I like the early Eagles music when they had Bernie Leadon and Randy Meisner.
After Walsh joined, their sound became somewhat meh, IMO.
Think they added Joe for the hard rock audience. I also make a joke that they fired Joe but he just kept showing up, Joe was heavily into drugs at the time. So he did not realize that he had been fired. One day Don took Joe aside to explain he had been fired. Joe kept going ok but can I still play with the band. Finally Don said ok you can play but no paycheck. Joe replied OK, but can I still have a free tour t shirt? Don laughed and said ‘sure’.
Meisner was easily the best Eagles vocalist. I honestly got the impression Frey and Henley were jealous.
There are lots of music analysis channels on YouTube.
But the one group they can never analyze is the Eagles because Henley pays people from what I’ve heard to scour YouTube and threaten lawsuits.
There was one live recording of Meisner singing Take It To Tge Limit but the vocals were warped so it doesn’t even sound like him.
I agree. Desperado is not only an amazing song, but one of the greatest albums of all time, in my opinion, with amazing musicianship, and even a story to tell. When they ended up with Those Shoes as one of their last singles, it showed how far they had fallen. Others will disagree of course, which is perfectly fine. But the bands that put those 2 songs together were completely different.