Get Tough On Toxics Benefit
Long Beach Arena, Long Beach, CA
August 28, 1986

Source : WNEW-FM > Cassette Master (TDK-SA 3x) (courtesy of Ken G.)

Transfer : Sony TC-WE 475 > Tascam SD-20M (rack mount) wave recorder (16/44)

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Traders Den - September 11, 2021

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This has some great performances. I really like the Don Henley set, with special guests !!

This was almost an Eagles reunion (but not quite), with 2 other Eagles members and Mike Campbell from Tom Petty's band.

Don Henley does a band intro, but only mentions a few names. I don't know who else is playing on stage.

The Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham short sets were really good too.

This even has Cheech Marin singing Born In East L.A.

Oh and we also have Neil Young, Joni Mitchell and Jimmy Buffett doing short sets.

Glenn Frey wanted to be here, but was very sick in the hospital in Aspen, Colorado. Glenn makes a video appearance

Here's a link to the L.A. Times Archives.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-08-07-ca-1873-story.html

Thanks to Ken G. for taping this off the radio, so many years ago.

Total Time = 03:26:36

Warren Zevon
01 Lawyers, Guns and Money
02 Werewolves of London

Neil Young
03 Heart of Gold
04 Mideast Vacation
05 If You Got Love (*only known acoustic version)
06 After The Goldrush

Joni Mitchell
07 Introduction
08 Lakota
09 Cool Water
10 Number One
-- tape flip --
11 Hejira
12 Cotton Avenue > band intros

J.D. Souther
13 Silver Blue

Jimmy Buffett
14 Margaritaville
15 Creola
16 A Pirate Looks At Forty
17 Band Introductions
18 Brown Eyed Girl
19 Outro
-- tape change --

Stevie Nicks
20 Stand Back
21 Edge Of Seventeen
22 Rhiannon (slow rendition)
23 Rhiannon

Lindsey Buckingham
24 Lindsey Intro, banter
25 Never Going Back Again
26 I'm So Afraid

Don Henley
27 Dirty Laundry
-- tape flip --
28 Sunset Grill
29 All She Wants to Do Is Dance
30 Cheech Marin banter
31 Born In East L.A. (with Cheech Marin on lead vocal)
32 Talking to the Moon
33 Band Introductions, message from Glenn Frey.
34 Best of My Love (with J.D. Souther and Don� more )
35 I Can't Tell You Why (with Timothy B. Schmit on lead vocal)
36 banter
-- tape change --
37 You Don't Miss Your Water (with Mike Campbell)
38 The Boys of Summer (with Mike Campbell)
39 Life In The Fast Lane (with Timothy B. Schmit and Don Felder)
40 Leather and Lace (w/Stevie Nicks)
41 Hotel California (with Timothy B. Schmit and Don Felder)
42 Desperado (with Timothy B. Schmit and Don Felder)


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In 1986, a "Get Tough on Toxics" concert in Long Beach, Calif., featured Stevie Nicks, Mick Fleetwood, Neil Young and
all of the "Eagles" except Glenn Frey. Frey was in hospital with an intestinal disorder.

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Former Eagles Don Henley and Glenn Frey will be part of the same concert lineup for the first time since the Eagles' final show in 1980 when they perform Aug. 28 at the Long Beach Arena in the "Get Tough on Toxics" benefit concert.

Henley and Frey are scheduled to play separate solo sets and are considering performing together. Former Fleetwood Mac members Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks are expected to team on some songs at the concert, which also will feature Neil Young, Jimmy Buffett, Joni Mitchell. Other acts will be announced.The concert is designed to raise funds for Citizens for a Livable Los Angeles and other organizations that support legislation and candidates favoring strict environmental protection.

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Glenn Frey made an appearance after all at the Get Tough on Toxics benefit concert Thursday night at the Long Beach Arena, but it was on film.
Too bad several of the artists who performed live on the bill--which included Stevie Nicks, Jimmy Buffett, Neil Young and Joni Mitchell--weren't also on film. It would have helped ease the logistical nightmare.

Frey, who had to bow out of the concert because of an intestinal disorder, kicked off an Eagles semi-reunion by strumming the opening notes of "Best of Our Love" on an acoustic guitar from his hospital bed in Aspen, Colo. When the film clip ended, former Eagles sidekicks Don Henley, Don Felder and Timothy B. Schmidt then played the song live. The device worked nicely. All the stage crew had to do was lower the screen and turn on the projector.
Unfortunately, the crew had too much to do the rest of the evening. Indeed, they seemed to spend as much time on stage as the musicians.

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I remember going to this thing. It was a looong, boring night. You had to wait what seemed interminably for the next act. Sets were shorter than the waits. Warren Zevon ratcheted up the energy level, as did Stevie (alone) and Lindsey (alone). Lindsey was a bigger treat because no one had seen Lindsey live for four years. But Stevie's appearance was just a week after her tour stops in Los Angeles, San Jose, and San Diego, and a few months after her stop in Costa Mesa. It was an OD on Stevie summer for me. Lindsey should have played something from his solo albums, and he, Stevie, and Warren should have played Mohammed's Radio. A night of missed opportunities. When you do a big multi-act concert like this, follow the Last Waltz precedent: Bring everybody out all at once, and just do a big, collective, messy set.

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My recollection was that Lindsey was the highlight of the night. He killed it on I'm So Afraid.
Danny Kortchmar was standing nearby and was gesturing to the audience as if to say "do you realize what you are seeing right now?!?!"


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Band line-ups
Joni Mitchell - guitar, dulcimer, piano
Larry Klein - bass
Wayne Shorter - soprano saxophone
Michael Landau - lead guitar
Jeff Porcaro - drums
Mike Risen (??) - trumpet, keyboards

Jimmy Buffet - guitar, vocals
Robert Greenidge - steel drums
(??) - guitar
(??) - harmonica, piano
Matt Betton - drums
George Porter - bass
Rita Coolidge - vocals
Timothy B. Schmit - vocals
Sam Clayton - congas
Michael Utley - keyboards

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