[唱英文歌曲活动] -- Hotel California 加州酒店 -----

游泳的雨 · 2011-09-29 18:51:09Z

[唱英文歌曲活动] -- Hotel California 加州酒店 -----简介

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顺着美风班长的脚步来到这里，先跟大家问个好。。。。

其实我偶尔也是会跑到这里来给自己充电，所以也想趁这个机会，用这首自己翻唱的歌向大家表示感谢。。。

这首歌的前奏和后奏都比较长，不过很多的评选都把这首歌作为“One of the Best Guitar Solo Ever“。。　所以希望没有浪费大家太多时间。。。

下面是从网上搜来的歌曲介绍中摘录出来的一段文字：

《Hotel California》是二十世纪最著名的流行音乐作品之一。这首歌可以说是Eagles在最佳状态、最佳组合之下完成的一首旷世之作，这首《Hotel California》在1977年连续8周获得全美排行榜冠军的位置。在《滚石》评出的最伟大的100首英文歌曲中名列第十一。 Eagles是美国乃至美国文化波及到世界最为雅俗共赏的乐队，有人说他们是摇滚乐队，也有人说他们是合唱组，反正他们最拿手的，便是乡村摇滚的五重奏加上五重唱，乡村的传统情怀、摇滚的适当的动感、一层层吉它铺垫出的细致空间、一重重人声叠加的丰富和声，便是他们左右逢源的秘密。关于Eagles的“Hotel California”的介绍几乎多到泛滥。从六七十年代摇滚乐的繁荣上升时期以来，数不清的人们被这首绝世佳作深深地打动。有些乐队不但多产，而且精品甚多。Eagles也是这样，但是正因为这首“加州旅馆”太过出色，以至人们只记得Eagles是唱"加州旅馆"的乐队。这首歌被人们演绎过的不同版本数不胜数。但普遍认为最动人最经典的，还是Eagles自己演绎的Unplugged版本(94版?)，只有吉他，鼓声伴奏。步入中年的Eagles，光芒四射的舞台，唯一被人们记住的“Hotel California”，歌词里如同宿命般断言：你永远也离不开“Hotel California”了，Eagles的终生成就，似乎就只有这首“Hotel California”。霜华染鬓，怕见人去，灯影车流中，穿越喧嚣繁华，现场歌迷们的喝彩声浪里，是不被真正理解的Eagles的寂寞。借用中国的一句古语“成也萧何、败也萧何”，可能是《Hotel California》太成功了，以后，The Eagles再也没有创作出超过《Hotel California》的作品。或许是听众们太苛刻了，他们对这首歌曲近乎于崇拜的喜爱已使他们忽略了The Eagles其他的单曲。更有甚者，传说The Eagles到日本举行演唱会，演唱会第一支曲子就安排的是《Hotel California》，但演唱完了这首曲子之后，音乐会就走了近一半的人。

On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair
Warm smell of colitas, rising up through the air
Up ahead in the distance, I saw a shimmering light
My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim
I had to stop for the night
There she stood in the doorway;
I heard the mission bell
And I was thinking to myself,
’this could be heaven or this could be hell’
Then she lit up a candle and she showed me the way
There were voices down the corridor,
I thought I heard them say...

Welcome to the hotel california
Such a lovely place
Such a lovely face
Plenty of room at the hotel california
Any time of year, you can find it here

Her mind is tiffany-twisted, she got the mercedes bends
She got a lot of pretty, pretty boys, that she calls friends
How they dance in the courtyard, sweet summer sweat.
Some dance to remember, some dance to forget

So I called up the captain,
’please bring me my wine’
He said, ’we haven’t had that spirit here since nineteen sixty nine’
And still those voices are calling from far away,
Wake you up in the middle of the night
Just to hear them say...

Welcome to the hotel california
Such a lovely place
Such a lovely face
They livin’ it up at the hotel california
What a nice surprise, bring your alibis

Mirrors on the ceiling,
The pink champagne on ice
And she said ’we are all just prisoners here, of our own device’
And in the master’s chambers,
They gathered for the feast
The stab it with their steely knives,
But they just can’t kill the beast

Last thing I remember, I was
Running for the door
I had to find the passage back
To the place I was before
’relax,’ said the night man,
We are programmed to receive.
You can checkout any time you like,
But you can never leave!