“I wrote it so that Joe and I could play even harder than we did – or edgier than we did – on Hotel California”: How Don Felder planned to rock out with Joe Walsh on the last Eagles album of the ’70s

Don Felder on stage with the Eagles in 1979.

Former Eagles guitarist Don Felder says that he wrote the song Heavy Metal for the band’s 1979 album The Long Run – and that he planned to make it a showcase for guitar pyrotechnics between himself and Joe Walsh.

As it turned out, the song wasn’t completed in time for inclusion on the Eagles’ album.