Wow, some of you are overanalyzing this song A LOT. I mean, to me this song isn't on the symbolic par as Stairway or Boh Rap (see my reviews of those for true overanalysis.) It's pretty straight forward, just about the Underworld of LA. If you get the 2 disc Eagles: Best of set it actually says exactly how the song came about. I'll paraphrase it: basically it said they got the basic thoughts for the song, a twilight zone-like hotel in LA, watched a lot of Twilight Zone shows to get ideas, did a lot of research on hotels, and then threw in as much weird shit as they could to get a very odd feel to it. It's nothing more than that. So not to say your ideas aren't good, but in my opinion the song is just about some crazy shit going down at a hotel.
Wow, some of you are overanalyzing this song A LOT. I mean, to me this song isn't on the symbolic par as Stairway or Boh Rap (see my reviews of those for true overanalysis.) It's pretty straight forward, just about the Underworld of LA. If you get the 2 disc Eagles: Best of set it actually says exactly how the song came about. I'll paraphrase it: basically it said they got the basic thoughts for the song, a twilight zone-like hotel in LA, watched a lot of Twilight Zone shows to get ideas, did a lot of research on hotels, and then threw in as much weird shit as they could to get a very odd feel to it. It's nothing more than that. So not to say your ideas aren't good, but in my opinion the song is just about some crazy shit going down at a hotel.