# Don Felder was in the Eagles on and off, selling over 100 million records. But Glenn Frey believes he was “never ever satisfied”

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/don-felder-was-in-the-eagles-on-and-off-selling-over-100-million-records-but-glenn-frey-believes-he-was-never-ever-satisfied/
- Published: 2026-10-28T20:35:13+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-29T03:34:27+00:00
- Original publisher: Far Out
- Original article: https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/eagles-member-glenn-frey-thought-was-never-satisfied/
- Topics: Music

## Key points

- Felder helped shape some of the Eagles’ best-known songs.
- A dispute over money and recognition contributed to his 2001 firing.
- He and Frey never made peace before Frey’s death in 2016.

## Summary

Don Felder’s history with the Eagles was marked by tension over his role and earnings, despite his major musical contributions. Glenn Frey said Felder was persistently dissatisfied with the group’s financial arrangements, and the dispute eventually ended with Felder’s dismissal in 2001.

Felder joined in the mid-1970s after playing on ‘Already Gone’ as a session musician, and helped shape songs including ‘One Of These Nights’ and ‘Hotel California’. After the band split following a 1980 onstage argument, they reunited in 1994, but Frey and Don Henley were set to earn more than the other members. Felder questioned how the money was handled and later said his departure left him wounded; Frey died in 2016 before the two could resolve their differences.

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