RIP Randy Meisner

[texasdave]

https://www.aol.com/randy-meisner-ea...001538713.html

[redsfan9988]

Take it to the Limit is my favorite Eagles song

RIP

[cumberlandreds]

When I first started listening a lot to pop back in the 70's the Eagles were one of my favorites. They got a lot of air play on the stations I listened to back then. They seemed to be all slowly dying away. RIP to Randy Meisner.

[Roy Tucker]

RIP Randy

I preferred the earlier Leadon/Meisner era Eagles. I thought Desperado was the bands best album.

Later on, they wanted to be more of a rock band than country-tinged so Joe Walsh and Timothy B Schmidt replaced them.

Old music guy opinion.

[westofyou]

RIP Randy

I preferred the earlier Leadon/Meisner era Eagles. I thought Desperado was the bands best album.

Later on, they wanted to be more of a rock band than country-tinged so Joe Walsh and Timothy B Schmidt replaced them.

Old music guy opinion.

Meisner and Frye had a contentious relationship, Randy left, Randy came back, Randy left

Songwriting was better in the early Eagles, Walsh though brought all his drugs and it changed (actual Frye quote)

[Ky Fried Redleg]

My favorite Eagle... and it's not even close. DAMN!!!

[Ky Fried Redleg]

Randy made TITTL his own. No one better. Sorry, Vince.

[Roy Tucker]

Meisner and Frye had a contentious relationship, Randy left, Randy came back, Randy left

Songwriting was better in the early Eagles, Walsh though brought all his drugs and it changed (actual Frye quote)

I remember seeing them at Mershon Auditorium on the OSU campus under the influence of some spectacular mushrooms. 1972 I believe. Their after-show parties were dubbed Spread Eagle according to an old Rolling Stone article.

[Kingspoint]

The Meisner family grew corn, beans, alfalfa, and sugar beets on their farm.[5] Young Randy developed an interest in the guitar at ten years old, after seeing Elvis Presley perform on the Ed Sullivan Show. He began taking lessons and playing in local bands. While attending Scottsbluff High School, one of Randy's teachers suggested he take up the bass. "I loved R&B and the bass players on the Motown stuff were great. They really inspired me. I can't read music. Once I learn a part it's there. My bass playing came real naturally."

n May 1968, after auditioning alongside Timothy B. Schmit, Meisner joined Poco (originally named Pogo) with former Buffalo Springfield members Richie Furay and Jim Messina. Meisner appears on the group's first album, Pickin' Up the Pieces, but quit the band shortly before the record was released. His exit was the result of his anger at being excluded from participation in the final mix playback sessions for the album, as only Messina and Furay were to complete production. His image was removed from the painting on the album's cover and replaced with a dog. His bass parts and backing vocals were left in the final mix, but his lead vocals were removed, and new versions were sung by George Grantham.


Meisner returned to Nebraska in the spring of 1970 after a difficult tour of Europe with Rick Nelson and the Stone Canyon Band. He began working at Frank Implement Company, the local John Deere tractor dealership. At night, he played in a band, Goldrush, that featured Stephen A. Love (later to become a member of New Riders of the Purple Sage). Later that year, with Rick Nelson's encouragement, he returned to Los Angeles to resume his career. He worked to establish Goldrush while playing in the Stone Canyon Band and performing on sessions for John Stewart and Compton & Batteau. By mid-1971, he was recruited by John Boylan to become active in Linda Ronstadt's roster of backing musicians, which included Don Henley, Glenn Frey, and Bernie Leadon, all of whom later joined Meisner as the founders of the Eagles.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Meisner


According to band colleague Don Felder, Meisner's time in the band was weighed down by his desire to be with his family and by the constant bickering between members; the discord was still unknown to the public at the time. During the 1976/77 tour in support of the album Hotel California, Meisner suffered from ill health and exhaustion while the band toured frequently for over eleven months. Meisner also preferred not to be the center of attention, and said: "I was always kind of shy ... They wanted me to stand in the middle of the stage to sing 'Take It to the Limit,' but I liked to be out of the spotlight." The band was starting to feel the strain in a long tour, and Meisner was unhappy – his stomach ulcers had flared up, and his marriage was also gradually disintegrating. He had been arguing with fellow member Glenn Frey about his signature song, "Take It to the Limit", during the tour, as Meisner was struggling to hit the crucial high notes in the song. At their show in Knoxville, Tennessee, Meisner decided to skip the song as an encore as he had stayed up late and caught the flu, and Frey and Meisner then became involved in an angry physical confrontation backstage. After the altercation, Meisner was frozen out from the band, and Meisner later said: "That was the end. . . I really felt like I was a member of the group, not a part of it." Meisner decided to leave the group after the final date of the tour and returned to Nebraska to be with his family. His last performance was in East Troy, Wisconsin on September 3, 1977. The band replaced Meisner with the same musician who had succeeded him in Poco, Timothy B. Schmit, after agreeing that Schmit was the only candidate. Meisner formally quit the band in September 1977, citing "exhaustion". On the subject of his abrupt resignation from the band, Meisner later said, "All that stuff and all the arguing amongst the Eagles is over now. Well, at least for me."


Many people who met and worked with Meisner remarked on his kindness. Don Felder, James Taylor, and Rick Roberts described Meisner as one of the nicest people they had ever worked with. Felder added, "He was a wonderful Midwestern guy with a great heart and a loving soul." Henry Diltz, who photographed Meisner extensively with the Eagles and in the early 1980s during Meisner's solo career, said, "Randy Meisner was a very gentle soul. Pisces. A quiet and friendly guy. No aggressive vibe at all. Very sweet. He was so there and open."His shyness was also remarked upon, and may have caused him some difficulty as a performer at times. "Randy was extremely uncomfortable with so-called superstardom," Don Henley told author Marc Eliot.


In April 2015, Meisner and his wife denied rumors, based on a lawsuit filed on his behalf, that she was taking advantage of his known addictions to alcohol and drugs by trying to force-feed him bottles of vodka to keep him drunk. The singer's self-described longtime friend, James Newton, filed papers in April asking that Meisner be placed under a court-supervised conservatorship governing his personal and financial matters. Despite this, three months later, the Los Angeles County Superior Court appointed a temporary conservator to oversee the 24-hour management of Meisner's drug prescriptions and medical state, noting he was previously diagnosed as bipolar. Meisner had allegedly threatened to kill himself and others with a weapon in early 2015, though he did not have a firearm at the time. The brief conservatorship directed Meisner's medical care, but the judge did not give the conservator the additional power sought by Troy Martin and James Newton to also have her oversee his finances.


On March 6, 2016, police responded to a 911 call made by a woman from the couple's Studio City, California house asking for police assistance with a possibly intoxicated male. Ninety minutes later, after police had left the scene, Lana Meisner accidentally shot and killed herself when a rifle she was moving was struck by an object in its case and fired. Authorities determined that Meisner had no role in the shooting, as surveillance tapes showed he was in another part of the house at the time. Following the accidental shooting, Meisner was placed under psychiatric hold after threatening suicide, due to previous threats and mental issues.

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"Take It to the Limit", the band's first million-selling single.

[Ky Fried Redleg]

A special treat here. Randy Meisner w/ POCO . The lineup:

Randy Meisner: bass, vocals
Jim Messina: lead guitar, back vocals
Richie Furay: rhythm guitar, back vocals
Rusty Young: rhythm guitar, back vocals
George Grantham: drums, percussion



I liked the Eagles and I LOVED POCO.