Description

The documentary Hell Freezes Over, built around the Eagles reunion tour, with DTS sound encoding available. Even the early sections, depicting the participating members (which doesn’t include co-founder Randy Meisner or Bernie Leadon) reflecting on the decision to reunite for the national tour, are interesting for the song fragments that you get in rehearsal, as well as the short interviews with Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Don Felder, Joe Walsh, and Timothy B. Schmit — a few fan comments and you’re suddenly immersed in the group’s mostly acoustic rock treatment of Hotel California, which includes a great acoustic guitar break by Walsh. The camera angles are great, constantly moving you around the stage and all of the shots assembled with a great deal of fluidity. Although the members soon pick up electric instruments, the rest of the concert is a kind of novel approach to the music — even on the full electric numbers such as Get Over It, they keep the best elements of an unplugged performance, holding on to the same close spatial relationship and also capturing the closeness of the members musically. That is made even more clear in the much more intimate Desperado, which constitutes the 99-minute programs denouement.

Track listing:
1. Hotel California
2. Tequila Sunrise
3. Help Me Through The Night
4. The Heart Of The Matter
5. Love Will Keep Us Alive
6. Learn To Be Still
7. Pretty Maids All In A Row
8. The Girl From Yesterday
9. Wasted Time
10. I Can’t Tell You Why
11. New York Minute
12. The Last Resort
13. Take It Easy
14. Life In The Fast Lane
15. In The City
16. Get Over It
17. Desperado
18. Seven Bridges Road