![]() ![]() The hippy area, Flower Power was starting to wane and people were becoming more sophisticated. Add to that the terrible effect of the Vietnam War Involvement and what have you got. A reason to escape…įor some this meant taking illegal drugs. There was a lot of excess in America and none more so than in California. Think again. It will tempt you and draw you but then it will keep you. So you may think you are checking into a smart and luxurious hotel after a hard journey looking for a clean bed and good food. ![]() Other young men had signed up and returned disfigured and disillusioned. It became an escape to the very dark side or the underbelly of America for a whole generation and prompted the Anti War Rallies and Protests right across the country and involved many famous figures. This was at a time when everyone wanted the American Dream. The youth of America had returned from Vietnam, war weary, angry and cross and looking for answers. Young men had died painful deaths miles from home and family. Alone and frightened. Their bodes never to be returned to their homeland. It means that you can make your own interpretation on it and whatever it means to you – is absolutely fine by them. Its never clear and this is what has made this song so popular. It could mean checking out on life permanently, ie such as taking your own life or just checking out and laying low while you walk on the darker side of life. ” So although you are off in another opiate induced world, in reality you are still in your hospital bed being monitored by men in white coats. ![]() “CHECKING OUT ANYTIME, BUT YOU CAN NEVER LEAVE” so open to interpretation but one of these is that you can take off or check out into oblivion with drink or drugs, but you wont ever leave the building. ![]() So another reason to add to the mystery of this fictional “ hotel” The Camarillo Mental Asylum was supposed to have been the idea for the song.Ĭlosed over 30 years ago, it still has an air of mystery about it, even though its use today is less hypnotic. One theory is that it was based around a mental asylum, but this was never proved and in fact there has never been a Hotel California, surprisingly, in California. Band Members lived life of excesses and hoped to feature on the cover of the Rolling Stone magazine. Even Doctor Hook and his Medicine Band wrote a song about featuring on this magazine. ![]()
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