As an aside, Hotel California was JW's first Eagles album.
A friend of mine is a highly acclaimed mastering engineer who re-mastered HC. He mentioned that a new tape formulation that promised higher sound quality was introduced in the studios at that time.
However, the new tape began disintegrating so my friend needed to literally "bake the master tape" to "reglue" the tape particles so it could be used for the remastering.
That is a completely different guy. Not that moron
Desperado was written by Glenn Frey and Don Henley
Wrong Joe Walsh.
Hmm...I dunno, maybe it is the same guy...