Compare this interview with the Felder interview above - here is Felder, today, talking about wanting to be friends and he doesn't get why the guys don't want anything to do with him, and in the 2001 interview, their sense of relief and even joy at the fact of him being gone is palpable. The more I learn and read, I get the sense that things started to go bad with him around '76 or so? They kept him on through 2001 - 11 active years, such a long time, for the good of the band. Imagine the entire time he was driving them nuts. That is such a long time, and they were trying to avoid the unpleasantness of firing him. He needs to stop talking about them, it doesn't reflect well on him.
Timothy and Joe were friends with Don Felder. I don’t think they wanted him out of the band. In his book, Don F. says that early in 2000, after the end of his marriage, Timothy and Joe phoned him to offer their support. And at Christmas of 2000, shortly before his dismissal, Timothy and Joe sent him their presents. So I guess they still cared about him and wanted to stay friends with him. And in the ’90s, Timothy had formed a band with Don Felder.