“The future’s uncertain and the end is always near” to me this sums up the whole song…enjoy and live your life to the fullest because tomorrow isn’t promised
The sad part about it is Jim was young he died at the age of 27 years old but the fact he made such a impact in rock & roll history only spoke to how talented he was
@@boki1693 Glenn Corbett I honestly was going to write that at first knowing what Jim is linked too with those other Artists but I didn't want to tap into the spooky lol
This band has blown me away since I was like 7 yrs. old. And this was my favorite song in my teens just because of the lyrics, woke up this Morning and I Got Myself a Beer. What party animal would not love that line. I am now 60 and try to live by that but only on the weekends now. This was back when drugs were safer, and everyone was experimenting. A lot of acid at the Doors concerts. If you were lucky enough to see a show because a lot of shows were canceled because Jim was too high or did not show up. Drugs were crazy back then.
I believe “Roadhouse” was a term from back when certain counties were dry, and a the adjacent one wet; a bar would open in the middle of nowhere, just across the county line, usually offering live music & food. ✌️❤️🎶
Roadhouses started by being a drive away, just outside the city or county line, where they could avoid closure times or liquor licences or blue laws or other bureaucracy. They attracted travellers and wide areas of locals, often rowdy crowds. I guess Texas is famous for them, but they're all over the West and South.
You all are getting real good at interpreting vibe and feeling from artist from the last 30 years regardless of style. It's really fresh to experience it with you again. You really have helped keep alive the music and the artist who created it. Nobody could have predicted that the help would have come in this form. Thank you for that, your channel has been very important to the resurgence of music played by actual musicians that devoted themselves to the art. Much Respect.
Last 30 years? I know for me (33) the 90’s feel like they were just 10 years ago, but 30 years takes us the the early 90’s. We’re talking 50/60 years with music from this time period! Hard to believe it.
A roadhouse is a bar/diner/dance hall out in the country. Common where towns are far apart and you don't want to drive a long way after drinking. A lot have cheap rooms or flops either out back or in the back of the main building. The rooms (with a small bed or cot) were often used for other purposes than sleeping off the booze.
My dad was a huge huge doors fan still is. We still have pictures in our photo album of me back in 85 singing Roadhouse Blues into a microphone while my dad played guitar in my mom played harmonica. I would say I woke up this morning and I got myself a beer! Lol love the doors.
@@Phenemonal353 LOVE this version....although im always hesitant to suggest a live version for the first time. Id prob go with the studio version for a first listen imo
The most amazing aspect of The Doors and their incredible musicality and chart-topping success, for me, is that Morrison wasn't a musician or even a singer! He had never sung with a band ever, prior to The Doors and yet became the iconic rock star we know him as. We all know he was a writer/poet but think about it...a guy who had never sung becomes the world's biggest rock star...he was commanding everyone's attention right out of the gate with "Break on Through" and they just kept getting bigger and better with every album.
Maybe he wasn´t an experienced musician/singer, but it´s apparent HIS LOVE OF MUSIC, and GREAT SENSITIVITY for it. I´m NOT saying that he was a MUSIC SCHOLAR, or a TOP COLLECTOR, as were, for instance, the leaders of CANNED HEAT, but he undoubtedly had a PASSION FOR MUSIC, and an enormous ability to TRANSMIT emotions. Personally, I´VE SPENT my whole LIFE LISTENING to music genres in which VOCALS are PARAMOUNT (Blues, Soul, R&B, Stax, Motown, Funk, Reggae, European Folk; as well as tons of Rock of the highest caliber), therefore, being accustomed to the best singers around, and, even so, MORRISON STILL GETS ME, & SURPRISES ME, EVERY TIME (and Nostagia is NOT the explanation, cause I wasn´t even born when Jim was alive, and NEITHER was I a fan in my tender teens, or something like that). He is just PHENOMENAL, super fun & super dark at the same time, and HE´S NEVER EVER ANODYNE or DULL.
Brad, that moment you reacted to at 4:16, when you thought you heard an echo of "Save our city"? You were right. It was the harmonica mimicking the melody and cadence of the lyric that sounded like another voice. That's how good these guys were. Love your videos. Please do some more Doors songs.
A Roadhouse is a Bar/Inn/Tavern on a road outside of a city limit. They tend to be more rowdy because there isnt much around them (including police stations).
Listen to Texas Radio and The Big Beat. Its on LA Women. Everyone thought Doors were done. Owed Electra 1 album and made Morrisin Hotel. Last Album he did for band. They created it in a makeshift studio. Not shabby that a washed up group created 2 great albums to finish their run. Morrison didnt write their top hits. Light my fire. Hello i love you. That was Kreiger. He didnt want to sing light my fire at 30. He did contribute a great line in light my fire. ' No time to walliw in the mire'. He wanted to write his poetry and be taken seriously. If you are a real doors fan you listen to Absolutely Live. Break on thru. Celebration of the Lizard. Universal Mind which they played live alot but was never on any album. He sounds like Frank Sinatra crooning about a girl he loves leaving him. For 69 live its a great song that he hits notes and sings from his heart. Soul Kitchen ends it and is another Live Gem.
Yes! Great pic. They have so many to choose from. Robbie Kreiger is so underrated as a guitarist & songwriter! Keep tapping the Doors for more gems. ✌️❤️🎶
Funny because I did the same except I tracked down all the concert videos, and still have all the vinyl records. Lol. The Doors appeal to all generations!
Absolutely correct lex, he pretty much lived is life through some of the lyrics of the song. Woke up this morning and I got myself a beer...yep that's jim alright.
Way back, I bought The Doors album, "Morrison Hotel". First track, Roadhouse Blues. Second track, Waiting For The Sun. Two of my favourite performances ever. The whole album is great too.
Waiting for the Sun was Title track of Same name 3rd Album. The Doors. Strange Days. Waiting for the sun. Soft p arade. Morrison Hotel. LA Women. Absolutely Live was before LA Women Cause Electra records wanted to cash in on doors final album they owed. Morrison was furious that the album had him alone on the cover with a picture of him from years before. So in LA Women cover he bent his knees down to be shortest of Doors and had a full beard.
Absolute RAW blues track. One of The Doors best. They have such a deep catalogue, I highly suggest quite a few more, and you can't really go wrong with any of them. All individually unique.
Literally, a roadhouse is a tavern, inn, or club on a country road, often having a place where live entertainment is presented. Usually though, when a roadhouse is attached to some form of lodging facilities, it is specifically called an inn. However, Road House (thought separated, it means the same) is ALSO a movie starring Patrick Swayze, Sam Elliot. However, it also features somebody that may MAKE you want to watch it .... Jeff Healey, as the house entertainment/band. You just did a reaction to his song, See The Light 2 months ago. He's the blind guitarist that, as you said Brad, "murdered that guitar".
You have to do "When the music is over" live at the Hollywood Bowl. 15 minutes long but worth ever second. It really shows Jim's character but his voice is on point. He's not rolling on the stage lol
I've got a version where the band is getting ready to rehears this and Jim describes the feeling as "your driving in your car, smoking a joint with a 6-pack on the front seat. One of my favorite bands.
Glad to see you are listening to more Doors -- I love Waiting for the Sun -- When the Musics Over -- Riders on the Storm -- No one ever reacts to Hello I Love You but it was a huge hit in the day --
It was a blessing to be young and alive when music like this was made. I will say Jim's scat doesn't measure up to some of the best. “The future’s uncertain and the end is always near” Word to live by. Or die by.
I went to a ROADHOUSE out in the country , outside Greensboro North Carolina.....a million years ago. A big country house, selling food, booze, a quartet blues band in the living room, guys playing poker in another room, dancing everywhere.....weed...couples making out.....it was HEAVEN. Real people getting down and dirty in the COUNTRY. 🔥🔥🔥 Magic. Good ol 'days. ❗
You probably grew up hearing the old mixes. This is the first time I've heard this remix/remaster. I hate them bc I'm used to the old versions. The 1st album does sound better in the low end department now, but all the other differences ruin it.
Nice catch on the "save our city" ghost voice Brad. I believe this is a remastered version of this song because I'm old and don't ever remember hearing that before. Luvuguyz
Brad & Lex, I just discovered you both this weekend, and I've been watching your reacts. I'm 46 and White and watching you watch videos that I take for granted like Eminem, The Doors, or Led Zeppelin is a big education for me. I am amazed what you can intuit, and the different readings you get on songs based on the contexts we have in America now. Your passion and enjoyment of music is so much fun to watch! Please keep going. (And do some more Doors (or Bob Marley).) You are both great role models for empathy.
When the Doors debuted, I was too young to appreciate them, around 10-12 years old, but my best friend introduced me to them; her older sister had introduced her to them. I always thought they were cool, but their music spoke more to people who were older than I was. As I got older, I appreciated them more.
Hi Brad and Lex. There's so much I could say to you about The Doors, as I just love their music. I hope you will keep listening to more of their songs and give us your reaction. Their 2nd biggest hit in the UK in 1968, after 'Light My Fire' was 'Hello, I Love You'. I hope you do a reaction video for that. I'm sure it will give you that 60's vibe you spoke of. Æx 🙏
This song is written about the Topanga Corral, it was a roadhouse on Topanga Canyon Blvd. In Topanga (L.A.). Jim liked to party there, alot of blues bands played there. Canned Heat used to play there and co lead vocalist and harmonica player Bob (the bear) Hite from Canned Heat had a house right down Topanga Canyon Blvd from the Topanga Corral!
Roadhouses were also called Juke Joints. They were often houses converted to gathering places to drink, eat, and play music and of course dance. . . players like B.B. king, Robert Johnson, Sun House, Muddy waters, etc. Played and learned their craft in such places. These were typically places between towns like farm houses. No franchise stuff like today. Each was different and unique. It was Roadhouses that helped firm the varying subgenres of the blues. Texas Blues, Delta blues, etc...
A road house is like a juke joint where blues music is played and danced to. The gibberish in blues music is called scat. sort of like speaking in tongues.
It's a Bar and a band and they serve some food but not much of a selection. Usually burgers n bbq n beans n fries. They were just on the county lines across from a dry counties.
He got up that morning and got himself a beer and it wasn’t just one and and then more and then he went into the studio AND that’s why he was speaking gibberish
I'm going out as Jim Morrison for Halloween (my wife is going as Janis Joplin). This led to conversation with my co-workers, and I was shocked (and honestly a little heart-broken) to learn that virtually none of them knew who The Doors or Janis Joplin were. Even more shocking, many of them said they had no idea who Jimi Hendrix or The Rolling Stones are. I've never felt so old... lol Thank you guys for covering these songs.
So much fun watching you react to all sorts of music from 30+ years ago. Back around 1980 I discovered my dad's records from the 40's and 50's, when he saw I was listening to them, he gave me a copy of the Beetles white album (check out While My Guitar Gently Weeps). LOL about the roadhouse discussion.
Same. It was never on any vinyl I ever heard. And we played it on the best turntables available in the day. Marantz, technics, Phillips, b&o, dual. I never heard it before🤔
"I know what Texas Roadhouse is!" Me too, it's what I had for dinner. Fort worth ribeye, fall off the bone ribs, green beans, baked potato and fresh baked bread with honey cinnamon butter.
My go-to karaoke song! One of my favorite Doors songs to boot - it has a really great blues vibe to it. A lot of folks focus on Jim's voice of course, but honestly Ray Manzarek really rocks the keyboards in this one.
I read somewhere that the echo was from when they were mixing this version and Jim was singing along in the booth. Rather than remove it, they kept it in, which is why the echo is more like him reading the words, rather than singing them.
Road house is an old term for a place off a highway that has some sort of food service and place to sleep for the night Which is the bungalows small like studio apartments in a building
Once upon a time . Jim Morrison a student at UCLA was sitting on a California beach scribbling down some poetry . Ray Manzarek who was just starting a band stumbled upon Jim and asked to see what he wrote. He read the poetry and said I can put your words to music.
In the late '40s and early '50s, when road trips were becoming popular, and Motels didn't really exist, and Hotels were just in cities, people with roadside businesses, (gas stations, restaurants, etc.) would build small bungalows behind or around their business, to accommodate travellers needing a place to stay overnight. Makes sense that a Roadhouse, from that era would have some, but there would be little sleeping, with a live band playing on Saturday nights! Keep up the good work, young'ns! ✌😎
The 'echo' vocal was because in those days, studios only had 4 or 8 track recorders and so some tracks had to have two instruments on the one track. Therefore, backing vocals and any overdubs might be on one track for example. When they re-recorded/re-issued, they were unable to omit those backing vocals. Perhaps the harmonica at the beginning was on the same track (as the harmonica nor those backing vocals weren't on the original album version). This may not be 100% correct but it's got to be close to an explanation. 👍🏻
You nailed it, Lex. Jim Morrison, the Lizard King of LA, had a taste for whiskey, and LSD, and overindulged both, regularly. In a way it's surprising he made it to 27 years old!
Original lyrics were " I woke up this morning and I got myself a Beard " because Morrison said he would go on a bender for days and wake up with a Beard
Love the Doors! They always put me in a good mood. They have a great catalog of songs they recorded in a short time. I often wonder where they would be today. Roadhouse is a bar with pool tables and live music basically. Not a strip club, a bar.
"The future's uncertain and the end is always near." So true Jim, so true.
What a line. Doesn't get much better than that.
You guys are right - Best line ever… and with Jim’s inflections
Well , I woke up this morning & I got myself a beer 🍺 , right now...yeah save our city .... Jim
" everything is fu**** up as usual "
- James Douglas Morrison.
Amen
"He sings with his lifestyle" -- perfect quote, Lex!
“The future’s uncertain and the end is always near” to me this sums up the whole song…enjoy and live your life to the fullest because tomorrow isn’t promised
Yeah, on my headstone they can inscribe "The Future's Uncertain But The End Is Here"
That line sums up living during the cold war.
Also summed up Jim's short life.
"Ladies and gentleman, from Los Angeles, California, The Doors!" I like the version of this song with the introduction in it!
"You get a sound like that by living those times"
well freakin said Lex!!!
She's great. Love how she understands everything so fast. I really think she lived thru it, in her last life .Very possible .
Doors were great! Rock, blues and pcychedelic music.
The sad part about it is Jim was young he died at the age of 27 years old but the fact he made such a impact in rock & roll history only spoke to how talented he was
Could be the wisest 27 year old of all time - a super genius.
@@johndrake3472 John Drake he definitely was wise beyond his years you could here that in his lyrics and his poetry
Part of the 27 club. Him Hendrix and Joplin all died at 27 within a year of each other. I do believe Morison was the last to die of the three.
@@boki1693 Glenn Corbett I honestly was going to write that at first knowing what Jim is linked too with those other Artists but I didn't want to tap into the spooky lol
@@BKLYN_TZU crossroads.....
I remember dancing to this song at Sundays afternoon disco as a teenager. Doors were top popular in Italy back in the 80’s. Loved it and still do
I still play to this day!!!❤❤❤ For myself and for the young ones who don't know about them.
Not to doubt your word, but how precisely does one dance to the Doors? I mean Jim did it but that was mostly wriggling and jumping.
@@christimanley13 they were always playing Roadhouse Blues and we were not waltzing but jumping and wiggling 😛
If you want to know what a roadhouse is watch Roadhouse, a great 80's action film with Patrick Swayze. Great reaction as always.
Dalton: You play pretty good for a blind boy.
Cody: And I thought you'd be bigger.
Be nice.....until it's time to not be nice. Awesome flick.
Tails again
Tiger?
A polar bear fell on me
This band has blown me away since I was like 7 yrs. old. And this was my favorite song in my teens just because of the lyrics, woke up this Morning and I Got Myself a Beer. What party animal would not love that line. I am now 60 and try to live by that but only on the weekends now. This was back when drugs were safer, and everyone was experimenting. A lot of acid at the Doors concerts. If you were lucky enough to see a show because a lot of shows were canceled because Jim was too high or did not show up. Drugs were crazy back then.
I believe “Roadhouse” was a term from back when certain counties were dry, and a the adjacent one wet; a bar would open in the middle of nowhere, just across the county line, usually offering live music & food. ✌️❤️🎶
And rooms(bungalows) with girls in some cases.
Kinda like ZZ Top's La Grange but not so highfalutin
@@Xcris_crosX :) . today I learned the spelling of highfalutin!
Always makes me think of Twin Peaks
@@keef7224 There's a Roadhouse in the film 'Wild Things', in the Florida swamp.
The Doors is one of my all time favorite bands. LOVE them
"He sings with his lifestyle."
Perfect.
Roadhouses started by being a drive away, just outside the city or county line, where they could avoid closure times or liquor licences or blue laws or other bureaucracy. They attracted travellers and wide areas of locals, often rowdy crowds. I guess Texas is famous for them, but they're all over the West and South.
I fucking love roadhouse
It’s my favorite Patrick swayze movie
Being from the U.K and a fan of the Doors for about 25 years I've always wanted to go to places like that
You all are getting real good at interpreting vibe and feeling from artist from the last 30 years regardless of style. It's really fresh to experience it with you again. You really have helped keep alive the music and the artist who created it. Nobody could have predicted that the help would have come in this form. Thank you for that, your channel has been very important to the resurgence of music played by actual musicians that devoted themselves to the art. Much Respect.
I think you meant interpreting, your device probably did an override of your spelling, picking a similarly spelled word. Happens all the time! 🙃
Last 30 years? I know for me (33) the 90’s feel like they were just 10 years ago, but 30 years takes us the the early 90’s. We’re talking 50/60 years with music from this time period! Hard to believe it.
Older folks like me appreciate your educating your 🎵 music capacity wildst havin a 🍺 beer this mornin👌👌
A roadhouse is a bar/diner/dance hall out in the country. Common where towns are far apart and you don't want to drive a long way after drinking. A lot have cheap rooms or flops either out back or in the back of the main building. The rooms (with a small bed or cot) were often used for other purposes than sleeping off the booze.
My dad was a huge huge doors fan still is. We still have pictures in our photo album of me back in 85 singing Roadhouse Blues into a microphone while my dad played guitar in my mom played harmonica. I would say I woke up this morning and I got myself a beer! Lol love the doors.
Not to Touch the Earth is a MUST hear!!! Its the one song id pick to listen to that encapsulates them as a band
th-cam.com/video/Q3P0vbo27tU/w-d-xo.html BEST VERSION OF "NOT TO TOUCH THE EARTH"
my alltime fave Doors song
@@Phenemonal353 LOVE this version....although im always hesitant to suggest a live version for the first time. Id prob go with the studio version for a first listen imo
The most amazing aspect of The Doors and their incredible musicality and chart-topping success, for me, is that Morrison wasn't a musician or even a singer! He had never sung with a band ever, prior to The Doors and yet became the iconic rock star we know him as. We all know he was a writer/poet but think about it...a guy who had never sung becomes the world's biggest rock star...he was commanding everyone's attention right out of the gate with "Break on Through" and they just kept getting bigger and better with every album.
Maybe he wasn´t an experienced musician/singer, but it´s apparent HIS LOVE OF MUSIC, and GREAT SENSITIVITY for it. I´m NOT saying that he was a MUSIC SCHOLAR, or a TOP COLLECTOR, as were, for instance, the leaders of CANNED HEAT, but he undoubtedly had a PASSION FOR MUSIC, and an enormous ability to TRANSMIT emotions.
Personally, I´VE SPENT my whole LIFE LISTENING to music genres in which VOCALS are PARAMOUNT (Blues, Soul, R&B, Stax, Motown, Funk, Reggae, European Folk; as well as tons of Rock of the highest caliber), therefore, being accustomed to the best singers around, and, even so, MORRISON STILL GETS ME, & SURPRISES ME, EVERY TIME (and Nostagia is NOT the explanation, cause I wasn´t even born when Jim was alive, and NEITHER was I a fan in my tender teens, or something like that).
He is just PHENOMENAL, super fun & super dark at the same time, and HE´S NEVER EVER ANODYNE or DULL.
Brad, that moment you reacted to at 4:16, when you thought you heard an echo of "Save our city"? You were right. It was the harmonica mimicking the melody and cadence of the lyric that sounded like another voice. That's how good these guys were. Love your videos. Please do some more Doors songs.
A Roadhouse is a Bar/Inn/Tavern on a road outside of a city limit. They tend to be more rowdy because there isnt much around them (including police stations).
A roadhouse was a place to drink to the wee hours and enjoy a lady of the night (got some bungalows).
Roadhouse is usually a dive bar with some back rooms for extracurricular activity. A Texas southwest version of a honky tonk
Listen to Texas Radio and The Big Beat. Its on LA Women. Everyone thought Doors were done. Owed Electra 1 album and made Morrisin Hotel. Last Album he did for band. They created it in a makeshift studio. Not shabby that a washed up group created 2 great albums to finish their run. Morrison didnt write their top hits. Light my fire. Hello i love you. That was Kreiger. He didnt want to sing light my fire at 30. He did contribute a great line in light my fire. ' No time to walliw in the mire'. He wanted to write his poetry and be taken seriously. If you are a real doors fan you listen to Absolutely Live. Break on thru. Celebration of the Lizard. Universal Mind which they played live alot but was never on any album. He sounds like Frank Sinatra crooning about a girl he loves leaving him. For 69 live its a great song that he hits notes and sings from his heart. Soul Kitchen ends it and is another Live Gem.
Yes! Great pic. They have so many to choose from. Robbie Kreiger is so underrated as a guitarist & songwriter! Keep tapping the Doors for more gems. ✌️❤️🎶
The Doors is the only band I ever went all in on back in high school. Read all the books, tracked down all of the concert dvds and had all the cds.
Funny because I did the same except I tracked down all the concert videos, and still have all the vinyl records. Lol. The Doors appeal to all generations!
Absolutely correct lex, he pretty much lived is life through some of the lyrics of the song. Woke up this morning and I got myself a beer...yep that's jim alright.
A Dos Equis drinker 🙂
Way back, I bought The Doors album, "Morrison Hotel". First track, Roadhouse Blues. Second track, Waiting For The Sun. Two of my favourite performances ever. The whole album is great too.
Waiting for the Sun was Title track of Same name 3rd Album. The Doors. Strange Days. Waiting for the sun. Soft p arade. Morrison Hotel. LA Women. Absolutely Live was before LA Women Cause Electra records wanted to cash in on doors final album they owed. Morrison was furious that the album had him alone on the cover with a picture of him from years before. So in LA Women cover he bent his knees down to be shortest of Doors and had a full beard.
One of my favorites from Jim at 71 I have heard them all a lot. I remember WRKO Boston naming Light My Fire song of the year 1967.
Jim Morrison is one of those artists who couldn’t possibly live a long life, burned too brightly.
JIM MORRISON IS STILL MY HERO !!!
The candle that burns twice as bright, burns half as long
Stars must burn bright to become a supernova, then they explode for one final extreme beauty, that was Jim, he simply couldn’t stop shining.
Absolute RAW blues track. One of The Doors best. They have such a deep catalogue, I highly suggest quite a few more, and you can't really go wrong with any of them. All individually unique.
Funny part, Jim didn’t think he could sing well! He had one of the best and most famous baritone voices to ever Grace the stage!
They were way ahead of their time. Do MORE Doors!!!
What do you mean by 'way ahead of their time'? It makes no sense, I was there, they were 100% in the moment.
@@PanglossDr Their music was ahead of their time.
@@midnightcryptworx Ridiculous, stupid, meaningless comment.
@@PanglossDr did you ever get the pleasure to see Steve marriott?
Literally, a roadhouse is a tavern, inn, or club on a country road, often having a place where live entertainment is presented. Usually though, when a roadhouse is attached to some form of lodging facilities, it is specifically called an inn. However, Road House (thought separated, it means the same) is ALSO a movie starring Patrick Swayze, Sam Elliot.
However, it also features somebody that may MAKE you want to watch it .... Jeff Healey, as the house entertainment/band. You just did a reaction to his song, See The Light 2 months ago. He's the blind guitarist that, as you said Brad, "murdered that guitar".
You have to do "When the music is over" live at the Hollywood Bowl. 15 minutes long but worth ever second. It really shows Jim's character but his voice is on point. He's not rolling on the stage lol
Keep your eyes on the road, and your hands up on the wheel. 🙃
I've got a version where the band is getting ready to rehears this and Jim describes the feeling as "your driving in your car, smoking a joint with a 6-pack on the front seat. One of my favorite bands.
Bungalows probably modeled on the Chateau Marmont in LA, where lots of actors and musicians hung out.
This song, the Doors really are a state of mind, a feeling. Nice. Smooth. Comfortable but edgy. Silk with a little sting. Verve baby.
One of my all time favorites, and such an easy, chill, fun song to jam on bass guitar.
This is great!! Please bring more doors, try listening to the unknown soldier live
Glad to see you are listening to more Doors -- I love Waiting for the Sun -- When the Musics Over -- Riders on the Storm -- No one ever reacts to Hello I Love You but it was a huge hit in the day --
It was a blessing to be young and alive when music like this was made. I will say Jim's scat doesn't measure up to some of the best. “The future’s uncertain and the end is always near” Word to live by. Or die by.
I went to a ROADHOUSE out in the country , outside Greensboro North Carolina.....a million years ago. A big country house, selling food, booze, a quartet blues band in the living room, guys playing poker in another room, dancing everywhere.....weed...couples making out.....it was HEAVEN. Real people getting down and dirty in the COUNTRY. 🔥🔥🔥 Magic. Good ol 'days. ❗
Spanish Caravan has always been my fav Doors song.
And the save our city part had both harmonica and a backing vocal, probably Ray Manzarek.
Lovin' Spoonful's John Sebastian played harmonica on that track. And the backing vocals (overdubs) are Jim's.
@@aeternusdoomocculta7331 Yeah figures. Jim, Ray or both.
A harmonica is doing call and response to “save our city”, but there’s also a low vocals (Jim) also responding which I never noticed before.
You probably grew up hearing the old mixes. This is the first time I've heard this remix/remaster. I hate them bc I'm used to the old versions. The 1st album does sound better in the low end department now, but all the other differences ruin it.
if you ever do The Doors "Gloria" make sure you do the dirty version. Move from the trailer park to the Roadhouse. Rock on Brad & Lex.
The one from Alive She Cried.
Nice catch on the "save our city" ghost voice Brad. I believe this is a remastered version of this song because I'm old and don't ever remember hearing that before. Luvuguyz
Brad & Lex, I just discovered you both this weekend, and I've been watching your reacts. I'm 46 and White and watching you watch videos that I take for granted like Eminem, The Doors, or Led Zeppelin is a big education for me. I am amazed what you can intuit, and the different readings you get on songs based on the contexts we have in America now. Your passion and enjoyment of music is so much fun to watch! Please keep going. (And do some more Doors (or Bob Marley).) You are both great role models for empathy.
"the future's uncertain and the end is always near." Love that quote.
When the Doors debuted, I was too young to appreciate them, around 10-12 years old, but my best friend introduced me to them; her older sister had introduced her to them. I always thought they were cool, but their music spoke more to people who were older than I was. As I got older, I appreciated them more.
PEACE FROG ✌️ 🐸.. .a must listen
Hi Brad and Lex. There's so much I could say to you about The Doors, as I just love their music. I hope you will keep listening to more of their songs and give us your reaction. Their 2nd biggest hit in the UK in 1968, after 'Light My Fire' was 'Hello, I Love You'. I hope you do a reaction video for that. I'm sure it will give you that 60's vibe you spoke of. Æx 🙏
This song is written about the Topanga Corral, it was a roadhouse on Topanga Canyon Blvd. In Topanga (L.A.). Jim liked to party there, alot of blues bands played there. Canned Heat used to play there and co lead vocalist and harmonica player Bob (the bear) Hite from Canned Heat had a house right down Topanga Canyon Blvd from the Topanga Corral!
Roadhouses were also called Juke Joints. They were often houses converted to gathering places to drink, eat, and play music and of course dance. . . players like B.B. king, Robert Johnson, Sun House, Muddy waters, etc. Played and learned their craft in such places. These were typically places between towns like farm houses. No franchise stuff like today. Each was different and unique. It was Roadhouses that helped firm the varying subgenres of the blues. Texas Blues, Delta blues, etc...
A road house is like a juke joint where blues music is played and danced to. The gibberish in blues music is called scat. sort of like speaking in tongues.
The best band ever. I love all the four memebers of the band as they are very intelligent and knowledgeable people.
For me a Roadhouse is a small beer and shot place that serves food at certain hours then you rock and roll the rest of the night
It's a Bar and a band and they serve some food but not much of a selection. Usually burgers n bbq n beans n fries. They were just on the county lines across from a dry counties.
A roadhouse is a down and dirty bar that usually featured live local bands. Think of the Patrick Swayze movie “Roadhouse”.
@in the south there are dry counties a roadhouse will be cross the county line where you can drink
Greetings from Greece! What a great song to listen to!
Καμια σχεση με τον Λαζαρο και τον Κωστα{αδερφια)?
He got up that morning and got himself a beer and it wasn’t just one and and then more and then he went into the studio AND that’s why he was speaking gibberish
I'm going out as Jim Morrison for Halloween (my wife is going as Janis Joplin). This led to conversation with my co-workers, and I was shocked (and honestly a little heart-broken) to learn that virtually none of them knew who The Doors or Janis Joplin were. Even more shocking, many of them said they had no idea who Jimi Hendrix or The Rolling Stones are.
I've never felt so old... lol
Thank you guys for covering these songs.
Hi, this song, for me, will always keep the Doors alive ). Love from Portugal
One of my favorite songs to sing at karaoke.
That’s a blast, ain’t it?
Always happy to see you do the Doors - great reaction - i hope you do more. Thank you.
I feel like Brad listens with his head and Lex listens with her heart!!
So much fun watching you react to all sorts of music from 30+ years ago. Back around 1980 I discovered my dad's records from the 40's and 50's, when he saw I was listening to them, he gave me a copy of the Beetles white album (check out While My Guitar Gently Weeps). LOL about the roadhouse discussion.
Back door man
Peace frog
Are my biggest recommendations
This is the best, been out all night, getting up and keeping the party going song, ever written, oh yeah!
I’ve heard this song hundreds of times I’ve never heard that version, with the echo of his voice.
Same. It was never on any vinyl I ever heard. And we played it on the best turntables available in the day. Marantz, technics, Phillips, b&o, dual. I never heard it before🤔
A roadhouse is a bar usually in the country that may double as a hotel with live music.
"I know what Texas Roadhouse is!"
Me too, it's what I had for dinner.
Fort worth ribeye, fall off the bone ribs, green beans, baked potato and fresh baked bread with honey cinnamon butter.
I love how y’all are grooving - swaying left, right, left, right - and you probably didn’t even notice.
Roadhouses were generally bars that had food, live bands and dance floor. They are usually on the edge of town or out in the country.
You are right Brad on "save our city" that was an instrument following Jim
I think you'd really like Touch Me. Great melody with string and horns and Jim of course. They played it on The Smothers Brothers show.
My go-to karaoke song! One of my favorite Doors songs to boot - it has a really great blues vibe to it. A lot of folks focus on Jim's voice of course, but honestly Ray Manzarek really rocks the keyboards in this one.
One of the greatest songs Ive ever heard
It was the harmonica repeating the words back to Jim. Another banger. Great choice.
I read somewhere that the echo was from when they were mixing this version and Jim was singing along in the booth. Rather than remove it, they kept it in, which is why the echo is more like him reading the words, rather than singing them.
During the "Save our city" part, there was a soft voice echoing that line but also the instrument echoing that line was a harmonica.
It's both the harmonica and a vocal in the background repeating "save our city".
Road house is an old term for a place off a highway that has some sort of food service and place to sleep for the night
Which is the bungalows small like studio apartments in a building
It's usually in more of a more rural area
One of the greatest driving songs of all time. Another great driving song by the doors: Love Me Two Times.
The first time I heard this song, it was covered by Jeff Healey for the soundtrack to the movie "Roadhouse".
in the late 70s, there would be hole-in-the-wall bars in small towns that just had a stage and served cheap drinks...
Wow Brad, never noticed the soft voice saying Save our City (I assume Jim) right after he sang Save Our City. Learn something new everyday
Once upon a time . Jim Morrison a student at UCLA was sitting on a California beach scribbling down some poetry . Ray Manzarek who was just starting a band stumbled upon Jim and asked to see what he wrote. He read the poetry and said I can put your words to music.
In the late '40s and early '50s, when road trips were becoming popular, and Motels didn't really exist, and Hotels were just in cities, people with roadside businesses, (gas stations, restaurants, etc.) would build small bungalows behind or around their business, to accommodate travellers needing a place to stay overnight. Makes sense that a Roadhouse, from that era would have some, but there would be little sleeping, with a live band playing on Saturday nights! Keep up the good work, young'ns! ✌😎
The 'echo' vocal was because in those days, studios only had 4 or 8 track recorders and so some tracks had to have two instruments on the one track.
Therefore, backing vocals and any overdubs might be on one track for example.
When they re-recorded/re-issued, they were unable to omit those backing vocals. Perhaps the harmonica at the beginning was on the same track (as the harmonica nor those backing vocals weren't on the original album version).
This may not be 100% correct but it's got to be close to an explanation. 👍🏻
The ultimate dive Biker Bar song ❤
The save our city part the words are mimic'd by the harmonica. Really cool.
I'm a full blown metal head, But The Doors has been and always will be my 1st love.
The Doors are my roots but I'm a metalhead too. I always thought of them as sort of parental to the metal genre in a sense.
I stopped listening to a lot of bands when I went through my metalhead phase but The Doors weren’t one of them.
So, NOT everything is lost for you, ¡¡hahahaha!!
The needle goes the other way too. I only like pop music but I make an exception for Patsy Cline, Led Zeppelin and the Doors!
You nailed it, Lex. Jim Morrison, the Lizard King of LA, had a taste for whiskey, and LSD, and overindulged both, regularly. In a way it's surprising he made it to 27 years old!
Original lyrics were " I woke up this morning and I got myself a Beard " because Morrison said he would go on a bender for days and wake up with a Beard
Love the Doors! They always put me in a good mood. They have a great catalog of songs they recorded in a short time. I often wonder where they would be today. Roadhouse is a bar with pool tables and live music basically. Not a strip club, a bar.
The Doors - The Soft Parade
Riders on the Storm has Jim whispering the lyrics quietly under his main vocal track. Gives the song a real creepy vibe.