Music Bands Eagles Composition

What It’s Like to See “The Eagles” in Person

They are one of the greatest bands ever, in my opinion.

Tom Egelhoff
6 min readFeb 2, 2023

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It was a night like any other cold Montana March night. I was sitting at the computer, blogging and commenting on Facebook.

I received a Facebook message about an Eagles concert coming to Billings in June 2015.

The message is a special invitation from American Express to buy advance tickets three days before they go on sale to the general public.

My first thought was that it was a Facebook scam of some kind. But I quickly went to the Eagles website and saw they were indeed coming to Billings.

I pulled out my gold card, ordered the tickets, and crossed my fingers.

A few weeks passed with no tickets, so I called American Express. They did have a record of the purchase, and tickets were mailed out to us.

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From a KURL-TV 8 report in Billings:

“MetraPark marketing and sales director Ray Massie says 9,500 people attended the show, which sold out within four hours

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Tom Egelhoff

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