Are you just being disingenuous, @@hastobe303 ? Of course it's not IMPOSSIBLE to listen to an entire lp today, but many of the contiguous tracks are separated by f-ing adverts, and the digitization leaves a millisecond gap between every Part (as Pink Floyd often labeled each of their songs)... And the fact that you CAN skip tracks on vinyl and cds is again talking an affirmative action discrete individuals might take, versus the overwhelming tendency in those formats to just sit back and listen to the whole thing as the artist intended! The point is, the institutional support structure for streaming is rewiring how people consume music, and not in a good way. Just compare the popular music of today with what it was in the 1940s through 1990s, and you should be able to see the negative effects of streaming... It's really an objective no-brainer, IMO.
I’ve been dying to see someone react to this song, the content is deep but the song is just so well arranged and the musicianship is just delicious, thanks for reacting to this!!
This song is a straight up Jam. I have been listening to this song for fifty years and it still has the same energy today as it did when it first came out.
were the doors as big then as the lore that will build up around them by the 80's? .... this seems so strong & unique for that period in comparison their peers. they were in a great competitive period music wise, but they just seem to stand out more over time.
It’s not “about” abortion, but the lyrics were taken from an earlier Morrison poem called Abortion Stories. The lyrics reference actual events though, such as his arrest in New Haven, the Chicago Democratic Convention in 1968, and his experience as a young child seeing a horrific road accident involving a truckload of Native Americans.
@@alrivers2297 Specifically the Chief, BUT his family said after his death that the accident never happened. Jim was a genius and sometimes geniuses suffer from mental illness of sorts cuz they can't handle being in the normal world. Their brains are far more developed and they escape "us" with drugs and alcohol. He was talented and brilliant and tortured. I wrote poems about him back in the 90s. He affected me deeply.
its both a personal & large eyes view of the cyclical nature of violence that ebbs & flows decade after decade thru the body of our culture. he uses his own experience of it as a child & in a flash brings it to the present of '68 w/ blood rising in chicago & saigon. then he presents the arc showing how its deeply rooted in his homeland (birth of a nation). & finally it also points & implies forward as it describes this process as cyclical in nature.... succinct yet very dense symbolist poetry. morrison at his best, vastly underrated as a rock lyricist.
@@kelvinkloud Jim found out that he did not want to be that sex machine rock star. He wanted to that celebrated poet, the bard of old. But when he went to escape, he went too far to the other side. My heart aches for his torture.
Jim Morrison was such a character the band gets overlooked quite a bit. Ray was a complicated guy and seems a bit much for me in interviews but he really gave the Doors their unique sound. Robbie did quite a bit with his instrument considering the tools he had to work with at the time. Densmore wasn't the flashiest drummer but would incorporate so many different styles that every song sounds like a different drummer. It's like the Beatles. Hard to compare any band to them because every member was required to get that sound. I sometimes go years without listening to the Doors but when I come back around to them I remember why I spent my youth with them in constant rotation.
When Jim says Blood in the streets in the town of New Haven is from the actual city New Haven Connecticut. Back then was a lot of protesting from Yale university students and the Black Panthers back in 1970. I'm from the town nextthe New Haven called West Haven. Dig it
Jamel this song Blew my fragile eggshell mind when I was about 12, and I was never the same again... I love this song, I love the doors, and I love what you do bro... keep it up
Morrison was great at perpetuating his on myth, Indian scattered on dawns highway is a reference he told of when he witnessed an accident in the desert as a child of American Indians, he said ones soul leaped into his own
its multilayered. its also a metaphor for a nation born in blood (birth of a nation). the road that led to formation in the usa was forged from the clash of civilizations. the indian wars had as much to do w/ forming our character as did Concord & Lexington. & it went of for 150 years thru wounded knee.... dawn is the beginning. hiway is its path forward. & scattered indians are those deaths that were spilled as that path made its way to the calif shores..... morrison is tapping into that river via his own time on that stream. seeing (or imaging) natives dead on a NM hiway melds into the theme of this arc of blood & violence from Jamestown to portland.
It’s amazing they can get so much sound out of a three piece band without a bass player. Just Guitar, drums, and organ/keyboards. Super talented musicians….and Morrison was the icing on the cake.
You need to see the Movie "The Doors" by Oliver Stone to understand this song. His life was crumbling around him and this song was his anthem to why he killed himself. He had to many demons surrounding him. He saw the aftermath of a car accident in New Mexico as a child. He said that the energy of those dying people lept into him. He mentioned this in his songs, poems, and literature
Love you, man. Glad you're enjoying the music of the revolution. Everything blossomed. Imagine when I discovered the beautiful, mind-blowing Doors when I was 15! .(it's not about abortion, or any subject so narrow. Jim was an observer and chronicled what he saw, that's all. )
Seriously - The Doors Absolutely Live “Soul Kitchen” you won’t regret it. This was the FIRST album I bought as a kid. I am still stunned as a 51 yr old that I had that much foresight.
That is what they should listen to. Universal Mind is killer. Celebration of lizard. End. Music over. Build me a women. Dead cats into breK on thru. Soul kitchen is a great end.
The song is so short that when it was played on the radio it was always paired with "Blue Sunday". Growing up I thought it was called "Peace Frog/Blue Sunday.
when you enter morrison land, always remember, when the guy was on his A game (as here), he was a master at symbolist lyrics. A modern Blake. in other words, the phrases & image on purpose have multilayered density meaning wise.... w/ band tight & morrison in peak visionary form... it goes straight into the rising street violence & culture tension peaking in '68. the reference to chicago is a direct reference to that. but as usual it also builds transcending themes that weave in to make the song also an examination of one mans heart & personal past. from his innocent childhood eyes seeing carnage on a NM road of dying Indians to the carnage in Saigon & US streets. like a river, flowing back & forward off him & into the soul. how past blood connects w/ present & forward. how violence begets increasing violence. how its cylical & can rise & swallow, contract, yet come back again in new more virulent form. Even into the birth cycle & its cut off... morrison at his best was prophetic. this is a prime ex of that. its why theyre the most relevant band from their era. morrison taps into eternal & cyclical patterns of the West homeland.
I grew up in the New Haven (Connecticut) area, NH being one of the references in the song. Decades ago I had a poster of Jim Morrison's b&w mugshot when he was arrested during a concert in New Haven. I think my older sister was at that concert. I was too young and missed all the fun hippie stuff. One of my favorite Doors song. Peace!
'Indians scattered on dawns highway bleeding, ghosts crowd a childs eggshell mind'. When he was a child Morrison witnessed a serious traffic accident when pickup carrying native Americans crashed.
Here's a SABBATH song that I'm sure you'll dig: "WHEELS OF CONFUSION": it's like a sonic journey with various killer riffs, tempo changes, you know- everything you appreciate about Sabbath,Jamel. Peace Out & thx
I really like Shaman's Blues by the Doors, a lesser known track but it has a fascinating rhythm and never has the word bridesmaid sounded so menacing. Well worth a listen
Blood in the streets is about protests, but it is also about history of the land, of Columbus' and slaughter and ghosts of slavery autocracies, that haunt this place. Its called peace frog, being at peace while the karma ripens, because awareness is knowing what is bubbling under the surface cant be hidden, what goes around comes around, and yes it is a protest song, as in the 60s people wanted to change things. peace is active, to try to make peace is to try to change things.jumping forward, and rock and roll and the doors were peace frogs. and this is just three musicians and I think they added a base player in the studio on this one, so mostly its four people and the three main musicians in the doors with three instruments are exploring every type of sound they can get out of them, Guitar Drums, and Organ, but changing up the tone and settings at different time. Changing pace. And Jim singing his full range of soft speaking voice and loud voice and mellow baritone blues all mixed together.
bulls-eye....a nation borne in blood. & before that a clash of civilizations for the price of blood.... morrison was real into blake & campbell, also aware of Whitman and Crane. He read a lot. not only versed in literature but history also. like blake, he used a symbolist technique. concise but densely packed phrases and images. the key is to connect them likes stars into a larger pattern. in this case a narrative. its a scale up pattern, like a hawk drawing wider circles as it goes higher. in this case, the lyrics were relevant to that period in '68. But as you scale up, as you point to, it also shows the rings of time w/ the nations forming in n Amer. From wounded knee to gettysburg to the Iroquious war to the triangle trade to Africa , Golgotha & Rome . The thread is there. It also can be mirrored forward cyclically as we enter a new stage of unrest currently.... Wasp traces that lineage too.
The poem in the song about indians and fragile eggshell mind is jims childhood experiance when he's father come across some indians that had a car accident and jim morrison said that he felt the dead indians go inside him.
@@CaponeCraps Only one line in the song is about the 1968 Democratic convention. The rest of the song is about various other things none of which were political. So I wouldn't say the entire song is about that one thing.
The song was about the riots of 1967 that spread through the nations cities. New Haven was home to Liberation House headquarters to the Black Panthers. Bobby Seal was arrested who’s trial again put the city on edge following experiencing a week of riots and burning.
THE SPY is a great soothing song by THE DOORS too. The drummer said that they would get fan mail saying that people lost their virginity to that song. LOL!
Heard this one when I was 7 years old & I have loved it ever since! The Doors were incredible! Music, sound, players & their instruments. If, you are curious about the meaning of this song...it came from something Jim wrote way before The Doors were a band.
The Doors were so musically accomplished they could pull anything off when they got together in the studio. For all Jim’s troubles he always produced in the end. Hard to believe they were only around for 4/5 years
Everyone says everything's underrated, but few songs from famous bands are quite as underrated as this little thing. It's probably the most vicious thing lyrically from the age, while at the same time musically being at the same time a decade older than it's day and somehow futuristic af ^^ It's funky! It's like the funkiest thing a punk would more likely know about than a funk guy! :D
The song was a Metaphor for a real life incident that He, Jim Morrison witnessed when he was young. He supposedly witnessed an accident where two Native Americans where lying off to the side of the road dead, in a pool of blood. Morrison later said that he felt the spirit of one of the two enter his body, so yes, it is has a deep meaning to it.
Blood in the streets in the town of New haven, blood in the streets in the palm trees of Venice. Blood in my love in the terrible summer, bloody red son of fantastic LA"
About the part "Blood in the streets in the town of New Haven" "On December 9, 1967, police arrested Doors’ front man Jim Morrison as he performed onstage at the New Haven Arena. An incident that took place between Morrison and a police officer before the show led to Morrison’s public arrest, making him the first rock star ever taken into custody during the middle of a performance. As police dragged Morrison off stage, the crowd rioted. Morrison was quickly charged with obscenity and incitement to riot but was soon released. The band later immortalized the event in the song “Peace Frog,” released in 1970." I am originally from Connecticut and was born 12 days after this happened.
"Blood in the streets in the town of New Haven"... Not only was there a big protest in New Haven in the 60's of the Black Panthers at Bobby Seale's trial, but Morrison was also arrested at the New Haven Arena on stage.
My father was a huge doors fan . First album I bought was strange days when i was 12 in the mid 80s. None of my friends heard of the doors until the movie put them back on the map.
Yeah , You finally got to it , yeah amongst the best musician's ever , haven't even listened to this reaction yet to get the post in , congratulations Jamal and You know it , and oh yeah this song says a lot still about even Today
most relevant band from that era, bar none. dylan on par as a solo artist in re to echoing & tapping into the cyclical chords of this lady we know as the usa culture.... what morrison & dylan & a few others could do is top into the eternal makeup of the culture. frame its patterns that reoccur over time. its why this song is so spot on now.
There are some hidden lyrics with this song The Doors had a problem with a club manager in New Haven. Ghost and the egg shell mind. Jim is signing about himself as a child.
Dude, I think you're ready for American Prayer. But it's an all or nothing album. The Doors came out with it after Jim died. It's got a lot of his poetry put to music and it's a trip.
Now that was fun watching you groove out to this iconic tune. Really enjoyed your reaction Jamal. You may be pleasantly surprised picking tunes that you don't get a ton of requests for.
My favourite Doors song! Use to go to a rock club in the 90s and Friday was classic rock night, everytime this song came on the dance floor was always packed.
My weekend doesn't begin until I listen to a reaction from Jamel! This is one of my top faves from The Doors. I was obsessed with them as a teenager. Other commenters have noted but yes, if you can react to the album version where it transitions into the super mellow Blue Sunday that would be great. It really adds a nice dimension to both songs to listen to them back to back. Similar to how ZZ Top's "Waitin' for the Bus" doesn't sound right unless you hear it with "Jesus Just Left Chicago". Thank you for being a good human Jamel!
though the most singular band in their era in rock. they were capable of steering into the mainstream rocks sounds of their era, but as this song shows, they clearly had a unique zone no one was in the zipcode of.50 years later, no one has been able to get in that region & sound since.
✌🐸 (Peace Frog) was released in 1970 and it was on the Album Morrison Hotel and the doors and the band that I grew up with and I never stopped listening to them at all because it was my dad's favorite band before he gave me the opportunity to love the music of the doors too and I was in the 10th grade when I started listening to them just like him
Back before the 70s rock scene,way ahead of most artists.We ALL had the same”1st time” facials that you went thru .lol.Mine started happening around 1972 .The best 80s band is Kings X.Still together.Scope out “Summerland”.
Rest in peace Dicky Betz the first time I heard you comment on his blue sky song the translation of words that came from you touched my soul that song was dedicated to me from one of the loves of my life in fact it's his birthday today April 19th we lost him 6 years ago thank you for your words my friend much love and respect Sherri
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I believe you would like J.J Grey and mofro. "The sun is shining down" vinyl sessions.
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You need to listen to An American Prayer.
Funk groove new age mind-blowing eargasm the doors were so far ahead of everything
Best band ever!!
You have a great name!
Mickey Mayfield 🤔 sounds famous…or….maybe…infamous? 🤣 Idk which one, but hey, its great!
Hahaha. 😉
@@jewelzb1402 maybe I need to change it to mixter mayhem
I wish they did more of this type of music and less psychedelic
The album version on Morrison Hotel transitions into the song Blue Sunday, and it just doesn't sound complete without that
The problem with streaming songs instead of listening to the lps that the artists had carefully put together...
Agree. It's like playing Black Magic Woman and leaving out Gypsy Queen.
@@fredkrissman6527 Because streaming music makes listening to an entire album impossible? You can skip tracks on a vinyl and shuffle a cd as well.
Are you just being disingenuous, @@hastobe303 ?
Of course it's not IMPOSSIBLE to listen to an entire lp today, but many of the contiguous tracks are separated by f-ing adverts, and the digitization leaves a millisecond gap between every Part (as Pink Floyd often labeled each of their songs)...
And the fact that you CAN skip tracks on vinyl and cds is again talking an affirmative action discrete individuals might take, versus the overwhelming tendency in those formats to just sit back and listen to the whole thing as the artist intended!
The point is, the institutional support structure for streaming is rewiring how people consume music, and not in a good way. Just compare the popular music of today with what it was in the 1940s through 1990s, and you should be able to see the negative effects of streaming... It's really an objective no-brainer, IMO.
It’s weird not to hear Blue Sunday after Peace Frog.
I can never play this song quite loud enough. Only wish it was a bit longer. So many elements to this incredible song.
Dig on this:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_American_Prayer
This is one of the best songs by the Doors.
@@wms1983wms I go back to this album so many times. Good shout sir.
Maybe turn it down at times
I’ve been dying to see someone react to this song, the content is deep but the song is just so well arranged and the musicianship is just delicious, thanks for reacting to this!!
YES!! Me Too!! =))
Yes Debra. Love this track.
You got that right! classic!
Better than I could have ever imagined! So good!
Hear hear! I’ve been requesting for this one too!
This song is a straight up Jam. I have been listening to this song for fifty years and it still has the same energy today as it did when it first came out.
were the doors as big then as the lore that will build up around them by the 80's? .... this seems so strong & unique for that period in comparison their peers. they were in a great competitive period music wise, but they just seem to stand out more over time.
One of my favourite Doors tracks. There's just so much packed into it.
I'm 65 I've been listening to The Doors since I was 12. The best American rock band ever
Absolutely
Have loved The Doors since I first started listening to rock radio (WLS-Chicago) in the early 70s as a young child.
I heard the same jams at the same time, bro/sis!
No The Doors listening session is complete without
The Doors - “Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)”
Oh, don't ask why.
@@thebrhinocerous for if we don't find, the next Whisky Bar...
@@MariaRamirez-nq4is I tell you we must die...
(I could keep this up all day, but I won't :P )
Ironically not an original but a great one.
@@thebrhinocerous the lyrics? *or* the Whisky...? Hahaa- I knew you had a sense of humor
"Spanish Caravan" pleeaaase. It's not well known today but it is on their greatest hits album. It only about a 3 min song but it beats the whole time
The Doors are my favorite band of all time!! I’m glad you can appreciate them as much as I do! :)
Do” not to touch the earth” next ,a dark driving beat with strange colorful lyrics, it’s where he becomes the lizard king😆
Gotta go full Celebration of the Lizard from Live in NY
That is in fact an excerpt from "Celebration of the Lizard".
One of my favorite songs. So trippy and weird. Lyrics are great too.
Yes!
The DOORS live is some of the heaviest music created.
Absolutely love, love, love the Doors. 3 great musicians and a poet laureate singing.
I love Jamals facial reactions when the drums kick in and the guitar riffs!!
The doors were a phenomenal band. Another band that wasn't together that long and still put out a ton of great songs.
If you want to experience the depths of Jim Morrison's poetic brilliance, you need to hear "The W.A.S.P.(Texas Radio). Truly magnificent....
YES!!! so underrated. definitely one of my favorites from L.A. Woman!!
I wanna tell you about Texas radio
"I'll tell you this,
No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn"
The wasp is one of the best
It’s not “about” abortion, but the lyrics were taken from an earlier Morrison poem called Abortion Stories. The lyrics reference actual events though, such as his arrest in New Haven, the Chicago Democratic Convention in 1968, and his experience as a young child seeing a horrific road accident involving a truckload of Native Americans.
Didn't Jim think the spirit of one of the Native Americans entered his body, at least for a short while?
Chicago riots, watts and The Vietnam war as well.
@@alrivers2297 Specifically the Chief, BUT his family said after his death that the accident never happened. Jim was a genius and sometimes geniuses suffer from mental illness of sorts cuz they can't handle being in the normal world. Their brains are far more developed and they escape "us" with drugs and alcohol. He was talented and brilliant and tortured. I wrote poems about him back in the 90s. He affected me deeply.
its both a personal & large eyes view of the cyclical nature of violence that ebbs & flows decade after decade thru the body of our culture. he uses his own experience of it as a child & in a flash brings it to the present of '68 w/ blood rising in chicago & saigon. then he presents the arc showing how its deeply rooted in his homeland (birth of a nation). & finally it also points & implies forward as it describes this process as cyclical in nature.... succinct yet very dense symbolist poetry. morrison at his best, vastly underrated as a rock lyricist.
@@kelvinkloud Jim found out that he did not want to be that sex machine rock star. He wanted to that celebrated poet, the bard of old. But when he went to escape, he went too far to the other side. My heart aches for his torture.
Jim Morrison was such a character the band gets overlooked quite a bit. Ray was a complicated guy and seems a bit much for me in interviews but he really gave the Doors their unique sound. Robbie did quite a bit with his instrument considering the tools he had to work with at the time. Densmore wasn't the flashiest drummer but would incorporate so many different styles that every song sounds like a different drummer. It's like the Beatles. Hard to compare any band to them because every member was required to get that sound. I sometimes go years without listening to the Doors but when I come back around to them I remember why I spent my youth with them in constant rotation.
You're not really a doors fan until you grasp the greatness of all the musicians. All three are among the best ever.
It is short, and they often play it together on the radio with “Blue Sunday” the song that follows it on the album. They go well together.
When Jim says Blood in the streets in the town of New Haven is from the actual city New Haven Connecticut. Back then was a lot of protesting from Yale university students and the Black Panthers back in 1970. I'm from the town nextthe New Haven called West Haven. Dig it
Jamel this song Blew my fragile eggshell mind when I was about 12, and I was never the same again... I love this song, I love the doors, and I love what you do bro... keep it up
Not... One... Pause. Hey Mikey! I think he liked it! Lol
Keep it up Jamel, great stuff!
Moonlight Drive would be another track to check out.
HELL YAAAAASSS!
🥰❤️ one of my favourites.
Yes!!!!!!!
Morrison was great at perpetuating his on myth, Indian scattered on dawns highway is a reference he told of when he witnessed an accident in the desert as a child of American Indians, he said ones soul leaped into his own
its multilayered. its also a metaphor for a nation born in blood (birth of a nation). the road that led to formation in the usa was forged from the clash of civilizations. the indian wars had as much to do w/ forming our character as did Concord & Lexington. & it went of for 150 years thru wounded knee.... dawn is the beginning. hiway is its path forward. & scattered indians are those deaths that were spilled as that path made its way to the calif shores..... morrison is tapping into that river via his own time on that stream. seeing (or imaging) natives dead on a NM hiway melds into the theme of this arc of blood & violence from Jamestown to portland.
You enjoyed that EXACTLY like it should have been enjoyed. Great song, wonderful band. Thank you for this.
It’s amazing they can get so much sound out of a three piece band without a bass player. Just Guitar, drums, and organ/keyboards. Super talented musicians….and Morrison was the icing on the cake.
"Peace Frog" and "Blue Sunday" is the way I usually hear this. Robby Krieger is one of the most underrated guitarists ever IMO.
You need to see the Movie "The Doors" by Oliver Stone to understand this song. His life was crumbling around him and this song was his anthem to why he killed himself. He had to many demons surrounding him. He saw the aftermath of a car accident in New Mexico as a child. He said that the energy of those dying people lept into him. He mentioned this in his songs, poems, and literature
So glad you did this, I LOVE this! Morrison Hotel is great.
Okay...it's official after watching Jamel's reaction here. He's a dang hippie!
"Love Her Madly"
"Been Down So Long"
"Maggie M'Gill"
Maggie M'Gill lives on a hill...deep! Haha really love all three of those!
@@jemxs her daddy got drunk and he left her the will
@@bbb462cid And she goes down
Gloria,back door man, soul kitchen.
'Been Down So Long' is an absolute must. Krieger's guitar sounds like it's fighting to free itself from his grasp!
One of my very favorite Doors songs. Thanks for reacting!
Love you, man. Glad you're enjoying the music of the revolution. Everything blossomed. Imagine when I discovered the beautiful, mind-blowing Doors when I was 15!
.(it's not about abortion, or any subject so narrow. Jim was an observer and chronicled what he saw, that's all. )
The Doors are a weekend at Bernies.... Thank you Jamal...u have brought back music that I have not in years....
I don't know what I love more . . . this song or Jamal's reaction! This made my night, thank you Jamal.
Love it, love watching you react to us old folk music lol
Seriously - The Doors Absolutely Live “Soul Kitchen” you won’t regret it. This was the FIRST album I bought as a kid. I am still stunned as a 51 yr old that I had that much foresight.
Too true - soul Kitchen is another one of their under rated gems.
Followed up by X's cover (which was produced by Ray Manzarek).
@@davidtingley9978 X had a lot of great tracks, too. Riding with Mary still ends up on a lot of my playlists.
@@Quintzal the first three albums are killer from start to finish.
That is what they should listen to. Universal Mind is killer. Celebration of lizard. End. Music over. Build me a women. Dead cats into breK on thru. Soul kitchen is a great end.
The song is so short that when it was played on the radio it was always paired with "Blue Sunday". Growing up I thought it was called "Peace Frog/Blue Sunday.
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when you enter morrison land, always remember, when the guy was on his A game (as here), he was a master at symbolist lyrics. A modern Blake. in other words, the phrases & image on purpose have multilayered density meaning wise.... w/ band tight & morrison in peak visionary form... it goes straight into the rising street violence & culture tension peaking in '68. the reference to chicago is a direct reference to that. but as usual it also builds transcending themes that weave in to make the song also an examination of one mans heart & personal past. from his innocent childhood eyes seeing carnage on a NM road of dying Indians to the carnage in Saigon & US streets. like a river, flowing back & forward off him & into the soul. how past blood connects w/ present & forward. how violence begets increasing violence. how its cylical & can rise & swallow, contract, yet come back again in new more virulent form. Even into the birth cycle & its cut off... morrison at his best was prophetic. this is a prime ex of that. its why theyre the most relevant band from their era. morrison taps into eternal & cyclical patterns of the West homeland.
I grew up in the New Haven (Connecticut) area, NH being one of the references in the song. Decades ago I had a poster of Jim Morrison's b&w mugshot when he was arrested during a concert in New Haven. I think my older sister was at that concert. I was too young and missed all the fun hippie stuff. One of my favorite Doors song. Peace!
Me too..grew up in New Haven, alot of radical activity back in the 60's.
'Indians scattered on dawns highway bleeding, ghosts crowd a childs eggshell mind'. When he was a child Morrison witnessed a serious traffic accident when pickup carrying native Americans crashed.
Appreciate your reaction to the greatest band ever, Jim mentions the town of Newhaven where he got arrested on stage,a rock 1st in 1967.
Here's a SABBATH song that I'm sure you'll dig: "WHEELS OF CONFUSION": it's like a sonic journey with various killer riffs, tempo changes, you know- everything you appreciate about Sabbath,Jamel. Peace Out & thx
That songs amazing and hardly anyone knows it.
amazing lyrics on that song. the transitions are awesome too
I really like Shaman's Blues by the Doors, a lesser known track but it has a fascinating rhythm and never has the word bridesmaid sounded so menacing. Well worth a listen
yeah, I like that one a lot too
Runnin Blue is another obscure banger!!!
one of my favorites!
And in 3/4s time! A classic! My favorite Morrison song from The Soft Parade.
One of my favorites.
Blood in the streets is about protests, but it is also about history of the land, of Columbus' and slaughter and ghosts of slavery autocracies, that haunt this place. Its called peace frog, being at peace while the karma ripens, because awareness is knowing what is bubbling under the surface cant be hidden, what goes around comes around, and yes it is a protest song, as in the 60s people wanted to change things. peace is active, to try to make peace is to try to change things.jumping forward, and rock and roll and the doors were peace frogs. and this is just three musicians and I think they added a base player in the studio on this one, so mostly its four people and the three main musicians in the doors with three instruments are exploring every type of sound they can get out of them, Guitar Drums, and Organ, but changing up the tone and settings at different time. Changing pace. And Jim singing his full range of soft speaking voice and loud voice and mellow baritone blues all mixed together.
bulls-eye....a nation borne in blood. & before that a clash of civilizations for the price of blood.... morrison was real into blake & campbell, also aware of Whitman and Crane. He read a lot. not only versed in literature but history also. like blake, he used a symbolist technique. concise but densely packed phrases and images. the key is to connect them likes stars into a larger pattern. in this case a narrative. its a scale up pattern, like a hawk drawing wider circles as it goes higher. in this case, the lyrics were relevant to that period in '68. But as you scale up, as you point to, it also shows the rings of time w/ the nations forming in n Amer. From wounded knee to gettysburg to the Iroquious war to the triangle trade to Africa , Golgotha & Rome . The thread is there. It also can be mirrored forward cyclically as we enter a new stage of unrest currently.... Wasp traces that lineage too.
I’ve been waiting for you to review this. Well done!
The poem in the song about indians and fragile eggshell mind is jims childhood experiance when he's father come across some indians that had a car accident and jim morrison said that he felt the dead indians go inside him.
Morrison like to claim that his songs didn't have political messages. They sure did.
It was written from Morrison's poetry. I don't see anything political about Peace Frog.
Making a comment about the state of the world or society is not owned by any political organization, just a human commentary
@@karengoodenough827 Its still politics. If you dont like something about the world and want to change it - - thats politics.
This song is about the 68' democratic convention in Chicago. The police went off and beat everyone's ass, nutts!
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Only one line in the song is about the 1968 Democratic convention. The rest of the song is about various other things none of which were political. So I wouldn't say the entire song is about that one thing.
Bro imagine being Jim Morrison, that must be an unstoppable experience, feeling like the greatest artist at that time
that’s my morning alarm on my iphone. a lot of times, i just let it play and groove
I love all their records but songs like this one are why Morrison Hotel is my favorite Doors LP.
I love Morrison Hotel, but I love Strange Days too. They're both such titanic albums in their library.
The song was about the riots of 1967 that spread through the nations cities. New Haven was home to Liberation House headquarters to the Black Panthers. Bobby Seal was arrested who’s trial again put the city on edge following experiencing a week of riots and burning.
THE SPY is a great soothing song by THE DOORS too. The drummer said that they would get fan mail saying that people lost their virginity to that song. LOL!
"Whiskey bar" short sweet moving!!
A piece of crazy energy! Morrison Hotel was a powerful and creative album. Certainly among the best in their repertoire
I recommend Love Me Two Times.Great song of the doors.
Heard this one when I was 7 years old & I have loved it ever since! The Doors were incredible! Music, sound, players & their instruments. If, you are curious about the meaning of this song...it came from something Jim wrote way before The Doors were a band.
Such an obscure and unknown tune of their’s but I LOVE it
The Doors were so musically accomplished they could pull anything off when they got together in the studio. For all Jim’s troubles he always produced in the end. Hard to believe they were only around for 4/5 years
So glad you’re going “deep” into the Doors 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Everyone says everything's underrated, but few songs from famous bands are quite as underrated as this little thing. It's probably the most vicious thing lyrically from the age, while at the same time musically being at the same time a decade older than it's day and somehow futuristic af ^^ It's funky! It's like the funkiest thing a punk would more likely know about than a funk guy! :D
The song was a Metaphor for a real life incident that He, Jim Morrison witnessed when he was young. He supposedly witnessed an accident where two Native Americans where lying off to the side of the road dead, in a pool of blood. Morrison later said that he felt the spirit of one of the two enter his body, so yes, it is has a deep meaning to it.
Blood in the streets in the town of New haven, blood in the streets in the palm trees of Venice. Blood in my love in the terrible summer, bloody red son of fantastic LA"
Love your reaction videos. You are such a cool dude✌️❤️
About the part "Blood in the streets in the town of New Haven"
"On December 9, 1967, police arrested Doors’ front man Jim Morrison as he performed onstage at the New Haven Arena. An incident that took place between Morrison and a police officer before the show led to Morrison’s public arrest, making him the first rock star ever taken into custody during the middle of a performance. As police dragged Morrison off stage, the crowd rioted. Morrison was quickly charged with obscenity and incitement to riot but was soon released. The band later immortalized the event in the song “Peace Frog,” released in 1970."
I am originally from Connecticut and was born 12 days after this happened.
This song hits home a bit with the mention of New Haven
"Blood in the streets in the town of New Haven"... Not only was there a big protest in New Haven in the 60's of the Black Panthers at Bobby Seale's trial, but Morrison was also arrested at the New Haven Arena on stage.
This is literally me every time I've heard this song.
Blood of America. Great song by the Doors.
My father was a huge doors fan . First album I bought was strange days when i was 12 in the mid 80s. None of my friends heard of the doors until the movie put them back on the map.
AN ALBUM From 1967 Good stuff
Yeah , You finally got to it , yeah amongst the best musician's ever , haven't even listened to this reaction yet to get the post in , congratulations Jamal and You know it , and oh yeah this song says a lot still about even Today
most relevant band from that era, bar none. dylan on par as a solo artist in re to echoing & tapping into the cyclical chords of this lady we know as the usa culture.... what morrison & dylan & a few others could do is top into the eternal makeup of the culture. frame its patterns that reoccur over time. its why this song is so spot on now.
There are some hidden lyrics with this song
The Doors had a problem with a club manager in New Haven. Ghost and the egg shell mind. Jim is signing about himself as a child.
Dude, I think you're ready for American Prayer. But it's an all or nothing album. The Doors came out with it after Jim died. It's got a lot of his poetry put to music and it's a trip.
Now that was fun watching you groove out to this iconic tune. Really enjoyed your reaction Jamal. You may be pleasantly surprised picking tunes that you don't get a ton of requests for.
Thank you. Just thank you. 83 i was 12 years old when i first listened to them.and fell in love with the Doors
My favourite Doors track, full stop! Along with, from one of their best albums Morrison Hotel.
My favourite Doors song! Use to go to a rock club in the 90s and Friday was classic rock night, everytime this song came on the dance floor was always packed.
My weekend doesn't begin until I listen to a reaction from Jamel! This is one of my top faves from The Doors. I was obsessed with them as a teenager. Other commenters have noted but yes, if you can react to the album version where it transitions into the super mellow Blue Sunday that would be great. It really adds a nice dimension to both songs to listen to them back to back. Similar to how ZZ Top's "Waitin' for the Bus" doesn't sound right unless you hear it with "Jesus Just Left Chicago". Thank you for being a good human Jamel!
You are Priceless. Thank you for listening to great music and enjoying it!
3:00 "Blood is the Rose of Mysterious Union" That is some Jim Morrison Lyrics Stuff. Maximum.
I am so happy you finally got to this one! One of my favorites by the Doors for all the reasons you loved it!
My favorite Doors song written during the riots and protests against the war Vietnam in the late 60’s. Brilliant, Jim was a true poet.
None of the bands today compare to the old ones PERIOD ... They actually don't need auto tune and use actual instruments ... Thanks bro .
Soft Parade is a ride and a half with a hot grooves and several changes......and lyrics that will break your brain
Groovy track - encapsulates the signature Doors sound.
though the most singular band in their era in rock. they were capable of steering into the mainstream rocks sounds of their era, but as this song shows, they clearly had a unique zone no one was in the zipcode of.50 years later, no one has been able to get in that region & sound since.
Soul Kitchen or Not to Touch the Earth. GOTTA LISTEN!!!
nice reaction, so glad your diving deeper into their catalogue, love to see you react to "Land Ho" it's a real banger Jamel, you will ove it.
Always LOVE your obvious enjoyment of GREAT music. It amplifies my own feelings and causes me to love it even more. Thanks Jamal!
YES YES YES!!!! 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
So glad you found The Doors!! “Not to Touch the Earth live version. ✌️💗😊
✌🐸 (Peace Frog) was released in 1970 and it was on the Album Morrison Hotel and the doors and the band that I grew up with and I never stopped listening to them at all because it was my dad's favorite band before he gave me the opportunity to love the music of the doors too and I was in the 10th grade when I started listening to them just like him
Back before the 70s rock scene,way ahead of most artists.We ALL had the same”1st time” facials that you went thru .lol.Mine started happening around 1972 .The best 80s band is Kings X.Still together.Scope out “Summerland”.
Watching you enjoying any music brings joy to my heart.
The 60s was a volatile time war protests and free love. This song represented the time.
Doors, Creedence, Airplane
This song came out in 1970
Spanish caravan - The doors live at the bowl
Shaman blues - The doors
This song is great. They used it in Season 2 Episode 1 of Modern Love on Prime. On a Serpentine Road with the Top Down. It’s a classic road trip tune
Rest in peace Dicky Betz the first time I heard you comment on his blue sky song the translation of words that came from you touched my soul that song was dedicated to me from one of the loves of my life in fact it's his birthday today April 19th we lost him 6 years ago thank you for your words my friend much love and respect Sherri
This is in my top 5 fave Doors songs.
I believe it was about Vietnam protests.
I'm so glad you finally got to react to this. It's one of my favorites and I just KNEW you were going to like it!
Such an awesome classic song. Jamel, your facial expressions said it all.