GAVE What He THOUGHT Was An AVERAGE Song To His Roommate, Who MADE It A 70s HIT | Professor of Rock

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Hall of Fame songwriter Jack Tempchin tells the story of the 70s classic hit Peaceful Easy Feeling that he wrote one night after being stood up by a girl and being locked inside of a bar overnight. He finally finished the song at a hot dog food chain and presented it to his roommate who happened to be Glenn Frey who asked to record it with his band that would later became e the Eagles. The song ended up being on the Eagles greatest hits, the biggest selling album in history!
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Hey music junkies and vinyl junkies Professor of Rock always here to celebrate the greatest artists and the greatest 70s rock songs of all time for the music community and vinyl community with music history video essay's including today's Jack Tempchin of the Eagles Story of Peaceful Easy Feeling. If you’ve ever owned records, cassettes and CD’s at different times in you life or still do this is your place Subscribe below right now to be a part of our daily celebration of the rock era with exclusive stories from straight from the artists and click on our patreon link in the description to become an Honorary Producer.
The Story behind EAGLES 70s standard with Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee Jack Tempchin. Jack wrote or co-wrote several classic Eagles songs including Peaceful Easy Feeling and already gone as well as co-writing most of Glenn Frey’s solo hits including You Belong to the City, Smugglers Blues, True Love and the One You Love
Here Jack details the exclusive story behind writing one of the jewels of the crown of the best selling album in American History, Eagles greatest hits. the song also appeared on Eagles debut album, along with other classics like Take It Easy and Witchy Woman. A longtime friend of Jackson Browne and the late Glenn Frey, Jack also shares stories about the California sound and the early formation of Eagles. Including hearing Don Henley play for the first time and hearing Eagles debut record before it was released. That's where our story begins on Revelations.
Hey music junkies Professor of Rock always her to celebrate the greatest artists and songs of all time If you are all about music, you’ll want to subscribe to this channel so you don’t miss an episode. I’m excited to bring you another episode from our series Revelations- where features artists reveal rare stories about their biggest songs, along with fascinating insight about their careers.
On this installment of Revelations, we present Episode 1 of our recent Zoom session with Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee Jack Tempchin.
Jack wrote or co-wrote several classic Eagles songs including Peaceful Easy Feeling and already gone as well as co-writing most of Glenn Frey’s solo hits including You Belong to the City, Smugglers Blues, True Love and the One You Love
Here Jack details the story behind writing Peaceful Easy Feeling, which appeared on Eagles debut album, as well as their first greatest hits collection which has become the best selling album of all time in America. Jack also shares stories about the California sound and the early formation of Eagles. That's where our story begins on Revelations.

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@ProfessorofRock 2 года назад

Poll: What is your pick for the best Eagles song of the early period, before Hotel California?

@flavellinator 2 года назад

Desperado

@stephenbrown4211 2 года назад

I don’t know. It’s between Peaceful Easy Feeling, Take it To the Limit or One of These Nights. All three are interchangeable

@surlechapeau 2 года назад

Tie: One Of These Nights and Take It Easy. So hard to pick one, when there are 10 great ones!

@MyName-pl7zn 2 года назад

Take it easy is my choice

@PiratePrincessYuki 2 года назад

One of These Nights and Peaceful Easy Feeling. My older brother and I will sit down together and jam Eagles tunes at family get together.

@stevevice9863 2 года назад

Jackson Browne tells a great story on his Solo Acoustic album about a guy that kept yelling out Peaceful Easy Feeling at one of his shows, so he decided to play it. He couldn't remember all of the words and he messed up a line and said, "what a woman can do to a man"..... The whole place gasped and he said, "What?"...and in unison the entire audience said, "Your soul.....what a woman can do to your soul." Goes to show how deeply embedded in everyone's collective memory that song is.

@marvinroos3520 2 года назад

And JB told how he disagreed with the line "Ah but she can't take you anyway you don't already know how to go!" (Unless she's a waitress who invited him to go to her place and then forgets to tell him where that was?)

@SIXPACFISH 2 года назад

Most singers can barely remember the words to their own songs, let alone songs by other bands.

@leonardshevlin7260 2 года назад

Peter Beckett, of Player, said that Daryl Hall told him that "Baby Come Back" was the most requested song at Hall & Oates concerts.

@valedslinger6290 2 года назад

I got to see Jackson Browne play with the Eagles and Linda Ronstadt at the Capitol Center in Landover Maryland. It must have been 1976 because it was a benefit for Governor Brown for president concert. I had no idea who he was but if he was cool with the Eagles he was cool with me LOL. Good thing I couldn't vote. 17

@frankkinley6272 2 года назад

@@valedslinger6290 While I was reading your comment you got me thinking about some of the past concerts that I saw with my sister back in the 70's & 80's. So many great events & artists. Like Billy Joel & Elton John In concert together, they had their pianos facing each other (Awesome) Or the night the Grateful Dead opened for Tom Petty & Bob Dylan In Minneapolis. And a classic was Simon & Garfunkel at the parade stadium also in Minneapolis. One of hardest nights was we had tickets to see Harry Chapin for the upcoming weekend and sadly he died in that car accident a few days before the show. We always use to Thanks for your comment.

@randym9147 2 года назад

I wonder how many of us here have re-purchased The Eagles Greatest hits numerous times? I scratched an album and bought an 8-track, Wore out the 8-track, then bought a cassette, wore out the cassette then bought the CD. Lost the CD and bought it again. Got tired of the CD and downloaded it... I'll bet I personally account for 15 of those millions in sales. I kinda like the eagles, as you might have guessed. :-)

@wizzard5442 2 года назад

lol

@tonytheHAT 2 года назад

My FAVORITE question The Professor asks his guests:. "Do you remember where you were when you first heard your song?". Just an amazing, soul opening question that these artists just LOVE to answer. Wow.

@btchhopperou812 2 года назад

Could not agree more! Always love hearing their answers to this question!

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 2 года назад

Agreed, I love that question! When talking to teachers at my school about music they liked when they were younger I will often ask, “Tell me about the first time you heard your favorite song.” And I think Professor is part of my inspiration for that.

@bradsmack1 2 года назад

All that, PLUS we can all relate! Who among us hasn't fantasized about being a songwriter, and imagining the feeling of hearing our song for the first time on the radio? At the very least, WONDERING what our fave artists were thinking their first time!

@btchhopperou812 2 года назад

@alicia saldivar Gotta cherish those times- once they're grown, that's it.... so we make and KEEP the memories!!

@TheEdenFiles 2 года назад

Agreed. When I heard a tune of mine on the radio I just cried & thanked Jesus. Reminds me of the scene in That Thing You Do, where they're running down the street into the store, going crazy, hearing their song on the radio!

@MrPhilm00r 2 года назад

My favorite memory of this song comes from when I was about 14 years old. My best friend's father was playing an acoustic guitar one day and this was the song that he was playing. I didn't know it at the time, but that would be the moment that triggered my desire to learn how to play the guitar. He even taught his son and I our first couple of chords. Now some 25+ years later I'm still playing every day. That man passed away about 10 years ago. Every time that I hear that song now I think about that moment and him trying his best to sing and play it for us. At the time it was so exciting, like so many first time experiences are when you are young. I don't know if he ever knew how much of a wonderful gift it was that he gave me that day, but I will be forever grateful to him for it.

@cindyjones1270 2 года назад

I love the Eagles. So much meaning in their songs.

@ProfessorofRock 2 года назад

For sure. Thanks Cindy!

@cindyjones1270 2 года назад

@@ProfessorofRock You're welcome.

@pattisimmons67 2 года назад

Hi Adam! I have this little story about Peacefull Easy Feeling. When I was in my late teens, a few friends and I had a band. All of us had a level of talent mine being, honestly, the lowest. I could sing, taught myself guitar, wrote a little, but, I CANNOT read a note of music so I have to hear everything at least once to get it. Usually by the 2nd time I've got lead and back-up vocals down. My bandmates were SO MUCH MORE talented; One has gone on to be a rather famous artist who has actually been contracted to do restoration work on the paintings, murals and frescos at the Vatican as well as exhibits of his work all over the world!! Anyway, Joe and I shared lead so we had quite a variety of music and Peaceful Easy Feeling was one of those songs. Instead of doing the song as a single lead, we turned it into a duet, singing to each other. It went over phenomenally well. We also did it like that on the song "If" by David Gates and Bread. They were 2 of our MOST requested songs! We created some very unique harmonies that were different from the original but still blended so well. They were smooth. We were being called the next Buckingham-Nicks. It was great and the memories always make me smile. If you read all this, Thank you!

@Ldsyldsy 2 года назад

Love to see videos of your band performing those songs!

@marterisher2335 Год назад

I was an Eagles fan from the moment I heard their first track hit the radio. But I’ve always had a sweet spot for Lyin Eyes. I think it is the tight harmony the Eagles achieved on that particular track that does it for me!

@bladestar2322 2 года назад

Eagles were, in my opinion, a perfect band. They were a rock band that played great Rock and also, some of their songs had Country and Western appeal! I would visit my parents and Eagles songs would be playing on Country stations.

@nancywalton2279 2 года назад

They still are, my friend.

@bladestar2322 2 года назад

I can watch a Western and listen to Eagles music in the background and it just seems so right! They just blend in with everything! I also must admit I developed a fondness for Tequila Sunrises because of the song! I also remember laughing my head off in San Diego in 1976 when I walked by an actual Hotel California! Eagles! 🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅

@ronaldmccutcheon1329 2 года назад

@@keithschneidly3922 My Ph.D Uncle wrote a book in the 70s about the rhythm and blues origin of Rock.

@paulcarr5918 2 года назад

The One You Love...such an underrated song. Perfect 80's

@brymusic1542 2 года назад

It's one of my favorites. Brings back lots of memories. But Peaceful Easy Feeling still tops it.

@edwardwood3622 2 года назад

ONE OF THESE NIGHTS!!! No doubt my favourite Eagles song, it dominated the radio during some of the greatest times of my life, on the lake camping at the Northern Eagle.

@cidDraGonFly 2 года назад

Summer 1975, 14 years old, just hanging in the neighborhood, smoking', messing' around with the girls...thinking "one of these nights" gonna find out pretty mama what turns on your light. yeah good times man.

@SouthernSierra56 2 года назад

One Of These Nights. A great solo by Don.

@markianclark9645 2 года назад

Yes...I bought the album on the strength of than one track...it was played over on the radio around 1976...probably could've just snapped up the single I dunno...but I found the LP and discovered the Eagles...of course years and decades later we know they'd been around like 5 years when that came out...but they was new to me in London...a collector got all my Vinyl for cheap not long ago...in perfect condition...not a scratch on any disc...including this one...now it's MP3 not the same listening experience as putting that tone arm down...but they're Great regardless if it's on a tinny transistor or a hifi...

@jimblack8027 2 года назад

The Professor of Rock is this generation's Casey Kasem... we are blessed to have him

@MyName-pl7zn 2 года назад

Jack wrote an American classic that will be sung 200 years from now. You can tell he is still a free spirit. I like how there are many past girls that don't even know they were the inspiration for this classic. Great interview! Now I want to go write a song that will win the 2nd Gold Weiner award

@ProfessorofRock 2 года назад

He's a great guy for sure.

@davidcarroll4058 2 года назад

I was lucky enough to live and surf in Encinitas Ca. in the seventies and Mr. Tempchin had opened a bar called the STINGAREE ( With the royalties from this song I would suspect ) And I was just barely legal to drink... It was a great place for live music... He IS truly one of the best songwriters alive today... This man literally created the soundtrack of the time... Warm summer sunsets after surfing in San Diego... Intelligent , Inspiring and encouraging ... God bless you Sir... And thank you ... for being The FUNKY KING!

@Hollylivengood 2 года назад

What a humble person. It just shows the personality it takes to really write good music.

@bumblebeebob 2 года назад

I'll never be as cool as The Dude cause I'll always love The Eagles. I graduated high school in 1978 so l grew up with The Eagles. Really love their early stuff, up to and including Hotel California. While l flirted with so much of the other awesome music of that era The Eagles were always playing in the background. Thank you for the flashback to younger more carefree days!

@cord5068 2 года назад

It is amazing how you can so carefully tug at the threads, with your questions and enthusiasm, to artfully entice these artists into such informative, fun and enjoyable interviews. You can tell by their reaction that you ask questions that no one has ever thought to ask, and that they thoroughly enjoy answering them. Well done. I look forward to your next interview.

@mikemcgown6362 2 года назад

When I moved to Minnesota and married my wife I started going to church with her. The band they have refer to themselves as the worship leaders played a rearranged version of "Peaceful Easy Feeling" they made into a God filled worship song. That was one of the first worship songs I knew most of the words to. My wife is a big Eagles fan and has several of their CD's. One I found in the garage. It was dirty and scratched. I cleaned it up and polished as much of the scratches out as I could. The only song I could get to play all the way through was "Peaceful Easy Feeling". Imagine that!

@Heartwing37 2 года назад

My church worship team still plays this! 😍

@baneverything5580 2 года назад

It was the song playing in SRVs hotel room when his band opened the door to find he`d never made it to his room. His helicopter was on the ground.

@zombee38 2 года назад

Those "worship leaders" were committing anathema.

@mikemcgown6362 2 года назад

@@zombee38 they did a rearrangement of the song to make it more worshipful.

@burningoldsage4012 2 года назад

@@zombee38- I'm sure Ana doesn't mind. In the last few years that girl has really gotten around.

@bishdizzle67 2 года назад

Man, that was good. These interviews are priceless. Not joking one bit. Without these, they will be lost to time. How many songs from the best decades will be lost? Time will tell but I hope not because what is being passed off as music today is not good. People might say: The Beatles and their music will never die. Maybe not, but there are so many incredible songs, bands, artists who may be lost. I hope you archive these videos Adam, in case RU-vid changes what can be posted. What a great story behind this song! Thanks again for your work.

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 2 года назад

This is why I love when Adam interviews some of my favorite musicians! I get this extremely fascinating insight on some of the greatest songs of the 20th century that I wouldn't get anywhere else. Straight from the legends.

@yestfmf 2 года назад

Sad reality is, it will all be forgotten. As will we. Our culture dies with each generation. There are already people on yt lamenting how no one talks about their favorite artists anymore.

@TheGarageRecordingSC 2 года назад

Such a nice, humble guy. There’s not an ounce of Hollywood in him, it seems.

@kenperk9854 2 года назад

He could be a terror too. The girl who cut my hair back in the day, dated Glenn during the NO FUN Aloud SESSIONS. She was a fountain of great gossip. Things didn't end well for her after That. This was Glenn's first solo album. He almost caused a kid to crap his pants in a music store in Florence, Alabama. Glenn had dropped by to pick up a cassete of no Fun Aloud.The kid behind the counter didn't know who Glenn was and tried to sell him a warranty on the cassette. In a loud voice of anger, Glenn said he didn't need a G D warrantee! he was G D Glenn Frey! That poor kid didn't have any idea he was stepping into that. Both Glenn and Don could be world class pricks as had been well known for a long time.

@zefallafez 2 года назад

This is where someone says, ”Cocaine is a helluva drug”.

@davidryder5082 2 года назад

@@zefallafez it is indeed

@burningoldsage4012 2 года назад

@@kenperk9854 - No one in my life has ever tried to sell me a warranty on a "G-D-" cassette tape. If they did, I surely wouldn't have yelled at him or her. I'd be too busy rolling on the floor.

@catherine6653 2 года назад

This is one of my favorite Eagles song. It gives me a peaceful easy feeling just listening to it 😊 I also like 'New Kid In Town.

@ProfessorofRock 2 года назад

Both are great! Hope you're well Catherine!

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 2 года назад

“Take It Easy” and “Best of My Love” are other good Eagles songs.

@tedbecker4051 2 года назад

Take it Easy, Best of my Love, and Peaceful, Easy Feeling are my favorite Eagles' songs. All three should have been #1. I've heard "Amazing Grace" sung to the tune of Peaceful, Easy Feeling. It was beautifully done.

@catherine6653 2 года назад

@Anna Trail HI Anna 👋. I thought of you today because I know you ❤ the Eagles. As a kid in the 70s I loved the Eagles too. I have Hotel California and their greatest hits record. I also have Don Henley's solo albums and a CD of Glen Fry's live concert in Dublin, Ireland. I like that one because my Grandma grew up in Ireland. I was able to go with her to Ireland 🇮🇪 before she died. It was a memorable trip and I met her sisters and my second cousins.

@catherine6653 2 года назад

@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 I like those songs too. The Eagles have so many great hits.

@gmbenz2482 2 года назад

As a guy who has done some songwriting over the years and started out with a Stella guitar, I really enjoyed listening to Jack's story. Glad to see one of us had some success. This was one of my favorite songs off the first Eagles album. . Thanks to Jack for the music, and thanks also to the Professor for the presentation.

@mosessupposes2571 2 года назад

If you play music, you are a success. And if you teach and/or play music with kids, that success increases exponentially. Salute ✊🏼

@charlieduzan1645 2 года назад

I can relate, started out in 71 with a Stella, now all these years later I still have her"!

@robbstrandlund2672 2 года назад

Hey Professor Robb Strandlund here. Great interview with Jack. Needless to say I’ve known Jack for a very long time and we wrote already gone together. I love Jack He is truly a great songwriter and was a great inspiration To me and my songwriting. Keep up the good work love your channel. Robb

@michelebenedosso3899 2 года назад

Wow oh wow! Great post! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

@johnhowell8228 2 года назад

Thank you for that song! It's an american classic!

@reneeg4817 2 года назад

Way cool.

@reneeg4817 2 года назад

Robb strandlund. Love this song. Thank u.

@goggles2 2 года назад

In 1983 when I was in my first year of the local county college I had to take a required English 101 class. About halfway through the semester we were given an assignment to write an original poem. I had neither the interest nor the ability to do so. I sat in my room struggling to even get the first line down. I looked down and saw all my albums spread out on the floor and then remember thinking “well rock ‘n’ roll is really poetry from a lyrics standpoint“. I started sorting through the albums and there was the Eagles Greatest Hits sitting right in front of me. Knowing the album backwards and forwards I scanned the titles until I saw “Peaceful Easy Feeling” and I thought “yeah this one”. I put the album on the turn table and grabbed a pen and paper. While it would seem to be a bit of a gamble you have to understand that my professor was probably about 65 years old and this was 1983. And I’m thinking“ There’s no way he knows this song“. Since English was always my worst subject and I wasn’t getting a good grade I figured I had nothing to lose. Sure enough I wrote down the title, the lyrics and handed it in as my own work. The week after I handed it in the professor announced that they were two poems that got an A+. He handed one to a girl and then he handed me my “A+ original poem”. I couldn’t believe I’d gotten away with it. But he then asked if myself and the young lady would be willing to share our poems aloud in class. She immediately got up and recited her poem. But of course looking around the class everybody was around my age and I knew I’d be busted. So when the professor turned to me I sadly looked down, sighed, shook my head and said “I can’t. It’s just too personal to me“. The professor looked at me, nodding his head he acknowledged my pain and moved on. Four years of high school and five years of college and that’s the only A I ever got in English. Thank you Jack Tempchin.

@larrycusick3060 2 года назад

Yeah, my brother did the same thing except it was "I Drink Alone" by George Thorogood. High School teacher called my parents to alert them of the obvious troubling lyrics my brother had penned.

@tashakomaroff2982 2 года назад

Your story is hilarious, and that’s some quick thinking!

@randym9147 2 года назад

I thought you'd say that you pulled the fire alarm; lol.

@G0K3001 2 года назад

......great story hilarious! .......did the same thing to ....Where will the children play by Cat Stevens- Ha!

@UncleBudStories 2 года назад

@@larrycusick3060 I heard when he drinks alone he prefers to be by himself.

@observationsfromthebunker9639 2 года назад

I like how Jack has no vanity about his work. "Oooo, Vince Gill covered my song. Cool." He knows other people like his song and keep it alive, he's happy.

@gregorychilcote4636 2 года назад

I was thinking…Oh, Vince Gill covered my song? Where the hell is my royalty check?!

@remygarrison1451 2 года назад

I am fortunate enough to be a co-writer with Jack and Phil Vassar on Phil’s latest album “Stripped Down”, and Jack is the coolest most humble dude you will ever meet. He still goes down to the beach and just plays for whoever will listen.

@janmoline Год назад

That's freaking so cool! Thanks for sharing that, man what a treat that would be, to come across Jack playing guitar on the beach? Holy hell!!!

@blazerhawkdarren68 2 года назад

This just goes to show that sometimes your success depends on a little bit of luck. Great song and great story.

@ProfessorofRock 2 года назад

So true!

@Elwaves2925 2 года назад

It's definitely one of the eternal classics for me. Such a beautiful song and a great story behind it.

@ProfessorofRock 2 года назад

Great tune that really does bring a peaceful, easy feeling.

@neilperry2224 2 года назад

He really was down to earth, still can't believe his song was.played by the world and loved for different reasons, like a marriage, a death but most of all just to relax to and forget your troubles. My favourite eagles song is the one involving the drug dealer and a very fast corvette with Glen Frey on the way to a poker game. The drug dealer maxed the corvette to 90mph and when Glen asked why? He said "it's life in the fast lane" Glen thought to himself it was a great song title.

@BladeStar-uq6xe 5 месяцев назад

Eagles are THE Greatest Band in History! They had so many great hits that their Greatest Hits album only got half of them!

@scottburton9701 2 года назад

Jack Tempchin is a great conversationalist!

@stanphillips7277 2 года назад

What a great interview. I'd never heard of that guy but what a down to earth guy right? Just pleasant and articulate. Cool stories, great demeanor, humble and laughs a lot. Nice one Professor. I paused the video of the poster and could make out a few of the lyrics. I'll never be able to listen to that one again and not have him come to mind. I can't even remember when I started listening to The Eagles consciously although I can remember "Heartache Tonight" from a really young age. I'm a fan and "Peaceful Easy Feeling" is one of the first songs I learned on guitar. I was still struggling to get calluses to develop and strengthen my fingers so even though it's pretty simple, it was a challenge back then. It's 3 chords and the truth if you don't count the chorus 😂 I once had a 4 track (in the 90s when technology had rendered it obalete but I enjoyed it 🎸🥁🎹🎶) but I'd never even heard of a 2 track , although now that I think of it cassette tapes are 2 track right? So... 😂 At just over 20 minutes the interview flew by. It's fascinating looking at the scribblings on the back of the poster and thinking about the magnitude of what happened to these little scribbled down lines and then Glen Fry taking it to his band that nobody knew if...who knows how much that song being on that first record had to do with their success? I'm almost certain if you take one song out of the equation of a truly great bands truly great album (concept albums and rock operas aside) it would still have enough to merit the same amount of success but it's just a hypothetical, stream of consciousness thought I had...I digress a little I think.. So yeah, I love interviews with people who are a part of my music and my life right? I love hearing that someone's been involved in my life that I had no idea existed. Very cool interview... right up there with the best of em' in my humble opinion. Nice goin' Professor! Until next time, 3 (or more) chords and the truth my friend ✌️🎸🎶

@flavellinator 2 года назад

This song puts me into automatic chill mode...

@LEObondTraveller 2 года назад

Great story. Every songwriters dream is to have someone record their song and then that song soars off with a life of its own forever.

@walterbaker1384 2 года назад

Wow, this could’ve easily been inserted in the Eagles documentary. Solid gold interview, you knock it out of the park. Would’ve like to hear his version from that original tape. This was an important album from my childhood. Thanks for digging deep.

@greenbackcutthroat6544 2 года назад

I only saw it mentioned here once in all of the comments. One of my absolute favorites and one of the Eagles most underrated songs has to be the Sad Café.

@zeblonzeblon 2 года назад

Sad Cafe is my favorite eagles song too

@Carepedoit 2 года назад

This is my favorite so far! I feel like “Peaceful Easy Feeling” has saved my soul. And now I know why….because it saved his. Man, thank you for bringing this to us.

@viol8r 2 года назад

Taking my grandma to see the eagles in May.. can’t wait! Thanks Prof. For the great video, as usual!

@bradleyrandall1237 2 года назад

Around 1975 I was playing a songwriters night in a small coffee house in San Bernardino, Ca (Penny University). While waiting to go on stage I began talking with the guy who was going on before me. We introduced ourselves and as we made small talk it struck me...... "what's your last name Jack?" he said Tempchin! After reflecting for a couple of seconds I said "hold on, you're THE Jack Tempchin?" He said "well I guess so". I'm following with the Peaceful Easy Feeling, Jack Tempchin?" He smiled and gave a small chuckle. I laughingly told him "just my luck to follow you tonight!" He was so very cool as he told me "we're all musicians here tonight, let's have some fun!" An incredible talent, modest, an inspiration to not just songwriters but humankind! Cheers....

@paddybpaddyb9940 2 года назад

It's like when they asked Don McLean "What does this song mean?" ( American Pie) & he said, " It means I never have to work again"

@jstnxprsn 2 года назад

Jack is a personal favorite of mine since the Funky Kings, Slow Dancin'. My friend John Batdorf (Batdorf and Rodney, Silver) introduced me to him a few years ago when Jack opened for John at a guitar shop music venue in Culver City, Calif. Jack is as nice and down to Earth a person you could hope to meet, esp. amazing considering how talented he is as a songwriter and performer. Thanks Adam. I can hardly wait to watch this.

@joenovak2815 2 года назад

The Funky Kings. 👍👍

@Ekkis25 2 года назад

In high school I took a girl to see the Eagles in concert and later bought her the album. Years later she married a good friend of mine and they invited me and my wife over for a cookout. They had outdoor speakers and we drank beer and listened to music, much to my surprise she still had that album and put it on to play! My friend, her husband said that she only played that to irritate him about how sweet I was and that I was the one her parents liked the most and that she had let me slip through her fingers. I decided it was time to go! P.S. they were married 38 years and she passed away just last year, RIP Evelyn.

@chuckn3579 2 года назад

It's an amazing thing how a hit song comes out of something that was written spur of the moment. There have been a few songs done that way. And when it gets covered, the song gets kept alive for generations.

@Tondars 2 года назад

These songs live on because there is so much truth in the lyrics: "I found out a long time ago what a woman can do to your soul," or "So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains And we never even knew we have the key." Such deep philosophy of life and the ego, crammed into a little old pop song!

@jray5363 2 года назад

I’ve always been amazed that all the world weary sadness in those songs was written by guy’s in their twenties.

@chipsrafferty8362 Год назад

This just makes me like that song even more……what a humble brilliant mind…..thank you for this great interview.

@tonymurray814 2 года назад

Love the way this mans man effortlessly skips through the brilliant achievement of him n his wife still together after all these years!!!

@Karen-q3v9w Год назад

I still listen to the Eagles. That was , to me a number 1 band. Loved their music. Raised my kids on that music. One time the church bus came by to pick up the kids on a Wednesday evening and I had that very album playing. JD , the decon came up to the porch and told the kids to get on the bus. He stood there on the porch until the entire song played. He grew up with the Eagles and that song brought back good memories . Take it easy ! One of the best.

@TexanUSMC8089 2 года назад

If you write a great song once, it might be luck, but when you've written as many great songs as he has it's not luck. He's one of the greatest for sure. Great video and interview.

@GringoLoco1 2 года назад

My late wife worked at a Sandy Eggo der Wiernersnitzel (on Garnet in PB) in 1970. Wonder if Jack made her famous 🤔 Great interview

@ProfessorofRock 2 года назад

Thanks!

@rodfarrell967 2 года назад

great bloke..gives ya a peaceful easy feelin when you listen to him recount things...thanks

@jimmieyoung925 2 года назад

This song ALWAYS takes me back to a "dancer" I was seeing in the mid 90:s can still see hear and smell the memories only one other song can do that for me sweet child of mine same thing dancer I was seeing first song type of thing

@namewitheld2568 2 года назад

One of my favorite episodes so far probably because the Eagles were a staple of my childhood experience of music and I love the stories of The Eagles, Tom Petty, and Jackson Brown all knowing each other. I grew up in Eureka. Weird to think I was probably listening to this song on the same station that this guy heard it on for the first time.

@ruthzamarripa6058 2 года назад

Thank you professor. This is my absolute favorite Eagles song. One of my fondest memories of this song was back in December 1990. I was at a bar in Tucson AZ called Dirtbags and we, Cal - UC Berkeley, just won the Copper Bowl. Every Cal fan/Alum was in full celebration. Who ever was sitting by the jukebox that night kept on playing “Peaceful Easy Feeling” over and over again. And you know what, no one minded. It was the song of victory. Good times. Great memory.

@janmoline Год назад

I love the Eagles, finally saw them a number of years back now, at the Hollywood Bowl. I was a messed up little kid, and crazy teen. Hurt, angry, I had no idea what to do with it all. I couldn't play an instrument and can't sing for $#!+! But, I can memorize the damn words almost instantly! My first album, was actually an 8 track tape, Eagles Greatest Hits! I sang and played that tape, almost incessantly. My sisters were trying to steal the deck (little red manual push button to change the tracks!) just to shut me up! That album and I walked along the beaches together until I wore the tape out. Finally bought a cassette, small player and headset. I'd run and the deck was small but too heavy and the songs just played in my head. So grateful for those songs!!!

@squishy312 2 года назад

This is my favorite Eagles song. I can't help but sing along to this one. Every. Time. Well done!

@deanrobert9953 2 года назад

Albums of that era will forever be atop best seller lists. The albums benefitted from multiple formats - vinyl, cassette, CD, mp3 and now Deluxe / Remastered box sets and streaming. Everyone has bought the top albums multiple times. I think I've bought Rumours about five times over the years... ha

@evileyeball 2 года назад

My parents had an eagles Cover band perform at their Wedding in 1977... Their first dance was Peaceful easy feeling. When I got married in 2012 we did our first dance (Hold me Tight - The Beates) then we did Me with my wife's mom and my wife with My dad (as her dad was already dead) (Crazy Little Thing Called Love) Then as the 3rd song of the night we opened up the floor to everyone and played Peaceful Easy Feeling so my parents could have a dance to it. You should have seen the smile on my fathers face :)

@LaserRanger15 2 года назад

This guy is a great story teller. Really good video.

@MrTrotwood 2 года назад

I had the great pleasure of seeing Jack perform at a small venue in Downers Grove Illinois a few years ago. We so enjoyed his stories and performance. His music is truly inspired.

@coinslotsandjoysticks2572 2 года назад

The videos and interviews with the bands from the 70,s are by far the best ones you guys have done, but the music from the 70,s was awesome, getting to hear the back stories from the writers is awesome

@billcook4768 2 года назад

Was amazed when I learned the band’s name is simply “Eagles.” No “the”. Good to see the professor get it right. But that’s why he’s the professor.

@dickmonkey-king1271 2 года назад

Same with Pixies.

@zefallafez 2 года назад

Same with Indigo Girls. Ask David Letterman.

@tomquinn607 2 года назад

Jack's the man. Great everlasting lyrics.

@ProfessorofRock 2 года назад

He's a great writer and even better person!

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 2 года назад

He’s a legend.

@jesstowns10 2 года назад

Much thanks to Jack for telling us the story behind Peaceful, Easy Feeling. It's my go to song at a jam when it's my first turn to sing, been inside those lyrics more times than I can remember. This is a whole new perspective on the song.

@mikehardgraves7887 2 года назад

I bought “On the Border” when I was 14, and the greatest hits album a few years later, part of the soundtrack of life. Peaceful Easy Feeling will always remind me of those lovely high school girls I used to know. Thanks

@RC32Smiths01 2 года назад

Sometimes, the best songs have the most insane beginnings haha. Awesome as always.

@ProfessorofRock 2 года назад

It's a great story!

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 2 года назад

It’s fascinating!

@ayyjayess2304 2 года назад

Great story about a great song! My late friend Doug was in a band called Gin Blossoms and would always start sing alongs with tha song. Great memories connected to "peaceful easy feeling"

@mosessupposes2571 2 года назад

What a lovely guy. There isn’t a single one of us millions of nobody acoustic guitar players who didn’t want Peaceful Easy Feelin to be one of the very first songs we learned. Thank you for decades of fun with that.

@paulkeniston5699 2 года назад

"I know you wont let me down" is a line that always brought me to a place of tranquility and understanding while going through rejections and disappointments. I love hearing this story of how the song was written.

@glennmiller9759 2 года назад

Thank you so much for doing this back story--it is beyond amazing! Jack Tempchin, whom I'd never heard of, seems to be such a humble guy. We had a little four-piece band here in eastern Connecticut back in the '70s, and with some fairly decent vocals and harmonies (have to say so myself, 'cause no one else will), took great pleasure in emulating our beloved Eagles. I was no Glenn Frey, but I played him on stage and sang lead on "Peaceful Easy Feeling." It was so much fun to work at sounding like the Eagles, and at times it seemed we got a small fraction of the way there. I watch a lot of RU-vid videos on a variety of subjects, but this has to be the most compelling thing I've seen in quite some time. Cheers and thanks to Jack Tempchin!!

@edryba4867 2 года назад

Hurray for the Polish Dog! Yet another GREAT one, Adam! I don’t know how many THOUSAND times I played this song on the Radio… both AM & FM!

@BigfootAnthropologist 2 года назад

I went to a Leo Kottke concert. The opening act was a group was a band called "The Eagles." Everyone around me kept saying "Who the F__ are the Eagles?" They played all of their "hits" before they were "hits."

@terryjannereth4374 2 года назад

Excellent interview! I love this revelations series! Great stuff Adam!

@ProfessorofRock 2 года назад

Thanks Terry!

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 2 года назад

Revelations is my favorite POR series!

@hughwright1860 2 года назад

Awesome story. Awesome video Adam. IMHO the Eagles one other top 5 groups per individual AND collective talent. Thanks Adam.!!! Imo "Try And Love Again" was underrated.

@ProfessorofRock 2 года назад

Hugh, you are so right! I love that song.

@omarvasquez445 2 года назад

"Take it easy", always loved that song

@vonniedemers5683 2 года назад

The Eagles are in my all time top ten.. I was born and raised in California. The radio and music being in my ear always. I was born in 65 one of my earliest memories is watching The Monkees while having the transistor radio in my ear listening to more music. When I was a teenager my parents uprooted us to WI.. A place I'm still in and still don't like. But when I listen to the Eagles I'm transported back to the desert where I lived.. My Favorite Eagle tunes are Hotel California, Victim of Love, Lieing Eyes, One of These Nights Best of My Love... Lately I go to sleep with The Greatest Hits playing. The music transports me to a happier time and place and soothes me to sleep.

@hondalimited7509 2 года назад

1972. Had been on Yankee Station in the Gulf of Tonkin for about 30 days. Went into port in Hong Kong. Walking along some street, I turned into a record shop. Purchased 3 bootleg albums. One was The Eagles first album, I think it Wings Over America and it had Peaceful Easy Feeling on it. Still love that 34 cent album and still have it. A second album was by Eric Clapton and don't remember what the 3rd album was. All three for a $1.00 American dollar

@toddmillar4041 2 года назад

I worked with a group of Philippino's in remote mining camps, so it doesn't surprise me that this song is played so much in the Philippines. They absolutely love to sing, everyone has their own karaoke machine.

@stratslinger54 2 года назад

I've played guitar and/or bass in countless cover bands in my 68yrs on this planet, and I don't think in even one of those bands did we not play "Peaceful, Easy Feeling." It was just an easy tune to pick up on, and, when played and sang well, a definite crowd pleaser. Still love the song. Thanks, guys, for the little history lesson on a great tune!😎👍

@coolaunt516 2 года назад

I really like "Already Gone" Great harmonies and fabulous guitar work!

@born_again_torinos 2 года назад

I had a college professor tell me once that back in the 70s he was standing on a corner in windslow arizona and was thinking of the eagles song and a girl drove by in a truck while he was thinking about it.

@Androctonus84 Год назад

I grew up in the Desert Southwest (Arizona and Southern California) during that time, and their music always was always just a natural part of that life. When they sing about sleeping in the desert, or driving down a dark desert highway, those were real things to me that I did on a regular basis, so their lyrics have always been things I can recall from real life experiences, and evoke powerful memories of some of the best times of my life.

@jeffreyhancock8831 2 года назад

Imagine how humbling the feeling knowing a song that you wrote is known, played, and respected around the world ..... and for that matter, how humbling it must be to interview these same persons. Bruh, the highest level of respect is afforded to you. Professor of Rock? You indeed deserve this title.

@mikep490 7 месяцев назад

In the early 70's I was working my way thru community college. I had a "customized" '63 Corvan with an 8 track and 10 or 12" speakers in big cabinets covered in white & purple fur, back in the rear. Most of my tapes came from a boot-leg 8 track shop downtown when that was still semi-legal. I played those tapes until they were nearly worn transparent. That van, excellent music, and picking up Dr Demento on an AM signal skip from 600 miles away are great memories.

@eztravels9809 2 года назад

My all time favorite song. Heard it when I was 11 yrs. old. Fell in love. It has remained my favorite. Brings back great memories.

@gmb858 2 года назад

A gem of a song on the 1st album is often overlooked. "Train Leaves Here This Morning" tells a mellow story that is more than conducive to campfire playing. "And I watched as the smoker passed it on" to "And I laughed when the joker said, lead on" reminds me of happy evenings at twilight sharing good weed and good wine on the porch with good friends listening to good music like Train Leaves This Morning. We thought the world was complicated in the 70's when we were 20. Little did I know that those were some of the most tranquil days I'd ever had. Train Leaves This Morning takes me back for a short "vacation" down memory lane.

@lcruz2783 2 года назад

What a great interview about an awesome song. The Eagles are such a part of American band history.

@dalanandrews166 2 года назад

I met Jack in LA once. Peaceful, Easy Feeling and Dancin to The Music. Two of my favorite songs.

@dalehannon4922 2 года назад

It's the right song at the right time with the right voice that makes it a hit!

@judyi46 2 года назад

I played a Tempchin-Frey co-written song, It’s Your World Now, at my husband’s funeral. Another little known but powerful song written by this powerful songwriting duo.

@kenperk9854 2 года назад

7 Bridges road about Alabama, Should always be tossed in to all Eagles performances!

@kenperk9854 2 года назад

And now we are stuck in a communist country. 😡and our freedom is resting in Peace.

@nysunflower9439 2 года назад

The Eagles are my favorite band and Glen Frey singing Peaceful Easy Feeling does it for me every time! Going to see them at Belmont on April 30th. Can’t wait.

@kirstenknox2753 Год назад

I just love the Eagles. Hell Freezes Over tour in Vegas-great memories.

@starboy2013 2 года назад

The key to the Eagles was that could dress a song up in the most special way. They had several writers. Don't forget JD.

@annierae6242 2 года назад

Peaceful Easy Feeling I love this song !!! And I love it that I have seen and heard the guy who wrote it 💕🎶❤️

@josephsmith9130 2 года назад

An era I will never forget as a avg. teenager trying to find his way in life. The music from the Eagles and Boston helped a great deal.

@sunshine3914 2 года назад

Really cool that you’re documenting behind the scenes of legendary songs. Almost didn’t make it through thanks to RU-vid placing 2 ads every 70 seconds.

@stephenbrown4211 2 года назад

Love this as it takes me back to a trip I took around Arizona and New Mexico in the nineties. Unfortunately I didn’t get to Winslow. (Different song I know)

@ProfessorofRock 2 года назад

I see what you did there!

@stephenbrown4211 2 года назад

@@ProfessorofRock yeah. I would love to go back and visit Winslow just to see the Standing on the Corner monument

@julianorris3543 Год назад

My favourite band ...my favourite song.....thank you so much....

@tomorrowtodaysociety2028 Год назад

Take It Easy is a personal favourite of mine. I sometimes reflect upon the line, “Don’t let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy.” The situations and meaning that this line can apply to are varied.

@EdWilsonPhoto Год назад

listened to this song hundreds of times!!

@cathylindeboom4494 2 года назад

Oh boy! I thought for sure you were gonna say Jackson Browne - or maybe J.D. Souther. Best early Eagles song?? That's a hard one. I love the album Desperado, the whole theme, AND the song. I think it might be "Doolin Dalton/Desperado Reprise", for me. "Whatever Happened to Saturday Night" is a tear jerker for me, in the best way. And shout out to Linda Ronstadt, as the Eagles started as her back-up band. Great show!!