Keg DUH, we live in 2019, we’ve seen what drummers can do by now. but we’re talking about someone who made music around the 60’s. Think of another band at the time to incorporate Bossa Nova into a popular Rock song. John Densmore deserves more credit than he receives.
@@Lordkeggles Depends on what. He, as Ringo in the past did, has come up with drum lines that suited the music that was being presented to him. That is a talent many drummers fail to deliver.
Absolutely. Ray, John and Robbie were/are all underrated, immensely talented musicians. They each understood that Jim Morrison was the band's frontman. And Jim never let that go to his head in terms of him being thought of as virtually the whole of The Doors. However, in my opinion, it wasn't until after Jim Morrison died that Robbie, John and Ray began receiving proper recognition for their musicianship.
Eu falo pouco Portuguesa, falo Español y Inglés, se entiende brasileiros, Doors son um grupo fantastico! Bossa nova da fundación de um canto solido en Rock, and it still kills....
they mixed several styles and up until today they sound unique... fresh, still on.... they didn't copy musical styles... they were authentic... and nowadays are loved by a bunch of people
+KillerInstinct69 in his prime YES, but on this video all Ray can manage are simplified watered down versions of his baselines and inaccurate as well, but he was getting on abit when this was filmed , the danger is that budding keyboardists will see this and think, aha that is how you play it!!! it is Simple :P
You are right, something happened with him with the years, then they began to use a bassist on live shows. He was a very good keyboardist, and transformed blues into something new, refreshing, unique sound and feel. But every good blues or jazz piano player should have the ability to play more intricate left hand bass lines. And yes I love Ray.
Bullshit. The "stealing" the Doors did was at worse petty theft; actually it was closer to simply being influenced than to actual stealing. But the stealing so-called artists do today is TRUE theft.
@@justanothergaymingchannel161 The two songs are nothing alike, and you fucking know it. You can find similarities between any two songs if you look hard enough--rock music and music in general have a limited number of elements and devices that all songs draw upon. But you and I both KNOW when somebody's plagiarizing and when he's not. It's like when the Supreme Court Justice talked about pornography: "I can't define pornography but I know it when I see it." Likewise for plagiarism--you know it when you see or hear it.
@@DMSProduktions That's moronic. That's like saying somebody can't plagiarize a book because the author doesn't own the words or letters he uses. Don't try to rationalize theft.
well yes, but i also agree that if you are going to "steal" then you must do it well and evolve musically beyond that. The Doors did just that, but groups like One Direction stole shit blatantly because they can't write anything better.
Ray is such a monster. Throw down a quad drenched solo while you hold down the melody with a bass line weave as you casually explain the origin of the song, where it came from and where it's going. Master class in multi tasking. Pay attention, this is how it's done. 👾
Yeah well it was like a well oiled machine people may have come to see Jims stage antics but if the music sucked they would not have sold millions of records.
The Doors In retrospect: Jim Morrison A great front man nobody has that voice or unpredictability. As far as Drummers in the 1960's and 1970's WTF! John Densmore is freaking God. He is not just a drummer but a phenomenal percussionist. Ray Manzarek play the bass chords on that little piano bass and keep time with Densmore and then run away with those organ rifts he is not talented man he is a freaking genius! Robby Kreiger so underrated as a guitarist he is a monster of energy!
Densmore was great on those drums. Then there was Manzarek on those keyboards, and Robby Krieger on guitar. Finally the genius of Jim Morrison. This number had real movement.
What's amazing about Morrison, is that he had no vocal training, he told his father that he was going to be the singer of a rock band. He mentioned..'what, you never..sang in your life, and now, you're going to sing in a rock band..?
@@joejones9520maybe that made the Doors sound more tiny live. The finger-style guitar and the lack of an actual bass guitar made them sound more "treble" compared to other bands of the era. I love them though!
I feel that way about Jimi and Janis too. It is odd that the most unreal people of that time all died around the same time and in mysterious and accidental ways.
I often ponder, what was it about the Doors that made me sit up and pay attention for a lifetime. Now it hits me, These boys were philosophers first, then they put poetry to music.
densmore's drumming on this song is succinct fury. he drives this song like grand prix LA...sharp curves, stops, accelerated straight aways. they all did a great job on this song, but john is the crucial component in this one. imo, of all the sub 5 min songs they ever did, this was john's finest moment.
How could it be that four dudes, each brilliant in his own music world, end up in a rock and roll band? If you read about each of these dudes they have one thing in common. Each had a very different music background. Yet, they made some awesome rock and roll songs that still sound great 50 years later.
That is precisely why they have had such longevity. There's no other band like them or sounds remotely close to them, not in the past 53 years nor 53 more. Morrison, Manzarek, Krieger and Densmore are a once in a lifetime tour de force such as their British counterparts The Beatles and Pink Floyd were for their respective outputs.
Even listening to it 55 years later still sounds fresh the way it opens with that primal energy and urgency of the percussion combined with hypnotic bass and guitar that sounds like it's about to propel you into another stratosphere along with the raw vocals. If you only ever heard one track to sum up what the Doors' and in particular Jim Morrison was originally all about this is it.
Jim Morisson was greatest story teller in music . A charismatic character. This combined with John Densmore brilliance along Ray's and Rick's chemistry ! You got The Doors ! They will never be forgotten.
I started listening to The Doors when I was 16, and fell head over heels for these guys. I am about to turn 45 and they are still easily my favorite band. They have music- feeling, that can not be topped. If I am fortunate enough to live into my 80's, I bet they will still be my favorite band. They were, ARE amazing.
Jim was a gift from the Gods! No formal voice lessons, no formal music training. It spewed beautifully from his mouth, everybody else followed in and played around him. That is what made it great. When he got up and sang it didn't matter how fucked up he was, the slurred words fell from his mouth like gold upon the ground and everybody would come from far and gather around. See him spin and dance in the air, shaking his head and thrashing his hair.
please. He was an average singer, who hooked up with great musicians. He got drunk on stage and sang and it stirred up controversy. This guy is seriously over hyped by his fans. I think the other 3 really get shafted in history. Robbie wrote a lot of their hit songs along with his fantastic guitar riffs.. Ray was an amazing piano player, this guy could play that thing like Hendrix with the guitar. Desmore was was a very versatile drummer.
I was the engineer that recorded the music for the doc. I used all the original mics from the 60's recorded at Capital records.Bruce Botnick told me how he had recorded Densmore;s drums. My biggest challenge was the rental kit he used had new skins on it and had not been tuned. Thank God I knew how to tune drums, but it was stressful. I asked Densmore if he was going to get together with the other members for a reunion, he said "Don't think that's going to happen, I'm suing the F@#kers" So many stories about that crazy documentary, Jim Morrison's ghost was everywhere. Just remember, The Doors were all about celebrating the chaos, Jim brought it in spades.
If anyone but the Doors had posted this the youtube mob would have been posting messages about how they get it all wrong when they explain how it was played.
Slawos85...Me too, well 50% mothers side. She convinced me to play accordion in 1963 which I did, like her father. I really wanted to play guitar. However, I still play accordion and piano and a little guitar. I'm thinking about a sax to break things up a bit now that I'm retired. Doors are my #1 group although I love all kinds of music.
One of the most creative and expressive drummers in rock. I play everything but percussion but I hear how inventive he is. Never really understood how amazing he was/is until a few years ago. Accenting Jim's lyrics are phenomenal. I can dig it. Can you dig it?
Totally agree with Perry Farrel on the Sinatra similarities. I could see Sinatra singing "Riders on the Storm", or practically anything off of the first album. Jim was a crooner.
I love the Doors. You can’t put them in any one genre, they truly experimented and pushed limits. The darkness is what caught my attention ...and I was in love....
Hell yep😊 great bunch of intelligent musicians who have been around since I was a kid and I heard my older brothers Doors” tribute band play in our recreation room! Loudddddd! My first real exposure to real rock n roll. So I forever thank my brother for my great taste!😊
One of the things that you have to understand about this song and this album - and the time period is the Hi Fidelity aspect. In stereo. For many of us, myself included, this is the first time we heard rock or any kind of music on good stereo systems. The equipment we were listening on up until that time was handheld Japanese transistor radios or am car radios in mono, with very poor fidelity. Or a television with one 5 inch speaker I still remember the day in about 67, I was 14, when I went over to my friend's house and he played break on through on the first good stereo system I ever heard. It blew my mind. I was astonished. I could not believe how fantastic it sounded. All we had was cell phone quality audio up until that point, and then here is the Doors man, with big stereo speakers, rattling the walls. You really have to know the time period in order to appreciate what happened with this music.
They had their own special way of "waking and shaking": people up " . getting them to listen. Nobody rocks like the Doors and Jim. . Their legendary message, style and the feeling they leave people with will always ensure they have plenty of fans, ,many yet to be conceived. Very very special lives, Robbie John and Ray still rock and I love you. . .
When they started recording the different beats & different ways of playing. 1967 in a way was a time of change for music. Jim also sang in a masculine way. That's why he's to be admired as a male vocalist. Also making reference to the type of MIC that Frank Sinatra used. Jim Morrison might of been flamboyant in life style. He was intelligent & well informed about current events.
Let me tell you about heart ache and the loss of god wandering and wandering in hopeless night, out here in the perimeter there are no stars out here we is stoned immaculate-Jim Morrison
It's funny to hear the story that Jim was a fan of Frank Sinatra, because there is also the story of Frank Sinatra getting very upset when he was listening to Light my Fire on the radios, because he thought the music was crap.
I absolutely LOVE The Doors!!! As a vocalist, I appreciate their mastery musicianship. Fusing all types of genres together and Jim’s eccentric poetry. It goes beyond many people’s heads, but I got from the beginning. I’m in my 40’s btw
Apples and oranges. Both bands were and amazing and revolutionary. But the Beatles put out sgt. peppers a few months after the Doors debut. And sgt. peppers changed the way music was recorded in the studio forever. I’m not taking anything away from the doors. Just noting this fact.
This is how great music is made. Little Ray Charles. Little Bosa Nova (similar to the beat in What'd I say, but not the same), Guitar from a different song, Vocals influenced by Frank Sinatra. Some distortion and a little more power than all those other influences. Phenomenal. I think modern music misses the collaboration of a band. Each member was trying to sound like a different thing. As a result, you sound like nothing. You sound original.
Jim Ladd....man...he was a phenomenal DJ in the 90's for me. He'd play classic albums in their entirety on Friday nights. Great way to get to know bands that you only knew a song or two.
Olivia Ball. I was 17 when I bought the First Doors record...I could NOT BELIEVE what I was hearing! The Sound and the Movement ! And I came from a jazz background. Still my favorite record.
EVERY guitarist has a handful of riffs and licks they learned from their influences. It's impossible not to subconsciously have them be part of your repertoire. So I agree even though it sounds like I don't ; )
This has always been, to me, the greatest band. I still feel the same. And I never thought of them as psychedelic . . . theyre SURREAL. Those sounds, along with those amazing lyrics. These guys are all brilliant musicians and Jim is a great poet/lyricist. Have all his poetry books.
Anyway one else feel like John densmore is a very underated drummer
He's in the realm of Stan Lynch, and Jimmy Chamberlin, and many more!!
I was thinking this exact same. This beat was so wild to listen to as a young drummer. I still play shit like this cause of him.
Yes
Keg DUH, we live in 2019, we’ve seen what drummers can do by now. but we’re talking about someone who made music around the 60’s. Think of another band at the time to incorporate Bossa Nova into a popular Rock song. John Densmore deserves more credit than he receives.
@@Lordkeggles Depends on what. He, as Ringo in the past did, has come up with drum lines that suited the music that was being presented to him. That is a talent many drummers fail to deliver.
As good as Jim was he was backed by amazing musicians. Simply amazing talent.
Absolutely. Ray, John and Robbie were/are all underrated, immensely talented musicians. They each understood that Jim Morrison was the band's frontman. And Jim never let that go to his head in terms of him being thought of as virtually the whole of The Doors. However, in my opinion, it wasn't until after Jim Morrison died that Robbie, John and Ray began receiving proper recognition for their musicianship.
And song writers... Remember, Jim didn't write all the songs
They were an organic "band." This wasn't David Bowie plus a back-up band.
@@HardRockMaster7577 Spot on. That's exactly right.
But they needed Jim to be as successful as they where. Jim wasn't good he was great too. From the lyrics to stage presence everything
i'm brazilian and i'm very fucking proud that a music style from my country was the spark to this great tune
Lucas Matheus de Souza pode crer, uma das minhas músicas favoritas de todos os tempos, com influência brasileira, que orgulho!
Eu falo pouco Portuguesa, falo Español y Inglés, se entiende brasileiros, Doors son um grupo fantastico! Bossa nova da fundación de um canto solido en Rock, and it still kills....
yeah u should be..
Many songs took bossanova and you would never think.. search Belà Lugosi s dead...
they mixed several styles and up until today they sound unique... fresh, still on.... they didn't copy musical styles... they were authentic... and nowadays are loved by a bunch of people
R.I.P. Ray Manzarek. His left hand beats the majority of bassists that are playing in bands today.
+KillerInstinct69 in his prime YES, but on this video all Ray can manage are simplified watered down versions of his baselines and inaccurate as well, but he was getting on abit when this was filmed , the danger is that budding keyboardists will see this and think, aha that is how you play it!!! it is Simple :P
No, Ray was simplifying it for the viewer/listener
Carl Draper still not accurate
You are right, something happened with him with the years, then they began to use a bassist on live shows. He was a very good keyboardist, and transformed blues into something new, refreshing, unique sound and feel. But every good blues or jazz piano player should have the ability to play more intricate left hand bass lines. And yes I love Ray.
Ray Manzarek was a keyboard genius. Some say he was THE BAND but I don't agree. All the boys were gifted artists.
Regards
"We'd steal from anybody!" - People need to realize that that's okay. New music is built that way!
didnt they get sued by the kinks for hello i love you
Bullshit. The "stealing" the Doors did was at worse petty theft; actually it was closer to simply being influenced than to actual stealing. But the stealing so-called artists do today is TRUE theft.
@@profd65 Im a huge doors fan BUT listen to 'hello i love you', and then the kink ' all day and all of the night''
@@justanothergaymingchannel161
The two songs are nothing alike, and you fucking know it. You can find similarities between any two songs if you look hard enough--rock music and music in general have a limited number of elements and devices that all songs draw upon. But you and I both KNOW when somebody's plagiarizing and when he's not. It's like when the Supreme Court Justice talked about pornography: "I can't define pornography but I know it when I see it." Likewise for plagiarism--you know it when you see or hear it.
@@DMSProduktions
That's moronic. That's like saying somebody can't plagiarize a book because the author doesn't own the words or letters he uses. Don't try to rationalize theft.
Ray was a genius on keyboards.
I think his life performances didn't keep with studio
pino iaconis yes he was
The doors were a Jazz organ trio with an absolutely brilliant vocalist.
Pure genius all around!!
Oh shit, I never realised the bossa Nova Latino influence. This changes my whole perception of this song. Now I'm impressed with it even more.
praszu jive samba by cannonball adderley. That'll change your perception even more
You're telling me... I first bought that album when I was 11 (33 now) haha
Yeah me neither. I love that it has so many influences.
yeah definitely
Daniel Cox Welcome to the club of kids that listened to good music.
It's not stealing, it's building on previous concepts and patterns to achieve a new dimension of musical evolution.
+Daniel Tyler
If you can't "steal" others ideas or riffs or whatever, art in the form of music would be non-existent.
awsometomable
Well it certainly would be more stagnant wouldn't it.
well yes, but i also agree that if you are going to "steal" then you must do it well and evolve musically beyond that. The Doors did just that, but groups like One Direction stole shit blatantly because they can't write anything better.
it's inspiration being a good musicien is also having a good taste in music
well put...good one
Ray is such a monster. Throw down a quad drenched solo while you hold down the melody with a bass line weave as you casually explain the origin of the song, where it came from and where it's going. Master class in multi tasking. Pay attention, this is how it's done. 👾
Fact is often overlooked but *ALL* instrumentalists in the Doors were sterling musicians !
Yeah well it was like a well oiled machine people may have come to see Jims stage antics but if the music sucked they would not have sold millions of records.
The Doors In retrospect: Jim Morrison A great front man nobody has that voice or unpredictability. As far as Drummers in the 1960's and 1970's WTF! John Densmore is freaking God. He is not just a drummer but a phenomenal percussionist. Ray Manzarek play the bass chords on that little piano bass and keep time with Densmore and then run away with those organ rifts he is not talented man he is a freaking genius! Robby Kreiger so underrated as a guitarist he is a monster of energy!
Not just Robby Kreiger, they're all Energy Master Doors
The Doors were very dark and unpredictable.
There isn't enough power in a sound system that can satisfy my urge to blast this song all the way up it's so good.
Densmore was great on those drums. Then there was Manzarek on those keyboards, and Robby Krieger on guitar. Finally the genius of Jim Morrison. This number had real movement.
Doors did so much incredible music in just five years, they're still selling albums--100 million so far
The most under rated singer in Rock history, the most original band ever.
What's amazing about Morrison, is that he had no vocal training, he told his father that he was going to be the singer of a rock band. He mentioned..'what, you never..sang in your life, and now, you're going to sing in a rock band..?
@@michaelhegyan7464 he was trained by the CIA
Trent Utley underrated?
He's easily regarded as one of the best front man in rock history.
Their music was completely different, it was electrifying and alive. No other group was similar
@@andersenfrank you probably meant to say IS.
Robby never played with a pick, such an amazing guitarist
I cant even imagine, especially live in concert without a pick competing with drums and bass.
@@joejones9520maybe that made the Doors sound more tiny live. The finger-style guitar and the lack of an actual bass guitar made them sound more "treble" compared to other bands of the era. I love them though!
@eugenegd2112 his detailed sound made the music sound so alive & especially how everything was recorded with live instruments
I like how Ray Manzarek can play piano bass, regular piano, and talk in complete sentences simultaneously.
Jim was an alien from another dimension! He didn’t die. He just went back home.
Paul ST wasn’t that Elvis according to Tommy Lee Jones?
I feel that way about Jimi and Janis too. It is odd that the most unreal people of that time all died around the same time and in mysterious and accidental ways.
I often ponder, what was it about the Doors that made me sit up and pay attention for a lifetime.
Now it hits me,
These boys were philosophers first, then they put poetry to music.
Jim was a poet wayyyy before he ever put anything in a song.
He wrote 3 books of poetry before he met anyone from the band.
Jazz drummers always make the best rock and roll drummers.
THEY ARE SO GOOD HOW IS THIS EVEN POSSIBLE?
These four guys were off the charts,and ahead of their time!!
Man, jim morrison really hit the jackpot with these three musicians. They are a voiceless power trio
densmore's drumming on this song is succinct fury. he drives this song like grand prix LA...sharp curves, stops, accelerated straight aways. they all did a great job on this song, but john is the crucial component in this one. imo, of all the sub 5 min songs they ever did, this was john's finest moment.
I th I nk john Dinsmore underestimated john densmore. They could have gone on. They froze after jim died.
This comment is criminally underrated.
Four geniuses together in one band.
Densmore is an awesome drummer..The whole band is Fkn awesome
How could it be that four dudes, each brilliant in his own music world, end up in a rock and roll band? If you read about each of these dudes they have one thing in common. Each had a very different music background. Yet, they made some awesome rock and roll songs that still sound great 50 years later.
That is precisely why they have had such longevity. There's no other band like them or sounds remotely close to them, not in the past 53 years nor 53 more. Morrison, Manzarek, Krieger and Densmore are a once in a lifetime tour de force such as their British counterparts The Beatles and Pink Floyd were for their respective outputs.
Even listening to it 55 years later still sounds fresh the way it opens with that primal energy and urgency of the percussion combined with hypnotic bass and guitar that sounds like it's about to propel you into another stratosphere along with the raw vocals. If you only ever heard one track to sum up what the Doors' and in particular Jim Morrison was originally all about this is it.
Jim Morisson was greatest story teller in music . A charismatic character. This combined with John Densmore brilliance along Ray's and Rick's chemistry ! You got The Doors ! They will never be forgotten.
No AUTO TUNE. NO PROTOOL. Just raw TALENT! WOW.
Jesus Lives that sounds!!
No microphones, no amps, no studio either.
@The Cooler Monkees Archive woosh
Yep...just some reverb and you were on your own. If you couldn't sing, there was no hiding it.
awesome beat from the drummer, love it!!!
I started listening to The Doors when I was 16, and fell head over heels for these guys. I am about to turn 45 and they are still easily my favorite band. They have music- feeling, that can not be topped. If I am fortunate enough to live into my 80's, I bet they will still be my favorite band. They were, ARE amazing.
"She Gets" works though - I never asked what she gets...
They took lots of ideas and created something unique.
I agree. It does work. Because the listener can complete the sentence.
Imagine being only 20 and already writing stuff like “break on through to the other side” 🤯
Jim was a gift from the Gods! No formal voice lessons, no formal music training. It spewed beautifully from his mouth, everybody else followed in and played around him. That is what made it great. When he got up and sang it didn't matter how fucked up he was, the slurred words fell from his mouth like gold upon the ground and everybody would come from far and gather around. See him spin and dance in the air, shaking his head and thrashing his hair.
please. He was an average singer, who hooked up with great musicians. He got drunk on stage and sang and it stirred up controversy. This guy is seriously over hyped by his fans. I think the other 3 really get shafted in history. Robbie wrote a lot of their hit songs along with his fantastic guitar riffs.. Ray was an amazing piano player, this guy could play that thing like Hendrix with the guitar. Desmore was was a very versatile drummer.
SLIP NORRIS
You are a fool
Your mother is a dirty slam pig
That's the best you got? Try again
As Morrison's Dad said, he was an entertainer and not a singer. He was basically and rock and roll model.
I was the engineer that recorded the music for the doc. I used all the original mics from the 60's recorded at Capital records.Bruce Botnick told me how he had recorded Densmore;s drums. My biggest challenge was the rental kit he used had new skins on it and had not been tuned. Thank God I knew how to tune drums, but it was stressful. I asked Densmore if he was going to get together with the other members for a reunion, he said "Don't think that's going to happen, I'm suing the F@#kers" So many stories about that crazy documentary, Jim Morrison's ghost was everywhere. Just remember, The Doors were all about celebrating the chaos, Jim brought it in spades.
They were American Classics & original. Nobody like them before - and nobody like them afterwards.
The genius that was the DOORS is underrated because of the music and how it was created and sung by Jim.......
THAT ... VOICE.....I agree....Jim Morrison was an iconic singer....and the BAND all made it even better! SO much talent!
-a truly great band only happens when you bring four truly great musicians together
If anyone but the Doors had posted this the youtube mob would have been posting messages about how they get it all wrong when they explain how it was played.
Manzarek was of Polish descent,so I am proud of that
Slawos85 thank you Poland for giving us an truly amazing musician!!
Slawos85...Me too, well 50% mothers side. She convinced me to play accordion in 1963 which I did, like her father. I really wanted to play guitar. However, I still play accordion and piano and a little guitar. I'm thinking about a sax to break things up a bit now that I'm retired. Doors are my #1 group although I love all kinds of music.
So was Liberace!
That would explain why he has no qualms about “stealing”;)
And the lizard king was of Irish ☘️ descent so proud of that
Someone: "What is your favourite type of porn?"
Me: 1:21
😂😂😂
Very funny man
Cmajor If you are a guy you should be saying Latina. If you are a girl then you typed that correctly
Lens Perspective or you could just be gay I guess
I’m in public right now with headphones in trying soooo hard not to laugh.
One of the most creative and expressive drummers in rock. I play everything but percussion but I hear how inventive he is. Never really understood how amazing he was/is until a few years ago. Accenting Jim's lyrics are phenomenal. I can dig it. Can you dig it?
I can and always will dig it!
This is great music that NEVER dies
Totally agree with Perry Farrel on the Sinatra similarities. I could see Sinatra singing "Riders on the Storm", or practically anything off of the first album. Jim was a crooner.
bluestate69 i
Hell yeah!
@Shawn Crowe That's interesting, where did you hear that he liked him?
Touch Me always struck me as particularly crooner-ish.
Um pedacinho do Brasil influenciando uma das melhores bandas de rock de todos os tempos. ❤
I never realized how many different influences helped create this wonderful song. Glad I watched this one.
1967:
Jim Morrison; "SHE GETS HIGH!"
Society; "Nope!😠"
1995:
Snoop Dogg; "Rollin' down the street, smokin' indo sippin' on gin and juice."
Society; "Sounds legit 😎👍!"
Nah it was edited to smokin smokin at the time.
@@pungisotu Yes, yes it was.
Snoop Dogg is reaping the rewards of the battles bands like the doors fought for all musicians
Don't even mention Snopp Dogg when talking about The Doors.
Kevin Ashton have you not heard, Riders on the Storm featuring Snoop Dogg?
I like that it stops at she gets...leaves what she gets up to you to decide.
I love the Doors. You can’t put them in any one genre, they truly experimented and pushed limits. The darkness is what caught my attention ...and I was in love....
Hell yep😊 great bunch of intelligent musicians who have been around since I was a kid and I heard my older brothers Doors” tribute band play in our recreation room! Loudddddd! My first real exposure to real rock n roll. So I forever thank my brother for my great taste!😊
another brilliant song great to hear how it came together
One of the things that you have to understand about this song and this album - and the time period is the Hi Fidelity aspect. In stereo. For many of us, myself included, this is the first time we heard rock or any kind of music on good stereo systems. The equipment we were listening on up until that time was handheld Japanese transistor radios or am car radios in mono, with very poor fidelity. Or a television with one 5 inch speaker
I still remember the day in about 67, I was 14, when I went over to my friend's house and he played break on through on the first good stereo system I ever heard.
It blew my mind. I was astonished. I could not believe how fantastic it sounded. All we had was cell phone quality audio up until that point, and then here is the Doors man, with big stereo speakers, rattling the walls. You really have to know the time period in order to appreciate what happened with this music.
Fasinating a whole lot of awesomeness
They had their own special way of "waking and shaking": people up " . getting them to listen. Nobody rocks like the Doors and Jim. . Their legendary message, style and the feeling they leave people with will always ensure they have plenty of fans, ,many yet to be conceived. Very very special lives, Robbie John and Ray still rock and I love you. . .
1:08 how much does this guy love his job and enjoy the craft of others, i wish i felt like that at work..
I love the doors... They had a good thing going...😊
This is such a fantastic song-- in L.A. we have a great Doors tribute band, Wild Child! They are the best!!! They rock this song!!!!
If you have yet to discover "The Doors Alive" band you ought to check them out.
Man I love these stories. Born in '56 I finally get to hear all these behind the scenes kind of stuff.
I'm not the biggest doors fan by any means, but John Densmore is an incredibly underrated drummer.
His playing on Light My Fire always gives me chills. The whole song does. Agree his drumming is underrated no question.
THE DOORS, all of them, were very underrated musicians.
When they started recording the different beats & different ways of playing. 1967 in a way was a time of change for music. Jim also sang in a masculine way. That's why he's to be admired as a male vocalist. Also making reference to the type of MIC that Frank Sinatra used. Jim Morrison might of been flamboyant in life style. He was intelligent & well informed about current events.
i just love to hear the way that john densmore plays break on through it just blows my mind on how it sounds so awesome
Touch me and Riders on the storm always kinda put me in mind of Sinatra type music
"we'd steal from anybody"! priceless. and then Kriegar shows a riff from Paul Butterfield they used...crazy. love this stuff!!
I genuinely believe The Doors were a direct gift from God.
Gavin Weston god is dead
Let me tell you about heart ache and the loss of god wandering and wandering in hopeless night, out here in the perimeter there are no stars out here we is stoned immaculate-Jim Morrison
Gavin Weston I always thought so... I think Jim spirits haunts us still....
Most definitely
@@conspiraorgeastghostcom3437 I could not expect anything less from a comment from someone like you.
You gotta love how good music just inspires more good music
I love how they weren’t afraid to introduce Latin themes and rhythms from other cultures into rock- that would never happen today
You must not be a musician at all, because introducing rhythms from other cultures is common in Rock
Can you say "SANTANA...!!!"
Backyard Science Gogol bordello.
The Latin influence on pop music today is more present than ever.
so many different influences and ideas melded together to make an amazing song! the the doors were one of a kind.
It's funny to hear the story that Jim was a fan of Frank Sinatra, because there is also the story of Frank Sinatra getting very upset when he was listening to Light my Fire on the radios, because he thought the music was crap.
Daniel Castro Machado
They were both Crooners. A lost style of singing 🎤 now. Nobody croons anymore.
Sinatra was crap.
Sinatra was a great vocalist, but a mobster-like person.
19 almost 20 and been listening to the doors for ever!
You couldn't say "high" during the 1960's lmao
Supreme Spiritualist they still don't play it you absolute ding bat
No. Girl, we couldn’t get much Higher. 1967. Different time. Now, Nicki can say, cut you bitch.
Supreme Spiritualist not on records
but they did :)
That's why the word "high" is censored in many discs.
I absolutely LOVE The Doors!!! As a vocalist, I appreciate their mastery musicianship. Fusing all types of genres together and Jim’s eccentric poetry. It goes beyond many people’s heads, but I got from the beginning. I’m in my 40’s btw
I love the Beatles and they really pushed music forward, but man do they seem dated when at the time the Doors were doing this
Nowadays Doors' organ-based sound sounds more dated than the Beatles though.
The Doors kicked The Beatles ass.
Like them both alot. But doors sounds more grown man to me
Apples and oranges. Both bands were and amazing and revolutionary. But the Beatles put out sgt. peppers a few months after the Doors debut. And sgt. peppers changed the way music was recorded in the studio forever. I’m not taking anything away from the doors. Just noting this fact.
@@sammyhill93 the Beatles get you a kiss, the Doors get you laid
‘We’d steal from anybody’ Ray M and this video is priceless. Thanks for sharing.
I always thought that "she get" line was "shake it!"
She get high
Shit happens my man
I love hearing the stories behind these great songs.
This is how great music is made. Little Ray Charles. Little Bosa Nova (similar to the beat in What'd I say, but not the same), Guitar from a different song, Vocals influenced by Frank Sinatra. Some distortion and a little more power than all those other influences. Phenomenal. I think modern music misses the collaboration of a band. Each member was trying to sound like a different thing. As a result, you sound like nothing. You sound original.
Jim Ladd....man...he was a phenomenal DJ in the 90's for me. He'd play classic albums in their entirety on Friday nights. Great way to get to know bands that you only knew a song or two.
I swear to god why couldnt i have been alive then
When I was 19 years old I got to see them play live in 1970 in Vancouver, BC, Canada. They were fantastic!!! They were always my favorite band.
Olivia Ball. I was 17 when I bought the First Doors record...I could NOT BELIEVE what I was hearing! The Sound and the Movement ! And I came from a jazz background. Still my favorite record.
What an alignment of chemistry.
That smile at 1:09 says it all.
They were all great musicians.
good artists copy great artists steal! brilhant!
Natan borrow *
EVERY guitarist has a handful of riffs and licks they learned from their influences. It's impossible not to subconsciously have them be part of your repertoire. So I agree even though it sounds like I don't ; )
Fantastic video!!! So great to see how this came together and watching them rebuild after all these years.
Editing out the word "high" just made the line seem even more forbidden...
What a great clip. Intelligently done.
3:16 Ray is cutting a bread
Ray seems so cool and down to earth. Would have loved to met Him.
Bauhaus uses a bossa nova drum style on Bela Lugosi is Dead, albeit with a few effects added in.
Bela Lugosi dead is literally the most melodramatic song I have heard, even compared to the soft parade, and I am all for it.😂
just seeing the name Bauhaus makes me want a clove cigarette..
I love this guy's sound and touch - it sums-up a time and place that exists forever.
I am one month old and I love the doors
I got to see them live! I literally wore out their first album.
The doors really can't be touched they were a kick ass band
America's best RnR band.
This is SO COOL! "We'd steal from anybody". Everyone steals in rock'n'roll- lol no secret there, but so awesome hearing it from the master Manzarek!
@Theburn77 "Immature artists borrow,mature artists steal." - Mark Twain
They were accomplished musicians, but chemistry is magical and inexplicable.
He's half right. Jim was a cross between Sinatra and Elvis. Visually, cross between James Dean and Marlon Brando.
This has always been, to me, the greatest band. I still feel the same. And I never thought of them as psychedelic . . . theyre SURREAL. Those sounds, along with those amazing lyrics. These guys are all brilliant musicians and Jim is a great poet/lyricist. Have all his poetry books.