The Eagles Cram July with History of the Eagles Tour Dates

The Eagles will head out on a short arena tour this July to celebrate a new documentary about the band.

The tour will begin July 6 at the KFC Yum! Center in Louisville, Kentucky, and the band will be on the road through a July 25 show at the Bethel Woods Center in Bethel, New York. Other cities on the schedule are Milwaukee; Cleveland; Toronto; Ottawa; Philadelphia; Uncasville, Connecticut; Boston; Washington, D.C. and Pittsburgh.

The tour will celebrate the creatively named “History of the Eagles” documentary, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January of this year and then aired on Showtime last month.

The film weaves together concert footage, archival film and home movies to chronicle the band’s extensive career, and will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on April 30. In addition to the documentary, the three-disc set comes with a previously unreleased concert film: “Eagles Live at the Capital Centre – March 1977.” The concert was captured in Washington, D.C. during the group’s “Hotel California” tour.

The Eagles were notoriously private throughout their career, despite being one of the biggest rock acts in the world.

“We didn’t allow access,” drummer Don Henley said during the premiere of the film. “We tried to keep it in-house. But we had the foresight to film some backstage stuff. And that’s in the film.”

Henley also sat down with Rolling Stone to further discuss the documentary. He said the idea of doing a doc has been floating around for a few years, but the band decided the time was right to do it this year.

“We’d been kicking it around for a few years but we finally decided that the time had come and, after 42 years had passed, it was probably a good time to get it done, because we said it was a three-year process,” he told the magazine. “We knew it was going to be time consuming so we thought we’d better get started. You know, at our age people keel over, and so we wanted to get it done.”