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Hotel California - is this Eagles Album Single for Christians?
by JWoods 25 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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John Doe
Country? Ah hell no! Eagles ain't anything like country.
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beksbks
I loved The Eagles. As close to country as I can stand.
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John Doe
Country? Ah hell no! Eagles ain't anything like country.
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watson
"Take it to the limit....one more time..."
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AMomentWeBothKnew
In a 2009 interview, Plain Dealer music critic John Soeder asked Don Henley this about the lyrics:
On "Hotel California," you sing: "So I called up the captain / 'Please bring me my wine' / He said, 'We haven't had that spirit here since 1969.'" I realize I'm probably not the first to bring this to your attention, but wine isn't a spirit. Wine is fermented; spirits are distilled. Do you regret that lyric?
Henley responded,
"Thanks for the tutorial and, no, you're not the first to bring this to my attention—and you're not the first to completely misinterpret the lyric and miss the metaphor. Believe me, I've consumed enough alcoholic beverages in my time to know how they are made and what the proper nomenclature is. But that line in the song has little or nothing to do with alcoholic beverages. It's a sociopolitical statement. My only regret would be having to explain it in detail to you, which would defeat the purpose of using literary devices in songwriting and lower the discussion to some silly and irrelevant argument about chemical processes." [ 11 ]
In response to the above, I always thought "we haven't had that spirit here since 1969" meant "spirit" in the sense of "that's a good spirit," like a positive, playful attitude, not in "spirit" as in alcohol.