Randy Meisner, the bassist and founding member of the Eagles who sang lead vocal on the band’s first massive hit, “Take It to the Restrict,” has died. He was 77.
Meisner died Wednesday evening in Los Angeles of issues from persistent obstructive pulmonary illness, the Eagles introduced on their web site.
“Randy was an integral a part of the Eagles and instrumental within the early success of the band. His vocal vary was astonishing, as is obvious on his signature ballad, ‘Take It to the Restrict,’” an announcement learn.
In Might 1968, Meisner joined Poco with former Buffalo Springfield members Richie Furay and Jim Messina and labored on that group’s first album, 1969’s Pickin’ Up the Items, however he give up shortly earlier than the file was launched.
In September 1971, Meisner, Don Henley, Glenn Frey and Bernie Leadon fashioned the Eagles. They signed with David Geffen’s Asylum Information and launched their eponymous debut album in 1972, adopted by 1973’s Desperado, 1974’s On the Border, 1975’s Considered one of These Nights and 1976’s Resort California, their greatest success.
He didn’t get alongside along with his bandmates and citing exhaustion exited the Eagles at an inopportune time, within the wake of Resort California. He was finally changed by the identical musician who had succeeded him in Poco, Timothy B. Schmit, who started on the Eagles’ The Lengthy Run album, launched in 1979.
“Meisner’s excessive concord singing and bass (together with some guitar) have been on the core of their sound, and his songwriting figured on all of their albums, beginning with the haunting, impassioned ‘Take the Satan’ and the hovering, high-energy rocker ‘Tryin’,” Bruce Eder wrote on the AllMusic.com web site.
He didn’t take part within the Eagles’ “Hell Freezes Over” reunion tour however was inducted with the band into the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame in 1998.
A local of Scottsbluff, Nebraska, Meisner was the bassist and vocalist with Rick Nelson’s Stone Canyon Band earlier than his days with Poco.
After the Eagles, he launched solo albums, reunited with Poco and performed on information with the likes of Joe Walsh, Dan Fogelberg, Richard Marx, Bob Welch and James Taylor.
