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I am from the DVM east coast looking for lead guitarist, bassist, and drummer/ percussive if you know what DMV is reply please. Seven Bridges by the Eagle you want to talk about some awesome vocals by all
'Hotel California' is one of the most debated songs, with everyone getting a different meaning from it. The one thing we all agree on is that it's a great song.
Heard Frey & Henley talk about how everyone tries to guess the meaning of Hotel California, they said it has several meanings, the music industry is one of them, but they also mentioned journey of innocence to experience, as well as Hollywood life.
One thing to consider is that all of the Eagles .members were from small towns in the midwest. The song ia about people heading to southern California to make it big and get sucked into a particular, destructive lifestyle of excess and have difficulty disengaging from said lirlfestyle.
This song ALWAYS makes me think of my mom, singing along to this song with her, my dad rolling his eyes. 😂 She and I even saw the Eagles live together about 12 years ago, she sprang for floor seats, it was awesome. I’ve lost them both in the last year, but every time I hear this song I smile. ❤ from Benton, Arkansas
I have always loved this song and always thought it to be about addiction. Never the less it is a classic hit that will never die. Awesome song. My ex would listen to this song every day all day. But never gets old. Thanks for reacting to it. Love you show glad I came across it. Thanks. Michele.
I’m 63 years young and to be a teenager in the 70’s was a blast. And, yes, this song is a masterpiece. I saw the Eagles in’79 and they were great! I have been to more than 100 concerts!
Don Felder and Joe Walsh played such beautiful chords throughout the entire song. Felder was the most underrated guitar player or all-time. He played with class.
I remember when I was learning the saxophone, triplet triplet triplet. Playing big band ,jazz ,easiest way to teach beats to kids. Doesn't have to be about addiction to kids. Music is basic!💙💙💙💙💙
Don Henley has said it’s mostly about the excesses of the music industry. But I think, when they wrote it, they wanted people to drawn their own conclusions. Be careful posting Eagles! They’re famous for copyright strikes 😢. Loved your reaction. 🌸💐✌️
I have the pleasure also of growing up with the eclectic mix of music. My parents (Dad mostly) collected albums. I was exposed to anything & everything musically. It was a real blessing to have the chance to hear so many genres & groups & solo artists & ultimately the freedom to choose what I liked most as I grew up.
The name you're forgetting is Don Felder. He's the guy playing the double-neck guitar (and was the guy who wrote this song. Check out "Take it To the Limit" live from the same concert (or any concert in 1977). That features bassist Randy Meisner (may he RIP) killing it on lead vocals
This is my favorite song of ALL TIME! Was around in the 70's to hear it fresh & new. Was in highschool in the early 80's & decided then that if you put me in a room 24/7 with nothing but this song playing, I would NEVER get tired of it!
Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Joe Walsh, Randy Meisner, Timothy B Schmidt, Don Felder, and even Vince Gill. There has NEVER been a band with that much skill and talent. Never. Their music will live on for millennia.
Timothy B. Schmidt also sings lead. My favorite that he sings lead on is “I Can’t Tell You Why”, which he also wrote. Thanks for the great reaction. 👏👏🥰
I got to see them on the last tour with Glen Frey before he died & they were awesome. They were a big part of my youth. I did not get the chance to see very many bands in concert when I was young but I made up for it as I aged. Love your reactions, thanks for sharing.
This song was played at my ex's wake in 2006.... It was one of his favorite songs.... It used to hurt to hear it (he was 26 and died a very unexpected and tragic death) but now it comforts me to hear because it brings back the good memories and makes me feel like he's still with me in a way. 💙💙💙
AddictionGlen Fry Once said when Eagles broke up, said “ The Eagles will not be together When Hell freezes over” They Did a hell freeze over Tour, 7 bridges Road, it’s awewsome
Glen Frey was the one who had the idea for the man who drives through a “dark desert highway” and finds a strange hotel. He said he wanted it to feel like The Twilight Zone episode and aimed to create a track that felt like a scary movie. “We decided to create something strange, just to see if we could do it,” he said. According to him, the point was to keep the song visual and packed with weird imagery, just for the sake of creating something strange. Well, he certainly hit the mark there. One of the other most famous lines in the track, “They stab it with their steely knives, But they just can’t kill the beast,” is a response to Steely Dan, who had given the Eagles a shoutout in their song, Everything You Did.
I was blessed to see the Eagles live once and Don Henley a couple of times. All three at Starwood Amphitheater outside Nashville. Hearing them out in nature was absolutely magical… every time. ☮️🎶✝️ Keep on Rocking!
All these guys were studio musicians that decided just together and play all of them were vocalists Glen Fry, Joe Walsh always a crazy dude, Don Henley the drummer sings his songs
@@rebeccacurtis6680 hi Rebecca, I unfortunately never saw them live because I live in Italy, I'm Italian, I can see only the video of the concerts, live 1977, 1994 MTV ....how was it being there??
@donatagenelli7814 Absolutely amazing concert & worth every penny. It was at Rice Stadium in Houston & the place was packed out. Melissa Etheridge opened for them. I had a choice between seeing them or Jimmy Buffett and chose the Eagles because they hadn't been together & there was no telling if I'd get another chance to see them. It was the right choice. Glen Frey passed away later. I finally got to make good on seeing Jimmy Buffett in concert in June 2022 at Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavillion in The Woodlands (N. Houston area) after trying for numerous years & it was an absolute blast. I kept telling friends that Jimmy wasn't getting any younger & neither was I. Little did I know how those words would ring true just over a yr later when Jimmy Buffett passed away. Can't believe it's been a yr next wk since we lost him. RIP JB.
Whether I was cleaning the house or doing yard work, I put on their album and had the music blasting!❤️ My husband would come in from work and be grinning.I think it put him in a good mood when he'd had a bad day.❤
When they were handing out talent, every one of the Eagles obviously kept getting back in the line for more and more. Ridiculously talented - every one of them!
In 1991 a band called, Hotel California, was playing at my college in Belleville, ON... they tribute Eagles. That is the night I met my late husband. Later in our relationship, Eagles announced "Hell Freezes Over" and we scrimped and saved and saw them play in Toronto. I am so glad we got to see them on their first tour back. The Eagles was a huge part of our marriage. Tim listened to them often up until he passed away from cancer in 2020... I still struggle to listen to their music since then. Note: meaning of this song, the band admitted during a documentary that there is zero meaning to the song. They just wrote and this is how the song came about.
It's about battling demons: demons of our own device (addiction); demons of hell (or purgatory); and the demons that can compromise your morals, principals and integrity within the music industry and Hollywood in general.
I genuinely believe the song was written to be about addiction. The older I get, the more it makes sense. But since I heard it 30 years old, at 6, this has been a ghost story about a man who wrecked while on a freeway drive and died but woke up in a purgatorial hotel believing he checked in between business trips (and other sins). Ive wanted to write a short story for years about it and never came to it, but thats what my perception is on a (no pun intended) spiritual level.
Insane Asylum, in a creepy desert in Cali, Yo u can check out any time you like, but you can never leave, there is also reference to a Lobotomy, In the masters chambers they gather for the feast, stab it with their steely knives, but they just can't kill the beast. such a great album, I was 16 when it came out, and my friends and I would drive along the canyons in Cali at night and listen to their music, it was awesome! Thank you for featuring it on your Utube Channel.
Yes, definitely about the music industry. The lyrics( prisoners here of our own device). Your talent, your voice. You're instrument whatever it is, you're good at that. Got you in the industry. You're a prisoner of. That's just one bar that stuck out to me as a metaphor for the music industry. There's plenty others
Someone commented that the Eagles had a rule that if one of them wrote a song, they had to sing it. All of them have great voices and can sing lead. I vote is that it is about the music industry, how you get lured in and catered to, put really hard to leave it behind.
Pegasus said "Haunted hotel". When I was in my young teens my mother, siblings and I were traveling to Arizona and broke down in Oklahoma. It was nighttime, and the only hotel was this old 3 story building with vines growing on it and none of the windows were lit up. It looked haunted. Us kids were terrified. This song had just come out, and someone said "it looks like the Hotel California". After that if we heard it, together or alone, we would turn it up and sing it. I am 64 now and it always takes me back. It's funny to me, given what the song is about, that it harkens back to a time when life was good, maybe not easy, but where innocence reigned and the dirtiest thing around was the mud puddle in the back yard.
I was raised by my grandparents (grandmother from Chicago, grandfather from 9th ward louisiana). We grew up listening to everything from the Rat Pack to Janice Joplin. Eagles are absolutely amazing. I always thought it was referring to addictions.
I have recently heard a podcast that explained the entire song. Fascinating and very deep. The lead who wrote the song was interviewed about it. Sorry, I can’t remember the program that ran it….. simply amazing!
The Eagles, not native Californians, probably reacted to what they were now going thru in Malibu, Hollywood Hills and yes the music industry at the time. FM radio blew into town knocking the big rock am stations off the mountain, so the competition was fierce..the payola by the music industry was drugs to various program directors. The rockers had to sell their souls to get played on the radio..so everyone was going after big money, big record companies, big record producers etc. Hotel California was an anthem to this way of life…not sure its the same now though. And, there are so many cultural variables to examining this song..and only The Eagles..know the real reason for the words they penned. However, the music is still wonderful to hear.
Saw them on this tour but also as a warm up for jethro Tull in 72 when we had no idea who they were Damn we were so lucky to have been around for all the amazing music back then
Man, how I hate that I never got out to hear the Eagles live back in the day. Another group that sounded just as good live as in the studio, and man, what an experience that audience had.
Seeing them live was on my bucket list. I finally made it in 2001. So happy that I saw the real deal. They still tour but it's with Glenn's son & Vince Gill. As much as I respect their talent, it just wouldn't be the same. 😢
Joe Walsh, red bandanna on the right, is the Artist who had the hit Life’s Been Good To Me. He’s magnificent in the guitar duet at the end of the song.
I always thought the hotel was a reference to the state of California (The band is from LA). The weather is nice year around and once you get there you are hooked and can't leave. Reference to the 70's when the song came out. Completely different state today. I am probably way off, but that was my first thought.
Don Henley who wrote the lyrics and sings this said it was about the journey from Innocence to Experience. They can all sing lead. A short lived band who put out some great songs. Be well all.
A short lived band!? They're still touring today with Glenn's son & Vince Gill filling out the band. They also had a huge "comeback" album in the early 90s
Man just like Kriss, my mother is the one who introduced me to classic rock. She was raised in Detroit. She brought Jazz to my dad, classic rock, Motown, and soul to me and my brother. The Eagles were one of her favorite bands. Now I can share it with my daughter.
The lead guitarist is Don Felder along with Joe Walsh. Bernie Leadon and Randy Meisner were gone by the time this song came out. The bass player is Timothy B Schmidt.
One thing I've heard is the song is about the excess of the 1970s - Tiffany-twisted, mirrors on the ceiling, pink champagne on ice, havent had that spirit here since 1969...
You 2 are good together!! Yeah loved this song in high school. Imagine your science teacher letting you & your bestie stay after school and sing this song. Amazing times. ❤
Its a brilliant song from a very talented band. Side note…..their Hell freezes over tour in 1994 was the first to charge $100 per ticket. They swore they would never reunite and people paid to see it. And music tours have never been cheap since then.
I always took it as a song about the drug scene in California and them not being from around those parts, going there and seeing it from an outsiders perspective. The intro is them riding into town on a freeway (the smell of colitas is a plant commonly found along California's freeway) And the metaphor of it being a hotel I feel is completely tied to the line "you can check out any time you like, but you can never leave." In my mind meaning that you can "check out" as in get high until you're nodding out, but you can never leave meaning you're trapped in the drug life now.
Hi, I just looked this up and found this....The song's lead singer, Don Henley, has said that the song is a metaphor for the "dark underbelly of the American dream" and the band's introduction to the "high life" in Los Angeles.
Don Henley has given a number of explanations about the song, ranging from "a journey from innocence to experience" to "a sociopolitical statement." In an interview with Rolling Stone, Henley said that the song was meant to be "more of a symbolic piece about America in general," and added, "Lyrically, the song deals with traditional or classical themes of conflict: darkness and light, good and evil, youth and age, the spiritual versus the secular. I guess you could say it's a song about loss of innocence." The song has been described as being "all about American decadence and burnout, too much money, corruption, drugs and arrogance; too little humility and heart." It has also been interpreted as an allegory about hedonism, self-destruction, and greed in the music industry of the late 1970s. Henley called it "our interpretation of the high life in Los Angeles," and later said, "It's not really about California; it's about America. It's about the dark underbelly of the American dream. It's about excess, it's about narcissism. It's about the music business. ... It can have a million interpretations." In the 2013 documentary, History of the Eagles, Henley reiterated: 'On just about every album we made, there was some kind of commentary on the music business, and on American culture in general. The hotel itself could be taken as a metaphor not only for the myth-making of Southern California, but for the myth-making that is the American Dream, because it is a fine line between the American Dream, and the American nightmare.'
Most people call the ending guitar workout a solo, but it's actually a duet between Don Felder on the Gibson electric 12-string double neck and Joe Walsh on the Fender Telecaster. The performance is from the Pink Champagne on Ice tour supporting the album.
I think everyone remembers the first time they heard this song. I was sitting in my school cafeteria at lunch. What makes this such a strong memory is the banality of the moment -- just another lunch at a boring school cafeteria -- yet the moment is pierced and etched in memory for life because of the strength and character of this amazing and memorable song.
The other guitar player was Don Felder-who actually wrote the opening chords that catch you at the beginning-it's like saying through his guitar-listen to this story it's going to be a cool story and the ending you're going to love.
Others are Don Felder, Bernie Leadon, Timothy B Schmidt. The original 4 were Frey, Leadon, Henley, and Meisner. All played for Linda Ronstadt at different times she helped them get together
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I don’t see it over there. Did I miss it? Cause if you haven’t you need to
Also while I got your attention
Did you Bob Dylan Rainy Day Women ?
And Billy Joel
My baby grand with Ray Charles?
And
Big Man on Mullberry Street?
Joel only did a few duets in his career
I am from the DVM east coast looking for lead guitarist, bassist, and drummer/ percussive if you know what DMV is reply please. Seven Bridges by the Eagle you want to talk about some awesome vocals by all
Please be careful. So many channels have been hit by copyright strikes for reacting to The Eagles.
Every member of the Eagles was the lead singer, they all sang lead on one song or another.
As a 70's teen we had the best music ever.
The best in history and the best that will ever be 💯♥️
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I was born in the late-late 80's and i tend to agree.
Definitely🙏🏻❤️
As a 90s teen, you really did and I was born in the wroooong decade 😢
'Hotel California' is one of the most debated songs, with everyone getting a different meaning from it. The one thing we all agree on is that it's a great song.
Dude what are you, special? It's obviously about a hotel, in California I mean come on! lmao
Don himself has said what it is about
Heard Frey & Henley talk about how everyone tries to guess the meaning of Hotel California, they said it has several meanings, the music industry is one of them, but they also mentioned journey of innocence to experience, as well as Hollywood life.
One thing to consider is that all of the Eagles .members were from small towns in the midwest. The song ia about people heading to southern California to make it big and get sucked into a particular, destructive lifestyle of excess and have difficulty disengaging from said lirlfestyle.
This song ALWAYS makes me think of my mom, singing along to this song with her, my dad rolling his eyes. 😂 She and I even saw the Eagles live together about 12 years ago, she sprang for floor seats, it was awesome. I’ve lost them both in the last year, but every time I hear this song I smile. ❤ from Benton, Arkansas
I have always loved this song and always thought it to be about addiction. Never the less it is a classic hit that will never die. Awesome song. My ex would listen to this song every day all day. But never gets old. Thanks for reacting to it. Love you show glad I came across it. Thanks. Michele.
I belive it is about the industry and the cost of fame. One of the goat songs ever
Superb live performance of a great song, Don Felder/Joe Walsh guitar at the end just gets better every time I hear it.
The great Don Felder on double guitar.
I’m 63 years young and to be a teenager in the 70’s was a blast. And, yes, this song is a masterpiece. I saw the Eagles in’79 and they were great! I have been to more than 100 concerts!
Don Felder and Joe Walsh played such beautiful chords throughout the entire song. Felder was the most underrated guitar player or all-time. He played with class.
I remember when I was learning the saxophone, triplet triplet triplet. Playing big band ,jazz ,easiest way to teach beats to kids. Doesn't have to be about addiction to kids. Music is basic!💙💙💙💙💙
Don Felder... playing the doubleneck.... and the guy that came up with the Hotel California riff...
Don Henley has said it’s mostly about the excesses of the music industry. But I think, when they wrote it, they wanted people to drawn their own conclusions. Be careful posting Eagles! They’re famous for copyright strikes 😢. Loved your reaction. 🌸💐✌️
I have the pleasure also of growing up with the eclectic mix of music. My parents (Dad mostly) collected albums. I was exposed to anything & everything musically. It was a real blessing to have the chance to hear so many genres & groups & solo artists & ultimately the freedom to choose what I liked most as I grew up.
The name you're forgetting is Don Felder. He's the guy playing the double-neck guitar (and was the guy who wrote this song. Check out "Take it To the Limit" live from the same concert (or any concert in 1977). That features bassist Randy Meisner (may he RIP) killing it on lead vocals
This is my favorite song of ALL TIME! Was around in the 70's to hear it fresh & new. Was in highschool in the early 80's & decided then that if you put me in a room 24/7 with nothing but this song playing, I would NEVER get tired of it!
Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Joe Walsh, Randy Meisner, Timothy B Schmidt, Don Felder, and even Vince Gill. There has NEVER been a band with that much skill and talent. Never. Their music will live on for millennia.
I saw these exact words carved into carbon dated petrified wood.... this checks out.
Timothy B. Schmidt also sings lead. My favorite that he sings lead on is “I Can’t Tell You Why”, which he also wrote. Thanks for the great reaction. 👏👏🥰
I read somewhere once that the Eagles rule was, you write it, you sing it.
maybe my favorite Eagles song and I can't karaoke it ever!
I think it’s one of the best guitar solos. It stands up there.
True but it’s a duo
I got to see them on the last tour with Glen Frey before he died & they were awesome. They were a big part of my youth. I did not get the chance to see very many bands in concert when I was young but I made up for it as I aged. Love your reactions, thanks for sharing.
You got me, I love Black Pegasus and I have started watching Krizz too. You are going to have a blast, so many rabbit holes.
I've known this song (almost)my whole life....at 56 years old. My parents played it on three foot tall speakers....
It still gives me goosebumps.
Great memories
Me too!!! My dad with his Bose stereo!! 😂
I lived "Lucky Man" by Emerson Lake and Palmer too....
I still blast it on 3 foot tall speakers 😊.
This song was played at my ex's wake in 2006.... It was one of his favorite songs.... It used to hurt to hear it (he was 26 and died a very unexpected and tragic death) but now it comforts me to hear because it brings back the good memories and makes me feel like he's still with me in a way. 💙💙💙
I feel for you. I lost my brother suddenly over 8 years ago and still miss him keenly.
AddictionGlen Fry Once said when Eagles broke up, said “ The Eagles will not be together When Hell freezes over” They Did a hell freeze over Tour, 7 bridges Road, it’s awewsome
Glen Frey was the one who had the idea for the man who drives through a “dark desert highway” and finds a strange hotel. He said he wanted it to feel like The Twilight Zone episode and aimed to create a track that felt like a scary movie. “We decided to create something strange, just to see if we could do it,” he said.
According to him, the point was to keep the song visual and packed with weird imagery, just for the sake of creating something strange. Well, he certainly hit the mark there.
One of the other most famous lines in the track, “They stab it with their steely knives, But they just can’t kill the beast,” is a response to Steely Dan, who had given the Eagles a shoutout in their song, Everything You Did.
This song is one of my favorites
I was blessed to see the Eagles live once and Don Henley a couple of times. All three at Starwood Amphitheater outside Nashville. Hearing them out in nature was absolutely magical… every time. ☮️🎶✝️
Keep on Rocking!
U both need to check out all of their solo music as well! I consider The Eagles a super group because all of the members have amazing solo music!
Don Henley has some great solo stuff. I saw him in concert for his second solo album.
All these guys were studio musicians that decided just together and play all of them were vocalists Glen Fry, Joe Walsh always a crazy dude, Don Henley the drummer sings his songs
wow, really good harmony from the gentleman with glasses 👏👏👏
They have an acoustic version too, in their reunion album, Hell Freezes Over, 1994. It also topped the charts.
My favorite version ❤
Yep. Saw them for the 1st & only time in Summer, '94. Amazing concert & love that version, too.
@@rebeccacurtis6680 hi Rebecca, I unfortunately never saw them live because I live in Italy, I'm Italian, I can see only the video of the concerts, live 1977, 1994 MTV ....how was it being there??
@donatagenelli7814 Absolutely amazing concert & worth every penny. It was at Rice Stadium in Houston & the place was packed out. Melissa Etheridge opened for them.
I had a choice between seeing them or Jimmy Buffett and chose the Eagles because they hadn't been together & there was no telling if I'd get another chance to see them. It was the right choice. Glen Frey passed away later.
I finally got to make good on seeing Jimmy Buffett in concert in June 2022 at Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavillion in The Woodlands (N. Houston area) after trying for numerous years & it was an absolute blast. I kept telling friends that Jimmy wasn't getting any younger & neither was I. Little did I know how those words would ring true just over a yr later when Jimmy Buffett passed away. Can't believe it's been a yr next wk since we lost him. RIP JB.
It was EXCELLENT!
Whether I was cleaning the house or doing yard work, I put on their album and had the music blasting!❤️ My husband would come in from work and be grinning.I think it put him in a good mood when he'd had a bad day.❤
When they were handing out talent, every one of the Eagles obviously kept getting back in the line for more and more. Ridiculously talented - every one of them!
Addiction and hell is a great answer. Purgatory is also very accurate.
ALL of them sing! also t
he guitarist with the bandana on his head is JOE WALSH! check out lives been good to me and Rocky mountain way
I can't get over the joy on your face! Your harmony is spot on. Gotta find your channel, too! Update: found it and subscribed. Let's rock!
In 1991 a band called, Hotel California, was playing at my college in Belleville, ON... they tribute Eagles. That is the night I met my late husband. Later in our relationship, Eagles announced "Hell Freezes Over" and we scrimped and saved and saw them play in Toronto. I am so glad we got to see them on their first tour back. The Eagles was a huge part of our marriage. Tim listened to them often up until he passed away from cancer in 2020... I still struggle to listen to their music since then.
Note: meaning of this song, the band admitted during a documentary that there is zero meaning to the song. They just wrote and this is how the song came about.
Nice to meet you. I came upon your channel from a UA-cam recommendation. This song transends time.
It's about battling demons: demons of our own device (addiction); demons of hell (or purgatory); and the demons that can compromise your morals, principals and integrity within the music industry and Hollywood in general.
I genuinely believe the song was written to be about addiction. The older I get, the more it makes sense. But since I heard it 30 years old, at 6, this has been a ghost story about a man who wrecked while on a freeway drive and died but woke up in a purgatorial hotel believing he checked in between business trips (and other sins). Ive wanted to write a short story for years about it and never came to it, but thats what my perception is on a (no pun intended) spiritual level.
Insane Asylum, in a creepy desert in Cali, Yo u can check out any time you like, but you can never leave, there is also reference to a Lobotomy, In the masters chambers they gather for the feast, stab it with their steely knives, but they just can't kill the beast. such a great album, I was 16 when it came out, and my friends and I would drive along the canyons in Cali at night and listen to their music, it was awesome! Thank you for featuring it on your Utube Channel.
I never get tired of listening to this song.
For the most primo Eagles harmonies, you’ve got to listen to Seven Bridges Road.
Yes, definitely about the music industry. The lyrics( prisoners here of our own device). Your talent, your voice. You're instrument whatever it is, you're good at that. Got you in the industry. You're a prisoner of. That's just one bar that stuck out to me as a metaphor for the music industry. There's plenty others
It"s acually about the addiction to your phone and how you you can"t leave.
Someone commented that the Eagles had a rule that if one of them wrote a song, they had to sing it. All of them have great voices and can sing lead. I vote is that it is about the music industry, how you get lured in and catered to, put really hard to leave it behind.
Pegasus said "Haunted hotel". When I was in my young teens my mother, siblings and I were traveling to Arizona and broke down in Oklahoma. It was nighttime, and the only hotel was this old 3 story building with vines growing on it and none of the windows were lit up. It looked haunted. Us kids were terrified. This song had just come out, and someone said "it looks like the Hotel California". After that if we heard it, together or alone, we would turn it up and sing it. I am 64 now and it always takes me back. It's funny to me, given what the song is about, that it harkens back to a time when life was good, maybe not easy, but where innocence reigned and the dirtiest thing around was the mud puddle in the back yard.
I was raised by my grandparents (grandmother from Chicago, grandfather from 9th ward louisiana). We grew up listening to everything from the Rat Pack to Janice Joplin. Eagles are absolutely amazing. I always thought it was referring to addictions.
The Eagles were earlier called The Stone Ponies and they sang backup for Linda Ronstadt early in her career.
Everything about this song is pure genius! ❤❤❤❤
They say the solo riff which is so famous came from Walsh including what he used to play to practice his finger dexterity 🎶🖤
I have recently heard a podcast that explained the entire song. Fascinating and very deep. The lead who wrote the song was interviewed about it. Sorry, I can’t remember the program that ran it….. simply amazing!
Don Henley, the lead singer and drummer, said the song "is about the journey from innocence to experience. And that's it."
It's about the dark side of being famous. The Eagles talked about the meaning years ago. Because they went from unknown to super stars overnight
I have always loved the Eagles
Can't lie, I rolled one up and watched along. Watching you guys digging different music is a joy. Keep on digging it! Music is a blessing!
Loved this! Y’all have great chemistry! Will definitely check out your channel! I love the classics! ❤️🔥✌🏻🫶🏻
The Eagles, not native Californians, probably reacted to what they were now going thru in Malibu, Hollywood Hills and yes the music industry at the time. FM radio blew into town knocking the big rock am stations off the mountain, so the competition was fierce..the payola by the music industry was drugs to various program directors. The rockers had to sell their souls to get played on the radio..so everyone was going after big money, big record companies, big record producers etc. Hotel California was an anthem to this way of life…not sure its the same now though. And, there are so many cultural variables to examining this song..and only The Eagles..know the real reason for the words they penned. However, the music is still wonderful to hear.
I can’t remember what iconic musician said it but they talked about their lyrics being about whatever you wanted.
Came to California in 76 still here cant check out !
If you want a song for your funeral i CAN'T think of a better one then Slaughter .. Fly to the angels👍👍
Eagles - Desperado is another good one
Saw them on this tour but also as a warm up for jethro Tull in 72 when we had no idea who they were
Damn we were so lucky to have been around for all the amazing music back then
I love it when you guys team up and visit each other’s channels.
Man, how I hate that I never got out to hear the Eagles live back in the day. Another group that sounded just as good live as in the studio, and man, what an experience that audience had.
Back in day ...I saw them 2 years ago still amazing...r.i.p.glenn
They are still great live in concert today… But now they will cost you a fortune.
I can't believe that I saw them three times in the mid-late 70s.
Seeing them live was on my bucket list. I finally made it in 2001. So happy that I saw the real deal. They still tour but it's with Glenn's son & Vince Gill.
As much as I respect their talent, it just wouldn't be the same. 😢
Saw them last year and STILL amazing live
Much luv guys. Harry from Albany AKA "Scooby Snacks"
Joe Walsh, red bandanna on the right, is the Artist who had the hit Life’s Been Good To Me. He’s magnificent in the guitar duet at the end of the song.
My interpretation is music and addiction in California.
Great reaction!!
I always thought the hotel was a reference to the state of California (The band is from LA). The weather is nice year around and once you get there you are hooked and can't leave. Reference to the 70's when the song came out. Completely different state today. I am probably way off, but that was my first thought.
Randy Meisner - Take it to the limit! A work of art. 💕
Don Henley said it's about the life in los Angeles from innocent to fame greed and drugs I'm paraphrasing of course
SaTTiiiiNN! love itmade me chuckle
I was in heaven when they put Joe Walsh and Don Felder together for this dual solo.
Love the Eagles!!!
Don Henley who wrote the lyrics and sings this said it was about the journey from Innocence to Experience. They can all sing lead. A short lived band who put out some great songs. Be well all.
A short lived band!? They're still touring today with Glenn's son & Vince Gill filling out the band.
They also had a huge "comeback" album in the early 90s
Short lived? In what world????
@@nickhayes1626 Music is around forever, but they only lasted a few years as a band sadly.
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Man just like Kriss, my mother is the one who introduced me to classic rock. She was raised in Detroit. She brought Jazz to my dad, classic rock, Motown, and soul to me and my brother. The Eagles were one of her favorite bands. Now I can share it with my daughter.
The smile you smiled to this Krizz❤❤❤ Much love to you two!!🤟
California IS the hotel!!!🔥🤘🎶🎼🎵
The lead guitarist is Don Felder along with Joe Walsh. Bernie Leadon and Randy Meisner were gone by the time this song came out. The bass player is Timothy B Schmidt.
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One thing I've heard is the song is about the excess of the 1970s - Tiffany-twisted, mirrors on the ceiling, pink champagne on ice, havent had that spirit here since 1969...
The dual guitars at the end make it worth the wait.🤩🤩
The Hotel in reference is in San Diego and is called Hotel Del Coronado! Its silhouette is even used in the cover of the original album.
They were great miss them❤
My man Krizz comin' in with the harmony vox, right on pitch too!👑
You 2 are good together!! Yeah loved this song in high school. Imagine your science teacher letting you & your bestie stay after school and sing this song. Amazing times. ❤
Its a brilliant song from a very talented band. Side note…..their Hell freezes over tour in 1994 was the first to charge $100 per ticket. They swore they would never reunite and people paid to see it. And music tours have never been cheap since then.
No one knows for sure what its about. The band has hinted but never told
I always took it as a song about the drug scene in California and them not being from around those parts, going there and seeing it from an outsiders perspective. The intro is them riding into town on a freeway (the smell of colitas is a plant commonly found along California's freeway) And the metaphor of it being a hotel I feel is completely tied to the line "you can check out any time you like, but you can never leave." In my mind meaning that you can "check out" as in get high until you're nodding out, but you can never leave meaning you're trapped in the drug life now.
You can stop doing the drug/habit but you don't ever lose the craving.
Been sober for almost 30 years and that is straight facts.
Hi, I just looked this up and found this....The song's lead singer, Don Henley, has said that the song is a metaphor for the "dark underbelly of the American dream" and the band's introduction to the "high life" in Los Angeles.
A classic. I'd recommend you react to Jim Croce song Operator. Brilliant songwriting and beautiful guitar playing.
Don Henley has given a number of explanations about the song, ranging from "a journey from innocence to experience" to "a sociopolitical statement." In an interview with Rolling Stone, Henley said that the song was meant to be "more of a symbolic piece about America in general," and added, "Lyrically, the song deals with traditional or classical themes of conflict: darkness and light, good and evil, youth and age, the spiritual versus the secular. I guess you could say it's a song about loss of innocence."
The song has been described as being "all about American decadence and burnout, too much money, corruption, drugs and arrogance; too little humility and heart." It has also been interpreted as an allegory about hedonism, self-destruction, and greed in the music industry of the late 1970s. Henley called it "our interpretation of the high life in Los Angeles," and later said, "It's not really about California; it's about America. It's about the dark underbelly of the American dream. It's about excess, it's about narcissism. It's about the music business. ... It can have a million interpretations." In the 2013 documentary, History of the Eagles, Henley reiterated:
'On just about every album we made, there was some kind of commentary on the music business, and on American culture in general. The hotel itself could be taken as a metaphor not only for the myth-making of Southern California, but for the myth-making that is the American Dream, because it is a fine line between the American Dream, and the American nightmare.'
Great answer
Most people call the ending guitar workout a solo, but it's actually a duet between Don Felder on the Gibson electric 12-string double neck and Joe Walsh on the Fender Telecaster. The performance is from the Pink Champagne on Ice tour supporting the album.
I think everyone remembers the first time they heard this song. I was sitting in my school cafeteria at lunch. What makes this such a strong memory is the banality of the moment -- just another lunch at a boring school cafeteria -- yet the moment is pierced and etched in memory for life because of the strength and character of this amazing and memorable song.
The other guitar player was Don Felder-who actually wrote the opening chords that catch you at the beginning-it's like saying through his guitar-listen to this story it's going to be a cool story and the ending you're going to love.
My conspiracy on the meaning of this MASTERPIECE, Is the artists selling their souls for the ability to play. This piece is SO EPIC! 🔥🔥🔥
Others are Don Felder, Bernie Leadon, Timothy B Schmidt. The original 4 were Frey, Leadon, Henley, and Meisner. All played for Linda Ronstadt at different times she helped them get together
Don Henley (drummer and lyricist) said in an interview that this song is about the journey from innocence to experience.
Pretty sure the song is about THEIR experience chasing the American Dream in hollywood, LA, the music scene, and as artists in general.