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The Doors were among the most controversial & influential rock acts of the 60's, mostly due to Jim Morrison's lyrics & voice. They had a lot of great songs such as "Riders On The Storm", "Love Me Two Times", "Roadhouse Blues", "The End", "Break On Through (To The Other Side)", "People Are Strange", "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.
Every one of the songs mentioned are great songs to review. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
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The Doors were my first experience with a live rock concert. I was just 15 in the spring of '67, it was a life changing experience.
I envy the hell out of that experience, but only being 23 years old I wouldnt want to be that old I suppose haha!
The whole point of psychedelic music is long solos where you just close your eyes and groove😊
I second that. And often accompanied with a little something to loosen you up. His was the first time I’ve heard anyone have any issue with that musical interlude. It never seemed long to me enough to lose patience with it, but “diffrent strokes.”
You will call Roadhouse Blues a banger. Likewise LA Woman. Don't give up on the Doors. They are one of the most spectacular bands of all time. Their music is huge weird loud and vastly entertaining. Their later stuff sounds quite different from this.
This was the first song Robby Krieger, the guitarist in the band, ever wrote. Imagine the first song you ever write becoming a monster hit and an enduring rock classic!
There were two versions of this played on the radio. My husband was a DJ and they would play the long version when they needed a bathroom break, lol.
Val Kilmer played jim in the movie the doors and the rest of the band was really impressed with his performance they spoke highly of it
The Doors were also the soundtrack of the Vietnam War along with CCR. Coppola famously used the Doors” The End “ to perfection in Apocalypse Now. Totally dark and brilliant.
A masterpiece that kicked off their brief run as one of Rock's most iconic groups. Plenty of other songs to choose from in their catalog. I'm partial to "Touch Me"
I think what's happening is that this is psychedelic rock, this is acid rock. It is meant to be immersive and you need to allow yourself a little time for your musical brain to adjust to things that are less structured than what you are used to, even after all the stuff you've listened to so far.
This is what led to some of that other immersive stuff, Pink Floyd and Rush among them (although Iron Butterfly's In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida pushed that line for most people, laugh), and this idea that, rather than waiting for the next structural piece to develop and analyzing whether you're ready for it or not, instead it's the totally opposite mindset of where you just sink into it and take what's coming each second at a time, and it takes you on this great journey.
And as important and amazing as Jim Morrison was, and I love all of them as and in total as a band I really like Ray Manzarek on the keys the most.
He helped write a lot of the music and he also did some really cool things later: for example, he produced and played on the very first X album, iconic early Los Angeles punk.
I'm sure you know by now, it takes your ears the bit to adjust to any form of music that is somewhat different than what you have experienced before. It's the same when people first listen to hip-hop that aren't really familiar with it. It all seems to sound the same and it doesn't mess with the kind of time flow and structure they are accustomed to. But once you just listen to it and take it for what it is, you start to see all the different nuances and artistry going on to create a certain vibe, at least with the good stuff, just like in this genre and all genres. And The Doors are certainly heavy hitters in this genre.
People still buy great rock albums. The Doors are legendary! ❤Light My Fire was written by their guitarist, Robby Krueger when he was only 19!!
This song came to be known as "the DJ's friend" being 7 mins long it was the first extended jam that enabled Dj's to take a "break". Up until this time songs longer than 3 mins were considered too long for radio play. As Mr. Dylan said "the times they are a changin'".
Some of us listened to this in an altered state of consciousness, so the song was not nearly long enough. 😁
My mom loved all music and introduced us to as much as she could. She would buy albums in all genres from the top ten lists. This one particularly stands out in my childhood as one of the best albums ever. Lit my 🔥
this song is one of their most popular, but not their best in my opinion, but i still love it. the long solo grew on me over the years
Doors fans in the old days didn't think the jams dragged on - that was part of the attraction. Smoke if you got 'em!
I was 13 when my two older brothers took me to see my first concert featuring The Doors, The Byrds, and a new lead in singer by the name of Alice Cooper. I still have the ticket stub. All tickets were priced at $5.
The sales numbers are historical. Their albums continued to sell after Jim died and continue to sell today.
Especially if you listen to this again a few times, at some point go check out the Al Green cover of this from his 1973 totally banger album Al Green Get Next To You. He interprets it so differently that the first time you hear it, it is just jarring.
But then it slowly sinks in and it's freaking brilliant. And it is a total homage to the original for sure. Just doing it the Al Green way, laugh.
The line about “girl we couldn’t get much HIGHER” got them banned from The Ed Sullivan Show. They wanted them to change those lyrics because it refers to drug use, but Jim said “fu€k it”! and sang it the way they wrote it. 😉👵🏼💜☮️
Jim's poetry not withstanding, Ray was the standout "musician" of the group. Playing keys/organ with his right hand and keyboard Bass with his left, dude was gifted!
I went to their concert in 68 in Sacramento CA. Jim did the whole concert laying on the floor. It was still great
Wow!
Even as a big metal head Jim Morrison is my favorite singer ever.
Keyboards, specifically the Vox Continental organ, was iconic and a dominant driving force of mid-late 60’s rock. Used by the Doors, Animals, Iron Butterfly, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Paul Revere and the Raiders, Dave Clark 5, Blues Magoos, Question Mark and the Mysterians, early Rolling Stones, to name but a few. Rock became much more guitar driven after this. Deep Purple and others kept keyboards but used the richer sounding Hammond B3 organ with a rotating Leslie speaker. Different periods, different sounds.
Ray abandoned the Vox I believe in 1969 both to pursue different keyboard sounds as well as the Vox had reliability problems such as the keys breaking.
The bass you hear in any Doors material is either a separate Robby Kreiger dub or Ray Manzarek and a bass pedal. There was no official bass player with the Doors. Jim has one of the instantly recognizable in rock music.
They usually hired a bassist for most of their recordings. They went without one on stage tho
there is no "bassist" in the band, just Jim, Robby (Guitar), Ray (Keys), and John (Drums)
The bass is actually Ray Manzarek's keyboard.
though on some songs/albums they bring in a bassist.
The best ever keyboard solo is from Supertramp's "Child of Vision". You will love it. Trust me.
Such a mixture of sounds- each album has such different sounds- you can hear 10 songs and still will be surprised by the next.
Great, and so true, observation!
If you really want to hear Jim go berserk, give a listen to "When The Music's Over"... it's long but worth it, not long due to solos so much as building a mood with Jim narrating. Great reaction
my fav song...there is a B/W "live" on danish TV from the 60s video that is very good...
Doors make fir a GREAT journey. Thanks for sharing. Really looking forward to it. So so many tunes to choose from. Start with the first LP. Entire thing is awesome. Play from. First song to last all the time. I also LOVE the Soft Parade LP. Some very progressive tunes there. All the best!
The "single" version takes out some of the organ solo.
I’ve never heard of a band even close to the doors. They were special asf
I always loved the Doors. Please, please, please check out People Are Strange and Riders on the Storm next
OH! No wonder I couldn't wipe that spec off my screen... It's YOUR spec! LOL
'Riders on the Storm' and 'The End'
It seems these long instrumental breaks were popular for a time, but you don’t hear that much anymore. Songs are driven by vocals and lyrics now, and a lot of the “instrumentation” is done with electronics.
" Break On Through" should be the 2nd song going down The Doors rabbit hole. Then after that youre on your way on a trippy rock journey. And if you like them, check out the movie The Doors directed by Oliver Stone from '90 starring Val Kilmer as Jim....awesome movie!
Peace From PA ✌️
Back in the 60's, popular songs were generally short and sweet... but that changed when the drug era came and bands like Cream... The Grateful Dead... began improvising longer songs from jams. Most of The Doors' songs were short ('Hello, I love you' ... 'People are strange' ... 'Love me two times'... etc), but they had occasional experimentation that resulted in longer songs like 'The End' ... 'The unknown soldier' ... 'Celebration of the Lizard'... etc. The psychedelic drugs like weed, acid and hallucinogens were what affected the minds of musicians to the point they'd be playing on and on... Oasis were a band that verified in 1997 that when they were doped up on coke, they stretched the songs on their album 'Be here now' to unreasonable lengths 😂
The Doors were rather tame lyrically by today's standards... but back in the 60's, the critics even accused John Denver's song 'Rocky mountain high' of being a drug tune (which was ludicrous)... Jim Morrison was a poet who wanted to express himself in The Doors' songs, and would often refer to sex - that branded the band 'obscene' and banned by conservative US states. The FBI had a file on Jim Morrison and they even investigated the band The Kingsmen for their hit 'Louie, Louie' because no one could understand the lyrics of the song! It was a gross overreaction by law enforcement... similar to what happened to N.W.A. in 1989, and Body Count in 1992.
The Doors were not around long... They debuted w/ 'The Doors' (1967) and released the albums 'Strange days' (1967), 'Waiting for the Sun' (1968), 'The Soft Parade' (1969), Morrison Hotel (1970), and 'L.A. Woman' (1971) ... and a live record 'Absolutely live' (1970) before Jim Morrison passed away in 1971... The Doors released 2 albums w/ Ray Manzarek (organ/ keyboards) singing lead, but they failed commercially. In 1978, The Doors put music to Jim Morrison's recorded spoken poetry and released it as 'An American Prayer'.
A 'Greatest hits' album (one of a few!) also became a huge commercial success... Comparatively, The Doors did not sell as well as The Rolling Stones or The Who... (about 4 million copies of albums, 8 million singles in the US by 1972) but their catalog of music along w/ subsequent live records from Morrison's era sold well over time... eventually tallying 34 million copies total in the US, and 100 million worldwide.
In 1991, Oliver Stone made the biopic movie 'The Doors' w/ Val Kilmer as Jim Morrison (Kilmer actually sang the songs on the movie soundtrack) and even though the movie took liberties w/ fantasy sequences (Jim Morrison fancied himself w/ the spirit of a native American shaman) and other incidents... Actress Meg Ryan played Morrison's girlfriend (later wife) Pamela.
In the live performance, Jim recites the Graveyard Poem. Dunno why it wasn't on the studio album.....the music allows for it.
A lot of those sales were over the years after Morrison's death. A lot probably were during the CD era when people bought albums they already had on vinyl., plus sales to new fans.
You have to remember their audience… the Doors were not just playing music 🎶 , but providing a musical wave for the audience to ride out their Drug Trips… they were literally taking the stoned audience on a “Trip” with every song!
When they say “Counter Culture,” they mean, “Drug Counter Culture!”
This was not Jim Morrison’s favorite. (It was written by Robby, a bit more commercial.) Jim took pride in his own poetic lyrics. Check out: Roadhouse Blues, Riders on the Storm, Hello I Love You, Five to One (which refers to the size of the younger generation versus the older generation), Break on Through, People Are Strange, and many more.
Lose yourself. Float in the hypnotic river of sound of the DOORS. Discover new lands.
I bought this very album when it first came out. Still have it !
NEVERMIND!! THE DOORS!! NEVERMIND!! JIM MORRISON!! NEVERMIND!! !! HE WAS NODDING OUT DOING THIS SONG!! I SEE THEM NEON DEION'S BEHIND YOU!! PRICELESS!!😆😆😆😆!!!!
Welcome my friend, you have long ride ahead of you on this journey... ✌️
It was the much shorter single version that was the huge hit. It wasn’t unusual for the time to have a longer jam version for the album and a cut down shorter version for the single. Check out “Crimson and Clover by Tommy James and the Shondells as well as “Time Has Come Today” by the Chamber Brothers.
Having "music" so prominent in rock music was something very new at the time. The drummer doesn't get nearly enough love. "Light My Fire" was never one of my favorites, but it was a big hit. The Doors are a very interesting "rabbit hole" for you to go down... enjoy.
"I don't know if that's a bass I hear."
That's keys. Ray Manzarek would play a bass line with his left hand on keyboard. You can hear a bass on some tracks, but most of the time Manzarek handled that role on keys.
As a musician of many decades, it is so delightful that you realized that you can extrapolate the idea of a significant and even long guitar solo into the realization that what is actually happening is the same with many different instruments.
Sax for sure. Piano very frequently, and organ very frequently back in the earlier days but all kinds of things. Obviously drum solos, bass guitar solos the least but they still do exist, but they're not prevalent because in certain sections of some songs, the bass player will just go nuts an an engaging way, and it almost becomes the featured instrument in the texture for a while.
But it's just so fun to watch you realizing all these things that make total sense to you; it's just that it's new.
Edited to say: And yeah, love the Jon Lord reference!
The total sales include albums sold over the last 50-plus years.
Their song People are strange is one of my favorites ❤
Riders on the storm
The long jam was period,groove as psychedelic- trip to it let the music take you places!Had to be there or high!
Yes amazing ❤
They came out in my middle and high school years and will never forget how the Doors impacted that era
My personal fave “Touch me Babe”
Ray is playing the organ not a keyboard
The Doors released one album with Jim Morrison singing, after his death. That album is “L.A. Woman”, which was released in 1972.
many songs from the late 60s have that extended instrumental break for instrumental solos-particularly on album versions for the stoner crowd so they can zone out to the music-check out Iron Butterly's In-A-Gadda-Da Vida for a longer organ solo and drum solo-a stoner classic from 1968. also check out Jose Feliciano's version of Light My Fire for a completely different and successful vibe for the song which became a hit in 1968. Same lyric change on the Ed sullivan show happened with the Rolling stones with "Let's spend the Night Together-with the producers wanting them to sing Let's spend some time together. the rolling stones complied but you can see Mick jagger roll his eyes when he sang the line.
It's impossible to put The Doors into a convenient category. They really were in a league of their own. Their music stands the test of time. 'When the Music's Over' is one of my all-time favorites.
Ray is playing organ along with a bass from his organ!
No bassist for the Doors!
Rolling stones changed there lyrics on ed Sullivan the song was "let's spend the night together" they sang "let's spend some time together"
Give L.A. Woman, Roadhouse Blues and When the Music's Over a chance. They'll wow you amongst many others.
Jimbo ♥"The Lizard King" - he could do anything! He was not only a singer, but also a film maker, an actor, a photografer, a songwriter and a poet < that's why he is burried at Père Lachaise in Paris, France. There is also a movie by Oliver Stone about "THE DOORS". Check out the trailer! It's quite a nice movie with some background informations, etc. Cast is Val Kilmer and Meg Ryan, etc.
The Doors did employ an actual bassist on many of their studio recordings, but playing live, Manzarek would cover the bass lines on his organ. He also seconded as lead singer during certain performances when Morrison had passed out or was otherwise too intoxicated to sing. Also, regarding the extended solos, you have to remember that most of the people listening to this when it was popular were stoned out of their minds and lost in the music. Not that I'm advocating drug use, but it's something you'd probably have to experience to really appreciate the extended instrumentals.
there was a cut down version that was on a.m. radio...and Robbie's guitar sounds like a sitar almost...
The doors only played somewhere aroubd 40 gigs something always happend but jim died young and just didn't have many performances
A lot of 60s/70s songs have long instrumentals😁. The Doors of Perception, a book title where they got their name from.
Try,
Break on through
Roadhouse blues
Love her madly
When they appeared in The Ed Sullivan Show, they were specifically asked NOT to SAY HIGHER. Well...Jim said, wtf, and did it anyway! Needless to say Ed Sullivan was furious and they were never invited back 😁
It's not a solo when the whole band is jamming like this. Jim singing isn't the focus of the band, which is why this song kicks ass. The media made Jim bigger than his band. He at first didn't want it, but then the fame consumed him.
Ray also was playing keyboard bass
Been down so long , and soul kitchen and peace frog are a few good one's to check out among many others 👍
The doors did only one appearance on the ed Sullivan show they performed this song and Jim was supposed to leave out the lyric we couldn't get mich higher but sang it anyways and was bam from returning
L A Woman is a favorite of mine.
Loved the organ in this. Controversial band but I really enjoyed them.❤
I hear you. The radio release featured a much shorter solo though I do prefer the long version.
No one seems to like “Runnin’ Blues” enough to comment on it, that I’ve noticed, so I’ll say it here. Great weird unique song that deserves more love.
Maybe it’s the country fiddle that makes people like it less, but I love it!
Huge rabbit hole. Please continue. May I suggest"Riders Of The Storm".
At the time, "getting high" was code for drug use. Everybody instantly understood it that way. Only much later did it somewhat fall out of use.
Jose Feliciano Cover is great too
Ray's keyboard is crazy.
Mr. Mojo Risin'
Roadhouse and break on through to the other side next please!
I've definitely never felt that this song was a standout of The Doors, but somehow it's ended up as probably their most recognized songs. Try Break On Through (to the Other Side), Roadhouse Blues, Riders on the Storm, and then if you're really invested try The End lol
There is a keyboard solo in the song House of the Rising Sun by the Animals. Not sure if you reacted to that song yet.
Psychedelic music man we had really good drugs back in this day
“THE END “ when you muster the courage…..Be Prepared for Jim
The absolute worst thing you can think during a Doors song is “Where is this going?”
The Doors music is all about the Ride. Never the Destination.
Best thing is to sit back, and enjoy it. Let the future handle itself.
Ed Sullina wanted Jim to change a lyric and Jim didn't change it live on air. Ed was more than pissed off and said you'll never be on my show again
You should check out Jose Feliciano's version
No.....just...no
The Ed Sullivan thing was one of my favorite parts of The Doors movie.
this is a sonic masterpiece... you have no idea the impact it had on us in the 60's ...
That was censorship, back in the day. One of the most influential rock bands ever. Thanks for your reaction.
The term “high on” comes from drugs, and the saying wasn’t just an accepted cliche back then… it was later applied to other things like, “High on Life,” instead of Drugs! Meaning other things can make you happy, not just drugs.
I like reactors who do their homework or do like you are doing, reading some info about the artist before you even play them.
I've heard this song hundreds of times, despite it being made before I was born. It was only now, listening to it anew that I realized that the normal rock guitar part was being played on the organ while the usual bass part was being played an octave or so higher on the guitar. I obviously knew that there was a giant organ solo, but it wasn't until now that I realized that the bass wasn't there and that's why they never sounded quite right.
They hired a bassist for most of their recordings. On stage however, they went without one
The Rolling Stones were on Sullivan, and had to change the lyric from "Let's spend the night together" to "Let's spend some time together."
Sullivan was a first class SOB. Buddy Holly & the Crickets were on, and Sullivan didn't like Holly. During their performance, Holly's guitar was turned off.
Jim was "the voice" but Ray was the "sauce" . . . . .
Try When the musics over, for a better idea of what Jim Morrison sounds like.
You gotta hear Roadhouse Blues. You'll be amazed. This is their biggest hit, but far from their best song
But not the remastered version
Nice take on this, by todays standards it is a bit long.
This was, like many tracks then, music to trip to, where protracted solos were de rigueur.
I still like the long version to just chill to, the shorter AM radio version of course has much shorter solos.