The Dance Vs Hell Freezes Over

[HomerMcvie]

Originally Posted by Nicks Fan

In Felders book I recall him talking about being fired and when he contacted Timothy he was told you should have just signed the contracts in reference to the box set they put where the proposal was to give Henley and Frey more money from the sales. I feel hat Timothy and even Joe are puppets in the whole dictatorship that is the Eagles. For some reason every time they come back though no matter how much the tickets cost they always end up doing bigger business then before.

Well, Timothy and Joe may be puppets, but they're still rich puppets. It's been a few years since I read Don's book, but didn't they have to "downsize" their lifestyles(during the dead years)? They just weren't making the kind of money to live the big life anymore. SOOOOO, at the end of the day, it's still A LOT better to go from making 20% of touring revenue, to 10%, than make NOTHING. Sure, it totally sucks, but at the end of the day, you're still making a lot of money.

Think of it like this...what if you had a fantastic job, where you made 200K a year, and your bosses said that we're going to cut your pay to 100K. Would you walk? Maybe. But what if your only other option was to make practically nothing?

Felder stood up and did the right thing, and he ended up with the "making nothing" option. It was wrong(and greedy) of Henley/Frey to fire him, but "it's their band". They fired the most talented musician in the band, over their greed.
But Tim and Joe are still making a hell of a paycheck, so.....