IMPORTANT TO NOTE, I did not add in the video, but Timothy B Schmit is lip syncing as well.
Don is currently playing 10/20 songs on the setlist on drums. So I was wrong when I said he only plays a “couple”. Credit where credit is due lol.
I went to the show because I wanted to see the Eagles and I never had before. This was the hotel California tour and it was in Pittsburgh 2022. I was 20 years old at the time and I was just going to see the show to see a bucket list artist of mine. I brought my camera in cause I wanted nice photos. I watched Don sing and the Eagles sing Hotel California in its entirety and was blown away with Henley and had a religious experience almost especially during the last resort. then it turned into a completely different thing. Don came up to the mic to address the crowd before going into the mid show intermission and he started talking and he sounded like he had been smoking for 60 years and like he had a bucket of frogs in his throat. He addressed the crowd and said “I’m feeling a little under the weather tonight, but bear with me and we are going to try and put on a great show”. The minute I heard him talking this alerted a huge red flag for me not only as a musician and singer, but just the common sense part of my brain lol. or cough or mistake. so from that point on I already knew something was up and that’s when I really started watching him in particularly. I wasn’t even focused on trying to take until I had a suspicion because of how bad the security was. These video clips are very short, and while I was taking them, I was turned around and not even looking at my camera, which was very difficult. And in most of my videos on the unedited takes, you’ll see my camera shoot down real quick to hide and then I’ll raise it back up. security was on high alert which made this difficult to capture. I’m just a little bit better at it than a lot of the old farts that get caught with their phones with their flashlight on while videoing which is what most security guards were looking for. I was holding my camera with all sort of funky angles trying to capture up close video of Don in particular because he was really the only one that I suspected at the time. I saw him cough a few times when his harmony track kept going, and I thought he looked very suspicious in his singing like he wasn’t using all of the muscles in his throat to sing, and some of his facial expressions did not match when he would go up to a high note like they should. I really wasn’t able to solidify any evidence until I got back to my car and sat in the parking lot and started layering tracks from my video that night to tracks from 2018 that perfectly matched and that was when I absolutely knew. So this was not premeditated. It was something that I found out while watching. I happen to be one of the only people in that entire arena that was able to figure it out. Like the majority of Eagles fans, especially the diehards, they have been fooled for damn near seven years and it’s a hard pill to swallow. And people will defend them to the end of the earth saying they are just that good. Newsflash they’re not better than they are in the 70s and no matter how much equipment you have. You can’t get it that exact every night with every single song. It’s laughable that people still believe Don Henley is just that good that he can sing better than his 20 year old self and sing like a computer for 7 years straight.