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To: Angels27

Ya. Especially Frey. Apparently Don Felder made some offhand comment about one of Frey’s liberal causes and that was it for Felder. He was out.


8 posted on 01/18/2016 3:01:37 PM PST by dhs12345
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“Ya. Especially Frey. Apparently Don Felder made some offhand comment about one of Frey;s liberal causes and that was it for Felder. He was out.”

That was at their last concert in 1980 before they broke up. They were doing a fund raiser show for Alan Cranston (D-CA). Felder said he hate politics and didn't want to be aligned with anyone politically. So we when Alan Cranston came over to thank all the Eagles, Don Felder said snidely, “You're Welcome....I guess”

Frey got all pissed off and was threatening Felder throughout the whole show. At the end of the show, the had an altercation and both stormed off in separate lemo’s. The Eagles would not perform again until 1994. Felder got kicked out of the band in 2001 over financial issues with Don Henley and Frey. He sued them and it was eventually settled out of court.

16 posted on 01/18/2016 3:08:33 PM PST by Angels27
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Frey had invited Alan Cranston backstage before a concert during which time Glenn thought Felder less than respectful of the senator. Threatened to punch him out and was still mad at him decades later.


18 posted on 01/18/2016 3:10:00 PM PST by skeeter (Nasty Conservative for Cruz)
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To: dhs12345

That was only partly why the Eagles tossed Felder.....it was over pay on a tour. The Eagles used to split money evenly five ways ,but Frey and Henley didn’t like that and kicked Felder out. Felder wanted equal or reasonably close pay to Frey and Henley and each side went to court. Basically, most of the songs that are Eagles hits were written by eithe Frey or Henley other than Hotel California, One of These Night and In the Long Run were co-written by Felder. Henley and Frey thought he was out of line and he was out.


32 posted on 01/18/2016 3:25:15 PM PST by irish guard
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