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I think Joe Walsh, to me, is one of the most talented guys.
He was in the James Gang, wrote great songs.
He joined the Eagles, and now, and he's not a full partner in the Eagles.
No, he's not.
No, he is a, in other words, they pay him well, I guess.
He has a deal with them where if he goes on tour with them, he gets paid.
Right.
If they make an album, he gets paid.
Right.
He gets paid by those two guys.
That's how I understand it.
Right.
It wasn't like your deal where you were a full partner.
And yet, I'm always surprised that Joe Walsh put up with that because wasn't he too responsible
for giving them more of a rock image and that?
And they control him so much that he was not even allowed to dance on stage.
Right?
That's right.
Joe and I used to dance on stage during All Girls, or All They Want to Do is Dance.
Right.
And we would get together and play these guitars and dance and just kind of hammer around on the camera.
It's fun.
And Henley would say, he didn't like the camera being on us.
Moving away from him.
Right.
So, we were a distraction from the Don Henley show.
And so, we were reprimanded.
So, we literally started standing almost with our feet nailed down to the floor on that song.
And you were probably like, I'm being reprimanded, but I have just as much say in this band as
the other guys.
You bet.
Absolutely.
I mean, that's got to drive you nuts.
I was castigated one night for wearing the wrong color shoes on stage.
Do you think it was because you were sucking away
Because I find when I watch an Eagles performance, I always like to watch Joe Walsh because he
was always a little bit out of control.
He's animated.
And now he's Robo Joe.
In high school, I used to do an impression of him with Hotel California for my friends.
We would always be a little drunk.
And when you and him were together doing the solo at the end, I could do the Right.
[Eb] Because we were faces at Joe.
[N] Absolutely.
And the chemistry between you two guys was hilarious.
But you see, it was too much for these other two guys.
These egomaniacs.
It was, yeah.
Uh huh.
They couldn't handle it.
Yeah, the issues really came down to greed, power, and control.
And those are ugly things.
What do you think as a corporation, the Eagles Corporation, t-shirts, concert tickets, albums,
what are we talking?
Billions of dollars.
Billions of dollars.
Wow.
And you know that because you
You were a part of it.
You were a part of it.
But you thought that the books were being cooked, and you sued to get more money, right? Well, no.
What happened was I started asking questions, and I started getting these kind of sandbag
answers.
And as CFO, I thought that I should have the right to at least see what's going on.
How much money are we making?
We're talking billions of dollars.
Where are the expenses going?
What's happening?
What kind of deals are you guys making for records or touring?
Hey, what's going on?
You're a partner.
Yeah.
And so my lawyer started asking these questions, since we couldn't get any answers directly.
And after he submitted, even though we had been promised in contracts along the way that
they would provide us this information, his last letter was sent saying, hey, you promised
us to give us this information.
When do we get it?
And the next day, I got a phone call saying I was fired.
How could you be fired?
You're a partner.
Well, that's the point.
So if you're a shareholder in a corporation, if you own or have a position where you work
for the corporation, they can remove you from that job.
So you were fired.
The guys didn't even come and say to you
They didn't talk to me at all.
They wouldn't talk to you because you dared to ask questions about your share.
That's right.
So you did sue.
That's right.
It was the only way that I
We even spoke to them and said, hey, you leave us with no resort other than to file this litigation.
We don't want to do this.
Believe me, I've never been in a lawsuit with anybody, and I hope I'm never in another one
my whole life.
How long did the lawsuit take?
Six and a half years.
And I presume you won and got hundreds of millions of dollars.
We settled.
You settled?
Yes.
Why did you settle?
So you settled, you got tens of millions of dollars.
Well, you know, in that settlement, there's a non-disclosure confidentiality agreement
that I can't discuss the intimate details of it, although I'd like to.
But I would imagine you're still a partner business-wise with these Eagles.
I can't discuss that either.
You can't even say that.
Oh, see, because I need to know now.
When they're on stage, are they working for you?
I can't discuss that.
Well, they play Hotel California.
They close every night with Hotel California, and it's a big part of the show.
Thank God you made that deal where you were in writing a full partner.
Otherwise, you would have been screwed.
Absolutely, yeah.
That's not very rock and roll, is it?
What, being screwed in the music business?
It's historic.
Everybody gets screwed.
Either the record company screws you, or the
He was in the James Gang, wrote great songs.
He joined the Eagles, and now, and he's not a full partner in the Eagles.
No, he's not.
No, he is a, in other words, they pay him well, I guess.
He has a deal with them where if he goes on tour with them, he gets paid.
Right.
If they make an album, he gets paid.
Right.
He gets paid by those two guys.
That's how I understand it.
Right.
It wasn't like your deal where you were a full partner.
And yet, I'm always surprised that Joe Walsh put up with that because wasn't he too responsible
for giving them more of a rock image and that?
And they control him so much that he was not even allowed to dance on stage.
Right?
That's right.
Joe and I used to dance on stage during All Girls, or All They Want to Do is Dance.
Right.
And we would get together and play these guitars and dance and just kind of hammer around on the camera.
It's fun.
And Henley would say, he didn't like the camera being on us.
Moving away from him.
Right.
So, we were a distraction from the Don Henley show.
And so, we were reprimanded.
So, we literally started standing almost with our feet nailed down to the floor on that song.
And you were probably like, I'm being reprimanded, but I have just as much say in this band as
the other guys.
You bet.
Absolutely.
I mean, that's got to drive you nuts.
I was castigated one night for wearing the wrong color shoes on stage.
Do you think it was because you were sucking away
Because I find when I watch an Eagles performance, I always like to watch Joe Walsh because he
was always a little bit out of control.
He's animated.
And now he's Robo Joe.
In high school, I used to do an impression of him with Hotel California for my friends.
We would always be a little drunk.
And when you and him were together doing the solo at the end, I could do the Right.
[Eb] Because we were faces at Joe.
[N] Absolutely.
And the chemistry between you two guys was hilarious.
But you see, it was too much for these other two guys.
These egomaniacs.
It was, yeah.
Uh huh.
They couldn't handle it.
Yeah, the issues really came down to greed, power, and control.
And those are ugly things.
What do you think as a corporation, the Eagles Corporation, t-shirts, concert tickets, albums,
what are we talking?
Billions of dollars.
Billions of dollars.
Wow.
And you know that because you
You were a part of it.
You were a part of it.
But you thought that the books were being cooked, and you sued to get more money, right? Well, no.
What happened was I started asking questions, and I started getting these kind of sandbag
answers.
And as CFO, I thought that I should have the right to at least see what's going on.
How much money are we making?
We're talking billions of dollars.
Where are the expenses going?
What's happening?
What kind of deals are you guys making for records or touring?
Hey, what's going on?
You're a partner.
Yeah.
And so my lawyer started asking these questions, since we couldn't get any answers directly.
And after he submitted, even though we had been promised in contracts along the way that
they would provide us this information, his last letter was sent saying, hey, you promised
us to give us this information.
When do we get it?
And the next day, I got a phone call saying I was fired.
How could you be fired?
You're a partner.
Well, that's the point.
So if you're a shareholder in a corporation, if you own or have a position where you work
for the corporation, they can remove you from that job.
So you were fired.
The guys didn't even come and say to you
They didn't talk to me at all.
They wouldn't talk to you because you dared to ask questions about your share.
That's right.
So you did sue.
That's right.
It was the only way that I
We even spoke to them and said, hey, you leave us with no resort other than to file this litigation.
We don't want to do this.
Believe me, I've never been in a lawsuit with anybody, and I hope I'm never in another one
my whole life.
How long did the lawsuit take?
Six and a half years.
And I presume you won and got hundreds of millions of dollars.
We settled.
You settled?
Yes.
Why did you settle?
So you settled, you got tens of millions of dollars.
Well, you know, in that settlement, there's a non-disclosure confidentiality agreement
that I can't discuss the intimate details of it, although I'd like to.
But I would imagine you're still a partner business-wise with these Eagles.
I can't discuss that either.
You can't even say that.
Oh, see, because I need to know now.
When they're on stage, are they working for you?
I can't discuss that.
Well, they play Hotel California.
They close every night with Hotel California, and it's a big part of the show.
Thank God you made that deal where you were in writing a full partner.
Otherwise, you would have been screwed.
Absolutely, yeah.
That's not very rock and roll, is it?
What, being screwed in the music business?
It's historic.
Everybody gets screwed.
Either the record company screws you, or the
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I think Joe Walsh, to me, is one of the most talented guys.
He was in the James Gang, wrote great songs.
He joined the Eagles, and now, and he's not a full partner in the Eagles.
No, he's not.
No, he is a, in other words, they pay him well, I guess.
He has a deal with them where if he goes on tour with them, he gets paid.
Right.
If they make an album, he gets paid.
Right.
He gets paid by those two guys.
That's how I understand it.
Right.
It wasn't like your deal where you were a full partner.
And yet, I'm always surprised that Joe Walsh put up with that because wasn't he too responsible
for giving them more of a rock image and that?
And they control him so much that he _ _ was not even allowed to dance on stage.
Right?
That's right.
Joe and I used to dance on stage during All Girls, or All They Want to Do is Dance.
Right.
And we would get together and play these guitars and dance and just kind of hammer around on the camera.
It's fun.
And Henley would say, he didn't like the camera being on us.
Moving away from him.
Right.
So, we were a distraction from the Don Henley show.
And so, we were reprimanded.
So, we literally started standing almost with our feet nailed down to the floor on that song.
And you were probably like, I'm being reprimanded, but I have just as much say in this band as
the other guys.
You bet.
Absolutely.
I mean, that's got to drive you nuts.
I was _ castigated one night for wearing the wrong color shoes on stage.
Do you think it was because you were sucking away_
Because I find when I watch an Eagles performance, I always like to watch Joe Walsh because he
was always a little bit out of control.
He's animated.
And now he's Robo Joe.
_ In high school, I used to do an impression of him with Hotel California for my friends.
_ We would always be a little drunk.
_ And when you and him were together doing the solo at the end, _ I could do _ _ the_ Right.
[Eb] _ _ _ Because we were faces at Joe.
[N] _ Absolutely.
And the chemistry between you two guys was hilarious.
But you see, it was too much for these other two guys.
These egomaniacs.
It was, yeah.
Uh huh.
They couldn't handle it.
Yeah, the issues really came down to greed, power, and control.
And those are ugly things.
What do you think as a corporation, the Eagles Corporation, t-shirts, concert tickets, albums,
what are we talking?
Billions of dollars.
Billions of dollars.
Wow.
And you know that because you_
You were a part of it.
You were a part of it.
But you thought that the books were being cooked, and you sued to get more money, right? Well, no.
What happened was I started asking questions, and I started getting these kind of sandbag
answers.
And as CFO, I thought that I should have the right to at least see what's going on.
How much money are we making?
We're talking billions of dollars.
Where are the expenses going?
What's happening?
What kind of deals are you guys making for records or touring?
Hey, what's going on?
You're a partner.
Yeah.
And so my lawyer started asking these questions, since we couldn't get any answers directly.
And after he submitted, even though we had been promised in contracts along the way that
they would provide us this information, _ _ his last letter was sent saying, hey, you promised
us to give us this information.
When do we get it?
And the next day, I got a phone call saying I was fired.
How could you be fired?
You're a partner.
Well, that's the point.
So if you're a shareholder in a corporation, if you own or have a position where you work
for the corporation, they can remove you from that job.
So you were fired.
The guys didn't even come and say to you_
They didn't talk to me at all.
They wouldn't talk to you because you dared to ask questions about your share.
That's right.
So you did sue.
That's right.
It was the only way that I_
We even spoke to them and said, hey, you leave us with no resort other than to file this litigation.
We don't want to do this.
Believe me, I've never been in a lawsuit with anybody, and I hope I'm never in another one
my whole life.
How long did the lawsuit take?
Six and a half years.
And I presume you won and got hundreds of millions of dollars.
We settled.
You settled?
Yes.
Why did you settle?
_ So you settled, you got tens of millions of dollars.
Well, you know, in that settlement, there's a non-disclosure _ confidentiality agreement
that I can't discuss the intimate details of it, although I'd like to.
But I would imagine you're still a partner business-wise with these Eagles.
I can't discuss that either.
You can't even say that.
Oh, see, because I need to know now.
When they're on stage, are they working for you?
I can't discuss that.
Well, they play Hotel California.
They close every night with Hotel California, and it's a big part of the show.
Thank God you made that deal where you were in writing a full partner.
Otherwise, you would have been screwed.
Absolutely, yeah.
That's not very rock and roll, is it?
What, being screwed in the music business?
It's historic.
Everybody gets screwed.
Either the record company screws you, or the
He was in the James Gang, wrote great songs.
He joined the Eagles, and now, and he's not a full partner in the Eagles.
No, he's not.
No, he is a, in other words, they pay him well, I guess.
He has a deal with them where if he goes on tour with them, he gets paid.
Right.
If they make an album, he gets paid.
Right.
He gets paid by those two guys.
That's how I understand it.
Right.
It wasn't like your deal where you were a full partner.
And yet, I'm always surprised that Joe Walsh put up with that because wasn't he too responsible
for giving them more of a rock image and that?
And they control him so much that he _ _ was not even allowed to dance on stage.
Right?
That's right.
Joe and I used to dance on stage during All Girls, or All They Want to Do is Dance.
Right.
And we would get together and play these guitars and dance and just kind of hammer around on the camera.
It's fun.
And Henley would say, he didn't like the camera being on us.
Moving away from him.
Right.
So, we were a distraction from the Don Henley show.
And so, we were reprimanded.
So, we literally started standing almost with our feet nailed down to the floor on that song.
And you were probably like, I'm being reprimanded, but I have just as much say in this band as
the other guys.
You bet.
Absolutely.
I mean, that's got to drive you nuts.
I was _ castigated one night for wearing the wrong color shoes on stage.
Do you think it was because you were sucking away_
Because I find when I watch an Eagles performance, I always like to watch Joe Walsh because he
was always a little bit out of control.
He's animated.
And now he's Robo Joe.
_ In high school, I used to do an impression of him with Hotel California for my friends.
_ We would always be a little drunk.
_ And when you and him were together doing the solo at the end, _ I could do _ _ the_ Right.
[Eb] _ _ _ Because we were faces at Joe.
[N] _ Absolutely.
And the chemistry between you two guys was hilarious.
But you see, it was too much for these other two guys.
These egomaniacs.
It was, yeah.
Uh huh.
They couldn't handle it.
Yeah, the issues really came down to greed, power, and control.
And those are ugly things.
What do you think as a corporation, the Eagles Corporation, t-shirts, concert tickets, albums,
what are we talking?
Billions of dollars.
Billions of dollars.
Wow.
And you know that because you_
You were a part of it.
You were a part of it.
But you thought that the books were being cooked, and you sued to get more money, right? Well, no.
What happened was I started asking questions, and I started getting these kind of sandbag
answers.
And as CFO, I thought that I should have the right to at least see what's going on.
How much money are we making?
We're talking billions of dollars.
Where are the expenses going?
What's happening?
What kind of deals are you guys making for records or touring?
Hey, what's going on?
You're a partner.
Yeah.
And so my lawyer started asking these questions, since we couldn't get any answers directly.
And after he submitted, even though we had been promised in contracts along the way that
they would provide us this information, _ _ his last letter was sent saying, hey, you promised
us to give us this information.
When do we get it?
And the next day, I got a phone call saying I was fired.
How could you be fired?
You're a partner.
Well, that's the point.
So if you're a shareholder in a corporation, if you own or have a position where you work
for the corporation, they can remove you from that job.
So you were fired.
The guys didn't even come and say to you_
They didn't talk to me at all.
They wouldn't talk to you because you dared to ask questions about your share.
That's right.
So you did sue.
That's right.
It was the only way that I_
We even spoke to them and said, hey, you leave us with no resort other than to file this litigation.
We don't want to do this.
Believe me, I've never been in a lawsuit with anybody, and I hope I'm never in another one
my whole life.
How long did the lawsuit take?
Six and a half years.
And I presume you won and got hundreds of millions of dollars.
We settled.
You settled?
Yes.
Why did you settle?
_ So you settled, you got tens of millions of dollars.
Well, you know, in that settlement, there's a non-disclosure _ confidentiality agreement
that I can't discuss the intimate details of it, although I'd like to.
But I would imagine you're still a partner business-wise with these Eagles.
I can't discuss that either.
You can't even say that.
Oh, see, because I need to know now.
When they're on stage, are they working for you?
I can't discuss that.
Well, they play Hotel California.
They close every night with Hotel California, and it's a big part of the show.
Thank God you made that deal where you were in writing a full partner.
Otherwise, you would have been screwed.
Absolutely, yeah.
That's not very rock and roll, is it?
What, being screwed in the music business?
It's historic.
Everybody gets screwed.
Either the record company screws you, or the