How Duane Allman Taught Don Felder Slide Guitar. Don Joins the Eagles and Writes "Victim of Love"
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- Don started playing guitar at 10 years old and was self taught. He wound up working in a music store and one of his students was Tommy Petty who would later found Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.
Don also became friends with Duane Allman who taught him to play the slide guitar. In this video Don talks about how influenced and inspired he was by the Allman brothers.
Don also talks about working in recording studios in New York writing jingles until Bernie Leadon suggested he move to LA. He played on sessions for the Bee Gees, Bob Seger, and then was invited to play slide on an an Eagles record. The next day he got a call from Glenn Frey who asked him to join the band.
Don Felder was inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame & Museum in 2016 for the Iconic Riff award for creating the music to "Hotel California".
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Duane taught me slide in 1968 when he lived out here in Hollyweird. I still have two of Duane’s Coricidin bottles!
Starway to heavenn led zepelin
Dude I would literally sleep with those bottles
The Great Duane Allman. Taught you Slide Guitar???..The man who kick started muscle Shoals??? The guy who played Layla slide guitar and was asked to join Claptons band...Man. I hope you took on every bit of lessons he gave you. Biggest question is. DID IT STICK....did you stay with it?? And where xan we hear your guitar work??
Thanks so much for this! So much respect for Don Felder, giving credit to Duane. Such a humble and classy guy.
Could listen to Don Felder all day. What a really interesting, intelligent guy he is
Don Felder, my favorite Eagle, hands down.
What an amazing life he’s had. Met and played with some of the truly best musicians in rock history. And he’s an amazingly humble sounding guy, too.
One of the greatest and very humble guitarist. He rocketed Eagles to great sucess , that Henley and Frey could not admit.....Hotel California!!!
Don Felder is an awesome guitarist and songwriter. Don Felder and Joe Walsh are one of the greatest guitar duos of all time. Coincidentally Duane Allman also gave Joe Walsh some slide guitar tips early on in Joe's career and introduced him to using coricidin bottles as a slide
Felder's mind and his mouth are synchronized like a world-class broadcaster.
I LOVE the Eagles, Don & Joe are two of my favorite guitarists. I never have understood all of the drama between Glen Frey , Don Henley towards Don Felder. While the Eagles continue to tour, now with the Great Vince Gill, plus Steuart Smith, both Superb musicians, and they sound great....However, the Eagles were at their Greatest, at their PEAK, when Felder was in the band, working together with Joe Walsh. Their energy & intensity playing together and off each other has been unmatched since Don Felder had left the band. I miss him !
He seems like such a nice and down to earth guy. And what a musician! The Eagles were at their best with Don.
I think the original Eagles were the best rendition of the band.
Joe walsh proped don up imo. Desperado is their peak musically imo but at that point they were so run down and their rep took a bunch if big hits. That album is magic and doesn’t get the credit it deserves
I appreciate the complimentary words Don uses when discussing the various artists he’s worked and interacted with. It’s refreshing to hear someone speak about his experiences in a positive light. I’ve never really known much about Don and his contributions to the Eagles and so many others. His title track for the animated feature film Heavy Metal is going to be just as great a hundred years from now as it was at its release. I’m pleasantly surprised to learn that he took his first steps into the slide guitar hall of fame after he had a lesson with Duane Allman. That’s a great bit of rock and roll history fun facts there. Joe Walsh is one of those in ten hundred million who can pick up a guitar cold and play a perfectly formed, coherent and absolutely bad ass guitar orchestration first time through. His stuff on James Gang Rides Again is so epically funky, stanky, slippery, groovy, spacey, funny, intelligent-y, and flat out f*****g amazing that it can part the cloudy sky and bring in the sunshine in my hairy man brain world opinion. The Bomber comes with a requirement by law that one smokes copiously from the Bong of Truth before getting completely lost and suspended in space time during his solo. Woman has possibly the greatest bass guitar riff ever conceived of as well as the matching greatest rhythm guitar, and lead guitar parts, and the fn best, grooviest, sassyest drumming in the history of time. Joe and Don’s collaborations on Those Shoes, In The City, King Of Hollywood, Disco Strangler, and my favorite Eagles tune Pretty Maids All In A Row all deserve their own Grammy Award. Can’t say enough about music like that.👍
Felder's slide guitar helps make the Eagles song "Love Will Keep Us Alive" something special.
Always liked Felder , seems a humble guy unlike Henley and Frey
Felder is a great interview. He's affable and engaging and has a nice understated presence. Of course a great guitarist and also really smart person.
It’s not surprising Don learned some stuff from Duane. From one great guitar player to another.
Henley & Frey may have founded the Eagles but Felder certainly tweaked their sound, what’s sad is Henley & Frey were too full of themselves to admit that Felder was a strong thread within the Eagles sound! Rock on Don Felder!
That’s right.
Felder was the one reason I continued to listen to the Eagles.
That's true it also didn't help that frey got full of himself and really tried to bully everyone but henley. It would've tickled the hell outta me if Felder would have just whipped his ass..Felder put the rock in their roll..
Absolutely....Frey and Henley got in their own way...I could listen to Felder talk all day...so down to earth and most talented without doubt
The problem was Felder was a dick and very hard to get long with. Hence eventually getting fired from the Eagles. And in a meeting all the other members the vote was unanimous. Lets get rid of him.
Without Felder , there would be no Hotel California guitar duet
Don doesn't waste time with resentment. Really cool cat and clearly is the truth teller in Eagles legal folly.
Have always loved Felders playing and command of the instrument. I do know first hand how difficult it can be with all of the personalities and egos compressed together in a band and the friction that can come from the stress..........but, it was a great loss for all when they parted ways with him.
Hi Mark... I too spent about 11 years playing in bands. One for about 8 years. It’s great at times and it’s very frustrating at times. I don’t know of a band that’s not just one wrong look or word away from breaking up. Even the Beatles couldn’t make it last. Egos and greed. Power. Jealousy. Too bad. Thanks again for watching Mark....Joe
Duane Is one of the best guitarist that ever lived ..
The best
@@romegregory4311 agree
@@romegregory4311 Absolutely concur with your statement.
There was something other-worldly about Duane's playing; especially on live versions of "Dreams."
I seen Don twice in Niagara Falls Ontario at the casino. Such a class act and a hell of a guitar and slide player. I would go see him again. I'd rather see him then the Eagles. What they did to him was a pity but he seems to have faired well :) Peace
Man, "Those Shoes" and "Victim of Love" are my two favorites, and probably the 2 hardest rocking Eagles tunes ever 👍🏼👍🏼
Mr. Felder must have a 160+ IQ. His depth about his subject and music history is impressive. So many interviews from musicians on TH-cam are forgettable. The MHOF interviews are fascinating.
Ed Hill Masters Roofing Yeah, always a great listen.
He's one of the smartest, most beautiful people in the business in a band with massive egos. How he maintained that kind of class and dignity in an environment like that I'll never know.
Fly On, Duane and Greg, you'll never be forgotten!
Don Felder's slide on the studio recording of Good Day in Hell was pure genius. The Eagles should have attempted more hard rock slide songs.
Thanks for watching NiteRider....Joe
Duane is still unsurpassed!
Love Don Felder and Duane Allman. Great video. Cheers!
the eagles ain't THE EAGLES without D.F. Period.
The present Eagles is just a good cover band. But there's two Eagles cover bands. One has the singer and the other has the guitar player. Both worth millions. So why can't henley bury the hatchet make up with Felder and be the Real Eagles again though I guess they would still be missing Frey unfortunately. But You're right. It can never be the same without Felder.
Totally agree.
@LogKnow . Sorry mate. Don Felder did not replace Bernie Leadon. Bernie was replaced by Joe Walsh after the One of these nights album.
Yeah, so true! I always felt that way. I saw the Eagles in NJ, July 77 on their Hotel CA tour. Felder put the title songs track together and was never given enough credit by Frey who had one huge ego issue.
After Felder got the shaft and left the Eagles, I vowed I'd never go see the band in concert again!
Ed Fulginiti He’s not even an original member, neither is Joe or Timothy
Favorite American guitaristas Duane Allman + Don Felder. Their history is amazing!
TommyMacDaddy1 i saw an interview with Joe Walsh who also said Duane taught him to play slide...
@@voodoobill I like Joe, too! Missed putting him in that comment. Didnt know about Duane...thx!
@@voodoobill Duane supposedly taught Felder, Joe Walsh, and Clapton slide at different points.
I swear that Don Felder taught Tom Petty how to play guitar too. Edit* he confirms that haha
Always an eagle Don,you will always be the ace in the hole !!!!
There's no better spokesperson for the group The Eagles then Don Felder
Agreed. yet they never let him say a word most of the time, especially in the 90's.
I think he was treated poorly. Watch his face when he plays. He just loves it.
Don Felder seems to be an awesome human being 🎸
I love when a major musician has so much respect for other musicians 🥂
One of the absolute best of an amazing generation of guitarists. His name isn't as commonly known among music fans, but certainly every guitar player of that time and later knows who he is. He's one of the very few guitarists that I've NEVER heard anyone criticize. Heck, even Van Halen, Clapton, Hendrix....all of them and more...have legions of rabid fans, but also outspoken critics. Not so with Felder!
And don't you get the idea that Don Felder doesn't even go to the quick shop for milk without looking like a million bucks??? lol. I think ZZ Top was thinking about him when they wrote "Sharp Dressed Man!"
Excellent interview. Intelligent speaker. Interesting career. Within ten minutes he encapsulated the American popular music era of the 1970s and his important role in it. Well done.
Thanks for watching Jim.... Merry Christmas.......... Joe
Without a doubt, the most fluent speaker in the music business ever!
There are many in the business as fluent. For one, you ever listen to Frank Zappa speak?
da324 not a patch on Felder.
@@peterrussell3744 I love Felder, lived in Fl my entire 56 yrs, but there's plenty, Brian May is another.
da324 i get what your saying but Felder holds it all together for long periods of time. There’s no ums or ars in his speech. The others that you have mentioned say a sentence or two and then struggle a bit. Felder, like his guitar playing, marches on to the beat of his own drum.
@@peterrussell3744 Frank and May don't struggle at all at anytime when they're speaking. May has a friggin' PHD in Astrophysics. Both articulate as well, hands down. Also, this clip was edited heavily. We'll just have to agree to disagree.
The best Eagles' guitar licks were created by Don Felder. Henley wrote some great lyrics, but the music was Felder...and Leadon.
Man I love this guy what a cool dude, one of the top on my list of people id love to meet...
Fascinating interview. I find it very interesting to hear about the odyssey some of these guys took in the pursuit of life and their dreams. Just taking off and moving across the country, living in crazy conditions, many times broke as hell... all in pursuit of something they were passionate about.
This channel is a gold mine.
Thanks Robbie... Joe
Met Don around 1970 when he worked at AAA Recording Studio in Dorchester Ma. He would come into the corner store and shot the shit with us. Easygoing great guy. Living in South Carolina now and going up to Wilmington to see him perform
Don Felder and Stephen Stills!!! Now you're talking!!! Two of the best American guitarists ever!!! Oh ya, Duane Allman's not bad too!!!
I always get a lot out of hearing Don. His interviews and his playing
What a musical pedigree!!! On the long way to the top
Duane was inspired to play electric slide guitars by Jessie Ed Davis, who played on Taj Mahal's first records, to set the record straight.....!
Those first Taj Mahl records were great!
Try Elmore James- The slide master
I love “Those Shoes”
Great interview! Enjoyed hearing Don talk about Duane!
Thanks..... Joe
Warren Haynes. Gov. Mule. Outstanding slide
I loved every second of this. Great stuff. Felder seems to be such a great guy.
Awesome person great guitarist,writer. Always an important ingredient.
Thank you Joe for recording such a great amount of fascinating music history. Can't wait to visit the Museum next time we're in Nashville.
Hi Fred.... look forward to seeing you there... best, Joe
First time I heard Don Felder on anything.. ..He certainly is a smart guy. I believe that Duane is the best slide player I have ever heard. Having the best teaching you is a superb way of learning. Thank You
I love Victum of Love. Wow, this was all brand new information to me. Thank you.
Excellent guitarist and comes across as someone folks could talk to.
Saw him last year - he is a singular talent!
He's responsible for their number one song...this guy got the fkng shaft. Period.
Fascinating interview!
Met him backstage a few years ago. Nice guy!
I remember seeing DF on a syndicated music/comedy show in the mid-eighties.
Thanks Joe for bringing this Don Felder interview. I must of missed this one but I’m glad I caught up with it Felder is a great guitarist and I loved his book and the Felder/Walsh combo in the Eagles was legendary. Keep the great interviews coming. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Watching the guitar play between JW and DF on Hotel California was always a treat. Shame it went down like it did.
Fascinating !!!!
Of all the people to teach you slide guitar... Explains a lot.
Once again good job Joe enjoy your shows you put a lot of hard work into it and we do appreciate it. Thank you much Terry Farrell
The current Eagles is like Led Zeppelin without Jimmy Page. And missing a whole other chunk. There's some excellent concerts with Don Felder on AXS tv. The last real complete band. Both were filmed in Australia. AXS sometimes plays both in a row.
Right on Felder....You put the Rock in the Eagles
Thx for posting! The first slide player I got into was Mick Taylor with Exile. The second was Duane Allman from Live Filmore. Those guys had such expression and variety, went really deep with the slide in large part cuz of Duane.
the forgotten Rolling stone......Mick was very a cool slide guy.....I'm partial though to another guy from this generation of slide/bottle guitar work.....Rod Price, RIP.....after I saw Foghat live I realized just how much effort this Guy put into his instrumental parts, just pure amazement watching him play
I grew up in Gainesville, Fla too. I knew Don and Tommy as well.
Don didn't mention that he also had a band called The Pink Panthers, in addition to The Continentals. I had friends that played with Don, Tommy and Stephen. Gainesville was kinda magical with a plethora of musical talent, at least in the 60's and early 70's.
You da man, Don!
“Fingers Felder” the man got the shaft for sure. Henley and Frey were bastards but the Eagles are still in my top 5 favorite bands of all time
Tony, spot on! Always felt the same way!!
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Those bastards wrote some of the greatest songs of all time and gave Felder a career he would not have otherwise had. So quit your whining.
Before Glen passed they forgot what got them to the top of the mountain,they made the music but the fans made the band . Like the song says Get Over It!
Two great bands, 2 great guitar players!
No better duo than Felder and Walsh! What a team!
imagine having neighbours in the area like Don - amazing
Thank you!
I found the interview interesting, Thank you
Thank you, MHF&M, for your unique interviewd, you are recording for posterity things that would otherwise be lost forever!
Thanks Tom.... Joe
This is great. Blind Willie Johnson taught me how to play slide guitar, well not personally but his music did. I didn't get the bit about him moving to Boston because of the New York winters tho.
Big thanks, Joe, these interviews are so insightful!
Prior to watching, I don't recall seeing him talk before. Not knowing much about his personality, he comes off as a really nice, grounded individual & obviously, very talented.
Thanks... Joe
the influence of North Central florida on American music is so overlooked!...Lynnrd skynrd, don felder, tom petty, ...it is so overlooked!
Not by me but you are right.
Great stuff. Thanks.
The Eagles always had/do have talent!
Watching The Eagles on stage, Tv and so on, I always singled out Don Henley.
He always seemed like a pro and always seemed to enjoy himself.
That was great, thanks!! 👍👍
Thanks Robert......... Best, Joe
thank you Sir
Greg taught duane to play guitar,in fact..i know where that first guitar is today...yep..so great a time...florida..boy o boy..not many left today from those days..i can still see it as if it was today...peace💜
Cool
Joe Monroe...
And where exactly IS that guitar??
You insinuating that you have said instrument?
I really enjoyed this. Don’s story is so interesting, and the Eagles are one of my favorite bands. My favorite guitarist, the late Irish guitarist, singer, songwriter Rory Gallagher started young like Don, also totally self taught. Rory was also an amazing slide player and his earliest influences were American black blues players. He always included slide playing from time of his first band Taste 1966 -70 throughout his solo career.
@Harry Lime Yes! And performer. I wish people who aren't familiar would check out the Irish Tour stuff, as a start. It changed my world when I stumbled onto him 6 months ago.
Nobody plays a slide like Duane🎸
ministerofdarkness Derek Trucks is untouchable within that style of slide guitar in my opinion
Amen. No one ever well.
Dickey can. Dickey also said that Duane told him that his goal was to sound like a harmonica (such as Little Walter) using slide. The guy who mentions Derek Trucks is not seeing the big picture. Trucks is a copycat of what has been invented such as all the cats that suddenly sounded like Hendrix and claimed to be as good as but were wrong as they they did not create that sound or style.
@@cravinbob Duane was an innovator for sure but Derek is just as much of an innovator as all the guys in the past and has taken all of the things that was played before him and elevated it to a level that no one has seen and I don't know if anyone will touch it any time soon. The vocal quality he can get with a slide is massively impressive, way he makes the guitar sing beyond the standard blues licks and the way he's integrated the Hindustani style and sounds into western electric slide is very impressive. Dickey is a decent slide player, same as Warren but they weren't even close to as good as Duane. The only two people that came close to filling those shoes in that band were Jack Pearson and Derek Trucks
@@cglasford1 Warren is a decent slide player? That's fucking funny!
Just a great musician.
What a great guy.
Joe keeps pulling these tales out of ... somewhere. I await continuously amazed. Also, I see I am not alone.
Thank you for the nice comment!! More are coming. Best...Joe
My favorite Eagle. Thanks Joe.
Quite a life he has lived!
Liked your book "Heaven or Hell: My Life in the Eagles"!
What a cool southern gent , saw him on “ Hell Freezes over “ tour .... the eagles killed it , Don Felder was impeccable , with Joe Walsh , opened with Hotel California . Fortunately for me the tickets came out of Don Henley‘s office through a gentleman named George Massenburg, centerstage 22nd row RICE stadium Houston Texas. Thanks Don ,thanks George Massenberg ( Grammy award winning sound engineer) and thank you to the Eagles for jammin my whole life 😎🇺🇸⚓️, That’s it .. carry on
Don's a top bloke
I like Don Felder.
What a gentleman and musician
These 9-minute clip interviews leave one wanting more. The more I listen and learn the more I realize how multi-faceted Don Felder is. The Eagles would've been the Sandpipers or some other kind of bird that couldn't fly the same or see as well without Don Felder. There is a song my sister and I use to play over and over we just loved it. We were like 12 years old when we first heard it and couldn't understand all the words but that didn't matter because we loved how the guitar sounded and how it just had such a happy vibe. I now know that Don Felder wrote "Visions" is there a story behind that song? "Visions" Thank you so much. Kimie Girl :)
They were the Eagles for years before he joined
@@donaldstevenson4721 This is true, but they were more country with Leadon especially and Meisner too. Love Journey of the Sorcerer. Kimie Girl:)
The Eagles flew just fine without Felder.
@@jamesmorrison2063 Woo woo woo "Midnight "Flyer"" Engineer won't you let that whistle blow. Yep, they flew right on down the track! Kimie Girl :)
And Randy Meisner did Try and Love Again. Kimie Girl :)
Once again,Joe…a great episode of yours..!! Now I’m gonna listen to “Victim of Love” and see if I can play it… Keep em coming,ok..? ✌🏼😎❤️
Thanks Joseph… I plan on sharing new interviews as our Vault Series have almost all been seen. Thanks again for watching… Joe
@@MusiciansHallofFameMuseum …my pleasure..!!👍🏼
Duane had a really cool mom. yeah.
Just like Allen Collins mother--worked two jobs to make sure her baby boy would have a guitar to fulfill his passion of later playing with Lynyrd Skynyrd! God bless those Floridian mamas!
Cool dude.
Don Felder got a bad rap from Henley and Glen. Felder is fantastic.
That's it--I'm convinced that the best musicians in America came from Florida! Certainly, the best guitar players!