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anyone know what the song 'Hotel California' is about?

Answer 1

It's about an American Brothel.

Answer 2

The song really isn't about anything according to Glenn Frey. His quote from a radio interview a few years back was: “we were listening to a lot of Steely Dan records at the time and were impressed with the way that they could make ‘junk sculpture' lyrics about nothing and make them work into a song.”

The song is a great narrative tale about decadence (pink champagne) and mysticism (a spooky dungeon-like house) and even botany (the smell of colitus!), but it certainly has no realm in fact.

Don Felder brought the rough guitar track to Henley/Frey and asked them if they could do anything with it. This is unusual in that songs by them were typically written the other way around. It serves as an interesting note that further proves that they did some serious ad-libbing and probably got the booze and drugs flowing before they wrote this song.

The album on the whole is all about the southern California lifestyle at that time (Life In The Fast Lane, Last Resort) and shouldn't be looked at in any other way.

Answer 3

Its about California and how spinny it can get there sometimes if you live in the zone between legal and illegal, eg if you have a drug habit and deal with hard nuts to get it, or you live an alternative lifestyle at odds with legal protection and stuff like that. It's about living your life in a kind of twilight zone where you have to behave in a way that is appropriate to your environment and still survive. It's also about the post-hippy depression that seized a hold of California in the early 1970s "we haven't had that spirit here since 1969". Thats what I think anyway and I am old enough to remember when it first came out ( I was 9).

Answer 4

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On a dark desert highway,
Cool wind in my hair,
Warm smell of coletus
Rising up through the air,
Up ahead in the distance
I saw a shimmering light,
My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim,
I had to stop for the night.

There she stood in the doorway,
I heard the mission bell
And I was thinkin' to myself :
"This could be heaven and this could be hell"
Then she lit up a candle,
And she showed me the way,
There were voices down the corridor,
I thought I heard them say

Welcome to the Hotel California,
Such a lovely place, (Such a lovely place) Such a lovely face
Plenty of room at the Hotel California,
Any time of year, (Any time of year) You can find it here

Her mind is Tiffany-twisted,
She got the Mercedes Benz,
She got a lot of pretty, pretty boys
she calls friends
How they dance in the courtyard,
Sweet summer sweat
Some dance to remember,
Some dance to forget

So I called up the Captain
"Please bring me my wine"
He said, "We haven't had that spirit here
Since nineteen sixty-nine"
And still those voices are calling from far away,
Wake you up in the middle of the night
Just to hear them say:

Welcome to the Hotel California,
Such a lovely place, (Such a lovely place) Such a lovely face
They're livin' it up at the Hotel California,
What a nice surprise, (What a nice surprise) Bring your alibis

Mirrors on the ceiling,
The pink champagne on ice, and she said:
"We are all just prisoners here,
Of our own device"
And in the master's chambers
They gathered for the feast,
They stabbed it with their steely knives,
But they just can't kill the beast

Last thing I remember, I was running for the door,
I had to find the passage back to the place I was before,
"Relax," said the night man, "We are programmed to receive,
You can check out anytime you like... but you can never leave"

(Guitar Solo Until End)



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Answer 5

A hotel in California!

Answer 6

Its about a hotel thats situated in California. I think.

Answer 7

taking drugs in a hotel in California

Answer 8

Nope..dont agree with some answers...When I was younger Aussie lads would roll up in their panel vans with that song blaring as loud as they could have it..When that happened, most girls just knew...NOT to go out with them on a date as they knew what would be expected of them !!..(It had nothing to do with hotels and everything to do with getting into the back of that panel van)!!!...

Answer 9

I Think it's about people looking for refuge, A place to remember or forget. Hiding from their loneliness, or past mistakes.

Answer 10

Its a well know brothel in the 70s in California

Answer 11

Everything Gum said is correct. Don't listen to any one else.