History of the Eagles Part One Page #6

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For taking time to listen to my song...

With Shiloh, we made one album,

and it had a single called

"Simple Little Down Home Rock

and Roll Love Song for Rosie. "

Not exactly a short title!

Just a simple little down home

Rock and roll love song for Rosie...

We didn't know much about

the business at that point.

We were pretty naive.

Going down to the swamp

river country some day...

We kicked around in the

LA clubs for a while,

played the Whisky, played some of the

clubs down in the South Bay area,

and nothing really happened for us.

JD and I were looking

for any place to play.

We had heard about this guy Jackson Browne.

He'd been playing the same clubs we had,

but we never had seen him perform.

- This is California. Mr Jackson Browne.

- Ah, thank you, thank you.

'Then there were a bunch of gigs that

they had and some gigs that I had'

that they would show up at my gigs

and me at their gigs, and we

became really good friends.

And we'd start talking about, "Where

do you live, and what's going on?"

And Jackson said, "You know, you

should come down to Echo Park.

Rent's real cheap. "

Glenn got the apartment

next to my apartment,

and this apartment cost like 125

or something a month, you know.

And I needed to economize,

so I moved into the basement

underneath Glenn's place, which I

could get into for 35 a month.

It only had one door. It was really

just kind of an illegal place,

just a cubby-hole, and

that's where Jackson lived,

with JD and I above. You know, that was it.

There was a stereo, a piano, a

bed, a guitar, you know, a teapot.

KETTLE WHISTLES:

We slept late in those days, except

around 9 o'clock in the morning,

I'd hear Jackson Browne's teapot going off,

this whistle in the distance.

And then I'd hear him playing piano.

I didn't really know how to write songs.

I knew I wanted to write songs,

but I didn't know exactly -

you just wait around for

inspiration, what was the deal?

Well, I learned through Jackson's ceiling

and my floor exactly how to write

songs cos Jackson would get up,

and he'd play the first

verse and first chorus,

and he'd play it 20 times until

he had it just the way he wanted.

And then there'd be silence.

And then I'd hear the teapot go off again.

Then it'd be quiet for 10 or 20 minutes.

Then I'd hear him start to play again,

and there was the second verse.

So, then he'd work on the second

verse, and he'd play it 20 times.

And then he'd go back

to the top of the song,

and he'd play the first verse, the

first chorus and the second verse

another 20 times until he was

really comfortable with it and,

you know, change a word here or

there, and I'm up there going,

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