Originally Posted by
MikeA
LOL If you could claim a copyright infringement based upon chord sequence then I'm afraid that our vast catalog of music (all genre's of music) would be severely limited.
Think of all the songs that use the D,A,G sequence, or C,F,G7 or A, D, E. But I do admit that the Bm, F#m, A, E, G, D, Em may be unique to Jethro Tull and the Eagles....but I kinda doubt it *G*.
I did like your observation that Felder was not in the Eagles at the time of the common tour and that it has been clearly acknowledged that it WAS Felder who came up with that chord progression and the Reggae beat...Felder and Walsh codeveloped the solos and Henley came up with the lyrics with inspirational input by Frey.
Originally though, Hotel California was written in a completely different key. It was changed to the familiar key at the last minute by Henley so it would better fit his vocal range. I'm not sure what the original key was..."E" I think.