Don Felder in the Press/Blogs/etc.

[chaim]

There's no gentle way to say this...It seems to me that Don Felder eats, breaths and ****s Hotel California. When did this start to happen? Was it like this before he was fired? If it was, I never noticed. It's like McCartney going around the world, spreading the good word that "I wrote 'Yesterday'". No, it's not the same....He wrote all of it.

Also, what Felder doesn't seem to realize is that it's not only his amazing and wonderful chords and arrangement that people talk about. A whole lot of people along the years have wondered what the song (the lyric) is about. And that's not Felder. That's Frey and Henley (in that order, because the initial spark for the storyline came from Glenn). I don't want to take anything away from Felder - it's a nice arrangement, although the chord progression is not unique - but if the lyric went "Baby, you don't know how much I care", would the song necessarily be the classic it is today?? And would Felder be running around shouting he wrote it?

Anyway, NKIT has always been my favorite song on the album. Probably always will be. And it will be the 40th anniversary for this song too.