The Eagles Hotel California Meaning?!
Question: The Eagles Hotel California Meaning!?
I have heard many different "rumours" about what the song is actually about e!.g!. Devil worship, drugs, mental home etc!. What are your opinions of it!? By the way I think its a great song!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
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I think the only one that can honestly answer this question is Don Henley himself!. There are many interpretations of this particular song!. To me it is a near death experience, to others it is about a brothel and of course the always popular drug trip!. Art is subjective and it is interpreted by the one enjoying it!. It means whatever you want it to mean!.!.!.until Don himself comes out and actually tells us what he meant by it!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
Material and excess and the uneasy balance between art and commerce!.!.!.check out the link!.!.!.its kinda interestingWww@Enter-QA@Com
The rumors that it's based on something Satanic is absolutely untrue!. It was started by some nut who has a real problem with rock music and this is his way of spreading disinformation!. During an interview in 1985 Don Henley (drummer for the Eagles and writer of the song) decided to publicly deny that rumor and set the record straight!.
The song is actually about the music business in the mid 70's (which was becoming bloated!.!.!.drugs were everywhere if you wanted to partake, rock bands were now starting to play stadiums, and the music business was starting to become more about business more than music)!. The song is really about reaction of somebody who was in the middle of all of this and his feeling of being trapped in it!.
Follow the link below and you'll find out more about that song and its meaning!.
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The song is actually about the music business in the mid 70's (which was becoming bloated!.!.!.drugs were everywhere if you wanted to partake, rock bands were now starting to play stadiums, and the music business was starting to become more about business more than music)!. The song is really about reaction of somebody who was in the middle of all of this and his feeling of being trapped in it!.
Follow the link below and you'll find out more about that song and its meaning!.
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Hotel California
by
Eagles
Album: Hotel California Released: 1976
US Chart: 1 UK Chart: 8
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This is about materialism and excess!. California is used as the setting, but it could relate to anywhere in America!. Don Henley in the London Daily Mail November 9, 2007 said: "Some of the wilder interpretations of that song have been amazing!. It was really about the excesses of American culture and certain girls we knew!. But it was also about the uneasy balance between art and commerce!."
On November 25, 2007 Henley appeared on the TV news show 60 Minutes, where he was told, "everyone wants to know what this song means!." Henley replied: "I know, it's so boring!. It's a song about the dark underbelly of the American Dream, and about excess in America which was something we knew about!." (thanks, Emma - Westfield, ME)
Don Henley: "We were all middle-class kids from the Midwest!. Hotel California was our interpretation of the high life in Los Angeles!.
This won the 1977 Grammy for Record Of The Year!. The band did not show up to accept the award, as Don Henley did not believe in contests!.
Don Felder got the ball rolling on this!. He had the chord progressions and took it to Don Henley and Glenn Frey!. They put the words down, then Joe Walsh wrote all the guitar parts and arranged them for everyone!. (thanks, Les - Dannevirke, New Zealand)
"Colitas," in the line "Warm smell of colitas," is often interpreted as a flower or a sexual reference!. It is a Spanish word translated to Henley by the Eagles Mexican-American road manager meaning "Little Buds," and is a reference to marijuana!.
This was recorded at 3 different sessions before the Eagles got the version they wanted!. The biggest problem was finding the right key for Henley's vocal!.
Glenn Frey compares this to an episode of The Twilight Zone, where it jumps from one scene to the next and doesn't necessarily make sense!.
The line "They stab it with their steely knives but they just can't kill the beast" is a reference to Steely Dan!. The bands shared the same manager and had a friendly rivalry!. The year before, Steely Dan included the line "Turn up the Eagles, the neighbors are listening" on their song "Everything You Did!."
Don Felder and Joe Walsh played together on the guitar solos, creating the textured sound!.
The lyrics for the song came with the album!. Some people thought the line "She's got the Mercedes Bends" was a misspelling of "Mercedes Benz," and wrote Henley to complain!. The line was a play on words!.
Glenn Frey: "That record explores the under belly of success, the darker side of Paradise!. Which was sort of what we were experiencing in Los Angeles at that time!. So that just sort of became a metaphor for the whole world and for everything you know!. And we just decided to make it Hotel California!. So with a microcosm of everything else going on around us!." (thanks, Moomin - London, England)
When the Eagles got back together in 1994, they recorded a live version of this for an MTV special that was included on their album Hell Freezes Over!. The album was #1 in the US its first week!.
All 7 past and present members of the Eagles performed this in 1998 when they were inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame!.
The hotel on the album cover is the Beverly Hills Hotel, known as the Pink Palace!. It is often frequented by Hollywood stars!. The photo was taken by photographers David Alexander and John Kosh, who sat in a cherry-picker about 60 feet above Sunset Boulevard to get the shot of the hotel at sunset from above the trees!. The rush-hour traffic made it a harrowing experience!. Check out the hotel!.
Although it is well known that Hotel California is actually a metaphor, there are several strange Internet theories and urban legends about the "real" Hotel California!. Some include suggestions that it was an old church taken over by devil worshippers, a psychiatric hospital, an inn run by cannibals or Aleister Crowley's mansion in Scotland!. It's even been suggested that the "Hotel California" is the Playboy Mansion!. (thanks, Adam - Dewsbury, England)
The music may have been inspired by the 1969 Jethro Tull song "We Used to Know," from their album Stand up!. The chord progressions are nearly identical, and the bands toured together before the Eagles recorded it!. In a BBC radio interview, Jethro Tull frontman Ian Anderson said laughingly that he was still waiting for the royalties!. (thanks, Lawrence - Royal Tunbridge Wells, England and Dave - Cleveland, OH)
In Chicago at the time of this song's popularity many people called Cook County jail "Hotel California" because it is on California street!. The name stuck and now people of all ages and races refer to the jail by this nickname!. (thanks, jesse - chicago, IL)
Don Felder: "I had just leased this house out on the beach at Malibu, I guess it was around '74 or '75!. I remember sitting in the living room, with all the doors wide open on a spectacular July day!. I had this acoustic 12-string and I started tinkling around with it, and those Hotel California chords just kind of oozed out!. Every once in a while it seems like the cosmos part and something great just plops in your lap!." (thanks, Stone - Libertyville, IL)
The Hotel California album is #37 on the Rolling Stone list of the 500 Greatest Albums of all time!. According to the magazine, Don Henley said that the band was in pursuit of a note perfect song!. The Eagles spent 8 months in the studio polishing take after take after take!. Henley also said, "We just locked ourselves in!. We had a refrigerator, a ping pong table, roller skates and a couple cots!. We would go in and stay for 2 or 3 days at a time!." (thanks, Ray - Stockton, NJ)
According to a reader-submitted poll for Guitar World magazine, the guitar solo for this song is ranked #8 out of 100!. (thanks, Romeo - Belo Horizonte, Brazil)Www@Enter-QA@Com
by
Eagles
Album: Hotel California Released: 1976
US Chart: 1 UK Chart: 8
Get the Ringtone Listen/Buy @ Amazon Get the Sheet Music
See what personality types like this in the Song Profile
View Lyrics
Rate This Song
Songfacts: You can leave comments about the song at the bottom of the page!.
This is about materialism and excess!. California is used as the setting, but it could relate to anywhere in America!. Don Henley in the London Daily Mail November 9, 2007 said: "Some of the wilder interpretations of that song have been amazing!. It was really about the excesses of American culture and certain girls we knew!. But it was also about the uneasy balance between art and commerce!."
On November 25, 2007 Henley appeared on the TV news show 60 Minutes, where he was told, "everyone wants to know what this song means!." Henley replied: "I know, it's so boring!. It's a song about the dark underbelly of the American Dream, and about excess in America which was something we knew about!." (thanks, Emma - Westfield, ME)
Don Henley: "We were all middle-class kids from the Midwest!. Hotel California was our interpretation of the high life in Los Angeles!.
This won the 1977 Grammy for Record Of The Year!. The band did not show up to accept the award, as Don Henley did not believe in contests!.
Don Felder got the ball rolling on this!. He had the chord progressions and took it to Don Henley and Glenn Frey!. They put the words down, then Joe Walsh wrote all the guitar parts and arranged them for everyone!. (thanks, Les - Dannevirke, New Zealand)
"Colitas," in the line "Warm smell of colitas," is often interpreted as a flower or a sexual reference!. It is a Spanish word translated to Henley by the Eagles Mexican-American road manager meaning "Little Buds," and is a reference to marijuana!.
This was recorded at 3 different sessions before the Eagles got the version they wanted!. The biggest problem was finding the right key for Henley's vocal!.
Glenn Frey compares this to an episode of The Twilight Zone, where it jumps from one scene to the next and doesn't necessarily make sense!.
The line "They stab it with their steely knives but they just can't kill the beast" is a reference to Steely Dan!. The bands shared the same manager and had a friendly rivalry!. The year before, Steely Dan included the line "Turn up the Eagles, the neighbors are listening" on their song "Everything You Did!."
Don Felder and Joe Walsh played together on the guitar solos, creating the textured sound!.
The lyrics for the song came with the album!. Some people thought the line "She's got the Mercedes Bends" was a misspelling of "Mercedes Benz," and wrote Henley to complain!. The line was a play on words!.
Glenn Frey: "That record explores the under belly of success, the darker side of Paradise!. Which was sort of what we were experiencing in Los Angeles at that time!. So that just sort of became a metaphor for the whole world and for everything you know!. And we just decided to make it Hotel California!. So with a microcosm of everything else going on around us!." (thanks, Moomin - London, England)
When the Eagles got back together in 1994, they recorded a live version of this for an MTV special that was included on their album Hell Freezes Over!. The album was #1 in the US its first week!.
All 7 past and present members of the Eagles performed this in 1998 when they were inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame!.
The hotel on the album cover is the Beverly Hills Hotel, known as the Pink Palace!. It is often frequented by Hollywood stars!. The photo was taken by photographers David Alexander and John Kosh, who sat in a cherry-picker about 60 feet above Sunset Boulevard to get the shot of the hotel at sunset from above the trees!. The rush-hour traffic made it a harrowing experience!. Check out the hotel!.
Although it is well known that Hotel California is actually a metaphor, there are several strange Internet theories and urban legends about the "real" Hotel California!. Some include suggestions that it was an old church taken over by devil worshippers, a psychiatric hospital, an inn run by cannibals or Aleister Crowley's mansion in Scotland!. It's even been suggested that the "Hotel California" is the Playboy Mansion!. (thanks, Adam - Dewsbury, England)
The music may have been inspired by the 1969 Jethro Tull song "We Used to Know," from their album Stand up!. The chord progressions are nearly identical, and the bands toured together before the Eagles recorded it!. In a BBC radio interview, Jethro Tull frontman Ian Anderson said laughingly that he was still waiting for the royalties!. (thanks, Lawrence - Royal Tunbridge Wells, England and Dave - Cleveland, OH)
In Chicago at the time of this song's popularity many people called Cook County jail "Hotel California" because it is on California street!. The name stuck and now people of all ages and races refer to the jail by this nickname!. (thanks, jesse - chicago, IL)
Don Felder: "I had just leased this house out on the beach at Malibu, I guess it was around '74 or '75!. I remember sitting in the living room, with all the doors wide open on a spectacular July day!. I had this acoustic 12-string and I started tinkling around with it, and those Hotel California chords just kind of oozed out!. Every once in a while it seems like the cosmos part and something great just plops in your lap!." (thanks, Stone - Libertyville, IL)
The Hotel California album is #37 on the Rolling Stone list of the 500 Greatest Albums of all time!. According to the magazine, Don Henley said that the band was in pursuit of a note perfect song!. The Eagles spent 8 months in the studio polishing take after take after take!. Henley also said, "We just locked ourselves in!. We had a refrigerator, a ping pong table, roller skates and a couple cots!. We would go in and stay for 2 or 3 days at a time!." (thanks, Ray - Stockton, NJ)
According to a reader-submitted poll for Guitar World magazine, the guitar solo for this song is ranked #8 out of 100!. (thanks, Romeo - Belo Horizonte, Brazil)Www@Enter-QA@Com
it reminds me of rehab you can check out but you can never leave!?Www@Enter-QA@Com
it means nothing!. The eagles (and that whole california sound from the 70's) are garbage!.Www@Enter-QA@Com