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The Eagles Long Road out of Eden 2009 World Tour

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EUROPEAN TOUR DATES
2009 will be a great year for fans of the Eagles. The band is embarking on a World Tour with dates currently in the US, Canada and Europe.

NIA Birmingham, England
Birmingham, ENG July 08, 2009

MEN Arena Manchester
Manchester, ENG July 11, 2009
Saturday 7:30 pm

MEN Arena Manchester
Manchester, ENG July 12, 2009
Sunday 7:30 pm

Color Line Arena
Hamburg, GER July 16, 2009
Thursday 8:00 pm

Gelredome
Arnhem, NL July 18, 2009
Saturday 7:00 pm

Palacio De Deportes
Madrid, Spain July 21, 2009
Tuesday 8:00 pm

Pavilhao Atlantico
Lisbon, Portugal July 22, 2009
Wednesday 9:00 pm

The Eagles at Hampden Park, Glasgow, review
Joe Walsh was the star of the show at a grimly professional appearance by The Eagles in Glasgow.

If the Eagles displayed wry self-knowledge and gentle humour when they named a 1990s reunion tour Hell Freezes Over in honour of the savage enmity that tore the band apart, they showed little of it when they opened this show.

The warm night air seemed to cool as it reached the stage, and the tone was grimly professional. The Eagles assembled for this tour Glenn Frey, Don Henley and mid-Seventies joiners Joe Walsh and Timothy B Schmidt seemed to change guitar between every song just so that they didnt have to look at or talk to each other. Were the band that wouldnt die, joked Frey. Were from when the Dead Sea was just sick.

Though the audience chuckled, the men on stage fiddled glumly with leads and instruments, while Henley tapped out a niggling cabaret boom-boom-tish on his drums to mark the punchlines.

Song after song from 2007s anodyne Long Road Out of Eden trundled on by: safe, staid and lifeless. Though a cosmetically perfect Hotel California gave the crowd a visceral nostalgic thrill, its appearance in the first half hour of the set gave it the air of a chore to be dispensed with quickly.

That talismanic song, though, marked an important moment in the gig: it was when Joe Walsh woke up.

The guitarist had made his name with the James Gang before joining the Eagles, and, with Hotel Californias highly structured solos, he began to come of life.

When Walsh took his slide guitar to In the City, he soloed with energy and poise, locking into a hypnotically simple syncopated bass line, while giving the brass section the room to riff. Soon a groove had developed and suddenly where there had been only finely tuned sound, there was music.

Two songs later he tore up the stage to Lifes Been Good, injecting vitality and unhinged good humour into its nostalgic reggae satire. He was soon revelling in the reckless boogie-woogie of the James Gangs Funk #49, trading blues licks with Frey and pulling fun and funk out of a suddenly vitalised set of musicians. Tellingly, all three songs were Walsh tracks later co-opted by the Eagles.

If Walsh was the life, soul and rock and roll of the party, he faced an uphill battle to get the rest of the band on his side. Frey was charming but quick to switch off and drift into the background. Schmidts bass was inaudible, and Henley seemed humourlessly detached.

The big set pieces Hotel California, Life in the Fast Lane, Take It Easy were technically flawless but lacked the fire that Walsh can still bring to his tunes 35 years on. In bringing his own music so savagely to life, he only underlined what the Eagles were no longer able to do with theirs.

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