Yeah, you could see this, then Michael Jackson and his zombie crew, then Van Halen flying through the air on piano wire, then Ed and Diamond Dave firing up the vcr to watch Sinatra's new video, then Cyndi Lauper hanging out with Rowdy Roddy Piper, Fred Blassie, Andre the Giant and The Goonies.
If there is ever a song that explains why getting in the dope game isn't a good idea this song is it.. it is killer in more ways than one. Rest in peace Glenn Frey you got it right when you wrote this one
This tune was actually written by a friend of my boyfriends : Jack Temptson , and yes perfect for the temperature of the time. Was fantastic that it made its way along w Glenn into Miami Vice.
I'm not ashamed to say I'm old enough to remember when this video came out on MTV back when they used to play videos instead of the shit that's on there today.
Really 38 years. Dam we or old. I miss those 38 years. Its really been that long. Well it's a good thing we have videos.our love ones live forever in pictures.
My god, where has the time gone? 38 years ago, I was only 14 years old. I remember that time era like it was yesterday. It's so sad that now I'm old at 52. I wish I could be young forever in the teenage years or at least in my early 20's.
A lot of the guitar work was done by a anAmerican airline pilot in Sheffild Alabama named Duncan Cameron! last i heard, Dunck is still flying and playing that hot guitar! Those 70s musicians don't give up easily.
Today, January 18, 2021, is the fifth anniversary of Glenn's death. The time has gone by so quickly. Rest in eternal peace, Glenn Lewis Frey. You are definitely missed.
WOW - I can not even believe it's been 5 years!! Yes, RIP and thank you for the great music and collaboration. As a solo artist, this was one of my faves
Could you PLEASE CHANGE YOUR NAME? PLEASE SIR I ASKI G NICELY NOT TO OFFEND THE LORD BY USING HIS NAME. COME ON DUDE BE COOL ABOUT THIS! I AIN'T NO SHMUK I'M A STONER FROM THE 1980'S HAPPILY SMOKING LEGALLY!
A song so freakin awesome that "Miami Vice" wrote an episode centered around it and had Frey guest star in it!!!! One of Glenn Frey's best songs with the most killer guitar solos to end a song!!!
We lived in Florida most of the 80s. You had to be there to really appreciate that program. Drug BUSTS BOATS IMPOUNDED because they found a Duby on board. Wild World and hot babe's.
@@rustyshackleford1114 Dude that's pre-gaming time. You wouldn't get to the clubs til at least 12. Stay til 3 or 4, whenever it closed. Then go to the after-party where ever that was.
Next time baby dollls miss lola asshole bitch huzzy u can be yalls best friend or yalls worst nightmare choice us yalls leave my d ass alone get f ed an the hell out of my face
Miami Beach Florida remember miss lola ya just left or did ya bang you in it hook line an sinnker what was your pay off bitch huh just how much did you make on that deal huh huh be dead one sweat day b it went be jne but you an them will all get yours see miss lola brixuan huzzy bad guys or galjs finish last or have you not heard you a bitch if Hell tioo just like the rest so you an them can all kiss my asss as usual 😊😊
I feel so sorry for him. Whoever his doctor was prescribed him the wrong medication for his rheumatoid arthritis. When the side effects (colitis and pneumonia) developed, it was too late to save him. I understand the desire for someone you care about who has died to come back, but you can’t get a wish for something irreversible to not have happened. What’s done is done. We should hold onto memories of our loved ones we have survived until we see them (the loved ones) again during our eternity.
This video is better than most movies. Not even 5 minutes. I should look up the director but I'm too lazy. Great tune, great video. Frey is missed, 5 years later, and forever on.
I like the cash too but make it more then. 20.grands how about 20 millions. That's a lot more too die for. 20 grand. that's wood be gone in a day.make it worthwhile.
@@dianeclay7368 It was 1984. Great point!!! I like your point that cash was too small to be worth the risk! Gmablers don't always gamble for the jackpot, they enjoy the 3rd tier winnings, also. Of course, 20k in 1984 is likely about 100k in 2022, or so. You saying that you might not play the criminal lottery, gamble on something 3rd tier..? The song says it is the 'lure of easy money', not that it was a fortune. Also, this particular deal went horribly wrong, but the word business (along with weapons/cash phrase) indicates it was one deal of many deals. It is a risky lifestyle business where you can loot an average annual salary ever couple weeks; an illegal, morally wrong lifestyle, but nonetheless a 'lure of easy money'... The living got caught, the rest got dead. They took risks, gambled, lost. Our main character got caught and dead. Crime does not pay! Classic 1980s where the good guys always win in the end. Scared all of us straight, for sure!!! But minds still wandered; this was a peak into that 'drug world' most didn't understand in 1984 when Nancy Reagan told us to "..just say NO!" I watched the original showing on TV that Friday night that year. I was 16 or 17.
Friday Night Videos was a far better program and almost always got new videos premiered long before MTV ever got their hands on it. This video, which is just great, is a demonstration of that.
If you lived in Miami during the 70s and 80s you completely understand this song. It is one of the most accurate videos I have ever accurately done to mimic what the reality was down there. This is Miami in the 70s and 80s.
Ah yes teen aged girl killed in broad daylight just for being stopped in traffic in Coral Gables between two cars having a shootout. Griselda’s Cocaine Cowboys. One of the reasons my wife and I moved our kids out of Miami. 😳
Flew the Beech 18 takeoff out of San Juan. Look for the attempted pull up as I tried to pull it off the ground. I didn't give myself enough room. They ran with it anyway. Don Johnson celebrated his 35th birthday right there just outside the hangar. Very nice guy. I took a video with him & my wife.
No music hit its peak 1966-1980 but yeah the 80s were pretty good. It has devolved considerably since. But what were the millennials supposed to do? Music is hugely important culturally speaking. How were they going to top the Beatles, the Stones, Aerosmith? The list goes on and on. Advancement had come to an end as perfection was reached. Same thing happened to classical. The only place for it to go was down. And as we are all painfully aware it went down hard. You'd think that diversification provided by the internet would bring it back and maybe it has but I'm too goddamn lazy to look it up.. Wow a whole 2 paragraph that say absolutely nothing....I blame society because I live in Oregon and we're required to ingest enormous quantities of pot here. Apologies for wasting your time, straining your eyes or otherwise inconveniencing you.
I still blast this in my car in 2021 and I don't frankly give a damn if the younger generation doesn't recognize it, like it or understand it. We're Gen-X and proud of it!
I just realized that when I saw this video as a kid, I did not understand what was going on. I didn't understand it until watching it again as an adult just now.
@@perfectsplit5515 You are not alone. I didn't understand it when I first saw it either. I only knew I liked the music. It does play like a mini movie and Glenn and the others were good!
Was at the Army SCUBA school in Key West in 1985 for a month. Heard all the stories of smugglers fighting off Coast Guard with quad 50s, "square grouper" washing up on the beaches...saw a guy my age (22) driving a testarosa...made you wonder.
Rest in peace Glenn. You were an amazing singer, songwriter, and guitar player. You work with the Eagles and solo will never be forgotten. After all this time it's still hard to believe you're gone.
He played the same type character on Miami Vice. He did a great job and a reporter asked him if he wanted to act more. He told him hell no man you gotta get up to damn early. P.k p
Glenn Frey actually had a penchant for acting. Besides the Miami Vice episode and the derivative music videos (this, and "You Belong to the City") he acted in an arc of the TV series "Wiseguy" dealing with crime in the music industry.
Well, we can’t go back in time and live in the past forever. That just means running away from our current problems. Whatever you run away from doesn’t stay behind or pass you by.
R.I.P. Glen, I know this song was not an Eagles song, but, that was your band. Your solo career was awesome and so is this song. Remember when an artist used to put his heart into his work?
One of my favorite rock tunes ever. Not only does it tell a story, but it's one of those pieces you can NOT sit still to if you have any blood left---that screaming guitar in the background, and Frey's closing whoop...
It has taken all this time to accept that I live in a world without Glenn. He is still all around me from the very first Eagles song I heard- Take It Easy. I have been going back and listening to Eagles songs. Intentionally to pick out Glenn's vocals and piano and guitar. It hurts when I discover something new. I miss you, brother. You did real real good.
God damn right. Ronald Reagan and Michael J Fox & the Miami Hurricanes & greed is good with Gordon Gekko & cocaine & Tears for Fears Everybody Wants to Rule the World. God damn give me the 80's again
80's were cool, except that bozo Reagan as Prez. If Papa bush would have been president all would have been and would be a lot better. He was a social darwinist.
Thanks for putting this back up. I watched the Miami Vice episode where this song played and Glenn acted as the pilot and backup gun man. Great song. Glenn Frey is the man.
Hahaha , I bet I have watched the whole Miami Vice series at least 10 times and could just about tell you every thing that's fixing to happen on it. Man that was a great show and the 80s were awesome.
I Remember that episode myself, Glynn. Plus I remember the Pepsi commercials that Glenn did with Don Johnson. Man, was Miami Vice groundbreaking and fascinating or what? I' ll never forget it-and the late great Glenn Frey.
I did 10 yrs in Law Enforcement. Friday nights I carried a small portable TV 8 inch screen in my SWAT bag lol. My dinner hour was parked in a hidden place watching Miami Vice. Great times.
Yes, life was very different then.. Hanging out at the lake, if you wanted to slide into a DM, you got up and walked over 4 a face 2 face. Old school facetime.. 😎😳😎
b376010 dang I know I was 17 when I lived in lake Worth Florida in 1980, My God it was everywhere, Lol I even met Don Johnson while working nite shift At the li General Convenience Store, on Military Trail, Vero Beach Florida
Rip glenn u made all enjoy the eighties ...smugglers blues and your member of eagles thank you so much on showing milliums what true great music you gave left tbem fro. 70 to 80s
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Back when music videos told an entire story!! Nothing better than the 80's!
And humans actually played a musical instrument to make music. The 80’s were the best!😊
I agree 100%. Once upon a time, when music was quality and music videos were neat-the 1980's!
@@tjmurray6549 after 1988, "auto-tune" every singer is suspect ?
A whole movie in a 5 minute video. MTV was great at one time.
Yeah, you could see this, then Michael Jackson and his zombie crew, then Van Halen flying through the air on piano wire, then Ed and Diamond Dave firing up the vcr to watch Sinatra's new video, then Cyndi Lauper hanging out with Rowdy Roddy Piper, Fred Blassie, Andre the Giant and The Goonies.
you dont know the MTV he is referring to.@@finishin.my.coffee8780
I agree 100%!
Glenn smashed it on Miami Vice with this song (1984)
RIP Mr Frey ............................... ;-(
Hell yeah!
It's time glen fry is nominateed to the rock and roll hall of fame!! Come on move your asses!!😂❤🎉😊😮❤
If there is ever a song that explains why getting in the dope game isn't a good idea this song is it.. it is killer in more ways than one. Rest in peace Glenn Frey you got it right when you wrote this one
This tune was actually written by a friend of my boyfriends : Jack Temptson , and yes perfect for the temperature of the time. Was fantastic that it made its way along w Glenn into Miami Vice.
Love Glenn!!!! So hot and his singing made him hotter 💥🔥💥🔥
Well said!!
It getting into any bussiness if you rhink about it
@@jacquelinedangelo46k7p
I'm not ashamed to say I'm old enough to remember when this video came out on MTV back when they used to play videos instead of the shit that's on there today.
MTV should've been taken off the air years ago.
I bet I'm older than you
Your NOT that old.
Hay my name is John this was the 80s great stuff
@@timhoovermusicman My name is John bet I'm older
THIS SONG IS STILL A PURE CLASSIC AFTER 38 YEARS.
Really 38 years. Dam we or old. I miss those 38 years. Its really been that long. Well it's a good thing we have videos.our love ones live forever in pictures.
@@dianeclay7368 Here's to 38 more : )
This is what you call music.
Great singer, Great song, Great video
My god, where has the time gone? 38 years ago, I was only 14 years old. I remember that time era like it was yesterday. It's so sad that now I'm old at 52. I wish I could be young forever in the teenage years or at least in my early 20's.
@@bobby1970 I'm with you. I'm 53 and damn time fly by fast.
"Politics of Contraband"! Nothing has changed! RIP Glenn!
Lol
Yesssss!!! The most killer slide guitar riffs ever! If you grew up in the 80's YOU KNOW.
WHO IS STILL JAMMING THIS IN 2024???
22/072022 - Awsome as - it's just a Job!!!
I agree 👏
Me, love it!!!
You already know! 😉
A lot of the guitar work was done by a anAmerican airline pilot in Sheffild Alabama named Duncan Cameron! last i heard, Dunck is still flying and playing that hot guitar! Those 70s musicians don't give up easily.
Today, January 18, 2021, is the fifth anniversary of Glenn's death. The time has gone by so quickly. Rest in eternal peace, Glenn Lewis Frey. You are definitely missed.
Loved him!
5 years already? Omg! I love his music 🎶. His appearances those times on Miami Vice were epic. He totally played the role perfect.
😭💔RIP
WOW - I can not even believe it's been 5 years!!
Yes, RIP and thank you for the great music and
collaboration. As a solo artist, this was one of my faves
Aw! I didn't know that he had died, that is sad, he was excellent.
I particularly loved this song and video.
everything about this video screams the 80's. the music, the styles, the hair, the drugs, the cars and of course glenn frey. what a decade.
Yeah, it certainly sucked.
Yup, it's like an episode of MIAMI VICE. I used to love that show!
Could you PLEASE CHANGE YOUR NAME? PLEASE SIR I ASKI G NICELY
NOT TO OFFEND THE LORD BY USING HIS NAME.
COME ON DUDE BE COOL ABOUT THIS! I AIN'T NO SHMUK I'M A STONER FROM THE 1980'S HAPPILY SMOKING LEGALLY!
@@pjpugapillarfan2750 80s snowflake
@@skipads5141 You must not have been there.
What a killer song. Long live the 80's.
How come Ruben knows so much about it!
Why's that!
Danny was cool/as he cleaned out the pool./A duck had shit everywhere/ It's sonnet poetry......
The pools first algae was greenish gold/the pool's inner lining a challenge to hold/Danny beheld so many pools/
love the 80's. never been a better time RIP Glen Frey.
When MTV was commercial free and Miami Vice was at the top!😜
🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪
Happy days!
When MTV play music videos!
Just a really fun guitar riff.
@@picklefish74 The Best!
the good old days. who remembers seeing this on MTV?
I do. That was when MTV played videos. Those were the days.
I remember seeing this on Miami Vice :)
@@crtinde Miami Vice great show never missed it. Crockett and Stubbs
Hell who remembers mtv.😁
@@billycloudy9078 loved MTV back in the early 80s.
I’ve never related to a song more - they used to write songs about our actual lives. No more.
Not only is this the best music video of all time, it should have been made into a two hour movie.
You should watch the Miami Vice season 1 episode the song & the Movie was based on!!
In essence it was, it was the basis of a season of Miami Vice
It has...watch NORCOS just for a starter.
TO LIVE AND DIE IN LA
I remember when Glen played a cocaine cowboy ( smuggler) on Miami Vice featuring this song
Remember the Miami Vice episode based on this song?
He was the hippie pilot who took Crockett n tubbs to Columbia
A favorite of mine also.
Von Hayes Yes you nailed it! I thought he was a pilot of an old seaplane in that episode. Good Day to You!
I do remember that, good stuff.
You can watch it on Netflix. Just did. Twice bro. Surround sound woke the wife up cuz I cranked it.
A song so freakin awesome that "Miami Vice" wrote an episode centered around it and had Frey guest star in it!!!! One of Glenn Frey's best songs with the most killer guitar solos to end a song!!!
i need to find that episode!
See what I just posted. S1 Ep16
@@planetwalker798 The episode title is same as song title. Im a flight instructor so the aviation shots and the old Beech 18 make it a favorite.
We lived in Florida most of the 80s. You had to be there to really appreciate that program. Drug BUSTS BOATS IMPOUNDED because they found a Duby on board. Wild World and hot babe's.
He exposed the game..
Friday nights didn't start 'till Miami Vice was over😎😎😎
That meant you went out and partied at 11pm.
yes We did@@rustyshackleford1114
And USA Up All Night lol
Yup. I had graduated from Dukes of Hazzard (Sanford and Son before I got my driver's license) .....way ..back....then
@@rustyshackleford1114
Dude that's pre-gaming time. You wouldn't get to the clubs til at least 12. Stay til 3 or 4, whenever it closed. Then go to the after-party where ever that was.
bring back the 80s !!!!
Next time baby dollls miss lola asshole bitch huzzy u can be yalls best friend or yalls worst nightmare choice us yalls leave my d ass alone get f ed an the hell out of my face
Miami Beach Florida remember miss lola ya just left or did ya bang you in it hook line an sinnker what was your pay off bitch huh just how much did you make on that deal huh huh be dead one sweat day b it went be jne but you an them will all get yours see miss lola brixuan huzzy bad guys or galjs finish last or have you not heard you a bitch if Hell tioo just like the rest so you an them can all kiss my asss as usual 😊😊
Who else wishes Glen Frey was still alive!
I'M WITH YOU THERE, RUBEN. I'M ALREADY IN LINE.
I feel so sorry for him. Whoever his doctor was prescribed him the wrong medication for his rheumatoid arthritis. When the side effects (colitis and pneumonia) developed, it was too late to save him. I understand the desire for someone you care about who has died to come back, but you can’t get a wish for something irreversible to not have happened. What’s done is done. We should hold onto memories of our loved ones we have survived until we see them (the loved ones) again during our eternity.
Ruben Delgadillo meeee!! 🙋🏽♀️☹️
Glen Frey for one.....
Why ?
This video is better than most movies. Not even 5 minutes. I should look up the director but I'm too lazy. Great tune, great video. Frey is missed, 5 years later, and forever on.
Got to see them live in1978
Duncan Gibbins
@@guruzini1971 Ah, thank you!
Googled Duncan Gibbins. Tragic.
Check out the miami vice episode smugglers blues from season 1 he's in the episode as well as the song. Definitely Top 2 Miami Vice Episode
RIP Glenn Frey (November 6, 1948 - January 18, 2016), aged 67
You will always be remembered as a legend.
Best line ever in a song..."You got to carry weapons because you always carry cash." Great song and the video is excellent. Miss you Glen Frey.
I like the cash too but make it more then. 20.grands how about 20 millions. That's a lot more too die for. 20 grand. that's wood be gone in a day.make it worthwhile.
@@dianeclay7368 It was 1984. Great point!!!
I like your point that cash was too small to be worth the risk! Gmablers don't always gamble for the jackpot, they enjoy the 3rd tier winnings, also. Of course, 20k in 1984 is likely about 100k in 2022, or so. You saying that you might not play the criminal lottery, gamble on something 3rd tier..? The song says it is the 'lure of easy money', not that it was a fortune. Also, this particular deal went horribly wrong, but the word business (along with weapons/cash phrase) indicates it was one deal of many deals. It is a risky lifestyle business where you can loot an average annual salary ever couple weeks; an illegal, morally wrong lifestyle, but nonetheless a 'lure of easy money'...
The living got caught, the rest got dead.
They took risks, gambled, lost. Our main character got caught and dead. Crime does not pay! Classic 1980s where the good guys always win in the end. Scared all of us straight, for sure!!! But minds still wandered; this was a peak into that 'drug world' most didn't understand in 1984 when Nancy Reagan told us to "..just say NO!"
I watched the original showing on TV that Friday night that year. I was 16 or 17.
Along with "there's lots shady characters, lots of dirty deals."
The line I always remember from this song is "It's the lure of easy money, It's gotta very strong appeal." So very, very true.
Old school way of saying “stay strapped or get clapped “.
I miss MTV when it was music and not reality shows!
Friday Night Videos was a far better program and almost always got new videos premiered long before MTV ever got their hands on it. This video, which is just great, is a demonstration of that.
You and me both kiddo.
If you lived in Miami during the 70s and 80s you completely understand this song. It is one of the most accurate videos I have ever accurately done to mimic what the reality was down there. This is Miami in the 70s and 80s.
Very true but all what is memories and feelings,beside the awesome MiamiVice
Tine has no mercy
Ah yes teen aged girl killed in broad daylight just for being stopped in traffic in Coral Gables between two cars having a shootout. Griselda’s Cocaine Cowboys. One of the reasons my wife and I moved our kids out of Miami. 😳
Glenn Frey, great song. Miami Vice, a great show. Great memories of my youth.
Miami vice ....makes you wonder.Dodge coin.
The gist of this song is just as relevant today as it was when this song came out.
I agree - I wonder how many politicians are involved in drugs and drug smuggling
Glenn Frey is a legend. “It’s the nature of the business.”
It's the nature of the lifestyle that goes along with that "business". I realize that now, watching this as an adult.
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Lol
It's the Smugglers blues!!
If this isn’t the greatest song, ever, about drug smuggling, I don’t know what is. It was absolutely perfect for the Miami Vice soundtrack too.
Treetop Flyer by Stephen Stills is right on as well.
Hell Yeah
Open with a VW and follow-up with a Beemer - what else do you need...
Man I was just watching it yesterday on showtime had to search up the song
Agreed!
Flew the Beech 18 takeoff out of San Juan. Look for the attempted pull up as I tried to pull it off the ground. I didn't give myself enough room. They ran with it anyway. Don Johnson celebrated his 35th birthday right there just outside the hangar. Very nice guy. I took a video with him & my wife.
You be cool for twenty hours and I'll give you 20 grand . Great line 👌🏿
Back in the days when music was true passion and clips were better than Hollywood movies nowadays. RIP Glenn Frey!
You mean before we had Marble Mouth Eddie Vedder and many other bands in the 90s with Musicians who couldn't play their instruments? lol
No Doubt!
I used a fish hook. Was better gun than the sns.
Suppose you put cocaine in your car, you get busted. Not me. Then said car is stolen. Is there a link to the previous owner.
@@foreverblind8892 Might depend on country and it's judicial system, but I reckon you're ****ed in this case.
The 80's music was the best
Ratt, Dokken, Tesla, Queensryche, Van Halen, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Skid Row, Firehouse, Y&T. That was real music.
No music hit its peak 1966-1980 but yeah the 80s were pretty good. It has devolved considerably since. But what were the millennials supposed to do? Music is hugely important culturally speaking. How were they going to top the Beatles, the Stones, Aerosmith? The list goes on and on.
Advancement had come to an end as perfection was reached. Same thing happened to classical. The only place for it to go was down. And as we are all painfully aware it went down hard. You'd think that diversification provided by the internet would bring it back and maybe it has but I'm too goddamn lazy to look it up..
Wow a whole 2 paragraph that say absolutely nothing....I blame society because I live in Oregon and we're required to ingest enormous quantities of pot here. Apologies for wasting your time, straining your eyes or otherwise inconveniencing you.
Sure Miss the 80s, nothin but good Times.
I was 12 when this came out and I still love it just as much as then
Boy, did this song hit the nail on the head in the 80s.
Thomas R. Skidmore oh yeah. 😎
Hell yeah 😉
Hells yeah!
Thomas R. Skidmore it wasn't the 80s it's late 60s early to late 70s and it didn't even touch it
What ?
One of the best Miami Vice episodes ever. Brought to you by Glen Fry. Smugglers Blues was his best song!!!
Sorry it goes down like thiss
I figured this was from Miami Vice
Ted Nugent had great episode of Miami Vice also
Teds episode was Great also. Is that the one where he blows up the 1st Ferrari??? Also the one with Willie Nelson aka Retired Texas Ranger !!!
Just so you know in case you look him up it is Glenn Frey.
❄💼✈👮
One of the coolest videos.... great plot and
great song! You are missed, Glenn!
Brings me back to MTV days
I know right
God I miss the 80s and Miami vice the greatest show of the 80s
I wish the 80s were still alive! Man, I had the best time.
Got that rite. Thats when shit was REAL
It went from cocaine to rogaine
@@upppyours8219 LOLOLOLOL Yup!
Hell I miss america .
Still lovin the Smugglers BLUES in 2019!!! 😎😎😎😎
Still...you betcha ya!
2020!
YEP Yep Aug.2020
2021 too!
Got it on 45 vinyl
It brings me back to LA in the 80's. It was the best time ever.
RIP Glenn 🙏🙏🙏
I still blast this in my car in 2021 and I don't frankly give a damn if the younger generation doesn't recognize it, like it or understand it. We're Gen-X and proud of it!
Oh yeah, you just rock.I love it and miss the 80's so much.
@@deborahhewitt6101 everyone had fun in the 80s . Look at the music and movies .
Hell yea!
@victor carbo
You got taste like myself and who gives a CRAP what the younger generation think.
I’m a boomer and I love it!
Remembering Glenn Frey gone 5 years today. Oh when videos were made like mini movies and songs were still good. Thanks Glenn! You are not forgotten!
I just realized that when I saw this video as a kid, I did not understand what was going on. I didn't understand it until watching it again as an adult just now.
@@perfectsplit5515 You are not alone. I didn't understand it when I first saw it either. I only knew I liked the music. It does play like a mini movie and Glenn and the others were good!
Frey was the greatest, killer lyrics & world-weary soul...he lives on...
@@maryannbroadus880 You can say that again!
I just love how so many videos back in the day were like mini movies that had a great storyline! Never be another era like that again..
He is missed... such talent... RIP Glenn....
RIP Glenn Frey your awesome talent will be missed.
Ahhh, the 80's. What a magical time so many missed....
Dodgers Kirk Gibson hit a walk off homerun.
Don't you mean 60s
Remember when music videos had story lines, instead of dancing the whole way through?
I was a teenager in the 80's and I always thought Glen Frey was cool as hell!
Pilot in South Florida in the 80s, Great times.
Then you know that OJ SIMPSON had a cocaine smuggling Mafioso Accomplice in '94. Benny Kramer! Joey Ipp! Don Aronow! "It all connects.."
YAYO
Fishscale, Peruvian Flake
So you must know Tom Cruise?
Was at the Army SCUBA school in Key West in 1985 for a month. Heard all the stories of smugglers fighting off Coast Guard with quad 50s, "square grouper" washing up on the beaches...saw a guy my age (22) driving a testarosa...made you wonder.
Great time to be young! Miami Vice is still one of the best shows in TV history!!!
Rest in peace Glenn. You were an amazing singer, songwriter, and guitar player. You work with the Eagles and solo will never be forgotten. After all this time it's still hard to believe you're gone.
Youngest of 4 boys…..
Still alive (amazed)….
Only one surviving from the “what can we get away with” days…..
I am so darn old that I remember seeing this on TV, a FAT TV, in the 80's
" It's the politics of contraband, it's the smugglers blues "
10% For the Big Guy.
10 for middle man.
Tragic but hilarious. Brilliant.
MTV NEEDS TO COME BACK . THE VIDEOS WERE SO GOOD
They sold themselves to Rob, it’s too late for that 😂
Just videos ONLY. Yes
Glenn was such a badass in this video. I think he could've had a great acting career if he had wanted to pursue it.
He played the same type character on Miami Vice. He did a great job and a reporter asked him if he wanted to act more. He told him hell no man you gotta get up to damn early. P.k p
Glenn Frey actually had a penchant for acting. Besides the Miami Vice episode and the derivative music videos (this, and "You Belong to the City") he acted in an arc of the TV series "Wiseguy" dealing with crime in the music industry.
@@shumoon1 plus he was in Jerry Maguire(sp)
Played the same in Wiseguy as well. Loved that show
I miss you dad. Eric hammerquist 1947-2021
The song perfectly encapsulated the show.
move it through Miami, selling it in L.A .Great show ,needs another remake with some cool walk on apperences.
I miss the 80's. Gone but not forgotten.
tag1462 Everyday!!!
tag1462 me too
Well, we can’t go back in time and live in the past forever. That just means running away from our current problems. Whatever you run away from doesn’t stay behind or pass you by.
Michigan's own Glenn Frey! R I P
Best MV episode ever.
Back when music was awesome and their videos were short movies.
R.I.P. Glen, I know this song was not an Eagles song, but, that was your band. Your solo career was awesome and so is this song. Remember when an artist used to put his heart into his work?
Listening to this always makes me think of it as the sequel to Life In The Fast Lane, also written by Glenn.
you are right
good thought!
The Man. The Decade. The Music.
Are ONE.
Lived those days.😀
I miss Glenn Frey he's from my hometown Royal Oak Michigan
Man, I miss Miami Vice, Glen Frey & the 80's!!! Actually, I just started watching Miami Vice again, starting from the very beginning pilot😁!!!
Great song , great groove, listen to it alot , thanks Glen Frey for giving up this masterpiece 🎉
Sly and smug classic lyrics.You were one hell of songwriting man Glen.R.I.P. - Your music name will live eternal.
I’m so grateful to have been a child of the eighties! RIP Glenn Frey! Never realized how hard the guitar solo shredded in this!
"Be cool for 20 hours and I'll pay you 20 grand"That's great.
Yeah but, U sitting on 20 keys, and word travels
A grand an hour, not bad
Lotta Pressure!
U can't be trusted
+Kevin Christianson...so true.so true. It's all part of the game
Love this song, but the video so real. I, still listen to it. Wow, miss the 80s. ❤❤❤😮😊😊
One of my favorite rock tunes ever. Not only does it tell a story, but it's one of those pieces you can NOT sit still to if you have any blood left---that screaming guitar in the background, and Frey's closing whoop...
Sorry it went down like this ,but someone had to loose.
Yyyyyaaaaaaaooooowwwww!
It has taken all this time to accept that I live in a world without Glenn.
He is still all around me from the very first Eagles song I heard- Take It Easy.
I have been going back and listening to Eagles songs.
Intentionally to pick out Glenn's vocals and piano and guitar.
It hurts when I discover something new.
I miss you, brother.
You did real real good.
I miss the 80's. Gone but not forgotten.
Thank you, Glenn Frey was so amazing...............and Beautiful!
The Eagles will still be played when we both be dead and gone!!!!
I remember the Miami Vice episode he was in (one of the best, of a very mixed bunch). He was great in it.
What you got? We got garbage...I miss growing up in the 80's and Miami Vice best series ever of the 80'd
Glenn was looking so good here! Miss him always.
This 80's song and video are more gangsta than anything today!!
You would love my 80s story if you like this song but I'm not putting it on here...lol....but yeah....the 80s....what a time!!
You ask any DEA man he'll say there's nothin we can do...🎶🎶🎶🎶
@@suzanne1430 suzanne we had FUN LOL
narzq we didn't have to pretend, we lived it
"The War On Drugs" will NEVER be won.
The nature of the business,the war on guns too
@@pierlouis7325 Add "Terrorism" to the list of unwinnable wars.
Sad but true I hate the friends I've lost to hard drugs
Best gift I had in life. To grow up inthe 80's
I want the 80’s to rule the world again!!
God damn right. Ronald Reagan and Michael J Fox & the Miami Hurricanes & greed is good with Gordon Gekko & cocaine & Tears for Fears Everybody Wants to Rule the World. God damn give me the 80's again
They still do! Crank it up👍
80's were cool, except that bozo Reagan as Prez. If Papa bush would have been president all would have been and would be a lot better. He was a social darwinist.
Im more of a 70s guy, but definitely loved early 80s songs/videos like this.
John 14:6: “I am the way, the truth and the life; no one comes to the Father but by me.”
Thanks for putting this back up. I watched the Miami Vice episode where this song played and Glenn acted as the pilot and backup gun man. Great song. Glenn Frey is the man.
He'll yes
Hahaha , I bet I have watched the whole Miami Vice series at least 10 times and could just about tell you every thing that's fixing to happen on it. Man that was a great show and the 80s were awesome.
I Remember that episode myself, Glynn. Plus I remember the Pepsi commercials that Glenn did with Don Johnson. Man, was Miami Vice groundbreaking and fascinating or what? I' ll never forget it-and the late great Glenn Frey.
I did 10 yrs in Law Enforcement. Friday nights I carried a small portable TV 8 inch screen in my SWAT bag lol. My dinner hour was parked in a hidden place watching Miami Vice. Great times.
Anyone seen, Let's get Harry, with Mark Harmon and Glenn Frye?
I listened to this song on repeat for two days at work once, and wasn't at the least bored. A true 80's masterpiece
Song is timeless..
Very grateful to those who put this up.
Dammit I miss the 80s! it was low-tech but we had fun anyway.
Starting to think "high-tech" is the reason we dont any longer.
Yes, life was very different then.. Hanging out at the lake, if you wanted to slide into a DM, you got up and walked over 4 a face 2 face. Old school facetime.. 😎😳😎
@@benjammin4247 great response!!
best concerts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
More high tech you are the less you use your imagination and make good music!
This song takes me back to 1980's Miami every time I hear it.
b376010 dang I know
I was 17 when I lived in lake Worth Florida in 1980,
My God it was everywhere,
Lol
I even met Don Johnson while working nite shift
At the li General Convenience Store, on Military Trail, Vero Beach Florida
I love Glenn. What a voice
This tune is gold Jerry, GOLD !!!
Glenn Frey was a true artist and incredible musician an excellent songwriter
Rip glenn u made all enjoy the eighties ...smugglers blues and your member of eagles thank you so much on showing milliums what true great music you gave left tbem fro. 70 to 80s
Oh yeah Buddy..
I used to think that was some bs story that was simply passed around for good humor......WRONG!
I remember when Glen played a cocaine cowboy ( smuggler) on Miami Vice featuring this song
Actually a pilot
I'm Lovin this - How good is it 4 a 40yr old song!!!! Holy fuckin Shit - this still F#$king rocks in 2024!!!Hell F#$king YEAH!!!
The 1980s at it's popular Music's best.❤ G.F.'s Smuggler's Blues.