Randy Meisner made the Eagles great

Brian Scott MacKenzie
4 min readMar 9, 2016
Randy Meisner in happier times (Photo Credit: Eagles Online Central)

With Randy Meisner, the Eagles were one of the greatest rock groups in American history. After the founding bassist left the band, they became merely very good.

The Eagles were the closest thing to the Beatles this country ever produced. Where Britain’s Fab Four blazed trails, the Eagles mostly carried forward trends established by others. Both groups boasted remarkable musical chemistry. In both…

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Brian Scott MacKenzie

History, politics, education, music, culture. Award-winning high school teacher, former principal. College instructor. Seahawks Diehard. Twitter: @brian_mrbmkz