According to Don Felder, he was worse than that. Felder referred to Henley and Frey as the Gods - and not in a fawning context.
A buddy of mine had gotten ahold of some Eagles interviews from various places, and by the time I got through watching everything, I concluded that Henley and Frey were lucky that nobody ever "accidentally" shoved them both out into moving traffic. The former stuck me as actually being sinister.