I really liked Don Felder before seeing and hearing this interview. Now, I really, really, REALLY like Don Felder.

I think Don Felder wrote one of the best songs of all time HOTEL CALIFORNIA is Timeless!

@NaturalRagman

2 жыл бұрын

@@karllansing7927 YOU are correct!

What a great interview, what a class act. Don Felder rules.

You can’t be two places at the same time with one of the worlds best bands and family man . Very good looking man .

Amazing interview….I remember seeing Henley on Stern as well

Howard is so abrasive in this interview.

Howard, STOP cutting off Felder. We missed so much he would have said if you would let him finish his thoughts.. .

@niltomega2978

2 жыл бұрын

Howard actually was quieter than most interviews. Testimony to how annoying he can be.

Don Felder, adore him and respect him for his class ❤️🎸🎸🌹🎶🎶great musician and guy

i really like this guy after watching this interview.

Felder wrote 99% of the music for this song, while Henley wrote most of the lyrics. The song would be meaningless without Henley's words and vocals, but the song wouldn't exist without Felder's musical genius. On the "Hotel" album, the credits list "Felder, Henley, and Frey". On some later releases, the credits mysteriously change to "Henley, Frey, and Felder". I guess that it's "artistic license" to re-write history...others would just call it old-fashioned greed.

Don Felder is a real great dude.

I listen to the live performance of " Hotel " from 1977 on you-tube and as a musician myself, that performance in MD I think it was, is the best live show I've ever heard. PERFECT to my ears.

The man looks amazing for 60! Probably my favourite guitarist of all time, just love his nature and the way he expresses through his fingers.

He's a wonderful human being & great guitarist. Love that he's playing a Taylor - such a great guitar for an amazing player!

What a great guy Don is, Eagles don't Deserve him in the Band..

Don Felder so handsome and a class act. Glad he stayed on good terms with his wife.

Wow, what a great guy.

Don Felder is a class act. I always sided with Don Henley and Glenn, but I think that Don Felder is the man.

@daveg4236

2 жыл бұрын

Henley and Fry are assholes

Respect for Don.

This segment explains why the Hell Freezes Over tour sounded like they were going through the motions: they were.

RG..."I love shows like that" Iconic!

OMG! Joe Walsh doing Desperado is Fg amazing! Thank you! And, we love you Joe!

That was a Great Interview much better than the sound bites we have here in England. .I am an Eagles fan and I believe that Don Felder is owed a big apology from Henley and Frey they are the reason the Eagles wings were clipped and robbed us of the Great Band they were their Control and Greed has cost them something more than money. It has cost friendship and robbed the music fans worldwide of what could have been.

@andrewhudson8966

3 жыл бұрын

They only made one not very good lp without him

@stumarston6812

2 жыл бұрын

Howard isn't everyone's cup of tea but I think he does great interviews.

up until this I thought Don was bad guy, now no more

Really look nice at his age, really aged gracefully!

Hotel California (music written by Don Felder) is the best selling single "rock song" by the Eagles. Henley and Frey (RIP), should have kissed Felder'a ass for that great composition!

Don Felder - the classiest Eagle!

I saw that 94 tour when it hit Austin, Texas at the UT stadium. Great show. How they pulled it off with all the bullshit between them shows that at least they were professional about making money.

I really hate it when the host also wants to be the guest.

@drugfwpmed

3 жыл бұрын

Uh, it's his show!

@socrates1818

2 жыл бұрын

You got that right - terrible interviewer

howard is such a classless creep "is she hot?" "is she naked?", after Felder speaks so respectfully about his past and present wives....

@bedroom.headroom

3 жыл бұрын

@Bobby Francis heyyyyy wait a minute......MY NAMES Bob Francis!

@DenaliDad

3 жыл бұрын

@Bobby Francis He gets them because they love the huge audience that he has. There's a reason SiriusXM pays him millions...

@stumarston6812

2 жыл бұрын

He does it in jest. Don wasn't offended. He knows that is Howard's sense of humor

@readmore4178

2 жыл бұрын

This is what made Howard rich though. All of his scumbag fans handing over their money, to hear Howard act like an immoral scumbag.

@ZenYogi55

2 жыл бұрын

oh ...you are SOOOO correct!

I always felt Felder was a good guy and this proves it. He really did a great job in the Eagles and Frey and Henley are both jerks.

@dirtyworks13

9 жыл бұрын

Harold Kerr II talented jerks, but jerks none the less.

It is so easy to listen to a person who with the absence of ego like Don Felder seems to lack

@marcspardello1254

3 жыл бұрын

And he truly listens to people when they talk, this man has some things figured out in life

Great interview

I liker Don . immediately

Henley didn't even want Joe Walsh performing Desperado on the show. That speaks volumes. As he has said, he hires a group of 60 people to send take down orders to YT, when anyone plays even 30 seconds of any Eagles songs.

Jesus Howard, stop interrupting Don! Let the man talk

Hotel California sounds a lot like a Tull song.

@rweghg3

10 жыл бұрын

Man I've listened to We Used To Know front to back, back to front 50 times since it caught a buzz & I just don't hear it dude.. Frey & Henley come across as ( The ShowTime special last year did not do either one of them any favors in the, I'm a decent & honest human being category ) Evil vindictive soul destroying control freaks.. Having said that ya know I'm not picking one side over the other, I just can't hear the connection between the two..

Its not about who's a better musician... Its OBVIOUS Henley and Frey are successful solo artists. Nobody can dispute that. Look at this way, If it werent for Felder, there would be NO 'Hotel California' which is the most famous and successful tune the Eagles ever made. I've seen interviews with both Henley and Frey making negative comments about Felder and everything else. Their dicks. Plain and simple. But they sure make damn great music and I can't fault them for that.

I've never heard anyone say anything nice about Frey as a person

@erichinton5774

3 жыл бұрын

Does it matter now???

Thx for the upload but it would've been good if you numbered the videos

Yes I know that...? On Hell Freezes Over the credits were reversed but that's the only time.

Okay the Eagles biggest hit Hotel California and another huge hit Life in the Fast lane music were written by Felder(Hotel California about 90%), Frey and Henly(lyrics), Walsh(Life in the fast lane about 60%), Frey(lyrics) and Felder. If you actually break down and they were more honest on who brought what, I can bet you Henly/Frey had more help from the others than they give the others credit for. Also I can believe the story how they decided to make all members full partners of the band(with the exclusion of first Joe and then Tim) because it all had to do with them starting out as Linda Rondstadts back up band and Linda stealing one of their songs "Desperado".

@drugfwpmed

3 жыл бұрын

Never heard that thought. TY

Henley=Narcissist?

@gandalfshakur8235

3 жыл бұрын

Stern=Too ;)

@drugfwpmed

3 жыл бұрын

It's deeper than that!

71 or 72 , Eagles are opening for Jethro Tull, hear Tull's "we used to know", couple years later Eagles write Hotel California, almost identical....

@drugfwpmed

3 жыл бұрын

Can't wait to hear that...

@floydsmithjr7999

2 жыл бұрын

I just listened to tull, Felder talks about how when writing not just him but everyone is aware of trying not to sound like something else. The problem is theres only seven notes in a scale and theres over a billion people trying to come up with a new combination. As an attempted obscure songwriter myself Im heavily influenced by classic rock, Ive had people say to me “That sounds like a zeppelin song” and another “That sounds like a stones song” Not a particular song, they just sound like something either one of those would have wrote, not that anything Ive written is worthy of those groups, its more in that style. I don’t want to sound like them thats just my influences coming out. Hotel california is basically a standard progression, he even says he was just noodling probably going with basic music theory while he was watching the seagulls and that fell out. Jimmy Page got molested for stairway to heaven, Ive listened to the other song and it’s worth investigating. If you want to go down that road listen to Eric Clapton’s “Let it grow”, I think you’ll find some similarity there to. Did anyone call Clapton out on the carpet? If they did I never heard about it.

@floydsmithjr7999

2 жыл бұрын

George Harrison got fornicated for “My Sweet Lord” by the supremes because he took basically 3, maybe 4 chords, and put them in the same order as the supremes song. Now that I know about that if I listen to them back to back I can hear it, but if some coc’d up lawyer didn’t point it out I still probably wouldn’t have picked up on it to this day. Are you going to tell a contemporary painter that he cant use the color blue cause some guy in the 9th century made a blue painting? Anyone of us can get sued for writing a song that sounds like a song only 15 people have ever heard because they had it copywriten. How were you supposed to know? Even if you went through all the proper channels to have it verified you could still find yourself having to lawyer up.

@erichinton5774

2 жыл бұрын

@@floydsmithjr7999 Chiffons, not The Supremes. Chiffons song He's So Fine is the song that sounds like My Sweet Lord

@floydsmithjr7999

2 жыл бұрын

@@erichinton5774 Got it. The details I wasn’t sure of, its the controversy that stuck with me. I understand you can’t let people outright steal stuff, but how do we deal with it? Especially now when any rube can pay $50, or whatever the cost is, and get a copyright for a song no one’s ever heard while sitting on their toilet at 3 o’clock in the morning. Sometimes I wonder if anything’s worth the effort. My wife, a baker, is facing the harsh reality, you need a $50,000.00 loan and a mountain of certified paper work just to sell cupcakes legally, and we live in a relatively low regulation state. Something’s gotta change, but it won’t. Yes, I understand you can’t just let people do whatever they want, wherever they want, whenever they want, there has to be some kind of order, but still. So what the hell are we doing here?

Irving Azoff, is that you? :-)

He interrupts everyone-

Stern is just the worst. Asking if his wife is hot? wtf? Just shut up and let Don talk. Then those other 2 burn outs chiming in. Brutal

Get rid of of the klingons

Are you saying Henley is not as talented as those guys? Henley and Frey are much better. It was not accidental that those two guys did almost all of the singing and song writing. But, that is not taking anything away from every one of the Eagles. Everybody in the band being extremely talented has a lot to do with their success.

Once Felder left, I lost all interest in the Eagles. I still think Henley has one of the best rock voices of all time, but I can get that on his solo stuff. The hired guns they have in the band now just don't cut it. They need to hang it up.

"Hotel California" did not make the Eagles famous. They would have been famous regardless of who played what guitar. Bottom line...it is the songs. Henley and Frey wrote the hits. Live with it.

Felder is the real deal Henley is a real narcissist

People call Henley and Frey egomaniacs, perhaps with some justification, but the situation is not so simple to leave the assessment there. By his own admission, Don Felder said that Henley and Frey ended up doing the bulk of the song-writing work on The Eagles, with Henley being called a "song-writing machine" during the interview. If you saw your name on 60% of the songs on an album, but you only received a 20% share of the proceeds (no matter how much money that might be), you might begin to get the idea that you were doing most of the work and carrying the other members of the band. Who hasn't experienced a situation like that in other lines of work? Stuff like that can definitely lead to resentment, which could stifle the output of a artistic individual, where their mental state is so key to their ability to produce. I've never seen an interview with either Henley or Frey, but my guess is that neither is the type to just let things go while negative feelings build up in their minds: they take action. Granted, many of the actions that they took were not justified, or even good ideas. The hiding of major expenses from Felder, the CFO of The Eagles Corporation(!), is a glaring example. I'm guessing that Henley and Frey did what they did in order to fully stake their claim to their large contributions to The Eagles. If they did nothing, their hurt feelings could disrupt their creativity, which is both their bread-and-butter and the core of their personalities.

@warptek

10 жыл бұрын

I think you misunderstood. Henley became a song writing machine in response to what Don Felder had become in the band. In other words Henley/Frey was beginning to feel threatened by Felder's incredible talent.

@michaeljohn6526

10 жыл бұрын

henley and fry are just like simmons and stanley of kiss, claim they are doing this for the fans, b.s. they are doing it for the buck and they wanna make sure they get the biggest cut, aholes........

@Chasstful

10 жыл бұрын

There's no justification for Frey and Henley's behavior, these guys are just horrible people.

@greggonzalez8659

10 жыл бұрын

Charles Black It should be remembered that we haven't seen or heard Henley and Frey's perspective on these matters. Even so, I'll grant you that there may be no real justification for their behavior. Still, I think it's going a bit far to call them "horrible people." Very, very little in this world is black-&-white or fits into nice, pigeon-hole definitions. People are complicated and their motivations are complex, Frey and Henley being no exception. Their actions may produce bad effects, but does that make them bad people? Were their intentions bad from the outset?

@Chasstful

10 жыл бұрын

Greg Gonzalez Well, legally, Felder was totally in the right. Seriously, I think a big part of the problem is that Henley and especially Frey take themselves so seriously, Felder never has. Its also clear, from Felder's book, that he doesn't respect Frey's early country hits. Many people agree with him. Henley was of course, a fantastic talent, but controlling to the point of being ridiculed.

Well Felder you don't sing Hotel California, Henley does.

@davidjurban

3 жыл бұрын

Because Henley and Frye wouldn't let anyone else shine...in my opinion, based on documentaries. I know nothing,,,

@georgebur

3 жыл бұрын

I don't believe Felder ever sang in the group, that is not what he was there for. It was the songwriting credits that were under discussion.

@joywimer4281

2 жыл бұрын

Well Felder wrote the music 🎶🎼 track for it, 🍨so there's no singing without that

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