The concert was recorded and later aired on the radio. It was released on CD in 2018 as Live In Denver.
Listen to a recording of the concert below.
This recording is via a radio broadcast.
Bad Man
Gotta Get Away
Take It To the Limit
One More Song
Come On Back To Me
Too Many Hands
I Need You Bad
Trouble Ahead
Lonesome Cowgirl
Band intro > Hearts On Fire
Deep Inside My Heart
The Eagles opened for Yes and Edgar Winter at Denver Coliseum on August 3rd, 1972. Several members of Randy’s family traveled from Scottsbluff to attend the concert. Many thanks to Jennifer Meisner for the photos and remembrances.
Bernie Leadon and Randy Meisner back stage (man on right unknown). Photo by Jennifer Meisner.
Jennifer Meisner:
“It was a strange show. Everyone around us smoking pot, passing a joint around. Randy’s mom and dad were there. His sister, Carol, and husband Art with daughter Jana, his cousin Jodene, her husband Doug and daughter Cori Chappell, my sister Ann, husband Bob and kids, Bobbi and Doug, his aunt Lydia and daughters Nan Jill and Normanda, my mom, etc. The audience was there to see Yes and Edgar Winter. Horrible rainy night .”
The Eagles pose with Randy’s cousin, Nan Jill, at the Travelodge hotel in Denver.
Randy with his aunt, Lydia Ohlund, sister of his mother, Emilie.
Another group shot with Randy’s son, niece, and cousin.
In front (L-R), Randy’s eldest son, Dana (with Glenn’s hands on his head and arm), his niece, Jana, and cousin, Cori.
Randy with his son, Dana, his mother, Emilie, and father, Herman, at the hotel in Denver. Randy is wearing a “Carlo Sound” t-shirt. Carlo Sound was a Nashville sound company, who worked on some of the Eagles’ early tours.
Review from the Straight Creek Journal (Denver), August 10, 1972. The writer thought the Eagles were the best act of the evening.
Meisner, Rich & Swan played the Buffalo Rose in Golden, CO, on January 12, 1995. Patrick Shanahan, Randy’s former bandmate from The Poor and Rick Nelson’s Stone Canyon Band, attended the show.
Below: Patrick and Randy at the Buffalo Rose. Patrick’s wife, Janet, between them. A friend of the Shanahans on the left. Photo courtesy of Patrick Shanahan.
Poco played the American Music Festival in Winter Park, CO on July 7th, 1990. Richie Furay, who had left the band at the beginning of Poco’s summer tour, returned for this show as a favor to the promoter, Chuck Morris.
Photos: David Dyrkopp.
In November and December 1971, the Eagles were sent to Colorado by David Geffen to develop their sound and audition for legendary producer Glyn Johns.
The Eagles played two nights at Red Rocks Amphitheater in Morrison, CO on August 18th and 19th, 1975. Dan Fogelberg and Tom Waits were the warmup acts.
An early ad for the show listing only Tom Waits as the opener. It also included the original dates of the concerts: August 19th and 20th.
The Eagles’ previous album, On The Border, featured a song, “Ol’ 55,” that was written by fellow Asylum artist, Tom Waits, who opened the show. According to an audience account, Waits was booed off the stage before he completed his set on the first night:
“Unfortunately Tom was booed off the stage before he could do a whole set, presumably because the Eagles fans were more accustomed to sweet than dour. The headliners were not pleased, and made a big point of emphasizing the identity of the composer of ‘Ol 55’ when the time came.” (Ken Langford, Tom Waits Library)
It’s interesting that Waits would perform at this show since he disliked the Eagles version of his song and said so publicly in early 1975:
“It’s one of the first songs I wrote so I felt like it was kind of flattering that somebody wanted to do your song but at the same time I thought their version was a little antiseptic.” (WAMU interview, Washington DC, 1975)
The next year his comments about the band were even more harsh when he told the British music magazine, New Musical Express, that their albums were only good for “keeping the dust off your turntable.” One can’t help but wonder if getting booed at this concert added to his contempt for the band.
Opening for the Eagles were FLC students, Sam Vann and John Mascaro, as well as the Talbot Brothers.
