Actually met Jim Morrison in about 1967. I was 4 years old, touring a radio station with my brother's Cub Scout den. The Doors were doing an in station appearance. Jim Morrison saw the Cub Scouts out in the lobby, and decided he wanted to meet them. He came out, and first thing he did was pick me up in his arms, and held me while he greeted the others. I have only vague memories of it, but story was told to me by my Mom and brothers. 20 years later, I worked with the DJ who was on the air when it happened, and he confirmed it from his side
sounds legit.... a misnomer about morrison, esp early in '67, was that he was a 24/7 wildman. on stage, yes he was unpredictable & even dangerous. but esp early in his career, when sober (wh/ he was moreso then common thought) he was actually a charismatic & friendly person. Your story illuminates that. thx for the insight.
I only ever saw him playing a Vox Continental organ with a Fender Rhodes bass laying on the top left from early clips I've seen, but maybe he switched to other keyboards/organs later, or played different keyboards when recording?
What is really astounding is a classically trained keyboard player, a flamenco guitarist, jazz drummer and a frontman who had never sung or played in a band became the best L.A. band of all time, IMHO.
Because they were MK Ultra and when Jim left music he changed his name using his poetry influencers Arthur Rimbaugh Jim became Rush Limbaugh. Google you tube it picture by Ken Levine.
Something rarely mentioned- listen closely (headphones help) there is a whisper track in the mix…Jim whispered the lyrics on a separate track that plays underneath the main vocal track. It adds an extra creepy touch to the song. Once you hear it, you’ll always hear it!
@@iwantschepurnoj1372 The same lyrics. I've heard this song countless times and I've never heard the whisper track before. It was really obvious, so I need to check my CD. *It is much stronger in this mix, but is present on other versions. I assume it was just harder to notice when listening in a car or when singing along.
Riders was such a big hit here in Australia at the time...every radio station played it whenever they could. I bought LA Woman and other doors LPs and wore them out. 👍🤗 Music like that has stood the tear of time, and will remain so.
Riders on the Storm is actually a great late night driving song, it sets a relaxed mood so you dont rush and enjoy the rainy weather.. I guess the newer generation doesnt have the attention span and introspection to get into it like we did back then, life was slower, you enjoyed every moment, you were present in the moment.
I love the Doors...period. Grew up a 80's teen, but the Doors are special. I have a poetry book by Jim and a book done by his sister, now that was a great gift.
I came in about 1993 for there Doors once my Army buddy said listen to this I was hook line and sinker. He got me listen to another group, but I won't mention them a lot of people love them and then other hate them...they are a 70's rock band that continued on until today. @@RobertBreedon-c3b
Some of the members of The 27 Club: 1. Jimi Hendrix 2. Janis Joplin 3. Jim Morrison 4. Brian Jones 5. Kurt Cobain 6. Amy Winehouse 7. Ron “Pigpen” McKernan 8. Dave Alexander 9. Pete de Freitas 10. D. Boon 11. Kristen Pfaff 12. Richey Edwards 13. Jeremy Michael Ward 14. Robert Johnson 15. Rudy Lewis 16. Alan Wilson 17. Jesse Belvin 18. Dickie Pride 19. Malcolm Hale 20. Jean-Michel Basquiat
Back in the days when people mostly played songs on a turntable, they were kind of committed to listening to the whole album once they put the needle down.
From Wikipedia The Doors lacked a bass guitarist (except during recording sessions), so for live performances Manzarek played the bass parts on a Fender Rhodes piano keyboard bass. His signature sound was that of the Vox Continental combo organ, an instrument used by many other psychedelic rock bands of the era.[23] He also used a Gibson G-101 Kalamazoo combo organ (which looks like a Farfisa) for the band's later albums.[24]
Since you featured the Doors at the end of their career withthis reaction, you might want to show her Jim Morrison on the Ed Sullivan Show making their big splash in color on national television in 1967 with LIGHT MY FIRE. Earlier in the year, the Doors appeared on American Bandstand and played it along with CRYSTAL SHIP. But it was the Sullivan Show appearance that shot them to international fame. I think your daughter is about to become the next receiver of a postcard from the past that makes her a fan of this group and their amazing catalog of songs and their rich, dynamic, chaotic, poetic, and controversial history and legendary status. Songs for her waiting ears include 5 to 1, BREAK ON THROUGH (TO THE OTHER SIDE). L.A. WOMAN, MOONLIGHT DRIVE, and the 4:58 video of LOVE ME TWO TIMES, which features a quick poetic opening line before unleashing a rare show of explosive firepower. The stories from the comment section are coming for your daughter. Get ready and enjoy
Jim was backed by three exceptionally talented musicians,such a pity they were around for such a short time,their music lives on,great days to be young!
The musicians were so talented and of course Jim was such a loose cannon. If you haven't seen the Doors inducted into the rock n roll hall of fame with Eddie Vedder standing in for Morrison, you should.
The Doors would bring in a bass player during recordings, but in concert Ray would play the bass line with one hand and on a separate organ simultaneously play the piano section. He was insanely talented, as were Robbie and John - the perfect accompaniment for Jim's moody, brooding and chaotic poetry.
@@AlexanderisgreatThey had bass on every album. Larry Knechtel played bass on their first album for a number of songs including Light My Fire for instance. Robby Krieger also played bass on a number of tracks. Doug Luhban played bass on their second and third album. Kerry Magness on their third album. Harvey Brooks on their fourth album... I mean yeah.
Listening to this song always brings me back to my youth on a trip to the White Mountains of New Hampshire (Mt. Washington area specifically) driving among the mountrains on a rainy day close to nightfall. Spooky but I love it. The second memory the song evokes is me on my Mom's enclosed front porch looking out over the street on another rainy day. I must have been younger there as I was a bit frightened by the lyrics. lol
You should read Jim Morris’s biography “ no one gets out alive” I read it and it was wild. It describes his life from childhood with his brother until his death.
I haven't read it yet but have read drummer John Densmore's autobiography "Riders on the Storm" and he goes into depth about Jim's personality and wild eccentricities to put it mildly.
@@steveullrich7737 in his biography it talks about when he was a little boy and him, and his little brother would go sledding in the winter time on a steep hill behind their house, and Jim Morrison and his brother would be on a toboggan together, and go flying down the hill toward the trees, and then Jim Morrison would dive off of the sled, and let his little brother, go speeding toward the trees by himself. I guess he was very vindictive and an early age.
@@steveullrich7737 I have read that one as well, still have it my collection of books. Also read one that was written by one of his girlfriend Patricia Kennely I think was her name. Jim was a complicated personality,
Absolutely right about social media. I would also say the Voice and the Got Talent shows have changed music and not for the better. God I miss musicians who can play and singers who aren’t perfect.
Also no need to learn to play an instrument when a computer can do it so most 'music' is just a background beat for the lyrics and no problem if you can't hold tune just use autoutune.
Don't you think most modern "music" just repeats the same song over and over? I agree about social media. The attention span of people has reduced substantially, meaning there is no time for actual music played by actual musicians.
I remember in the early 1970s cruising in my 65American Rambler Convertible down the back roads of Stafford county on a hot summer’s night .I can still feel the warm air rushing through my long,black hair just grooving to this song on my way to Acapo beach.
I don't know why but at the 12:10 mark when Ray and Robby exchange chords, it always makes me cry. I often wondered why for so many years. It often feels like a "goodbye". I envisioned a couple exchanging either hugs or kisses and Ray's last chord on the keyboard is that last kiss given and then the thunder comes in and he or she suddenly disappears.
My favourite Doors song. Ray Manzarek is just out of this world. Play the song at night when the house is quiet and put on my planer headphones. Does not get much better.
The thing I remember, is this song was played on tube radios and record players, which to me have a more real sound. I just don't hear that in this transistorized stuff we have today. So the song had a real and ethereal sound to them. A Soul, if you will. And the song had much more meaning. It just rocked my socks off when I heard it as a kid in the late sixties and early seventies. The Doors were a mesmerizing band. And those were different times. There was inspiration then. And Spirit. Which I don't think we have now. Something ethereal is missing in our world!
One of the greatest road songs ever written. We were driving from Las Vegas to LA at 2am through the Mojavi desert in Nevada/CA; full moon, top down, volume up and this song playing over and over again on CD. Great trip.
Love the song. Thanks for the review. Technically, this is going back to the 70s as this song came out in 1971 - released about 3 months before Jim died.
Absolutely in my top 5 bands EVER. If you want to explain Jim to Alexis all you have to do is play her "The End". It's bizarre yet beautiful, haunting, intriguing, and twisted. One of my personal favorite products of Jim's warped and beautiful mind. It's a bit long but the experience is so so worth it. She will never be the same after it that's for sure. You really and truly cannot say you know Jim till you sit thru it at least once. It's pretty much Jim in a nutshell. 👍 *DO IT*👍 ✌Peace✌
Well if You truly worshipped Jim You'd know he used his poetic influencers name Arthur Rimbaugh when he changed his name to Rush Limbaugh before he left the music business left the MIK ultra programming to become Rush Do Not believe it then google and you tube it picture by Ken Levine.
Such a good reaction to an iconic song. Great job guys!! The Doors were such a sound unto themselves. For the short amount of time that they were around, they unloaded some terrific music. I can't wait until y'all listen to The End!!! Have a great week guys!!
Read " No One Here Gets Out Alive " his biography . Eye opener to him . He actually had stage fright when they first performed . Even had his back to the audience at some shows .Incredible performer and band .
A 70yo here ... That is one of my favorite songs. My favorite groups are Uriah Heep, Mike Oldfield, Nazareth, Iron Butterfly, Tangerine Dream, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath thats just a few. I also like mellow singers such as Enya, Clannad, Savage Garden. My music folder is 24+Gb big, that's a lot of music to listen to. To listen to Tangerine Dream you need a lot of time as a lot of the early albums were only one song lasting around 45 min. I still have the vniyl's from most of their albums.
Thanks for mentioning the Val Kilmer movie, The Doors. not all accurate, but Val was amazing in it and sang the songs. He should have been considered for an award. for his performance. Second best performance as Doc Holiday in Tombstone for sure.
Ray did play a Rhodes piano on this song. But only parts of it. What you hear playing at the beginning of the song was mostly electric organ. Most of the time he'd play the lower bass parts with one hand on the piano. While playing the organ with the other.
Bought their first album in 1968, I was 14 years old and just love it. Now I’m an old man but the first hit I knew of The Doors was Light my Fire. This song I remember the first time I heard it, 1971 coming home from the drive in movie, half asleep in the back seat, parents driving me and my brother home.
This song was ASMR before ASMR was a thing. The bass groove on this song makes it for me and since The Doors didn't have a bass player, they employed a session bassist named Jerry Scheff for this song and album. It's also crazy that so many great musicians died when they were 27 years old, like Morrison. Some of The Doors deeper cuts are great, but L.A. Woman and Roadhouse Blues would be a couple to react to. ✌️
People are Strange, L.A. Woman, Road house Blues, Back Door Man, Touch Me, Love Me Two Times, Five to One, are a few of there great songs. There are so many great songs.....oh for all those who need me to state, Break on Through and Light My Fire. In a short career with Jim the Doors were solid gold.
Yes they are, just some reactions for them. Me, I liked the entire L.A. Woman Album. Wild Child and Crystal ship was great as well. They has great songs in a short time. @@stj971
And don't forget that The Doors had no bassist. The keyboardist (Ray Manzarek) played the bass line with his left hand while doing the other lines and solos with his right.
@@timothyforce1949 - just basing this on what I heard Ray Manzarek say here - th-cam.com/video/3deQXzV-qTk/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=EliasIak2011 , and a couple of other sites online.
Ray Manzarek is playing a Fender Rhodes Electric Piano in this song. He is doing the bass notes in the left hand and all the melody and chords with his right hand.
Ray Manzarek played a Vox Continental Combo Organ which was a popular instrument at the time. He also used a Gibson G-101 transistorized organ along with a Fender Rhodes piano keyboard bass.
Riders on the Storm is one of my favorite Doors songs, mostly due to the hypnotic, jazzy quality of Manazrek's keyboard and Robbie Krieger's guitar, but you really need at least three Doors songs in rapid succession if you want to get a feel for the band. They were not at all connected to any one musical genre, so there is no one song that epitomizes their style. If you're looking for a fairly easy entry to their amazing and often challenging world, I'd recommend Soul Kitchen next, followed by Touch Me or Love Me Two Times. Follow those with Roadhouse Blues. The latter three are just great songs, while Soul Kitchen is another of my favorites. It's earlier in their career. Morrison's voice is gorgeous and croony. The lyrics are very Morrisonian - trippy and poetic. It's a poem about his favorite late-night restaurant. When you're ready to get psychedelic, poetic, and experimental, go for Soft Parade, which is an amazing musical compilation of Morrison's short poetry.
I was born in Phoenix, Arizona . Growing up in Arizona, there was time rain was only once a year for me. So when it would rain, all of the local radio stations would play this song. To this day, even as I live in Kansas now. I love playing this when it rains.
I saw a comment that said some song was good (i don't remember the song) but that it has a long intro. I couldn't remember the song having a long intro. So, I went and listened to it to remind me of how it sounded. as i started listening, it hit me, and i laughed. that commenter thought a 20 seconds intro was long!!!!!
How strange this is, I just put this tune down among others, as one of the greatest tunes ever. I was cruising for the tune and found you both just did this. Thank you for a fabulous reaction. Peace On Ya The first "Bad Boy" with an IQ of 143 I think. He was different
Most of today's popular music is constructed around just 4 chords and pre-dates social media. Nearly all best-selling songs use these "magical" 4 chords. If you listen carefully you will end up saying "that sounds familiar" even though you haven't heard the song before.
Doors are one of my top bands of all time! Jim was a God and the band played perfectly with him. I love that most Doors songs sound completely different, but still awesome!
13:31 That was a great analysis. True, I did not realize bands back then dedicated segments to the instruments while today is more lyrical. Great point. Means they had to be better musicians in order to add good instrumental content. I also appreciated the Social Media point.
Love The Doors. Love Jim Morrison and the other band members. I was an au pair in Westport Ct in 1967 and 68. I dated a local guy, he went to the University of Miami. We dated casually for 3 sommers. In 1969 we were both living in New York City, and reconnected more as friends. When I read the book "No one get out of here alive", I noticed the picture of Jim with a baby lamb. The caption underneath read Jeff Simon, that was the name of the guy I dated and knew, first I didn't think anything of it, since it is a fairly common name. However, several yeas back I googled some information, and found out that was my friend, he was at the famed Miami concert (he went on to be a very accomplished cinemaphotographer) took the picture and later was a witness in the Jim Morrison trial.
I like how Jim softly whispers the vocal line too. Gives it a more ethereal feel. Check out Since I’ve Been Loving You by Led Zeppelin. Both the live and studio versions are great!
It's a beautiful but bittersweet song. Morrison was dying before everyone's eyes. His health had been ravaged by the drugs and especially alcohol as well as a fall from a roof. This is the voice of a ghost with one foot in the grave. The song references the "killer" role Morrison had in an unfinished film he was working on with a few friends called HWY.
thematically, its a bookend to the end, at least in re to its thematic reflections on the greater culture. its grand symbolic blake like metaphor in those regards. riders is a good bye to LA and amer. A culture he both loved, understood but also feared. its why the song puts forth both warning (killer on the road) yet optional hope (find love, woman, family & endurance to ride out cyclical cultural storms).... the road is both cultural Time (present, past & forward). the car and driver the citizen surviving the present inside the cultural storm. the hitcher is the cultural temptation for implosion. In '70 the culture was at the crossroads. it could either dissolve into nihilism & violence or endure thru building out for repair & enlightment.... the hitcher is the warning. amer could endulge it, take him on a ride & fall into violence and self destruction. Or ride out the cylical storm, navigate on & thru it & find enlightment & love down the pathway... again, his hope & good bye love letter to amer right before he exited.
Social Media has definitely changed the structure of music today. You guys are right. Songs now want to hit you in the face right off. Grab you with a hook and stab you with lyrics that are current and relevant. Bands of the 60's and 70's, was highly motivated by psychedelics. They created music to what or how they felt when dropping acid, lets say. Creating dream or fantasy worlds. Hearing voices was not considered to be in a dream state. So, instrumentals was the ticket. Led Zep, Pink Floyd and of course the Doors, was all geniuses of creating that atmosphere.
The first time I heard the song I just drove home and did not turn the car off and heard on the radio that he died, they then played this song. I loved the song right away. Later in life I did go to Paris and visit his grave. I think he died from drugs and alcohol. I think his dad was an officer in the military.
Love your comments about what music actually has converted in!!! So I just can agree with you both. I would like to see you reacting to the new Europe song: HOLD YOUR HEAD UP!!!. I´m sure that Birch, he´s gonna love it!!! Greetings from Tenerife, Canary Islands
Great job with your reaction to the song Riders on the storm from The Doors it one of my favorite ones from them the others would be This is The End & LA Woman . Burch May remember this Album was the last one from the Doors there manger left.& I don't know if the same thing happened during this song but in the Title Song LA Woman Jim Morrison sang the song in the shower to get to echo effect for it .
Jim Morrison was a fan of the beat poet Allen Ginsberg if you listen you can hear Ginberg's influence on him. Ginsberg's epic poem Howl (1956) is considered to be one of the most significant products of the Beat movement.
They used a number of different session players for their studio albums (notably the late Doug Luhban, who played on three of them - others included Larry Knechtel, Kerry Magness, Lonnie Mack and Harvey Brooks), but for live performances, Ray Manzarek played the bass parts on either a Fender Rhodes keyboard bass or a Gibson key bass.
Interesting you mention a driving song. The doors have one for you. It's called LA Woman. They just gave you a mellow relaxing quasi meditating song, go for the opposite uptempo driving down the highway with a coffee song. The doors were not a one trick pony or a two trick pony. They also have songs you will find disturbing.
Back in the 1970, I was an 8 grader and there was a story that part of this song was about a serial killer. Don't know if its true. Because back then everybody was hitchhiking.
IMHO, The most over looked Line from this song is; "Girl, you Gotta Love your Man, Take him by the hand, make him understand" Truth be told. Men, will Run through the Flames of Hell with Gasoline cans for a Woman that truly Loves him. Girl you Gotta Love your Man.
People weren't glued to the tv or their phones... they'd put on an album and read an article, or a book. Smoke or drink whatever... spend actual time together. Picture the chess game between Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway in The Thomas Crown Affair... Not enough chess being played today!
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Hello; react to Deep Purple "Child in time" live 1970. Greetings from Guanaqueros; Chile.
Actually met Jim Morrison in about 1967. I was 4 years old, touring a radio station with my brother's Cub Scout den. The Doors were doing an in station appearance. Jim Morrison saw the Cub Scouts out in the lobby, and decided he wanted to meet them. He came out, and first thing he did was pick me up in his arms, and held me while he greeted the others. I have only vague memories of it, but story was told to me by my Mom and brothers. 20 years later, I worked with the DJ who was on the air when it happened, and he confirmed it from his side
Awesome
Cool story, man! Very cool.
sounds legit.... a misnomer about morrison, esp early in '67, was that he was a 24/7 wildman. on stage, yes he was unpredictable & even dangerous. but esp early in his career, when sober (wh/ he was moreso then common thought) he was actually a charismatic & friendly person. Your story illuminates that. thx for the insight.
How cool !
Jim was a Cub Scout when he was a kid so it probably brought back some childhood memories. His mom donated his Scout uniform to the Rock Hall of Fame.
The keyboard is a Fender Rhodes. Ray Manzarek's solo on Riders on the Storm is one of, if not the best solos on any record!
I only ever saw him playing a Vox Continental organ with a Fender Rhodes bass laying on the top left from early clips I've seen, but maybe he switched to other keyboards/organs later, or played different keyboards when recording?
correctomundo on the Rhodes bass and the Vox keyboard@@Pluvio624
Our stage band in Jr high had a Fender Rhodes. I thought that sounded just like I remembered our little keyboardist playing.
He used a fender Rhodes electric piano on this song and when they toured as a trio
The Doors used many different bass guitarists on their recordings, but for live performances, Ray Manzarek played the bass on his keyboards.
What is really astounding is a classically trained keyboard player, a flamenco guitarist, jazz drummer and a frontman who had never sung or played in a band became the best L.A. band of all time, IMHO.
Because they were MK Ultra and when Jim left music he changed his name using his poetry influencers Arthur Rimbaugh Jim became Rush Limbaugh. Google you tube it picture by Ken Levine.
great point!
Ray used a Fender Rhodes Suitcase Piano on ROTS
Thank you Carlos. One of the other guys mentioned a harpsichord .. that was the word I had in my head but couldn't think of.
Something rarely mentioned- listen closely (headphones help) there is a whisper track in the mix…Jim whispered the lyrics on a separate track that plays underneath the main vocal track. It adds an extra creepy touch to the song. Once you hear it, you’ll always hear it!
And sadly that was the last thing Morrison recorded before he left for Paris.
What did he whisper,i don't have a headphone.
@@iwantschepurnoj1372 The same lyrics. I've heard this song countless times and I've never heard the whisper track before. It was really obvious, so I need to check my CD.
*It is much stronger in this mix, but is present on other versions. I assume it was just harder to notice when listening in a car or when singing along.
Yes!!! I heard that on my 10th listen and I've never been able to not hear it since!
Jim took what he thought was coke. It was junkie Pam's heroine which he hated. Mixed w alcohol in his system and his poor health that was it.
Riders was such a big hit here in Australia at the time...every radio station played it whenever they could. I bought LA Woman and other doors LPs and wore them out. 👍🤗
Music like that has stood the tear of time, and will remain so.
She needs to hear "The End". A classic that will never get old.
definitely a song you want to hear first time with your parents..
None of their songs get old.
The End and When The Music's Over
@@mmm-mmm 🤫🤭
@@OtherSideOfMorning 😂🤣
Today's generation are "Fast Food Consumers" and don't have an appetite for "Fine Dining." 🎸
Riders on the Storm is actually a great late night driving song, it sets a relaxed mood so you dont rush and enjoy the rainy weather.. I guess the newer generation doesnt have the attention span and introspection to get into it like we did back then, life was slower, you enjoyed every moment, you were present in the moment.
I love the Doors...period. Grew up a 80's teen, but the Doors are special. I have a poetry book by Jim and a book done by his sister, now that was a great gift.
Yeah me too I got into The Doors back in 1980 at 13 one of my friends played some Doors and I was hooked ever since,
I came in about 1993 for there Doors once my Army buddy said listen to this I was hook line and sinker. He got me listen to another group, but I won't mention them a lot of people love them and then other hate them...they are a 70's rock band that continued on until today. @@RobertBreedon-c3b
Some of the members of The 27 Club: 1. Jimi Hendrix
2. Janis Joplin
3. Jim Morrison
4. Brian Jones
5. Kurt Cobain
6. Amy Winehouse
7. Ron “Pigpen” McKernan
8. Dave Alexander
9. Pete de Freitas
10. D. Boon
11. Kristen Pfaff
12. Richey Edwards
13. Jeremy Michael Ward
14. Robert Johnson
15. Rudy Lewis
16. Alan Wilson
17. Jesse Belvin
18. Dickie Pride
19. Malcolm Hale
20. Jean-Michel Basquiat
Back in the days when people mostly played songs on a turntable, they were kind of committed to listening to the whole album once they put the needle down.
Absolutely. I know I did. Melissa Ward here
Unless it was a hit chosen to be a single, then you could get a 45. The only way to buy one song ( though you got two songs actually ).
With L.A. Woman listening to the whole album was never a problem. 👍👍
From Wikipedia
The Doors lacked a bass guitarist (except during recording sessions), so for live performances Manzarek played the bass parts on a Fender Rhodes piano keyboard bass. His signature sound was that of the Vox Continental combo organ, an instrument used by many other psychedelic rock bands of the era.[23] He also used a Gibson G-101 Kalamazoo combo organ (which looks like a Farfisa) for the band's later albums.[24]
Since you featured the Doors at the end of their career withthis reaction, you might want to show her Jim Morrison on the Ed Sullivan Show making their big splash in color on national television in 1967 with LIGHT MY FIRE.
Earlier in the year, the Doors appeared on American Bandstand and played it along with CRYSTAL SHIP. But it was the Sullivan Show appearance that shot them to international fame. I think your daughter is about to become the next receiver of a postcard from the past that makes her a fan of this group and their amazing catalog of songs and their rich, dynamic, chaotic, poetic, and controversial history and legendary status. Songs for her waiting ears include
5 to 1,
BREAK ON THROUGH (TO THE OTHER SIDE).
L.A. WOMAN,
MOONLIGHT DRIVE,
and the 4:58 video of LOVE ME TWO TIMES, which features a quick poetic opening line before unleashing a rare show of explosive firepower. The stories from the comment section are coming for your daughter. Get ready and enjoy
Jim was backed by three exceptionally talented musicians,such a pity they were around for such a short time,their music lives on,great days to be young!
The musicians were so talented and of course Jim was such a loose cannon. If you haven't seen the Doors inducted into the rock n roll hall of fame with Eddie Vedder standing in for Morrison, you should.
jim wanted 7 more years to record.
music listening changes so much
so 5 to 7 years is all most rock bands get.
As soon as I read this I heard it and can't now unhear it. Its actually very prominent.
“ you can’t burn out when you’re not on fire”- Johnny depp Jim was eternal
The Doors would bring in a bass player during recordings, but in concert Ray would play the bass line with one hand and on a separate organ simultaneously play the piano section. He was insanely talented, as were Robbie and John - the perfect accompaniment for Jim's moody, brooding and chaotic poetry.
They didn’t bring in a bass until LA woman.
@@AlexanderisgreatThey had bass on every album. Larry Knechtel played bass on their first album for a number of songs including Light My Fire for instance. Robby Krieger also played bass on a number of tracks. Doug Luhban played bass on their second and third album. Kerry Magness on their third album. Harvey Brooks on their fourth album... I mean yeah.
@@zoeherriot nope. Just the last one. Ray played bass on the keyboard. Sorry.
@@Alexanderisgreat what do you mean? There are interviews with the bass players dude.
Listening to this song always brings me back to my youth on a trip to the White Mountains of New Hampshire (Mt. Washington area specifically) driving among the mountrains on a rainy day close to nightfall. Spooky but I love it.
The second memory the song evokes is me on my Mom's enclosed front porch looking out over the street on another rainy day. I must have been younger there as I was a bit frightened by the lyrics. lol
Beautiful area in NH!
The greatest American rock band to ever exist and will never be duplicated.
Didn’t know the Beatles were American 😂
@@DJ-bj8ku can you read English? There’s a reason i specifically said American and plus the beetles dogshite euro trash tbh
❤️👍💯👍❤️👍💯👍❤️ JIM ❤️💯❤️
Amen Brother. The Doors will forever sit atop the Rock Pantheon.
, Dean ( in Syracuse)
My wife loved that Jim foto back then. Its on the cover on one of the records😎🇧🇻. We still have it in our Vinyl collection 🤗
You should read Jim Morris’s biography “ no one gets out alive” I read it and it was wild. It describes his life from childhood with his brother until his death.
It's a fun book to read but should be taken with a big grain of salt.
I read and have the book. I'm of that generation. I always loved The Doors.
I haven't read it yet but have read drummer John Densmore's autobiography "Riders on the Storm" and he goes into depth about Jim's personality and wild eccentricities to put it mildly.
@@steveullrich7737 in his biography it talks about when he was a little boy and him, and his little brother would go sledding in the winter time on a steep hill behind their house, and Jim Morrison and his brother would be on a toboggan together, and go flying down the hill toward the trees, and then Jim Morrison would dive off of the sled, and let his little brother, go speeding toward the trees by himself. I guess he was very vindictive and an early age.
@@steveullrich7737 I have read that one as well, still have it my collection of books. Also read one that was written by one of his girlfriend Patricia Kennely I think was her name. Jim was a complicated personality,
Absolutely right about social media. I would also say the Voice and the Got Talent shows have changed music and not for the better. God I miss musicians who can play and singers who aren’t perfect.
American Idol was the beginning of the end of Rock music.
Also no need to learn to play an instrument when a computer can do it so most 'music' is just a background beat for the lyrics and no problem if you can't hold tune just use autoutune.
Don't you think most modern "music" just repeats the same song over and over? I agree about social media. The attention span of people has reduced substantially, meaning there is no time for actual music played by actual musicians.
Jim used his poetry influencers name Arthur Rimbaugh when he left MK Ultra to become Rush Limbaugh. Research google or you tube it.
This is one of the Coolest songs ever.
I remember in the early 1970s cruising in my 65American Rambler Convertible down the back roads of Stafford county on a hot summer’s night .I can still feel the warm air rushing through my long,black hair just grooving to this song on my way to Acapo beach.
I believe the keyboard was a Fender Rhodes electric piano. It was very popular back then
I don't know why but at the 12:10 mark when Ray and Robby exchange chords, it always makes me cry. I often wondered why for so many years. It often feels like a "goodbye". I envisioned a couple exchanging either hugs or kisses and Ray's last chord on the keyboard is that last kiss given and then the thunder comes in and he or she suddenly disappears.
My favourite Doors song. Ray Manzarek is just out of this world. Play the song at night when the house is quiet and put on my planer headphones. Does not get much better.
The thing I remember, is this song was played on tube radios and record players, which to me have a more real sound. I just don't hear that in this transistorized stuff we have today. So the song had a real and ethereal sound to them. A Soul, if you will. And the song had much more meaning. It just rocked my socks off when I heard it as a kid in the late sixties and early seventies. The Doors were a mesmerizing band. And those were different times. There was inspiration then. And Spirit. Which I don't think we have now. Something ethereal is missing in our world!
One of my favorite The Doors songs. I just picked up The Doors Greatest Hits CD. In my car right now. Jim Morrison unfortunately in the 27 club.
One of the greatest road songs ever written. We were driving from Las Vegas to LA at 2am through the Mojavi desert in Nevada/CA; full moon, top down, volume up and this song playing over and over again on CD. Great trip.
Love the song. Thanks for the review. Technically, this is going back to the 70s as this song came out in 1971 - released about 3 months before Jim died.
please do more doors, and CCR....both excellent bands with lots of great songs
Jim liked CCR very much by the way
One of the grooviest songs from my childhood!
Absolutely in my top 5 bands EVER. If you want to explain Jim to Alexis all you have to do is play her "The End". It's bizarre yet beautiful, haunting, intriguing, and twisted. One of my personal favorite products of Jim's warped and beautiful mind. It's a bit long but the experience is so so worth it. She will never be the same after it that's for sure. You really and truly cannot say you know Jim till you sit thru it at least once. It's pretty much Jim in a nutshell. 👍 *DO IT*👍
✌Peace✌
Top 5 band for myself as well
not good for the both of them to listen to that together.... esp the later released unedited version.
Well if You truly worshipped Jim You'd know he used his poetic influencers name Arthur Rimbaugh when he changed his name to Rush Limbaugh before he left the music business left the MIK ultra programming to become Rush Do Not believe it then google and you tube it picture by Ken Levine.
jim said " i have lirics for that " i have lirics fors for that" cheers from buenos aires argentina
Such a good reaction to an iconic song. Great job guys!! The Doors were such a sound unto themselves. For the short amount of time that they were around, they unloaded some terrific music. I can't wait until y'all listen to The End!!! Have a great week guys!!
Read " No One Here Gets Out Alive " his biography . Eye opener to him . He actually had stage fright when they first performed . Even had his back to the audience at some shows .Incredible performer and band .
A 70yo here ... That is one of my favorite songs. My favorite groups are Uriah Heep, Mike Oldfield, Nazareth, Iron Butterfly, Tangerine Dream, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath thats just a few. I also like mellow singers such as Enya,
Clannad, Savage Garden. My music folder is 24+Gb big, that's a lot of music to listen to.
To listen to Tangerine Dream you need a lot of time as a lot of the early albums were only one song lasting around 45 min. I still have the vniyl's from most of their albums.
Thanks for mentioning the Val Kilmer movie, The Doors. not all accurate, but Val was amazing in it and sang the songs. He should have been considered for an award. for his performance. Second best performance as Doc Holiday in Tombstone for sure.
Val Kilmer’s performance was every bit as hypnotic as “Riders On The Storm.”
I think it was the out in the desert scene, Kyle MacLachlan ( he played Ray ) said he had to bite his cheek to keep from laughing.
I also liked their track ‘love her madly’, cool band. 🙏🏻
I find it interesting that today's music is all about the singer. Classic rock is much more about musicians. Real instruments.
Take her down the Doors rabbit hole. She'll love it, for sure!
Ray did play a Rhodes piano on this song. But only parts of it. What you hear playing at the beginning of the song was mostly electric organ. Most of the time he'd play the lower bass parts with one hand on the piano. While playing the organ with the other.
Your thoughts on songs being influenced by social media is so on point.
Bought their first album in 1968, I was 14 years old and just love it. Now I’m an old man but the first hit I knew of The Doors was Light my Fire. This song I remember the first time I heard it, 1971 coming home from the drive in movie, half asleep in the back seat, parents driving me and my brother home.
This song was ASMR before ASMR was a thing. The bass groove on this song makes it for me and since The Doors didn't have a bass player, they employed a session bassist named Jerry Scheff for this song and album. It's also crazy that so many great musicians died when they were 27 years old, like Morrison. Some of The Doors deeper cuts are great, but L.A. Woman and Roadhouse Blues would be a couple to react to. ✌️
Jerry Scheff, yes. Knew I would find it in the comments. I knew he played on the studio recording.
WTF IS ASMR???
People are Strange, L.A. Woman, Road house Blues, Back Door Man, Touch Me, Love Me Two Times, Five to One, are a few of there great songs. There are so many great songs.....oh for all those who need me to state, Break on Through and Light My Fire. In a short career with Jim the Doors were solid gold.
Those are just the commercial ones
Yes they are, just some reactions for them. Me, I liked the entire L.A. Woman Album. Wild Child and Crystal ship was great as well. They has great songs in a short time. @@stj971
And don't forget that The Doors had no bassist. The keyboardist (Ray Manzarek) played the bass line with his left hand while doing the other lines and solos with his right.
My understanding is that Jerry Scheff played bass on Riders on the Storm.
Jerry Scheff played the bass on LA Woman and Love Her Madly. The bass line in Riders was all Ray Manzerek on keys.
@@timothyforce1949 - just basing this on what I heard Ray Manzarek say here - th-cam.com/video/3deQXzV-qTk/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=EliasIak2011 , and a couple of other sites online.
I'm thinking Alexa's going to appreciate this song. I'm really interested to hear her thoughts on it. Good choice, Burch.
Ray Manzarek is playing a Fender Rhodes Electric Piano in this song. He is doing the bass notes in the left hand and all the melody and chords with his right hand.
Great review/reaction. I'm 64 and relate to everything you're saying. I am looking forward to more!
The DOORS have set a margin in music that none have ever been able to reach! They are truly one of a kind!
i would recommend reacting to The Doors - Break On Through to the Other Side (Live At The Isle Of Wight 1970)
Ray Manzarek played a Vox Continental Combo Organ which was a popular instrument at the time. He also used a Gibson G-101 transistorized organ along with a Fender Rhodes piano keyboard bass.
He also used a Farfisa with a reverb unit that hung underneath the he keyboard on springs that made the thunder sound when you shook it.
It also had pedals for playing bass.
Riders on the Storm is one of my favorite Doors songs, mostly due to the hypnotic, jazzy quality of Manazrek's keyboard and Robbie Krieger's guitar, but you really need at least three Doors songs in rapid succession if you want to get a feel for the band. They were not at all connected to any one musical genre, so there is no one song that epitomizes their style. If you're looking for a fairly easy entry to their amazing and often challenging world, I'd recommend Soul Kitchen next, followed by Touch Me or Love Me Two Times. Follow those with Roadhouse Blues. The latter three are just great songs, while Soul Kitchen is another of my favorites. It's earlier in their career. Morrison's voice is gorgeous and croony. The lyrics are very Morrisonian - trippy and poetic. It's a poem about his favorite late-night restaurant. When you're ready to get psychedelic, poetic, and experimental, go for Soft Parade, which is an amazing musical compilation of Morrison's short poetry.
Spanish Caravan highlights Robbie's classic Spanish guitar. Everything!!!
If i had have watched this 20yrs ago even mr. Scarecrow would be bobbing his head along too😂
I was born in Phoenix, Arizona . Growing up in Arizona, there was time rain was only once a year for me. So when it would rain, all of the local radio stations would play this song. To this day, even as I live in Kansas now. I love playing this when it rains.
Monsoon season is coming up soon.
I saw a comment that said some song was good (i don't remember the song) but that it has a long intro. I couldn't remember the song having a long intro. So, I went and listened to it to remind me of how it sounded. as i started listening, it hit me, and i laughed. that commenter thought a 20 seconds intro was long!!!!!
How strange this is, I just put this tune down among others, as one of the greatest tunes ever. I was cruising for the tune and found you both just did this. Thank you for a fabulous reaction. Peace On Ya The first "Bad Boy" with an IQ of 143 I think. He was different
He was friggin AWESOME!!!
Brilliant observation about the amount of music in album oriented rock by these great bands.
Most of today's popular music is constructed around just 4 chords and pre-dates social media. Nearly all best-selling songs use these "magical" 4 chords. If you listen carefully you will end up saying "that sounds familiar" even though you haven't heard the song before.
Loved His Drugs....That's why his Poems/Songs are so out there. Hammond B-3 with a Fender Rhodes Piano.
one of this goose bump songs.
Doors are one of my top bands of all time! Jim was a God and the band played perfectly with him. I love that most Doors songs sound completely different, but still awesome!
Morrison's father was a navy admiral and commander of the pacific fleet.
He was always young since he died at the age of 27!
Thank you for sharing. It must have been quite an experience watching a rock star have that kind of a meltdown.
13:31 That was a great analysis. True, I did not realize bands back then dedicated segments to the instruments while today is more lyrical. Great point. Means they had to be better musicians in order to add good instrumental content. I also appreciated the Social Media point.
Love The Doors. Love Jim Morrison and the other band members. I was an au pair in Westport Ct in 1967 and 68. I dated a local guy, he went to the University of Miami. We dated casually for 3 sommers. In 1969 we were both living in New York City, and reconnected more as friends. When I read the book "No one get out of here alive", I noticed the picture of Jim with a baby lamb. The caption underneath read Jeff Simon, that was the name of the guy I dated and knew, first I didn't think anything of it, since it is a fairly common name. However, several yeas back I googled some information, and found out that was my friend, he was at the famed Miami concert (he went on to be a very accomplished cinemaphotographer) took the picture and later was a witness in the Jim Morrison trial.
I like how Jim softly whispers the vocal line too. Gives it a more ethereal feel. Check out Since I’ve Been Loving You by Led Zeppelin. Both the live and studio versions are great!
In my opinion, it started long before the internet's creation...meaning 'corporate'...just saying:)
Great sing Ray Manzarek kills it on the keys. There is a video on TH-cam of him talking about writing and recording this song is fascinating.
It's a beautiful but bittersweet song. Morrison was dying before everyone's eyes. His health had been ravaged by the drugs and especially alcohol as well as a fall from a roof. This is the voice of a ghost with one foot in the grave. The song references the "killer" role Morrison had in an unfinished film he was working on with a few friends called HWY.
thematically, its a bookend to the end, at least in re to its thematic reflections on the greater culture. its grand symbolic blake like metaphor in those regards. riders is a good bye to LA and amer. A culture he both loved, understood but also feared. its why the song puts forth both warning (killer on the road) yet optional hope (find love, woman, family & endurance to ride out cyclical cultural storms).... the road is both cultural Time (present, past & forward). the car and driver the citizen surviving the present inside the cultural storm. the hitcher is the cultural temptation for implosion. In '70 the culture was at the crossroads. it could either dissolve into nihilism & violence or endure thru building out for repair & enlightment.... the hitcher is the warning. amer could endulge it, take him on a ride & fall into violence and self destruction. Or ride out the cylical storm, navigate on & thru it & find enlightment & love down the pathway... again, his hope & good bye love letter to amer right before he exited.
More Instrumental Jams back in the day/Prog ✔ ✅ Yes, ELP, Genesis, King Crimson, Rush!!
60's and 70's were the peak of music IMHO.
Especially young people now, having grown up on social media, have no attention span so the songs have to be tailored to that.
If u know anything about the early days of the doors,, they were the house band st the rainbow in LA California
Social Media has definitely changed the structure of music today. You guys are right. Songs now want to hit you in the face right off. Grab you with a hook and stab you with lyrics that are current and relevant. Bands of the 60's and 70's, was highly motivated by psychedelics. They created music to what or how they felt when dropping acid, lets say. Creating dream or fantasy worlds. Hearing voices was not considered to be in a dream state. So, instrumentals was the ticket. Led Zep, Pink Floyd and of course the Doors, was all geniuses of creating that atmosphere.
todays youth culture is being envir wired to think in disconnected packets. its why adhd is such a growth problem. blink.
One of those songs i call a "headphones song". Brilliant musicianship.
About a hitchhiker that killed six people including a family
Yes, Robby Krieger patterned his guitar lick on the 1949 song.
The first time I heard the song I just drove home and did not turn the car off and heard on the radio that he died, they then played this song. I loved the song right away. Later in life I did go to Paris and visit his grave. I think he died from drugs and alcohol. I think his dad was an officer in the military.
Love your comments about what music actually has converted in!!! So I just can agree with you both. I would like to see you reacting to the new Europe song: HOLD YOUR HEAD UP!!!. I´m sure that Birch, he´s gonna love it!!! Greetings from Tenerife, Canary Islands
Manzarek played a couple of different pianos. On "Riders", he either plays the Rhodes Piano or Vox Combo Organ.
One of my favorites.
Hauntingly beautiful 🙏🍁
Great job with your reaction to the song Riders on the storm from The Doors it one of my favorite ones from them the others would be This is The End & LA Woman . Burch May remember this Album was the last one from the Doors there manger left.& I don't know if the same thing happened during this song but in the Title Song LA Woman Jim Morrison sang the song in the shower to get to echo effect for it .
Jim Morrison was a fan of the beat poet Allen Ginsberg if you listen you can hear Ginberg's influence on him. Ginsberg's epic poem Howl (1956) is considered to be one of the most significant products of the Beat movement.
Jim's poetry influencers Arthur Rimbaugh became his inspiration when he left the MK Ultra music business to become Rush Limbaugh.
You should blow her mind with several species of furry creatures grooving with a picture by pink Floyd off the umagoma album
Going to do the "Eugene" song...shhhhh, don't want to spoil the surprise 😁
FM DJs would play this on rainy Nights.
According to Google it was a Rhodes electric piano…?
Don’t know how accurate that info is.
They used a number of different session players for their studio albums (notably the late Doug Luhban, who played on three of them - others included Larry Knechtel, Kerry Magness, Lonnie Mack and Harvey Brooks), but for live performances, Ray Manzarek played the bass parts on either a Fender Rhodes keyboard bass or a Gibson key bass.
Interesting you mention a driving song. The doors have one for you. It's called LA Woman.
They just gave you a mellow relaxing quasi meditating song, go for the opposite uptempo driving down the highway with a coffee song.
The doors were not a one trick pony or a two trick pony.
They also have songs you will find disturbing.
Back in the 1970, I was an 8 grader and there was a story that part of this song was about a serial killer. Don't know if its true. Because back then everybody was hitchhiking.
Jim grew up and went to school in Virginia
IMHO, The most over looked Line from this song is;
"Girl, you Gotta Love your Man, Take him by the hand, make him understand"
Truth be told.
Men, will Run through the Flames of Hell with Gasoline cans for a Woman that truly Loves him.
Girl you Gotta Love your Man.
To really hear raindrops being simulated to a higher degree and level, you should check out "Everyday" by Buddy Holly.
Tesla Love Song homie..😊
People weren't glued to the tv or their phones... they'd put on an album and read an article, or a book. Smoke or drink whatever... spend actual time together. Picture the chess game between Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway in The Thomas Crown Affair...
Not enough chess being played today!
It's a Fender Rhodes piano. Peace.
Ray played bass with his feet too