take It Easy” and “Tender Is The Night”

In the late Seventies Jackson Browne wrote a song about being a rock musician on tour called “The Load Out”, which morphed into “Stay”, and featured David Lindley on slide guitar/lap steel guitar (and a falsetto voice on the chorus). I don’t really remember “The Load Out” part too much, but “Stay” (Oh won’t you […]

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Tags: BBC Television Centre, Bruce Springsteen, David Lindley, Eagles, Glenn Frey, Jackson Browne, Music of the Seventies, Rockpalast, Running On Empty, Shepherds Bush Theatre, Stay, Take It Easy, Tender Is The Night, The Load Out, Tom Cruise

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The Eagles – “Ol’ 55” and “Desperado” (and “Already Gone”)

I first heard “Ol’ 55” from the Eagles in 1975 (I only found out just now, 35 years later, that it was actually written by Tom Waits…)

It was on an early album before they really took off and became mainstream after Joe Walsh joined them.

Here’s a live version from 1974:

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Tags: Already Gone, Desperado, Don Felder, Don Henley, Eagles, Glenn Frey, Music of the Seventies, Ol' 55, Seventies Rock Bands

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