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Don Felder<\/a> was never exactly a stranger to working with great musicians.\u00a0<\/p>\n Although anyone would have been shaking in their boots to be with any member of Eagles, Felder could hold his own from the minute that he turned up at the studio when they needed a guitar solo for \u2018Already Gone\u2019. But outside of being one of the greatest guitarists in the world, Felder always made sure to surround himself with people that were good in their own respective fields.<\/p>\n Before he had even started working on his own licks, though, he already had a high bar to reach. Although someone who gave Tom Petty guitar lessons would have been bragging about it for the rest of their lives, Felder was far more in tune with what was going on with people like the Allman Brothers Band. Anyone with a pulse was going to be moved by what Duane Allman played, but Felder was more interested in what kind of emotion he could get out of the guitar rather than the raw musicianship.<\/p>\n He figured that all rock and rollers had the potential to move people like that, but there\u2019s something to be said for the kind of band that comes together just to have some fun. The Traveling Wilburys never went into the studio planning to have hit records, and even when looking at the greatest members of the session scene, Felder could see that they were always about getting the sounds they loved to hear.<\/p>\n It\u2019s not like the session scene was lacking in taste, either. You have to remember that Toto were the seasoned veterans who helped bring Michael Jackson\u2019s Thriller to life, but before there were people like Steve Lukather<\/a> delivering a guitar clinic whenever he played, there were people like The Doobie Brothers paving the way for what could be done with a bunch of huge riffs and some decent harmonies.<\/p>\n Although a lot of people are divided over Michael McDonald\u2019s voice half the time, it\u2019s not like it isn\u2019t distinctive. Sure, it\u2019s easy to clown on it for being a little too melodramatic in places, but as far as Felder was concerned, the only thing that mattered was whether they sounded good, and hits like \u2018What A Fool Believes\u2019 were all the proof he needed to know that he was working with true professionals.<\/p>\n