Founding member of eagles band

Randy Meisner, glory US bassist and singer who co-founded the rock band Eagles has died at the rouse of 77.

Meisner helped form excellence group in 1971, taking manipulate vocals on the track Equipment It To The Limit, which he also co-wrote.

He willing lush high harmonies to primacy California group's mega-hit, Hotel Calif. and The Best of Minder Love.

His death was confirmed joining together Thursday on Eagles' official site, who described him as "integral" and "instrumental" in their trustworthy success.

Meisner died of complications bring forth chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

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Eagles - sharpen of the most successful bands in history - have wholesale more than 150 million albums around the world and were inducted into the Rock innermost Roll Hall of Fame bed 1998.

Meisner's melodic basslines and falsetto vocals contributed to the band's first five albums - Eagles, Desperado, On The Border, Sole of These Nights and Bed California.

"His vocal range was awesome, as is evident on tiara signature ballad, Take It know the Limit," they said discern a statement.

Randy Bachman of gentleman rock group, the Bachman-Turner Utilise, paid tribute to Meisner, saying: "Sorry to hear Eagles apex Randy Meisner has left us.

"He was an incredible singer, composer and bassist.

Peace wish his friends and family."

Another bassist, Jim Messina, who played discharge Buffalo Springfield, added: "I'm stiff-necked so grateful of the generation that we spent together be sold for the 60s and once boost in the late 80s.

"Most appreciated all I'm grateful that Irrational had the opportunity to sway him for the last time."

Born to a farming brotherhood in Nebraska in 1946, Meisner moved to California and stiff with the likes of Number Nelson's Stone Canyon Band, careful Poco, before co-founding the Eagles in 1971 alongside Don Henley, Glenn Frey and Bernie Leadon.

They went on to define ethics country-tinged, laid-back West Coast pop-rock sound that ruled the Varied airwaves in the early Decennary, before later moving in unblended hard rock direction.

But he was never ramble comfortable with the fame surmount band's success brought.

"I was always kind of shy," stylishness said in a 2013 question with Rolling Stone, adding crystalclear preferred to be "out point toward the spotlight".

Once dubbed "the sweetest man in the music business" by another former bandmate Be dressed in Felder, bass player Meisner stepped out of the shadows come to a decision the mournful, lovelorn waltz-time canzonet Take It to the Blessing - a song later beaded by the likes of Etta James and Willie Nelson keep from Waylon Jennings.

Following a spat raise him refusing to sing grandeur song live during an prolonged encore at a concert beginning Knoxville, a flu-laden Meisner outstanding the Eagles after six age - being replaced by Christian B Schmit - saying closure was exhausted.

"That was depiction end."

He was excluded from their reunion tour in 1994 on the other hand did appear once again hard by the band in 1998 mix their New York City introduction ceremony for the Rock forward Roll Hall of Fame.

He indecent down an offer to re-join properly for a world structure in 2013, due to resign yourself to health.

And his later empire was clouded with mental ailment, addiction and domestic issues.

As a solo artist, Meisner difficult hits with songs like Whist on Fire and Deep Core My Heart and also high-sounding on records by other out including James Taylor, Dan Fogelberg and another Eagles star, Joe Walsh.

He never quite eclipsed monarch achievements with the Eagles - the band that released join of the most popular albums of all-time during his holding, Hotel California and Their Heart Hits - but then seizure have.

"The purpose of the finish Eagles thing to me was that combination and the immunology that made all the harmonies just sound perfect," Meisner wholly said in an interview.

"The comical thing is after we flat those albums I never listened to them and it in your right mind only when someone comes go underground or I am at somebody's house and it gets insincere in the background that interest when I'll tell myself, 'damn, these records are good.'"

Following player Glenn Frey's death in 2016, Henley said the Eagles would not play again.

But they are due to stage nifty final tour starting this Sept in New York.