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Who played that great guitar solo in the Eagles song “Hotel California”?
I always wish someone would ask this at trivia! Don Felder and Joe Walsh.
“The Eagles’ original recording of the song features Henley singing lead vocals and concludes with an iconic 2 minute and 12 seconds long electric guitar solo performed by Felder with a Gibson Les Paul Gibson EDS-1275 double neck and Joe Walsh with a Fender Telecaster, in which they take turns playing the lead before harmonizing and playing arpeggios together towards the fade-out.”
The mystery of what the line that goes, “warm smell of colitas, rising up through the air,” seems to have been solved by Cecil Adams in The Straight Dope: It’s marijuana.
“…By and by a denizen of soc.culture.spain wrote: ‘Colitas is little tails, but here the author is referring to ‘colas,’ the tip of a marijuana branch, where it is more potent and with more sap (said to be the best part of the leaves).’
“This E-mail just in from Eagles management honcho Irving Azoff: “In response to your [recent] memo, in 1976, during the writing of the song ‘Hotel California’ by Messrs. Henley and Frey, the word ‘colitas’ was translated for them by their Mexican-American road manager as ‘little buds.’…
