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Friday, February 15, 2013

Don Felder, former Eagles guitarist, returns with first new solo album in nearly 30 years | Essentials

Don Felder, former Eagles guitarist, returns with first new solo album in nearly 30 years

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The guest appearances on Don Felder's new album read like a "who's who" list in the music business. The former Eagles guitarist called up a few of his close friends to see if they wanted to appear on "Road to Forever," his first new solo album in nearly 30 years. And they did. David Crosby, Graham Nash, Stephen Stills; Steve Lukather, David Paich and Steve Porcaro of Toto; producer/bassist Randy Jackson; and Styx's Tommy Shaw all play on Felder's album, released last month. "It didn't start out to be a celebrity list of players," Felder, 65, told CBSnews.com. "I invited some of my long-term really close friends...

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Don Felder

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0.16707"It didn't start out to be a celebrity list of players," Felder, 65, told ...
0.112973"I invited some of my long-term really close friends...[Stephen] Stills and I were in a band when were 15," said Felder, ...
0.117716"I invited some of my long-term really close friends...[Stephen] Stills and I were in a band when were 15," said Felder, adding, "Everyone knows Randy [Jackson] as the 'dawg' dude on 'American Idol,' but Randy is absolutely one of the best bass players in Los Angeles."
0.143511Felder said that in terms of guest musicians, he was looking for a few specific things: "great players and good people who are really fun to work with."
-0.404623"There was a lot of drama, conflict and contentious conversations making Eagles records," he recalled. ...
-0.192224"There was a lot of drama, conflict and contentious conversations making Eagles records," he recalled. "And I didn't want to do that again...I wanted it to have a very positive, uplifting feeling to do it and that comes across in the music."
0"When you're in The Eagles, you have to eat, breathe and sleep Eagles," said Felder, ...
0.0190382"When you're in The Eagles, you have to eat, breathe and sleep Eagles," said Felder, whose last solo album, "Airborne," came out in 1983. "Either on the road or in the studio, writing, business, press. When I left the band in 2001 I really spent a couple of years just trying to get my feet on the ground. Everything that I had adopted as a self-image whether it was being in a rock band, or being married for 29 years -- all of that within a 12-month period was stripped away from me."
-0.129627"I really wanted to figure out how I had gotten from this little dirt road in Gainsville, Fla., where I grew up to the traveling and the music business, to winding up in The Eagles -- what had happened, how it changed me. Really do some self-introspective, cathartic research was what it was," said Felder, ...
-0.0995709"It was kind of a dual cathartic process," said Felder, ...
0.359049"sweet things" like "I Believe in You," Felder ...
0"My life was a long story," Felder added, ...
0.102492"I try not to read my reviews because I think it just does strange things to your head. There are definitely going to be people who like and people who don't like it," he said. ...
-0.0377113"It's sort of this story of being swept up in this Eagles phenomenon and all of that come crashing down and all of my identity being swept away and kind of a rebuilding on the record," said Felder.
-0.049878"I attempted that numerous times with the guys in The Eagles and unfortunately the only response I get is from their attorneys," said Felder ...
0.0748952He jokes that his manager and booking agent want him on "tour for the next 25 years," ...
0"In my earlier times, with my first group of children, I was an absentee dad for about the first eight years of their lives when The Eagles were really running hard in the '70s...and I realized I suffered a great deal of loss with my relationship with my children," said Felder, ...
0.0949119"The one thing that I kept coming back to was the one thing that propelled me throughout my entire life since the age of 10 was the love of music," Felder said. ...
0.0675314"The one thing that I kept coming back to was the one thing that propelled me throughout my entire life since the age of 10 was the love of music," Felder said. "Loving to write, loving to play, loving to record -- that's the main motivation that drove me -- and still does today."
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  • Mean: 0.018187026315789
  • Standard Deviation: 1.4142135623731
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Stephen Stills

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Randy Jackson

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David Crosby

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Steve Porcaro

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Randy

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Steve Lukather

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David Paich

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Tommy Shaw

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Graham Nash

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Glenn Frey

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Don Henley

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Relevance: 0.117275

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Randy [Jackson

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