{"id":1984679,"date":"2023-07-27T21:56:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T01:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/eagles-co-founding-member-randy-meisner-dies-at-77\/"},"modified":"2023-07-27T21:59:03","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T01:59:03","slug":"eagles-co-founding-member-randy-meisner-dies-at-77","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/eagles-co-founding-member-randy-meisner-dies-at-77\/","title":{"rendered":"Randy Meisner, Eagles Co-Founder, Passes Away at 77."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Feagles-co-founding-member-randy-meisner-dies-at-77%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1984679&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Randy Meisner, Co-Founder\u2064 of \u2062the Eagles, Passes Away at 77<\/h2>\n<p>Randy Meisner, a co<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ceo-of-video-game-developer-supported-texass-pro-life-law-now-hes-out-from-the-company\/\" title=\"CEO Of Video Game Developer Supported Texas\u2019s Pro-Life Law. Now He\u2019s Out From The Company.\">-founding member<\/a> of the Eagles and the \u200cvocalist on their first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-urges-americans-to-get-vaccinated-after-biden-admin-caused-confidence-in-jj-vaccine-to-plummet-following-pause\/\" title=\"Trump Urges Americans To Get Vaccinated After Biden Admin Caused Confidence In J&#038;J Vaccine To Plummet Following Pause\">major hit<\/a>, &#8220;Take It to the Limit,&#8221;\u2062 has sadly\u2064 passed away at the age of 77. The band announced his death on\u200b their website, revealing\u2063 that Meisner died in Los Angeles due to \u200dcomplications \u200cfrom Chronic\u2064 Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD).<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Randy was an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/under-trump-americans-have-seen-their-best-wage-growth-in-40-years\/\" title=\"Under Trump, Americans Have Seen Their Best Wage Growth In 40 Years\">integral part<\/a> of the\u2062 Eagles and\u200c instrumental in the\u200d early success of the \u200bband,&#8221; said the Eagles in a statement. &#8220;His vocal range \u200dwas astonishing, as is evident on\u2064 his \u2064signature ballad, &#8216;Take It to the Limit.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Meisner was born \u2063in Scotts Bluff, Nebraska, \u2062on March 8, 1946. His \u2063passion for music began \u200dat a young age when he became\u200d interested in the\u200c guitar after watching Elvis\u200d Presley perform on &#8220;The Ed Sullivan Show.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the 1960s, Meisner moved to California and became a \u200bbassist and vocalist for Rick Nelson&#8217;s Stone Canyon Band.\u200d He later joined the pioneering country-rock group Poco as \u200btheir original bass player. It \u2063was during this time that Meisner crossed paths with Glenn Frey, Don Henley, and Bernie Leadon, \u2064who would go on to form \u2062the Eagles.<\/p>\n<p>Together, the Eagles became one of the most successful musical acts of\u200c the 1970s, with five \u2064number-one \u200csingles, six number-one albums,\u200c and \u2062numerous awards. Meisner&#8217;s high harmony \u200csinging and bass playing were essential to\u2063 the band&#8217;s sound, and \u200dhis songwriting contributions were \u2063featured on all \u200cof their albums.<\/p>\n<p>After leaving the Eagles \u200cin\u200b 1977 due \u200dto exhaustion, \u200cMeisner pursued\u2063 a solo career and also joined the\u200c country rock supergroup Black Tie. In 1998, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame \u200bwith the Eagles.<\/p>\n<p>Despite his musical success, Meisner faced personal struggles, including bipolar disorder and issues\u2062 with alcohol. He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/eagles-co-founding-member-randy-meisner-dies-at-77\/\" title=\"Randy Meisner, Eagles Co-Founder, Passes Away at 77.\">experienced personal tragedies<\/a>, including the accidental death of his second wife, Lana \u200cRae, in \u200b2016.<\/p>\n<p>In a \u200brecent interview with Rock Cellar Magazine, Meisner reflected on the Eagles&#8217; legacy and\u200b the \u200benduring appeal of\u200c their music. He \u2064expressed his gratitude for the fact that younger \u2062generations continue \u2063to listen to their songs.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s just good \u200cto know\u2064 that kids \u200bnowadays are listening to it,&#8221; \u2063he said. \u200b&#8221;It&#8217;s \u2064long-standing music.\u2062 They&#8217;re good songs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Randy Meisner&#8217;s passing comes shortly after the announcement of the Eagles&#8217; final tour, titled\u200c the &#8220;Long Goodbye&#8221; tour, scheduled to begin in September\u2064 2023.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\">CLICK \u200cHERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE\u2062 APP<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Randy Meisner, Eagles co-founder and singer on their hit &#8220;Take It to the Limit,&#8221; died at 77 in Los Angeles from complications of COPD, as confirmed by the band&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":429,"featured_media":1984680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1984679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1984679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1984680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1984679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1984679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1984679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}