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A review by tobin_elliott
Life in the Fast Lane: The Eagles' Reckless Ride Down the Rock & Roll Highway by Mick Wall, Mick Wall
fast-paced
1.75
First thought: Wow, Mick Wall sure likes the sound of his own voice...or the look of his own words on the page.
The man tends to overwrite so much he gets directly in the way of what he's trying to say. The sad thing is, occasionally he actually has things to say.
This is by no means a definitive Eagles biography. It feels fairly muckrakish and, for a writer who deep dives into the Eagles 70s releases, he completely ignores HELL FREEZES OVER and gives LONG ROAD OUT OF EDEN only the barest whiff of attention. He doesn't even really cover how the five managed to come back together. So, at best, the last forty years of history is done away with in likely about as many pages. He also contradicts himself on occasion, talking about how Randy Meisner got a song on the FM soundtrack (along with the Eagles) but that the soundtrack flopped, only to say, pages later, that the soundtrack moved a million copies.
The good thing is, at least I know to avoid Wall's books going forward.
The man tends to overwrite so much he gets directly in the way of what he's trying to say. The sad thing is, occasionally he actually has things to say.
This is by no means a definitive Eagles biography. It feels fairly muckrakish and, for a writer who deep dives into the Eagles 70s releases, he completely ignores HELL FREEZES OVER and gives LONG ROAD OUT OF EDEN only the barest whiff of attention. He doesn't even really cover how the five managed to come back together. So, at best, the last forty years of history is done away with in likely about as many pages. He also contradicts himself on occasion, talking about how Randy Meisner got a song on the FM soundtrack (along with the Eagles) but that the soundtrack flopped, only to say, pages later, that the soundtrack moved a million copies.
The good thing is, at least I know to avoid Wall's books going forward.