Glenn Frey Ronstadt needed a backup band for an upcoming tour, her manager John Boylan hired Frey because he needed someone who could play rhythm guitar and sing. Don Henley was approached by Frey to join Ronstadt. Randy Meisner and Bernie Leadon were also hired, although as the backing band personnel changed through the tour, the four had only played once together at a gig at Disneyland. Frey and Henley decided to form a band together while on the tour, and they were joined by Meisner on bass and Leadon on guitar, banjo, steel guitar, mandolin and dobro, forming the Eagles, with
John Andrew Frey Morris was born on December 29, 1929, in Peekskill, New York, the son of Louis Morris and Dorothea Chaplin. Frey died on August 22, 1997, Morris died on August 29, 2010. They are buried together at Congressional Cemetery and their tomb consists of two benches and an inscribed table. John Andrew Frey John Andrew Frey (August 29, 1929 – August 22, 1997) was an American philologist. John "Jack" Andrew Frey was born on August 29, 1929, the son of George Henry Frey and Marie Berter. Frey was a Fulbright Scholar. In 1955 he collaborated to "The Stylistic Relationship Between Poetry