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The Doors, When The Music’s Over - A Classical Musician’s First Listen and Reaction
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ส.ค. 2024
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When I learned that this song is classified as being Acid Rock, I really didn’t have high expectations because I couldn’t imagine something with that name sounding good. BUT I WAS DEAD WRONG!
Here’s the link to the original song by The Doors:
• When the Music's Over
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I'm very impressed Vlad picked this of all their songs. Lots of people skip this for being drawn out and long, but it is such a powerful piece.
Music like this really only works when it is this long.
@@llaeeZ oh yes, the impact wouldn't be there if it was 3 minutes.
The Doors' Light My Fire, The End, and When The Music's Over were examples of AM Radio getting squeezed and ultimately destroyed by its own business model. The "gotta sell some buckets of fried chicken every 3 minutes" mandate drove listeners away to the emerging FM stations where entire albums were played without interruption.
I love a good epic. Easily my favorite Doors song.
Absolutely my favorite, the live version is a MUST listen.
Man, jim was really underrated as a singer. His voice had insane amounts of texture
Not under-rated by those of us who lived the moment. The Doors are in my top 5 bands with Beatles, P. Floyd, Eagles and...
Their music stands the test of time, over half of a century later.
@@kenjordan5750 I'm just saying, even fans of the doors don't give him enough credit for his singing ability
Not sure he was
@@jamessutton4726 He wasn't. If anything he was overrated.
love jim but he was a crooner
50 years of listening to this song, and it still gives me goosebumps---EVERY time
I’m right there with you man!
John Densmore's dynamic drumming is extremely underrated.
A left hander who played right handed, gives him a unique style! 👍
Just like Ringo...
apart from Phil Collins and Karen Carpenter, he's the best drummer out of the really famous bands
A couple of others, like Mick Fleetwood, Charlie Watts, Stewart Copeland, are in the same league as well...
Not sure he is
When Amy raises an eyebrow and sways with a subtle smile while listening, go ahead and clear your calendar for the in-depth because you know it’s going to be good!
I saw that too. This is going to be interesting. 😊
I wonder where it is.
Yes. And that reaction always makes me smile. Because I totally understand why it's so intriguing to her
It's important to remember that Morrison and Manzarek studied film directing on UCLA. So they were familiar with art of drama. Hence such precise structure of the song.
Good insight. Thank you!
Dokładnie.
Krieger studied too at UCLA at the same time, but I don't remember what.
It is not acid rock or psychedelic rock, it is just great timeless music made by a band that is one of the best to ever do it. Just like that. It's moving. Poetic. Incredibly well written. And timely. With superior musicianship. Highly unique. And hasn't aged a second. With vocals to blow you right out of a room.
I disagree. Jim, manzarek, and Densmore were all on acid and other drugs during many recording,often playing live, and a lot of us were on acid, listening to them. The very definition of acid rock.
Still great rock n roll
He was the father of Acid rock. More so than the Dead, or airplane
I’ve heard of them called “art rock,” on a par with the Velvet Underground.
Totally acid music
Written on acid and meant to be listened to on acid way back when.
The Doors are one of the very few bands that stand alone as trailblazers in the rock pantheon. I would be wary of falling into the trap of labeling them simply "acid rock". That would be short sighted and creating that category was just a short cut for the rock scribes of the time. Trust me, the Doors themselves did not seek to create music that would simply be associated with the drug culture.
I am sure their intent was that their music is just an expression of the tumultuous experience of the sixties in total.
" the tumultuous experience of the sixties in total." Yes, that is important in hearing and analyzing the Doors. Their music is timeless, but it was also very much about and from their times.
Amen and well said!
Yes agree - I've played/gigged/recorded many Doors songs. At base they were mostly a blues band
Way, way, way more than trippy music to listen to while on acid. It was called psychedelic only because some people chose to call it that and it stuck. There was of course music that consciously tried to sound "psychedelic" to capitalize on the trend, but not the Doors. At their core I'd say that they were what many if not most great rock bands were, blues-based. The trippy stuff is more about the group's members having eclectic tastes and experiences and it being reflected in their music, and their deliberately not wanting to be overtly commercial and trendy. They were being themselves, basically, which all great artists are. I hope she listens to some more of their music. So much to choose from. There was a lot of dreck back then just as now, but the Doors were not that, at all.
@@kylbenfive and one, baby, one in five, no one here gets, out alive.
Sounds like the tumultuous sixties course through that set of lyrics at the very least
More than 50 years later, and The Doors are still THE band every generation "discover" and still blow the mind of everyone. Classic, never dated, just on a time that they made and no one can replicate
I always liked "When the Music's Over" way better than "The End". Love the Hollywood Bowl version.
Same... much prefer WtMO over The End.
I thought this record was supposed to rivaled "The end". I agree if this song was better. But in some way, 'The end' eeriness and an epic storytelling still unmatched.
agreed
I always liked the version of WTMO from the Absolutely Live album as my favorite live version
At least both songs end with the words "the end".😀😀
3 awesome musicians and an American poet for vocals. Ahead of their time, totally unique. 🇺🇸
The doors pbs special. Great performance. Build me a woman is my favorite track..👍👍🇺🇸
I recall hearing that Morrison considered himself a poet, and didn't like the idea that he had to be a singer to get his poetry out to an audience.
The Doors were right on time, just time tends to forget
@@philduoos2961 he published at least two books of poetry
Jim, the man of many voices. Like Janis Joplin, Jimmy Hendrix, Mamma Cass, and many others, all like a meteor in the sky, light that shone briefly and are gone way to soon.
the "27 club"
ITISSO !!!
''Those One's Who'll Continue''
''There are artists who'll wrest us up & place us into themselves & into their works.
These are (Those One's Who'll Continue) wresting us up long after their appointed rests in peace. Seek out these (One's Who'll Continue) but seek even more the very Author of them all.'' ~Gilpin 62223
Amy, I'd love to hear your analysis of "The Soft Parade". It is probably the most experimental and avant-garde of their songs.
This song "When the Music's Over" is the best (IMO) song on the album "Strange Days", possibly their strongest album. It's a fantastic capstone for the experience, and it's easy to imagine a person playing the album for the first time and then turning out the lights and simply existing in silence for an hour.
In regards to The Doors as a band, Morrison gets most of the attention, but they were all amazing talents. Ray Manzarak, the keyboardist, was a musical genius.
As a massive Doors fan I was always surprised how often The Soft Parade album was written off as their worst album but I always loved it and the song Soft Parade is amazing, a walk through the different stages of life, This is the best part of the trip, this is the trip, the best part I really like!
Just like The End off their first. Jim
I was downright giddy when I saw that she was doing this as her first ever Doors song. It is one hell of a good choice as and opening salvo.
@@leaflee2066What’d he say?
@@leaflee2066I agree. I don't understand the disdain for the album. Personally, my early exposure to The Doors was through the radio and the double-CD "Best of The Doors" compilation from '85. All great tunes, but all of their more "safe" content. It's only within the last year that I've delved into the back catalog and bought all of the albums produced while Morrison lived. I think the reason The Soft Parade (the album) is disparaged is because it diverges the farthest from their usual sound, but that's what I love about it.
You've come under the spell of the Doors! Congrats! A trio of musicians who had a strong command of their instruments (the keyboardist and drummer had jazz in their background, and the guitarist had mastery of a variety of styles) with Jim Morrison, who you said sounded like a master storyteller, who has been likened to a shaman in his performances. Their control of dynamics and tension was legendary. Enjoy!
They were actually a quartet.
@@rfdarsie read the whole comment next time.
"He's not a showman. He's a shaman." - Ray Manzerek
@@oceanfrog You are right. Sorry.
A band that can adopt Bertolt Brecht into rock as the Doors did with Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar) shows that these were well-educated artists and poets and not the "drugged-out" hippies as people thought of them at the time
Yep, what do Bobby Darin and the Doors have in common...
Although, Brecht was the lyricist and Kurt Weill was the composer.
That's right. Jim stayed far away from drugs and alcohol.
@@raleighsmalls4653 I think the point was that they weren't JUST drugged-out hippies pretending to be deep or different.
@@kovie9162 Actually his wife was the real self-destructive fireball. News at eleven.
Not alcohol he fell victim @@raleighsmalls4653
I was the lead singer in a high school garage band from '65 to '69. We did a LOT of Doors covers because Jim Morrison and I had almost identical vocal ranges, quite surprising when I was 14 or 15 years old! Your point about using no more than is absolutely necessary is, along with Morrison's voice, The Doors greatest strength. 🥰
I remember being 9 or 10 years old and became fascinated with the Doors from my parents vinyl collection…I went back and forth between the first and second albums but was particularly fond of When The Music’s Over…one time I had a family friend’s son spend the night and I put on the Doors Strange Days…and when When The Music’s Over came on he got spooked out and weirded out and made my mom call his mom and come pick him up. People are strange.
People are strange….. lol. Nice.
Yeah, Strange Days is my favorite Doors album. People are strange indeed. LOL
"People are strange, when you're a stranger," is the whole line.
If the lad only knew flaccid and soulless music, the Doors could be difficult to comprehend.
He needed some Donnie and Marie Osmond to restore banality
Amy, I can’t stress enough, as much as I love Morrison, this music is very much a product of The Doors; all four of them are equally important.
I'm glad you can appreciate this music! The Doors are amazing and worthy of exploring! I'm sure you'll enjoy this journey through their art.
If that vocal really was one take, that is extraordinary - the feeling, the timing, the range.
Jim Morrison was known to improve on songs so the band learned to improvise to go along with him.
Actually, the song was recorded with the background music in one take because Morrison was a no show. Then Morrison’s vocals were recorded in two takes ultimately using one half take from the first round and splicing in the second half from vocal take number two.
The Doors named themselves after the "The Doors of Perception" by Aldous Huxley, which was an autobiographic book about his experience on Mescaline (similar to LSD) and hence the term Acid!
It can be argued that it came from William Blake: When the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
@@clarenceworley3714Not really, Huxley referenced Blake in his title and Jim admired them both
I’m a big Doors fan and this is my favorite Doors song, thank you for reacting to it. I hope you listen to more Doors music, I think you’ll like most of it, at least.
That double-tracked guitar solo at 11:50 slays me every time. No guitarist used sustain like that in 1967.
When Jim Morrison shouts... the chills!
Thank you for your analysis. The Doors were incredible !! 55 years later. Nobody has come anywhere near matching their sheer genius ! Jim and Ray. R.I.P.
Applause to Vlad for his great taste in picking this Door's track! A fantastic song and bit of a deeper cut--one of their greatest.
I play in a Doors Tribute (keyboardist) and just want to say thank you for sharing your impressions. I love how you analyze it without getting too technical, and convey a sense of discovery like an astute listener naturally would. It's not easy to describe this music, but you put into words how I felt only vaguely first hearing this music long ago, as a teenager in the '90s. This band blew my mind, and 27 years later, nothing else has quite made that impact.
The Doors are fantastic! Love their music and vibe! As a drummer John Densmore is exquisite and criminally underrated! Enjoy their music!
Yep. He's great and definitely underrated.
RK is a vastly underrated guitarist. Great playing.
Back when I wasn't old in Toronto, the Doors played the city. I've never forgotten what the music critic for the city's largest newspaper wrote. He described Jim as "a devil with the voice of an angel." Yeah!
My favourite band of all time. I’ve always dug the military style drumming /circus music influences in their sounds.
Jim Morrison always thought of himself first, as a poet, and second the front man for a world-famous Classic Rock Band. To call Morrison "quirky" would be an understatement. The Doors were right there with The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, and Jimi Hendrix. You can throw Janis Joplin in there as well. Of course, they (Morrison, Joplin, and Jimi Hendrix) were the three members of the infamous "27 Club." All three were famous in the same era of Rock, and all three died at age 27, of drug and/or alcohol overdoses. All three of them were superstars together in the years between 1967 and 1971. Very short, but meteoric stars for about 3 years and then they were gone. Thankfully, we still have audio and video of their great contributions to Rock and Roll.
Thanks
LA Woman is one of my favorites, definitely worth a listen! Enjoy the trip with Jim and the Doors 👍
Yup. I still haven't tired of L.A.Woman in the 47 years since I first heard it. And it may well be my favourite guitar solo of the lot. Beats Freebird, Felder and Walsh, Layla's best part is the piano, and a lot of others that have been my faves in one era or another.
The whole album is fire!
As evocative and atmospheric as much of The Doors’ catalogue is, there’s something extra special about L.A. Woman - “I see your hair is burning…” is one of Rock music’s high water marks, period. I used to play this in my band decades ago - it always got the crowd revved up. Amy is clearly taken by Jim and the boys 😊 and rightly so!
What an excellent selection by Vlad! Amy, your lyrical analysis is a strong suit. Beyond explaining how they manage to create so many dynamics with often repetitive, 56 bar + sections, I greatly look forward to your taking a stab at Morrison's lyrics. Thanks to you and Vlad for reminding us of this great song.
Well said Amy. The Doors music is very direct and personal, Jim's voice is unmatched as is the synergy within the group. Would love to hear you listen to more Doors.
I think Amy would enjoy listening to 'Light my Fire' and 'Riders on the Storm' both beautifully crafted.
Amazing band! It is a shame and appalling to label the Doors musically. There was nothing like the Doors, and I don't know if it would ever be. The musicians who came from diverse musical training (Classical, Jazz and Latin, Flamenco) were influenced by Blues, Rock and the music of the time, creating a great setting for the poet. Their music is so unique and capturing. You are on the right track. Jim wanted to take you on a journey, make you observe and wonder. He was a serious poet (who wrote several books), philosopher and artist. Unfortunately, his reputation, pop culture and the stupid movie took away the attention rather than looking and giving respect to the fantastic performer, singer and writer he was. All of The Doors' music is worth a deep dive into, and I'm excited and precipitated for your in-depth. Thank you!
The drums actually carry this song from beginning to end, something I only realized decades later.
I just got this. You are right.
No it didnt
Song starts with the finest scream in the history of rock. A combination of rage and woe. Or am I getting too existential. That combo distorted organ/guitar lead is historic.
The Doors had no bass guitar in the band, which I think is what gives their music a carnival flair.
A bass player plays on 7 of the 10 songs on this album, but not on tis song.
they did use a bass player in the studio when recording
The pieces were all disjointed and yet they were all so woven together.with near perfection.. The other thing that struck me is what great control each musician had.
In the spring of 1967 I was just 15 and the very first concert I attended was the Doors. It was a life changing experience and this song mostly stuck in my memory from that show.
I've never been a huge Doors fan.
But one thing I could say for sure, is that I don't recall ever hearing another band like them. They were very unique back then and they still are today.
I didn't get what all the fuss was about until listening to the album Strange Days. Great stuff.
Relistening to this classic is a revelation in reinforcing what I've always known on the quality and profound influence the great band has. One can argue that The Doors invented mood Rock / atmospheric Rock. Listening to "When the Music's Over" shows the band laid the blueprint for Post - Punk, New Wave, Post Rock and other genres that create ambience with their sound. Such an awesome and breathtaking track that gets even better with time.
It's great you go out of your way to feature your videos and opinions on these pinnacles of artistic sound, Amy. With music long dead it's a great service on your part in reminding old timers and introducing to the younger generation that music can actually be great and life - changing.
Love the Doors, so glad you were able to experience and appreciate them. One of the great American bands from the late 1960s with a very unique sound. Great reaction. I can see that you noticed that there is something special with Jim Morrison and the band itself. I look forward to your In-Depth.
Acid (LSD) admittedly had a PROFOUND effect on ALL music after it hit the scene. One thing people do not realize is it was an experimental psychology tool and perfectly legal in the USA until late 1966. The hippies were NOT "criminals" until the laws caught up with them. Many of the bands in the 1960's (jazz included) experimented with the LSD while it was still legal or were well into exploring it while still legal. LSD had different effects for different mindsets. Intellectuals found it especially interesting and many of them were musicians.
Thank you, this is info I did not know regarding the legality of acid. I'd say it tends to remove barriers from the mind that get in the way of creativity.
@@scottzappa9314This is a good way to describe it; it can also help put us in touch with buried feelings that require ‘integrating’ into your conscious life, and making art, literature, and music can be incredibly good ways to help with that integration.
I don’t tend to care whether it is “legal” or not. In York, in England it is “legal” to kill a Scotsman if he is carrying a bow and arrow, but not on Sundays.
Not an endorsement of drugs. Just facts. It was a tool that enhanced many and destroyed many. A hammer can build or demolish. Doesn't make it "good or bad".
Acid Rock is the element of Psychedelic Rock that is heavier, serious, and filled with distortion as compared to the more whimsical version that you find with songs like “Lucy In The Sky with Diamonds” or “Itchycoo Park.”
The term ‘acid’ refers to LSD, LySergic ACID Diethylamide. It was popularized when Ken Kessey promoted its use with the pun ‘Acid Tests’ as LSD is an Acid and in chemistry an Acid Test is a procedure to see if a substance includes gold.
Other Acid Rock artists would include Jimi Hendrix, Big Brother & the Holding Company (with Janis Joplin,) Iron Butterfly, Steppenwolf, 1st lineup of Deep Purple, Norman Greenbalm, & Vanilla Fudge. Other Psychedelic Rock artists like The Who, Jefferson Airplane, Pink Floyd, etc. may be considered Acid Rock by some too.
(Which makes me wonder if you’ve reacted to “Careful With That Axe, Eugene” by Pink Floyd yet.)
This song and The End define the Doors. No one else did this kind of almost Performance Art music.
The Doors are still one of my favorite groups of all time -definitely my favorite from the classic rock era in the States. Apart from the music and the poetry, I think that they offered one important element to music in general: that a concert can be a transformative ceremony and the artist can attempt to become a shaman that opens the door to new vistas. I believe this goes way beyond the use of drugs: it's a fundamental piece of their artistic output and it was carefully thought out.
Also, to quote J. Morrison himself, their music carries a feeling of not being exactly at home or at a place you feel complete and at peace. In their overall vibe I sense an existential feeling of being displaced, and I think it pictures the tragic element of the human condition more than any other rock artist.
30 years ago I was sitting in my grandpa's trailer "babysitting" him. He was sick and failing at the time and we kept people with him 24/7. I was watching Live at the Hollywood bowl and grandpa was napping in his chair. Jim hit the break in The End where Jim starts to dance and the music starts to whirl and my grandpa woke up. Asked me who this was on the tv. I told him The Doors, the man dancing is Jim Morrison. He said is he a breed? (language for if he's a mixed Native American). I said I didn't think so I didn't know. He said he heard Sundance music and Jim was doing sacred dances. To this day I don't know if he just heard what he needed to hear to comfort him or if he Jim really was doing an ancient sacred dance, but Grandpa would know it if he saw it since he Sundanced his whole life. Everytime I came to sit with him he'd ask me to bring that VHS with me so he could watch him dance that one song, he didn't like the other songs lol.
@@RavenaDenver When Jim was a kid, his family drove by a car accident in the highway involving Native Americans. Later he liked to say that a soul from one of them passed to him. His stage presence was heavily influenced by the shamanistic aspect of Native American ceremonies. I don't think he knew sacred dances but he honestly tried to invoke them with his movement. According to your grandpa... it seems that he kinda succeeded!
@@noother964 well we don't call them Shamans but yea, I was aware of that story. It's also something we don't think happens (body possession) but one of those NA could have walked a while with him for sure.
@@RavenaDenver Thanks for the info! I used the word because Morrison took elements from the worldwide shamanic tradition (and he has used the term in the song Shaman's Blues). I think his story about the "soul entering his body" was just a poetic way of saying that such a view deeply affected his psyche. Although I'd love to believe that maybe... just maybe... it's possible that somebody walked a while with him, as you say. 🙂
This whole project has been such a joy. I'm 24, classically trained pianist with some experience playing clarinet in concert bands when I was in school. I was exposed to most of this music through my parents but because I didn't grow up when it was being created I also got to go through a kind of rock discovery period in my adolescence where I just fell in love with Queen, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, The Doors, etc. It always struck me how much more certain rock genres seem to have in common with classical music compared to modern pop music in terms of complexity, structure, and storytelling. The Doors and Pink Floyd are two of the best story-telling bands I have ever heard (of course this is not an exhaustive list) and I have always wished to see their music properly analysed through a classically informed lense to see how much my own amateur ear has accurately picked up on and what I have missed in terms of what
makes it so effective. Your channel is so perfectly filling that little niche yearning I've had and I'm so delighted to participate!
And I quote from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction speech 1993: The Doors are somewhat of an anomaly in the rock pantheon.They weren’t part of the peace and love Airplane-Dead-Quicksilver acid-rock movement of San Francisco. They had nothing to do with the English invasion, or even conventional pop music for that matter. Even in their hometown of Los Angeles they were considered a world apart from the predominantly folk-rock peerage of the Byrds, Buffalo Springfield and Mamas and Papas.
Unlike most of the west coast scene the Doors were mor blues influenced but still you are correct they are one of a kind
What a wild song as your introduction to the music of the Doors! There are plenty of more mainstream songs by this band which could've been showcased but you got the full Morrison! I knew, straight up, there would be a bunch of times where that eyebrow movement you have would occur! I love that!
Excellent analysis and excellent video! Keep 'em comin'!!!!!
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Saw them twice in San Diego in a 3500 seat auditorium wonderful music my favorite group. Chambers Brothers opened the first concert and brought down the house great band.
You are a little older than I am, but not too much. I wonder whether you considered the Doors to be ‘Acid Rock’? In these comments it seems to go without saying, but personally I never considered the Doors to be Acid Rock and do not think they encapsulate the sound. What do you think? Are people being misled?
Good for you for taking this song on. You have very open ears for a classical musician, and your reaction to this epic song of all songs is very rewarding. Look forward to your upcoming time-matured opinion.
For me this song epitomizes what the sixties were all about. The Doors are in a league of their own.
It takes just two things to be a successful frontman:
1. Really wanting to do it.
2. Lots of people really wanting you to do it.
Everything else is variable.
Number 2 seems to be the tricky bit.
there are a few Doors tunes that I think would be interesting for analysis: Light My Fire (that interesting chord progression to start the song), LA Woman (the imagery and metaphors), for example.
Don't forget to recommend Peace Frog, too.
This is so exceptionally good. Their music is totally mesmerising.
For contrast, especially regarding use of 'empty space', consider "Touch Me" from the "Soft Parade" album. On that later record they used a studio orchestra with a bold brass horn section. Instead of pauses for dramatic effect, emphasis is created by a wall of sound.
IMO, "Strange Days" is their best album and is the one that concludes with "When The Music's Over." I graduated from high school in Southern California in 1968 and have great memories of driving across the Mojave Desert at night listening to "Strange Days" on a 8-track cassette tape.
The Doors were the only artist where I made a point of buying ALL of their studio albums.
*TRIVIA* - their song "Waiting For The Sun" did NOT appear on their album titled "Waiting For The Sun." Rather, it was on "Morrison Hotel."
An interesting and worthy choice for an introduction to the Doors. Exceptional use of dynamics to build energy and tension throughout. Think this song exemplifies the band's original name: The Doors of Perception. A true original in rock music.
Acid-rock is a moniker that should not be taken to serious; I mean, Jim was an alcoholic, maybe we should call it bourbon-rock. The competent blend of genres is what made The Doors what they are, not the drugs. They have so many beautiful songs, you are in for a treat. Awesome!
You do know that Mr. Morrison was a fan of other drugs other than alcohol, right? The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley might be a good clarifying read for you on this subject, or ask Ray Manzarek (or anyone else who knew him) if Jim only drank and wasn't a fan of other drugs or that these psychological states produced by these drug experiences didn't influence Jim Morrison or the Doors in general. I am not saying that drugs are the only or primary influence, but to say 60s drug culture didn't influence the sound of the Doors to me is just bonkers.
so very true. Doors' "psychedelic" credentials are woefully oversold.
They were essentially a prog-blues band with a touch of jazz. Exactly the same may be said of... Pink Floyd.
Morrison's favourite singer was the Bronx prodigy Laura Nyro, the pop master of space, dynamics, emotional intensity and songwriting surprises. Her December's Boudoir (1968) is a good example, including the approximately 40 chords ending on a majorminor.
I thought his favorite singer was Frank Sinatra.
@@nellgwenn Female singer, oops.
@@nellgwennFrank and Elvis
@@apostolostvable When Elvis's bass player recorded with them they were over the moon. They loved him.
I heard this song for the first time when I was 17 years old... I was studying clasical flute. My brain and music taste changed for ever!! I love your educated english, and your voice as well!! Cheers!! Greetings from Valdivia, Chile, Southamerica
I perceive the Doors to be the first true heavy rock band which went to inspire metal and the influence is marked with the proliferation of English bands that employ keyboards to create hypnotic music with colourful vibrancy. Hell of an achievement for a heavy poet who catapulted lyrics to a focal point in a band.
To be fair dylan, the stones and Lennon were already doing that lyrically…. But morrison scale it up to a new and broader scale. A cinematic vision in the lyrics. Wide screen David lean lyrics…. Believe me waters took a lot of notes as did zep and the who. They won’t admit that, but they did. The end and this were being formed in full by fall of ‘66. People knew. They played odines in nyc in fall of ‘66 w/ lounreed a d Warhol present… at that point the doors were revolutionary in created large scale narrative epic to rock w/ a sense of not only large
Scape lyrics but also theater and honest pain. Antecedents to dark side of the moon, dark metal, punk and college radio.
Even in the 80s, when I was in high school & college, and long after Jim had died, the Doors and Jim Morrison were extremely famous. Newer front men were always compared to Morrison, we had posters on our walls & he and the band were often referenced in pop culture. Just icons, period. Of course The Doors movie with Val Kilmer was huge, too. Their music still holds up.
My BEST BAND ever.
I literally wore out 2 LPs of The Soft Parade.
Jim was angst personified.
A youth rebellion anthem of the sixties. The Doors had a unique sound with dramatic singer. Doors fans should check out “Forever Changes” by Love. This was an interesting listen and I enjoyed your commentary and impressions. Thanks Virgin Rock
There has never been a group like the Doors. Truly unique
Great take on this fascinating song. The song is hypnotic, varying itself just enough to maintain your interest. Of course, Morrison's presence has a lot to do with that. He knew when to stand back and let the music play along without him. Lots of fabulous songs by this incredible group. The best bands were unique, something that definitely applies to The Doors. I don't consider this "acid rock." It's "Doors music."
The 6 (8) Albums of The Doors were Master Pieces of Rockmusic. Not one bad song. The songs doesn't sound equal, lyrics are majestic, the arrangements are full of energy. The four were scientists of music.
Peoples and musicians should listen their songs in 2023. I am a musician and songwriter, but when i listen to the doors, i learn and get so much everyday, again and again and again and again.....and i enjoy it.
Great reaction, amy!
Your eyes and your whole face tells us so much.....unbelievable. I love it
I love The Doors. Born in the late '70's I grew up hearing music from bands that had already absorbed them as an influence. I like to imagine how radical The Doors must have sounded to music fans in the 1960's who had never heard anything like them.
You bet! Born in 1948, I was finally alive to music in the 60's
Wow!... I never thought I would get emotional watching someone's 1st experience of The doors..
Perhaps if you do listen to some more?..then I would recommend Riders on the storm, LA Woman, The changeling & of course.. The end.
I was lucky enough to see the Doors live in 1968 at the Eastman Theater in Rochester, New York. ..... truly an amazing experience of my youth ...... my friend and I sitting a couple rows back, staring up wide eyed at the Lizard King, dressed in a snakeskin suit! Unforgettable!
The Doors are one of my top 5 favourite rock bands of all time. It's impressive how many great songs and albums they released in such a short period of time. An interesting thing to note about the band is they didn't have a bass guitarist which is extremely rare for a rock band. They would use a session player to play bass guitar in the studio and live keyboardist Ray Manzarek would play the bass parts on a rhodes piano bass with his left hand, while performing the main melodies with his right on an organ. It gave The Doors a very unique sound.
When the Music's Over. Throwing you in the deep end right away
an obvious new doors fan is born. love it
Amy, I’ve been waiting for this day to come for the longest time for you to react to Jim Morrison and The Doors. I first heard about Jim Morrison when I was a young child by my cousin talking about his mysterious death and it intrigued me for years until I turned 15 years old sitting in a dark room in a basement and my friend put on the album weird scenes inside the Gold mine and told me who this was and it hit me like a ton of lead as I have looked back hearing about this man, myth and legend Jim Morrison. From that point on I was hooked and dug deep into his poetry music and his adventures. I visited his gravesite four times in my adult years at Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris France . This is an absolute treat for me because of your in-depth knowledge of music and the love for it . I pray that you look into more of his poetry and music in the near future. Again thank you very much and this channel has really open my eyes and heart.
Jim was a metaphysical poet on a par with William Blake or Rimbaud, it's reflected in his lyrics and indeed his whole life.
Ladies & Gentlemen, from Los Angeles California: The Doors! ♥ I'm so glad, you start your with this epic song, one of my biggest favorite from them. I'm very curious to see how you like it and what you think of it.
This song gives me chills.
Possibly the best selection from Jim Morrison and the Doors to epitomize the Doors and the so-called 'Acid Rock' genre. Enjoyed your insights and thoughtful reaction: excellent point concerning timbre and dynamics. Would like to hear Amy's musical analysis of Jinjer's "I Speak Astronomy."
Your enthusiasm & interpretations pull us in. Would love to hear you discuss and breakdown your personal favorite classical pieces.
"A master story teller", beautiful way to describe The Doors collectively.
What a place to introduce you to The Doors! Talk about in at the deep end! Thank God you were able to take it in. He could have started you a touch more gently with something like The Crystal Ship, Light My Fire or Touch Me! I'm thrilled that you like it, though. That's your Baptism of Fire. 😂😂😂
I would recommend listening to "An American Prayer". It's a collection of pieces with Jim Morrison reciting his poetry, and music by The Doors recorded years after Morrison's death. Their rendition of "Abinoni: Adagio" should be of special interest to you.
What a time in history! There was so much experimentation, personal and artistic and it was all so innocent and original. The Doors had the most unique sound that explains the era to someone who was born after hight of the youth movement.
Still, the most selfish, self centered and narcissistic of any generation.
They were given all the benefits of the New Deal-amazing infrastructure, free college, massive spending on social needs coupled with fairly well distributed wealth as compared to now, and they traded all of it away for tax cuts and walling off their whiteness. They blindly followed Reagan down into the hellhole of neoliberal ideology to re emerge as yuppies and entrepreneurs, sunsetting into a life made by property value inflation that enriched them while homelessness suddenly became a thing, as did the cruise ship industry.
The first generation in the US to bequeath children a world where they would be poorer than their parents while bequeathing also an irreversible system collapse that is the climate crisis that they care not one flip about because they know they’ll be dead already so, oh well.
What they leave behind is nothing like what was left to them, the entire world to shape and all they could say was I got mine, sorry you lose.
They hoarded everything, lived off the largesse of big government then pulled the ladder up behind them. I’ve got no love lost for the Boomers, their greed and their Cold War mindset. Yes, there was some great music, but while they preached revolution they oversaw and were complicit in a fifty year counter-revolutionbegun during the Nixon era which ushered in the greatest transfer k of wealth upwards in the history of the world.
All the great music in the world isn’t worth the destruction wrought by that generation. The music’s over. Turn out the light. Turnout the light
I'd love to see a first listen and reaction to a whole Doors album! But I would say that, they are my favourite band! 👍
SCREAMS 1960’s rock power in the very best way. Also clearly illustrates the difference between rock and roll and rock. This is ROCK.
It should be remembered that Ray Manzarek was a classically trained pianist, which had a considerable influence on the music of The Doors.
In the 1980’s Ray Manzarek appeared on the NPR show “Fresh Air”. He went through how they crafted “Light My Fire” from it was initially conceived as a pop song. For one in the bridge on the album cut they inserted a light of John Coltrane’s variation of “My Favorite Things”.
My daughter got a hold of this record in my lair. She noted that it was over 8 minutes long. "That's too long" , she told me. After we sat and listened together when it finished she said "it wasn't long enough." This song is a beautiful fresco that never dried, then it gradually flows to the floor.
I like The Doors so much that I feel like you are talking about my cousin, almost 30 years ago I heard The Doors for the very first time, I remember the impact “Break on through “ had on my years in college and I can see myself in you when I discovered this amazing band.
Next up..."The Crystal Ship." That one will suck you in just as bad. It's not nearly as long, but, oh man. It's a great one.
great analysis, i enjoyed listening to you. You should maybe watch a video of them doing this song live, it was pure musical theatre and they took it to another level live. A band of brillaint musicians led by the best frontman ever (IMO)
Seems like Amy has sown the seeds of her own Doors fandom!
Most music inspired by acid is beautiful!
The Moody Blues is a perfect example of how beautiful acid inspired music can be. Also the Beatles were inspired by eastern scales and LSD when recording Sgt. Peppers.
Interesting at Abby Road two records were being recorded at the same time all influencing each other…
The Beatles sergeant peppers lonely hearts club band and Pink Floyd’s The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
Great choice Amy - The Doors are true rock classics/legends. Far more influential than any of the bands Karl forced on you :) There are so many great Doors pieces and suggest you explore all their albums
This was the very first LP I ever bought in 1967 when i was 14. And it sounds just as magical now as the day i bought it. There is nothing else like it.
To have this song be the one in which I am introduced to your channel! Ah! A thing of beauty!!! And that you listened to it all the way through truly made me feel like I was listening to it for the first time with you! I am looking forward to seeing what else you have done. Thank you so much for doing this!!!
Incidentally, I just happen to be wearing a Doors t-shirt today 😂
The doors are a very special band like no one else's, i have never seen you so involved in a group just by you listening to it i could tell that you liked it .😊😊
I find it fascinating that it is The Doors music that has made such an impression on you
When the first remark you made after the song ended was about the use of silence, I just about applauded! I have listened intensely to music for 60+ years now, and have have several years of music training (clarinet). In my opinion, music is the combination of sound and silence over time within an overarching rhythmic pattern to create, develop, and engender feelings amongst the listeners. The Doors' music, particularly their longer pieces, should not be considered "acid rock", or even "rock" -- it is more specifically "art music", as draws upon many musical traditions and themes -- jazz, Latin, atonailty, staggered time signatures, voice as music rather than as lyrics, and so on. Yes, that's the definition -- When the Music's Over, The End, et al. are "Art Music". Long live Jim Morrison.
When the music is over is from their very first album. 1967.
Jim was only 24 years old when he sang it. The keyboard player in the Doors was classically trained.
Jefferson Airplane are probably the next best acid rock band.
Love your reactions. A perfect example of both Morrisons poetry and performance as well as acid rock would be The End by The Doors. Easily an epic piece by any standars