No. 0851976·classic-rock·4 blocks
Life in the Fast Lane
Joe Walsh wrote and played the snaking main riff of Life in the Fast Lane on a 1950s Fender Stratocaster straight into a cranked tweed Fender Deluxe — bright, biting, just over the edge of breakup. Don Felder doubled the riff an octave up on his 1959 Les Paul through the same amp. No pedals: producer Bill Szymczyk had the players punching parts in live from the control room, the growl coming entirely from a small tweed combo pushed hard.
Hotel CaliforniaSignal path · input → output · 5 blocksLive values · Pedalboard
Guitar
Fender Stratocaster (1950s)
Pickups
SSS
Tuning
bridge
Strings
standard
Studio compression (light)
Fender Tweed Deluxe (5E3, cranked)
Tweed Deluxe 1x12 (built-in)
Shure SM57
Studio compression (light)
compressor
Output
6
Sensitivity
3
Fender Tweed Deluxe (5E3, cranked)
preamp
Volume
8
Treble
6
Bass
5
Engineer's note
File 085
Joe Walsh wrote and played the snaking main riff of Life in the Fast Lane on a 1950s Fender Stratocaster straight into a cranked tweed Fender Deluxe — bright, biting, just over the edge of breakup. Don Felder doubled the riff an octave up on his 1959 Les Paul through the same amp. No pedals: producer Bill Szymczyk had the players punching parts in live from the control room, the growl coming entirely from a small tweed combo pushed hard.
— Joe Walsh
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