Tracks That Didn’t Make Hotel California

[YoungEaglesFan]

Hotel California was probably the best Eagles album in that there is no filler on the album. All are solid songs. My question is during this extremely creative and successful run where there any other tracks that had work done for the album that didn’t make it? We know about songs that didn’t make OOTN, TLR, and OTB. I’ve never heard of a song that the band worked on thought about but rejected for the HC album. Did they end up by accident liking the first 8 songs they worked on?

[MortSahlFan]

Hotel California was probably the best Eagles album in that there is no filler on the album. All are solid songs. My question is during this extremely creative and successful run where there any other tracks that had work done for the album that didn’t make it? We know about songs that didn’t make OOTN, TLR, and OTB. I’ve never heard of a song that the band worked on thought about but rejected for the HC album. Did they end up by accident liking the first 8 songs they worked on?

I'm going to guess if there is one, we won't know about it.. I think it was probably used in a future record, or parts of it, or maybe on a solo record, depending who wrote it..

Would be nice, though... I advise people to check YouTube constantly, since many videos are taken down by a number of people/businesses.

(and please post it if you do!)

[Annoying Twit]

I would guess that it will never happen, but I'd like to hear Don Felder's demo tape that included HC, VoL, and presumably lots of other guitar based tracks that we've never heard.

[NightMistBlue]

I would guess that it will never happen, but I'd like to hear Don Felder's demo tape that included HC, VoL, and presumably lots of other guitar based tracks that we've never heard.

Oh my gosh, that would be so cool. You can be sure the tape still exists.

[Funk 50]

I believe that Felder has stated that the title track of his most recent album, Return To Forever, originated from the mid-seventies, which places it on that same cassette as "Mexican Reggae".

I wonder if the wonderful talents of Glenn and Don could have made a decent Eagles track out of it

[Freypower]

I believe that Felder has stated that the title track of his most recent album, Return To Forever, originated from the mid-seventies, which places it on that same cassette as "Mexican Reggae".

I wonder if the wonderful talents of Glenn and Don could have made a decent Eagles track out of it

This is the second time you have called it Return To Forever.

It's Road To Forever.

[chaim]

"Did they end up by accident liking the first 8 songs they worked on?"

They probably recognized early on which ideas were worth working on, so they didn't like the songs they ended up really working on "by accident". If that's the case, they had an amazing "garbage filter". There may have been song ideas with one verse and an idea for a chorus melody that were rejected, but if songs were nearly completed and then rejected, we'd probably have heard of them by now.

[Dawn]

Hotel California Producer On the Making of the Album

http://bestclassicbands.com/bill-szy...view-11-21-17/

[NightMistBlue]

Thank you for that article, Dawn. The Ricky Nelson house where the band rehearsed for two week's was Randy's home. It was in the Mt Olympus area. A
Also, the concert benefit for Jerry Brown was in May 1976 at The Forum, wasn't it? Bill seems to equate this with the filmed concert at the Capital Center in Maryland that's on the HOTE bonus disc, but isn't that from March 1977?
So confusing 🦅

[chaim]

Interesting. I wonder which three songs were ready when they started recording OOTN.