That was one impressive interpretation of a very deep song. For a young guy like you to get the gist of a Vietnam-era tune is admirable. Kudos to you for recognizing the Oedipus Rex reference. Cheers Brother
The singer Jim Morrison said: "Every time I hear that song, it means something else to me. I really don't know what I was trying to say. It just started out as a simple goodbye song ... probably just to a girl, but I could see how it could be goodbye to a kind of childhood. I really don't know. I think it's sufficiently complex and universal in its imagery that it could be almost anything you want it to be."
Exactly. I'd see the kids get on the dark blue army bus going to the meps center when I was a kid. I took the train in 84. For some it was the last trip you took.
The doors were their own genre for sure,many great songs in such short span together '66-70?? LA woman album is a listen from beginning to end,been down so long,crawlin king snake,love her madly.."Let me tell ya abt texas radio and the big beat"
10:43 Taking a face from the ancient is in reference to Greek plays in which the actors would have clay masks on stick that they would hold in front of their face. The face would connote an emotion that the playwright wanted the audience to know of i.e., a smiling face, a frowning face or a angry face.
This entire album was recorded on 4 tracks in two weeks. Music and vocals recorded live in one or two takes. The album could be considered a live performance. Same is true with their second album Strange Days......the "Father?" "Yes Son?" sequence refers to the Oedipus complex. "Blue Rock" was a psychedelic drug popular in LA......
The main thing about this song is not that it was great, though it was, it was that it was so different then anything that had been heard before, anywhere. Stream of consciousness as a vehicle for things that can never be fully described but understood anyway as a different vision of art and expression. Original and cool.
Well said…. Closest to the doors at this point was velvet undergrd. This song is summer ‘66. Amazing achievement. No one I. Their zip code at that point. Not on the narrative wide scape cinematic vision of this song. Tiger waters listened to this closely bank on that… syd was there musically. A few others too. But no one had yet combined the lyrical narrative wise scape story. Modern Greek tale in a sense. As he said, a ride. To this day, no one drew out I. Rock that same depth and scope the doors got at their best. Inconsistent band but when dialed in, lethal with no peers.
The Doors are such a Vibe. Love that their songs just embody the times they were in. Just brings us right back to the 60’s and 70’s I love listening to them RiP JM
My favorite story about Morrison is when The Doors appeared on Ed Sullivan. They were told not to use the line "baby, we couldn't get much higher" and Morrison said fuck that and used the line in their performance. "You'll never appear on Ed Sullivan!" they were told, and Morrison said, "We just did."
Many years ago in college, my classmates and I would get together to do our math homework. We found it helpful to have music playing softly. I chose The Doors one night. In the middle of "The End," someone asked "WTF are we listening to?"
Oh, I think you would enjoy the 1991 movie about the Doors, with Val Kilmer playing Jim Morrisson. It definitely gives some insight into what you're hearing. And Val does some incredible vocals on the covers. And it's real nice that you noticed the "rattlesnake" sound. To be terribly lame, this also just suddenly reminded me of Jim Carrey's "ride the snake" skits on SNL in the 90s
It's a reference to the Oedipus complex. This is as follows....The Oedipus complex is a psychoanalytic theory that describes a child's sexual feelings for their opposite-sex parent and hostile feelings toward their same-sex paren
Here it’s clear it’s going back to the Greek meaning theme of the story. A symbol for breaking against and destroying the old order and seeking out a new order. It applied on a personal level as he broke up with Mary. But also on a symbolic and cultural level of the west wh/ was his home. It’s time in his mind tracing back to Rome and nearing its cyclical end in a nuclear age and pushed up against the pacific (the ancient lake).
"Oedipus Rex, also known by its Greek title, Oedipus Tyrannus," is a play by Sophocles written in 429 B.C.! That's so crazy that we as humans still know of the man and his play written 2500 years ago!
🌸 and ...... considering the chain of events that occurred before his death and his death itself, this hits really hard and it and it's very eerie and haunting. 💔
Hey man, if i may recommend something, theres a live recorded show called ''The Doors Are Open'' here on youtube, its from their Europe tour in 1968 at the London Roundhouse, there you can see Morrison in his fucking prime man, wearing full leather clothes and wildin on stage, if you would like to react to a song i highly recommend ''When the music's over'' from that show or studio version, i personally like more the live version because he screams more and adds some more lyrics and also seeing him perform is the best man, keep it up and be safe!!!!
The Mythology part you refer to is Oedipus Myth in Greek Mythology. He killed his Father and married his Mother. Psychologist Sigmund Freud later referenced it in his infamous "Oedipus Complex" wherein he believed sons subconsciously want to kill their Fathers and Marry / Become Intimate with their Mothers. Trippy stuff.
John Densmore may not have been one the world's top drummers, but damn he was perfect for The Doors. I always felt that the snake he is referring to is the highway leading west. Jim could be quite dark. Yep, the myth is the Oedipus complex. I highly recommend "When The Music's Over", you won't be disappointed. It's my personal fave
John vastly underrated. This song one of his best moments…. Snake is dark but fits theme. It’s more than sex, it’s also about a cycle completing itself. The arc of Ancient Rome to modern west. Ancient lake the pacific. Breaking from the old order and like Oedipal seeking new way.
Please, "Light My Fire","People are Strange","L.A. Woman","Love Her Madly" Peace 😊✌️ your 70 year old forever Young Hippie Gary 🕺💃 now "The End" Is'nt it Wonderful, Great Reaction Shon! 👍 14 year's old my first party they played the Doors, and it Lit my Fire l'm a fan forever.
Watching you listening to a song takes me back to my first time listening to it. I thoroughly enjoy your reactions because you get in it and feel it like no other reactor ❤
Morrison was very interested in ancient Greek history and plays. The Greek City States when not fighting each other fought Persia. In Persia there was a road called the King's road or King's Highway. It was used to move armies and for royal curriers.
This is one of their "Desert Songs". Robby Krieger was a flamenco acoustic guitarist before he joined the band, so he brought a big Sonoran desert, Latin inspired element to the music. John Densmore took pride in his "jazz style" drumming. The drummer was in a jazz band, the guitarist was in a Spanish guitar band, and the keyboardist was in the military band playing lots of big band and jazz piano. Jim was a master of the word, the bottle, the cannabis, and LSD. His final 2 years had his doctors telling him to quit smoking cigarettes and drinking, it was killing him. Just before he left for Paris, his doctor told him he didn't know how Jim was still standing.
There is a Gison SG guitar, (Robby) An electric piano and a moog keyboard bass (Ray) and a drum Kit (John) on this song. That is it. Oh, and Jim on the mic. This is the song they performed at the Whiskey in LA that got them their recording contract, and got them fired from the whiskey for the whole incest thing (Oedipus-----kill the father, F**k the mother)
“Ride the snake” is a native American travel right after we pass to the spirit world. Its a test to see if you hold on to life fears and let go and except the spirit world. Amazing song bro and your right about the mythology and couldn’t put that in the song lol spot on.
This is 💯 my favorite Doors song! Their catalog is deep. The End is arguably the first Goth song. Dark psychedelia at least. Jim Morrison was tripping on acid when they recorded the vocals.
I'm taken by a couple things here. For not being terribly familiar with The Doors, this is an interesting song to go with, as the subject matter has been causing trouble since they performed it live and got thrown out on their ear for their trouble, and that means they should do it as often as possible. Second, that you stop it so early and make the amusement park reference; young man, you must be psychic. I discovered you ages ago through #WonderMommaOG and have loved every minute since then. Merry Christmas!
Airforce busses were blue in this era, and met the new guys coming into country taking them to their units. I was in 1984-2004, so was not my war but i knew a lot of guys that were there.
Jim the poet, philosopher was way a head of his time that is one reason he was always clashing with law enforcement. They were never ready for Jim's antics much less his concerts he would do some wild stuff on stage that if I wrote it here YT would have a melt down.lol💪✌️👍
😂 that was one album that the adults would not allow me to play on my record player back in the day ... They were offended by the F phraseology part of the song. After one listen at high volume it got confiscated. I referenced the war protests and free speech but to no avail ..i never saw the record again .. on the radio back then they bleeped out the F section .... Pure genius RIP Jim Morrison
I remember back in the day and listening to this song, thinking, Oh, it's OK. He's smoking that stuff again. Play: Oedipus the King. Freud says every man wants to do the same thing.
Oh, Yeah! Jim Morrison, the Poet, and Ray Manzarek , who brought the sound to go with it. Spot on analysis again, I'm so happy that young people are not only listening to these classics but understand the meaning behind the music. Morrison would trip adid and write the most interesting poems, they'd all go to Joshua Tree and just trip out. What came from that is what you hear in the music a lot.
Ok, so I also Googled about the parents and I read several answers but the general consensus was this: "The End" is death, although the song also deals with Jim Morrison's parents - it contains Oedipal themes of loving the mother and killing the father. Morrison was always vague as to the meaning, explaining: "It could be almost anything you want it to be."
We seen the Doors perform in 1968. Morrison was into archeology primarily the Mayan and Aztec culture. The snake could be a reference to the Aztec feathered serpent god Quetzalcoatl. The Doors had been performing this song at the Whiskey A Go Go. They were the house band there. The part with Manson's parents was a Improv. Even the band didn't know where he was going to go with the song. The manager of the Whiskey A Go Go was pissed. And most of the audience was reported to be shocked also. I don't remember which band member,but one of them in a interview said the manager came up there yelling no band going to be in here singing about f ing their mother. And fired them. When we see them it was at the Arizona State Fair. You go too the fair always get a free concert at the Coliseum. I think the ticket was $3.5 about 2 hours pay.lol After the concert they rode the Tramway from the Veterans Memorial Coliseum over the top of the fairgrounds to the other side. The whole way they were yelling extremely lewd obscenities at the crowd below. And lugging on them. The State of Arizona ask them to leave and not come back.lol That was on all the news and newspapers. 🤠🐂
One of the things that makes Morrison so iconic is that early death caused him to be forever young in our psyche. For example, we never think of Mick Jagger as once be young. He's just a wrinkly old man.
I googled it because I, too, wanted to know what he meant by the blue bus calling us and here’s what Google says: “In The Doors' song "The End," the "blue bus" is widely interpreted as a symbol of a journey into the unknown or a metaphorical vehicle for death, likely referencing the band's frequent use of the Big Blue Bus public transit system in Santa Monica, which they would ride to gigs, making the bus a recurring image associated with their travels and potentially the end of a journey; some fans also see it as a mystical or spiritual transport, similar to the Egyptian solar boat, taking one to a beyond-worldly realm.”
Yes metaphor for passageway. Don’t think it’s death, rather a new way to purity (blue as in water)…. The Oedipal section hints to that. A break of the old order to seek out a new way. On one level it’s a personal breakup song from Mary. But he extended it like a vision quest. The breakup imploring him to seek meaning for his way in the culture itself. A culture he saw traced to tone to the modern west. With the same appetites, conquest and potential for destruction… a world on fire with youth thirsty and confused for enlightment.
the Santa Monica bus that one would take from Venice to UCLA for film class, was blue. No doubt Jim rode this bus on acid more than once, and the journey becomes a literal passage through birth and death. Most acid heads have gone through this.
I haven't looked to see if anybody else is said this or not but the reference of "ride the snake" is an older generations way of describing tripping on hallucinogens
They only have 4 track recording equipment hence the sound in different ears. The Beatles you find the same thing. And they were out of their minds on LSD
Yeah you nailed it it was Oedipus and it was total reference to that as well as a lot of other things that are happening in that time in that era the west being the West Coast was where the psychedelic experience really exploded with hippies and he was showing the light side in the dark side and one was possible so it wasn’t always has peace and love and it was very intense he was just trying to get something bigger than the usual pop sound that was happening and he succeeded amazingly so apparently that song I think was dead in one take or two takes and that’s as crazy as all improvisational
Shon - "The End" was used in the movie "Apocalypse Now" if you have not seen it watch it the music is perfect for the movie and it it's an amazing movie!!!!!!!!!! No movie like it!!!
'Long John Baldry + Kathi McDonald - You've Lost That Loving Feeling' look for the 5:27 min TH-cam. Met him in the mid 80's and tipped some beers with him before his awesome set at the David Thompson Motor Inn in Kamloops one Halloween night. Great night, awesome dude, he really liked it here in B.C. and had moved to Vancouver just the year before I think. Good times.
Used to think blue bus was military…. But near end it’s brought back again as an escape route vessel metaphor on which Morrison is onboard …. In turn, seems a metaphor for a new way. Water blue as in purity and life source for new fluid movement. Native tribes in s amer held Blue up as even more valuable than yellow. Hence, jade more important than gold. He was heavily into symbolism and was a Joseph Campbell reader, so it links… esp considering this song narrative wise has a long scape view harkening back to Rome yet drawing that path to the modern west of present time…. The. Snake and lake is both sexual but also scales up to how civilizations move driven by conquest thru cycles. Hence, Rome thru europe (kings hiway) to n amer (gold mines) to modern west. Thus ancient lake could mean the pacific and the end of the west cycle of conquest in the brink of a new age. The end of the old order and seeking and finding a new way. Vision quest song for morrison after breakup with Mary.
The Oedipal section also hints to the ending of the old order and seeking a new way and vision. That ties again to the west finishing its cycle out in the nuclear age as an empire driven by Roman dna.
That was one impressive interpretation of a very deep song.
For a young guy like you to get the gist of a Vietnam-era tune is admirable.
Kudos to you for recognizing the Oedipus Rex reference.
Cheers Brother
The singer Jim Morrison said: "Every time I hear that song, it means something else to me. I really don't know what I was trying to say. It just started out as a simple goodbye song ... probably just to a girl, but I could see how it could be goodbye to a kind of childhood. I really don't know. I think it's sufficiently complex and universal in its imagery that it could be almost anything you want it to be."
BLUE BUS was sent by the US Army to collected teenagers to go to Vietnam. It was considered a one way trip.
Exactly. I'd see the kids get on the dark blue army bus going to the meps center when I was a kid. I took the train in 84. For some it was the last trip you took.
Never gets old. The drummer is soaring above at his own altitude. So cool. Morrison personified Rock Star to me.
🌸 this is one of those songs that you lay back on the floor and close your eyes and put your headphones on, you know?
The doors were their own genre for sure,many great songs in such short span together '66-70?? LA woman album is a listen from beginning to end,been down so long,crawlin king snake,love her madly.."Let me tell ya abt texas radio and the big beat"
Man I love this channel. Always positive vibes.
10:43 Taking a face from the ancient is in reference to Greek plays in which the actors would have clay masks on stick that they would hold in front of their face. The face would connote an emotion that the playwright wanted the audience to know of i.e., a smiling face, a frowning face or a angry face.
This entire album was recorded on 4 tracks in two weeks. Music and vocals recorded live in one or two takes. The album could be considered a live performance. Same is true with their second album Strange Days......the "Father?" "Yes Son?" sequence refers to the Oedipus complex. "Blue Rock" was a psychedelic drug popular in LA......
The main thing about this song is not that it was great, though it was, it was that it was so different then anything
that had been heard before, anywhere. Stream of consciousness as a vehicle for things that can never be fully
described but understood anyway as a different vision of art and expression. Original and cool.
Well said…. Closest to the doors at this point was velvet undergrd. This song is summer ‘66. Amazing achievement. No one I. Their zip code at that point. Not on the narrative wide scape cinematic vision of this song. Tiger waters listened to this closely bank on that… syd was there musically. A few others too. But no one had yet combined the lyrical narrative wise scape story. Modern Greek tale in a sense. As he said, a ride. To this day, no one drew out I. Rock that same depth and scope the doors got at their best. Inconsistent band but when dialed in, lethal with no peers.
Here's a tidbit: The Doors were one of the first Rock groups to record a few albums in quadrophonic sound.
Smoked a joint with my buddies when i was 17, by Jim Morrisson grave in Paris , " Pere Lachaise cemetery".
🌸 YOU GOT THE VIBE, DUDE! lol the purple sunglasses are appropriate
The Doors are such a Vibe. Love that their songs just embody the times they were in. Just brings us right back to the 60’s and 70’s
I love listening to them RiP JM
You’re right!!!! That’s the mythology he is referencing!!!
Oedipus
My favorite story about Morrison is when The Doors appeared on Ed Sullivan. They were told not to use the line "baby, we couldn't get much higher" and Morrison said fuck that and used the line in their performance. "You'll never appear on Ed Sullivan!" they were told, and Morrison said, "We just did."
That’s how stereo was…in one ear, through your head in both ears etc…loved it
Jim is crazy!!!! 😂😂😂😂
The Doors are so unique. Love their music.
Many years ago in college, my classmates and I would get together to do our math homework. We found it helpful to have music playing softly. I chose The Doors one night. In the middle of "The End," someone asked "WTF are we listening to?"
Morrison was referencing Oedipus from Greek mythology.
In high school I had a World Lit teacher who kept calling it an "eat a puss" complex. She was a cool teacher.
🌸 yay!!! I have been in love with Jim for decades and this is one of my favorite songs of theirs.
"ride the snake" and Shon puts up the sun glasses - classic - love you, Shon !
You're getting DEEP into the Doors. This one will give you nightmares.
Thanks for a very astute reaction. Much appreciated.
‘When the musics over’ is worth a listen also. Similar vibe.
Oh, I think you would enjoy the 1991 movie about the Doors, with Val Kilmer playing Jim Morrisson. It definitely gives some insight into what you're hearing. And Val does some incredible vocals on the covers. And it's real nice that you noticed the "rattlesnake" sound.
To be terribly lame, this also just suddenly reminded me of Jim Carrey's "ride the snake" skits on SNL in the 90s
Even live they sound pretty damn good too!
It's a reference to the Oedipus complex. This is as follows....The Oedipus complex is a psychoanalytic theory that describes a child's sexual feelings for their opposite-sex parent and hostile feelings toward their same-sex paren
Here it’s clear it’s going back to the Greek meaning theme of the story. A symbol for breaking against and destroying the old order and seeking out a new order. It applied on a personal level as he broke up with Mary. But also on a symbolic and cultural level of the west wh/ was his home. It’s time in his mind tracing back to Rome and nearing its cyclical end in a nuclear age and pushed up against the pacific (the ancient lake).
Apocalypse Now ... Comes to mind... And that phrase " i love the smell of napam in the morning" 😂😂😅😅
"Oedipus Rex, also known by its Greek title, Oedipus Tyrannus," is a play by Sophocles written in 429 B.C.! That's so crazy that we as humans still know of the man and his play written 2500 years ago!
Great Reaction as always - the blue bus was the bus that took you to basic training when you were drafted into the army to fight in the Vietnam War
🌸 and ...... considering the chain of events that occurred before his death and his death itself, this hits really hard and it and it's very eerie and haunting. 💔
Past out on his back, threw up, and drowned in his own puke. He was so high he couldn't wake up.
Sad
@lesblatnyak5947 I guess that's what you believe so you do you
It's called surround sound instruments and vocals can shift around speakers separately and together... So the sound moves around you surround sound
Try "When the Music's Over." Morrison had the best scream in the business.
HELL YEAAAH!!!! NEW SUB MAAAAN, KEEP THE DOORS COMING UP!!!!! PURE FIRE!!!
Hey man, if i may recommend something, theres a live recorded show called ''The Doors Are Open'' here on youtube, its from their Europe tour in 1968 at the London Roundhouse, there you can see Morrison in his fucking prime man, wearing full leather clothes and wildin on stage, if you would like to react to a song i highly recommend ''When the music's over'' from that show or studio version, i personally like more the live version because he screams more and adds some more lyrics and also seeing him perform is the best man, keep it up and be safe!!!!
Morrison was an extremely intelligent man. He was reading books and books of poetry at 14 years old that I didn't read until I 20 years old.
🌸 Jim was highly highly intelligent, he was a poet and a philosopher of sorts
The Mythology part you refer to is Oedipus Myth in Greek Mythology. He killed his Father and married his Mother. Psychologist Sigmund Freud later referenced it in his infamous "Oedipus Complex" wherein he believed sons subconsciously want to kill their Fathers and Marry / Become Intimate with their Mothers. Trippy stuff.
John Densmore may not have been one the world's top drummers, but damn he was perfect for The Doors. I always felt that the snake he is referring to is the highway leading west. Jim could be quite dark. Yep, the myth is the Oedipus complex. I highly recommend "When The Music's Over", you won't be disappointed. It's my personal fave
John vastly underrated. This song one of his best moments…. Snake is dark but fits theme. It’s more than sex, it’s also about a cycle completing itself. The arc of Ancient Rome to modern west. Ancient lake the pacific. Breaking from the old order and like Oedipal seeking new way.
Please, "Light My Fire","People are Strange","L.A. Woman","Love Her Madly" Peace 😊✌️ your 70 year old forever Young Hippie Gary 🕺💃 now "The End" Is'nt it Wonderful, Great Reaction Shon! 👍 14 year's old my first party they played the Doors, and it Lit my Fire l'm a fan forever.
John Densmore was a great drummer and perfect for The Doors sound.
The snake is an archetype for chaos.
Watching you listening to a song takes me back to my first time listening to it. I thoroughly enjoy your reactions because you get in it and feel it like no other reactor ❤
NOW: YOU MUST WATCH "Apocalypse Now" vietnam war movie that showcased this song
tHE BLUE BUS reference is refering to Merry Pranksters bus that was blue...they traveled the country turning people onto LSD before it became illegal
Morrison was very interested in ancient Greek history and plays. The Greek City States when not fighting each other fought Persia. In Persia there was a road called the King's road or King's Highway. It was used to move armies and for royal curriers.
Great reaction song choice! You always choose music that other reactors dont...you are a trailblazer 😃
I love that about him!
Yep, the middle part is inspired by the ancient Greek myth of Oedipus. The recording style is definitely very natural and has a big live venue sound.
Those were crazy times. I wouldn’t trade them for the world.
This is one of their "Desert Songs". Robby Krieger was a flamenco acoustic guitarist before he joined the band, so he brought a big Sonoran desert, Latin inspired element to the music. John Densmore took pride in his "jazz style" drumming. The drummer was in a jazz band, the guitarist was in a Spanish guitar band, and the keyboardist was in the military band playing lots of big band and jazz piano. Jim was a master of the word, the bottle, the cannabis, and LSD. His final 2 years had his doctors telling him to quit smoking cigarettes and drinking, it was killing him. Just before he left for Paris, his doctor told him he didn't know how Jim was still standing.
There is a Gison SG guitar, (Robby) An electric piano and a moog keyboard bass (Ray) and a drum Kit (John) on this song. That is it. Oh, and Jim on the mic. This is the song they performed at the Whiskey in LA that got them their recording contract, and got them fired from the whiskey for the whole incest thing (Oedipus-----kill the father, F**k the mother)
“Ride the snake” is a native American travel right after we pass to the spirit world. Its a test to see if you hold on to life fears and let go and except the spirit world. Amazing song bro and your right about the mythology and couldn’t put that in the song lol spot on.
Used to incredible effect in the climax of the film “Apocalypse Now.”
Great opening scene ☠️🃏
This is 💯 my favorite Doors song! Their catalog is deep. The End is arguably the first Goth song. Dark psychedelia at least.
Jim Morrison was tripping on acid when they recorded the vocals.
Hard core Vietnam war song. We listened as much as possible during my tour in '68. Made surviving the madness a little easier. Great reaction!!
I'm taken by a couple things here. For not being terribly familiar with The Doors, this is an interesting song to go with, as the subject matter has been causing trouble since they performed it live and got thrown out on their ear for their trouble, and that means they should do it as often as possible. Second, that you stop it so early and make the amusement park reference; young man, you must be psychic. I discovered you ages ago through #WonderMommaOG and have loved every minute since then. Merry Christmas!
Airforce busses were blue in this era, and met the new guys coming into country taking them to their units. I was in 1984-2004, so was not my war but i knew a lot of guys that were there.
What a ride this is❤a dark, psychedelic delve into the soul of Jim Morrison ❤
And yes it started as a song to a lost love.
Song could’ve been called good bye Mary
I think you are hearing Ray Manzarek on the Vox Continental organ, The Doors organ work was famous
Jim the poet, philosopher was way a head of his time that is one reason he was always clashing with law enforcement. They were never ready for Jim's antics much less his concerts he would do some wild stuff on stage that if I wrote it here YT would have a melt down.lol💪✌️👍
😂 that was one album that the adults would not allow me to play on my record player back in the day ... They were offended by the F phraseology part of the song. After one listen at high volume it got confiscated. I referenced the war protests and free speech but to no avail ..i never saw the record again .. on the radio back then they bleeped out the F section .... Pure genius RIP Jim Morrison
I remember back in the day and listening to this song, thinking, Oh, it's OK. He's smoking that stuff again. Play: Oedipus the King. Freud says every man wants to do the same thing.
Oh, Yeah! Jim Morrison, the Poet, and Ray Manzarek , who brought the sound to go with it. Spot on analysis again, I'm so happy that young people are not only listening to these classics but understand the meaning behind the music. Morrison would trip adid and write the most interesting poems, they'd all go to Joshua Tree and just trip out. What came from that is what you hear in the music a lot.
Ok, so I also Googled about the parents and I read several answers but the general consensus was this: "The End" is death, although the song also deals with Jim Morrison's parents - it contains Oedipal themes of loving the mother and killing the father. Morrison was always vague as to the meaning, explaining: "It could be almost anything you want it to be."
There aren’t a whole lot of songs without a chorus that are top tier. Dylan may have one
The mother/father scene is indeed the oedipus complex and the blue (cold) bus ride is a hearse ride... *the_end (< the night we tried to die)
I dig the music part of it, so much going on musically at one time and in backgound.
That was crazy! Thanks Shon
Love Her Madly, Love Me Two Times, Roadhouse Blues, and People Are Strange
Also, I'm the 420th view! 😂
We seen the Doors perform in 1968.
Morrison was into archeology primarily the Mayan and Aztec culture.
The snake could be a reference to the Aztec feathered serpent god Quetzalcoatl.
The
Doors had been performing this song at the Whiskey A Go Go.
They were the house band there.
The part with Manson's parents was a Improv. Even the band didn't know where he was going to go with the song.
The manager of the Whiskey A Go Go was pissed. And most of the audience was reported to be shocked also.
I don't remember which band member,but one of them in a interview said the manager came up there yelling no band going to be in here singing about f ing their mother.
And fired them.
When we see them it was at the Arizona State Fair.
You go too the fair always get a free concert at the Coliseum. I think the ticket was $3.5 about 2 hours pay.lol
After the concert they rode the Tramway from the Veterans Memorial Coliseum over the top of the fairgrounds to the other side. The whole way they were yelling extremely lewd obscenities at the crowd below. And lugging on them. The State of Arizona ask them to leave and not come back.lol
That was on all the news and newspapers.
🤠🐂
How good was the show and Morrison as performer?… why did the crowd get hostile to the band?
One of the things that makes Morrison so iconic is that early death caused him to be forever young in our psyche. For example, we never think of Mick Jagger as once be young. He's just a wrinkly old man.
I googled it because I, too, wanted to know what he meant by the blue bus calling us and here’s what Google says: “In The Doors' song "The End," the "blue bus" is widely interpreted as a symbol of a journey into the unknown or a metaphorical vehicle for death, likely referencing the band's frequent use of the Big Blue Bus public transit system in Santa Monica, which they would ride to gigs, making the bus a recurring image associated with their travels and potentially the end of a journey; some fans also see it as a mystical or spiritual transport, similar to the Egyptian solar boat, taking one to a beyond-worldly realm.”
Yes metaphor for passageway. Don’t think it’s death, rather a new way to purity (blue as in water)…. The Oedipal section hints to that. A break of the old order to seek out a new way. On one level it’s a personal breakup song from Mary. But he extended it like a vision quest. The breakup imploring him to seek meaning for his way in the culture itself. A culture he saw traced to tone to the modern west. With the same appetites, conquest and potential for destruction… a world on fire with youth thirsty and confused for enlightment.
*Rome to modern west.
In my opinion, The End is the best song ever composed.
Rapper's Delight, Sugarhill Gang! It is such a fun song!!!!
Oedipus Rex is the piece of Greek mythology you're thinking about.
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the Santa Monica bus that one would take from Venice to UCLA for film class, was blue. No doubt Jim rode this bus on acid more than once, and the journey becomes a literal passage through birth and death. Most acid heads have gone through this.
I haven't looked to see if anybody else is said this or not but the reference of "ride the snake" is an older generations way of describing tripping on hallucinogens
They only have 4 track recording equipment hence the sound in different ears. The Beatles you find the same thing. And they were out of their minds on LSD
DUDE. I saw this title and knew I had to join you for this journey...or shall we say, trip? Buckle up, buttercup
Jim is a trip 🌀
Yeah you nailed it it was Oedipus and it was total reference to that as well as a lot of other things that are happening in that time in that era the west being the West Coast was where the psychedelic experience really exploded with hippies and he was showing the light side in the dark side and one was possible so it wasn’t always has peace and love and it was very intense he was just trying to get something bigger than the usual pop sound that was happening and he succeeded amazingly so apparently that song I think was dead in one take or two takes and that’s as crazy as all improvisational
I feel the Blue Bus is a Greyhound. This one caught you aff guard. Think hes also talking about the west ending up in California.
This song was use in Apocalypse Now
You may not want to go so deep into the psyche of the 60's, you may never come back!
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Shon - "The End" was used in the movie "Apocalypse Now" if you have not seen it watch it the music is perfect for the movie and it it's an amazing movie!!!!!!!!!! No movie like it!!!
Absolutely brilliant movie
Damm, that's a great tune
A short, beautiful song from the same album: "The Crystal Ship" . . .
With song I can only say welcome to Wonderland Alice enjoy your ride
Peace frog also by the doors
I love Peace Frog! It’s so often just dismissed, but it is fantastic.
Give a listen-Long john bauldrey-Dont try to lay no boogie woogie on the king of rock and roll.Cheers.
'Long John Baldry + Kathi McDonald - You've Lost That Loving Feeling' look for the 5:27 min TH-cam. Met him in the mid 80's and tipped some beers with him before his awesome set at the David Thompson Motor Inn in Kamloops one Halloween night. Great night, awesome dude, he really liked it here in B.C. and had moved to Vancouver just the year before I think. Good times.
Apocalypse Now, featured this song in the movie....CHECK IT.
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The opening to Apocalypse Now
Now you can watch Apocalypse Now. :)
Gotta check out LA women from the doors probably their best song
This is a great song. It does make you feel like your stones though 😂
Please react to their song “Crystal Ship” - it’s pretty trippy too.
L.S.D. my Man! Vietnam, sex, drugs and Rock n Roll!
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Used to think blue bus was military…. But near end it’s brought back again as an escape route vessel metaphor on which Morrison is onboard …. In turn, seems a metaphor for a new way. Water blue as in purity and life source for new fluid movement. Native tribes in s amer held Blue up as even more valuable than yellow. Hence, jade more important than gold. He was heavily into symbolism and was a Joseph Campbell reader, so it links… esp considering this song narrative wise has a long scape view harkening back to Rome yet drawing that path to the modern west of present time…. The. Snake and lake is both sexual but also scales up to how civilizations move driven by conquest thru cycles. Hence, Rome thru europe (kings hiway) to n amer (gold mines) to modern west. Thus ancient lake could mean the pacific and the end of the west cycle of conquest in the brink of a new age. The end of the old order and seeking and finding a new way. Vision quest song for morrison after breakup with Mary.
The Oedipal section also hints to the ending of the old order and seeking a new way and vision. That ties again to the west finishing its cycle out in the nuclear age as an empire driven by Roman dna.
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