my, oh my i ve watched the creative process with a lot of people. i ve never seen it the way it fell if place with them. i remember watching lyin eyes. glenn had a way with coming up with a phrase. he had written some kind of a tune and looking at some young girl with an older guy at the bar and glenn said look at those lyin eyes. just like that, wow, there s the song. you can t hide your lyin eyes and your smile is a thin disguise i thought by now you d realize, there ain t no way to hide your lyin eyes it was just about all these girls who come down looking
to meet them. first of all, the show was fantastic. crowd was nothing like i d seen a year, year and a half earlier. good evening. welcome to the portland version of spread eagle. the promoter gave us chop sticks. i don t think we ever checked into a hotel. we went from there to a party at a sorority house. one thing led to another. i d never seen anything like this. they wouldn t give us booze in the burn. we may burn this place down. i don t think we went to sleep. it was eagle mania. and then they went off to england to record on the border with glenn johns. we were quite open to being produced. understandably that changed. they began to be more opinionated and less insecure. we wanted to play rock n roll or at least a more rock n roll version of country music.
it was during that period of time that i met glenn frey because we were on the same label called amos records. some of the things that struck me when i first met glenn were things that we had in common. both of our dads made a living in the automotive industry. glenn and i loved old cars, especially cars from the 50s. he had a 55 chevy he named g d gladys. we drove around los angeles in gladys. watch the new singers and songwrie songwriters at the troubadour club. it was the center of the universe. it was a seminal place, a place to be seen and see. they had a night called hoot night. troubadour was the place the go if you were young and happening and trying to get involved in the music scene. it was happening there.
so here comes this song, take it cnn. well, i m a-running down the road trying to loosen my load i got seven women on my mind, four that want to own me, two that want to stone me, one says she s a friend of mine take it easy, take it easy don t let the sound of your own wheels drive your crazy lighten up while you still can, don t even try to understand just find a place to play your hand, take it easy jackson had this song called take it easy. he couldn t finish the song.
you ve got your demons and you ve got desires but i got a few of my own oooh, someone to be kind to in between the dark and the light oooh, coming right behind you, swear i m gonna find you one of these nights one of these dreams there were always girls. there were a lot of opportunities out on the road to entertain ourselves with one thing or another. so we started to perfect after show partying and we invented a place called the third encore. we did two encores in our show, so the third encore was the party. everybody in the band and everybody in the crew was given a bunch of buttons. we said no weirdos.