Watched the end of the Kennedy Center Honors last night, when the Eagles were being honored.
Wow, no mention of Bernie Leadon, Randy Meissner or Don Felder. They had Linda Ronstadt doing a narration of the Eagles's early days, and not one word of Meissner or Leadon. She talked as if Henley, Walsh, Schmidt and Frey were the first and only Eagles members. Even the old film clips didn't show them.

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If you think that was bad, try to read up on the Fleetwood Mac fraud ... even worse!

regardless of their undoubted commercial success later on, for my money the eagles were at their musical best in the early days.. my polite way of saying before joe walsh.. who incidently I also thought did better stuff before joining the eagles.

I did see The Eagles on their 3rd or 4th to the last final farewell tour some 10 or 12 years ago.

I saw Don Felder open for Sammy Hagar this past summer ... very cool because I was always a huge fan of the movie Heavy Metal.
 
 

Don Felder was as much of the Eagle sound as any of the rest of them. What a marvelous lead guitar player. His solos were perfect and defined a lot of the hits. My favorite member of the Eagles

Grudges can get very heavy...

Henley is an obnoxious jerk, even if he was merely an apprentice-level jerk to the master, Glen Frey. Watch "The History of the Eagles" documentary if you can stand it. I've always been a fan of the band, but if I'd been Don Felder there'd have been physical violence. I'm not the violent type, but when Frey and Henley explain why Felder and Walsh make less money I wanted to reach through the screen and punch them.

Ya, I really got an awakening when I watched that documentary. Ego so big that all other ego's must orbit around it.

I don't know the whole story, i.e. how Meissner, Felder and Leadon left, but the Eagles not acknowledging that those folks contributed to their sound and success seems awfully petty.