I play in a mickey mouse band, and have done so for 50 years, and there's always 'the guy' who wants more than the others and is usually the least talented. Felder got a raw deal from Frey and Henley. The Eagles would never be The Eagles without Don Felder. A truly gifted musician.

@keithm9337

Жыл бұрын

The fills he does on Lying Eyes, the live version are pure genius and make the song.

@ensignstephens6307

Жыл бұрын

Fact!

For the life he once led, damned he looks GREAT! Legend.

@brianmelton6986

Жыл бұрын

Great stories and yeah Don looks awesome !

I loved the book! Couldn’t put it down, read it twice & passed it on! I lived in Don’s house in Topanga canyon for 4 years , up on Everding lane. The changed the name now to, Skyline drive

The more I listen to Felder the more I like him. Fuck Frey. Fuck Henley.

I absolutely love Don Felder! One of the nicest guys you’ll ever meet

@plasticweapon

Жыл бұрын

until you get to know him.

Its something how 'gentle' he is, maybe the most gentle personality in all of rock music.

Whatever you do, Howard, don't let them finish a sentence...

He is absolutely right about bands.Whether they are the Big Name acts or garage,copy bands,they start as a band but eventually become about either one or two guys in the band.Then all of a sudden it's,"It's my way or the highway".

0:58 I wonder if Jethro Tulls “We used to Know” was on the radio earlier that morning at his Malibu rental. Or maybe it was on the radio right then and there. Or maybe it was on his turntable... Right then and there. 🤔🤔🤔

I AM IN SHOCK , THIS DON IS JUST GREAT. i JUMPED RIGHT INTO IT

Howard kept interrupting Don. I want to hear him finish his answers/stories.

@7775Kevin

2 жыл бұрын

Howard interrupts way the hell too much

God damn! Let him talk!!!

The Keith Richards roll around amp and guitar feeding back loud as f is hilarious. Keith all fd up on heroin, nodding out and just drops his guitar on the floor and no one is allowed to turn it off so it screeches for hours. Steve

I miss Howard on free radio!!!

Ian Anderson, who wrote “We Used to Know,” said the following: “[‘We Used to Know’] was a piece of music that we were playing around the time, I believe it was late ’71, maybe early '72, when we were on tour. And we had a support band who had been signed up for the tour and subsequently, before the tour began, had a hit single, a song I believe called ‘Take It Easy.’ And they were indeed the Eagles.”

@johndeagle4389

2 жыл бұрын

“We didn’t interact with them very much because they were countrified, laid-back polite rock and we were a bit wacky and English and doing weird stuff,” Anderson says. “I don’t think they much liked us and we didn’t like them.” “They probably heard us playing [‘We Used to Know’], because that would have featured in the set list back then,” he continues. “And maybe it’s just something that they picked up on subconsciously and introduced that chord sequence into their famous song ‘Hotel California’ some time later.”

@nosebleedseats3788

2 жыл бұрын

@@johndeagle4389 You're absolutely right. I'm not a musician but I have an ear. You can TOTALLY hear the similarities. There's NO mistaken.

@johndeagle4389

Жыл бұрын

@@nosebleedseats3788 According to Ian Anderson: "It's not plagiarism. It's just the same chord sequence. It's in a different time signature, different key, different context. ... Harmonic progression-it's almost a mathematical certainty that you're gonna crop up with the same thing sooner or later if you're strumming a few chords on a guitar."

@nosebleedseats3788

Жыл бұрын

@@johndeagle4389 Interesting, thanks!

Great interview!

@corbindallas18

4 жыл бұрын

Right! I want the rest of it.

we were promptly wisked away uh wisked away uh wisked away uh wisked away...

Yeah the biggest hit Frey had in the 90's was on a soundtrack ( Thelma & Louise1991 ) And Henley was on a down hill slide after peaking with 1989's The End of the Innocence.. He spent the early 90's trying to get out of his record deal with Geffen.. I think Frey & Henley both had that O' shit moment, dialing Irving Azoff & hanging up as quick as he answered the phone..lol. Before the reunion in interviews Frey & Henley always reflected on the eagles with sarcasm. I look back at it with irony

What a great geezer

They owe Felder everything...without hotel California the eagles are kansas

@skuehnl1

2 жыл бұрын

As great as the music was for Hotel California, it was Henley and Frey who actually wrote the lyrics. Felder is a great guitar player, but sessions musician Steuart Smith has filled in for Felder's guitar parts for the last 20 years, and they sound just as good.

@toddgakk5783

2 жыл бұрын

@@skuehnl1 any chump can write song lyrics

@roberttroutman9112

Жыл бұрын

@@toddgakk5783 Go ahead and write as good of lyrics as Hotel California or the The Last Resort. We'll wait.

@toddgakk5783

Жыл бұрын

@@roberttroutman9112 the lyrics to hotel california lol 😆 ... they don't even make sense... any chimp can write lyrics...

@roberttroutman9112

Жыл бұрын

@@toddgakk5783 Then write 'em dipshit. What's stopping you, chucklehead???

When I first heard the allegations from Felder, I wasn't sure. But when I saw History of the eagles, and heard what Frey mainly said, he confirmed everything Felder said. To Felder's lawyer he says, "I'm sorry your client is such an asshole, but if he doesn't sign the contract, he is fucking fired." The contract being to be from then on, paid less and as a hired member, not a full partner. Who with any self respect and desire for a harmonious band would accept and take that abuse? Even when I was working as a hired employee at a job, when it got to that point of disrespect, I would either leave or give it back until they fired me. But I usually paid financially, because I had no means to defend myself legally. Fortunately Felder did.

A kind of scary that becomes disturbingly obscene if stare at it too long.. They talked about Randy Meisner wanting Take it to the Limit cut from the set because of vocal issues caused by drinking/smoking, but what F & H don't mention is the fact that take it to the limit was not intended to ever be a single F & H caved in to Asylum Records, because David Geffen was getting reports that it was in heavy rotation because of listener requests on RNR stations all over the U.S.

Howard cracks me up....LOL..

@adamclark9004

2 жыл бұрын

He's annoying, he cuts him off every sentence

Just completed Felder's book. Pretty good read on "Americas greatest band" (I still think its CCR). What I took from it was Frey's a Grade A bully. He ran Leadon off, ran Meisner off, finally ran Felder off. Was nasty to everyone including Henley. Henley was highly intelligent but a smarmy, arrogant a-hole. Only reason the Felder case was settled is Frey and Henley knew they'd lose a ton more scratch.

@michaellalli7693

3 жыл бұрын

You nailed it. I just finished Felders book. Frey and Henley egomaniac greedy dictators that had little regard for their own team. Douche bags both of them

@slgordon3

3 жыл бұрын

Your description of Henley is perfect.

@dogpd3

3 жыл бұрын

I would loved to seen a band with just Henley, Felder, Walsh and Schmidt. I really think Frey held them back in the 90s

@elisabethkolling6697

Жыл бұрын

Re "Frey's a Grade-A Bully" - I was amazed after watching their History documentary. It was like, "Holy cow, this guy comes off looking like a jerk in his own documentary!" LOL

It's hard to have a good interview when the interviewers are trying to be as interesting as the person that's being interviewed.

@rweghg3

3 жыл бұрын

I like to call that Jimmy Fallon syndrome. Lol

I played this progression, that i forgot I heard Jethro Tull do, we Used to Know.

@erichinton5774

2 жыл бұрын

You know, ever since I put on the Tull song, I can't unhear the resemblance!!!

@dr.know-it-all5148

2 жыл бұрын

@@erichinton5774 It's like scrambled eggs. You cannot unscramble them.

@erichinton5774

2 жыл бұрын

@@dr.know-it-all5148 very interesting analogy, and very true

@dr.know-it-all5148

2 жыл бұрын

@@erichinton5774 Yes and another fact is that Ian Anderson never sued the Eagles over that one. He could have made a couple of bucks no doubt!

@erichinton5774

2 жыл бұрын

@@dr.know-it-all5148 yeah I read that somewhere where he didn't wanna pursue it, and God knows he would've had a case. That was big of him that he didn't

The scary thing about that Showtime special is that was the footage they allowed to be aired. Can you think of what is contained in the footage that was cut? :)

@dogpd3

3 жыл бұрын

That deleted footage would of probably made Henley and Frey look like villains

Found a video on here where Randy Meisner talks about it during a radio interview in Portland ( I think, the year was 1987-88 when it was taped ) Frey telling Irving, if say yes to reforming Henley & I "have to make more Money" than the others.. That sucks for Joe & Tim but Felder was given a percent of the band when he was hired ( they were not ) , that legally means that he has the same contract as F& H, no more & no less. When I heard that righteous, hypocritical bastard say that -continued

These are the interviews that Howard is best at

Glen Frey is the owner of the name Eagles limited but it was also Frey that had equal shares drawn up for himself, Henley, Meisner, Leadon & Felder.. When Leadon then Meisner split they forfeited those shares to be divided equally between the remaining 3 members.. When Tim & Joe were hired they were not offered the same deal, instead they were placed under contract like session musicians.. My point is if you are bound by a legal document to split earnings equally 3 ways you just can't change it

@tomsampson8084

3 жыл бұрын

There should be no question that Frey and Henley wrote the majority of Eagles hits but without Felder and Walsh they would not have been so good. Frey was a great writer but not so much as a performer. It was a situation where too many alpha males were in a group. Felder got screwed but don't feel too bad for him - he got a good share of the money.

I believe at least 75% of it was a rebuttal to Felder's book. Good guess ;-)

great stuff do you have the rest?

I haven't seen it but when I heard about it, I was confident it was a rebuttal to Felder's book. I'm sure it's skewed in Henley and Frey's favor.

Hey KC0462, this is everything I could find, it was available to download from Don Felders web site for free starting in 2009..I think it has since been pulled down...Sorry about that

No doubt about that.. I love Henley & Frey in one way & wouldn't piss in either ones mouths if their gums were on fire as favor to put them out in another way.. the Showtime special that aired a few months ago should have been titled, History of the Eagles according to Glen Frey n Don Henley. How either one could say with a straight face that archived material along with new video that these 2 filmmaker had shot was an unbiased & unfiltered look at the history of the band was laughable & a lie

I remember Glen Frey was very angry with Don Felder because Don didn't want to give money to Linda Ronstadt boyfriend Jerry Brown for whatever reason. Glen felt Don was selfish and greedy. Bands are like family. Remind Don rejoined the Eagles in 1994. That didn't last either. So either way Don felt better to leave. Probably blame goes for both sides.

Mediocre? I don't think so. Frey's work was perhaps not quite up to the Eagles level, but it was still very good and he sold a lot of records in the 80's. As for Henley, songs like Boys of Summer, End of the Innocence, New York Minute and the great albums they were on is some of the best music of the entire Rock era. For many, Henley's work was as good or better than a lot of the Eagles material. I hear he's got a new record coming out, I'm very much looking forward to it. Lastly, I wish they played songs from Long Road out of Eden a lot more often. It definitely ranks among the Eagles best work.

@Billy23201

10 жыл бұрын

//////

They were all Alpha Geniuses. Two sides to every story. Jealousy is definitely in play with the betrayal book. Felder has a few of his own transgressions.. If it was only Frey & Henley, why attack Joe Walsh? And others.. The letter sent to Felders wife from his groupie affairs could have been exploited. Felder wanted more than money, this wonderful guy wanted to destroy the band. Disappointed because he couldn't sing, jealousy will consume someone. He was rude to the Senator, if he's such a nice guy, his actions and mouth show he's not blameless.

@CaptWalker

Жыл бұрын

I would agree that ANYONE in this business is not blameless, period. BUT as far as bands like this, you will rarely find someone such as Felder who would so readily point out such faults in the people they were around, when most former musicians from that era simply take the "sweep it under the rug" attitude and make it all seem like it was really so innocent, and no harm done? Well i for one really like transparency even if it means throwing people under the bus, since it has been done to me before, so i have always respected anyone who had the nerve to call out those who no one else would ever call out.

HOWARD SAID I WAS IN THE SHITYIST PART OF TOWN LOL ON THE OTHER VIDHAHAHA

Frey said he didn't write hotel california just a few riffs. He didn't write chit

That sounds like a good one. Seriously? As a guitar player I nearly shit myself when I hear this Hotel California development. Steve

@knowmusicman157

2 жыл бұрын

All borrowed from Jethro Tull

@erichinton5774

2 жыл бұрын

@@knowmusicman157 You know, I listened to We Used To Know for the first time a couple of wks ago. And you're right: dead ringer!!!

@dr.know-it-all5148

2 жыл бұрын

Yea and Anderson just let it pass. He didn't want to take it to the courts.

Well Henley and Frey had more money because they had more songwriting royalties. Their songs sold more copies.

@conman54

3 жыл бұрын

Yea because they wouldt let the other writers work on the album.

actually the eagles were hugely famous before felder joined

@tomsampson8084

3 жыл бұрын

Nope. Felder was a member very early and before the band was famous.

@1954telecaster

3 жыл бұрын

You’re wrong. Don Felder joined in 1974. They’d been a successful band for 3 years by that point.

@tomsampson8084

3 жыл бұрын

@@1954telecaster So you are saying he was not a partner? Yes they started in '71 but Felder sat in on many sessions from the beginning to play slide guitar. When the band did incorporate he was made a full partner.

@1954telecaster

3 жыл бұрын

Felder and Walsh both made huge contributions to the band, but let’s not discount the work of Bernie Leadon

@larrybober6335

3 жыл бұрын

@@1954telecaster Bernie and Randy were so important

so he was 1/3rd share and then we never hear the rest cause stern changes subject...i wanted to see what he was gonna say and see if he mentioned what walsh gets.

@c.j.rogers2422

3 жыл бұрын

As far as I know, JW was always just a hired gun. Well-paid, I'm sure, but absolutely no ownership, just an employee.

Great guy...eagles got to big..gave him less...and less..he left settled in court

RIP Glenn Frey Howard Stern is a clown dressed up as full blown jerk..... I dont know about how controlling Frey and Henley were, what i do know is that The Eagles created a sound that was unique. They wrote songs that have stood the test of time Don Felder is clearly a wonderful musician and a creative genius, BUT any business partnership just like any human relationship is prone to disagreements and differences of vision - opinion and objectives over time. People fall out. What they managed to do together however is simply brilliant. Howard youre nothing but a hyperbole smothered in fecal matter with talent to match!!

@BloodySoup74

2 жыл бұрын

Howard certainly is with the woke crowd now. He was something before he sold out.

Were Frey and Henley writing the songs?

@erichinton5774

3 жыл бұрын

The bulk of em yes

As good an interviewer as Howard is, he has gotten progressively worse with interrupting and dominating the time while interviewing. It really becomes a distraction when Felder is building momentum in explaining things and Howard has to interrupt him and make him stop his stream of thought. Most irritating.

@adamf34

9 жыл бұрын

Probably trying to justify his ridiculous salary.

@rweghg3

3 жыл бұрын

He's like Jimmy Fallon Always Interrupting

XXX

Lol @ 2:28

To all who criticize Stern's interruptions and lengthy questions -- it's the Sean Hannity Syndrome >> have a great guest on the show and ask a good question, then say, "because..." and then ANSWER your own question and finally ask the guest, What's your take? And the person answers, Yeah, I agree. David Frost is rolling over in his grave!!

So the Eagles weren't big until Don Felder joined???🤔🙄🤣

hmmmm ? No sound ?

I love Don Felder. He is a great guitarist. He got the idea for Hotel California from this Jethro Tull song. kzread.info/dash/bejne/aad-o8GPdpjJZ7g.html.

Fuck that sure there can be equal distribution if you are a fair person and not a Glen Frey & Don Henley.

The issue was simple..FREY wanted MORE MONEY -and talked his weasel YES MAN-Irving Azoff into writing up a contract to give henley and Frey 50%/..now the issue--WALSH had the right to say NO WAY and so sid SCHMIDT and FELDER (which he did originally) So what would have happened if Walsh, Schmidt and Felder all said NO to the deal---henley and Frey might have toured rogether and hired backup players. Henley and Frey despite the "legal" contarct wrote most of the HITS-therfore they held the cards

So he actually didn't hang out with Keith if he was laying on the floor passed out, right?

@at6686

3 жыл бұрын

If I saw keefs foot in person, I’d claim we “hung out”.

@dr.know-it-all5148

2 жыл бұрын

His name is Keith. You're not hip using jig slang.

Woah wait...Felder has a son? I thought he just had one daughter?

@charlesincharge3404

3 жыл бұрын

Ever hear of a thing called Google? It's this thing where you can go and do searches for random things..

@erichinton5774

2 жыл бұрын

Felder I believe has 4 kids from his marriage and 1 from a former girlfriend. He's now engaged to somebody on Inside Edition

@marieclaire4935

2 жыл бұрын

@@erichinton5774 no they ended there engagement

@erichinton5774

2 жыл бұрын

@@marieclaire4935 Wow. Things have changed

All songs with lead vocals by Henley and Frey need to be knocked down at least a step or two (i.e., half an octave). Great songs, great singing, but very difficult for these guys to hit the notes at this point in time.

dude got cut off...

I wanted to spit in that S.O.B'S face so bad that caught myself before I accidently almost spit at my own L.E.D monitor.. I would say that a bare minimum of 30 attorney's / legal assistants ,15 hand picked by Frey & the Other 15 by Henley.. I am sure they watched this documentary at least 50 times like they were looking for evidence in the Zapruder film before they gave it an all clear for Showtime to air it.. But that's just my opinion ; - )

I believe that Don hippy slept thru the beginning and when he woke up, Henley n Frey had already figured on sailing his canoe. Joe knew and it bugged him. TBS said "just grateful to be here". They might of hatched this when they made him 1/3.

He stole Hotel California from Jethro Tull

It might have something to do with Felder couldn't sing brilliant guitarist but couldn't sing !! If it wasnt for Henley and Frey he wouldn't be worth 60 million

I know what went wrong….coke.

Frey and Henley's solo music was mediocre at best. Henley's comment that he and Frey were the only persons to have any success at all is true but, Henley stated in the doc that when The Eagles broke up the classic radio format came out and kept them relevent. So when there solo careers were drying up, time to reunite

In all seriousness, he is at the wrong time of his life to be continually living in the past. This was apparently 2013 but he is still at it today and he needs to move on ....just like he did when he binned his long time wife for the new and younger model.

@rweghg3

3 жыл бұрын

Recorded in 2007

The black chick has always been pointless. She adds nothing.

I don’t know why Howard keeps on mentioning Keith Richards when Don’s way better guitarist than that old guy!!! Richard’s SH*T!!!

Howard is a terrible interviewer. Interrupts constantly, asks uninteresting, inappropriate questions. He’s horrible