Heaven and Hell: My Life in The Eagles, 1974-2001
by Don Felder
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“the guitar was leaning up against his bed with the words I HATE DAD scratched deeply into its mahogany veneer.”
“at Criteria Studios, so we rented, among other houses, 461 Ocean Boulevard, Miami Beach, the white stucco beach house made famous by Eric Clapton and his comeback album, called 461 Ocean Boulevard, released in 1974.”
“The best lesson he taught me was how to adjust your phrasing so as to play behind someone without detracting from the solo. As a lead guitarist, it isn’t always easy to allow someone to step forward into the spotlight and play while you’re supporting them. Between us, we learned that little two-step, a sort of musical dance.”
“Three minutes thirty seconds was the limit, they insisted, or they wouldn’t play it. “Lyin’ Eyes” was five minutes long and initially didn’t get much airplay, but it bucked the trend and proved to us that, with the right track, anything was possible.”
“When you lose a parent, the child in you dies.”
“Within a year, he was dead.”
“Having a son had considerably mellowed my resentment toward Dad, making me realize how hard it was to be a parent. During a lull in the tour, when I had a week off to spend with my family before we went back on the road, I decided to fly to Florida and reacquaint myself with the old man.”
“Radio was truly diverse in the seventies. A station would play a rock track, then a country track, then something else. You didn’t have to change the dial if you wanted to hear a certain kind of sound. We knew we had a good shot at getting on the radio with the original Eagles sound, but we also knew the best-selling hit songs were all rock-oriented, which was why everyone but Bernie wanted to head in this direction.”
“There are no sidemen in this band,” Glenn said firmly, with his gruff voice. “We’ve all been there and we know what that’s like.” I was pleased and relieved to hear it.”
“fearful of the idea of a regular meeting at which all could air their grievances. I stood silently at the back, waiting for the fuse to be lit.”
“was an English literature major and wrote wonderful prose. He could take little snapshots of life in just two or three lines.”
“I’d made her give up her well-paid, rewarding job at Harvard and travel clear across the country to sleep on someone’s floor with a guitar-playing loser who had no work and even fewer prospects.”
