“I got a call from Glenn Frey. I just said. ‘Where do I sign?’ Here they were asking me to join The Eagles without playing one lick of music with them”: Timothy B. Schmidt joined The Eagles at the height of Hotel California – and didn't even audition

Timothy B. Schmit of the Eagles performs during SiriusXM presents the Eagles in their first ever concert at the Grand Ole Opry House on October 29, 2017 in Nashville, Tennessee.

From his childhood years tagging along with his musician father in the family's ‘Expando' trailer home to his seven years in the saddle with Poco (country-rock's boldest pioneers), Timothy B. Schmidt has logged more miles than even the toughest road dogs. Of course, most know him as the high-tenor-voiced bass guitar man for the Eagles.

Schmidt got his Eagles wings in 1977, on the tail end of the band's blockbuster Hotel California tour, and went on to record 1979's The Long Run, the last album before the band split in 1980. The Eagles re-convened in 1994 for Hell Freezes Over, and again in 2007 for Long Road Out of Eden.