Hotel California — Don Felder & Joe Walsh (Eagles)

Hotel California's harmonized twin-guitar outro defines 1970s West Coast rock elegance, with Don Felder and Joe Walsh weaving interlocking lines over a 2-minute coda that remains one of the most recognizable instrumental passages in popular music. Their precise blend of pentatonic and modal phrases creates a tension that resolves only in the final chord, a feat achieved by layering three separate guitar tracks. This solo is smoother than the average rock outro yet carries more complexity than Free Bird, offering 34 distinct harmonic shifts versus that song's 18, making it a benchmark for controlled sophistication.