“I have always said that I’m going to rock till I drop. I never knew it would be in the middle of Tequila Sunrise”: Former Eagles guitarist Don Felder on his mid-show medical emergency
Last week, former Eagles guitarist Don Felder was forced to cut his performance short after suffering a medical emergency halfway through his set on the Rock Legends Cruise.
Now fully recovered, Felder reflects on the frightening moment, revealing what went wrong and how a quick-thinking girlfriend saved him from an onstage collapse – and a potentially embarrassing fall in front of a packed audience.
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“I have always said that I’m going to rock till I drop. I never knew it would be in the middle of Tequila Sunrise, instead of like [Life in the Fast] Lane or Hotel [California] or something really fun,” says the 77-year-old in a new interview with Heartland Radio’s Sal Cirrincione.
“I was feeling fine before the show – all day long, I felt naturally my 100 percent or my 99.9 percent, and I went onstage, and I started the introduction for Tequila Sunrise. I stepped back from the microphone, and I just was like, ‘Whoa, wait a minute. This feels like acid.’ I just felt like I’m leaving my body.”
Felder then turned to his girlfriend, who was standing at the side of the stage and immediately recognised that something was wrong.
“[She] knows every look I’ve ever made to her,” he says.
Within moments, “she came right out on stage, grabbed me and had to get me offstage. She saved me from one of the most embarrassing things, which would have been to fall down onstage by myself. So I owe her big time,” says Felder.
“We got down to the medical room, and they did a heart check and they did all this stuff. They realised that I was just dehydrated, [and] they put me on an IV. 30 minutes later, I was back making bad jokes, and everybody in the place was laughing.”
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