THE EAGLES – Inglewood 1976 (2CD)

Audience 8.7 – I had a hard time determining whether it was the recording or the PA that caused this tape to fall below the usually excellent quality recordings coming out of the Inglewood Forum around this same time. It’s not terrible; the main issue was an overcrowding of the middle bandwidth. So you get plenty of bottom end and soaring high end (where most guitar leads and vocals, and yes, cymbals are clear) but a lack of separation in that crucial middle. That leaves us with a tape clearly made on decent gear, somewhere in the middle of the venue it sounds like, and likely a master source (zero tape noise), but just not delivering the kind of clarity you would want when you are trying to hear the magical guitar interplay, especially Joe Walsh who just has his own musicality that perks your ears up. Still, a good tape that is worthy of exploration and much appreciated being from that wonderful line-up that featured perennial fave Joe Walsh.

The Eagles
The Forum
Inglewood, CA
October 22, 1976

Disc 1

01 Hotel California
02 Outlaw Man
03 Doolin-Dalton – Desperado (reprise)
04 Lyin’ Eyes
05 Wasted Time
06 Take It to the Limit
07 New Kid in Town*
08 Desperado
09 Midnight Flyer
10 Turn to Stone

Disc 2

11 Already Gone Interlude
12 One of These Nights
13 Funk #49
14 Good Day in Hell
15 Rocky Mountain Way
16 Witchy Woman
17 James Dean
18 Best of My Love
19 Walk Away
20 Tequila Sunrise
21 Take It Easy
22 Carol

Don Felder – guitars, harmony and backing vocals
Glenn Frey – rhythm guitar, keyboards, vocals
Don Henley – drums, percussion, vocals
Randy Meisner – bass guitar, vocals
Joe Walsh – guitars, keyboards, vocals

Jage Jackson – rhythm guitar, percussion
Phil Kenzie – saxophone
Vince Melamed – electric piano
The Monstertones – backing vocals
J. D. Souther – vocals, acoustic guitar
Joe Vitale – piano, organ, drums, percussion