The 70's Didn't Suck. Classic Rock Shaped The Way We Play In 2013

No matter how many fans Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift stuff into worldwide arenas. No matter how many Voices Adam Levine and Blake Shelton toss onto the planet from a ship called NBC. It truly doesn't matter if Adele goes all out and sells the most compact discs a third straight year. There'll never be another time in music history like the Classic Rock 70's. For two decades every radio station program director that tried to shape me sang the same song, "You came along to play along at the wrong time." Radio has never loved the 1970's. It was the boring decade. Music was all over the place. People listening to their car radio felt no need to carry notes when asked to sing their favorite song. The Carpenters, John Denver, Disco, Grease and Cher singing Gypsies Tramps and Thieves turned everything plastic, candy coated and too sweet to fit on the back of Alphabet Cereal. The junk in the trunk once identified as AOR (Album Oriented Rock) restocked its shelves by downloading availability. Our Rock became the 80's generations Rock whose kids grew up loving the very Rock that once stomped our eardrums into a thin piece of nearly next to absolutely nothing. The mid 2012 arrival of Mumford and Sons, the Lumineers and Phillip Phillips is nothing more than a long awaited heavily welcomed spinoff of the greatest of the greats The Eagles. No other band in music history has sold as many collections of music. Not Michael Jackson not even John Lennon and his one time friends. Henley and Frey own whatever's grown then attached it Timothy B and Joe Walsh. And they keep on creating. RollingStone Magazine reports after remaining notoriously mum for the majority of their career, the Eagles let the world in on the Sundance Film Festival premiere of The History of the Eagles Part 1. 
"We were very private," Don Henley said at a press conference for the movie. (Glenn Frey, Joe Walsh and Timothy B. Schmit were also present for the premiere.) 
"We didn't allow access. We tried to keep it in-house. But we had the foresight to film some backstage stuff. And that's in the film." The rockumentary, directed by Alison Ellwood and produced by Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side), uncovers the band's personal Super 8 footage, photographs and tape from a never-finished Haskell Wexler documentary. Featuring interviews with Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt and David Geffen, the film follows the band from its Troubadour-filled beginnings in Southern California to its beer-bottle-throwing end in 1980. Acquired by Showtime, Part 1 will air on February 15th at 8 p.m. EST, and Part 2 – which picks up with the band's 1994 reunion – will premiere February 16th at 8 p.m. EST. Rolling Stone sat down with Don Henley on the eve of the film's Sundance debut. He talked about why they finally made the film (someone might die), what type of movie he wanted to see (an honest one) and how his bandmates still drive him nuts (but he's learned to live with it). How did the movie come about? Did Glenn approach you on this? I don’t know who brought it up first, probably our manager. Probably Irving Azoff said it’s time for you guys to do a documentary. We'd been kicking it around for a few years but we finally decided that the time had come and, after 42 years had passed, it was probably a good time to get it done, because we said it was a three-year process. We knew it was going to be time consuming so we thought we’d better get started. You know, at our age people keel over, and so we wanted to get it done. What did you learn about yourself in pulling this project together and digging back into your life? Some of it was painful – you know, the self-destructive behavior that a lot of young people go through. The insecurities, the fear, the feelings of unworthiness, we don't deserve this, and the feeling that it's all going to disappear up in smoke tomorrow. It's a dream I'm having and it's all going away. That sort of thing. And it was sort of painful to relive all of that. And of course the substance abuse was part of it, and of course all the time that was wasted that could have been more productive time. But hey, it was all a learning experience that made us the people who we are today. And the fact we survived it is a small miracle in and of itself. Nobody in this band has died. This is the web and the chances of you still being here zippo. More RS interviews still ahead or visit http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/q-a-don-henley-opens-up-about-the-history-of-the-eagles-at-sundance-20130120#ixzz2IjtHNV7J