It's tell-all, no holds barred. "Heaven and Hell" provides a down & dirty, juicy, portrait of band leaders Don Henley and Glenn Frey, whom Don Felder shows as sadistic, self-involved, exploitive and endlessly greedy.
As expected, the pair haven't been quiet in response. They previously filed a lawsuit against Felder to keep the book from ever seeing the light of day, and almost succeeded.
"Heaven and Hell" was to be published by Hyperion Books in 2006, but that they backed out. Felder states the legal settlement he finally reached with Henley and Frey in May prevents him from talking about why the book came to be shelved by Hyperion or how it finally got published in the U.K. last November, and this month in the USA (by Wiley).
The current Eagles line-up is on tour promoting the release of their new CD, The Long Road Out of Eden.
Source: Reported by Music News Net blog http://gatheringhome.typepad.com/music_news_net/
Don Felder's well-written
Don Felder's well-written book made for very interesting reading. Glenn Frey and Don Henley come off as arrogant, greedy pigs, but that didn't really surprise me. I saw the Eagles in concert back in the late 70s and then twice during their Hell Freezes over Tour. On both occasions, the band lacked any sort of emotion or enjoyment of what they were doing. When I saw the band in New Orleans for the Hell tour, I thought well ... they are just starting back up together again and haven't worked together in awhile, maybe the stilted behavior will go away. Towards the end of the tour, I saw them in Mobile and you could not tell a difference between the two shows--note for note, song for song, place on stage it was exactly the same. They had no soul. It was sad to watch. Whether Don Felder recognizes it or not, he is better off being away from the poison that is the Eagles.