Playing to huge outdoor and arena audiences, sharing bills with some of rock’s legends, and going places no tribute band has gone before.

The band set the bar in 1986, and they’ve remained the industry leading substitute for The Eagles ever since. Frey countered the clean harmonies of “Try and Love Again” with a downright messy lead Walsh added some dirty swagger to “In the City” and “Life’s Been Good.HOTEL CALIFORNIA – The Original Tribute to The Eagles (Canada)įor over three decades now HOTEL CALIFORNIA have been recreating the legendary sound of THE EAGLES, and thrilling audiences all over the world. Often playing ugly-on-purpose or raucously intertwined, Walsh, Gill, Smith, and Deacon Frey cooked up fiery moments. Even if one can’t feel the beating heart in songs such as “Wasted Time” and “Take It To the Limit,” one would have to be ice cold not to get a jolt from the guitars. So to hear something like “One of These Nights,” something so smart and taut and burnished, done just right brought pure delight.ĭetractors, such as The Dude in “The Big Lebowski” and millions of boomers’ angsty kids, have argued the band lacks passion. It also came via the Henley-Frey catalog.ĭespite the fury this statement evokes: the pair had Lennon-McCartney-esque knack for melody and a Becker-Fagen-like understanding of polish. It pays close attention to each number’s instrumentation - a handful of tracks included a live orchestra and choir conducted by Jim Ed Norman, who arranged the original string parts on the Eagles’ records. The band relishes in bright, full vocal harmonies (see the spin-tingling “Seven Bridges Road”). The meticulousness shined in a few spots.

The band kept them thinking that for over three hours by balancing meticulousness and passion through the LP’s warhorses - “New Kid in Town,” “Life in the Fast Lane,” “Victim of Love” - and a second set of huge hits from “Take it Easy” to “One of These Nights” to “Desperado.” From the opening notes of that eerie, iconic and absolutely perfect guitar line, the crowd checked into the show, also never wanting to leave.įrom behind his drum kit, Henley’s voice, rougher for the years yet even better suited for the song now, sung, “On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair.” Suddenly, ten thousand fans were thinking this could be heaven. ran through the iconic, 30-million-selling, 1976 LP front-to-back. (A second show is Saturday.) This meant Henley & Co. Schmit, the late Glenn Frey’s son, Deacon Frey, country ace Vince Gill, and ringer Steuart Smith - brought the “Hotel California” tour to the TD Garden. The Eagles really can’t leave “Hotel California.”įriday night, the band – now including founder Don Henley, longtimers Joe Walsh and Timothy B.

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