The only way Felder could have worked this is if he had been able to get the other members to hold out as well. The Eagles could not tour as just Frey and Henley with no other members. If Felder had said to Walsh and Schmit, "Let's none of us agree to a less than equal share" they might have been able to pull it off, union-strike style.

However, those guys didn't stand with Felder, and Felder for all his talk never tried to insist that Walsh and Schmit got an equal share, only that HE got as much money as Frey and Henley.

As the lone holdout, he never stood a chance.
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Joe & Timothy were not in on the original contract, which was Glenn, Don, Bernie, Randy,& Felder, so they were probably never making the same money as the others were all along. For them, the contract was good, and maybe not much different than what they had when they first joined the Eagles.

For Don Felder, it was a different story. He was in on that original deal from the beginning, where supposedly they all made equal money, so for him I guess he saw it as unfair. Being that it was 14 years later, they wanted to redo the contracts, & he really didn't have any back up, so yes he didn't stand a chance....It was take it or bye, bye.

It's all pretty ironic because it was Glenn who invited Felder into the band after only playing one session with him. They really didn't know each other that well at all, so maybe that was a mistake to begin with, as they never really got along over the years!