{"id":284046,"date":"2023-08-04T14:25:09","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T19:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=284046"},"modified":"2024-06-13T09:52:27","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T14:52:27","slug":"the-eagles-close-to-landing-msg-sphere-residency-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/the-eagles-close-to-landing-msg-sphere-residency-report\/","title":{"rendered":"The Eagles Close to Landing MSG Sphere Residency — Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rock & Roll Hall of Famers the Eagles are \u201clocking in dates\u201d to play the MSG Sphere, according to the New York Post. <\/em>The newspaper quotes two unnamed sources for its scoop that MSG chair James Dolan has all but secured the \u201cHotel California\u201d rockers to follow up U2\u2019s residency at the Sphere.<\/p>\n

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Timothy B. Schmit, Vince Gill, Don Henley, Deacon Frey, and Joe Walsh are the current performing members of the Eagles. (Image: Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This booking makes perfect sense because Irving Azoff is presumably the person Dolan is negotiating with. He manages both U2 and the Eagles, and is reportedly a paid Sphere consultant charged with its talent search. (This is despite his apparent conflict of interest as part-owner of the Oak View Group, which plans to build a $10 billion resort with a $1 billion NBA-ready arena<\/a> three miles south of the Strip.)<\/p>\n

In fact, Azoff was initially Dolan\u2019s partner in the Sphere. However, according to The Post,<\/em> the famed music promoter dropped out due to its reported problems securing talent.<\/p>\n

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A cross-section artists’ rendering of Sphere, showing the bowl and atrium inside the structure. (Image: Sphere Entertainment)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The $2.2 billion venue initially announced plans to feature \u201cfour to six\u201d residency headliners per year. However, only U2 — whose residency runs Sept. 29 through Dec. 16 — has been announced so far.<\/p>\n

According to\u00a0The Post<\/em>, that\u2019s because other equally ginormous acts are hesitant. They don\u2019t want to produce splashy, multimillion-dollar visual spectacles for The Sphere\u2019s huge screens that could overpower their music,\u00a0and<\/em>\u00a0 that wouldn\u2019t be transferable to other venues afterward,\u00a0The Post<\/em>\u00a0quoted its sources as saying.<\/p>\n

Who Else?<\/b><\/h2>\n

Not that many music acts exist who can follow U2\u2019s residency at a 17K-seat arena whose staggering production costs demand equally staggering ticket prices. The Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, Madonna, Taylor Swift, and \u2026 pretty much no one else spring immediately to mind.<\/p>\n

Elton John just made a big to-do about officially retiring at age 76 and Celine Dion is incurably ill.<\/a> And, following John McVie\u2019s 2021 retirement and Christine McVie\u2019s 2022 death, Fleetwood Mac is now down just to Mick Fleetwood, Stevie Nicks, and Lindsey Buckingham — the latter two of whom reportedly hate one another after years of running hot and cold.<\/p>\n

The Eagles — whose most popular lineup is intact except for Glenn Frey, who died in 2016, and Randy Meisner, who died last month but hasn’t been an active member since 1977 — \u00a0is squarely on the list of very good candidates for this job.<\/p>\n

The band begins its promised farewell tour, \u201cThe Long Goodbye,\u201d with a two-night stand at the Dolan-owned Madison Square Garden on Sept. 7 and 8. So far, only dates through Nov. 17 have been announced, which would give the group ample time to turn its second leg into Sphere residency by early 2024.<\/p>\n

The Eagles last played Las Vegas at the MGM Grand Garden in May 2022, with no Las Vegas dates scheduled for \u201cThe Long Goodbye.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yet.<\/p>\n

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