“Hotel California”, the monster who swallowed the Eagles

The former guitarist of Eagles Don Felder In an interview with Glide Magazine he spoke, among other topics, of the great pressure that the band had to face after the enormous success of the album “Hotel California” (Read the review here), when he put himself at work on the next disc, “The long run”.

The 77 -year -old Felder recalled that period by telling: “I think I had never made an album that had put me so uncomfortable. There was a lot of pressure that derived from” Hotel California “to produce another” California hotel “. Once Glenn (Frey, ed) was stressed so much because she had only one song for the album that left Miami’s studio and returned to Los Angeles. Writing a song.

That collaboration produced the hit
“Heartache Tonight”
. Despite everything, however, stress continued to grow inexorable during the production of the album, as he did not fail to underline
Don Felder
. “We had a lot of pressure on and the days were very long. We had one day defined when we had to leave for the tour, so we had a deadline.” Closing the phrase with the description he said in his time
Glenn Frey
: “With” Hotel California “we created a monster and devoured us”.