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Vince Gill, Timothy B. Schmit, Don Henley, Deacon Frey and Joe Walsh perform at Madison Square Garden on September 07, 2023 in New York City.
The Eagles add more dates to record-breaking Las Vegas Sphere residency

By Phil Weller Published

The band will take their total show count to 74 across a residency that will now extend into 2027

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Former Eagles guitarist Don Felder performs on stage during Alice Cooper's 23rd Annual Christmas Pudding charity concert at Celebrity Theatre on November 15, 2025 in Phoenix, Arizona
Don Felder says playing the Hotel California solo note-for-note is his “obligation” to Eagles fans

By Phil Weller Published

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

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Eddie Gray, the guitarist of the band Tommy James and the Shondells, using a Sho-Bud pedal steel guitar during a recording session for their track 'Crimson and Clover', 30th October 1968
An iconic pedal steel guitar firm is launching its own record label

By Janelle Borg Published

Founded in 1955, Sho-Bud helped carve out the “Nashville Sound” – and is now hoping to be as influential in the record label sphere

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TC Electronic Ditto X4 Looper photographed on a pedalboard
10 great guitar looping songs that will help you hone your playing

By Amit Sharma Published

Looping these classic chord progressions will get you familiar with some fresh soloing concepts

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Don Felder and Joe Walsh onstage with the Eagles.
The classic (and unlikely) gear behind the Eagles’ Hotel California

By Bill DeMain Published

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

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Don Felder takes a ripping solo on a Gibson Les Paul Standard
Don Felder on slide lessons from Duane Allman, vintage guitars and why he has no retirement plans

By Andrew Daly Published

A little dehydration aside, there is nothing stopping the former Eagles man. Here he discusses his epic guitar collection and his new compilation, The Vault 1975-2025: Fifty Years of Music

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The Eagles perform live in 1977 (L-R): Randy Meisner, Glenn Frey, Don Felder and Joe Walsh
The making of the Eagles’ 1976 masterpiece Hotel California

By Bill DeMain Published

How the Eagles harnessed their cresting creative powers – and resisted their appetite for destruction – to create one of rock’s all-time classics

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Don Felder of the Eagles performing live in the 1970s
Don Felder names the most important guitar in his 300-strong collection

By Phil Weller Published

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

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The Eagles perform on stage in Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1975. (L-R) Glenn Frey, Joe Walsh, Bernie Leadon
When the Eagles’ founding guitarist knew it was time to leave

By Matt Owen Published

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

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Vince Gill of Eagles performs during the 55th Annual New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival at Fair Grounds Race Course on May 02, 2026 in New Orleans, Louisiana
Don Henley explains why Vince Gill is such a valuable asset to the Eagles

By Phil Weller Published

Gill has proven a shrewd hire for the stadium-filling band – covering every base they need

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