My Ten Favorite Man Songs: Bad Man (#8)

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What a great idea @teamfreak16 had when he started the series of discussions with "girl" in the song titles. I've taken it about as far as it can go, encompassing boy, woman, and now man and man & woman in the title. Here's the next song for the "man" countdown. #8: Bad Man - Randy Meisner It came to blows, quite literally, when Randy Meisner left the Eagles. He and Glenn Frey had a fist fight backstage after a concert in Knoxville, Tennessee in 1977. Meisner left the band, replaced by his Poco replacement, Timothy Schmit. While the Eagles had that long hiatus between Hotel California and The Long Run Joe Walsh released a solo album and Poco finally broke through to top 20 success. Randy Meisner released his first solo album as well. The album was mostly covers, including Meisner doing a new version of his biggest song from the Eagles, "Take It to the Limit." And, just to prove there were no hard feelings, he also did this song, which was co-written by Glenn Frey. It's a driving, upbeat rock song that's great for driving with the windows down and no cops around. This song was featured in the see-it-for-the-music-not-the-storyline movie FM (which wins my award for "all-time worst waste of Linda Ronstadt's talent"), which got it some exposure past the hardcore Eagles fans. One more PS to the fistfight: Frey sang back-up on Meisner's One More Song album. And, according to numerous reports published after Frey's death earlier this year, Frey was very generous monetarily to Meisner, helping with medical expenses when Meisner was having serious health issues. He wasn't mean to his bad man after all. Bad Man Written by Glenn Frey and J.D. Souther Recorded by Randy Meisner From Randy Meisner, 1978 A beautiful thing you can see right through: