Henley and Frey were never cool in the way that Jimmy Page was cool. They were cool like the captain of the high school baseball team is cool. They were clean-cut, hardworking jocks, the kind of guys who will tape your ass cheeks together if you dare pass out early at the party. (The influence of The Big Lebowski also can’t be discounted in spreading the epidemic of Eagles hate. It’s sort of impossible to talk about the Eagles now without acknowledging how the Dude hates the fucking Eagles, man. In terms of classic-rock theory, Jeffrey Lebowski ranks among the most influential music critics of
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