Photo Archive: Eagles by Peter Mazel, Holland, November 13th, 1973

These photos were taken prior to the Eagles’ concert at the De Doelen in Rotterdam either backstage or at Mazel’s studio in The Hague.

Randy’s shirt is a nod to his hometown of Scottsbluff, Nebraska. The Frank Implement Company was owned by the father of one of his friends. Randy worked there for several months in 1970 between stints touring with Rick Nelson’s Stone Canyon Band.

Randy and Glenn Frey are wearing gold medallions that were a gift from producer Glyn Johns.

“As a gesture of friendship, Glyn had these solid-gold medallions made for each of us, after which they threw away the mold. It had an Eagle on the front, and our names on the back. Proof that I was an original Eagle.” (Randy Meisner, To The Limit: The Untold Story Of The Eagles by Marc Eliot, 1997)

_{Closeup of Glenn Frey’s medallion. The word “EAGLES” can be seen along the bottom.}