They started out as Linda Ronstadt’s band. Clearly she understood their awesome talent & graciously sang and made a hit lit of “Desperado”, one of their early masterpieces, & encouraged them to go on their own . Check out Linda if you haven’t already. She was amazing.
I watched an interview with them. They said Hotel California was about the state. California is very different from the rest of the United States. It's about the feeling you get when you're there. Each band member is a genius in his own right! I saw them in concert 1976. Wonderful concert ❤❤❤.
Oh! Joe Walsh on guitar added that delightful ditty at the end when they were writing the song. It was a practice which he made up while rehearsing to limber up his fingers 😹 Man! What a gift!
Actually, Don Felder came up with all of the music for this song. The song you're thinking of where Joe Walsh would warm up playing the lick was "Life in the Fast Lane". Glen Frey heard Joe warming up and told him, "that's a song!" The lyrics came from Frey who was riding shotgun with his buddy in a corvette and the guy was going like 130mph. Glen is like, "whoa dude!" His buddy is like, "Life in the Fast Lane, man!"
@@RobGamesOn Christina is correct. If you go back and watch the history of the eagles - Felder credits Walsh for creating the ditty. Felder says he couldn’t come up with an ending and Walsh was like “what if we did it like this?”…and the rest was history.
They all sang lead at various times. Don Henley (drummer) and Glenn Frey (guitar) were lead most often. Fantastic band! But don't forget...you can never leave the metaphorical Hotel California.
The Eagles were absolute perfection in the studio and live!! I wore out my Eagles albums in the 70's!! They are all lead vocalists but the drummer..Don Henley is my favorite!! His voice is so unique. The song Desperado really shows his vocal talent !
I saw them live in Salt Lake City Utah. Had backstage passes to their Hell Freezes Over tour. My husband is cousin to Timothy B. Schmidt. Got autographs, saw the tour bus. Timothy used to be in the band Poco. His middle name is Bruce. So when registering at hotels, he often uses the name Bruce Wayne (Batman). They sound so amazing live! They’re going on tour soon.
The two guitars at the end are Joe Walsh (bandana) and Don Felder, the singer/drummer is Don Henley, the acoustic guitar is Glen Frye (deceased), and the bass is Randy Meissner. All extremely talented! Don Henley is notorious for blocking and having videos taken down so I'm glad this has stayed up. They're so many Eagle's songs to react to, I hope you get to them.
Hotel California is one of the best-selling albums of all time. It has been certified 26× Platinum in the US, and has sold over 32 million copies worldwide, The whole album is incredible you need to check it out
The picture on the album is from Camarillo State Mental Hospital. It is now closed. I was there once for an inlaw who was admitted. Creepy, creepy place. Dim, dark, smelled of urine. To me this is about people admitted there battling their own demons. You can check out any time you like but you can never leave ....
According to John Kosh, who shot the cover photo, it is the Beverly Hills Hotel. The photo was taken from atop a cherry picker on Sunset Blvd. in Beverly Hills.
Don Henley, Phil Collins, Karen Carpenter, Levon Helm are legendary drummers who can really sing. It was different back then... No autotune or computer generated corrections. You had to actually be a musician not just an entertainer. I'm so blessed to have experienced all of it live. Although, full disclosure, there was a lot of LSD involved in every one of my Eagles concerts back in the day so the memories are a bit fuzzy. 🥴 Thank you, Rad, for allowing me to see it through your eyes. I so enjoy you 😁
Great reaction. The Eagles are a band that are top notch. Everyone on that stage can sing and harmonize. They take turns being the lead singer and they’re all awesome.😀👍❤️✌️🌼
Ah, this is the sound of the 1970s to me. I had stacks and stacks of 33 rmp vinyl that I played constantly. New albums were about $3.75. I still have a very few, but I got so tired of lugging them around every time I moved as a student. Eagles are a classy act.
@@RadJarrettTheIntrovert Embarrassing to admit, but I don't remember where they went. I'm more likely to give things to friends, so I'm guessing that I found a good home for them. I kept my favorite Chopin recordings by Artur Rubenstein, but I don't have a turntable anymore. Go figure.
This is Eagles Masterpiece..wow I remember first time I heard it, I react the same way now. If you hear at the lyrics, I think you dont whant to go to that hotel, if you go in, you can go out again….maybee they sing about a hotel who is very creepy, or something else…..omg he does a big job lead-singer and drummer, snd the guitar players wow I must say, this is a nr 1!!
I've never seen this live - and they sound just like the record version. Classic Classic song right here... definitely puts you in a chill mood when you hear it.
Once you realise that The Hotel California is the place you go to in your mind when your high, and all the lyrics are about drug addiction, it takes on a whole other perspective. "you can check out, but you can never leave". Genius.
I saw on an interview one time that they said it was about moving to California to get their career off the ground. When they got there, it was a big party. People were from everywhere, mostly with the same goal of getting famous. He said California (in that area) WAS the hotel.
One of my favorite bands. This is such an outstanding song and this is a top tier band, every member is a star in their own right. I love Joe Walsh on guitar and always have (the guy with the bandana on his head). He is one of the top rated guitarists of rock and roll. This is one of those songs that have never been explained by the writer. Drums not only require attention they require a lot of physical energy just like singing does.
Classic song, fantastic live, cannot tell the difference between them live or from their records. Two of my favourites are "Wasted Time" and "I can't tell you why".
I've always loved this song. What I picture in my head listening to the words would make a great horror movie though. Am I the only one that was playing the air guitar at the end. Couldn't help myself. Good times, good times.😎😘
Not a real hotel. A metaphorical one: California with all of its excesses. And they do it right: the extended metaphor is so concrete and specific that the distinction between the real and ideal, between life and art gets blurred to the point that one can easily be confused for the other. That’s poetry!! So damned good!!
This song is so much deeper than some people understand. The “Hotel” is an example of life. The great thing about most Rock lyrics often means you get your own meaning from the song.
Loved this reaction! The Eagles remind me of being a kid. Music was always around. From what I have read Hotel California is the record industry and how hard it its to get through, especially in the 60's and 70's. This is a song i never get tired of hearing. It was fun watching you see for the first time :)
Awesome band and song check out the studio version as well also "Lyin eyes" "Take it to the limit" "Witchy woman" "One of these nights" "Tequila sunrise" "New kid in town" "Heartache tonight" "In the long run" "Desperado" "The best of my love"
I love the connection between the guitar players! Enjoying the experience for true. Other bands with drummer/ singers, The Band and Genesis ( Phil Collins). The Weight by the Band, In The Air by Collins are great ones to check out, if you so desire. Thank you for sharing young man!😽🎶
Although the band has never wanted to explain their lyrics, they say they want the audience to find their own interpretation, it helps to analyze them through the lens of time - 1976. The hard drug culture - cocaine, heroin, LSD had almost an entire generation struggling with addiction. The Eagles’ guitarist, Joe Walsh, famously battled “the beast”. Have a good listen to the lyrics again. This is not a hotel you want to visit: “...you can check out any time you want (“checking out” is a euphemism for dying), but you can never leave (once you’re addicted you’re always addicted). It’s safe to say that if you look at 70s and 80s music from a drug culture perspective, you’ll get to the truth of the song 80% of the time. I saw the Eagles in concert a couple of years ago, they still sound great, their live performances and studio albums are pretty much identical quality-wise. Glenn Frey’s passing in 2016 has left a gap that they’ve filled with Glenn’s son and the addition of the legendary Vince Gill to the band. I wept when they played this song, I was in grade 12 when it was first released. It’s the stuff of musical legacy.
I like how thoughtful you are with your reactions. I subscribed. Also, I think it's cute that you took the song literally. Art can be like that, misleading with metaphors.
@@RadJarrettTheIntrovert - there’s a ballad on the album Hotel California called The last resort. Under played and under appreciated in my opinion. The piano 🎹 and the arrangement…gorgeous live, or on the record. I prefer live- no auto tune, no click tracks, TALENT.
Once upon a time...I went to Milpitas California for a class. I got there, checked into the hotel, called my wife and said "Grab a plane, come on down and we'll spend the weekend in San Francisco. I'm staying at the Hotel California." Because that's what the place looked like. Oh yeah, she got there, and they had a fire in the kitchen. We got to spend about an hour standing around in the parking lot. But there was an upside...the hotel opened up the bar for free drinks and pizza! Great trip.
Joe Walsh (single-neck solo) said Hotel California was about a gathering, of artists from all over US, to meet, play with, influence each other, and make their mark in sunny California. Boy, did they!1
If you listen to the words people call it...'Hotel Hell' 7:32 I still get goosebumps watching Felder & Walsh 'bouncing' off of each other...Also noticed @ 8:40 Glenn Fry looks over there KNOWING they are lighting it up...
The Sound Of Silence cover by Puddles Pity Party (it's a dude in a clown suit and grease paint...not kidding). The same song, covered by Disturbed which will just blow your mind.
To me, Hotel California is about a place of addiction, where all your desires and fantasies are fulfilled but the catch is that this fantasy land then becomes your prison. Hotel California turns into a place of no escape to those who went there to serve their own secret desires. Scary but true! Brilliant song writing!
Joe Walsh explains what The Hotel California was about in a video on YT. H says it was about a time when California was the musical Mecca that musicians from all over the country were gravitating towards.
I think Hotel California is a metaphor for addiction ("you can check out any time you want but you can never leave"). The drummer/lead singer is the amazing Don Henley. His solo work is just as amazing (i.e. "The End of the Innocence")
The song is a reference to to fact that rock bands wanted to go to Los Angeles to make it big. LA was in a sense a hotel for all the up and coming bands that landed there
Hotel California was released in 1976 on the album of the same name. It was the first album to feature current member Joe Walsh and the last album to feature original bass player Randy Meisner. The song is NOT about an ACTUAL hotel! According to drumming lead vocalist Don Henley, it’s about the excess of American culture. He admitted in a later interview, the song is about the American Dream and it’s dark underside. Meaning that the American Dream can sometimes turn into the American nightmare and how life can go from innocence to experience.
I see it as metaphorical. It's about the Ca. Vibe. Mostly, I've always thought, about the decadent L.A. scene. The drugs, the parties,the "beautiful" people-actors musicians, writers, etc...how many people have crashed and burned, how you can never get out of that scene and be who you were before.
Don Henley did sing the majority of their songs, Glen Frye, Joe Walsh and Timothy B Schmit also all sang lead at one time or another on different hits. Glen Frye, Joe Walsh and Don Henley also all had very successful solo careers
Suggestions for great singing drummers: The Band (from the Last Waltz) with Staple Singers - "The Weight" and Phil Collins (live) "In the Air Tonight" Thanks for opening your ears and heart to new music Rad Jarrett. I'm enjoying your channel!
Another Singer/Drummer you would like is The Band, Levon Helm was incredible. Recommend The Wieght from The Last Waltz with the Staples. As far as the meaning of the song, I always felt it was about addiction, I dont think that was what the Eagles said it was about but it just fits to me. The "Hotel" seems like an oasis, and initially its great, nice cars, pretty girls, wine, mirrors on the ceilings, pink Champaign on ice, and "some dance to remember, some dance to forget" some take drugs to remember and some to forget. but then once you are addicted you cant ever get enough, you cant ever satisfy the craving "in their masters chamber's, they gather for the feast, they stab it with their steely knives but they just cant kill the beast", and once your addicted you are always addicted, even if you manage to quit, you will always have that addiction inside you "you can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave"
No, "She's got the Mercedes bends" - clever little pun there from Don Henley (singer & drummer) & Glenn Frey (choir & acoustic western guitar ), who cowrote the lyrics. No, it's not a real hotel as such - it's a metaphor for the dark side of the American dream and the crazy lifestyle of California in the 70s in their circles.
The Eagles are a band if you continue to react to them that you'll find is very deep rabbit hole to go down. They are one of very, very few bands that going through their catalogue you discover they don't have even one bad song. The only other two artist I've encountered in my nearly 60 years above ground like that, and that's in my very humble opinion, are Lynyrd Skynyrd (or at least the original Skynyrd pre-1977 plane crash) and Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band. This is considered one of The Eagles most iconic songs, hope you enjoyed it.
@@RadJarrettTheIntrovert , Watching a couple of your video reactions recently, I believe it was to Hotel California by The Eagles and The Boys Are Back In Town by Thin Lizzy made me immediately subscribe to your channel. Something I had never done without checking out other channels for awhile first. Really like your style. Sincerrity always shines through! Keep rocking my friend. As I said before, I'm nearly 60 now and grew up during that era of music.You've really only scratched the surface of what was an incredible period for music that IMO will forever remain unmatched. A period where real musicians played their instruments profientently without auto-tune and great singers gave their all during live shows to the point they could barely speak after the show at the end of the night. A lot of great music for you to still discover my friend. Let me know if I can be of any help. It would be my honor. Regards, and keep on rockin'!!
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The dueling guitars at the end is one of the greatest song endings ever....
Lynyrd Skynyrd Free Bird........... hold muh beer. lol!
Legendary guitar dual between Felder and Walsh contributes to the iconic status of this song.
They started out as Linda Ronstadt’s band. Clearly she understood their awesome talent & graciously sang and made a hit lit of “Desperado”, one of their early masterpieces, & encouraged them to go on their own . Check out Linda if you haven’t already. She was amazing.
One of the greatest guitar solos in rock 'n' roll history!!!
One of the greatest songs of all time from one of the greatest bands.
This band is filled with singers and guitar players! A talented bunch of guys!
Very!
Very!
You’re not wrong!
I watched an interview with them. They said Hotel California was about the state. California is very different from the rest of the United States. It's about the feeling you get when you're there.
Each band member is a genius in his own right! I saw them in concert 1976. Wonderful concert ❤❤❤.
Saw them live shortly before Glen Frye passed away, so glad I did. They are amazing.
That guitar face off at the end is everything.
This is one of my childhood favourites, I still remember every word ❤️
Me too. Even if you haven't heard it in ages, you still remember every word. I love it
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Timeless music ❤️
Oh! Joe Walsh on guitar added that delightful ditty at the end when they were writing the song. It was a practice which he made up while rehearsing to limber up his fingers 😹 Man! What a gift!
Talent will turn anything into a gem 🙌🏽
Actually, Don Felder came up with all of the music for this song. The song you're thinking of where Joe Walsh would warm up playing the lick was "Life in the Fast Lane". Glen Frey heard Joe warming up and told him, "that's a song!" The lyrics came from Frey who was riding shotgun with his buddy in a corvette and the guy was going like 130mph. Glen is like, "whoa dude!" His buddy is like, "Life in the Fast Lane, man!"
@@RobGamesOn Christina is correct. If you go back and watch the history of the eagles - Felder credits Walsh for creating the ditty. Felder says he couldn’t come up with an ending and Walsh was like “what if we did it like this?”…and the rest was history.
@@Mel684 here you go...
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@@RobGamesOn Play from 4:35 I own the DVD of the history of the eagles and here's what Felder said on there...
This was a great show. I was there at the Capital Centre when they filmed this. Eagles killed that night. The Eagles are worth a deep dive.
I agree!
They all sang lead at various times. Don Henley (drummer) and Glenn Frey (guitar) were lead most often. Fantastic band! But don't forget...you can never leave the metaphorical Hotel California.
The Eagles were absolute perfection in the studio and live!! I wore out my Eagles albums in the 70's!! They are all lead vocalists but the drummer..Don Henley is my favorite!! His voice is so unique. The song Desperado really shows his vocal talent !
Yes i like his voice too
I saw them live in Salt Lake City Utah. Had backstage passes to their Hell Freezes Over tour. My husband is cousin to Timothy B. Schmidt. Got autographs, saw the tour bus. Timothy used to be in the band Poco. His middle name is Bruce. So when registering at hotels, he often uses the name Bruce Wayne (Batman). They sound so amazing live! They’re going on tour soon.
The two guitars at the end are Joe Walsh (bandana) and Don Felder, the singer/drummer is Don Henley, the acoustic guitar is Glen Frye (deceased), and the bass is Randy Meissner. All extremely talented! Don Henley is notorious for blocking and having videos taken down so I'm glad this has stayed up. They're so many Eagle's songs to react to, I hope you get to them.
Hotel California is one of the best-selling albums of all time. It has been certified 26× Platinum in the US, and has sold over 32 million copies worldwide, The whole album is incredible you need to check it out
The picture on the album is from Camarillo State Mental Hospital. It is now closed. I was there once for an inlaw who was admitted. Creepy, creepy place. Dim, dark, smelled of urine. To me this is about people admitted there battling their own demons. You can check out any time you like but you can never leave ....
Wow, that’s deep
It’s The Beverly Hills Hotel.
@@sfalmbrjax same difference...lol
According to John Kosh, who shot the cover photo, it is the Beverly Hills Hotel. The photo was taken from atop a cherry picker on Sunset Blvd. in Beverly Hills.
One of the Greatest Bands in recent history
Their Legacy is a “Huge Body of Work”
Each became legends for gods sakes
Don Henley, Phil Collins, Karen Carpenter, Levon Helm are legendary drummers who can really sing. It was different back then...
No autotune or computer generated corrections. You had to actually be a musician not just an entertainer. I'm so blessed to have experienced all of it live. Although, full disclosure, there was a lot of LSD involved in every one of my Eagles concerts back in the day so the memories are a bit fuzzy. 🥴 Thank you, Rad, for allowing me to see it through your eyes. I so enjoy you 😁
Haha sounds like you had the best times!
Roger Taylor, as well.
And Rare Earth, Grand Funk Railroad…
LSD, indeed 😅
Great reaction. The Eagles are a band that are top notch. Everyone on that stage can sing and harmonize. They take turns being the lead singer and they’re all awesome.😀👍❤️✌️🌼
Ah, this is the sound of the 1970s to me. I had stacks and stacks of 33 rmp vinyl that I played constantly. New albums were about $3.75. I still have a very few, but I got so tired of lugging them around every time I moved as a student. Eagles are a classy act.
🙌🏽🙌🏽 did you sell them?
@@RadJarrettTheIntrovert Embarrassing to admit, but I don't remember where they went. I'm more likely to give things to friends, so I'm guessing that I found a good home for them. I kept my favorite Chopin recordings by Artur Rubenstein, but I don't have a turntable anymore. Go figure.
@@WobblyBiped I’d imagine their value has gone up dramatically?
This is Eagles Masterpiece..wow I remember first time I heard it, I react the same way now. If you hear at the lyrics, I think you dont whant to go to that hotel, if you go in, you can go out again….maybee they sing about a hotel who is very creepy, or something else…..omg he does a big job lead-singer and drummer, snd the guitar players wow I must say, this is a nr 1!!
I've never seen this live - and they sound just like the record version. Classic Classic song right here... definitely puts you in a chill mood when you hear it.
Definitely had me in one. 🙌🏽
Amy McQueen If you ever get a chance. Watch the Eagles farewell live from Melbourne Australia. The whole concert is magnificent.❤️✌️🌼
@@marniethedyslexic6445 Will do!!! Thanks for the suggestion!!
Best drummers that also sing, Don Henley(Eagles). Roger Taylor (Queen) Phil Collins (Genesis) also solo career. Dave Grohl (Foo fighters) and Nirvana)
Once you realise that The Hotel California is the place you go to in your mind when your high, and all the lyrics are about drug addiction, it takes on a whole other perspective. "you can check out, but you can never leave". Genius.
😅 you’re right!
I saw on an interview one time that they said it was about moving to California to get their career off the ground. When they got there, it was a big party. People were from everywhere, mostly with the same goal of getting famous. He said California (in that area) WAS the hotel.
This makes sense too
I'm amazed how flawless they always were live! Always gave me that jam session around a bonfire feeling... if all my friends kicked serious ass 😉hahaa
Haha! No lies here!
Saw these guys in Auburn, AL in 1978!! EPIC!! GREAT Rock band EVER!! 21,000 lighters went up for this one!! Gr
One of my favorite bands. This is such an outstanding song and this is a top tier band, every member is a star in their own right. I love Joe Walsh on guitar and always have (the guy with the bandana on his head). He is one of the top rated guitarists of rock and roll. This is one of those songs that have never been explained by the writer. Drums not only require attention they require a lot of physical energy just like singing does.
Yes! Very very impressive!
The Eagles actually started as the band behind Linda Ronstadt.
Grateful 4 the opportunity!! BEST ROCK band forever!!!!
Classic song, fantastic live, cannot tell the difference between them live or from their records. Two of my favourites are "Wasted Time" and "I can't tell you why".
Now that’s talent
I've always loved this song. What I picture in my head listening to the words would make a great horror movie though. Am I the only one that was playing the air guitar at the end. Couldn't help myself. Good times, good times.😎😘
Not a real hotel. A metaphorical one: California with all of its excesses. And they do it right: the extended metaphor is so concrete and specific that the distinction between the real and ideal, between life and art gets blurred to the point that one can easily be confused for the other. That’s poetry!! So damned good!!
Very good!
This song is so much deeper than some people understand. The “Hotel” is an example of life. The great thing about most Rock lyrics often means you get your own meaning from the song.
One of my all time favorite groups! :)
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It is amazing how few people understand that Hotel California is a commentary on American, and especially Californian, society and culture.
Love the Eagles. Seen them 2x in concert. One of my favorite bands. My 2nd video with you. 👍
Loved this reaction! The Eagles remind me of being a kid. Music was always around. From what I have read Hotel California is the record industry and how hard it its to get through, especially in the 60's and 70's. This is a song i never get tired of hearing. It was fun watching you see for the first time :)
Lol well that sounds a little better from the rehab center some ppl were saying it was lol
And it's my favorite song 😍
Again, I really appreciate your respectful way of reviewing the songs
Awesome band and song check out the studio version as well also "Lyin eyes" "Take it to the limit" "Witchy woman" "One of these nights" "Tequila sunrise" "New kid in town" "Heartache tonight" "In the long run" "Desperado" "The best of my love"
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@@RadJarrettTheIntrovert Hustle! 😂
mi cancion favorita..! todo les quedo chido en esta cancion. la bateria, las guitarras, como empieza como acaba.. es divino escucharla
Another great reaction to another iconic band. My new favorite channel
🙏🏽🤗 thanks Kim!
I love the connection between the guitar players! Enjoying the experience for true. Other bands with drummer/ singers, The Band and Genesis ( Phil Collins). The Weight by the Band, In The Air by Collins are great ones to check out, if you so desire. Thank you for sharing young man!😽🎶
The Weight...last waltz (with the Staples)!
@@moniqueleroux2198 Oh yes!!! That's my favorite version too! Love The Staple Singers...I'll Take You There🎶
Thank you! 🤗
@@christinawoolley6206 Mavis Staples is a national treasure.
This was such a good song back in the day. Glad to see another great reaction
From interviews I've seen, it's deceptively difficult to drum and sing at the same time.
This was my teen years era of music...lol.
Even visually it just looks hard to do. Impressive!
You can NEVER LEAVE
Although the band has never wanted to explain their lyrics, they say they want the audience to find their own interpretation, it helps to analyze them through the lens of time - 1976. The hard drug culture - cocaine, heroin, LSD had almost an entire generation struggling with addiction. The Eagles’ guitarist, Joe Walsh, famously battled “the beast”.
Have a good listen to the lyrics again. This is not a hotel you want to visit: “...you can check out any time you want (“checking out” is a euphemism for dying), but you can never leave (once you’re addicted you’re always addicted).
It’s safe to say that if you look at 70s and 80s music from a drug culture perspective, you’ll get to the truth of the song 80% of the time.
I saw the Eagles in concert a couple of years ago, they still sound great, their live performances and studio albums are pretty much identical quality-wise. Glenn Frey’s passing in 2016 has left a gap that they’ve filled with Glenn’s son and the addition of the legendary Vince Gill to the band. I wept when they played this song, I was in grade 12 when it was first released. It’s the stuff of musical legacy.
I have since unpacked my bags 😅😅
@@RadJarrettTheIntrovert 😂
Please react to: The Eagles: -Seven Bridges Road -I Can't Tell You Why -Life in the Fast Lane -Take it Easy -Thanks!!!
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7 Bridges Road really showcases their harmony.
Amen of all their music I never heard one song that wasn't fantastic, and I've heard them all LOL from they're beginning
"The Sad Café" from their successor to HC "The Long Run" is another sadly overlooked Eagles gem.
Good choice, Rad! An all time classic!
I like how thoughtful you are with your reactions. I subscribed. Also, I think it's cute that you took the song literally. Art can be like that, misleading with metaphors.
Talent level extreme- these guys can do it all. Many play more than one instrument, and no matter what, it’s awesome.❤️🎼🤘😎
Super talented for sure
@@RadJarrettTheIntrovert - there’s a ballad on the album Hotel California called The last resort. Under played and under appreciated in my opinion. The piano 🎹 and the arrangement…gorgeous live, or on the record. I prefer live- no auto tune, no click tracks, TALENT.
I waited patiently for this to start
It was great Such fun to watch on live stream
Billiiant
😅 thanks Stephen! Glad you enjoyed it
Phil Collins is another definite you need to hear
Taking notes 📝
Like Queen, many members of the Eagles sang lead.
If you go to that hotel, you can never leave!
Lol let me unpack my bag
@@RadJarrettTheIntrovert 😂😂😂
Have a good night 🌙💤
Once upon a time...I went to Milpitas California for a class. I got there, checked into the hotel, called my wife and said "Grab a plane, come on down and we'll spend the weekend in San Francisco. I'm staying at the Hotel California." Because that's what the place looked like. Oh yeah, she got there, and they had a fire in the kitchen. We got to spend about an hour standing around in the parking lot. But there was an upside...the hotel opened up the bar for free drinks and pizza! Great trip.
In a concert by The Carpenters I attended in 1970, the lead singer Karen played drums during the entire performance.
That album was HUGE!
Best guitar solo ever!!!
They sang this in some Carnegie Hall type place. Best version sound wise… a must listen!
It was a very popular song from a very popular album from a band that had many hit songs.
Joe Walsh (single-neck solo) said Hotel California was about a gathering, of artists from all over US, to meet, play with, influence each other, and make their mark in sunny California. Boy, did they!1
I love that there are so many different interpretations to this song
Excelente reacción amigo !SALUDOS DESDE ARGENTINA !😀😀😀👍👍👍
You do a great job btw, a pleasure to watch your reactions
The Eagles greatest hits is the top selling album of all time. For sure worth a deep dive....next to Queen my favorite band
You're killing me, lmao, first album I ever bought back in 76 I think.
I add my vote to seven bridges. Also, southern rock often has two lead guitars. Marshall Tucker, allman brothers and others.
The song is about: "A Journey from Innocents to Experience" according to the song writer Don Henley. (See History of the Eagles)
Please do NOT forget to check out their original version, nor the stunningly beautiful acoustic version from the Hell Freezes Over concert in 1994. 😎
Eagles were the best
Great talent !!
If you listen to the words people call it...'Hotel Hell' 7:32 I still get goosebumps watching Felder & Walsh 'bouncing' off of each other...Also noticed @ 8:40 Glenn Fry looks over there KNOWING they are lighting it up...
The Sound Of Silence cover by Puddles Pity Party (it's a dude in a clown suit and grease paint...not kidding).
The same song, covered by Disturbed which will just blow your mind.
Interesting!
“You can check out but you can never leave.” The Hotel California is some type of purgatory. You don’t want to pack your bags.
I have since unpacked them 😅
To me, Hotel California is about a place of addiction, where all your desires and fantasies are fulfilled but the catch is that this fantasy land then becomes your prison. Hotel California turns into a place of no escape to those who went there to serve their own secret desires. Scary but true! Brilliant song writing!
The “Hotel” is a metaphor for the state of California and all of its allures and vices.
Joe Walsh explains what The Hotel California was about in a video on YT. H says it was about a time when California was the musical Mecca that musicians from all over the country were gravitating towards.
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I think Hotel California is a metaphor for addiction ("you can check out any time you want but you can never leave"). The drummer/lead singer is the amazing Don Henley. His solo work is just as amazing (i.e. "The End of the Innocence")
I’ve since unpacked my bags lol
The song is a reference to to fact that rock bands wanted to go to Los Angeles to make it big. LA was in a sense a hotel for all the up and coming bands that landed there
Hotel California is a metaphor for a rehab center.
Hotel California was released in 1976 on the album of the same name.
It was the first album to feature current member Joe Walsh and the last album to feature original bass player Randy Meisner.
The song is NOT about an ACTUAL hotel!
According to drumming lead vocalist Don Henley, it’s about the excess of American culture.
He admitted in a later interview, the song is about the American Dream and it’s dark underside.
Meaning that the American Dream can sometimes turn into the American nightmare and how life can go from innocence to experience.
Bro you just watched one of the greatest rock songs ever recorded and you picked the best version too!
Billy Joel "Piano Man" .....i love songs like this that are more story telling
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I see it as metaphorical. It's about the Ca. Vibe. Mostly, I've always thought, about the decadent L.A. scene. The drugs, the parties,the "beautiful" people-actors musicians, writers, etc...how many people have crashed and burned, how you can never get out of that scene and be who you were before.
Hotel California is a song about addiction and i think it represents the addiction that you can not fully run away from it even if you do give it up
It's a song about the CRC prison in Norco, CA. Where he was once lived. He won't admit it in interviews but that is what it's about.
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Amazing time period
It's not about an actual hotel, but I believe there is a Hotel California in Mexico.
Listen to Eagles..One of these nights
Fabulous band! Better live.
Don Henley did sing the majority of their songs, Glen Frye, Joe Walsh and Timothy B Schmit also all sang lead at one time or another on different hits. Glen Frye, Joe Walsh and Don Henley also all had very successful solo careers
So basically a whole lot of talent
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Suggestions for great singing drummers: The Band (from the Last Waltz) with Staple Singers - "The Weight" and Phil Collins (live) "In the Air Tonight"
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Another Singer/Drummer you would like is The Band, Levon Helm was incredible. Recommend The Wieght from The Last Waltz with the Staples.
As far as the meaning of the song, I always felt it was about addiction, I dont think that was what the Eagles said it was about but it just fits to me. The "Hotel" seems like an oasis, and initially its great, nice cars, pretty girls, wine, mirrors on the ceilings, pink Champaign on ice, and "some dance to remember, some dance to forget" some take drugs to remember and some to forget. but then once you are addicted you cant ever get enough, you cant ever satisfy the craving "in their masters chamber's, they gather for the feast, they stab it with their steely knives but they just cant kill the beast", and once your addicted you are always addicted, even if you manage to quit, you will always have that addiction inside you "you can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave"
If you want a great example of drumming and singing try The Last Waltz
"The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" by The Band.
Witchy Woman was another one I always liked.
Check out Levon Helm /The Band. One of the great drummers and singers! Ed Sullivan show, Night They Drove Old Dixie down.
No, "She's got the Mercedes bends" - clever little pun there from Don Henley (singer & drummer) & Glenn Frey (choir & acoustic western guitar ), who cowrote the lyrics.
No, it's not a real hotel as such - it's a metaphor for the dark side of the American dream and the crazy lifestyle of California in the 70s in their circles.
The Eagles are a band if you continue to react to them that you'll find is very deep rabbit hole to go down. They are one of very, very few bands that going through their catalogue you discover they don't have even one bad song. The only other two artist I've encountered in my nearly 60 years above ground like that, and that's in my very humble opinion, are Lynyrd Skynyrd (or at least the original Skynyrd pre-1977 plane crash) and Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band. This is considered one of The Eagles most iconic songs, hope you enjoyed it.
I really did 🙌🏽 but to be honest I’ve rarely heard any music from this time period that i haven’t liked so far
@@RadJarrettTheIntrovert , Watching a couple of your video reactions recently, I believe it was to Hotel California by The Eagles and The Boys Are Back In Town by Thin Lizzy made me immediately subscribe to your channel. Something I had never done without checking out other channels for awhile first. Really like your style. Sincerrity always shines through! Keep rocking my friend. As I said before, I'm nearly 60 now and grew up during that era of music.You've really only scratched the surface of what was an incredible period for music that IMO will forever remain unmatched. A period where real musicians played their instruments profientently without auto-tune and great singers gave their all during live shows to the point they could barely speak after the show at the end of the night. A lot of great music for you to still discover my friend. Let me know if I can be of any help. It would be my honor. Regards, and keep on rockin'!!