Concert review lacked that peaceful easy feelin’

HAVING read your review of The Eagles at Lansdowne Road (Irish Examiner, June 12), I wondered if your reviewer and I were not at the same concert.

His sweeping generalisations included this: “You also realised how similar many of the songs sounded: copycat introductions, standard issue harmonies and “deep” lyrics about being rich and unhappy”.

Classics such as Take it Easy, Peaceful Easy Feelin’, Tequila Sunrise, Heartache Tonight (need I go on?) do not display any pretensions about deep lyrics, and certainly not about being rich and unhappy. Perhaps your reviewer was talking about Hotel California and Life in the Fast Lane, neither of which has a copycat introduction. Hotel California opened with a trumpet.