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He is a guitarist born in Gainesville,
Florida. His first guitar was acquired when
he swapped it for cherry bombs with a friend, and by the time he was 15 he
had become a member of the band The Continentals, who Steven Stills also
played for at the time. After
Steven Stills left the group renamed themselves to the Maundy Quintet and
he was replaced by Bernie Leadon who would be a musical associate of his
for many years. The Quintet
broke up and he joined a band called Flow who released just one album and
after he moved on to Boston he
met the Eagles on their first tour.
After being hired by David Blue he worked on an album and toured
with him as the opening act for Crosby and Nash and then the Eagles asked
that he join them after they had requested he perform the slide guitar for
them on their song "Good Day in Hell". He got involved with the songwriting
and co-wrote several of their songs and his greatest success, and the one
he will be most remembered for with his guitar solo, is the No. 1 hit "Hotel
California" which also won a Grammy Award for "Record of the
Year" in 1978. The band
broke up in 1983 when he concentrated on his solo career and released the
album Airborne. His songwriting and performances
have been used in TV and film, including songs in the film Heavy Metal, the theme song to the
cartoon series Galaxy High, and in
the mid-1980s he also had his own musical comedy TV show which he hosted,
called FTV. He reunited with the Eagles in 1994
and continued to perform with them until he was fired in 2001. He took lawsuits out on Glenn Frey
and Don Healey and Eagles Ltd. for wrongful termination and is said to be
seeking $50 million in damages.
Eagles
Recordings
One of These
Nights (Don Henley/Glenn Frey)
Visions (Don
Felder/Don Henley)
Sources:
- http://www.feldermusic.com/
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Felder
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