

Like the electric part of the verses Walsh is the lower note, Felder is the higher. It's basically the same as the first part of the intro. Then the first half of the second verse is the same as the first part of theįirst verse then Walsh and Felder split again. Then Walsh plays this between "Plenty of room at the Hotel California" andī -15-15-15-12. Then both Walsh and Felder play the lead in to the second part of the chorus This is played by Walsh between "Welcome to the Hotel California" and "such a lovely place"ī -10-10-12-10-12/14-12-10. I think, but Felder plays the intro through once more then Walsh and Felder split. Now Felder repeats that and Walsh comes inĮ -|-|-|-o-ī -|-|-|-o. Play it several times at the beginning before the main intro starts.Į 7-7-|-9-ī 7-7-7-7-|-7-7. It's heavily palm muted and I assume played by Walsh or Felder on the 6 string electric. Flashback: The Eagles Play an Epic ‘Hotel California’ in 1977 As they prepare to perform the album straight through on tour next year, watch them play the title track shortly after the LP hit. This part took forever cus I couldn't find any video of itīeing played so I had to play around with it so it mightīe wrong but it works. Gibson double-neck w/ capo on 7th fret of 12-string neck: Don Felder

There are 3 guitars, they are as follows:ġ2-string acoustic w/ capo on 2nd fret: Glenn FreyĦ string electric (Fender Telecaster if you care): Joe Walsh Solos and Joe Walsh's parts aren't very good. They began playing shows with Deacon and Vince Gill covering Glenn’s vocal parts in 2017 and gigged all over the world this past year.So I looked everywhere for the electric version of “It would seem like a desperate thing.” He changed his mind when Glenn’s son Deacon practiced with the band and seamlessly fit into the mix. The Eagles are live on the 2021 Hotel California Tour and tickets for all cities and dates are on-sale.
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“It would just seem like greed or something,” he said. hotel Addeddate 09:24:44 Identifier HotelCaliforniaEaglesHQ.mp4201706 Scanner Internet Archive HTML5 Uploader 1.6.3. Schmit has been in the band since late 1977.ĭon Henley initially said the Eagles would retire after Glenn Frey died. Don Henley and Joe Walsh are the sole remaining members that played on Hotel California, though bassist Timothy B. Bassist Randy Meisner quit the band just six months after this show, Don Felder was let go in 2001 after a business dispute and Glenn Frey died in 2016. The group playing it onstage next year, however, is going to look quite different than this one. Here’s video of the band performing “Hotel California” at the Capitol Centre in Washington, D.C., on March 21st, 1977, three months after the album hit. But the song has somehow resonated all around the globe.” “Those lyrics employ what Glenn used to call ‘the perfect ambiguity,’ and are open to a wide array of interpretations - and we’ve seen some doozies. “I feel it important to point out that Glenn contributed some very important lines to that set of lyrics,” he said in 2016. I think I was driving down Benedict Canyon Drive at night, or maybe even North Crescent Drive (adjacent to the Beverly Hills Hotel) the first time I heard the piece, and I remember thinking, ‘This has potential I think we can make something interesting out of this.’”

“There may have been some Latin-style percussion in there, too. “It was a simple demo - a progression of arpeggiated guitar chords, along with some hornlike sustained note lines, all over a simple 4/4 drum-machine pattern,” Henley told Rolling Stone in 2016.
