Top 10 Randy Meisner Songs

From: ‘Legacy’ (1989)

This was a make-good second for Meisner, whose vocals have been unceremoniously erased from Poco’s 1969 debut album after an acrimonious break up. Twenty years later, he was singing with that very same reunited lineup, they usually hit the Top 40 with this track, co-written by Richard Marx for what would turn into Poco’s second gold-selling album.

From: ‘One of These Nights’ (1975)

Co-written with Don Felder, who’d simply turn into an official member of the Eagles, “Too Many Hands” features a good twist on an outdated spiritual trope – and, in line with Felder’s arrival, one of many last lengthy strides away from the pastoral country-rock sound that had beforehand dominated the band’s albums. Felder tangles with Glenn Frey on a dueling guitar-dominated outro, whereas Don Henley fortunately bangs away on the tablas.

From: ‘Randy Meisner’ (1978)

A mini-Eagles reunion of types, “Bad Man” was co-written by Meisner’s longtime former bandmate Glenn Frey and the group’s common collaborator J.D. Souther. It was additionally featured on the soundtrack to 1978’s FM, which included their onetime boss Linda Ronstadt, too. Elsewhere on his debut solo launch, Meisner makes one other cross at “Take It to the Limit” (which exhibits up in a while our listing of Top 10 Randy Meisner Songs).

From: ‘Randy Meisner’ (1982)

Heart’s Ann Wilson joins Meisner on a stunning transforming of “Strangers,” a hard-to-find lower from Elton John’s frivolously regarded years working with Gary Osborne as a substitute of Bernie Taupin. (This track initially appeared because the B-side of the title-track single from John’s disco-focused 1979 album Victim of Love.) But “Strangers” could not push Meisner’s second self-titled album any greater than No. 94, and he hasn’t launched an album of latest materials since.

From: ‘Hotel California’ (1976)

A hovering anthem about believing towards all odds, this was Meisner’s last co-writing credit score (and his last lead vocal) with the group he co-founded. “Try and Love Again” can be reportedly the one Hotel California lower that is by no means been carried out stay by the Eagles, an indication of issues to return. Meisner was all the time uncomfortable with fame, and as his band went supernova within the late ’70s, he made an inevitable sprint for the exit.

From: ‘On the Border’ (1974)

Meisner appears to be channeling George Harrison to nice impact as a part of an album that additionally included his banjo-driven tackle Paul Craft’s “Midnight Flyer.” There’s an attention-grabbing juxtaposition between gentle and darkish on this lower, (which served as a B-side to the Top 40 hit “Already Gone”), as Glenn Frey’s scalding activate slide works in distinction to the melancholy sweetness of Meisner’s vocal.

From: ‘Randy Meisner’ (1978)

A heartfelt track of romantic confusion, “Daughter of the Sky” reanimates the mild shyness of Meisner’s earliest Eagles songs – pointing the way in which for what may have been a profitable solo profession. But Meisner by no means took to the highlight, as a substitute spending a lot of the period earlier than his retirement working as a sideman. His best-known work was alongside the likes of James Taylor, Dan Fogelberg, Richard Marx and former bandmates Joe Walsh and Richie Furay.

From: ‘Desperado’ (1973)

Meisner co-wrote the twilit “Saturday Night” together with Don Henley (who sings lead right here), and memorably steps ahead for his personal flip on the mic in the course of the track’s lonesome bridge (“She said tell me; oh, tell me …”). Glenn Frey and Bernie Leadon, who add some lush backing vocals, are additionally credited as co-writers.

From: ‘Eagles’ (1972)

This last monitor on the Eagles’ country-tinged debut album does greater than trace at the place they’d finally land towards the top of Meisner’s tenure. “Tryin'” — with its rumbling hook, eruptive guitar and transient closing vocal reference to the Rolling Stones’ “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” — was a palette-clearing blast of harder-edged rock.

From: ‘One of These Nights’ (1975)

Any hopes Meisner had of staying safely within the shadows ended with the No. 1 monitor on our listing of the Top 10 Randy Meisner Songs. “Take It To the Limit” rose to No. 4, the Eagles’ highest-charting place on the time, placing extra stress on him to hit the track’s emotional excessive notice onstage evening after evening. Panic apparently started to creep in, and Meisner reportedly requested that the track – regardless of its large reputation – be faraway from the band’s units. When the remainder of the Eagles refused, Meisner give up. The vocal was later taken over by Glenn Frey.