From the “History of the Eagles” (Netflix): Sir Martin wasn’t convinced that the Eagles had the talent it took for him to work with them. Starting out, while in the London studio with Martin, they played several songs they had written but Martin wasn’t impressed that they were worthy until they decided to sing “Seven Bridges Road”, he was blown away at the harmonizing. He went on to work with them on subsequent albums. Don Henley said that what he liked about working with Martin was that he demanded hard work and absolutely no drugs or alcohol in the studio, he learned the hard way while producing the Rolling Stones. Glen Fry didn’t agree with the policy, saying it was “bullsh!t”.
Regarding my earlier post:
Disregard it. I have the wrong producer. It wasn’t Martin, it was Glenn Jons.
Ooops. Sorry.
That was Glyn Johns - not George Martin - who first produced/engineered the Eagles.
Glyn Johns had a stellar resume of working with major superstar groups from Led Zeppelin to Who to Clapton as well as the initial production of the Beatles “Get Back” before Phil Spectre took control.
From the “History of the Eagles” (Netflix): Sir Martin wasn’t convinced that the Eagles had the talent it took for him to work with them. Starting out, while in the London studio with Martin, they played several songs they had written but Martin wasn’t impressed that they were worthy until they decided to sing “Seven Bridges Road”, he was blown away at the harmonizing. He went on to work with them on subsequent albums. Don Henley said that what he liked about working with Martin was that he demanded hard work and absolutely no drugs or alcohol in the studio, he learned the hard way while producing the Rolling Stones. Glenn [sic] Fry didn’t agree with the policy, saying it was “bullsh!t”.Those must have been some top of the line drugs Henley and the Eagles were on---George Martin learned nothing from producing the Rolling Stones because he never produced them.