Here's the one book that was a mistake. Don Felder's. Did you read that one?
No, I did not.
Well, Don Felder wrote this book when he left the Eagles -- it was apparently a mutual situation -- it was very negative thing, slamming everybody, and I read it. I don't know why I read it. Somebody loaned it to me. I heard it had a hard time even being published because Irving Azoff, the Eagles' manager, put the kabosh on it. After I read it, I didn't have any sympathy for him. I thought, what are you, a knot-head? He's a guitar player -- I shouldn't be gossiping -- but he got all upset at Don and Glenn reorganizing the Eagles. Well, they were the songwriters and the singers. So you're the guitar player. So here's this poor guy -- and he's probably a good guy, but I don't know him -- but the Eagles are out working, and he's not. So now I feel bad for him. You don't write those kind of things slamming other people. It will harm you the rest of your life. How can you pass judgement on other people? Like I said, I didn't know the man. I think he's a really good musician, and it's not for me to judge him either. It's not for any of us to judge others. We all make mistakes. It's the same story, Lee. You get together in the band, you go after the gold ring. It's working great. You get the success and it starts to splinter. Drugs come along ... usually the women and the wives leave. Dah de dah de dah. And you end up flat broke. So either you find a religious outlet and are saved, or whatever. But it seems like that is the story I would avoid. I don't go there. I would rather talk about all this great music and why I had the passion I did at 18 years old. I was just talking to Herb about this. Good God, we didn't even think about getting paid. To be able to play was the thing, and if you got a little extra money, that was a treat. In those days, you just wanted to play. You're 17 or 18 years old, you're up in L.A. and you're in those small clubs and that was what it was all about.