Don Felder
Donald William Fields ( born September 21, 1947 in Gainesville, Florida) is an American rock guitarist, who from 1974 to 1980 and between 1994 and 2001 a member of the country-rock band " Eagles ". He is co -author of the acclaimed play "Hotel California ", which was not least by the world famous by him and Joe Walsh played, exceptional guitar solo.
Life and career
Fields became aware of the music when he was in the " Ed Sullivan Show" saw Elvis Presley. At the age of about 11 he got his first guitar from a friend, in exchange for a handful of cherry bombs. One of his guitar teacher was Duane Allman of the Allman Brothers. Don Felder turn gave Tom Petty guitar lessons. He was strongly influenced by the Rock ' n ' Roll and joined with 15 of his first band, The Continentals, the (later Crosby, Stills & Nash ) belonged at that time also Stephen Stills. Also at this time he met Bernie Leadon, who later became a founding member of the Eagles was, but first he replaced Stills and the band was renamed Maundy Quintet.
After dissolving the band, fields went to New York City and joined a band called Flow, the only published a single jazz album. During this time fields could significantly improve his guitar playing and his improvisation. After the end of Flow Fields moved to Boston and worked in a recording studio. In 1971 he met the other members of the Eagles know who were at that time on tour. A year later fields to California to record an album with David Blue and played with him for nine months as the opening act for Crosby and Nash.
Eagles
1974 Fields was dazugeholt to recordings of the Eagles to record another guitar for the track Good Day in Hell. The next day he was invited to join the band. A year later, Joe Walsh also joined after Bernie Leadon left the Eagles. Walsh and fields were already friends before they belonged to the Eagles, and changed the band's style instrumental. During the early pieces were more country rock, were the newer more towards rock 'n ' roll. On the fourth album by the Eagles, One of These Nights, sang the song Visions fields, which he had co-written with Don Henley. This is the only piece of the Eagles in the fields took over the lead vocal.
The first album after all these changes was Hotel California, the music for the eponymous title track came from fields. After the overwhelming success of the album and subsequent tour, the band was under enormous pressure to succeed, to take an equal rank second album. After this follow-up album, The Long Run, the band broke up.
Career after the 1970s
After the dissolution of the Eagles to fields concentrated more on his family and his solo career. In 1983 he released a rock ' n' roll album titled Airborne which remained his only solo LP until 2012, although he also wrote several film soundtracks, as the title pieces to Heavy Metal and The Wild Life. 1985/86 he hosted a comedy music show called FTV on television. In 1986, he wrote the soundtrack ( including the title song ) to the animated series Galaxy High.
In 1994, the Eagles found with Don Felder again for Hell Freezes Over tour together, which was followed by the eponymous album. Fields remained up to and including the New Year's Concerts 1999/2000 of the band. In 2008, the Eagles without fields had a comeback with the album ( a double CD) " Long Road Out Of Eden".
On October 9, 2012 appeared after almost 30 years of his second solo album Road To Forever. On this album have numerous well-known musicians such as Steve Lukather and David Paich of Toto and David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash ( Crosby, Stills and Nash ) cooperated.
Litigation
On 6 February 2001 Fields was thrown out of the band. In response, he filed two lawsuits against the Eagles as a band, and Don Henley, Glenn Frey and 50 unknowns. For breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty and other offenses he called for a total liability of $ 50 million. Fields claimed, among other things, that Frey and Henley had cheated him in the distribution of profits. The process was completed in the spring of 2007, after the parties were able to settle out of court.