who played the guitar solo on hotel california
Joe Walsh Don Felder
title: Hotel California text: Hotel California "Hotel California" is the title track from the Eagles' album of the same name and was released as a single in February 1977. Writing credits for the song are shared by Don Felder (music), Don Henley, and Glenn Frey (lyrics). The Eagles' original recording of the song features Henley singing the lead vocals and concludes with an extended section of electric guitar interplay between Felder and Joe Walsh. The song is considered the most famous recording by the band, and its long guitar coda has been voted the best guitar solo of all time by readers of "Guitarist" title: Hotel California text: to perform "Hotel California". The song's guitar solo was voted the best solo of all time by readers of "Guitarist" magazine in 1998, and was ranked 8th on "Guitar Magazine"s Top 100 Guitar Solos. The song was also included in the music video game "Guitar Hero World Tour". It was ranked the number 1 in the list of the best 12-string guitar songs of all times by "Guitar World" magazine in 2015. Glenn Frey said that originally "We decided to create something strange, just to see if we could do it," and that the song was meant to mimic the title: Steuart Smith text: Steuart Smith Steuart Smith (born June 24, 1952) is an American guitarist and multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, writer and producer hailing from Arlington, Virginia. He is best known as a touring member of the American rock band The Eagles where he has performed as one of the lead guitarists since 2001. Smith was hired by the Eagles in 2001 after Don Felder was fired from the band due to legal disputes. He shares lead guitar duties with Joe Walsh, such as the harmonizing solo in "Hotel California". In addition to performing live with the band, he played on and co-wrote several songs title: Hotel California text: then spliced together to create the released version. According to the producer Bill Szymczyk, there were 33 edits on the two‑inch master. The final section features a guitar battle between Joe Walsh (who had replaced Bernie Leadon after Leadon's departure from the band in 1975) and Felder, which took the two of them sitting together working for around three days to achieve the necessary precision. Walsh and Felder initially started improvising but Henley insisted that the recording should follow the music as first recorded in Felder's demo. Henley decided that the song should be a single, although Felder had doubts title: Hotel California text: film, but the members of the Eagles disliked the idea and it never came to fruition. Commercially, "Hotel California" reached the number one position on the "Billboard" Hot 100 and reached the top ten of several international charts. The melody of the song was composed by Don Felder in a rented house on Malibu Beach. He recorded the basic tracks with a Rhythm Ace drum machine and added a 12 string guitar on a four-track recording deck in his spare bedroom, then mixed in a bassline, and gave Don Henley and Glenn Frey each a copy of the recording. Felder,