What do you mean, that you haven't had any wine since 1969?

[MrScorpio]

I said, bring me my wine, goddamnit

[flvegan]

1. Isn't it just that one particular spirit?

Or do they really mean ALL wine, completely? A hotel, in California no less, without wine? Barbaric.

[Hissyspit]

2. Spirit of '69 is absent.

In 1976.

[Aristus]

3. Do you mean the spirit of Woodstock, which was New York?

Or the spirit of Altamont, which was California?

[Hissyspit]

4. I guess you could read it both ways or together.

Altamont ended the spirit that was "supposedly" represented by Woodstock. Altamont was JUST BARELY in 1969. December.

[Radio_Lady]

5. Had a baby in Florida in December 1969. That's my only connection.

[Zomby Woof]

6. Neither, or both

It was a reference to the prime year of the Laurel Canyon music scene which thrived from 1968-1973 - and many of its artists did perform at Woodstock. From that era, and that locale, such acts as the Flying Burrito Brothers, Joni Mitchell, David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash, Neil Young, Frank Zappa, The Mamas and the Papas, Jackson Browne, and many others thrived. The era ended with the death of Gram Parsons in 1973. The Eagles song is an epitaph of the promise that era held - and its peril - dissipating in a cloud of cocaine and death. Neil Young's "Tonight's The Night" is the better and more nightmarishly accurate document of that disintegration, but the Eagles still provided an appropriately Twilight Zone flavored send-off. The dream was over, as John Lennon said.

[Hissyspit]

7. I believe there is a documentary out currently (or is it a book?)

about the Laurel Canyon scene. I'm rushing to lunch, so I don't have time to google it.

[Bassic]

8. Yeah, you need wine, after looking at those two dancing

in the yard.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

9. And still those voices are calling from far awaaayyyy....

Wake you up in the middle of the night
Just to hear them say: