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Commercially, "Hotel California" reached the number one position on the Billboard Hot 100 and reached the top ten of several international charts. The Eagles have performed "Hotel California" well over 1,000 times live, and is the third most performed of all their songs, after "Desperado" and "Take It Easy". [12]
Hotel California is the fifth studio album by American rock band Eagles, released on December 8, 1976, by Asylum Records.Recorded by the band and produced by Bill Szymczyk at the Criteria and Record Plant studios between March and October 1976, it was the band's first album with guitarist Joe Walsh, who had replaced founding member Bernie Leadon, and the last to feature founding bassist Randy ...
In live shows, Henley plays drums and sings simultaneously on some Eagles songs. [40] On his solo songs and other Eagles songs, he plays electric guitar and simultaneously sings or just sings solo. Occasionally Eagles songs would get drastic rearrangements, such as "Hotel California" with four trombones. [41] [42]
This prompted Gibson to name two re-issues after him in 2010, the "Don Felder Hotel California 1959 Les Paul" and the "Don Felder Hotel California EDS-1275". Felder himself is an avid guitar collector, having amassed close to 300 models since childhood. Felder uses Fender Deluxe Reverb and Tweed Deluxe amplifiers [40] modified by Dumble Amplifiers.
In 1998, a Guitarist magazine reader's poll named the solos by Walsh and Don Felder on "Hotel California" the best guitar solos ever. [6] Guitar World ranked it eighth in the Top 100 Guitar Solos. [7] As a member of the Eagles, Walsh was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998, and the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2001.
Prior to the Eagles, he was a member of three country rock bands: Hearts & Flowers, Dillard & Clark, and the Flying Burrito Brothers. He is a multi-instrumentalist (guitar, banjo, mandolin, steel guitar, dobro) coming from a bluegrass background. He introduced elements of this music to a mainstream audience during his tenure with the Eagles.
Steuart Smith (born 24 June 1952) [1] is an American guitarist and multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, writer and producer from Baltimore, Maryland, United States.He was a touring member of the American rock band Eagles, where he performed as one of the lead guitarists from 2001 to 2025 before retiring due to Parkinson's disease.
"Already Gone" was one of the first songs that the Eagles recorded for the album after they stopped recording in London and returned to Los Angeles, and switched their producer from Glyn Johns to Bill Szymczyk. [5] Frey was the lead vocalist. [6] New guitarist Don Felder played a Les Paul Special and provided the song's solo lick. [7] [8]