by robertdreed » Sun Dec 18, 2005 4:54 pm
That would indeed be remarkable, considering that at the time that <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Hotel California</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> was released, there was no Contra effort, Somoza was still in power in Nicaragua, the Shah was still in power in Iran, and, in point of fact, Gerald Ford was still the president of the United States. <br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Hotel California</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> was released in 1976.<br><br>"The Last Resort" is a meditation on the history of the USA and the mythos of Manifest Destiny, the hunt for unspoiled places, the market for unspoiled places, the overrunning of unspoiled places, and their despoilation by people who think that the key to finding paradise has to do with the endless hunt for the next frontier, rather than taking responsibility for what's already settled and "civilized." The lyrics are fairly straightforward, I don't hear a lot of hidden innuendo in it.<br><br>Who know, maybe you were thinking of Glen Frey's "Smuggler's Blues"... <p></p><i></i>