Randy Meisner: A Retrospective

1975

Photo Archive: Eagles by Ken Regan, July 29th, 1975

This series of photos were taken by Ken Regan in Edwardsville, Illinois on the afternoon of July 29th, 1975. The Eagles were in town to perform the Mississippi River Festival that evening. Regan took photos at the nearby Holiday Inn, as well as backstage at the festival. The images show Randy wearing a red shirt with a white tornado on the front. The shirt matched the band’s stage passes at the time, which also were also red with a white tornado logo. Don Henley has one of these stage passes attached to his untucked denim shirt in some of the photos below. Randy’s ex-wife, Jennifer Meisner, and their son Dana recalled that the tornado may have meant “whirlwind” or something similar.

One of Randy’s “whirlwind” stage passes from 1975.

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Photo Archive:
Eagles – ONE OF THESE NIGHTS Cover Shoot, 1975

Photographer: Norman Seeff

This was the band’s first session with photographer Norman Seeff, a former medical doctor who emigrated to the United States from South Africa in the late 1960s to pursue a career as a rock photographer. One of his first assignments was the cover of the The Band’s Stage Fright.

Seeff described this photo session in an interview with Rolling Stone in 2013:

“This session for their ONE OF THESE NIGHTS album resulted in some striking images where each member of the band was being themselves in a confident way. Creating a moment with several artists at once can be challenging. When you work with 5 artists, if you don’t create a simultaneous relationship with every single person and someone loses eye contact, then they’re not all present.”

Two of Seeff’s images were included in the package for the album:

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Jessica Buxton

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