{"id":792180,"date":"2019-01-18T13:09:52","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T20:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=779571"},"modified":"2019-01-18T13:09:52","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T20:09:52","slug":"flashback-the-eagles-perform-a-mellow-peaceful-easy-feeling-in-1974","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/flashback-the-eagles-perform-a-mellow-peaceful-easy-feeling-in-1974\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback: The Eagles Perform a Mellow \u2018Peaceful Easy Feeling\u2019 in 1974"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The first time Glenn Frey<\/a> heard \u201cPeaceful Easy Feeling\u201d was at Jackson Browne\u2019s house in Echo Park. \u201cHe said he had a new band that had only been together for eight days,\u201d songwriter Jack Tempchin recalled<\/a>. \u201cHe wanted to know if I\u2019d mind if they worked it up.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Eagles<\/a> began as Linda Ronstadt\u2019s backing band, but after a short tour in 1971 they splintered off to form their own group. \u201cIt was like people in love, it was the greatest thing to see that band when they first formed,\u201d said Ronstadt<\/a>. Signed by David Geffen\u2019s label Asylum Records, the Eagles became an essential part of the country rock scene that was blossoming in California.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeaceful Easy Feeling\u201d became the third single from their 1972 debut album, alongside \u201cTake It Easy\u201d and \u201cWitchy Woman.\u201d They performed it on Don Kirshner\u2019s Rock Concert<\/em> two years later in front of a desert backdrop, which you can watch here. A young Frey, already in his signature sports uniform, strums his acoustic guitar alongside bassist Randy Meisner (who\u2019s also in stylish sports attire). Guitarist Bernie Leadon glides through a breezy solo that lifts the crowd, even though they\u2019re already standin\u2019 on the ground.<\/p>\n

Despite the Eagles\u2019 effort to produce a harder sound in the years to come, the band has kept this very mellow song in their rotation ever since. Frey, who died three years ago today, spoke of the hit in the 2013 definitive documentary History of the Eagles<\/em>. When Meisner wanted his hit \u201cTake It to the Limit\u201d taken out of the band\u2019s set during the Hotel California<\/em> tour, Frey said, \u201cI called him up and I said, \u2018Do you think I like singing \u2018Take It Easy\u2019 and \u2018Peaceful Easy Feeling\u2019 every night? I\u2019m tired of those songs. But there\u2019s people in the audience who\u2019ve been waiting years to see us do those songs.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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The first time Glenn Frey heard \u201cPeaceful Easy Feeling\u201d was at Jackson Browne\u2019s house in Echo Park. \u201cHe said he had a new band that had only been together for eight days,\u201d songwriter Jack Tempchin recalled. \u201cHe wanted to know if I\u2019d mind if they worked it up.\u201d The Eagles began as Linda Ronstadt\u2019s backing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-792180","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 16:13:02","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}