The Eagles, July 22, 2013

Concert Details:

Bands: The Eagles
Location: Verizon Center

The Eagles

1. Saturday Night
2. Train Leaves Here This Morning
3. Peaceful Easy Feeling
4. Witchy Woman
5. Doolin-Dalton
6. Tequila Sunrise
7. Doolin' Daltion/Desperado (Reprise)
8. Already Gone
9. The Best of My Love
10. Lyin' Eyes
11. One of These Nights
12. Take It to the Limit

Second Set:

   13. Pretty Maids All in a Row

   14. I Can't Tell You Why

   15. New Kid in Town

   16. Love Will Keep Us Alive

   17. Heartache Tonight

   18. Those Shoes

   19. In the City (Joe Walsh)

   20. Life's Been Good (Joe Walsh)

   21. The Long Run

   22. Funk #49 (James Gang cover)

   23. Life in the Fast Lane

Encore 1:

   24. Hotel California

Encore 2:

   25. Take It Easy

   26. Rocky Mountain Way (Joe Walsh)

   27. Desperado

This show was part of the History of the Eagles tour featuring both Eagles original guitarist Bernie Leadon and Joe Walsh.   I should start by saying, while I appreciate some of the Eagles music, I'm not a big Eagles fan, and am much more a Don Henley solo fan, but went to this show because my father is a fan and I bought him tickets and regardless of how I felt about the show, for Eagles fans it seems to have been the perfect show.  There was one peculiarity for me, primarily the inclusion of Joe Walsh songs in a History of the Eagles show,  but the prevailing theory seems to be that that's how they got Joe Walsh to agree to play on the tour.

The show was an attempt at turning an arena show into a private intimate show by playing the songs by the respective members almost as solo sets moving back and forth between each member.  They all performed as if they were at the top of their game still and put on a almost three hour show running through their greatest hits, most of which are known to anyone who ever listened to a classic rock radio station in the 90's.

Interlaced between the songs were videos telling a bit of their history as a group that had been together for a large part of the last 40 years.  As there were Joe Walsh songs, I would have personally liked some Don Henley songs dropped in as well, but again, according to Eagles fans I talked to, the show was perfect.  Unlike most bands which choose to go out huge and loud in a strong way, the Eagles chose to close out their show with Desperado and unlike most bands which close on a slow song and fizzle out, they used it to fade away in glory.