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CLASSIC CORNER: BACKTRACK

so we could remember what it was. I bowed to
the wisdom of Mr. Henley and played what I had
done on the demo tape.
Did Joe make his part up himself?
The second half of his solo he did. There is a
little chromatic walk down in the middle that
was kind of extracted from what I had done. Mr.
Henley wanted it in that part of the line, which
was kind of a nice little melody thing. But Joe
reaches for his own stuff and came up with a
lot of that himself. I wouldn’t take the credit for
writing Joe’s solo. I took the first half, he takes
the second half, we trade two little short licks,
and then we play the harmony part.
Most people think Joe took the whole solo.
That’s fine with me. Joe is a fantastic player and
he deserves all the recognition he can get. ■

Hotel California live in 1977 - The Eagles

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