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...there is much derivative in Eagles's album. Most everywhere are hazy reminders of the Springfield, a chord, or a snatch of guitar. The whole band has come under the influence of Steve Stills. The three songs most reminiscent of his work were composed by each of the four band members, "Witchy Woman" is typically early period. Stills, the song about the mysterious lady; it's right out of "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes." The guitar solo, though, has strong Springfield influences, particularly in tone and direction of attack. "Take the Devil" is similar. A trapped wanderer song, this shares with...
...Most of us are Sad" is Springfield pulled through Poco with the primary difference that its mournfulness is more western than country and western Roughly it recalls Richie Furays "Kind Woman" as done by Poco but the former's country feel is lacking Eagles tries to make a connection with a vibrato solo that comes close to the sound of the debre. Overall another Stills styled song...
...least not knowingly, I'm convinced that Eagles's original purpose was actually to be another Buffalo Springfield. And in this they've failed, because Springfield was as much a case of hitting the industry at the right time as it was a case of a good innovative band. Eagles simply appears to overlead a genre probably sainted by the success of Poco and Loggins and Messina...
...folk rock into a sound from the southwest. I can't fault derivation; most of my favorite rock bands are derivative--the whole concept of rock music is, ultimately, derivative. But Eagles's music is derivative of a genre that has gone out of style. I loved the Springfield five years ago, but, music being what it is, they wouldn't do me much good...
Last week I had lunch with some earnest media businessmen, the kind who deal with music in terms of "product." One of them wondered aloud to our host, from Atlantic Records, if another Buffalo Springfield retrospective would be released. The time was right, he said. It'd make a great product...