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“I’m afraid if I started jamming on it, people would go, ‘What is he doing? That’s wrong! Is he having a moment?’”: Don Felder says playing the Hotel California solo note-for-note is his “obligation” to Eagles fans

The guitarist doesn’t take the task of playing the iconic solo lightly

Guitar World · Aug 4

Mexican reggae! Gunslinger duels! Chainsaws! The making of the Eagles' 1976 masterpiece Hotel California

Fifty years after it was recorded and released, Don Henley and producer Bill Szymczyk revisit the making of the Eagles' most successful album

Louder · Jul 21

“He would show up in a station wagon full of Les Pauls, Teles and Strats. I bought probably 20 pieces from him over the years”: The classic (and unlikely) gear behind the Eagles’ Hotel California

What Joe Walsh and Don Felder needed was Les Pauls and Teles, and lots of them – and Felder in particular made use of a Texan horse trader who also stocked some thoroughbred guitars

Guitar World · Jun 29

“I played that on just about every Eagles record”: Don Felder names the most important guitar in his 300-strong collection

Every guitar is painstakingly ordered in his vault, but there's one he finds himself grabbing more than most

Guitar World · May 17

“None of it sat well with him. The further we went into rock, the less he liked it”: When the Eagles’ founding guitarist knew it was time to leave

Bernie Leadon left the band amid a changing lineup and creative differences

Guitar World · May 14

“He wrote some of the best parts of Hotel California and Desperado. He wrote some pivotal lines that I wouldn’t have thought of in a million years”: Don Henley’s praise for his Eagles bandmate Glenn Frey

“We wrote the soundtrack to a lot of people’s lives”

MusicRadar · Mar 17

“I opened the case and Glenn went, ‘Wow. What’d you pay for that?’ I went '$1,200...’ He said, ‘Cheap!’ in a very derogatory way –so I called my ’59 ‘the cheap Les Paul’”: Don Felder on medical emergencies, Eagles sessions and his million dollar ’Burst

With The Vault – Fifty Years Of Music, the ex-Eagles guitarist marks a career milestone by bringing lost demos to life and re-recording the classic Heavy Metal. And he isn't stopping any time soon

Guitar World · Oct 22, 2025

“That song should have been finished on an Eagles record with Joe and I following up on Hotel California with some dazzling guitar solos”: The song that started life as an Eagles track – but ended up as the theme song for an animated film

Plans for a Hotel California sequel were in motion, but the track wouldn’t emerge from the Eagles archive until a few years later

Guitar World · Sep 24, 2025

“I wrote it so that Joe and I could play even harder than we did – or edgier than we did – on Hotel California”: How Don Felder planned to rock out with Joe Walsh on the last Eagles album of the ’70s

"It had harmony parts, trading-off solos and a much harder rock edge"

MusicRadar · Sep 22, 2025

“I had no way to play Hotel California live. I played so many guitar tracks on that song”: Don Felder on why he had to mod his white Gibson doubleneck to play the Eagles’ biggest hit – and how he got the idea from Chet Atkins

What do you do when a standard doubleneck is just not enough?

MusicRadar · Aug 28, 2025