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Don Felder's '(Taken a Ride) Heavy Metal'

posted 16 years ago by csweetleaf2
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When I've first heard of Don Felder's "(Taken a Ride) Heavy Metal" I actually thought it was John Mellencamp who did this song.

[–] whorton4 15 years ago

John Mellencamp? Your kidding, right?

[–] csweetleaf2 15 years ago

I'm serious

[–] whorton4 15 years ago

Ok. . Nothing personal. . . I just don't think they sounded that much alike. . .

[–] Winter23 14 years ago

Don Felder is a genius.

"Madness in great ones must not unwatched go."

[–] joshua_carpino 14 years ago

yeah,he is. and to the OP it sounds NOTHING LIKE MELLANCAMP.

[–] westal_sage 12 years ago

LOVE that song! And B-17 is one of my fav shorts in the film - very creepy!

[–] csweetleaf2 12 years ago

too bad Don Felder had to get kicked out of the Eagles due to Don Henley and Glenn Frey's greediness

[–] scubadivergeek 11 years ago

Just for the record, for awhile, I thought it was actually Don Henley, because I thought the vocal sounded like Henley and I knew it was one of the Eagles who did the song.

[–] csweetleaf2 (3674) 5 years ago

Don Henley and Timothy B. Schmit do perform backing vocals for "Heavy Metal (Takin' A Ride)"

[–] jdforyou1983 (1470) 4 years ago

My favorite song from the movie

[–] csweetleaf2 (3674) 4 years ago

I bought the soundtrack for that song and was impressed with most of the other songs off of the album, especially Cheap Trick's "I Must Be Dreamin'", Grand Funk Railroad's "Queen Bee" and Sammy Hagar's "Heavy Metal" (I much prefer the soundtrack version over the album version).