Hell Freezes Over

Hell Freezes Over
Live album / studio album by Eagles
Released	November 8, 1994
Recorded	The Village Recorder, Los Angeles, Sound Interchange, Toronto (Studio tracks) Warner Burbank Studios, Burbank, California (Live tracks)
Genre	Rock
Length	72:36
Label	Geffen
Producer	Stan Lynch, Elliot Scheiner, Carol Donovan, Rob Jacobs
Eagles chronology
The Very Best of the Eagles (1994) Hell Freezes Over (1994) Selected Works: 1972–1999 (2000)

Hell Freezes Over is the second live album by the Eagles, released in 1994. It contains four new studio tracks and eleven tracks recorded live for an MTV special. The album went to No. 1 on the Billboard album chart upon its release where it stayed for two weeks. It is the band's second live album behind their live album in 1980. The Eagles had reformed after a fourteen-year-long break up. The album proved to be as successful as the tour, selling over six million copies and releasing two Top 40 singles in "Get Over It" and "Love Will Keep Us Alive". The band's lineup consisted of the Long Run era: Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Joe Walsh, Don Felder, and Timothy B. Schmit. The tour would last from 1994–96 and became one of the most successful tours in music history. The album also features an acoustic version of "Hotel California". Hell Freezes Over was also released in video form on VHS, LaserDisc and DVD.

Background

The album name is in reference to a quote by Don Henley after the band's breakup in 1980; he commented that the band would play together again "when Hell freezes over." One of the most notable tracks is a new arrangement of "Hotel California" that features an extended acoustic guitar and percussion opening. At the beginning of the concert, Glenn Frey joked to the audience: "For the record, we never broke up; we just took a 14-year vacation."

The new song "Get Over It" became a modest hit, and another new song, "Love Will Keep Us Alive", reached No. 1 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart.

The DVD is one of the first music releases to feature a DTS format soundtrack in addition to a PCM stereo soundtrack. The DVD also featured the song "Seven Bridges Road" in DTS audio only. The DVD has since been re-released with an additional Dolby Digital soundtrack. The album has also been released as DTS CD in 1997.

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Rolling Stone	[2]

Track listing

1. "Get Over It" (Don Henley, Glenn Frey) – 3:31
2. "Love Will Keep Us Alive" (Pete Vale, Jim Capaldi, Paul Carrack) – 4:03
3. "The Girl from Yesterday" (Frey, Jack Tempchin) – 3:23
4. "Learn to Be Still" (Henley, Stan Lynch) – 4:28
5. "Tequila Sunrise" (Henley, Frey) – 3:28
6. "Hotel California" (Don Felder, Henley, Frey) – 7:12
7. "Wasted Time" (Henley, Frey) – 5:19
8. "Pretty Maids All in a Row" (Joe Walsh, Joe Vitale) – 4:26
9. "I Can't Tell You Why" (Henley, Frey, Timothy B. Schmit) – 5:11
10. "New York Minute" (Henley, Danny "Kootch" Kortchmar, Jai Winding) – 6:37
11. "The Last Resort" (Henley, Frey) – 7:24
12. "Take It Easy" (Jackson Browne, Frey) – 4:36
13. "In the City" (Walsh, Barry De Vorzon) – 4:07
14. "Life in the Fast Lane" (Henley, Frey, Walsh) – 6:01
15. "Desperado" (Henley, Frey) – 4:17

All new songs were released as studio recordings on the album, but can be seen live on the VHS and DVD versions.

DVD-only tracks

1. "Help Me Through the Night" (Walsh) 21.44
2. "The Heart of the Matter" (Henley, Mike Campbell, J.D. Souther)
3. "Seven Bridges Road" (Steve Young) – DTS – A remastered version of the recording featured on Eagles Live, with a clearer separation of the four vocal parts to exploit the full potential of a 5.1 speaker set-up: Timothy B. Schmit is on the front-left, Glenn Frey on the front-right, Don Henley on the rear-left and Joe Walsh on the rear-right. Frey, as the singer of the song's main melody, is also featured on the front-center channel.

Personnel

• Don Felder – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, pedal steel guitar, mandolin, vocals
• Glenn Frey – electric and acoustic guitar, piano, keyboards, vocals
• Don Henley – drums, acoustic guitar, percussion, vocals
• Timothy B. Schmit – bass guitar, vocals
• Joe Walsh – electric and acoustic guitar, slide guitar, organ, vocals

Additional personnel

• John Corey – piano
• Scott Crago – percussion, drums
• Timothy Drury – keyboards, vocals
• Stan Lynch – percussion
• Jay Oliver – organ, keyboards, piano
• Paulinho Da Costa – percussion
• Gary Grimm – percussion
• Brian Matthews – electro-theremin
• Al Garth – trumpet on "New York Minute"
• Burbank Philharmonic Orchestra – backup on "New York Minute"

Production

• The Eagles, Elliot Scheiner, Carol Donovan, Rob Jacobs, Audrey Johns, Stan Lynch – producers
• Joel Stillerman – executive producer
• Rob Jacobs, Elliot Scheiner – engineers
• Charlie Bouis, Carl Glanville, Barry Goldberg, Andy Grassi, Tom Trafalski, Tom Winslow – second engineers
• Todd Bowie and Chris Buttleman – guitar technician
• Ted Jensen – mastering
• Rob Jacobs, Dave Kob, Dave Reynolds, Elliot Scheiner – mixing
• Adam Armstrong – vocal technician
• Ted Jensen – editing
• Don Davis, The Eagles, Jay Oliver – horn and string arrangements
• David Hewitt – live recording coordinator
• John Halpern, David Skernick – photography
• Keith Raywood – production design
• Robin Sloane, Janet Wolsborn – art direction
• Dwaine "The Peachin' Trucker" Wise – road manager
• Andrew Lopez – head driver

Chart positions

Singles

Certifications

References