<P> In April 1969, Meisner joined Rick Nelson's Stone Canyon Band, and persuaded Nelson and producer John Boylan to hire his former band mates from The Poor, Allen Kemp (guitar) and Pat Shanahan (drums); pedal steel guitarist Tom Brumley, previously of Buck Owens' band, completed the group . Meisner appears on both In Concert at the Troubadour, 1969 and Rudy The Fifth . He is also featured in Easy to Be Free, a documentary of the Stone Canyon Band's 1969 tour, directed by Rick Nelson's brother David . The film was eventually broadcast on American television in 1973 . Meisner co-produced "In Concert at the Troubadour" with Rick Nelson . Although he did not perform on Nelson's Garden Party, he did co-author one of the album's tracks, "I Wanna Be With You ." Meisner continued to support himself as a session performer, playing bass on two tracks of James Taylor's Sweet Baby James album ("Country Road" and "Blossom"). </P> <P> Meisner returned to Nebraska in the spring of 1970, after a difficult tour of Europe with Rick Nelson and the Stone Canyon Band . He began working at the local John Deere tractor dealership, Frank Implement . At night, he played in a band called Goldrush that featured Stephen A. Love (later to become a member of New Riders of the Purple Sage). Later that year, with Rick Nelson's encouragement, he returned to Los Angeles to resume his career . He worked to establish Goldrush, while also playing in the Stone Canyon Band and playing on sessions for John Stewart and Waylon Jennings . By mid-1971, he was recruited by John Boylan to become active in Linda Ronstadt's roster of backing musicians, which included Don Henley, Glenn Frey and Bernie Leadon, who later joined Meisner as the founding members of the Eagles . </P> <P> In September 1971, Meisner, along with Don Henley, Glenn Frey and Bernie Leadon, formed the Eagles, signing with David Geffen's new label, Asylum Records, and they released their eponymous debut album in 1972 . While he usually manned the bass and handled backing vocals for the Eagles, he wrote and / or co-wrote songs on each of the group's first five albums, most notably "Take It to the Limit," the band's first million - selling single, on One of These Nights . Other songs he wrote and sang lead on include "Try and Love Again", and he also wrote the song "Certain Kind of Fool" with Frey and Henley, which also had him singing lead . </P> <P> According to band colleague Don Felder, Meisner's time in the band was weighed down by his desire to be with his family, as well as the constant bickering between the members, which was still unknown to the public at the time . During the 1976 / 77 tour in support of the Hotel California album, Meisner was plagued by ill health and exhaustion, as the band toured constantly for over eleven months . Meisner also preferred not to be the center of attention, and said: "I was always kind of shy...They wanted me to stand in the middle of the stage to sing' Take It to the Limit,' but I liked to be out of the spotlight ." The band was starting to feel the strain in a long tour, and Meisner was unhappy--his stomach ulcers had flared up, and his marriage was also gradually disintegrating . He had been arguing with fellow member Glenn Frey about his signature song, "Take It To the Limit", during the tour, as Meisner was struggling to hit the crucial high notes in the song . At their show in Knoxville, Tennessee, Meisner decided to skip the song as an encore as he had stayed up late and caught the flu, and Frey and Meisner then became involved in an angry physical confrontation backstage . After the altercation, Meisner was frozen out from the band, and Meisner later said: "That was the end...I really felt like I was a member of the group, not a part of it ." Meisner decided to leave the group after the final date of the tour and returned to Nebraska to be with his family . His last performance was in East Troy, Wisconsin on September 3, 1977 . The band replaced Meisner with the same musician who had succeeded him in Poco, Timothy B. Schmit, after agreeing that Schmit was the only candidate . </P>

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