<P> On just about every album we made, there was some kind of commentary on the music business, and on American culture in general . The hotel itself could be taken as a metaphor not only for the myth - making of Southern California, but for the myth - making that is the American Dream, because it is a fine line between the American Dream, and the American nightmare . </P> <P> In a 2009 interview, The Plain Dealer music critic John Soeder asked Don Henley if he regretted writing the lines "So I called up the captain /' Please bring me my wine' / He said,' We haven't had that spirit here since 1969"' because wines are fermented while spirits are distilled . Henley responded: </P> <P> Thanks for the tutorial and, no, you're not the first to bring this to my attention--and you're not the first to completely misinterpret the lyric and miss the metaphor . Believe me, I've consumed enough alcoholic beverages in my time to know how they are made and what the proper nomenclature is . But that line in the song has little or nothing to do with alcoholic beverages . It's a sociopolitical statement . My only regret would be having to explain it in detail to you, which would defeat the purpose of using literary devices in songwriting and lower the discussion to some silly and irrelevant argument about chemical processes . </P> <P> In his Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings, Volume 1, Steve Sullivan theorizes that the "spirit" that the Hotel California hasn't had since 1969 refers to the spirit of social activism of the 1960s, and how disco and the related pop music of mid-1970s had turned away from it . </P>

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