Episode Details

It turns out the man who helped write “Hotel California” also had a storage unit full of unreleased jams just waiting to be exhumed. Don Felder joins Kyle Meredith to talk about The Vault: 50 Years of Music, a new album that finds the former Eagle dusting off decades of demos—from slide-heavy ‘70s tracks to ‘80s disco bops to fresh cuts written in the last year. He shares the tale behind finding the original cassette of a track from the time he was joining the legendary group, recording vocals in the shadow of Henley, reinventing “Heavy Metal” with Toto’s rhythm section, and how Henley once told him to just “make something up” before performing one of the most iconic guitar intros of all time. No pressure, right?

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