Careful, Don Henley likely to come after you for posting his tunes.
The Eagles are such ***holes about that.
I've seen some evidence that points towards their songs falling away out of the Gen Z ethos far more steeply than would be expected, given the previous enduring popularity of their songs. Number of streams on major platforms, mentions.....I forget all the ways people measured it, but it seemed like good metrics. The main proposed explanations are that the Eagles copyright strike people like Nazis for using their music. iirc, they don't even let people do tutorials on their music. Like, there should be 100 videos on YouTube from the major guitar channels teaching people how to play "Hotel California" or "Take It Easy," but I know for a fact those types of channels have given up because even their tutorials--which don't feature the actual song--get copyright claimed. So, awareness of their music is propagated into this generation a lot less than other bands of their time.
That band, or the powers that be that control their catalog, appear to be stuck in the mindset that any and all use is theft. They don't seem to realize that they're shooting themselves in the foot and hastening their own relegation into irrelevance.
Don Henley in particular, I've been told by people who would know, is a cranky, cantankerous old fart. The kind of guy who is a genuinely good friend and nice to his circle of people, but a truly hard guy to get to know and one who generally puts people off before they get to the point where you can see whatever good sides he has. A real get-off-my-lawn kind of guy.
goldurned cranky, belligerent Texan.
