“It’s true that the hedonistic seventies California that the Eagles have come to symbolize was where the let’s-levitate-the-Pentagon spirit of the sixties went to die. But they didn’t kill it — they just performed the autopsy, over the course of six albums that play like one long opera about American counterculture in freefall. Like all good writers, they wrote what they knew.” - From “32 Reasons Why the Eagles are the Best Band in the Universe”
