Dear All Friends :

很多謝Dear Sim及Sonar給我們Hotel California的分享..........

這些年來，有關Hotel California的故事真的見過很多，Dear Sim也給我們很多的資料...........

以下The Eagles的元老Glenn Frey當年談及Hotel California的一次Interview，也許會給我們更多對Hotel California的理解吧...........

What happened with Hotel California was Don Felder, the under rated genius
guitar player in our band and he did not have the name of Joe Walsh, but
definitely just an incredible player.

He used to make instrumental demos at his house and on a tape of about seven
ideas, was what was to become the track of Hotel California.

And Don and I heard the tape and said gosh... this is like a Spanish Reggae
Rock, this is really a bizarre mix of musical influences, this is great.

At the time we were also quite fond of Steely Dan and listening to a lot of
their records. And one of the things that impressed us about Steely Dan was that
they would say anything in their songs and it did not have to necessarily make
sense you know, they would just, sort of...they called it jokes sculpture..

And well we thought of this Hotel California, we started thinking of there would
be very cinematic to do it, sort of like the Twilight Zone. You just have a ...,
one line says there is a guy on the highway, you know the next line says there
is a hotel in the distance, then there is a woman in there and she walks in. You
know it is sort..., it is just all one shot, not necessarily you know, just sort
of strong together and you sort of draw your own conclusions from it.
So we are sort of trying to expand our lyrical horizons and just try to take out
something in the bizarre as Steely Dan did that.

The music was entirely written by Felder and Don and I wrote
the chorus and Don wrote most of the versus. One more thing about Hotel
California, we had to cut it three times. It was very difficult for us to get it
on tape.

We cut it the first time and it was in the wrong key. Don were not to sing the
rough vocal and said "it's too low"

So we worked on to cut it again the next day, cause we had already been working
on it for a couple of days.

So we waited three weeks later to cut it again in Miami in the right key, but we
did not get the right feel and when we were done with this ah ... that ain't
quite right...
So we went back to Los Angeles three months after that and recorded the track
again and finally got it right. And of course it was worth the work.

The concept of the album came about when we started on the song Hotel
California. You know.. we had been called the quintessential California Country
Rock band. And as soon as Don came of with the title Hotel California, we knew
that that should be the blanket you know, for the whole concept.

You know basically 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.

Hotel California and the last Resort and a few of these songs we could not write
on, all the sudden, you could not write any song for this record. Once we had a
couple of tunes, each other song had to fit in some way you know, the way that
was Hotel California.

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Michael叔叔
一個喜歡音樂、喜歡民歌的叔叔
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