Name: Glenn Frey Sings "Desperado" | Letterman
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Glenn Frey Sings "Desperado" | Letterman' from Letterman on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-06-18. Transcript available.

My first guest tonight was a founding member of one of the most popular
American bands ever,
The Eagles. He now has quite a successful solo career, and this is his second
album.
I have a copy of it right here, entitled The All-Nighter.
And here now, with our band singing the classic Desperado, please welcome Glenn
Frey.
Thank you. Thank you very much.
Thank you.
I'd like to dedicate this song to my songwriting partner of nine years, Don Henley.
And this is the first song we ever wrote together.
How does this go?
Desperado, why don't you come to your senses?
You've been out riding fences for so long now.
Oh, you're a hard one, but I know you've got your reasons.
These things that are pleasing you can hurt you somehow.
Don't you draw the queen of diamonds, boy, she'll beat you if she's able.
The queen of hearts is always your best bet.
Now, it seems to me some fine things have been laid upon your table, but you
only want the ones that you can't get.
And freedom, oh, freedom, oh, freedom, oh, freedom.
And freedom, oh, freedom, oh, freedom, oh, freedom, oh, freedom, oh, that's
just some people talking.
Your prison is walking through this world all alone.
Don't your feet get cold in the wintertime?
The sky won't snow and the sun won't shine.
It's hard to tell when I talk from the day.
You're losing all your highs and lows.
Ain't it funny how the feeling goes away?
Desperado, oh, why don't you come to your senses?
Come down from your fences.
Open the gate.
It may be raining.
There's a rainbow above you
You better let somebody love you
Let somebody love you
You better let somebody love you
Before it's too late
You better let somebody love you
You better let somebody love you
You better let somebody love you
You better let somebody love you
You better let somebody love you
You better let somebody love you
You better let somebody love you
You better let somebody love you
You better let somebody love you
You better let somebody love you
You better let somebody love you
You better let somebody love you
You better let somebody love you
You better let somebody love you
You better let somebody love you
You better let somebody love you
You better let somebody love you
You better let somebody love you
You better let somebody love you
You better let somebody love you
You better let somebody love you
You better let somebody love you
You better let somebody love you
You better let somebody love you
is doing very well for you isn't it yes it is yeah things are going great you
mentioned uh don henley
before you sang that do you still see him we talk a couple times uh on the
phone every now and then
now that the eagles aren't together it's uh when did they finally when did you
guys finally uh
unplug it well we i think we unplugged it in 1980 but we didn't tell anybody
until 1981 we wanted
to get a start on our solo albums you know was it a uh a pleasant experience
the breakup was it
nasty it was ugly david it was ugly how long had you guys been together nine
years you know and with
i think with five you know five guys for nine years i kind of look at bands
like uh it's like
when doctors get out of college or lawyers get out of college they always join
a law firm or a doctor's
you know and bands are the same way i think for men in their 20s you know you
kind of band together
you're not so sure of yourself and you know now that we're a little older it
seems like a logical
progression to sort of set up my own practice yeah but you guys you did some
damage when you were
together didn't you oh you mean well positive kind like i mean well no i mean
like that uh hotel
california 11 million copies i think that was in the u.s i actually think it
probably sold more closer
to 18 million yeah now that so that's worldwide after 10 million who's coming
you know convention of
record store owners in the audience tonight um so now all right well let's talk
about when you guys
were together and traveling around and stuff did you do uh the the legendary
kind of damage that
uh you know speaking of damage well we you know the eagles had sort of on the
surface i think we looked
uh you know classed kind of like we were sort of you know normal sort of guys
but uh you're staying
not when you have joe walsh in your band it's uh yeah it's a little different
we uh we used to
wreck hotel rooms you know in the early days but uh nothing like the english
bands can do nothing like
the who and led zeppelin they were really the best at uh room trash is what we
used to call the art of room trash now what would you guys do and and
uh then let's find out i mean how did you escape did you get arrested for it or
what happens
well pick a city let's let's just do this pick a city atlanta all right now you're
in a hotel yeah
a nice hotel yeah all right what happens things happen like we never really
wanted to wreck a hotel room
or anything it was like days and days of this building up one day you get a
cold breakfast the
next day room service is not there about 14 days on the road all of a sudden it's
like one hotel is
going to get all the grief yeah and uh and when we when we were first starting
out we used to do things
like you know we just we'd check in and then i'd look in the swimming pool to
see how many television
sets were in it but then of course the thing is then you have to pay your then
you have to go down
to the manager and bribe your way out and you know tell him you'll pay for
everything please let us go
so then we saw we kind of got into more subtle forms of room trash things that
were a little more
you know you couldn't get caught well like instead of throwing the tv in the in
the pool we used to get
back from the gig about 11 30 you know and flip on the tv if carson was on we'd
say geez johnny looks
thirsty you know and you could just just by taking johnny looks johnny looks
all right yeah okay and uh
this this way you could just sort of pour a glass of water into the television
and sort of watch the
tube would i mean it really does a quite a good thing it's a cool looking thing
but then instead
of having to bribe your way at all all that happens is the next person who
takes your room calls up and
says hey uh my television you know my television's not working so that became
you know the methods of
revenge got more subtle yeah johnny looks thirsty johnny um that's uh not how
many uh how many hotels did
you think uh you damaged in your career oh not that many yeah not that many no
we'd save it up for a
good one you know for something we'd wait until it built up you know we'd
always start out on the
beginning of the tour and say okay now got to be here that's where we got to
behave yeah did joe walsh
one time have a chainsaw with him on tour yeah he had carried his own chainsaw
in an anvil case
so in case he couldn't fit his ping pong table into his room or something he
could you know that's a
real trouble that's a real problem you know what i mean if the elevator couldn't
work he could go down
to henley's room you know yeah the eagles an american band all right now
did you guys have arguments toward the end or even in the beginning oh yeah
yeah yeah i think
you always do uh you know we always had disagreements you can't uh work closely
with you know four other
people now how would you how would you settle them i'm not sure we settled now
were they artistic
disagreements that kind of thing or whose turn is it to drive was it more like
that or
well one of the funny things that used to happen was there's usually four good
suites in a hotel
out out in the you know not new york or los angeles but there were five guys in
the band and always
four good suites so somebody you know always wanted to take their tape measure
out and come down to
your room and see if you've got a bigger room who got the most square footage
so i used to just you
know open the door and i'd yell down the hall i got a sauna and a stereo bike
close the door
yeah but those days are over now yeah yeah and you're living in aspen you like
that yeah i do
very beautiful place it's a beautiful place yeah it's a lot of night skiing
night skiing all right
uh and the album is doing quite well it's called uh uh the all-nighter glenn
nice to meet you thank
you very much for being here thank you for having it's a pleasure sir thank you
uh we have to pause
here for station identification we'll be right back to take a look at the lifestyles
of the plain and simple
Thank you.