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The Eagles’ ego ruined the young LA music scene, why Big Lebowski made fun of them, and T Bone Burnett on getting Townes Vam Zandt’s Broken Flowers for the soundtrack.
From this Rolling Stone archive article
https://web.archive.org/web/20250330205424/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/inside-the-dudes-stoner-soundtrack-187983/
A tougher get was Townes Van Zandt‘s cover of the Rolling Stones’ “Dead Flowers,” which plays over Lebowski‘s closing credits. “[Former Stones manager] Allen Klein owns the rights to it,” Burnett says. “He wanted $150,000.” Burnett begged Klein to just come down and watch an early cut of Lebowski. “It got to the part where the Dude says, ‘I hate the fuckin’ Eagles, man!’ Klein stands up and says, ‘That’s it, you can have the song!’ That was beautiful.” For the record, Burnett agrees with the Dude (“[The Eagles] sort of single-handedly destroyed that whole scene that was brewing back then,” he says), but the line infuriated Glenn Frey. “I ran into [Frey] and he gave me some shit,” Jeff Bridges says. “I can’t remember what he said exactly, but my anus tightened a bit.”