Don Felder w/ Styx in Charleston, SC - May 19, 2016

[sodascouts]

http://www.ticketmaster.com/styx-cha...1&minorcatid=1

[Tony Trout]

I don't care much for Styx but I would relish the thought of getting to see Felder since that's one day before my birthday.

(Yep, I've always liked Felder. One heck of a guitar player!)

[Pete Blundell]

What was the song he was teaching Joe Walsh in a quick flash through in the Hell Freezes Over DVD..

I seem to remember him saying something like: "Now put your little finger there on the fretboard." to Joe Walsh.

I thought it surprising that Joe would not know how to play any of the songs they played? Unless it was the sort of unplugged version they did of Hotel California??

[Tony Trout]

I've always wondered about that, myself.

(Until I watched the HOTE documentary, I never realized that Don and Irving were instrumental - no pun intended - in getting Joe to rehab).

[SilverAcidRayne]

oh yeah they were. I believe Glenn also had a hand in that too.

[sodascouts]

I believe it was Glenn who made it a condition of Joe's participation in the reunion that he get sober and stay sober. Glenn had just completed the "Party of Two" tour with Joe and I think it made him realize that Joe was in a very bad way. Joe was quite low on cash and the millions of dollars the reunion would put in his bank account finally gave him the motivation he needed. Felder drove him to rehab, true, but Glenn's mandate was the reason Joe got in the car.

[chaim]

I still wonder who the three guys are Joe says he's grateful to in the documentary. Either Joe didn't mention who he actually meant or it was a very stupid edit.

[scottside]

I just assumed that the three guys were Glenn, Don Henley and Irving Azoff because they were the ones who gave him the chance. Felder drove him to rehab, but really had no power to offer him a role back in the band.

[Ive always been a dreamer]

This has come up before and I'll restate much of what I said in another thread. I do think Joe’s comments are a bit confusing too; however, I take it as him referring to Irving, Glenn, and Don Henley. The dialogue leading up to the comment in the DVD is specifically talking about the meeting in Aspen with Irving, Glenn, and Don H. and the decision to reform the band. Here are Joe’s exact words …

“I made a commitment to them that I would clean up and that I would be in the band if that’s what they wanted to do. I’m really, really grateful to those three guys because I had a really good reason to get sober. And as soon as I got sober, we started rehearsal.”

[UndertheWire]

Joe's manager at that time, David Spero, talked about "Glenn's rules" and Joe getting sober recently. The links will be in the "Remembering Glenn Frey" thread. I don't think he mentioned Don Felder as being part of that process.