EAGLES
Felt Forum, New York City
September 29th, 1972
The Eagles’ guests were Jackson Browne and J.D. Souther.
Photo by Chuck Pulin.
EAGLES
Photo by Chuck Pulin.
Photo by Chuck Pulin.
EAGLES
Municipal Auditorium, Atlanta, GA
September 30, 1972
The Eagles opened for Yes.
The following review from the underground Atlanta paper, The Great Speckled Bird, was very complimentary toward Randy. The reviewer even said “Keep On Tryin'” (aka “Tryin'”) was her favorite song.
EAGLES
Memorial Coliseum, Tuscaloosa, AL
October 1, 1972
The Eagles opened for Yes.
According to the following review, the band was an hour late for the concert because their contract had the wrong start time:
“Eagles opened the late afternoon concert after an hour of waiting by the audience. The lead guitarist apologized for the delay saying they had been eating barbecued chicken in Birmingham at 3:30 p.m. when they noticed a poster for the concert that said 4 p.m. Their contract said 5 p.m. Panic ensued and the band hot-rodded it to Tuscaloosa.”
EAGLES
Charlotte Coliseum, Charlotte, NC
October 3rd, 1972
The Eagles opened for Yes.
This date marked the end of their two-month long tour opening for Yes. It was an unlikely pairing of country rock and prog rock bands. Before Yes, the band had also toured extensively as an opening act for Jethro Tull and Joe Cocker. Randy remembered: “There was always a question of how we would go down with those kinds of bands but we always seemed to get a good response.” He also remembered that it was the first time anyone in the band had ever toured to that extent and they took full advantage of the perks of being touring rock musicians: “I was married at the time, but I was on the road and away from my wife and I fell off the wagon once or twice. Anybody who has been in my position and says they didn’t is lying. It was very exciting to us because it was the first time any of us had been on the road to that extent and so we were a bunch of innocents. Traveling and touring was all new to us. We just didn’t know.” (The Story Of The Eagles: The Long Run, Marc Shapiro, 1995)
Lead singer Jon Anderson recalled that the Eagles had a surprise for the band after the Charlotte show:
“The last show we did with Eagles -we became friends – I love these guys – they were great – we finished our show – 15,000 people – we get up-stage, backstage, there’s no lights, it’s all dark, and it’s like, ‘What the hell is going on?’ And there were guys with flashlights, like, ‘Come this way, the lights are gonna open up.’ “What happened was: we finished up in the room, and it was so dark, couldn’t see anybody, and then all of a sudden the lights came on, and there was a table set up with the Eagles standing behind with two dozen pies, they threw these cream pies at us, and I joined in, and it was the best time ever.” (Interview with Jon Anderson, Radio Forrest, August 2020)
Randy Meisner: The Pièce de Résistance (Amsterdam, March 1973)
On March 10th, 1973, the Eagles played to a “half-full, but enthusiastic” crowd at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. Randy’s bass playing is compared to Rick Danko & his “chillingly beautiful” performance of “Certain Kind Of Fool” is a showstopper.
Eagles at Freeborn Hall, UC Davis, November 15th, 1972
Linda Ronstadt was also on the bill.
