The Eagles 1976-10-22 The Forum Inglewood, CA

The Eagles
The Forum
Inglewood, CA
October 22, 1976
GaryB Master Cassettes via JEMS

Recording Gear: portable cassette recorder with built-in mono microphone (model unknown)

JEMS 2017 Transfer: GaryB’s master cassettes > Nakamichi CR-7A azimuth-adjusted playback > Sound Devices USBPre2 > Audacity 2.0 (24/96 capture to .wav > pitch adjustment > iZotope RX6 and Ozone 6 restoration and mastering > iZotope MBIT+ resample and dither to 16/44.1 > Audacity (track split, volume smoothing, edit) > FLAC

01 Hotel California (small splice)
02 Outlaw Man
03 Doolin-Dalton > Desperado (reprise) (really small splice)
04 Lyin' Eyes (cut at the end)
05 Wasted Time*
06 Take It to the Limit**
07 New Kid in Town*
08 Desperado
09 Midnight Flyer (overwhelmed)
10 Turn to Stone (Joe Walsh song)
11 Already Gone Interlude
12 One of These Nights (overwhelmed)
13 Funk #49 (snippet, cut)
14 Good Day in Hell
15 Rocky Mountain Way (Joe Walsh song)
16 Witchy Woman
17 James Dean
18 Best of My Love

Encore:

19 Walk Away (James Gang cover)
20 Tequila Sunrise

Encore 2:

21 Take It Easy
22 Carol (Chuck Berry cover) (cut)


Don Felder – guitars, harmony and backing vocals
Glenn Frey – rhythm guitar, keyboards, vocals
Don Henley – drums, percussion, vocals
Randy Meisner – bass guitar, vocals
Joe Walsh – guitars, keyboards, vocals

Jage Jackson – rhythm guitar, percussion
Phil Kenzie – saxophone
Vince Melamed – electric piano
The Monstertones – backing vocals
J. D. Souther – vocals, acoustic guitar
Joe Vitale – piano, organ, drums, percussion

JEMS is always pleased when uncirculated recordings are unearthed.

In this case, I must admit, it's difficult to contain my emotion, since JEMS is proud to be responsible for sharing this previously uncirculated recording.

As BK explains a few paragraphs below, there are many things to note, such as the fact that this concert has songs from the Hotel California album before the album itself was released.

Eventually, songs from this run of shows were released in the Eagles Live compilation and more recently in the 40th Anniversary edition of Hotel California.

We consider this recording as a great alternative to the official versions, as there are no signs of a full official release in the future.

This recording is a perfect sample of The Eagles at the peak of their career. You just need to hear "Desperado" and listen to the audience's reaction.

In terms of quality, like GaryB's Led Zeppelin recording, it is a fine audience recording for the era. Samples provided.

There are moments where the mic gets overwhelmed (as you usually expect in a '70s tape) but those moments aren't too drastic to be unlistenable.

GaryB was very careful with this recording, since there are no listenable signs of degradation and the only "imperfections" are cuts through the recording that, I imagine, were caused by the tape flips. So, aside from the aforementioned, I firmly believe that Gary did a spectacular job capturing most of the show.

Thanks to Gary for recording the concert in the first place and for being lending his master recordings to JEMS for an appropriate release. Thanks as well to BK and mjk5510 for their help in the mastering process and above all, their confidence in allowing me to be the one to give the last arrangements.

There are many things in JEMS vaults waiting to be unearthed. If you have a recording in your attic that you think has no value, contact JEMS and perhaps that "worthless" recording for you may be the holy grail of another collector.

frogster

From the man who brought you Led Zeppelin Listen To This Erik comes the only other show GaryB recorded in his youth. The year before his famous Zep tape, Gary and his friends went the final night of the Eagles’ three-show stand in advance of the release of Hotel California. They recorded with the same gear and captured the show in relatively similar quality to their effort the next year. Samples provided.

What’s fascinating about these shows is that the Eagles are playing music from Hotel California before the audience had ever heard the album, which would not be released until December. The performance is first rate and like Gary’s Zeppelin tape, he captures the audience response appealingly. The recording might be a step below the Zeppelin tape, but it is still very listenable.

Some performances from the three nights are included on the new Hotel California 40th Anniversary set and The Eagles Live, released in 1980, but this is the first full recording (minor cuts aside) from the ’76 Forum shows to come out in any form.

Transferring Gary’s tapes was a labor of love for everyone involved. First and foremost, GaryB has been a pleasure to work with and get to know. Thanks for trusting JEMS, Gary. Thanks as well to BW, who made the introduction to GaryB and whom I love dearly. Our partner mjk5510 helped out with pitch consulting and frogster took on the task of post-production and torrenting. Thank you all.

Here’s to another amazing example of finding “lost tapes.” Let’s hope there are still many more to come.

BK for JEMS

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