There're also many opinions that Joe Walsh let Eagles not be Eagles. You better know there're many fans like Bernie era but dislike Joe era. It's just your opinion.Just like Tom Johnston era and Michael McDonald era Doobies were the perfectly different band under the same name.
Dolly Parton once said that Linda Ronstadt was the only vocalist she ever met who could sing any song from any genre and make it sound beautiful. Dolly was right.
countrygirl countrymusiclover1127 - have you listened to Linda in different styles? You certainly mention some big stars, many if whom I like, but the versatility of Linda was amazing. I think Dolly nailed this 100%.
@countrygirl countrymusiclover1127 Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris have been friends since the 1970s and recorded two "Trio" albums together. Each of them was amazed by the abilities of the others. There's a documentary of their collaboration here on RU-vid. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uQ7StOs2xY0.html
There are two kinds of men in the world ----- those who have a crush on Linda Ronstadt and those who have never heard of her. ----- Willie Nelson -----
As a "man of a certain age" I really appreciate this video. The Eagles really did the anthems of my youth. We lived many of their songs. Then there is Linda Ronstadt! Wow, any young man who wasn't in love with her had no eyes or ears. She is a total package. Not only beautiful, could sing ANY song from ANY genre but she was instrumental in helping tons of other influential musicians of the 70s and 80s made it. Who else could excel at hard rocking, country, folk, Spanish language and even opera! There were a lot of bad things about my generation (baby boomer) but I feel very luck to have lived in an era with such exceptional music such as this.
And New Wave and jazz standards! She was one of my early influences. When I was 14, I started working as a writers’ demo singer and got work in all genres of music all throughout my life. I’m 58 now. One of the reasons I was able to do that was because there was so much to learn from her and her remarkable versatility. Just an amazing artist and so, so lovely inside and out.
The loss of Linda’s voice must be unbelievably sad for her but also for the rest of the world. Thank you Linda for leaving so much wonderful material for us . Life can be so cruel. I find it difficult to believe in any forgiving higher entity when so many people succumb to such horrible diseases, having said that her voice is that of an angel. So pure.
Don’t knock synths. These complaints make you sound old. Your parents aren’t supposed to like your music, just like you’re not supposed to like your kids... it’s not my cup of tea but I’m not going shit on it. Go listen to any of your “rock” records from 1975-76 onward and most of them are loaded with synth; ever listen to Van Halen? You don’t like the Cars, Kraftwerk, Pink Floyd, Yes, Can, Robert Wyatt, Suicide, Bowie, Roxy Music/Eno?
When the 1970s rock and roll playing Eagles sounded more country than 95% of the shit that passes for country music on the radio today. Love both Eagles and Ronstadt.
@@lindaronstadt7426 I'm a big fan too. Have been since you started. My great grand son he's almost 4. Loves your music too. His grandfather sings and plays the guitar so I'm hoping he start your music over.
I hope you got to see her live; I did in 1970 and what a voice! carried perfectly well with electric guitars etc. not to mention every guy in the place looked to be falling for her hard! get her memoir; it’s really excellent and no ghost writer. she’s an intelligent woman as well.
I saw Linda way back in the dark ages. Before she was a household name. And her opening act, × back--up band was what became The Eaglrs. Still on of the best concerts I ever attended!
Don't know if this is already cited/answered in another posting here.....but....after this 1974 collaboration (on the ROCK CONCERT TV show) did Linda ever perform again (whether at a concert or on another TV show) with any subsequent version of the Eagles?
@@purplerain2314 I got to see them at one Don Kirshner’s Day On The Green concerts in Oakland in the mid 70s. I thought music would always be that good. Man was I wrong.
I still love Linda Ronstadt, it's so tragic that fate took away her iconic singing voice. Linda went out and rounded up a group of musicians whose playing she liked and made them her backup band. They became the Eagles.
@@anthonyfoutch3152 I saw an Eagles documentary(3 hrs). Roger & Glen didn't feel confident releasing Desperado or playing on their own. They signed on as Linda's backup group. Both Jackson Browne & Linda convinced them that they were great & to go on your own. They released their version of Desperado that yr. PS: Roger rented$ Jackson's spare bedroom & Glen lived in the basement for free. He taught them how to write music.
Southern California in the late 1960s and early 1970s...they made magic. Country Rock was born. Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, the Byrds, the Flying Burrito Brothers, Emmylou Harris, the Eagles, the New Riders of the Purple Sage, Linda Ronstadt, Poco, Pure Prairie League to name a few...magic.
Linda Ronstadt was the vocal gift that just kept giving. Cool , creative, deep musical chops. This is the easy stuff yet her voice is so honest, clear and unadorned. She lifted the best to their highest.
@@keithhatch56 Fuck the social justice warriors. Us babyboomers don't give a damn! We say how we feel and if it upsets someone, they can kiss my saggy white ass!!!!!
I hear you man, everybody matters. Homeless people matter, addicted people matter, everybody on this earth matters. So different back then. Everybody liked everybody, now fuck, I don't wanna say anything to cause an uproar. It was just a lot better time then. We are in deep trouble right now.
@@paulbrunelle3597 you're my new faverate friend Paul! What's funny is my best friend passed away about 5 years ago and i miss him terribly! He would have said what you just said and his name is "PAUL!" so thanks brother
Yes ! It could be a FREE concert. Like, way out in a farm field somewhere. Like the one when we were way younger but different. With more bathrooms and wheelchair accessible. We could call it... WOODSTICK !!!
“Our favorite girl singer” says Glenn Frey at the opening. Well Glenn, I’ll promise you you had a lot of company! Girl could sing any song from any genre and look absolutely stunning doing it. I miss people like her in show biz. I miss good music too. Oh yeah her cover band, The Eagles, they were pretty good too!
Linda Ronstadt has always been my favorite singer. God how I miss that voice! From albums to 8 track, cassette to CD. Now I drive a car without a CD player, damn!
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I saw her live when the Eagles were her back up band, before the Eagles hit it big on their own. One of the best concerts I ever saw with probably the best collection of musicians ever for a live show.
Those were the goddamn days and those were the damnest musicians our world ever known and now they all gone, gone, gone, like some kind of rock and roll fantasy.
Linda Ronstadt and Karen Carpenter could sing me the tax code laws and I would never ever tire of the gift that God gave them.. truly the best female vocalists of the modern pop era
Yikes are you kidding?. Carpenter was a sour pop singer(who sang love songs with her creepy brother) dreadful material and schlocky arrangements. Ronstadt possessed one of the greatest instruments in American music history surrounded by the best players. Not even in the same universe.
@@WARDMAN3 We certainly agree on Linda. I should try and be more diplomatic. But comparing Ronstadt with pop singers simply because they are women or recorded during the same era drives us Linda advocates nuts. Peace ✌
@@skyewilliams2247 Believe me I do not get offended...Music is personal... While I disagree with you on Karen, as you see we both agree with Linda! Does not make me right... you right! That;s the beauty! But we are on same playing field if we agree on Linda
Just to better understand where I come from, I started piano at 3...I live and breathe music... So my opinion is coming from a huge well of knowledge and appreciation and studying... It is not based on just being from the same era! Curious. what other singers do you like and appreciate from 60s 70s or 80s... To see if we are in concurence!
I had one too. She was wearing short shorts and roller skates. I don't remember ever having another poster of a woman or singer. I did have one of Mercury Morris, but I digress. lol
Seen Linda Ronstadt with the Eagles in concert about 1974-75. Linda came out first, and I was at the 50 yd. line in the stadium at Tampa, Fl. I had to get a close look at her♥, so I made my way to the stage, she was so pretty and sounding great. Great concert!
DK’s RC was a terrific show! IIRC, he never booked lame-o soft “fake rock” acts, and the bands all played live. This one with Linda and the Eagles is a real gem.
By 1974 the Eagles were a bonafide successful band and Linda Ronstadt was on the brink of superstardom. Her only solo hit after the Stoned Ponies was Long Long Time ,in 1970
Awesome. Thank you. Had the pleasure of seeing them about one year before this. Nils Lofgren opened!!!! As much as I liked them after Joe Walsh joined, they kicked ass here too. Would give anything to have seen them with Ms. Ronstadt.
If you could time travel... those years would be the years to go back to ... I know because I was living in those years... living it up at High School... not a worry or care in the world. This year 2020 ... would be considered "Hell" comparably to those years. I call this whole mess of the year 2020... a living Twilight Zone episode... hell of a thang ... ain't it! 😎
Yeah , the original Eagles with a luscious Linda on Rock show. I used to watch this show with friends partying inside in the cold winter back in the day .
Linda helped the Eagles even thou many have passed. Anybody will tell me she's old but Linda made an impact and not many can attest to that, singing and crooning, in tune as Linda Ronstadt did. Her music will live until the real end of time. BRAVO LINDA for your voice and time you have spent with all of us. My hat and a graceful bow to you-👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Have you seen the clip on RU-vid of Linda singing the classic"Skylark" with the Nelson riddle orchestra? It really showcases how gorgeous her voice was and it was her at the top of her form.
About once in a generation or so you see someone like Linda who can sing anything in any genre. One of a kind and people my age got to grow up listening to her and grow old listening to her.
@@loditx7706 The late and much missed Judith Durham. She sang with three very decent singers in the Seekers but soared above them when she cut loose. Originally a jazz singer, which may explain some of it but a great voice as you say.
@@lindsayolh TY for response. ❤️. I don’t keep up with individual news, so was unaware of her death.I am sorry for her loss to family and friends. I am lucky to be able to hear her whenever I want. She was a great talent and I wii miss her.
I'd add Anita Carter to both Linda & Judith Durham when it comes to vocal purity that can just soar above other voices, no matter how talented. A lot of the material she sang in her early years with the Carter Family would be considered "hokey" by today's standards but some of her performances with Johnny Cash and/or her sisters were extraordinary.
She still is a fine-looking woman, it's a pity that degenerative disease has robbed her and us of her wonderful voice. Still, we're lucky that she lived in the era of high quality sound recording.
back in the day - I knew Linda’s voice coming from my older brothers room - one day I went into his room for something and saw this poster of an incredible beautiful woman - yep - when all his buddies had posters of some blonde chick name Farrah 🤣😂 my brother had a poster of Linda - bet that poster is in his den somewhere 🤣😂
@@lnl3237 thanks - we never were and nor likely to be - but am trying to get to know his two kids (a niece and a nephew) - wonder if they like Linda’s music - what do early thirty somethings listen to anyway 😂🤣 stay safe keep well 🙏
humm might only be once in 100 or 1000 or even 100000 or more lifetimes only time will tell but she did come in my lifetime and loved her from first time i hear her on radio WSRF AM WSHE FM Ft.Laud. Fla.
Members of The Eagles were in her band before they were Eagles and they wrote "Desperado1" and she asked permission to sing it and made it a Monster Hit~!!!
@@1calvinfunny1 Don Henley said they recorded the song in England, and he was rushed, and thought if he could have tried a few more takes he could have sang it better. I think its perfect though.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the best female singer backed by the best American rock band ever. Doesn't get any better than this. Savor it. (The greed, bickering and general assholery of Henley, Frey [RIP] and Azoff notwithstanding.)
I blame the cocaine and the showbiz on the aforementioned asshattery. Azoff was a teddy bear compared to Peter Grant and the hijinks that the Eagles got up to paled in comparison to what the Zeppelin boys got up to, nevermind The Who. Joe Walsh brought it up another level, but Walsh was an OG compared to these guys, but even he admitted that as much of a pack of dinks that Henley, Frey (RIP), and Azoff could be, Walsh was still in awe of them.
Fielder, who is playing pedal steel, was not an original Eagle. I know because their first few albums and I saw the early band with Don, Glennn Randy, and Bernie. No Don.
@@artprince9163 - Yes, the Eagles formed in 1971 and Felder didn't join them until 1974. But all the original forming members are there with Linda is I guess I was alluding to.
I just hope the forthcoming biopic of Linda Ronstadt is lip-synced by the actress portraying her, because nobody could be Ronstadts voice to have the tone that swoops from tenderness to muscular richness.
@@user-le5qb5fd2i Practice is all it takes. People use to say 'no one can sing like Steve Perry,' then when Journey finds a singer who did, nailed that great voice, fans were saying he was using backtrack or other enhancements when he never did and so he was let go. It can be done.
Glad I was lucky enough to see Linda's live shows many times in my younger days. For those young folks that will no longer have that opportunity, you don't know what you're missing. No theatrics, no pyrotechnnics, no troupe of gay backup dancers, no lip synchng...just a beautiful babe with an incredible voice, backed up by some of the best musicians in the business. It didn't get any better than that.
Thank you but todays generation cannot comprehend your words, it doesn't compute in their world, just be so happy that you (and me) saw and appreciated REAL talent, talent I really doubt we will witness in this earth world ever again!
Back in the late 60's at the Hollywood Troubadour, a pretty barefoot brunette with tambourine ran onto the stage and belted out songs like nobody's business! I became an instant fan of lovely Linda Ronstadt.
Lord I have been love with her since I got home from Vietnam in '69 and of course I still Love her today but I don't believe there could be a God to have her suffering with this terrible disease that took her singing voice from the whole world and she just has to wake up each morning knowing she can't sing anymore. It's a cruel thing that is happening to her with all her goodness all her life~!! Love you Linda and your music will live forever and ever~!!!
@countrygirl countrymusiclover1127 Linda has said she first noticed something was wrong with her voice about 20 years ago...that was the first sign of Parkinson's. She would sing if she was able.
@countrygirl countrymusiclover1127 I actually saw an interview with Linda a few months ago and her and a couple family members were sitting around playing a song. As Linda said, however, it isn't really singing what she does now. No doubt that clip is on RU-vid...it may have been on CBS This Morning...not positive.
@countrygirl countrymusiclover1127 Where did you find the time to get pregnant again?. Times are tough all round!. Must be the music driving you guys. Congratulations from Oz.
What I've learned in my seventythree years of living. The best female singer ever is Linda Ronstadt. She could do it all. And the best guitar player is Roy Clark for the same reason!!
She had me from the first 8 bars of "Different Drum" and nothing has happened to change that! I knew several of the Eagles back in the day via. Jackson Browne, and was unaware of Ronstadt's role in their careers. Like they neeed the boost.
Linda was truly electrifying, but to say she was she best of the 20th century, well, we’ve had had our share of kick-ass female singers. Linda herself told a story of meeting Beverly Sills in a grocery store and she said Oh Ms. Sills, I must sing Mimi” (La Boheme.) And Sills said back “You and every mezzo soprano in the world my dear.” Repeating the story shows Linda’s heart and modesty, and it also shows she knew she wasn’t the absolute best. Listen to (and let yourself hear) some coloratura arias. The 20th Century had some totally stunning female singers. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4FwZKjFJ-qo.html
@@themotiondoctor Ronstadt was clearly the greatest popular singer - in Concert she and that voice were mesmerizing. Surely some Opera and Jazz vocalists had it going on as well. A long long time ago I was in a fine restaurant in NYC - and Linda was there in the back with a couple of newspaper journalist guys and Beverly Sills. No one bothered them - they seemed to be giggling up a storm. When they left Sills and Linda were still laughing about something. Two very special songbirds from different ends of the musical forest.
@@h.walkermaan8857 That must have been fun, you lucky guy you. Evidently after that grocery store meeting, they decided they had a lot in common, which tells us a lot about that musical forest.
So, the greatest was Kate Bush. Huge body of work as a singer, composer and producer. And a voice that was without equal. Linda had style, taste in music, personality, she almost had it all, but she wasn't quite the complete package that Kate was.
Back then, Linda's SMILE would knock a man down to his knees, IMO... So BEAUTIFUL and TALENTED-!!! LOVE HER (even to this day)-!!!!!!! Huge fan, of lovely Linda-!!! 🙂😊👍✌
She was really something. I saw the Eagles at their millenium concert in L.A. and she opened for them. My goodness, she was huge. I felt really bad for her. Had pretty much lost her singing voice as well.
I know I'm middle aged, and it's not my world anymore -- but I'm tired of hearing from people who are a hundred fifty pounds overweight with purple hair, nose rings and rap music, how this period of history was so terrible. Every decade has its good, bad and awful -- but the good from this period was *really* good. Linda singing with the original Eagles, case in point. These were real stars, based only on ability.
NitroLPR9 - our parents and grandparents thought the music of the 60s and 70s were garbage and non-musical. My dad used to say “the singers can’t sing and you can’t tell if the guitar player hits a wrong note”. So many in our generation hate hip-hip for the same reason. In the end, all generations have their genius and their garbage.
