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For a band that was all about harmony, there\u2019s an awful lot of fighting in the Eagles\u2019<\/a> history.\u00a0<\/p>\n There isn\u2019t a single band that seemed to be as petty and vindictive about their behind-the-scenes drama half the time they played, and even if Glenn Frey and Don Henley steered the ship throughout their career, there were more than a few times where they could be absolutely cutthroat to their bandmates. But even if Frey and Henley started to guide them through every one of their hits, there are more than a few times where they could end up turning on each other as well.<\/p>\n They weren\u2019t always the best of friends when working on some of their records, and while they could always make the best music that anyone had ever heard, you could definitely feel the tension on a handful of those later albums. \u2018I Wish You Peace\u2019 was the first time they started to realise<\/a> that Bernie Leadon really needed to leave, but it wasn\u2019t like all their prayers were about to get answered the minute that they began working on Hotel California.\u00a0<\/p>\n Granted, it doesn\u2019t really feel like much should be on someone\u2019s bucket list after making an album that good. Everything that a band dreams of when making a classic is on here, from the guitar solos to the deeper messages in the album cuts, but when combing through this story about the true nature of Hollywood<\/a>, Henley remembered that \u2018Life in the Fast Lane\u2019 was the one tune that never sat right with him when working on the record.<\/p>\n As far as Frey was concerned, this was the kind of song that came from the streets that they had been driving down every single night, saying<\/a>, \u201cI was in the car with a drug dealer on the way to a poker game, and the next thing I know we\u2019re going 80 miles an hour. I go, \u2018Hey man, what are you doing?\u2019. And he just looks at me and goes, \u2018[This is] life in the fast lane\u2019 and I thought immediately, \u2018Now there\u2019s a song title\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n But when you look at the way that Eagles were living around that time, Henley couldn\u2019t really stomach going through those lines every single time they played live, recalling<\/a>, \u201c[It] turned more into a celebration of exactly what we were trying to warn them about. Everybody\u2019s got cocaine now, no matter how shitty it is.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI could hardly listen to that song when we were recording it because I was getting high a lot of the time, and the song made me ill.\u201d<\/p>\n Don Henley<\/p>\n And while the band were still riding high, they wou;dn\/t realise how much Henley\u2019s illness may have been a precursor of things to come. Because when you\u2019ve been at that great height for so long, there\u2019s only one place left to go, and the whole band could tell that they were heading towards the end of their time together by the time they were working on making the album The Long Run.<\/p>\n Further reading: From The Vault<\/p>\n Cocaine had become one of their favourite pastimes when they started thinking of ideas for songs, but even Frey claimed that \u201ccocaine brought out the worst in all of us\u201d when it came time to tour. And even though the tension could be cut with a knife the minute that they stepped onstage when performing a benefit concert in 1980<\/a>, a lot of the damage had already been done after years of being far too high all the time.<\/p>\n Henley was always the more sensible one in the group, but when looking at \u2018Life in the Fast Lane\u2019, there were more than a few question marks around that song than anything else in their discography. Because rarely do you get a song that is both a major hit for a band and also a commentary on why they are moving way too fast.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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