STACK #260 June 2026

FEATURE MUSIC

WHAT’S IN THE BOX?

ONE OF THESE NIGHTS BY NUMBERS Released on June 10, 1975

F or Eagles fans, this three LP set is a veritable treasure trove. Inside is a 14-page LP-sized colour booklet featuring rare photos, studio run sheets, and images of iconic memorabilia. The album was newly mixed in 2025 directly from the multitracks by engineer Rob Jacobs, overseen by Don Henley. The real gold, however, is the previously unreleased 1975 Anaheim Stadium show.

Spread across two LPs, the 16-song performance – played before 55,000 people on September 28, 1975 - is a corker. The daytime concert captures the band at a pivotal transition point, with global success beckoning. It was Bernie Leadon’s final gig, and the band was joined onstage by his successor, Joe Walsh, for Rocky Mountain Way . The tour then headed to Australia and New Zealand, with Walsh as a

full-time member. Braunstein helped mix the show with Szymczyk and remembers it as a frantic two days, with the band playing in San Diego the night before. “It was a red-hot day, but a good show. Combined with the San Diego show, it

The Eagles’ first number one album on Billboard

Yielded three Top 10 singles: One of These Nights, Lyin’ Eyes, and Take It to the Limit Won a Grammy - the band’s first - in 1976 for ‘Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals’ Reached number five in Australia and number three in New Zealand Certified quadruple platinum Estimated to have sold more than five million copies worldwide

was a helluva 18-hour turnaround. I’ve still got the Gideon Bible and the water glass I took from the hotel in Anaheim!”

• The Eagles’ 3LP box set is available at JB Hi-Fi now.

bone-chilling. It was just like, ‘What could this song possibly need?’” Pressed on his favourite track from the album, Braunstein answers without hesitation: Too Many Hands . He dismisses the long-held view that the song carries an environmental message, saying the songwriter, Randy Meisner, told him it was inspired by the lead-up to the US Bicentennial in 1976 and

“had more to do with the spirit of America than it does with the environment.” Too Many Hands, of course, is renowned for its killer duelling guitars in the fade-out – Glenn Frey and Don Felder as sonic sparring partners, trading guitar licks like blows. “Glenn Frey sat to my left in the very small control room in Studio B,

and I had Don Felder on a stool to my right,” explains Braunstein. “They had a Twin Reverb that they were both playing through in a sound lock. It was Szymczyk’s idea to do the duelling guitars. “That fade went on forever with some of the best licks I’ve heard. Frey and Felder were amazing, and it was all done live and spontaneous. It was gorgeous.”

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