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Music Appreciation

JohnnyRingo

(19,567 posts)

3. I'd forgotten about Ian Matthews

Reply to moniss (Original post)

Sat Nov 30, 2024, 08:50 AM

Nov 30

Great pioneer of the California country rock sound. Mike Nesmith never got the public recognition he deserves.

On the similarity of the Eagles' later version, Nesmith would state: "Son of a gun if...Don [Henley] or somebody in the Eagles didn't lift [our] arrangement absolutely note for note for vocal harmony...If they can't think it up themselves [and] they've got to steal it from somebody else, better they should steal it...from me I guess." Matthews would recall that, in 1973, he and the members of the Eagles were acquainted through frequenting the Troubadour: "we were forever going back to somebody's house and playing music. Don Henley had a copy of 'Valley Hi' that he liked, so I've no doubt about that being where their version of the song came from."