If I put 3,000 miles a year on my car, that’s a lot. If I buy them, it just doesn’t make sense, so I lease them, and my company writes the whole car expense off. Don Felder Read Quote
Once I got into driving those little Mercedes convertibles, I just absolutely loved it. They feel really – great crash safety ratings, mechanically they’re unbelievably sound, and I’ve been driving them ever since. Don Felder Read Quote
Tom Petty was one of my guitar students; I knew Duane, and Stephen and I had a band. When he left, Bernie Leadon moved to Gainesville. His father was a nuclear physicist who was sent to the University of Florida to start their nuclear research facility, so he and I became friends. Don Felder Read Quote
If I had a pull on ‘One of These Nights,’ on the first high note on ‘One of These Nights,’ that was just a tiny hair flat or something, I could just feel Henley’s eyes scouring into the back of my head. No mistakes were allowed, and it really kept the quality at a high level. Don Felder Read Quote
Being in a band with three guitar players, one thing you need to do is learn to make each guitar voice sound separate and identifiable. Don Felder Read Quote
When the band first formed, everybody had been sidemen. So they said, ‘In this band there are no sidemen,’ and when I joined the band, it was still the same. There were some power struggles emerging, because Henley and Frey had sung all the hits at that point. Don Felder Read Quote
I never challenged control of the band. Basically, all I did was start asking questions. There’s an old adage in Hollywood amongst managers: ‘Pay your acts enough money that they don’t ask questions.’ And I started asking questions. Don Felder Read Quote
There were about 400 heads of state from countries all over the world. I walked out and played ‘Hotel California,’ and everybody in the place gave me a standing ovation, and half of those countries don’t even speak English. Don Felder Read Quote
My story, is how a kid that’s born into really destitute poverty on a little dirt road in Florida winds up in one of the largest bands in history. Don Felder Read Quote
There was no call from anybody in the band to discuss any of the things that had been a problem or what I had done wrong. Don Felder Read Quote
