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 (Henley-Felder-Frey)

so 47 years ago this week the Eagles single Hotel California topped the charts......May 1977.....where in God's name does the time go ? I remember hearing that song on the radio everywhere i went as a 12-13 year old lad.......76th street stairs....Shore Rd, Bliss Park, Riis Park,......I wasn't a big Eagles guy at the time......i was indifferent towards the band.....liked some songs, but did not take them too seriously......i grew to appreciate their music years later....but in the spring and summer of 1977 those opening chords were ever present and distinct....and it was a longer song......and nobody dared turn the dial when it was on........it was a different world back then....packs of teenagers and young adults were hanging on most corners and inside every schoolyard.....society was attached at the hip to their radios......and in the warm weather the rolled down windows of a passing car amplified the fabric of a generation.....rare was the individual cassette tape or 8 track.....in Brooklyn it was WNEW or WPLJ......looking back on it, that was unifying in it's own way........today everyone marches to their own drum  or ipod.........i don't have to guess, i know i am old...but can it really be almost 50 years ? 

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 check out any time you like, but you can never leave"