![]() In 1998 he joined Eagles past and present when they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and performed Take It Easy and Hotel California. Subsequently he returned to session playing, backing singers including James Taylor and Dan Fogelberg. He embarked on a solo career, touring during the 1980s with the Silverados, and released three albums, two of which, One More Song (1980) and Randy Meisner (1982), made the album charts. His refusal to go on stage to do a third or fourth encore of Take It to the Limit at a gig in Knoxville, Tennessee, sparked an argument backstage with Glenn Frey, the band’s co-frontman with Don Henley, and Meisner left the band shortly afterwards. The disagreements that prompted his departure took place during the Hotel California tour, at a time when his first marriage had run into trouble and he claimed to be suffering from flu. ![]() He then became a member of Rick Nelson’s Stone Canyon Band and played on James Taylor’s 1970 album Sweet Baby James, before joining the Eagles. His father was descended from so-called Volga Germans, settlers attracted to the Volga River region of Russia in the 18th century by Catherine the Great, many of whom left the country due to the rise of Russian nationalism in the late 1800s for the steppe-like American Plains.Īs a teenager at Scottsbluff High School, Meisner began playing bass guitar in local bands, and by the late 1960s had moved to California where, in 1968, he co-founded Poco, with Richie Furay and Jimmy Messina, only to leave the band before the release of their first album after a disagreement with Furay. Randall Herman Meisner was born in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, on Mainto a family of sharecroppers. He left the band the following year, however, at the height of their popularity after internal disagreements and was replaced by Timothy Schmit, who had earlier succeeded him as bassist and vocalist with Poco. Meisner remained part of the band’s line-up until they released Hotel California in 1976. Take It to the Limit, which Meisner co-wrote and on which he was lead vocalist, reached the Top 10 and featured on the band’s 1975 album One of These Nights, the Eagles’ first number one album in the Billboard charts. They returned to England the following year to record Desperado, a concept album which went gold and yielded the single Tequila Sunrise. Adopting the name “Eagles”, the quartet flew to England in February 1972 and spent two weeks recording their eponymous debut album, which spawned two Top 20 singles in the US – Take It Easy and Witchy Woman. ![]() Meisner had already played with the US country rock band Poco and Rick Nelson’s Stone Canyon Band. The four original Eagles – Meisner, Bernie Leadon, Glenn Frey and Don Henley – were brought together in Los Angeles as backing musicians to Linda Ronstadt on her album, Silk Purse. ![]() Randy Meisner, who has died aged 77 of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, was a founding member, in 1971, of the Eagles a bassist and singer with an impressive vocal range, his rather nasal tenor can be heard hitting the high notes on Take It to the Limit, and he played on the albums Desperado and Hotel California before quitting the band in 1977. ![]()
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