t.o.b.......just checked out yer jethro link & i must say its very similar to hotel c. i've heard the jethro tune many times before but have never noticed the similarity ......well spotted that man!
I did keep hearing a collection of a few chords that was in Hotel California. That is one of my most favourite songs (ok I have a lot of those
) but on the whole I wouldn't have said it was the same but if they gigged with The Eagles you could see how the influence could happen. I don't remember the Jethro Tull song and would have been pushed to say it was even them, until Ian Anderson came in on the flute.