ON THAT SUBJECT: One guy you won’t...

ON THAT SUBJECT: One guy you won’t see lining up for Eagles tickets is pop satirist Mojo Nixon, whose new album, “Otis,” contains a raffish blast at his least favorite ex-Eagle. Titled “Don Henley Must Die,” it mocks the performer with the same scabrous glee that Johnny Rotten once directed at Pink Floyd. It goes in part:

Turned on the TV and what did I see,

This bloated, hairy thing winning a Grammy,

Best rock vocalist, compared to what,

A bunch of pseudo-craft, Instamatic satanic fluff . . .

He’s a poet of despair, pumped up with hot air,

He’s serious, pretentious and I just don’t care,

Don Henley must die, don’t let him get back together with Glenn Frey . . . .”

Asked why he picked on Henley (as opposed to say, Sting), Nixon explained: “Because Don’s the ringleader of this pompous-twit, brain-dulling anti-rock Muzak of the ‘90s. The way I look at it--you cut off the head and the beast will die. Don and I agree on a lot of political things, but if you played his songs for some guy in Africa, he’d say, ‘Why is this white guy whining so much?’ Rock ‘n’ roll has simply left him. He’s as far removed from Little Richard as you can be.”

The notoriously thin-skinned Henley, famous in media circles for writing heated letters about allegedly inaccurate stories, countered with a statement saying: “I’ve never heard the song in its entirety, but some of the lyrics were read to me over the phone. We then extended an invitation to Mr. Nixon via his manager to be the opening act on the remainder of my tour with our blessing to perform the song. He declined our offer. Personally, I think the boy just needs a good laxative.”

(Nixon says he “never received a formal offer” to tour with Henley and “is ready to go” if Henley contacts him.)