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with Hotel California Guitar TabsArranged for Guitar Tablature & Standard With Lyrics, book contains 33 titles from the Eagles illustrious career. Titles include: After the Thrill Is Gone * Already Gone * The Best of My Love * Desperado * Get Over It * Heartache Tonight * Hole in the World * Hotel California * I Can’t Tell You Why * The Last Resort * Life in the Fast Lane * The Long Run * Love Will Keep Us Alive * Lyin’ Eyes * New Kid in Town * One of These Nights * Peaceful Easy Feeling * Take It Easy * Take It To the Limit * Tequila Sunrise * Victim of Love * Wasted Time * Witchy Woman. |
This album-matching folio includes a 48-page booklet featuring photos of the Eagles and a conversation with Don Henley and Glenn Frey that provides background information on how the songs were written and the meaning behind them. |
The Eagles - Hotel California
The Eagles are an American rock band formed in Los Angeles, California during the early 1970s. With five number-one singles and six number-one albums, Eagles were one of the most successful recording artists of the decade.
At the end of the 20th century, two of their albums, Eagles: Their Greatest Hits 1971–1975 and Hotel California, ranked among the ten best-selling albums according to the Recording Industry Association of America. The best-selling studio album Hotel California is rated as the thirty-seventh album in the Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, and the band was ranked number 75 on the magazine's 2004 list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.
Hotel California is an album released by the American rock band Eagles in late 1976. It is the first Eagles album without founding member Bernie Leadon and the first album with Joe Walsh. It is also the last album featuring original bass player and singer Randy Meisner.
Hotel California touched on many themes, including innocence (and its loss), addiction in general (and to drugs), death, the dangers, temptation and transient nature of fame, shallow relationships, divorce and loss of love, the end results of manifest destiny, and the "American Dream."
The album's final track, the epic "The Last Resort", was about the demise of society. Glenn Frey explained about the track:
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"It was the first time that Don took it upon
himself to write an epic story and we were already
starting to worry about the environment ... we're
constantly screwing up paradise and that was the
point of the song and that at some point there is
going to be no more new frontiers. I mean we're
putting junk, er, garbage into space now." |
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Glenn Frey on Hotel California |
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Members of Eagles have described the album as a metaphor for the perceived decline of America into materialism and decadence. In an interview with Dutch magazine ZigZag shortly before the album's release, Don Henley said:
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"This is a concept album, there's no way to hide
it, but it's not set in the old West, the cowboy
thing, you know. It's more urban this time . . .
It's our bicentennial year, you know, the country
is 200 years old, so we figured since we are the
Eagles and the Eagle is our national symbol, that
we were obliged to make some kind of a little
bicentennial statement using California as a
microcosm of the whole United States, or the whole
world, if you will, and to try to wake people up
and say 'We've been okay so far, for 200 years, but
we're gonna have to change if we're gonna continue
to be around.'" |
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Don Henley on Hotel California |
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When asked during a 60 Minutes interview in November of 2007 that "everyone wants to know what this song means," Don 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."
A hotel which carries the same name, Hotel California, located in Todos Santos, Mexico, is rumored to be the inspiration for the song. However, Don Henley has denied the link. The album cover image is of the Beverly Hills Hotel. It was photographed by David Alexander.
The composing of the song Hotel California is attributed to Don Felder, Don Henley and Glenn Frey. It runs for 6:30min with a lead vocal & percussion by Don Henley, and guitar solos by Joe Walsh & Don Felder. In 1977 the single Hotel California was awarded record of the year and in 1978, with song of the year.
Hotel California was the Eagles fifth album of original material and became a critical success and a major commercial hit. Since its release in late 1976, it has sold over 16 million copies in the U.S. alone. The album was at #1 for eight weeks in early 1977 (non-consecutively), and included two tracks which became #1 hits as singles on the Billboard Hot 100: "New Kid in Town", on February 26, 1977, and "Hotel California" itself on May 7, 1977.
In 2001 the TV network VH1 named Hotel California #38 on 100
Greatest Albums of all time. Hotel California was ranked 13th
in a 2005 survey held by British television's Channel 4 to
determine the 100 greatest albums of all time. In 2003, the
album was ranked number 37 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of
the 500 greatest albums of all time.
The Eagles broke up in 1980, but reunited in 1994 for Hell
Freezes Over, a mix of live and new studio tracks. They have
toured intermittently since then, and were inducted into the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998.
In 2007, the Eagles released Long Road out of Eden, their first full studio album in 28 years.
How to play Hotel California - Guitar Video
Hotel California - A bit faster with capo
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