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If your favourite songs come from the 1960s<\/a>, \u201970s or \u201980s, then there\u2019s a very high chance that they weren\u2019t written, recorded or toured entirely sober. <\/p>\n The Rolling Stones were relying on more than just Mother\u2019s Little Helper, The Beatles were getting high with a little help from their friend Bob Dylan<\/a>, Jimi Hendrix was disappearing into a purple haze, the Grateful Dead were spiking their support acts, The Velvet Underground were singing about harder stuff than anybody else, and that was all just in the 1960s.<\/p>\n Though there are plenty of songs about boozing and drinking, in the world of rock and roll, alcohol is probably seen as so much tamer than the harder stuff that everyone else was doing. All our heroes probably polished off a couple of beers for breakfast before working their way into the whiskey, gin and bourbon bottles through the rest of the day. <\/p>\n Thin Lizzy sang \u2018Whiskey in the Jar\u2019, and Willie Nelson sang about a \u2018Whiskey River\u2019 (though neither of those two actually wrote those songs, it\u2019s hard to look past their versions as definitive). The Electric Flag sang about \u2018Wine\u2019, while the Andrews Sisters preferred a \u2018Rum and Cola\u2019, and The Clovers just wanted \u2018One Mint Julep\u2019. John Lee Hooker took things a little further, ordering \u2018One Whiskey, One Bourbon and One Beer\u2019, while Mary Gauthier didn\u2019t discriminate, simply singing that \u201cFish swim, birds fly, Daddies yell and mamas cry \/ Old men sit and think. I drink\u201d. <\/p>\n Sinatra sang that he was \u201cdrinking again\u201d, and similarly, Rod Stewart belted out that \u201cI\u2019ve been having a few\u201d<\/a> (we could tell), and in the late \u201970s and early \u201980s, the Eagles were, too. <\/p>\n When asked who the \u201cGuido\u201d character was in \u2018Best of My Love\u2019, and what \u201cTNTS\u201d meant in the thank you\u2019s on the liner notes of the On the Border album, Don Henley replied, \u201cGuido was the ma\u00eetre d\u2019 at Dan Tana\u2019s restaurant during the \u201970s and part of the \u201980s. We conjured up part of that song in that restaurant. The TNTS refers to our producer, Bill Szymczyk\u2019s, drink of choice at that time.\u201d <\/p>\n \u201cTanqueray \u2018n\u2019 tonic. He recalls that the reason we \u2018thanked\u2019 those drinks is that they \u2018helped out\u2019 on the hand-clap overdub and the Temptations-like background vocals on the title track.\u201d<\/p>\n Don Henley<\/p>\n And how did those Tanqueray \u2018n\u2019 Tonics help out? Well, as Henley explained, \u201cSometimes, lubricants were beneficial\u2013they add a nice element of spontaneity or \u2018anti-perfection\u2019\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n Actually, the Eagles should really have been thanking the Kalamazoo, MI-based DJ Jim Higgs, from the WKMI station, for the eventual success of the album, as it was his faith in playing the release on the air which tuned more people into the release. <\/p>\n As Henley explained, \u201cWe had more or less given up hope for the success of the On the Border album, and we\u2019d begun work on the next album. So, when \u2018Best of My Love\u2019 took off, it was like a resurrection, a miracle. Totally unexpected. On our last tour\u2013the History of the Eagles Tour<\/a>\u2013we tracked down that DJ, Jim Higgs, and we invited him to our show in Grand Rapids.\u201d <\/p>\n Concluding, \u201cHis daughter brought him, and we had a nice visit backstage, thanked him for his early support and took some photographs \u2013 it was a sweet moment, and I\u2019m glad we got the chance to acknowledge him in person\u2026 He wasn\u2019t expecting it, and I think it made him very happy.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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