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Randy Meisner, a founding member of the Eagles who added excessive harmonies to such favorites as “Take It Straightforward” and “The Better of My Love” and stepped out entrance for the waltz-time ballad “Take It to the Restrict,” has died, the band mentioned on its web site Thursday.

Meisner died Wednesday evening in Los Angeles of problems from continual obstructive pulmonary illness, the Eagles mentioned in a press release. He was 77.

Referred to as “the sweetest man within the music enterprise” by former bandmate Don Felder, the baby-faced Meisner joined Don Henley, Glenn Frey and Bernie Leadon within the early Seventies to kind a quintessential Los Angeles band and one of the standard acts in historical past.

Meisner recorded on among the Eagles’ most iconic albums, together with “Desperado,” “On the Border,” “One in every of These Nights” and “Lodge California.” He left the band in 1977 however was inducted into the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame with the Eagles in 1998. 

“Randy was an integral a part of the Eagles and instrumental within the early success of the band. His vocal vary was astonishing, as is clear on his signature ballad, ‘Take It to the Restrict,'” the band mentioned in its assertion.

After leaving the Eagles, he launched into a solo profession and in addition recorded and toured with a number of different teams. 

The bassist endured quite a few afflictions lately and private tragedy in 2016 when his spouse, Lana Rae Meisner, by accident shot herself and died on the couple’s L.A. residence. Police mentioned she was transferring a rifle that was saved inside a case within the closet when the gun went off. Officers had been referred to as to the house earlier that day on a home violence report. 

Randy Meisner had been recognized with bipolar dysfunction and had extreme points with alcohol, in accordance with courtroom data and feedback made throughout a 2015 listening to by which a decide ordered Meisner to obtain fixed medical care.