Legend's Final Song was a HAUNTING 7 Minute Epic That SHOOK Radio to Its CORE! | Professor of Rock
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- Up next, the last musical will and testament of an all-time legend. Jim Morrison of the Doors! Taken from the planet at the age of 27… Today’s song, Riders on the Storm was nearly as haunting as his death… It’s a sinister and mystical epic about a spree killer that has some incredible insight into the artist who created it as well as the human psyche. After lighting up the world with Break on Through and Light My Fire the Doors took their mystical rock to a new level of brilliance, but at what cost? We break down the epic rock track and the band next on Professor of Rock.
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The year is 1971 and breaking news has just arrived from Paris. James Douglas Morrison, musician, poet, and philosopher is dead at the age of 27. Sources say that he died from a heart attack or pneumonia. Stunned, the world of rock and roll mourns in disbelief. Mr. Mojo Risin’ leaves behind a storied and complicated legacy. we have the in-depth story of the Lizard King’s last musical will and testament, on the Professor of Rock.
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It’s time for another edition of our show #1 in Our Hearts, where we honor songs that were so unbelievably great, they absolutely should've been #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart. But for whatever reason, be it radio play, lack of marketing, label support or just sheer stupidity, it came up short. Just to give you an idea of what this is all about, on previous episodes we have covered Under Pressure by Queen and David Bowie, Free Fallin’ by Tom Petty, and Dream On by Aerosmith. Today we are going all in on Jim Morrison and The Doors’ haunting last rite, Riders on the Storm. I’ve been waiting to do this for a while.
In late 1970 The Doors began work on their sixth studio album, L.A. Woman. It was a chaotic season for the band. The fallout from the Miami indecency incident still weighed heavy. Morrison had been fighting multiple legal battles, The Doors were being blacklisted on the radio, and concert bookings were in decline. Jim for his part threw himself deeper into the grips of alcoholism, substance abuse, and a few other self-destructive behaviors.
Early in the writing process producer Paul Rothchild would reach his breaking point with the band and decided to call it quits. He was unimpressed with the new material and was completely fed up with Morrison’s antics.
“Jim was unhappy with his role as a national sex symbol,” Rothchild said, “and he did everything in his power to obliterate that. He gained enormous weight, he grew a beard. I quit because I’d grown tired of dragging The Doors from one album to another, especially an unwilling Jim.”
Manzarek recalls, “We were giving Paul a preview and he was bored. We played the songs very badly... there was no chi, no energy... and Paul couldn’t bring us back to life.” Densmore remembers Rothchild calling an early rendition of Riders on the Storm - บันเทิง
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Poll: What is the SCARIEST song of the rock era? A song that sends shivers up your spine?
Beat It. MJ
Hallowed Be Thy Name Iron Maiden
Iron Man
....hmmmm....even though it wasn't "scary", it sure FELT like it.... *"Undercover Of The Night"* , by the Rolling Stones! ...a rarely mentioned tune that caused some controversy in 1983 / 1984...but spooked the HELL outta me! ...ha-HAAA!!
any song where you can hear Yoko Ono singing
Boomtown Rats "I Don't Like Mondays"
So many of The Doors' songs were uniquely their's. Nothing else really sounded like them. The fit the times well, but you would never mistake a Doors song for anyone else, nor would you mistake anyone else for them. All the members were extremely talented and creative and it showed throughout their music.
I loved the Doors. I was driving back home after a day at the lake when the DJ said Jim Morrison had died. I had to pull over off the road because I couldn't see through my tears. All these years later, it still hurts that he died like that.
I freaking LOVE The Doors! It's hard to pick a favorite song, but Riders is definitely among them!
My favourite is definitely "Light My Fire", but "Riders on the Storm" is up there!
How can anyone pick a favourite Doors song? I start thinking 'it's a tie between "People Are Strange" and "L.A. Woman"', but then I remember "Riders", "Roadhouse Blues", "The End", and pretty soon I've listed half the songs they ever wrote!
Let me tell you about Texas radio and the big beat
I think mine has to be The Crystal Ship.
For me, one of my favorites is “Indian Summer.”
The Doors definitely have one of the most mysterious sounds. The organ and guitar made for such a unique sound that only they could create. Clean but gritty at the same time.
Exactly. Have a great weekend RC32!
Definitely a unique and great group of talented musicians/artists.
They knew how to create atmosphere in their songs!
The Dead also had an organ in their lineup as did The Animals. But, Manzarek and Morrison had a synthesis that reminded me of the way birds fly in formation and don’t crash into each other🤷🏼♀️
Well done as usual Professor. Although, I don't think you can talk about "Riders" without mentioning Ray Manzarek's beautifully haunting decending keyboard flourish that takes the listener into the main body of the song. It still gives me chills every time I hear it. Your commentary about Jim Morrison reminded me of a great passage in Steven King's excellent novel "The Stand". In the story, one of the main characters, Stu Redman, recounts an event that happened to him while working the night shift at a lonely desert filling station in east Texas. A mysterious stranger driving an old vintage Cadillac pulls in to fill up, Stu describes him as having long hair and a beard, and after a rather cryptic and short conversation, the stranger drives away into the night. Of course this all happens in the late seventies, years after Morrisons death in France. Only years later does Stu reveal to his girlfriend that he is convinced that the man he met that night was the "late" Jim Morrison. The scene was left out of the subsequent movie adaptations of the book, but being a lifelong Doors fan it always stuck with me. Thanks for everything you do to keep this great music alive!
Sadly, Morrison's image and life and death cast such a shadow over The Doors that the other members get skipped over. Ray Manzarek's keyboards here is what really carres this song along.
I have always thought that this song is The Doors' finest masterpiece.... I get lost in this atmospheric song without the need for any drugs.
Hi I saw Ray Manzarek with The 21st Century Doors, Robbie also. Ian also. A warm up gig before the tour started.
When did you see em?
To me, no other song like it. The way it begins and weaves its way through the whole track is just amazing. I'm a huge Doors fan, and honestly its my favorite song of theirs. Just haunting, I always turn it up whenever I hear it.
It's so haunting and atmospheric. I agree. Nothing else like it in the world.
My favourite is definitely "Light My Fire", but "Riders on the Storm" is up there!
It’s one of the best songs ever!
I was about to say basically the same thing! I fell in love with the Doors when I was still a kid in 7th grade. “Light My Fire” was released in 1967 and it’s the first 45 I ever owned. I think my parents regretted getting it for me because I would play it over and over and over again. Riders on the Storm was another favorite that I played repeatedly. RIP Jim, there will never be another.❤️🎶
This song always makes me think of the Book of Revelations with the threat of the riders and the eerieness of the soulful tune. So haunting yet beautiful.
As the years roll on, Riders on the Storm is gradually supplanting Light My Fire as the Doors’ signature song. A haunting, brilliant piece of work.
Well said, Professor..."Riders on the storm" remains a metaphor for all of humanity, each and every day.
Absolutely.
Jim was an exceptional writer/singer/frontman, but musicianship of the other 3, cannot be overlooked. They really were phenomenal
As a kid the other three members were the big draw for me.. appreciating Jim came much later
Jim Morrison was soooo ahead of his time. It can be the year 2050, and we will still be wondering about his lyrics……
Few moments in cinema are as ominous, haunting, and transcendent as Coppola's use of The End to score Willard's climactic and decisive confrontation with Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now. True to the film's appellation, it feels apocalyptic.
This Is The End, my favorite Doors song followed by Riders On The Storm 🖤🖤🖤
Bruce Botnick is my moms cousin. He was the Doors engineer until LA Woman, he produced it.
I think The End is a more haunting song.
Mom told stories of watching the band in their practice studio and on the strip.
Bruce went on to produce Eddie Money and the Star Trek movies with Jerry Goldsmith.
Would love to interview him. Are you in contact with him?
@@ProfessorofRock - I will contact him and let him know of your Chanel and interest in talking with him.
I think you're right: "Riders" is atmospheric and moody, but "The End" is truly haunting. To me, it explores the depths of the soul, though the title alone says it all.
Did your mom ever meet them or get invited into the studio?
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980
Yes. Both.
The Doors. My all time favorite band. Always will be......
One of the most haunting aspects for me is Jerry Scheff's bass on the track. It's a phenomenal and underrecognised contribution.
That bass is the incredible
The Doors are just awesome! Morrison is a legend. A couple of years ago I went to see The Doors famous concert live at The Hollywood bowl. They were screening it at a nearby theater. I was blown away that there were more highschool kids that went to watch the movie than older folks like myself. It goes to show that The Doors are timeless and will be around for generations to come. Jim may be deceased but his music will live on in many lifetimes.
I’m a high schooler. I’ve listened to the Doors ever since being blown away by Light my Fire in middle school. I’m glad younger generations are realizing just what a great band they were.
Many lifetime's! True well put!
I am a gen x' er, so I was not able to see them in their heyday. But I saw a Doors cover band back in the 90's. It was great.
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980what high school do you attend? I know you once told me you were from or still in NE Ohio. Canton Timken Trojan '84 here
@@melanieshaw3210 I prefer not to say on here, but I reside on the East Coast rather than Ohio!
When I first saw the movie, 'The Doors' I was absolutely spellbound by 'Riders on the Storm' played for the opening credits. Love it. One of my top 20 songs ever. Cheers ✌
This is one of my favorite songs by them. Whenever I hear it I have to stop what I'm doing just to listen to it. It takes me on a journey every single time.
My parents took me to a Doors concert when I was four years old. I don’t remember much about it except being terrified of Jim Morrison. In college, I became deeply interested in the Doors and bought all of their albums and many of their songs were strangely familiar to me. One day I was listening to “Riders On the Storm” at my apartment and my dad stopped by. That’s when he told about the concert and when I realized why so many songs were recognizable to me.🖖🏼
What was it about Jim Morrison that terrified you? Do you remember
Jim was a mysterious man!
I've always felt that Jim was saying parting words to us all. This was his farewell song.
The Doors were absolutely huge in Australia at the time on every radio station daily and rightly so ... Wonderful memories so happy the younger generations have picked up on this amazing man ...Thanks so much for your channel..
Riders of the Storm is one of the more profound songs of that era. It was transcendent. When it first came out, we were high school age. Friends and I felt Morison had reached his sublime state. A masterpiece. We thought he could “get much higher”. I always thought the “killer on the road” represented a killer of the soul, brought on by depression and drugs. We sat around and got our minds blown by the whispering we heard in the song, and debated its meaning. Some of my overly dramatic friends were freaking out by how spooky it was. Some claimed it was a ghost or demon whispering the words, lol. I loved to listen to it late at night. I was 16, and going through a very dark time in my life with drugs and alcohol, and general disaffection and cynicism I felt about high school. In my neighborhood in West Phoenix, drug abuse was rampant. We felt we were going nowhere. I saw friends and acquaintances disappear from drug overdoses, and later by AIDS. Generation George. But it also introduced me to some intelligent dark and sometimes ethereal (I’m talking Cocteau Twins, not Enya) music later on that ultimately became Goth Music. Can you question why we wore, and some of us still do wear black? Screw the cute and short lived trend of Wednesday Addams fast fashion dresses. We genuinely thought all of us would be obliterated by AIDS or nuclear war.
Riders Upon The Storm was my favorite song by The Doors! I was absolutely amazed by the lyrics. Quite definitely a song that should have been #1.❤
It simply needed to be to change the world.
The 45 edit was pretty good, but everyone bought the album, which had the long version (and a limited cover). The band didn't tour in 1971, and AM radio didn't play it much during the daytime. It was a huge FM hit, but that didn't make it reach No. 1.
No other band had their sound, no other singer had that voice. I'm glad to have lived a life listing to their music.
I believe humans have a simple fascination for art produced by self-destructive individuals. It's why Van Gogh's paintings are priceless, and why we still listen to the music of The Doors and Joy Division and Amy Winehouse.
Their soul was in torment and turmoil!! Even Stephen King wrote so very differently sober than he did when he was struggling with Addiction! Still great but from a different place!
Ray Man was a nice guy. Back in 2004-2008 I got him and his wife tickets to a couple of different shows here in Las Vegas. It was a great loss to the world of music when he died
I visited Jim’s grave at Père LaChaise. So many famous people are interred there. I think Jim’s simple grave is much more popular than some of the more elaborate graves. People leave flowers and small gifts. That’s a great song, my favorite Doors song!
I was one of those people leaving gifts!! hehehe
@@kcii78 I think that’s really sweet! 😃
@@californiahiker9616 Thanking you! Pere LaChaise is such an enchanting place. Wish I had more time to explore it and the rest of Paris too lol
Jim Morrison (especially the "American Prayer" album) is my all-time favorite singer/poet and The Doors my favorite band. By the age of ten in 1978, I knew ALL their songs and would sing into the pole of the pool vacuum as I cleaned our in-ground pool. All my English essays from middle school through university had some minor quote by Jim thrown in as an Easter Egg... "We live, we die, and death not ends it"... "Me, and my mother and father, were driving through the desert at dawn..." I always threw in some of Morrison's poetry. Over the decades, only one teacher caught on to what I was doing and in bright red ink, circled the quotes with a comment in the margin, "Next time be original, Jim Morrison was the Lizard King. You are just plagiarizing him"... but didn't get marked down for it. I guess my high school Senior English teacher was also a fan and connoisseur of Jim's poetry!
I love the Doors. For me, they're right up there with the best bands in the world. I never get tired of their timeless music.
Jim Morrison seems so much older than 27 in his persona and if there is a masculinity scale, he would be somewhere around "Burning Man" in the scale. His singing is relentless and driven. His topics reached past the boundaries of normal society but without putting on a show. Alice Cooper, Manson, Ozzie, Kiss, all a show. Jim Morrison was a human being with a sense of agency. His quotes are as fascinating as his songs. "The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder."
Men back then just had more testosterone, thats why they all look older. A 35 year old today looks like 25 year old back then
@@adamclark9004It's all the soy and other chemicals in the foods these days.
@@adamclark9004 Is that what it is?
@@peterd.9978 Nonsense. Vegan men have more testosterone than non-vegan men. Explain that.
I agree with everything, up until the quote.
What a crock. Sounds like charlie’s “logic”.
Poor little victim hood addicts.
L.A. Woman is a great Album. Especially when you consider that it was made by four guys who weren’t talking to each other.
I was so waiting for you to cover The Doors. A band and sound ahead of its time, and a man by the name of Jim Morrison, who will forever be rock and roll’s greatest poet, and lizard king 🦎👑
Amen! Love this band. What's your favorite track by them?
@@ProfessorofRockit’s a toss up between Soul Kitchen and Peace Frog. They just had so many great tunes, it’s hard to pick just one!
Apparently, he really liked lizards.
The one and only Break On Through
In the late 90s I worked a night shift entering Ralph's Club card applications into a database. This album was my favorite to have on my headphones. This song took me away! The rain and the whispering, the eerie tale and imagery. This song is a complete experience. ❤
Killer show thanks Professor. I have always felt the Doors were one of the best bands in history, nobody sounds quite like the Doors!⚡💫
To me this song has always been a time capsule of the real face of the late sixties. It’s such a haunting, trancey, trippy meditation on the time it was written in. Dark things got real. Perfect in every way, it’s now timeless. Thank you for this!
I remember that song playing on the radio when i was really young, it felt very mysterious and I picked up the 45. It still has that effect when you play it
Most importantly, it hasn’t aged a day.
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 It still is so unique for sure!
Such a poetic, atmospheric masterpiece as popular as when it was released.
When younger always confused this with 'Ghost Riders...' and it brought to mind some of Pink Floyd.
Never knew until older of him being a man on a psychedelic venture into the darkest corners of the human soul.
Can only hope he found his way to the light in eternity.
In one of his final interviews Jim said his favorite band at the time was Pink Floyd.
My Favorite Doors song is "Riders On The Storm" The combination of Jim Morrison's haunting singing and Ray Manzarek's keyboards just Phenomenal!
There are so many who made their own version of this but nothing beats the original that is so haunting and fascinating.
This was amazing, The Doors are my all time favourite band as their music is so different and Ethereal that it taps into something cosmic most top 40 rock bands have no idea how to do.
Me too
Really great show. The Doors have so many great songs and some all-time classic rock songs. But Riders I think is their contribution to the niche of truly great creative rock songs. Everything about it puts it right up at the very top. Thanks for covering it on your excellent channel.
Doors is my favorite band. I've listened to all their albums many times and LA Women is probably their best (maybe their first). The fact they could make that album at the end when they weren't getting along, etc. is just insane to me. It speaks volumes to their immense talent and skill. If Jim had been able to control his self destruction... sheesh.
Huge Doors fan but I had no idea this was the last song he recorded, eerie and haunting lyrics and music , pretty fitting. I have often thought if Jim had lived he would walk away from music and write his poetry. I would have loved to have seen the Doors live and wondered if it would be fantastic or a disaster because he was so unpredictable. The Doors movie was superb Val really captures Jim. More Doors professor always interesting, great episode!!
Thanks My Name!
Also a giant Doors fan, singing Not to Touch the Earth tonight, more or less dressed as Jim. A friend saw part of Absolutely Live recorded in Philly, to this day I don't know why or how I missed it..
@@darrylmars how cool is that!! I go see Peace Frog , a great doors cover band out of California, every year and it is always a great show.
The fact that this was the last song he ever recorded makes it all the more disturbing. The music was haunting enough!
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 so many of Jim's songs had dark themes and his last one may have been the darkest
I fell in love with the Doors when I was still a kid in 7th grade. “Light My Fire” was released in 1967 and it’s the first 45 I ever owned. I think my parents regretted getting it for me because I would play it over and over and over again. But I loved “Riders on the Storm” even more. It was another favorite that I played repeatedly. RIP Jim, there will never be another.❤️🎶
Great pick. I didn't know they had done a live version on this song. I really wish we could have seen and heard L.A. Woman live. It's just an amazing album.
I agree. Thanks for watching. !
I would go back to 1971 just for that!
I was in Junior High School living in Miami, Fl when Jim Morrison and the Doors played their famous gig at Dinner Key Auditorium in March 69. At the time they were just bubble gum pop band having recorded "Light my fire" "People are strange" "Hello I love you"among others. Then in March of 69 the Doors came to town to perform at Dinner Key Auditorium - I couldn't attend because I was too young to drive and didn't know anybody who went. The concert was well advertised in Miami and I later read that the promoters had oversold the concert-meaning it was packed. We all know what happened later with Jim being arrested for obscenity and the trial and everything. Three years later in 71 I met a fellow student who told me she went to the concert and she said that it was a "great show" in her opinion until the cops came and broke it up. Later I read that Jim was taken to Dade County Jail and processed and one of the cops that processed said that Jim was polite and apologized to them for the trouble he caused. Jim was later put on trial but nothing came of it and for awhile it was rumored he wanted to do another concert to make up for the Dinner Key show but his team thought it was to risky with Jim's drinking and persona change while under the influence. For all who are new to Jim Morrison his friends said he was the nicest guy in the world until he got drunk the he turned into a completely different person.
The Doors, my answer to the question: If you could attend one concert, which group would you choose to see?
Excellent video! I have always found this song very haunting, especially after he died. I’m happy someone else hears the premonition of this song.
It sounds like it was written straight from the heart in very little time.
(I have words for those chords)
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Hello Professor it’s Wayland Iam still watching your work ! Love it 🙏
Awesome! Thank you!
I was just a tot when this song came out but I had an older brother who played the Doors, the Beatles, Janis Joplin on the stereo all the time. I was only about 5, but I remember the strong imagery of this song; loved it but thought it was kind of scary. Still one of my favorites today. Thank you, Professor, for all the wonderful back stories of artists and songs! ❤
So eerie...the music and lyrics take me back to The Twightlight Zone. Picture Rod Serling and Jim Morrison sitting at a Paris cafe writing a new musical based on the series. Miss both for their creative genius.
Riders On The Storm is one of my fav songs of all time. I’ve listened to it hundreds of times, and will listen to it hundreds more, and will never get tired of it. The haunting lyrics, the rain effect, beautiful keyboard, its an absolute masterpiece.
I was 11 years old when this song was released. Even, at that age it captured me. I can honestly transport back to the time I first heard the song. It would take some years later until I fully absorbed the Doors as a band. Just about the same time the Doors revival happened. Riders on the storm, was haunting to me when I first heard it as an 11 year old. All these years later, the song is as brilliant and haunting as ever.
There just simply will never be another like Jim, his style was all unto his own and just insanely unique to him
He had a great voice, and a great look.
The thunder and lightning sound effects, and sheer length of the song have made riders on the storm one of my favorite Doors songs along with light my fire. This was a very interesting episode. I had no idea what writers was about or that it was the last song Jim Morrison recorded. Haunting indeed.
The End is a pretty dang haunting song IMO.
I agree. Wow.
A goosebumps song for me.
Arguably the greatest 'American' R&R band in history; output, variety, sincerity, impact, power, popularity, breadth, talent, inspiration, legacy.... Find another that's been so dramatically impactful on music, ever. Cheers.
Love The Doors. Never really listened to them until I saw the movie. After that I went back and listened to everything I could find. I had heard their songs before, but hadn't really listened to it. I regret that, but I'm glad I finally found them
Morrison, beautiful voice...
I was young but around and listening to music radio when The Doors were recording. I can remember the Beatles, the Monkees, the Beach Boys and others, but somehow I didn't pick up on The Doors. In the late 70s, my musical training being along classical lines, there were not many rock and roll voices I was impressed with. One day at work, Touch Me came on the radio. It immediately caught my attention, and I was stunned by that lyrical baritone voice in the chorus of the song. I said to one of my friends right there, "Wow, a rock singer with a legit voice." He looked at me funny and told me that was Jim Morrison and The Doors. Instant revelation. I had to hear it all at that point and they remain one of my favorite bands. Morrison is, as the Professor discusses here, a very mixed bag. But when he was singing with that natural voice, he was simply amazing. I love all their stuff, but it's the slower, lyrical songs or passages where that voice comes out that are my favorite. Riders on the Storm is a great example, while not my personal favorite. But I'll tell you, Professor, if you have not turned out all the lights, closed your eyes and listened to The End the way you described with Riders, you are in for another great ride!
You just can't say enough about Jim Morrison and The Doors. I grew up to their music. He was such a great singer. They were so talented and ahead of their time. Riders on the Storm was a great song and to this day I still love listening to it. It's just too bad that you can't do an interview with him. Thanks Professor for another great one...
I love the Doors music and songs, they were all unique….but Riders On The Storm was my favorite of all, it had something special with it that no one else has come close to it even when others are playing it …. HIGH 5…👍❤️🙏🏼
Jim was one of a kind. Like too many creative, talented, one of a kind artists, he left us way too soon.I was introduced to the Doors at about 8 years old when a neighbor boy started following me around singing, "come on baby light my fire". 😆 I did not hold it against the Doors and several years later became a huge fan!
Our house is on a steep hill with a forest of trees overlooking a river. Our livingroom has huge sliding glass windows that take up the entire room. Saturday morning, Mom's at work so Dad turns on the stereo LOUD. Sliders are open it's cloudy and ominous. He puts on Riders on the Storm. He had a high tech stereo. Polk Audio speakers taller than me! What a thrill and a memory I will never forget! Jims haunting voice. The atmosphere was other worldly. Chest was pounding cuz it was so loud and a huge hawk started to fly in view! Just awesome!
Love the Doors ! Blown away every time I hear the electric poet ! Always makes you think and feel !
Great video love the Doors! Thanks for all you do professor 😎🎸🎶
Thank you, Professor! Fascinating, as always, and one of my favorite songs.
I think this was one of your very best episodes, along with the one about You’ve Lost that Loving Feeling. I always liked the jazz vibe of Riders On the Storm, as well as the qualities you mention. Morrison was truly unique. Thanks for this!
Wow, Adam, thanks for this!! You do such a great job, so thorough, talented with words!!! And what a great subject, "Riders on the Storm" - an "otherworldly passage", the sense of surreal, haunting and haunted. "Supernatural swan song!" Beautiful!!!! ❤️
One of the best songs to drive to, at night..... on a lonely highway.
I still travel it today....
Well done on the unassuming "Yeeeeeeeeeeahhh" Professor! 🤙 Sounded just like Jim! 🫡👏🏼
And I thought this music piece was haunting enough, listening to this one sparks that feeling even more! Thanks for telling one more haunting tale and all details surrounding the recording of this classic!
BRILLIANT Insight to a GENIUS
Song! RIP Jim Morrison "Forever 27" ...Newk from Kentucky
Everything about their music was so distinct and provocative, it all holds up. This song is particularly mesmerizing.
My favorite Doors song. I was 11 when it was released and can still remember hearing it in the car on my way to guitar lessons. Love the tremolo on the guitar and the thunder/rain sound effect is brilliant.
Another brilliant analysis! As hauntingly insightful as the song itself!
Another great song from my Halloween playlist! 👏👏👏
This song is also on my Feeling Cooler Then I'll Ever Be playlist😆 The Doors are too cool for almost everybody 😎
I agree 1000% Such a great track. Is it your favorite by them?
@@ProfessorofRock I think my favorite fluctuates between ROTS and Roadhouse Blues! But I also love People Are Strange. That one made the Halloween playlist too!🎃
I like to listen to ROTS in the dark too, btw ☺. I did that with all my favorite albums and it's so relaxing to just sit quietly and immerse yourself in good music 🎶 😌!
What else is on it?
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Its a big list, but I tried to put anything kind of related to Halloween or just mysterious. I have the obvious ones like Somebody's Watching Me, by Rockwell, Home By The Sea, by Genesis, Spooky, By Atlantic Rythm Section, etc. And I've got horror movie themes mixed in as well, like the theme from Halloween and Dracula. I'd link the list for you here, but I'm not sure if I could do that on TH-cam☺ It's from my Amazon Music library
My absolute favourite Doors song, by far!
The Doors are da 👑. Love them ! Great Content. I've Subscribed. Greetings from the French Alps. 💖🐕🔊
Ahhh. Hitting on one of my all time favorites. I head to LA often and always head to Venice Beach and chill to The Doors. One day I will stay in the hotel near sunset strip. RIders has such a jazz feel and improvisation. Early days of Prog Rock.
I have been to Jim’s gravesite in Paris.
Thanks for sharing.
The chords are definitely jazzy.
Captivating song. RIP Jim
A great song always has a great story behind... Thanx for the lesson, Professor!!!!
This takes me right back to the neighborhood park. I was 14 and had a transistor radio playing this song. It was warm and sunny but this song just gave me a dark, sad, hopeless feeling. It became my least favorite Doors song. Now as an adult, I LOVE taking road trips listening to LA Woman.
Always loved The Doors. Discovered them as a teen in the early 90s. Riders and The End are amazing and haunting songs.
Jim (Mojo Rising) Morrison died a few months before I was born, but The Doors were still big into the '80s (another band name on notebooks and jr high desks) and heard on 'BCN radio here. The only understanding I had of them, though, was when the movie came out in '91.
For several years starting in the early '00s, I lived just below the Sunset Strip and Laurel Cyn. No matter how much the area changes, though, you can still hear the sounds of that musical era and from one of the bands that defined it w/songs like "LA Woman". As for "Riders on the Storm", there's nothing like driving those lonely cyn roads in the rain at night while listening to it. While the spectre of CA serial killers is spooky, I always imagined the song to be more about the darkness within and what one may find there, loneliness, solitude or truth, in times of trouble. Anyway, another great video, Adam, and just in time for Halloween and Día de los Santos.👻🎃☮️
*One thing you forgot to mention, though, and I can't find anywhere online: Back in the '80s (maybe the Dr. Demento radio show?), I remember a spoof of Elmer Fudd playing Jim Morrison. He was singing/warbling this song, getting arrested, and saying "kyl the waaabit", then "ohhh, I'm having a bad acid twip!"😂
Growing up, I wasn't the biggest Doors fan. Don't get me wrong, it's not I was turning the channel when they came on the radio or anything like that! But as I got older, I did appreciate their music more. "Riders on the Storm" is an eerie, yet weird song. Ray Manzarek and Robbie Krieger really set the tone of the song from the opening chords. Manzarek gives you the feeling of being in the rain with his keyboards, while Krieger's guitar is haunting and ethereal. If the lyrics weren't so...disturbing, the song would be quite mellow. The part about the brains squirmin' like a toad is really out there. It's a true classic, and a sad "ending" to the Doors.
It’s amazing, you can practically hear the raindrops in your brain while Manzarek’s keyboard line is playing.
Brilliant, in every way, in all aspects: The Doors, the song, and Profs report.
I took the song literally. Back in those days there was quite a lot of hitch-hiking. A girl in a sorority next to mine and disappeared after she did a ride-share to get home for the holidays.
I understand that you are from the same state I am. You are just one more reason why the state I live in is the coolest state in the nation that no one knows anything about. (And we like it that way) Keep up the great work, Professor!
The Doors was such a great band. Our kids are in their 30s. Riders of the Storm still scares them.
One of my all time favorite songs. Right up there probably in my top 3!
One of the best doors albums came out in 78. An American Prayer. The band had putt music to Jim's spoken words and created an awesome ride through LA. One of my faves... I still have the copy I bought when it came out in 1978. I was 18 and a big doors fan and a fan of the music of the 60s, growing up in that time in So. CAL,when KHJ and AM was king.
In my own opinion L A Woman was The Doors best album..Every track was a masterpiece. Wore this album out. Thanks for the post and memories take care and keep on rocking in a free world. Thanks 🤗👍✌
Agreed. One of very few albums I can enjoy with utmost pleasure from beginning to end. A masterpiece!
For any other band, this song would indeed be a fitting coda, but when you also have 'When the Muic's Over' and 'The End' in your repertoire, it's less immediately obvious.
I love Morrison's crooning on this song. You can hear Old Blue Eyes singing it! It reminds me of sitting in my big sister's room, painting with water colors, with the smell of frankincence and weed (not eight-year-old me smoking, mind you), and the dulcet tones of Jim and the funky organ of Ray floating around the room. I LOVE Annabel Lamb's cover. I recorded off the radio on "Rock Over London." Much later, I found the 12" single in the city.
Great review of a great song. An insightful and beautiful take on Jim. Thanks, dude.
Glad you enjoyed it!
You've become something of a rock god (of reviewers) yourself. :)@@ProfessorofRock
My wife and I just returned from a trip to Paris. Morrison's grave was a must visit. Thanks for another great episode!