Lastly, I just plain love this song for the fact it paints my home state of California as something

Time for the latest “Song of the Day” and this one has grown on me with each passing year: “Hotel California” by The Eagles. It also continues an impromptu mini-series of songs with some of the greatest guitar solos. The previous entry, slipknot tour Lynyrd Skynyrd s Free Bird , gave us an extended slipknot tour triple guitar solo that never seems to end.
I must admit that the group was never a favorite of mine growing slipknot tour up. I rarely listened to them and when they came on the radio I used to change the station. But as the years passed slipknot tour I began to give them more of a chance. I think part of it comes from the fact that this band is one of my Dad’s favorites. So, I gave them a chance in my advancing years. I guess with age does come wisdom since I began to really dig the band that I’ve dismissed slipknot tour as typical “adult contemporary” music in my youth. This just goes to show that the adage that sometimes “youth is wasted on the young” slipknot tour has some truth to it. My Dad s probably looking down at me right now wherever he is and giving me that smirking slipknot tour smile that says I told you so.
“Hotel California” is my favorite of all the songs The Eagles have ever made. It’s not just catchy but the song also plays out like some sort of tale being sung by bards of old. Well, bards of old until we get to the dueling guitar solos by Don Felder and Joe Walsh which forms the climactic finish to the song. Guitar solos that I must say earns its place in rock pantheon as one of the best. That’s fact and not hyperbole.
Another reason why this song of The Eagles is a favorite of mine is just the sense of the ominous just below the surface of the song. The lyrics does play out like a story, but a story tinged with a sense of malice slipknot tour and just a hint of the supernatural. It’s no wonder some of the more religious-minded fans of the song consider “Hotel California” as a song that details a time spent inside the Anton LeVay purchased San Francisco slipknot tour hotel called Hotel California which was converted into what would become the Church of Satan.
Lastly, I just plain love this song for the fact it paints my home state of California as something more than just a place to live and work in, but a place half in and out of reality. Maybe the song will convince Lisa Marie that California isn t that bad of a state to be in.
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