to finish all the speculations (or to start them new? hehe) here Don Henley himself!
Don Henley:
I like the ‘Hotel California’ track ; I like the song—I’m very proud of that one. It’s very cynical, but that’s all right. It’s our bicentennial year, you know, the country is 200 years old, so we figured since we are the Eagles and the Eagle is our national symbol, that we were obliged to make some kind of a little bicentennial statement using California as a microcosm of the whole United States, or the whole world, if you will, and to try to wake people up and say ‘We’ve been okay so far, for 200 years, but we’re gonna have to change if we’re gonna continue to be around’.
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to finish all the speculations (or to start them new? hehe) here Don Henley himself!
Don Henley: I like the ‘Hotel California’ track ; I like the song—I’m very proud of that one. It’s very cynical, but that’s all right. It’s our bicentennial year, you know, the country is 200 years old, so we figured since we are the Eagles and the Eagle is our national symbol, that we were obliged to make some kind of a little bicentennial statement using California as a microcosm of the whole United States, or the whole world, if you will, and to try to wake people up and say ‘We’ve been okay so far, for 200 years, but we’re gonna have to change if we’re gonna continue to be around’.
Any comments to it? nice greetings from Bangkok!