From Frits van den Heuvel <sb2fhh@rivm Thu Oct  1 14:18:44 1992
Newsgroups: rec.music.synth
From: Frits van den Heuvel <sb2fhh@rivm.nl>
Subject: REPOST: midi song "Hotel California - The Eagles"
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Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 14:41:10 GMT
From stwalker@undergrad (sean walker) Thu Jan 14 12:16:45 1993
Newsgroups: rec.music.christian
From: stwalker@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (sean walker)
Subject: Re: YES! Hotel California is Evil!
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Organization: University of Waterloo
References: <1993Jan10.163134.1@vax1.umkc.edu> <C0pAus.D1s@cs.mcgill.ca> <1993Jan12.150643.20730@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 18:37:33 GMT
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For those who don't know the lyrics, here they are:

Hotel Californ

On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair
warm smell of colitas rising up through the air
up ahead in the distance, I saw a shimmering light
my head grew heavy and my sight grew dimmer
I had to stop for the night

There she stood in the doorway;
I heard the mission bell
and I was thinking to myself,
'this could be Heaven or this could be Hell'
Then she lit up a candle and she showed me the way
There were voices down the corridor, 
I thought I heard them say...

Welcome to the Hotel California
Such a lovely place (such a lovely face)
Plenty of room at the Hotel California
Any time of year, you can find it here

Her mind is Tiffany-twisted, she got the Mercedes bends
She got a lot of pretty, pretty boys, that she calls friends
How they dance in the courtyard, sweet summer sweat.
Some dance to remember, some dance to forget

So I called up the Captain,
'Please bring me my wine'
He said, 'We haven't had that spirit here since ninteen sixty nine'
And still those voices are calling from far away,
Wake you up in the middles of the night 
Just to hear them say...

Welcome to the Hotel California
Such a lovely place (such a lovely face)
They livin' it up at the Hotel California
What a nice suprise, bring you alibis

Mirrors on the ceiling 
The pink champagne on ice
And she said 'We are all just prisoners here, of our own device'
And in the master's chambers,
They gathered for the feast
They stab it with their steely knives, 
But they just can't kill the beast

Last thing I remember, I was
Running for the door
I had to find the passage back
To the place I was before
'Relax', said the night man,
We are programmed to receive,
You can check out any time you like,
   but you can never leave'.

With respect to this song. If I remember correctly it was written about
a satanic church. (Of course, this could have been just a rumour). In any
case IMHO this definately does not glorify evil or really show anything 
positive about the "Hotel California".


