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None of us ever thought it would go on this long. If there was one message to this album that I want to impart, that would be it.īILLBOARD: THERE’S ANOTHER LINE THAT HIT HOME FOR ME ON “BUSINESS AS USUAL”: “I THOUGHT THAT I WOULD BE ABOVE IT ALL BY NOW, IN SOME COUNTRY GARDEN IN THE SHADE.” AND YET HERE YOU ARE WITH A NEW RECORD. The point of the song is (that) we may think we are civilized, but we have a ways to go yet.īut I think the point of the whole album is summed up on the last song that Glenn wrote with Jack Tempchin, “Your World Now.” The crux of the whole thing for me is those two lines: “Be part of something good, leave something good behind.” For me that sums up everything, to my children, to my fans, to everybody.

I think it’s basically an optimistic album, with the possible exception of “Long Road Out of Eden.” Of course, that’s about the war, and it’s also about the human condition. And that line that you pointed out could pertain to a relationship between a man and a woman or it could be a statement about the country as a whole. “Do Something” is an interesting song because it starts out like a love song, a boy/girl song, but then it takes on larger implications. There’s a question in the song “Do Something” that kind of struck me as, in many ways, central to the theme of this album: “How did we get on this road we are traveling?” That’s one reason it took so long to make an album, because we are so busy trying to be good parents. We are both trying really hard to be good parents. The last two songs on the record in particular are both messages from Glenn and I to our children.īILLBOARD: THOSE ARE MORE ABOUT “BIG PICTURE LOVE” THAN “I LOVE YOU TONIGHT.” I guess there are more love songs on it than anything else. But, it’s an Eagles album, it’s all over the map, both musically and subject-wise. In fact, I think our love songs have matured a little bit and the social commentary has matured, as well, and gotten maybe a little bolder. I think we’ve gotten a little bit better at both ends of the spectrum. We’ve always had love songs and we’ve always had social commentary. That still has to come by the sweat of the brow.īILLBOARD: THERE IS A LOT OF SOCIAL COMMENTARY ON THIS RECORD, BUT THERE IS ALSO A FOCUS ON PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS AND THE HUMAN CONDITION, AS WELL. But what the computer still won’t do is write lyrics for you. But things like editing are a whole lot easier, and you can arrange a song on ProTools if you want to, add an extra verse or change the structure of the song. There are still some of the processes that remain organic, and that’s the way we want it. We’ve recorded a few songs here and there since the turn of the century, but we haven’t done a whole album, and the changes in the technology are amazing.īILLBOARD: CLEARLY, THERE IS STILL A WAY TO CAPTURE THE CHEMISTRY, EVEN WITH TECHNOLOGY. The thing that has changed somewhat is the recording process, and that’s because of technology. The songwriting process hasn’t really changed that much. CAN YOU TALK ABOUT HOW THE SONGWRITING AND RECORDING PROCESSES HAVE CHANGED?

Henley takes Billboard through the making of “Eden,” due October 30 exclusively via Wal-Mart stores.īILLBOARD: IT’S GREAT TO SEE ALL THOSE HENLEY/GLENN FREY CO-WRITTEN SONGS ON THE NEW RECORD. “We’ve just been sort of waiting for some of this bad music to die down, for certain trends to go away, so we can get out there on the dancefloor again.”

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“We’re a band that knows how to bide its time. The line is pretty descriptive of the Eagles, Henley believes. Don Henley performs at the close of a concert honoring him as the 2007 MusiCares Person of the Year in Los Angeles, February 9, 2007.