Nixon and Roper parted ways late in 1989. The following year Nixon recorded a solo album on Enigma called "Otis". On this album, Nixon continued his assault on pop culture, as in the song "Don Henley Must Die", which caused a fresh round of controversy, even to the point of Nixon's record company begging radio stations "not" to play it. (Henley himself was unfazed; on July 31, 1992 at The Hole in the Wall in Austin, Texas, the former Eagle jumped onstage and performed the song with Nixon, causing Nixon to praise Henley as having "balls as big as church bells.")