Eagles and Steely Dan back in Miami area for ‘Long Goodbye.’ Here’s when to get tickets

The Eagles released its made-in-Miami album “The Long Run” in 1979, followed by the next studio album, “Long Road Out of Eden,” in 2007. And now, 52 years after formation, the band is on a two-year “Long Goodbye” tour that started in September and runs into 2025.

The ‘70s Southern California band that recorded its three best-selling albums in South Florida studios has added six shows to the trek — including a concert at Hard Rock Live Hollywood at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino on Friday, March 1, 2024.

Eagles tickets

How to get tickets: Presale begins at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 1, through close of business Thursday, Nov. 2. General tickets go on sale starting at 10 a.m. Friday, Nov. 3.

Click on eagles.com for tour information and to buy tickets. A link on the site will toss you over to Ticketmaster where you can see dates, including the newly added Hard Rock Live show.

When does the concert start? Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the shows are scheduled to start at 7:30 p.m., with Steely Dan opening.

Cost: The promoter, Live Nation, didn’t release ticket prices. But it’s the Eagles, the first act to break the $100 ticket price on its Hell Freeze Over resumption tour in 1994, which played Miami’s Orange Bowl, so expect to pay. Tickets for the group’s Kia Forum January date in Inglewood, California, are running $149 for upper-level seats to $804 near the stage.

What you will hear in concert

Eagles setlist: The Eagles seldom alter their setlist. If you saw them in 1994 on the resumption tour, you’ve had this setlist. According to the concert set from an Oct. 17 date in Cleveland, every song is from the 1970s’ albums starting with “Eagles” in 1972 and running through “The Long Run” from 1979. Two songs from the 1980s, the set-opening cover “Seven Bridges Road” from “Eagles Live” (1980) and Don Henley’s 1984 solo hit, “The Boys of Summer.” Joe Walsh’s solo and James Gang songs appear again, too. Nothing from “Long Road Out of Eden” despite its popularity earlier this millennium. The night closes with the “Hotel California” title track.

The South Florida connection: Speaking of California, the Eagles’ most popular studio album, “Hotel California,” was recorded at North Miami’s Criteria Studios in 1976, as was its predecessor, “One of These Nights,” in 1975. The group cut “The Long Run” at the long-gone Bayshore Recording Studio in Coconut Grove near the then-infamous Mutiny Hotel in 1978 and 1979.

In 1982, tour opener Donald Fagen of Steely Dan, painted the restorative powers of the South Beach vista in lyrical tribute on his solo “Nightfly” album on the track, “Walk Through the Raindrops.”

“A shadow crossed the blue Miami sky/As we hit the causeway by the big hotels,” Fagen sings about a woman he’s having a disagreement with as a South Florida thunderstorm interrupts the squabble. They kiss as the “regulars rush the big hotels” to escape the storm. Miami Beach’s allure brings the couple back together by the song’s end. “In my dreams I can hear the sound of thunder/I can see the causeway by the big hotels/That happy day we’ll find each other on that Florida shore.”

Eagles-Steely Dan connection: The two groups have been linked since original Steely Dan composers Donald Fagen and Walter Becker released “Everything You Did” on its “The Royal Scam” album in 1976. Reportedly Becker had quarreled with his girlfriend. She loved the Eagles and played them all the time, the story goes. The duo responded with “Turn up the Eagles, the neighbors are listening.”

The Eagles inserted the line, “Stab it with their steely knives” in “Hotel California” to allude to their friendly rivals.

Steely Dan set: On the Eagles tour, Fagen performs 10 songs drawn from Steely Dan’s 1972-1980 albums, and two cover songs to bookend his set. The show includes tracks from “Pretzel Logic,” “Aja” and “Gaucho.” As with the Eagles, nothing from the two 2000s releases that carried Steely Dan’s name.

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The Eagles lineup

Eagles 2023: The Eagles’ are Don Henley (drums), Joe Walsh (guitars), Timothy B. Schmit (bass), with singer-guitarist Vince Gill, and Deacon Frey, son of Eagles co-founder Glenn Frey, who died in 2016.

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Steely Dan 2023: Steely Dan’s guitarist, co-founder Walter Becker died in 2017. Lead singer, keyboardist and songwriter Donald Fagen continues performing under the band name.

Eagles statement: “The Eagles have had a miraculous 52-year odyssey, performing for people all over the globe; keeping the music alive in the face of tragic losses, upheavals and setbacks of many kinds. ... Our long run has lasted far longer than any of us ever dreamed. But, everything has its time, and the time has come for us to close the circle. ... This is our swan song, but the music goes on and on.”