At only 12 years old in Newport Beach California I knew my parents would never approve of The Doors music so I bought their first album with my own money. With 4 friends in my room we packed a pipe and listened to The Doors for the first time….. A Life Changing Event.
The name given on the album cover is G. Puglese. It is, in fact, John Sebastian, but they couldn't use his name because John was under contract with a different record label. The instrument named on the album cover is "harp." "Harp", or "blues harp" is a slang for harmonica.
"I woke up this morning, Got myself a beer. The future's uncertain and the end is always near" may be one of my fave line in a song and I heard quite a lot in so many years. This track is a killer.
The Doors were among the most controversial & influential rock acts of the 1960s, mostly due to Jim Morrison's lyrics & voice. "Riders On The Storm" is my favorite song by them but they had a lot of hits including "The End", "Break On Through (To The Other Side)", "Love Me Two Times", "L.A. Woman", "Hello, I Love You", "Touch Me", "The Unknown Soldier", "Love Her Madly". Sadly Jim Morrison died in 1971 at the age of only 27 but left a great legacy of music.
Huge Doors fan! This is my fsv Doors song but my fav version is a Live one where he comes out with a rock scream. There's many other great one's though. The lyrics are like poetry. Jim's vocals are amazing. Ray Manzerick is on keyboard & helped give them their unique sound too.
When I was a college freshman in ‘72 this song was on constant play on Saturday’s as the dorm mates woke up, usually reaching for a beer. Check out Cars Hiss By My Window from LA Woman for more blues from the Doors.✌️❤️🎶
I checked that and they had a bass player, Lonnie Mack, for this track. It sounded too 'string-y' for a synth bass so I had to look it up. Although, yeah, it was usually Manzarek.
Love the rockin' blues groove on this one. As with many Doors songs, I just wish it was longer. I have to admit that I always thought the lyric was - and it made sense to me - 'Passionate lady, give up your vows,' not the actual 'ashen lady...' Light My Fire is their epic with keyboardist Ray Manzarek going off but in a melodic way. Also from The Doors, try Texas Radio and the Big Beat, and Peace Frog.
Ray Manzarek is the pianist and bassist at the same time . He would play all kind of Organs,pianons etc. and Fender Rhodes Piano Bass so he plays bass on Fender Rhodes Piano Bass with his left hand and the melody and solos with his right.
Hello Mr. Volk my friend across the pond. I found Jim at around age 13 and have been a life long fan. He was my childhood idol. I felt such a deep connection. I'm 52 now and months ago I found out Jim is my cousin. I'm so proud of my cousin and I'm thrilled every time an ethnic African westerner reacts to The Doors and says they love the blues that Jim sang. He was a big blues fan. He loved listening to all the blues artists and he was an exceptionally big fan of John Lee Hooker. He even covered Crawling Kingsnake and Who do you love..
Alright 3qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq, Thanks my friend. Doors were a big part of my formative years We would always go up to the band that was playing at the clubs and asked them if they could play some Doors. They always accommodated us. Thanks for the comments. 👍🔥🙃🕊️🕊️💟🇺🇸🇨🇦😎
My favorite Doors song, hands down. Organic blues but with that LA sound. They were from LA. Love this stuff. Ray Manzarek is the brilliance on keyboard. Jim Morrison… what can you say?
All their songs are great. My faves are "PEOPLE ARE STRANGE" & "RIDERS ON THE STORM". Ray Manzarek played keyboards, Robby Krieger guitarist, John Densmore, drums & Jim Morrison vocals. Densmore & Krieger are the only surviving Doors. I love you reacting to songs of my youth. The best time of my life.
OMG! So much memories! When I was in what americans call high school, me and some friends had a band and this song was one of my favourite songs to play. I played the bass. Thank you for this and Happy Easter to you and your family
The late great Ray Manzarek on keys (organ/piano), John Densmore on drums, Robby Krieger on guitar and the late great blues rock guitarist Lonnie Mack played bass on this song.
One of Jim Morrisons friends said the lyric was "woke up this morning and got myself a beard" meaning he would go into these drug comas and wake up with a beard. That's why he says in the next line "the end is always near"
This is one my favorite songs ! I think the original line in the song was: I woke up this morning and grew my self a beard " note after a long hang over ..ha Anyway Please do CHANGLING by the Doors
Amazingly Harri, the Doors didn't have a bass player... Ray Manzarek, keyboard God, played the bass lines with one hand whilst playing piano with the other hand!
Love everything by the Doors. Try Bluest Blues by Alvin Lee and Loan Me a Dime by Boz Scaggs (original with George Harrison hitting a couple of licks). And for the greatest blues song under 3 minutes try Peter Greens Fleetwood Mac doing Man of the World (original recording). Enjoy your reactions.
Jim Morrison was always an intellectual. He was a poet. He was more than a rock star that took too much peyote or LSD or cocaine. I have all his bios and his poetry books and An American Prayer on CD. Even in his lyrics, Jim was an intellectual. He never wrote "dumb, catchy hooks". He read German Philosophers like Friedrich Nietzsche and Franz Kafka. Jim Morrison is who got ME into reading Nietzsche and Kafka. Jim had a GENIUS IQ of 149. He met Ray Manzarek in UCLA Film School. He was going to be a filmmaker before he told Ray about his poetry lyrics and they formed The Doors. Jim Morrison was amazing. He was definitely more than you see if that falsified movie Oliver Stone put out in 1991 where Stone made up some of Jim's history for "dramatic license". Jim started out with drugs for enlightenment. He'd go out in the desert and just spend the day high as if he were on a spiritual journey. But even after the Miami Indecency Trial. He went to Paris to unwind from it all fully intending to return to the states. He had a phone conversation with either Ray or Robby Krieger talking about how great the L.A. Woman album was coming along and how he couldn't wait to sing the songs live. His death due to a cocaine-induced heart failure just happened to be when he was in a bathtub in Paris. My Top 20 Doors songs... 1) Five to One; 2) Ghost Song; 3) Roadhouse Blues; 4) The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat); 5) Riders on the Storm; 6) Moonlight Drive; 7) Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar); 8) The Unknown Soldier (live at the Hollywood Bowl, 1968); 9) Not to Touch the Earth; 10) The Crystal Ship; 11) Peace Frog; 12) People Are Strange; 13) Love Me Two Times 14) L.A. Woman; 15) Backdoor Man (live at the Hollywood Bowl, 1968); 16) Break On Through; 17) The End; 18) Touch Me; 19) Gloria; 20) Light My Fire "I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments." -- Jim Morrison "If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel." -- Jim Morrison "Drugs are a bet with your mind." -- Jim Morrison "People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend." -- Jim Morrison "Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs." -- Jim Morrison
Getting more away from Psychodelia and more into whiskey soakedness, The Doors were trending more into bluesy songs on their last two albums. More suited to Jim's voice and his lack of really caring about edifying the masses with his hidden messages and imagery, Robby Krieger really tried to lean them into more easy blues numbers but John was dying for jazz and so was Ray, although he was flexible and Jim just wanted to slip into obscurity by this time and write poetry under an assumed name. Ray does all their piano, keyboard, and moog keyboard bass work. (They rarely used a bass guitar player for anything).
They used bass players on the records. Larry Knechtel was on the first album, Doug Lubahn on the next couple albums, a few others including Harvey Brooks...
Ive loved Doors since high skool in th '80's. Don't know how big they were here in the day? Gonna be controversial.............. Hate light my fire! Pop song,any other but not LMF. Jim wrote some amazing lyrics and a rock n Roll band without a bassist? How amazing was Ray?🇬🇧🇺🇸
"The future is uncertain, and the end is always near." What a line. Thanks for sharing. Peace and love from Baltimore as always.
Yeah, I want that put on my headstone, but change the last part to, The end is here...
At only 12 years old in Newport Beach California I knew my parents would never approve of The Doors music so I bought their first album with my own money. With 4 friends in my room we packed a pipe and listened to The Doors for the first time….. A Life Changing Event.
I don't believe that.
A classic so cal moment!
@@jackasswhiskyandpintobeans9344 I don't, believe you have a brain, so we're even.
Saw them play in Canada, changed my life too.
I did chores and saved up to buy it when I was 13. But, I would never have smoked in my parents house. Never.
John Sebastian of the Lovin' Spoonful is the harmonica player (uncredited on the album).
Never knew or heard that. Interesting 👍
The name given on the album cover is G. Puglese. It is, in fact, John Sebastian, but they couldn't use his name because John was under contract with a different record label.
The instrument named on the album cover is "harp." "Harp", or "blues harp" is a slang for harmonica.
The Doors were amazingly versatile. One thing for certain, is that Jim loved the Blues.
"I woke up this morning, Got myself a beer. The future's uncertain and the end is always near" may be one of my fave line in a song and I heard quite a lot in so many years. This track is a killer.
The Doors were among the most controversial & influential rock acts of the 1960s, mostly due to Jim Morrison's lyrics & voice. "Riders On The Storm" is my favorite song by them but they had a lot of hits including "The End", "Break On Through (To The Other Side)", "Love Me Two Times", "L.A. Woman", "Hello, I Love You", "Touch Me", "The Unknown Soldier", "Love Her Madly". Sadly Jim Morrison died in 1971 at the age of only 27 but left a great legacy of music.
five to one. possibly the first metal song
70's ?
An excellent blues foray by the band, but the superb harmonica playing by John Sebastian is the magic ingredient!
My husband's fav band, he still can drum all the songs we grew up with. Saw the Doors twice.
Huge Doors fan! This is my fsv Doors song but my fav version is a Live one where he comes out with a rock scream. There's many other great one's though. The lyrics are like poetry. Jim's vocals are amazing. Ray Manzerick is on keyboard & helped give them their unique sound too.
The guitarist was at Juliard too I believe. Trained classical guitarist.
Harri, The Doors "Light My Fire" is great and next for you!! Outstanding vocals from Jim Morrison.
Yes Light My Fire is a Masterpiece.
A bit of an obvious choice though.
“The guy on the piano”… Ray Manzarek 🔥
Jim was a legendary hard partyer...and these guys cut there teeth in some of the greatest bars in LA...
Jim once purportedly said 'We're not a rock and roll band, we're a psychedelic blues band'.
Best line ever!
Woke up this morning and got myself a beer.
The
line is woke up this morning and got myself a feel! Jim was a personal friend ☺️
Another bluesy RnB tune by Spooky Tooth..."The Wrong Time"....Ty Harri...have a goodun!
This is my favorite Doors’ song! I just love it! 🌺✌️
This is what made Jim Morrison and The Doors so unique. You can't Pidgeon hole them into one genre of music. It's different almost every song they do.
Anything off the Morrison Hotel album is great- - but I love all the albums by the Doors.
Oh the Doors! They opened my eyes and ears to a new kind of music. This one is just amazing. They were just great. Great great great…
Man that's a winner. Great band. Great song. One of my top bands. Light My Fire Is a masterpiece. When The Music Is Over is a good reaction also.
The future's uncertain and the end is always near. Sadly those words were prophetic. RIP Jim. Died at the age of 27. 😥🔥
This song along with the Doors' "Love me Two Times" have to be two of my favorite road trip driving songs.
My favorite Doors song. The "future's uncertain and the end is always near."
When I was a college freshman in ‘72 this song was on constant play on Saturday’s as the dorm mates woke up, usually reaching for a beer. Check out Cars Hiss By My Window from LA Woman for more blues from the Doors.✌️❤️🎶
Ray Manzarek is the keyboard player in the band. He plays piano and organ as well as left hand bass. He is great!
And I thought Ray played bass with his feet on the keys below the B3
He played a Vox bass keyboard with his left hand.
@@The5thGen cool to know
I checked that and they had a bass player, Lonnie Mack, for this track. It sounded too 'string-y' for a synth bass so I had to look it up. Although, yeah, it was usually Manzarek.
@@amosglitterz2649 that makes total sense now, thanks
Now you are in my wheelhouse!
Love the rockin' blues groove on this one. As with many Doors songs, I just wish it was longer. I have to admit that I always thought the lyric was - and it made sense to me - 'Passionate lady, give up your vows,' not the actual 'ashen lady...' Light My Fire is their epic with keyboardist Ray Manzarek going off but in a melodic way. Also from The Doors, try Texas Radio and the Big Beat, and Peace Frog.
Ray Manzarek is the pianist and bassist at the same time . He would play all kind of Organs,pianons etc. and Fender Rhodes Piano Bass so he plays bass on Fender Rhodes Piano Bass with his left hand and the melody and solos with his right.
YEAH HARRI, IT'S : RAY MANZAREK :) I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU NEVER HEARD THIS ONE BUT NOW YOU HAVE FINALLY! :) THEY ROCKED THIS ONE OUT FOR SURE
One of my favs. Love it! Jims scat is awesome Great one Harri 😊
Jim Morrison. .. R.I.P.
Poet Laurette of ROCK 'n ROLL
The ultimate JAM ! 🔈🎹🥁🎸
Thanks harri
Hi Harri, if you have not heard it yet from The Doors...... "The End".... trust me, again
More blues! Great reaction.
I love rocking out with you Harri 😎
A+ reaction to an absolutely unique band…Jim was a monster…27 club. The whole band A+
Oh holy shit my brother! This reaction made my day. Much love from 🇺🇸
My ABSOLUTE FAV song of The Doors. 🎶🎶
Hello Mr. Volk my friend across the pond. I found Jim at around age 13 and have been a life long fan. He was my childhood idol. I felt such a deep connection. I'm 52 now and months ago I found out Jim is my cousin. I'm so proud of my cousin and I'm thrilled every time an ethnic African westerner reacts to The Doors and says they love the blues that Jim sang. He was a big blues fan. He loved listening to all the blues artists and he was an exceptionally big fan of John Lee Hooker. He even covered Crawling Kingsnake and Who do you love..
Alright 3qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq, Thanks my friend. Doors were a big part of my formative years We would always go up to the band that was playing at the clubs and asked them if they could play some Doors. They always accommodated us. Thanks for the comments. 👍🔥🙃🕊️🕊️💟🇺🇸🇨🇦😎
Harri is rocking to this one
My favorite Doors song, hands down. Organic blues but with that LA sound. They were from LA. Love this stuff. Ray Manzarek is the brilliance on keyboard. Jim Morrison… what can you say?
Lonnie Mack played bass on this song and John Sebastian played harmonica.
All their songs are great. My faves are "PEOPLE ARE STRANGE" & "RIDERS ON THE STORM". Ray Manzarek played keyboards, Robby Krieger guitarist, John Densmore, drums & Jim Morrison vocals. Densmore & Krieger are the only surviving Doors. I love you reacting to songs of my youth. The best time of my life.
Same guy....Ray Manzarek. Played all the keyboards for The Doors for their entire run.
Love your reactions
How could you possibly not like this song…?!🤔
not a bad song by this band. Jim Morrison was a great mind... Great choice, great reaction!
Great song and reaction! Thanks Harri🇨🇦
OMG! So much memories! When I was in what americans call high school, me and some friends had a band and this song was one of my favourite songs to play. I played the bass. Thank you for this and Happy Easter to you and your family
As always, love your enthusiasm, Harri! You’re a pleasure to watch.
IMO, the only Doors song you can listen to twice in a row.
Love 🖤. I wore this record out!
❤❤❤💯🔥🔥🔥
Thats the first song i played the harp on stage. I think the best blues song they ever did is the cars hiss by my window.
The late great Ray Manzarek on keys (organ/piano), John Densmore on drums, Robby Krieger on guitar and the late great blues rock guitarist Lonnie Mack played bass on this song.
Do it Lonnie - do it !
One of Jim Morrisons friends said the lyric was "woke up this morning and got myself a beard" meaning he would go into these drug comas and wake up with a beard. That's why he says in the next line "the end is always near"
This is one my favorite songs ! I think the original line in the song was: I woke up this morning and grew my self a beard " note after a long hang over ..ha Anyway Please do CHANGLING by the Doors
Harri … thank you again .. The Doors … I will never understand how David Crosby could say The Doors were crap
All The Doors keyboards ( organ, piano, Fender Rhoades) were played by Ray Manzarek.
Try the Door's "Land-Ho!".
I woke up and passed up the beer for a WAKE & BAKE
Amazingly Harri, the Doors didn't have a bass player... Ray Manzarek, keyboard God, played the bass lines with one hand whilst playing piano with the other hand!
Love everything by the Doors. Try Bluest Blues by Alvin Lee and Loan Me a Dime by Boz Scaggs (original with George Harrison hitting a couple of licks). And for the greatest blues song under 3 minutes try Peter Greens Fleetwood Mac doing Man of the World (original recording). Enjoy your reactions.
Jim Morrison was always an intellectual. He was a poet. He was more than a rock star that took too much peyote or LSD or cocaine. I have all his bios and his poetry books and An American Prayer on CD. Even in his lyrics, Jim was an intellectual. He never wrote "dumb, catchy hooks". He read German Philosophers like Friedrich Nietzsche and Franz Kafka. Jim Morrison is who got ME into reading Nietzsche and Kafka. Jim had a GENIUS IQ of 149. He met Ray Manzarek in UCLA Film School. He was going to be a filmmaker before he told Ray about his poetry lyrics and they formed The Doors. Jim Morrison was amazing. He was definitely more than you see if that falsified movie Oliver Stone put out in 1991 where Stone made up some of Jim's history for "dramatic license". Jim started out with drugs for enlightenment. He'd go out in the desert and just spend the day high as if he were on a spiritual journey. But even after the Miami Indecency Trial. He went to Paris to unwind from it all fully intending to return to the states. He had a phone conversation with either Ray or Robby Krieger talking about how great the L.A. Woman album was coming along and how he couldn't wait to sing the songs live. His death due to a cocaine-induced heart failure just happened to be when he was in a bathtub in Paris.
My Top 20 Doors songs... 1) Five to One; 2) Ghost Song; 3) Roadhouse Blues; 4) The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat); 5) Riders on the Storm; 6) Moonlight Drive; 7) Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar); 8) The Unknown Soldier (live at the Hollywood Bowl, 1968); 9) Not to Touch the Earth; 10) The Crystal Ship; 11) Peace Frog; 12) People Are Strange; 13) Love Me Two Times 14) L.A. Woman; 15) Backdoor Man (live at the Hollywood Bowl, 1968); 16) Break On Through; 17) The End; 18) Touch Me; 19) Gloria; 20) Light My Fire
"I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments." -- Jim Morrison
"If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel." -- Jim Morrison
"Drugs are a bet with your mind." -- Jim Morrison
"People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend." -- Jim Morrison
"Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs." -- Jim Morrison
It’s the same guy, Ray Manzarek. He was an important part of their sound.
Getting more away from Psychodelia and more into whiskey soakedness, The Doors were trending more into bluesy songs on their last two albums. More suited to Jim's voice and his lack of really caring about edifying the masses with his hidden messages and imagery, Robby Krieger really tried to lean them into more easy blues numbers but John was dying for jazz and so was Ray, although he was flexible and Jim just wanted to slip into obscurity by this time and write poetry under an assumed name. Ray does all their piano, keyboard, and moog keyboard bass work. (They rarely used a bass guitar player for anything).
On the darker side, give "The End" a listen.
Once again The Doors deliver....Yep, same guy, Robbie Krieger was the best.
Hi Harri. You should probably check out there song "Celebration of the Lizard". Warning. It's a little out there, but oh so good.
There is no Bass Player in The Doors. Keyboardist Ray Manzarek played on a 32 key Fender Rhodes Electric Bass Piano.
They used bass players on the records. Larry Knechtel was on the first album, Doug Lubahn on the next couple albums, a few others including Harvey Brooks...
I liked when he was speaking in "tongues"
Echo and the Bunnymen do a great cover of Doors hit ‘People are Strange’. Worth a listen
Imo, they basically added nothing different from the original. If you're going to cover a song, then at least give it a little twist!
@@Katehowe3010 sorry you don’t enjoy it ☮️
@@nancysmith38 I actually did like their version, but would have liked them to add a touch of their own. ✌
Ive loved Doors since high skool in th '80's. Don't know how big they were here in the day? Gonna be controversial.............. Hate light my fire! Pop song,any other but not LMF. Jim wrote some amazing lyrics and a rock n Roll band without a bassist? How amazing was Ray?🇬🇧🇺🇸
Maybe you should listen to the long version
@@billwilson2025 is there a short version?
Sounds different. A re-mastered version?
Did a little dot about an hour ago (LSD)
Ray manzerick
Only one Lizard King!!!!
Swashbuckling music 😛🎶
I hate to break it to you, but, the Doors never had a bass player, all low end sounds were from keyboardist Ray Manzarek
Lonnie Mack, a session guitar player was on this recording playing the bass. Too stringy sounding for Ray's left-hand bass. 👍🙃🔥
Remixed
Dylan best lyricist in the 60's , Jim best 70's ?
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