When the Eagles were in the studio recording their 1972 debut album, the band’s friend Jackson ... “When it came time to do ‘On the Border,’” said Frey, “we got ‘James Dean ...

Timothy B. Schmit replaced Meisner and the group entered the studio to record what would become the final album of the Eagles’ Seventies tenure, 1979’s The Long Run; it took 18 months to finish.