‘It Was a Heartfelt Tribute’: Eagles’ Timothy B. Schmit on the Band’s One-Time-Only Jimmy Buffett Salute

‘It Was a Heartfelt Tribute’: Eagles’ Timothy B. Schmit on the Band’s One-Time-Only Jimmy Buffett Salute

Last night at Madison Square Garden in New York, the opening night of their farewell tour, the Eagles took a sobering pause in their usual airtight set of hits. Hushing the crowd, Don Henley began talking about longtime band friend Jimmy Buffett, who had died six days before, at 76, of skin cancer. After half joking that Buffett was clearly enjoying a cheeseburger somewhere, Henley added, “We always laughed and said, ‘We survived the Seventies…