Glenn Frey was Angry at The Big Lebowski Mocking The Eagles

The Telegraph (U.K.) ^ | January 19, 2016 | Martin Chilton

[Cecily]

The late Glenn Frey could be very touchy about people who didn't like The Eagles – "we used to have a punch-'em-on sight list of critics who hated us," he once said – but what really got his goat was when the band were mocked in a scene in the Coen Brothers' film The Big Lebowski.

In the film, The Eagles' song Peaceful Easy Feeling is playing on a radio in a minicab, and as the lyrics "And I wanna sleep with you in the desert tonight/With a billion stars all around" are being sung, Jeff Bridges's hippie character, The Dude, pleads with the cab driver to change the radio station. The Dude says: "I had a rough night and I hate the f---ing Eagles, man."

[Cecily]

The Dude was having a very bad night.

[dangus]

Dear Glen:

Try not playing with such a God-damned annoying, sucky band. Oh, never mind. Hey, if it’s any consolation, you were far less annoying than Don Henley. But let’s face it, Eagles were the Nickleback of the 1970s.

[Skooz]

I really need to watch it again.

[chud]

Generally speaking, I agree with The Dude.
But Joe Walsh and Don Felder are great guitarists.

[Mase]

We used to refer to The Eagles as the country Monkees.

Never really liked their music but had to put up with it because the girls liked it.

[builder]

A truly weird and GREAT movie.

[Skooz]

But let’s face it, Eagles were the Nickleback of the 1970s.

Yep.

[chud]

But let's face it, Eagles were the Nickleback of the 1970s.

LOL!
;-)

[dmz]

Try not playing with such a God-damned annoying, sucky band. Oh, never mind. Hey, if it’s any consolation, you were far less annoying than Don Henley. But let’s face it, Eagles were the Nickleback of the 1970s.

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I would agree with you, with the caveat that we are discussing the Hotel California cd forward.

Kind of a pop-ish Flying Burritto Brothers prior to that.

[freedumb2003]

>>Try not playing with such a God-damned annoying, sucky band. Oh, never mind. Hey, if it’s any consolation, you were far less annoying than Don Henley. But let’s face it, Eagles were the Nickleback of the 1970s.<<

Sorry you have such a tin ear in both music and timing.

Care to piss on David Bowie’s grave while you are at it?

If you are going to piss on anyone’s grave, piss on kurt cobain’s talentless grave. Even he couldn’t live with himself knowing how his fans swallowed his trash whole.

[Vendome]

[T-Bone Texan]

Somebody should have just told him to Get Over It.

[discostu]

Then you should have made the band not suck Glenn. The Eagles were the definition of inoffensive middle of the road pablum. Very boring.

[Williams]

Take It Easy is not a great song?

[NorthMountain]

The phrase "let's face it" invariably precedes a falsehood.

[Vendome]

[doorgunner69]

That’s OK, I have never seen the Big Lebowski flic, either.

[Oklahoma]

The Dude abides.

[Pelham]

[dainbramaged]

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