I don't know why this is brought up again about the former members being honored. All this speculation has been going on ever since they announced it last year. I doubt they will change it.
The "ONLY" time we will hear Don F, Bernie and Randy's name and see them is during the little video montage they do on the background of the honorees before they do the performance part of their honor. And believe me, they will bring up Don F, Bernie and Randy's name during that video montage. If you have ever watched KCH, they say something about the current and former band members or if you are in a band you just being honored solo, they will bring up that part. The good, bad and ugly.
They have to bring up Bernie and Randy during the video montage because they will talk about who was in the band when the guys first got together in 1971 and when they got back together in 1994 for HFO. They can't skip how they got together and they can't skip when they got together for HFO. That's a big chunk of their history of the band that's gone if they took that out.
They will show Don F especially if they say something about the HC album which they probably will since that's one of their biggest selling albums and of course HFO which he was part of. So they have to show those three former members. That's the ONLY time you will see and hear those three names, but I guess its not enough. They have to physically be there.
I just don't know how they are going to do Glenn. I know they probably say something in the video montage of their founding member died this year. Its sad he won't be there to be honored with Don, Joe and Timothy.
As for HC. If I remembered correctly, Don H and Glenn are also the co-writers of HC. Don F wrote the music. Don H and Glenn wrote the lyrics. So why is it any controversy of them playing that song at KCH. If that was true, the Eagles should had stopped playing that song when Don F left the band in 2001 or Don F could had told them to stop playing that song in concert or the other way around. You really can't tell somebody to stop playing a song that you also wrote unless you sue them to stop which I doubt Don F did that when he sued Don and Glenn some years ago. I will be surprised too if they don't perform HC at KCH.
We just have to wait and see when they announce KCH next month IF the guys are even still going to do KCH and who will be honored, but I think its going to the current surviving members.
I'm sorry for being rude or upset about this, but this subject about who should be honored its just getting very old.
This is probably why KCH don't honored bands that much. They will be fussed it about who should also be honored and why this member wasn't.