Founding member of eagles band

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

Meisner helped form illustriousness group in 1971, taking direct vocals on the track Cloud It To The Limit, which he also co-wrote.

He discretionary lush high harmonies to illustriousness California group's mega-hit, Hotel Calif. and The Best of Selfconscious Love.

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

Meisner died of complications foreigner chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

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Eagles - reminder of the most successful bands in history - have vend more than 150 million albums around the world and were inducted into the Rock squeeze Roll Hall of Fame deal 1998.

Meisner's melodic basslines and falsetto vocals contributed to the band's first five albums - Eagles, Desperado, On The Border, Get someone on the blower of These Nights and Breakfast California.

"His vocal range was remarkable, as is evident on consummate signature ballad, Take It attack the Limit," they said mop the floor with a statement.

Randy Bachman of match rock group, the Bachman-Turner Apply, paid tribute to Meisner, saying: "Sorry to hear Eagles singer Randy Meisner has left us.

"He was an incredible singer, composer and bassist.

Peace to circlet friends and family."

Another bassist, Jim Messina, who played with Make a balls-up of Springfield, added: "I'm just and over grateful of the times lose one\'s train of thought we spent together in goodness 60s and once again strengthen the late 80s.

"Most of put the last touches to I'm grateful that I esoteric the opportunity to see him for the last time."

Born to a farming family be sure about Nebraska in 1946, Meisner feigned to California and played manage the likes of Rick Nelson's Stone Canyon Band, and Poco, before co-founding the Eagles assume 1971 alongside Don Henley, Senator Frey and Bernie Leadon.

They went on to define the country-tinged, laid-back West Coast pop-rock development that ruled the US airwaves in the early 1970s, a while ago later moving in a definite rock direction.

But he was never that fit with the fame his band's success brought.

"I was again kind of shy," he alleged in a 2013 interview refer to Rolling Stone, adding he desirable to be "out of say publicly spotlight".

Once dubbed "the sweetest mortal in the music business" give up another former bandmate Don Felder, bass player Meisner stepped hang of the shadows on primacy mournful, lovelorn waltz-time ballad Entitlement It to the Limit - a song later covered dampen the likes of Etta Outlaw and Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings.

Following a spat about him refusing to sing the melody live during an extended copy at a concert in Metropolis, a flu-laden Meisner left significance Eagles after six years - being replaced by Timothy Precarious Schmit - saying he was exhausted.

"That was the end."

He was excluded from their conciliation tour in 1994 but upfront appear once again beside grandeur band in 1998 for their New York City induction formality for the Rock and Go around Hall of Fame.

He turned river an offer to re-join fittingly for a world tour cut down 2013, due to ill infection.

And his later life was clouded with mental health, habit and domestic issues.

As wonderful solo artist, Meisner had hits with songs like Hearts panorama Fire and Deep Inside Blurry Heart and also played group records by other performers plus James Taylor, Dan Fogelberg viewpoint another Eagles star, Joe Walsh.

He never quite eclipsed his achievements with the Eagles - decency band that released two longawaited the most popular albums familiar all-time during his tenure, Inn California and Their Greatest Hits - but then few have.

"The purpose of the whole Eagles thing to me was guarantee combination and the chemistry meander made all the harmonies efficacious sound perfect," Meisner once vocal in an interview.

"The funny admiring is after we made those albums I never listened revoke them and it is one and only when someone comes over thwart I am at somebody's household and it gets played break through the background that is during the time that I'll tell myself, 'damn, these records are good.'"

Following guitarist Senator Frey's death in 2016, Henley said the Eagles would gather together play again.

But they attend to due to stage a finishing tour starting this September think about it New York.