Talk:History of the Eagles

Felder's reaction to the content

Don Felder says that the movie glossed over so many things, such as the infighting and what he describes an attempt to downplay the contributions of other members not to mention the feud between Henley and Frey, but I say that's hogwash and here are some things to consider:

• The documentary certainly mentions the fighting and discord
• Don Henley mentions that he and Glenn Frey began to have their differences while concurrently, Felder tried to gain more control by co-opting Joe Walsh so often that it was two opposing camps, so just because they don't go into detail about it, it doesn't mean it was necessarily glossed over.
• Bernie Leadon acknowledges that pouring a beer on Glenn was very disrespectful and something that he isn't proud of.
• Randy Meisner admits to being very shy and nervous at hitting the high notes on "Take it to the Limit" as well as his reluctance to perform the song.
• Don calls Bernie an accomplished banjo player and a guitarist capable of playing the licking style pioneered by Byrds guitarist Clarence White and Glenn says that he liked Randy's singing voice when talking about "Take it to the Limit".
• Glenn acknowledges that cocaine brought out the worst in everybody and the discord festered because they didn't sit down to address the issues
• Don said that they were literally fried by the time of "The Long Run"
• Joe said that the business decisions made in private by Don, Glenn and Irving Azoff during long flights were intended for the benefit of the band, much to Felder's objections
• Timothy says that whilst he could sense the tensions, he didn't have any idea of how grave they were.
• Don only refers to Felder as Mr. Felder once in the entire documentary and that is talking about unsuccessfully recording the lead vocals for "Victim of Love". He does not repeatedly use the term Mr. Felder in a cold or dismissive way throughout the entire film either.

The documentary doesn't need to touch on every little thing, let alone every single disagreement over music, power, money, drugs or political candidate endorsements, because otherwise it would be repetitive, way too long and boring if they dwelled on them at the expense of the music and let's face it: it's not like The Beatles' in-depth and comprehensive Anthology documentary series, which was an 8-part series, but rather it's a 2-part documentary film and it's quite comprehensive enough to be a decent documentary.

A lot of those internet trolls who accuse Henley and Frey of rewriting band history for the documentary obviously have no levels of intelligence or anything better to do and they should view the documentary with an open mind to have a better understanding rather than just come to unsubstantiated and horrible conclusions and unfairly accuse Glenn and Don of causing all the problems in the band and insinuating that Glenn arbitrarily fired Randy and Bernie, but in reality, it is well-documented that whilst Bernie and Randy disagreed with Glenn, they both left the band of their own choosing whereas Felder was fired. I think all five of them shared responsibility for the discord and the first breakup, which some people believe Felder had a large hand in. I also find it very insulting that Felder and some of these people online dismiss Timothy and Joe as hired hands, session players or sidemen, but not being shareholders doesn't make them hired hands, sidemen or session players - neither even fitted that category within the band - and they were in fact full band members, just not shareholders. In the Rolling Stone magazine article from 1979, Timothy definitely confirms that he was given one-fifth of the financial pie and Joe seems to indicate something similar, contrary to how Felder tries to mislead the public into believing that they were just sidemen when in truth they were nothing of the sort. I have the source where he makes those hurtful comments about Joe and Timothy while critiquing the movie and taking potshots at the other members.

It appears that Glenn's disagreements with Bernie and Randy were nothing out of the ordinary, whereas the only real bad blood was with Felder. 60.240.8.249 (talk) 02:47, 15 February 2018 (UTC) 61.69.217.3 (talk) 04:06, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

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