Glenn Frey Has Died

[dtowncitylover]

Detroit born, Royal Oak raised. We have lost another great musician.

Family lore has it that he and my aunt dated briefly in the 1960s. He worked at a gas station near the family house and that's where they met. He went to Dondero and she went to Shrine. Her claim to fame.

~http://pitchfork.com/news/62999-the-...-frey-has-died

[Maof]

yeah, wow. just saw that on the news.

[jiminnm]

Time to find the Best of the Hideout CD and play the Mushrooms in his honor.

[smallferret]

Now he has a peaceful, easy feeling for eternity.

[GPCharles]

When I was just out of college I worked for First Federal of Detroit.

I closed a mortgage loan for Glenn when he was buying a house in Royal Oak for his mother. Frankly, I couldn't figure out why he didn't just pay cash for the place.

[CassTechGrad]

I just read the 2003 Free Press interview with Glenn Frey where he details his early days growing up in Detroit. "It was the golden age," Frey said of that Detroit rock era.

We both graduated from high school the same year, 1966, me from Cass Tech and him from Dondero High School and I can agree that the 1960’s had to be the best time to be growing up in the Detroit area. Rock & Roll and GTO’s.

[Jimaz]

Now I'm left to wonder where folks go to dance obscenely and what exactly that would entail.

[Honky Tonk]

Now I'm left to wonder where folks go to dance obscenely and what exactly that would entail.

There are multiple venues on 8 Mile.

[Don K]

I was never a fan of the Eagles - too much of a laid-back SoCal vibe for my taste - but I would never question their musicianship. Truly talented musicians, whatever one thinks of their musical genre.

In the fall of 78 I was camping with some friends up north, and when we drove into Tawas City to look around there was a huge boat docked there named "Hotel California", with a giant pot leaf painted on the stern. I've wondered since whether the boat was Frey's, with the name a tribute to the song and album that bought the boat for him.

[Ray1936]

Has there ever been a rock guitar player who could really play more than just three chords on his git-tar?

[Dan Wesson]

Has there ever been a rock guitar player who could really play more than just three chords on his git-tar?

Joe Walsh
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[CassTechGrad]

I found the Dondero High 1966 year book on the Classmates.com site which had two pictures of him.

[night-timer]

I notice that the twin sister of Eminem's wife Kim Mathers is also deceased. Found dead in a trailer park as a result of a recent drug overdose: http://www.detroitnews.com/story/new...dies/79154314/