The Eagles Tickets

The Eagles

The Eagles owe much of their musical success and apparent personal pain to John Boylan. Boylan gathered Glenn Frey, Bernie Leadon, and Randy Meisner from session musician gigs and Don Henley after meeting him at the Troubadour in Los Angeles and had them audition for Linda Ronstadt as her backup band during her tour in 1970. They got the job and received encouragement from Rondstadt herself to pursue a musical career as their own group. The collaboration of Frey, Leadon, Meisner, and Henley became The Eagles, the premier band of the decade that would regularly release multi-platinum records and sell tickets to sold-out tours brimming with clashing egos.

The group's signed with Asylum Records in 1970, then a small record label started by David Geffen and Elliot Roberts. The Eagles made the small record label a big one fast after the first album, Eagles (1972), landed three singles in the Top 40 and ended up selling certified platinum. Fans came into the concerts with tickets to hear the emergence of Southern California country rock onto the national stage.

"Take It Easy", "Witchy Woman", and "Peaceful Easy Feeling" launched the album and the band into the popular consciousness. The next album, Desperado (1973), played heavily on the Old West outlaw theme, with songs like "Tequila Sunrise" and "Desperado", and also began the dynamic that would both drive and tea the band apart. Don Henley and Glenn Frey became the creative force of the Eagles, writing eight of the 11 songs. Tickets to see the Eagles in the future featured this dynamic and their overpowering influence.

While Desperado was the first step to establishing Henley and Frey as the writing team driving the group, On the Border (1974) was the album where they snatched the wheel. The album moved away from the country sound that described the band in the beginning and moved toward hard rock. The fans did not seem to mind, happy to make the album double platinum and glad to buy Eagles tickets to the new sound. The album also introduced Don Felder as the fifth Eagle. The Eagles also landed their first number one single with "Best of My Love".