The I Can't Tell You Why solo

[chaim]

I haven't realized before that Don Felder answers question in the Internet. This one is interesting. If it has been discussed here already, I couldn't find it. Now that Don has finally said this himself, I wonder how many YouTube guitar fans who think this is Don Felder's best solo (and insist that it's him on the original), will dislike the solo from now on.
In his book he cleverly avoided revealing this, but now he couldn't, ha!

Cody, among others, would like to know whether or not Don actually played the solo on the Eagles’ original recording of “I Can’t Tell You Why.”

"Glenn Frey played the original solo on the record. I played it live for all the shows, on the Eagles Live album, and on the Hell Freezes Over CD and DVD."

[BramwenR]

I haven't realized before that Don Felder answers question in the Internet. This one is interesting. If it has been discussed here already, I couldn't find it. Now that Don has finally said this himself, I wonder how many YouTube guitar fans who think this is Don Felder's best solo (and instist that it's him on the original), will dislike the solo from now on.
In his book he cleverly avoided revealing this, but now he couldn't, ha!

Cody, among others, would like to know whether or not Don actually played the solo on the Eagles’ original recording of “I Can’t Tell You Why.”

"Glenn Frey played the original solo on the record. I played it live for all the shows, on the Eagles Live album, and on the Hell Freezes Over CD and DVD."

I watched the original studio recording of this only yesterday and it's pretty obvious that Glenn did the solo. Probably pays to do a little research instead of taking for gospel what others have said. And it's good Don F. admitted it.

[chaim]

Yep, and I've never understood why it became a big issue in the first place. It said "Glenn Frey - guitar solo" on the album, plus he has mentioned his guitar work in the song in the liner notes in a CD collection, as has Don Henley.

[sodascouts]

And there you have it, folks - inarguable proof. Thanks for posting this, Chaim!

[WalshFan88]

Yup - the original solo was indeed Glenn's.... Great blues solo if I do say so myself.

[Freypower]

Slight quibble though; he DID have to make it clear that although Glenn played it on the recording he played it EVERY OTHER TIME.

We sort of knew that, didn't we?