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Author Topic: Musical Selection of the Evening... Tonights Artist: Glenn Frey  (Read 1232 times)
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« on: January 04, 2010, 05:17:55 PM »

Glenn Lewis Frey is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and actor, best known as a founding member of the Eagles.

Frey was born in Detroit, Michigan. Growing up in Royal Oak, Michigan, he became part of the mid-1960s Detroit rock scene. One of his earliest bands was called the Subterraneans and included fellow Dondero High School Class of '66 students Doug Edwards (later replaced by Lenny Mintz) on drums, Doug Gunsch and Bill Barnes on guitar and Jeff Hodge on bass.

His first professional recording experience was performing acoustic guitar and background vocals on Bob Seger's Ramblin' Gamblin' Man in 1968. Frey and Seger would remain friends and occasional songwriting partners in later years.

Frey then moved to Los Angeles to follow a girlfriend who was an aspiring singer. His first recording as a musical writer was while fronting Longbranch Pennywhistle, a duo with J. D. Souther, in 1969. Frey also met Jackson Browne there, with whom he would also write songs. The three shared an apartment for a short time.

After a stint in 1971 backing Linda Ronstadt, Frey helped form the Eagles, playing guitar and keyboards. Frey wrote or co-wrote (often with Don Henley) many of the group's songs, and sang lead vocal on a number of Eagles hits including "Take It Easy", "Peaceful Easy Feeling", "Already Gone", "Tequila Sunrise", "Lyin' Eyes", "New Kid in Town", "Heartache Tonight", and "How Long".

The Eagles broke up in 1980 and reunited in 1994, when they released an album mixing both live tracks and four new songs, Hell Freezes Over.

2007 saw the release of the Eagles' album Long Road out of Eden. Glenn Frey participated in the Eagles' The Long Road out of Eden Tour (2008-2009).

After the Eagles disbanded, Frey found solo success in the 1980s, especially with two #2 hits: the soundtrack songs "The Heat Is On" (from Beverly Hills Cop) and "You Belong to the City" (from the television series Miami Vice, the soundtrack to which stayed on top of the U.S. album charts for 11 weeks in 1985). His other contribution to the soundtrack, "Smuggler's Blues", hit #12 on the Hot 100. Frey also contributed the song "Flip City" to the Ghostbusters II soundtrack, and "Part of Me, Part of You" to the soundtrack for Thelma and Louise.

During his solo career he had 12 songs in the U.S. Top One Hundred. Eleven of those were written with Jack Tempchin who also wrote "Peaceful Easy Feeling".

In the late 1990s, Frey founded a record company with attorney Peter Lopez called Mission Records.

As an actor on television, Frey guest starred on Miami Vice in the first season episode titled "Smuggler's Blues", inspired by his hit song of the same name and -ad a starring role in the "Dead Dog Arc" of Wiseguy. He was also the star of South of Sunset, which was canceled after one episode. In the late 1990s, he guest-starred on Nash Bridges as a policeman whose teenage daughter had run amok and gone on a crime spree with her sociopathic boyfriend. In 2002, he appeared on HBO's Arli$$, playing a political candidate who double-crosses Arliss and must pay a high price for it.

Frey's first foray into film was his starring role in Let's Get Harry, a 1986 film about a group of plumbers who travel to Colombia to rescue a friend from a drug lord. Frey's next film appearance was a smaller role in Cameron Crowe's third film, Jerry Maguire. Frey played the frugal general manager of the Arizona Cardinals football team who, in the film's climax, finally agrees to pay Cuba Gooding, Jr.'s character, wide receiver Rod Tidwell, a large professional contract.

Frey appeared in or wrote music for a few advertisement campaigns in the mid-to-late 1980s and early 1990s. This move was somewhat controversial within the music industry; Neil Young was especially vocal in his criticism of Frey.

Frey's first appearance as an actor in a commercial was for Pepsi with Miami Vice star Don Johnson. Another notable commercial campaign was the "Hard Rock in the 70s, Rock Hard in the 80s" gym campaign of 1988, which featured a photograph of a newly physically toned Frey contrasted with the famous Hotel California insert photograph. He even did a picture spread in Rolling Stone modeling ski wear, and a spread in Penthouse modeling sweaters.

Frey also contributed music for several commercials, with his jingle for Canada Dry ginger ale evolving into the obscure Japanese Strange Weather bonus track "Ain't It Love".

Cameron Crowe, who interviewed the Eagles on the road when he was a teenager, has stated that the character of Russell, the lead guitar player from his film Almost Famous, was based primarily upon Glenn Frey. The instruction Russell gives to Crowe's autobiographical young critic William Miller, to "Just make us look cool," was apparently a direct quote from Frey.

The Randy Stonehill song Teen King is about Glenn Frey's experiences as a rock star.


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the heat is on

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Smuggler's Blues

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You belong to the city

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True Love

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I've Got Mine

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Sexy Girl

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Part of Me, Part of You

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ALL THOSE LIES

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River of Dreams

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I Found Somebody

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« Reply #1 on: January 04, 2010, 06:39:20 PM »

Love the "Smuggler's Blues"
I thought he did a nice job acting on the old "Miami Vice" episode years ago.  cooldude
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« Reply #2 on: January 05, 2010, 06:22:51 AM »

Enjoyed it, Brian.  Thanks.
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« Reply #3 on: January 06, 2010, 09:20:10 AM »

A most excellent review / totally enjoyable / many thanks
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« Reply #4 on: January 06, 2010, 01:40:12 PM »

Always a fan of Glenn Frey, both has a solo artist and with the Eagles.  Enjoyed the post, thanks.
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