Farewell 1 Tour: Live from Melbourne

Farewell 1 Tour: Live from Melbourne
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ReleasedJune 14, 2005
RecordedNovember 14, 15 and 17, 2004
VenueRod Laver Arena
(Melbourne, Australia)
GenreRock
Length175 minutes
LabelWarner Vision
DirectorCarol Dodds
ProducerGlenn Frey
Eagles chronology
Hell Freezes Over
(1994)
Farewell 1 Tour: Live from Melbourne
(2005)
Live from The Forum MMXVIII
(2020)

Farewell 1 Tour: Live from Melbourne is a double DVD by Eagles, released in 2005. It was filmed in Melbourne, Australia at the Rod Laver Arena on November 14, 15 and 17, 2004, featuring two new songs.

It is the first Eagles live video as a quartet without Don Felder, who was terminated from the band in 2001 (but it did feature four other backing musicians, along with a four-piece horn section). This would also mark the last Eagles live video with founding member Glenn Frey before his death in 2016.

The name 'Farewell Tour' has nothing to do with the band's plan to quit touring and this is confirmed by Glenn Frey's quote in the interview contained in the DVD: "The longer this goes on, the better these songs sound. There is a 'sort of' honesty in calling the tour Farewell 1, with its implication that Farewell 2 will follow soon."

The concert marks the band's first use of pre-recorded rhythm tracks, namely a track consisting of muted guitar strums on "Hotel California" (which were overdubbed on the original studio version, but were absent from previous live performances of the song) and a backing rhythm track for Don Henley's rendition of his fast-paced solo hit "The Boys of Summer". The two new songs included in the DVD are "One Day At A Time" (Walsh) and "No More Cloudy Days" (Frey).

In November 2006, the DVD was re-issued at Wal-Mart stores with a bonus 3-track CD which are teasers of the band's upcoming studio album. The tracks are a studio version of Frey's "No More Cloudy Days", the Henley/Frey penned rocker "Fast Company" and the Henley/Schmit/Smith penned ballad "Do Something".

The performance was first released in a high-definition 1080p/DTS 5.1 format as an HD DVD in 2005.[1] In 2013, it was released as a single Blu-ray disc.

  1. ^ "Eagles - Farewell 1 Tour - Live From Melbourne". Discogs. Retrieved 2017-09-12.