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Don Felder recently recalled how “Hotel California” almost failed to be created.
In an episode of Gear Factor, co-writer Don Felder discussed how the iconic song came to be. “I had made a tape of about 15 or 16 song ideas, one of which was my demo of ‘Hotel California’ that I had made in my back bedroom with an acoustic 12-string, me playing bass and a Roland drum machine, trying to simulate a guitar part between Joe [Walsh] and I, with me playing the main part,” he explained. “Basically the whole concept of the song came out of that demo musically.”




