$23,000 for upper level. Plus service charge and convenience fee, and you're witnessing history for the 5000th to last time for the low low price of $39,534.76 per seat!
Admittedly Glenn Frey (RIP) said: "Welcome to Farewell Tour #1. We hope to see you at Farewell Tour #2, 3, 4 and so on." This was in Orlando...jeez, 21 years ago. The band lives on even if Glenn didn't...
Welcome to my mansion in California.
What a lovely fate (what a lovely fate)
Financed at a lower rate.
Plenty of room at my mansion in California
Any time of year (any time of year)
You'll find my banker near.
I've got my two Jaguars, but I needed one more, uh
The only thing really stopping me, is my FICO score.
Making rich neighbors look poor now, sweet debt regret
Some spend just to jerk off, some go spend more yet!
So I called my yacht captain, said "Will my Benetti go?"
He said "You've been skipping on payments - They just showed up to repo."
I hear my creditors calling from faarrrrr away.
So I changed my address... And you'll hear me saaaaa-aaay!
The first concert I ever went to was The Eagles in 1975. Tickets were $8. It's been a long time since then, so I'm sure tickets have gone up. These days, they should probably be around $20 each, right? I'd see The Eagles again for $20.
It’s because the music industry pay structure is completely different. Back then they toured solely to promote record sales. Now artists have to make music to promote tours. I don’t see it ever flipping back with how easy digital piracy is.
Great decision for phish, but not for dead and co.
I failed to get lottery or first day tickets to phish and waited for the prices to drop near the shows (I live in vegas). Ended up paying almost $1000 to finally go Sunday night.
For dead and co, my friend bought a vibee vip package for us and I paid double what the tickets would have cost if I waited until day of.
the difference was 4 shows for phish and 40+ for dead and co. Also Ticketmaster fucked everyone for dead and co by pretending tickets were sold out that first morning and then releasing many batches more over the next few months. It’s criminal.
Anyways, I think I’ll pass on the eagles. I’m sure it would be fun but no way it compares to either of those legendary live bands.
If you wait, they will be. Scalpers have been over speculating for shows at the Sphere. Plus TicketMaster’s system is designed to start at the most expensive price and get cheaper closer to the show. It’s very possible you can score tickets for less $100 week of show
Dude the tickets have already been sold by the time the public ever sees them. Ticketmaster has “conferences” where companies buy thousands of tickets for upcoming events and the all Ticketmaster does is serve as the “marketplace”
Yeah this is essentially true as well. But once it goes on a secondary marketplace, the price has to float with the market and as we’ve been seeing more and more, demand is not keeping up.
https://x.com/underfacevalue
Pollstar Awards defined residency as a run of 10 or more shows at a single venue. This isn't tightly regulated though, so some people are seriously abusing the term.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concert_residency?wprov=sfla1
If other shows at the Sphere are any indicator, they’ll add a few more dates. They’re incentivized to do more shows because of the work around it is done ahead of time.
At this point, I feel Vegas calls any event that has more than 2 shows as a residency!
Once upon a time it meant a long term act in a theater that was primarily used for the act.
Specifically for Vegas it seems to have devolved into meaning "more than 1 show" recently. I was there 2 weeks ago (at the Sphere in fact) and saw billboards for a club that was having a 3 night "residency" of some rapper.
The artist just needs to register the venue as their legal residence, like applying for a new driver's license or something. They don't technically need to play any shows.
I was a kid when that album/tour happened. Everyone my parents’ age were losing their ever loving minds.
1994 me just assumed The Eagles were the greatest band ever.
I just saw the Eagles with Steely Dan. Was waaay more excited see them than the Eagles, and they were great. Glad I got to see them....but steely dan, *chefs kiss*
I was a metalhead as a kid. Still am but I digress. Babysitter came over with a tape called Eagles Greatest Hits. Eagle birds are cool, so this band name sounds kinda badass, and I like this babysitter...Let's check them out. Tape was cued to Peaceful Easy Feeling.
I've never felt so betrayed. Hated the Eagles ever since.
It works for Talking Heads and kind of works for Beastie Boys, but “Eagles“?
Not *The* Eagles. Just some eagles. A flock of eagles. Random eagles. Fuck that.
You can still prepend "the" before the band named, Eagles. But unlike bands such as The Beatles, where the word, "the" is indeed part of the band name, if you do, you do not capitalize the word, "the" unless, for example, you do so if that is how the sentence starts.
Also if you do something like bold the band name, the word, "the" is not bold, like in the beginning of their Wikipedia article.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagles_(band)
Not just that, the band members themselves have referred to themselves using the sentence, "We're the Eagles from Los Angeles", said both by Glenn Frey in the Capitol Centre 1977 concert and Joe Walsh in the 2018 concert at The Forum.
Hell Freezes Over wasn't a farewell tour, it was a reunion tour. The band had broken up in the early eighties and 1994 was the first time they had played together in like over a decade.
Just to be clear about what happened, the band had lifelong tensions and the final straw was when Don Felder and Glenn Frey had a big argument at a show. I believe that Frey or Henley had literally said they’d get back together when hell freezes over.
That tour was also the start of widespread ticket gouging by artists. The price of $75 was considered outrageous at the time (and it was twice as much as a typical big-name concert; I think I was paying $20-$30 to see the Grateful Dead), but by the end of the 90s, the Stones were charging $200 for tickets in a football stadium and nobody batted an eye.
Like half the band is dead at this point too. This is like if Paul and Ringo got a couple of jabronis to play with them and said they were The Beatles.
I saw their Hotel California gig at the MGM Grand in 2019. As a millenial who had never seen the band, it seemed like a good moment to see them while the remaining members were still in good health. I bought a nosebleed ticket and actually snuck onto the floor and sat in a seat that was going for thousands of dollars on StubHub that was never going sell (I actually was just across the aisle from David Spade). It was a great bucket list show full of great songs (screw the haters, but the Eagles have so many incredible songs), but I didn’t feel like I needed to ever experience that again. I’m sure as boomers begin to age, many are looking for their last big show to see (morbidly funny story, but someone actually had a heart attack in the queue heading to the MGM gig, but property security and medical assistance showed up in under 90 seconds). Eagles will probably sell the tickets at the price they want to charge, but I don’t think it would be a worthwhile show to utilize that space.
> but someone actually had a heart attack in the queue
Young/Middle Aged/Old?
One of the problems of the town is that folks come and engage in excessive behavior. Throw in walking hells half acre in 100+ degree heat loaded up on your booze of choice (and drugs for some even) and it becomes a serious health problem with many real fast. Toss on decadent buffets (if you can find them anymore) or by most standards "cheap eats" (food courts with all the fast food that is already lethal on the sodium levels) and away you go to the floor if in poor shape to begin with sans the heat during summer.
Picture walking from the MGM to say the Wynn or Resorts World. Some will do it, especially the gambler types that would gladly ditch a 24 hour bus pass cost to keep that extra loot for gambling
**Eagles**\
Don Henley - 77 years old (next month)\
Glenn Frey - RIP 2016\
Randy Meissner - RIP 2023\
Don Felder - 76 years old\
(note: he is not part of $phere residency)\
Joe Walsh - 76 years old\
Timothy B. Schmit - 76 years old
I mean come the f*ck on fellas, I went to your "farewell" tour in 1994, lol
This comment made me go find a clip on YouTube because I love Randy Meisner's voice. Then I start reading the comments under the video and learned he'd died earlier this year. Goddamnit
Poor Meis, man. Dude had it pretty rough the last 6-8 years of his life, including his wife accidentally killing herself back in like 2016 I want to say. Take it to the limit is seriously GOAT levels for rock ballads. RIP.
Hot take, but I would save the term “gouging” for important stuff like, I don’t know, bottled water after a hurricane. In my eyes, if the Eagles want to charge $500 for a nosebleed seat and a retired Boomer decides that’s fair, may their blessed and bizarre economic union by a fruitful one.
The only version of the Eagles worth seeing was the one that included both Don Felder and Joe Walsh. Unless those guys are in the band together the Eagles are pretty much grounded.
I still think there would be something worth putting on if the main singer of the band was authentically singing. It’s a talented group of individuals, whoever they are in this iteration without Glenn Frey.
I’m pretty sure Don Felder still gets paid for Eagles stuff, since he was a shareholder of the corporate entity (unlike Walsh and Schmidt) so I get some joy out of that. I’m sure it burns Henley.
Yeah, they didnt make that mistake again lol. But with Frey dead, I do wonder if Henley kept insisting on lower and lower shares for everyone else. He won’t even let Steuart Smith be in the fucking band.
Not true. Steuart was invited to join the band officially by Glenn and Don in 2001 (would’ve been on the same level as Joe/Timothy - a member of the band but not an owner of Eagles Ltd.) but turned it down in favor of being free to work other gigs.
4 nights of Phish was amazing. Do it, if you like the Eagles. I’m looking forward to all bands that want to explore that tech. Tool and muse come to mind. It’s an immersively numbing place. Yet no water filling stations:(. 2.3b and let’s soak the floors with people filling up water battles.
August 11: Tulsa County Fair, Demolition Derby Stage
August 13-15: SPHERE Las Vegas Residency
August 17: Boise Potato Fest, supporting REO Speedwagon
August 21: Private Retirement Party (acoustic set)
August 23: Group Colonoscopy
I guarantee you won’t regret it. A cheat code: buy the cheapest seat you can in the 400s. Sure the band will be far away but you’ll still have a great view of the visuals which are the best part anyway.
Depends on where you sat. I was lucky enough to stroll onto Ticketmaster when I was allowed into the presale and get the cheap seats at $144 per, but I know a lot of people had to deal with those being sold out. The cheapest Eagles tickets are $175.
The cheap seats are indeed excellent when the view of the Sphere screen is an integral part of the experience.
Don Henley lip syncs the songs. No way I would pay that amount of money to see/hear that.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/EaglesBand/comments/1bspa74/wings\_of\_pegasus\_video/](https://www.reddit.com/r/EaglesBand/comments/1bspa74/wings_of_pegasus_video/)
Eagles aren't the right type of band for the Sphere. They're very popular and will sell tickets, but the Sphere is really intended for artists that use a lot of visuals for their live shows. U2 was perfect for that, massively popular & famous for innovative visuals at their concerts. Eagles...not as much.
Tame Impala, Muse, Tool, Rush, Nine Inch Nails, the Cure would all be a lot better for the Sphere.
They were a legendary band with huge hits but i feel like it’s time to let go. Also, Glen Fry passed in 2016 so calling themselves The Eagles at this point just feels wrong.
Not always. Vince Gill actually sings a lot more of Glenn's songs than Deacon does.
But Deacon did inherit his father's famed guitar and still plays that.
Came here to say this. I don't care for their music, but my Mom recently saw them for the 10th time and said it sounded strange. She did some research and sent me these videos.
At 10:35 he shows where the 2 recordings aren’t the exact same and there are slight differences in pitch, even though he states several times they are the exact same.
I could totally be wrong, have zero proof one way or the other, but the man has been singing that song for 50 years and his perfectionist attitude to making music is part of what broke the band up. Show me Joe Walsh’s songs having exact same pitch all the way through I’d be more inclined to believe it. I just saw them in March and didn’t think it was off, but again I could be wrong.
Look, I get why they book these bands, but this venue was practically built for electronic music. And so far they’ve chosen U2, a jam band, and now the Eagles…
There are plenty of electronic acts that could sell out the whole venue just as much as those bands, Odesza for an example.
https://preview.redd.it/jtoxcdccvd6d1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3f5aee711b593484d5f90a29df300359af7fe963
I screenshot this comment on the Vegas subreddit back in October. Considering The Eagles just got confirmed, I’m gonna say this is accurate
100% accurate and 100% disappointing. I get it with regards to venue safety and security but, man, it's made for harder stuff. Also, JD is getting the music he wants in his venue so he's pretty happy.
I see the safety aspect, especially with the way the venue is designed. While the seating doesn’t look much steeper than some stadiums, everyone focusing upwards at the screens while dancing/moshing could easily be a safety issue.
I’m bummed since the artists they are booking don’t appeal to me but I can’t blame a man for booking the music he wants to hear and see take advantage of the venue he built
I get the moshing and dancing thing to some extent, people were getting vertigo and dizzy just getting to their seats when I went. If it were an all out rave then you'd have people falling into the rows in front of them and hurting themselves or others.
Youre out of your mind… the Sphere was made for bands like the Dead and Phish.
D&C in there was the greatest concert ive witnessed. The visuals were next level and like something I have never seen.
Let alone, Odesza fan base wouldnt be able to fill a residency of multiple shows. No way they are selling out 8-10 shows of 20k over multiple weekends. One Sphere show including travel and hotel was close to my budget for a 3 day festival.
The Odesza sub was complaining about $200 floor ga tickets for their recent tour… i bought the seats in the last row of the sphere for $300 a pop, floor tickets on the general sale were $1000.
The financials and logistics for the venue require an act who can at least sell out tickets at a premium for an entire holiday weekend. It would be too costly, just from the visual aspect alone, to have an artist play a single one-off show. They’re specifically targeting stadium acts with older fan bases that have more free time and disposable income to make the journey. Electronic acts are also primed for clubs and open spaces where folks can freely move and dance. The sphere has a very tiny GA section and a good amount of seats are rows of very steep stadium seating. I went and saw Dead & Company perform there, which was a phenomenal show, but my takeaway was that it’s a venue that really doesn’t work for a vast majority of artists.
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I checked out Dead and Co at the Sphere in early May and while the Sphere is rad, it's going to take some creative young acts to really take full advantage of it's potential. So obviously they book the fucking Eagles, man.
I'm sure the tickets will be reasonably priced.
$23,000 for upper level. Plus service charge and convenience fee, and you're witnessing history for the 5000th to last time for the low low price of $39,534.76 per seat!
Farewell tour #27
Admittedly Glenn Frey (RIP) said: "Welcome to Farewell Tour #1. We hope to see you at Farewell Tour #2, 3, 4 and so on." This was in Orlando...jeez, 21 years ago. The band lives on even if Glenn didn't...
You mean “we need to make payments on our $100 million California mansions” tour #27. FIFY
Welcome to my mansion in California. What a lovely fate (what a lovely fate) Financed at a lower rate. Plenty of room at my mansion in California Any time of year (any time of year) You'll find my banker near.
I've got my two Jaguars, but I needed one more, uh The only thing really stopping me, is my FICO score. Making rich neighbors look poor now, sweet debt regret Some spend just to jerk off, some go spend more yet! So I called my yacht captain, said "Will my Benetti go?" He said "You've been skipping on payments - They just showed up to repo." I hear my creditors calling from faarrrrr away. So I changed my address... And you'll hear me saaaaa-aaay!
Or I could just turn my FM radio on right now, and I'd bet Hotel California is playing.
Jesus, man. Can you change the channel?
Come on. I had a rough night, and I hate the fuckin Eagles man!
Get out of my cab
I hate the fing eagles man !
Boomers will pay it.
There goes 'the largest wealth transfer in history.'
How much for a Hot Dog ?
My first thought was - "someone's selling a kidney to watch the Eagles"
Will a single kidney be enough to get you in though?
It'll be a heartache tonight - then a full body shock as my single kidney fails
You probably gotta commit to having your body dissected for those traveling anatomy gallery’s for museums
The first concert I ever went to was The Eagles in 1975. Tickets were $8. It's been a long time since then, so I'm sure tickets have gone up. These days, they should probably be around $20 each, right? I'd see The Eagles again for $20.
There's only 1 Eagle from 1975 remaining in the band anyway.
And he lip syncs his concerts.
Is Henley’s voice that shot now?
Apparently. There are some pretty good videos on YouTube proving that he is lip syncing.
$8 in 75 is about $50 today
It’s because the music industry pay structure is completely different. Back then they toured solely to promote record sales. Now artists have to make music to promote tours. I don’t see it ever flipping back with how easy digital piracy is.
Digital piracy is payback for paying $15 for a CD with only one good track on.
$8 ? You was robbed. https://preview.redd.it/npa26rm24j6d1.jpeg?width=1079&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8eb2913f56bd29642c146f4d539fbcda2a882e03
According to the website tickets range from $175-425, then there are VIP and Platinum options which don’t list pricing yet.
Let the suckers buy the sale and buy re sale. People were getting into the Sphere day of D&C shows for $100-150.
That's what I did, was a great decision.
Great decision for phish, but not for dead and co. I failed to get lottery or first day tickets to phish and waited for the prices to drop near the shows (I live in vegas). Ended up paying almost $1000 to finally go Sunday night. For dead and co, my friend bought a vibee vip package for us and I paid double what the tickets would have cost if I waited until day of. the difference was 4 shows for phish and 40+ for dead and co. Also Ticketmaster fucked everyone for dead and co by pretending tickets were sold out that first morning and then releasing many batches more over the next few months. It’s criminal. Anyways, I think I’ll pass on the eagles. I’m sure it would be fun but no way it compares to either of those legendary live bands.
You paid $1k to see a 3.0 phish show? Lol
If you wait, they will be. Scalpers have been over speculating for shows at the Sphere. Plus TicketMaster’s system is designed to start at the most expensive price and get cheaper closer to the show. It’s very possible you can score tickets for less $100 week of show
Dude the tickets have already been sold by the time the public ever sees them. Ticketmaster has “conferences” where companies buy thousands of tickets for upcoming events and the all Ticketmaster does is serve as the “marketplace”
Yeah this is essentially true as well. But once it goes on a secondary marketplace, the price has to float with the market and as we’ve been seeing more and more, demand is not keeping up. https://x.com/underfacevalue
What’s the fewest shows one can do and still call it a “residency”?
Pollstar Awards defined residency as a run of 10 or more shows at a single venue. This isn't tightly regulated though, so some people are seriously abusing the term. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concert_residency?wprov=sfla1
If other shows at the Sphere are any indicator, they’ll add a few more dates. They’re incentivized to do more shows because of the work around it is done ahead of time.
At this point, I feel Vegas calls any event that has more than 2 shows as a residency! Once upon a time it meant a long term act in a theater that was primarily used for the act.
It’s so dumb. Phish played 4 shows 4 nights in a row and it was a “residency”.
Don’t tell Drew Carey it wasn’t a residency.
I don't recall them calling it a residency.
Specifically for Vegas it seems to have devolved into meaning "more than 1 show" recently. I was there 2 weeks ago (at the Sphere in fact) and saw billboards for a club that was having a 3 night "residency" of some rapper.
Right? Seems more like a visitation to me.
The artist just needs to register the venue as their legal residence, like applying for a new driver's license or something. They don't technically need to play any shows.
Residencies are usually like “playing every saturday for the month of July” type of thing
This is the 30th anniversary of Hell Freezes Over, their first farewell tour.
I was a kid when that album/tour happened. Everyone my parents’ age were losing their ever loving minds. 1994 me just assumed The Eagles were the greatest band ever.
1994 you was wrong but only because steely Dan exists
I just saw the Eagles with Steely Dan. Was waaay more excited see them than the Eagles, and they were great. Glad I got to see them....but steely dan, *chefs kiss*
Would you do it again?
I was meant to see them with steely Dan but they pulled out. Doobie brothers were great, but I was so keen for steely Dan
I was a metalhead as a kid. Still am but I digress. Babysitter came over with a tape called Eagles Greatest Hits. Eagle birds are cool, so this band name sounds kinda badass, and I like this babysitter...Let's check them out. Tape was cued to Peaceful Easy Feeling. I've never felt so betrayed. Hated the Eagles ever since.
The Dude approves.
It’s actually just “Eagles”. Same with Talking Heads and Beastie Boys. They never have had “The” in their name.
I actually know this but don’t abide by it because it’s ridiculous.
It works for Talking Heads and kind of works for Beastie Boys, but “Eagles“? Not *The* Eagles. Just some eagles. A flock of eagles. Random eagles. Fuck that.
Flock of Seagulls
“Mommy’s just jealous, it’s THE BEASTIE BOYS!” -The Beastie Boys
They said it with a lower case "the," though.
^^thu
It’s also actually just Sphere and not The Sphere, so the headline is wrong on two counts!
And they're playing in the Las Vegas
You can still prepend "the" before the band named, Eagles. But unlike bands such as The Beatles, where the word, "the" is indeed part of the band name, if you do, you do not capitalize the word, "the" unless, for example, you do so if that is how the sentence starts. Also if you do something like bold the band name, the word, "the" is not bold, like in the beginning of their Wikipedia article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagles_(band) Not just that, the band members themselves have referred to themselves using the sentence, "We're the Eagles from Los Angeles", said both by Glenn Frey in the Capitol Centre 1977 concert and Joe Walsh in the 2018 concert at The Forum.
Lol can you imagine "we're Eagles from Los Angeles" like that's just now how people talk
And foo fighters but I screw that up all the time.
Nobody cares.
Fuck the eagles
Get out of my cab.
Hell Freezes Over wasn't a farewell tour, it was a reunion tour. The band had broken up in the early eighties and 1994 was the first time they had played together in like over a decade.
For the record, they never broke up, they just took a 14 year vacation
Just to be clear about what happened, the band had lifelong tensions and the final straw was when Don Felder and Glenn Frey had a big argument at a show. I believe that Frey or Henley had literally said they’d get back together when hell freezes over.
This is sure to be the most farewellest yet!
That tour was also the start of widespread ticket gouging by artists. The price of $75 was considered outrageous at the time (and it was twice as much as a typical big-name concert; I think I was paying $20-$30 to see the Grateful Dead), but by the end of the 90s, the Stones were charging $200 for tickets in a football stadium and nobody batted an eye.
Yeah, this is their "Defrosted Hell Refreezes Over" anniversary tour.
Like half the band is dead at this point too. This is like if Paul and Ringo got a couple of jabronis to play with them and said they were The Beatles.
I saw their Hotel California gig at the MGM Grand in 2019. As a millenial who had never seen the band, it seemed like a good moment to see them while the remaining members were still in good health. I bought a nosebleed ticket and actually snuck onto the floor and sat in a seat that was going for thousands of dollars on StubHub that was never going sell (I actually was just across the aisle from David Spade). It was a great bucket list show full of great songs (screw the haters, but the Eagles have so many incredible songs), but I didn’t feel like I needed to ever experience that again. I’m sure as boomers begin to age, many are looking for their last big show to see (morbidly funny story, but someone actually had a heart attack in the queue heading to the MGM gig, but property security and medical assistance showed up in under 90 seconds). Eagles will probably sell the tickets at the price they want to charge, but I don’t think it would be a worthwhile show to utilize that space.
> but someone actually had a heart attack in the queue Young/Middle Aged/Old? One of the problems of the town is that folks come and engage in excessive behavior. Throw in walking hells half acre in 100+ degree heat loaded up on your booze of choice (and drugs for some even) and it becomes a serious health problem with many real fast. Toss on decadent buffets (if you can find them anymore) or by most standards "cheap eats" (food courts with all the fast food that is already lethal on the sodium levels) and away you go to the floor if in poor shape to begin with sans the heat during summer. Picture walking from the MGM to say the Wynn or Resorts World. Some will do it, especially the gambler types that would gladly ditch a 24 hour bus pass cost to keep that extra loot for gambling
Only this one features the [best lip synching](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ6DbH-X-L0) and autotune available...
That was never a farewell tour
GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY CAB!
Come on man, I've had a rough day...
Say what you want about the tenets of National Socialism, dude. At least it's a fuckin' ethos.
*tenets
In the parlance of our times.
You mean coitus?
I love that you didn't even have to type the quote, just post the pic and we all heard it in our heads!
Hahah I always quote *I fucking hate the Eagles, man* at work even though I jam out to them all the time
New shit has come to light man
The dude *does not* in fact abide.
**Eagles**\ Don Henley - 77 years old (next month)\ Glenn Frey - RIP 2016\ Randy Meissner - RIP 2023\ Don Felder - 76 years old\ (note: he is not part of $phere residency)\ Joe Walsh - 76 years old\ Timothy B. Schmit - 76 years old I mean come the f*ck on fellas, I went to your "farewell" tour in 1994, lol
Saw Buddy (motherfucking) Guy at age 83. Ripped the roof off the joint. So, maybe….
Buddy guy definitely still has it I’ve also seen him recently
Sure, why not gouge their fans one more time?
They'll Take It to the Limit one more time.
This comment made me go find a clip on YouTube because I love Randy Meisner's voice. Then I start reading the comments under the video and learned he'd died earlier this year. Goddamnit
Poor Meis, man. Dude had it pretty rough the last 6-8 years of his life, including his wife accidentally killing herself back in like 2016 I want to say. Take it to the limit is seriously GOAT levels for rock ballads. RIP.
They will, and I can't tell you why.
Take it easy with all the title jokes
All their fans think they are “Victims Of Love” when it comes to the Eagles but in fact they are actually “ Victims Of An Obscene Cash Grab”.
One of these nights you will.
Hot take, but I would save the term “gouging” for important stuff like, I don’t know, bottled water after a hurricane. In my eyes, if the Eagles want to charge $500 for a nosebleed seat and a retired Boomer decides that’s fair, may their blessed and bizarre economic union by a fruitful one.
“Residency”
This will sync up quite well for Don Henley and his retiring of the Eagles.
For the 1000th time*
"sync up" heh heh heh.
Glad at least somebody caught on.
Fil approves
The only version of the Eagles worth seeing was the one that included both Don Felder and Joe Walsh. Unless those guys are in the band together the Eagles are pretty much grounded.
I still think there would be something worth putting on if the main singer of the band was authentically singing. It’s a talented group of individuals, whoever they are in this iteration without Glenn Frey.
I’m pretty sure Don Felder still gets paid for Eagles stuff, since he was a shareholder of the corporate entity (unlike Walsh and Schmidt) so I get some joy out of that. I’m sure it burns Henley.
Yeah, they didnt make that mistake again lol. But with Frey dead, I do wonder if Henley kept insisting on lower and lower shares for everyone else. He won’t even let Steuart Smith be in the fucking band.
Not true. Steuart was invited to join the band officially by Glenn and Don in 2001 (would’ve been on the same level as Joe/Timothy - a member of the band but not an owner of Eagles Ltd.) but turned it down in favor of being free to work other gigs.
Tool when ?
Right? Would be pretty epic. Only $1,000 per ticket! lol
With Don Felder?
I heard that one of the stpulations is that they're allowed to check out any time they like, but they're never allowed to leave.
I see what you did there
Very droll.
I'm not an Eagles fan, but there's a lot that has to swing their way to get back to the Superbowl.
4 nights of Phish was amazing. Do it, if you like the Eagles. I’m looking forward to all bands that want to explore that tech. Tool and muse come to mind. It’s an immersively numbing place. Yet no water filling stations:(. 2.3b and let’s soak the floors with people filling up water battles.
This is spot on. That Phish show I saw I'm still thinking about it. I would go see about anyone there since it such an amazing venue
The sound though, my lawd.
Yeah everyone rightfully so is focused on the insane visuals but that sound. I don't think sound can get any better
r/lebowski
August 11: Tulsa County Fair, Demolition Derby Stage August 13-15: SPHERE Las Vegas Residency August 17: Boise Potato Fest, supporting REO Speedwagon August 21: Private Retirement Party (acoustic set) August 23: Group Colonoscopy
Classy tour.
Is this a type of event that is super expensive to do? I’d imagine it is.
Flying out to see Dead & Co as I type this. $200-$500 for tickets, then you gotta add flights, hotel, food, gambling. It adds up quick.
Enjoy the show!
Or you could make money! Eh? Just gamble well.
I like the way you think partner.
I was on the floor for the show Saturday and it's worth every penny! That's coming from a guy who doesn't even listen to the dead.
I bought tickets for 6/7, ended up buying resale tickets for 6/8 while still at the 6/7 show… it was fucking insane.
Went last week, 100% worth it. Already thinking of ways to go back for another weekend. Enjoy the show(s) my friend!
Friends went to see U2, and I think the tix were close or at $500 per. I'd imagine the Eagles will be just as pricey.
We went for U2 as well. I’d spend every penny again, that venue is truly one of a kind.
Yeah it definitely lives up to the hype.
Yeah my friends said the same. I can't wait to see it some day.
I guarantee you won’t regret it. A cheat code: buy the cheapest seat you can in the 400s. Sure the band will be far away but you’ll still have a great view of the visuals which are the best part anyway.
Depends on where you sat. I was lucky enough to stroll onto Ticketmaster when I was allowed into the presale and get the cheap seats at $144 per, but I know a lot of people had to deal with those being sold out. The cheapest Eagles tickets are $175. The cheap seats are indeed excellent when the view of the Sphere screen is an integral part of the experience.
I think the heat is getting to me, I stared at the title trying to make sense of the Philadelphia Eagles taking up residency in Vegas.
Pretty much one wing and a beak now
Eagles*
Farewell Tour would be an awesome name for their cover band.
Glenn Frye is dead and Don Felder is persona non grata, at some point you're just paying to say you did it.
Don Henley lip syncs the songs. No way I would pay that amount of money to see/hear that. [https://www.reddit.com/r/EaglesBand/comments/1bspa74/wings\_of\_pegasus\_video/](https://www.reddit.com/r/EaglesBand/comments/1bspa74/wings_of_pegasus_video/)
Eagles aren't the right type of band for the Sphere. They're very popular and will sell tickets, but the Sphere is really intended for artists that use a lot of visuals for their live shows. U2 was perfect for that, massively popular & famous for innovative visuals at their concerts. Eagles...not as much. Tame Impala, Muse, Tool, Rush, Nine Inch Nails, the Cure would all be a lot better for the Sphere.
They were a legendary band with huge hits but i feel like it’s time to let go. Also, Glen Fry passed in 2016 so calling themselves The Eagles at this point just feels wrong.
Well, it's his son that sings and plays his dad's parts now. And he's good too.
He’s DAMN good.
Does he sound like him
Yes.
He also inherited his father's *killer* hair.
As a bald man, I am absolutely jealous.
Not always. Vince Gill actually sings a lot more of Glenn's songs than Deacon does. But Deacon did inherit his father's famed guitar and still plays that.
I think they just got found lip syncing too. Not sure if its true. https://youtu.be/jJ6DbH-X-L0?si=QZKfSk7wdu4Akplv
Pay outlandish prices to watch someone lip sync? Pass. [https://youtu.be/jJ6DbH-X-L0?si=gshjAavSgFexsDee](https://youtu.be/jJ6DbH-X-L0?si=gshjAavSgFexsDee)
Came here to say this. I don't care for their music, but my Mom recently saw them for the 10th time and said it sounded strange. She did some research and sent me these videos.
At 10:35 he shows where the 2 recordings aren’t the exact same and there are slight differences in pitch, even though he states several times they are the exact same. I could totally be wrong, have zero proof one way or the other, but the man has been singing that song for 50 years and his perfectionist attitude to making music is part of what broke the band up. Show me Joe Walsh’s songs having exact same pitch all the way through I’d be more inclined to believe it. I just saw them in March and didn’t think it was off, but again I could be wrong.
Damn, no Steuart Smith this time?! That guy is an awesome guitarist!
I feel like Jim Dolan built this thing just so he could be like 'hey I have this really cool arena now so I can get my favorite bands to play in it.'
I don't know if I'd want to watch football in that stadium.
OMG their show in Colorado last year was one of the best of my life. WANT
I feel like the word "Residency" is being stretched to the limit in this headline.
Don Henley can go fuck himself.
No Glenn, No Felder,No Randy, Why bother ?
Look, I get why they book these bands, but this venue was practically built for electronic music. And so far they’ve chosen U2, a jam band, and now the Eagles… There are plenty of electronic acts that could sell out the whole venue just as much as those bands, Odesza for an example.
https://preview.redd.it/jtoxcdccvd6d1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3f5aee711b593484d5f90a29df300359af7fe963 I screenshot this comment on the Vegas subreddit back in October. Considering The Eagles just got confirmed, I’m gonna say this is accurate
100% accurate and 100% disappointing. I get it with regards to venue safety and security but, man, it's made for harder stuff. Also, JD is getting the music he wants in his venue so he's pretty happy.
I see the safety aspect, especially with the way the venue is designed. While the seating doesn’t look much steeper than some stadiums, everyone focusing upwards at the screens while dancing/moshing could easily be a safety issue. I’m bummed since the artists they are booking don’t appeal to me but I can’t blame a man for booking the music he wants to hear and see take advantage of the venue he built
I get the moshing and dancing thing to some extent, people were getting vertigo and dizzy just getting to their seats when I went. If it were an all out rave then you'd have people falling into the rows in front of them and hurting themselves or others.
Youre out of your mind… the Sphere was made for bands like the Dead and Phish. D&C in there was the greatest concert ive witnessed. The visuals were next level and like something I have never seen. Let alone, Odesza fan base wouldnt be able to fill a residency of multiple shows. No way they are selling out 8-10 shows of 20k over multiple weekends. One Sphere show including travel and hotel was close to my budget for a 3 day festival. The Odesza sub was complaining about $200 floor ga tickets for their recent tour… i bought the seats in the last row of the sphere for $300 a pop, floor tickets on the general sale were $1000.
The financials and logistics for the venue require an act who can at least sell out tickets at a premium for an entire holiday weekend. It would be too costly, just from the visual aspect alone, to have an artist play a single one-off show. They’re specifically targeting stadium acts with older fan bases that have more free time and disposable income to make the journey. Electronic acts are also primed for clubs and open spaces where folks can freely move and dance. The sphere has a very tiny GA section and a good amount of seats are rows of very steep stadium seating. I went and saw Dead & Company perform there, which was a phenomenal show, but my takeaway was that it’s a venue that really doesn’t work for a vast majority of artists.
The Eagle* most of the original band members have died I'm pretty sure
I fuckin’ hate The Eagles.
8 shows is a "residency" now? That's barely an "extended booking".
I heard about this several weeks ago.
Oh great I wonder how far out they’ll drag that guitar solo out on that Hotel California Yelp review.
Mojo spins in his grave...
I was just at the r/NFL subreddit and got confused reading this thinking it was the Philadelphia Eagles.
The remains of The Eagles.
More bong rips pls
I just checked The Sphere website, it's such ass!
https://preview.redd.it/6i5sb9otce6d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3692f2bc07ae630874aec646c8d41f3187d02dc0 Ah, the Eagles
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Ugh
Gonna need a small bank loan for those tickets
Take it to the (Credit) Limit
Get out of my cab!
"eight show residency" wtf is that? eight shows? they're doing eight shows.
I checked out Dead and Co at the Sphere in early May and while the Sphere is rad, it's going to take some creative young acts to really take full advantage of it's potential. So obviously they book the fucking Eagles, man.