The Eagles - Hotel California

Buy/borrow Hell Freezes Over on dvd, play it through a good sound system with the volume up. Hotel California is so beautiful on this, ive played it dozens of times.

Then get the dvd/hddvd of Farewell Tour, again whack the volume up and thank me.

I'd love to see The Eagles in concert before they get too old.
 
From the wiki:

In a 2009 interview, Plain Dealer music critic John Soeder asked Don Henley this about the lyrics:

"On "Hotel California," you sing: "So I called up the captain / 'Please bring me my wine' / He said, 'We haven't had that spirit here since 1969.'" I realize I'm probably not the first to bring this to your attention, but wine isn't a spirit. Wine is fermented; spirits are distilled. Do you regret that lyric?"

Henley responded,

"Thanks for the tutorial and, no, you're not the first to bring this to my attention—and you're not the first to completely misinterpret the lyric and miss the metaphor. Believe me, I've consumed enough alcoholic beverages in my time to know how they are made and what the proper nomenclature is. But that line in the song has little or nothing to do with alcoholic beverages. It's a sociopolitical statement. My only regret would be having to explain it in detail to you, which would defeat the purpose of using literary devices in songwriting and lower the discussion to some silly and irrelevant argument about chemical processes."
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About as dumb as the song itself.
 
cm1179 said:
i always looked at the song as being about the equivalent of the priory and escaping addiction.
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Yes, that's essentially the same thoughts as me, although I never thought of it as an institution.

Dimple said:
Since the day it came out I was always led to believe (and always announced it on stage) that Hotel California is/was a lunatic asylum.

Ooh, quite a few agree - https://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&saf...4,d.d2k&fp=a0b2ec51e8be5bd5&biw=1346&bih=1048
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That's pretty interesting! Similar themes between all these interpretations really - it's about a bunch of messed up people.
 
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