The Eagles’ first album for 28 years imminent

Posted on August 1, 2007 
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The Eagles are planning a long-awaited new album and a tour. Original member and guitarist Joe Walsh says that their first new studio album since 1979’s The Long Run — expected to be titled The Long Road To Eden and has been reportedly in production for several years – is “almost out. We’re just finishing vocals and mixing it. We’re all finally signing off on it.”

Walsh says that all of the band members – himself, Don Henley, Glenn Frey and Timothy B. Schmit – wrote songs for the album, which he says “go in some really, really new, different directions. It’s hard to compare to anything that I hear out there now.” For his songs, however, Walsh “went rock’n’roll,” including one “extended” track with “a middle full of guitar statement” and another that’s “full-on rock’n'roll. I didn’t want us to be too ballad-y here. We need some stuff we can play live, so I made sure there was that element in the record.” Walsh says the band plans to tour extensively in 2008.

Walsh says, “I don’t think I would cancel being an Eagle and resurface with a solo career. I love being in the Eagles, and we’re not really done yet.”

It would be the Eagles’ seventh studio album. All previous albums have gone Platinum; Hotel California 16 times Platinum; The Long Run 7 times.

Their 1976 album Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975) is the best selling album of all time (beating Michael Jackson’s Thriller) and is 29 times Platinum.

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