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The entire process of working with Eagles usually meant getting the right song past Glenn Frey<\/a> and Don Henley.\u00a0<\/p>\n Every band might like to pretend that they are a democracy every single time they go into the studio, but Henley and Frey were always the co-captains of the group when it came to what ended up on the record. They could have easily kept on working on tunes like \u2018Desperado\u2019 and \u2018Hotel California\u2019 for the rest of their lives, but Frey had to admit when he had had enough of a few of his bandmates.<\/p>\n If we\u2019re talking about the tension between the California rockers, though, it comes down to Don Felder and Frey having their creative differences. You can\u2019t really blame Felder for wanting more of a say in what he was playing every single time they made a new record, but it wasn\u2019t like Frey was going to roll over and tolerate one of his vocals if he could get Henley to sing \u2018Victim of Love\u2019 perfectly.<\/p>\n That might have been what blew up the band in 1980, but the cracks were already forming when they first started. Bernie Leadon was a great force when they started and could virtually play any country lick that the band threw at him, but when they started to turn into more of a rock and roll outfit, there was no point in him trying to play the same kind of music that they were. He could have been a bit more classy than pouring a can of beer over Frey\u2019s head<\/a>, but everyone needs to let their frustration out somehow.<\/p>\n But if the rest of the members were fighting, Randy Meisner was always going to have a harder job as the quiet member of the group. He wasn\u2019t into confrontation in the same way that the rest of the band was, and even if he muscled through Hotel California and even got a great song on \u2018Try and Love Again\u2019, he felt that the last straw was when he was being asked to sing the high notes in \u2018Take it to the Limit\u2019 over and over again.<\/p>\n He may not have been the band\u2019s lead singer by any stretch, but having to reach for those high notes was no easy feat, and he wasn\u2019t going to burn his voice out every single night if he could help it. Then again, that was one of the band\u2019s biggest hits, and for Frey, he felt that there was no way for the band to work with Meisner not pulling his weight the way he should have when they hit the road.<\/p>\n