{"id":23812,"date":"2025-08-08T08:38:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T08:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guitarmadrid.com\/?p=23812"},"modified":"2025-08-08T08:38:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T08:38:06","slug":"glenn-frey-said-it-best-when-he-said-we-created-a-monster-with-hotel-california-and-it-ate-us-don-felder-on-the-making-of-the-eagles-the-long-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guitarmadrid.com\/es\/2025\/08\/08\/glenn-frey-said-it-best-when-he-said-we-created-a-monster-with-hotel-california-and-it-ate-us-don-felder-on-the-making-of-the-eagles-the-long-run\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cGlenn Frey said it best when he said we \u2018created a monster with Hotel California, and it ate us\u2019\u201d: Don Felder on the making of the Eagles\u2019 The Long Run"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After Hotel California<\/em>, the Eagles<\/a>\u2019 landmark 1976 album, saw them rise from country rockers to just plain rockers, Don Felder<\/a> and his bandmates should have been on top of the world \u2013 but all was not well in paradise.<\/p>\n

The warm smell of colitas was not rising up through the air, and there was a distinct lack of cool wind in the band\u2019s collective hair. Exhaustion, infighting, drugs and alcohol \u2013 basically the tropes that were supposed to drag down rock bands, as per Cameron Crowe\u2019s Almost Famous<\/em> \u2013 had all but derailed the Eagles.<\/p>\n