Pretty Maids All in a Row - 2013 Remaster

Hotel California was the first Eagles album Joe Walsh played on. He helped write this song and "Life In The Fast Lane" for the album. "Pretty Maids All In A Row" features Walsh on piano and synthesiser rather than guitar, and was not typical of the Eagles sound. In a 1981 interview with the BBC, Walsh explained: "To make the Eagles really valid as a band, it was important that we co-write things and share things. 'Pretty Maids' is kind of a melancholy reflection on my life so far, and I think we tried to represent it as a statement that would be valid for people from our generation on life so far. Heroes, they come and go... Henley and Frey really thought that it was a good song, and meaningful, and helped me a lot in putting it together. I think the best thing to say is that it's a kind of melancholy observation on life that we hoped would be a valid statement for people from our generation."

Walsh wrote this with Joe Vitale, who was his bandmate in a group called Barnstorm. After Walsh joined the Eagles, Vitale contributed to the group as a member of their touring band.