Eagles - Hotel California (1976)

Ironic that he was fired from the Eagles in 2001! When I heard the Eagles in concert during their Hell Freezes Over tour (at The Pyramid, Memphis, TN on January 30, 1995), Don Felder was still with the group. SPC Jon O. is correct! Hearing Hotel California performed live is a treat!
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Thank you, my friend SGT (Join to see) for posting the music video of the eagles performing the hauntingly-beautiful Hotel California in 1976.
The interplay between Don Felder and Joe Walsh is wonderful.

Song background: Former Eagles guitarist Don Felder says the "Hotel California" dueling guitar leads that appeared on the song's 1977 hit studio recording were nearly the same as the parts he contemporaneously tracked when he demoed the song.
Felder says he came up with the chord progression while strumming a 12-string guitar on the couch at his Malibu beach house in 1976. He rushed to his room to record a demo.
“At the end of the demo, I made up what I thought would be a part that I would play and something that Joe would play,” Felder says in an interview with Ultimate Classic Rock.

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Felder indicates he recorded the leads simply as guides with the expectation that he and Joe Walsh would further iron out the parts in the studio.
But when the two guitarists began working on new parts, Don Henley stopped them and insisted they play only what was on Felder's demo. But Felder didn't have it with him and he didn't remember what he played.
“We were sitting in Miami in the recording studio’s doing those guitars,” Felder says. “I had left my original cassette in my studio in Los Angeles in Malibu. So I had to call my housekeeper, have her go find the cassette, put it in a blaster, play it over the phone, so we could record it in the studio in Miami. Then I had to sit down and learn what I had just made up, note for note from the hip because Don wanted it just like the demo. I would say over half of that solo on the end came off of my original demo.”
Felder went on to compliment Henley's lyric writing for the song and the singing drummer's resolve in pushing the record label to release the near seven-minute "Hotel California" as an AM radio single."
https://news.iheart.com/featured/maria-milito/content/2017-07-11-don-felder-reveals-hotel-california-guitar-solos-were-mostly-improvised/


"Hotel California" written by Glenn Lewis Frey, Don Felder, Donald Hugh Henley
Lyrics
"On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair
Warm smell of colitas, rising up through the air
Up ahead in the distance, I saw a shimmering light
My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim
I had to stop for the night
There she stood in the doorway
I heard the mission bell
And I was thinking to myself
"This could be Heaven or this could be Hell"
Then she lit up a candle and she showed me the way
There were voices down the corridor
I thought I heard them say

Welcome to the Hotel California
Such a lovely place (Such a lovely place)
Such a lovely face
Plenty of room at the Hotel California
Any time of year (Any time of year)
You can find it here

Her mind is Tiffany-twisted, she got the Mercedes bends
She got a lot of pretty, pretty boys she calls friends
How they dance in the courtyard, sweet summer sweat
Some dance to remember, some dance to forget

So I called up the Captain
"Please bring me my wine."
He said, "We haven't had that spirit here since nineteen sixty nine."
And still those voices are calling from far away
Wake you up in the middle of the night
Just to hear them say

Welcome to the Hotel California
Such a lovely place (Such a lovely place)
Such a lovely face
They livin' it up at the Hotel California
What a nice surprise (what a nice surprise)
Bring your alibis

Mirrors on the ceiling
The pink champagne on ice
And she said "We are all just prisoners here, of our own device"
And in the master's chambers
They gathered for the feast
They stab it with their steely knives
But they just can't kill the beast

Last thing I remember
I was running for the door
I had to find the passage back to the place I was before
"Relax," said the night man
"We are programmed to receive
You can check-out any time you like
But you can never leave!"

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Eagles have always been one of my favorites