Glad you are doing more of The Doors. They had a lot of great songs such as "Riders On The Storm", "Love Me Two Times", "The End", "Break On Through (To The Other Side)", "People Are Strange", "Light My Fire", "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.
I always thought it was "Well I did a little down about an hour ago". Actually, I still do. I don't trust the lyrics sites, and they all copy from each other. If somebody got it wrong 20 years ago, it will have propagated everywhere,
I never quite knew what the first line was exactly. although you get the jist of it... and yeah, the lyric videos screw up sometimes. But not usually.@@terrycunningham8118
This song always impressed me. It's 1 take in the studio all the way through. Morrison was drunk off his ass. You can hear some of his vocals are a little raw but that's the magic of the song. Can you imagine if this song was recorded today? All the shine would have definitely been polished off. It's great just the way it is.
You're confusing it with "Five to One". There are several studio takes of L.A. Woman and Jim was mostly disciplined and not drunk when he recorded the album. That was the blues album he wanted to do. If you want to hear Morrison drunk singing on a studio song, listen to Five to One...which was recorded in one go. Jim's voice had simply become rougher during the L.A. Woman performances after all the years of excess and cigarettes. Listen to the song L'America, I think the song was from '69 (actually produced for a film) and was included on the album...the difference in the voice to the rest of the songs is clear. Paul Rothschild the producer left the recordings, Bruce Botnick the sound engineer took over and Jim even sat in the bathroom and sang to get the reverb in his voice.
And again someone reacts on what he meant with "I am the Lizard King, I can do everything". Ever read his early poetry? It's kind of more complex than your simple statement.
I grew up with my parents listening to Cash, Orbison, Charles, Presley and then in 1968 when I was 8 I heard the Doors on the radio. I remember stopping what I was doing and thinking, WHAT? and never looked back. What a group...
The Doors were one of those groups that when they were playing on the radio, I couldn't shut it off until the song finished. Even if it meant sitting in the car for a few minutes in the driveway.
Great reaction! I think you would also enjoy Riders On The Storm. Ray Manzarek is at his jazzy best in this one, Also, The End is a must. When I heard it played during the opening scenes of the film Apocalypse Now, I got chills.
"The Doors" is what happens when you put a Poet out in front of three consument, clever & creative musicians - Ray Manzarek in particular. A keyboard genius in at the dawn of keyword wizardry.
Consummate. But yeah. Most innovate American band ever, second only to The Beatles in pushing musical boundaries and exploring many different genres. Neither lasted long, but the most brilliant ones never do. Candle in the wind, as Elton and Bernie said about Marilyn :(
@@p3-jm4im 'Consummate' - oh the shame. In my defence I had been imbibing & that one just slipped by. The greats pick something up, move it on to somewhere new & then leave it for the next generation to do the same - sums up The Doors perfectly.
Robbie is IMO incredibly under-appreciated and unacknowledged as a guitarist. Not flashy, attention-demanding, or a technical virtuoso to be sure - but creative af, he perfectly picks his spots for fills and flourishes (reminds me of Brian Jones a bit), and meshes perfectly with the rest of the band. And I think his flamenco background adds a unique complexion to the sound and his writing. He does it all “just right” if that makes any sense, lol.
That is what LA was like when I was in my teens, and the songs locations I have been at in that time period. This was a crazy time in LA with Charles Manson, Patty Hearst and the S.L.A., about 5 years after the Watts riots and just a crazy time in LA's history. One of my favorite Doors songs - Thanks! Oh - a lot of the bass came from the organ Ray Mizerak (SP?) played.
The Doors are one of my all time favorite groups. Each of the 4 members of The Doors had so much talent. I was lucky enough to get to see Robby Kreiger the guitarist live a few years ago and he sounded just as good as he did in the 60’s.
Sorry to spoil the soup with my response. But they were just copied the Beatles like other American bands did. And the perfect example is the making songs for the “ roof top “ concert. It’s a video out there how they created songs out of thin air. Without rehearsing any songs from it fully they were climbing trough barrages with their instruments and give a life performance to the crowd. Perfection starts there. Many like the Doors was trying to copy them, but still today just one band could do it. And it’s not an American band. They called the Warning, three sisters from Monterrey Mexico and still very young, but their lyrics remind us old farts to the Fab Four. They hitting hard as a rock band but they can and did write ballads to. LA women is like a a garage band written song, and sounds to as a garage band written song. To compare it other “ driving “ songs it’s very much like OK I listen to it but I’m not sure I would listen to the whole song. It’s a band named “ Golden Air ring “ from the Netherlands wrote a song “ radar love “ that is a drivers creation and could listen to over and over again. Sorry but I’m to old and to experienced in music, but I had to say the truth. Jim Morrison become an icon since he died and still today nobody couldn’t explain it to me Why? His charm? Or his cross eye? It could be his Mojo? Mike Mayer wouldn’t make a joke about it if it wouldn’t be a joke in those movies. As I said I’m sorry to spoil the mojo but this is the truth.
This is your truth and I feel, very few others. The Doors stand the test of time!!! If I took a guess, you maybe a failed musician? Like me. The Beatles, sure, are at the top of the pile. My truth is that The Doors created an abundance of amazing and creative songs. Four very talented people come together and create for creative sake. Everyone has their opinion and has a right to express it. I Love the Doors and they definitly stand the test of time. Truly one of the Great Bands of all time. They transcend Greatness. I am sorry to spoil your Truth?@@bubamaranovichok4901
Interesting fact: in the studio, they used a studio bassist. Live, Ray Manczarek, the organist as he loved to call himself, palyed all the bass parts on the keyboard as well as the keyboard parts. They guy was a genius! All of them were. A career that lasted only 4 years and a huge musical legacy they left. All killer, no filler!
I don't know if it's been mentioned yet... When Jim Morrison was a little younger he liked Frank Sinatra and L.A. Woman was his answer to "New York-New York", I once read in an interview by Ray Manzarek. I don't know if it's really true but it's plausible. Thanks for sharing and best wishes @all from Hamburg-Germany
Mr. Mojo Risin .... We were severely short changed... Can you imagine if this man & band played for another 10, 15, 20 years ... WOW ( mind blown ) My favorite singer / group since I first heard them in the early 70's
Hello Hello from New England...This is one of the best songs in their catalog..It's so jazzy in the middle section and really elevates the song... Unfortunately you can hear it in Jim's voice how shot it was bc of nonstop drinking and drug use but it's an amazing album to finish a great career..Btw MR MOJO RISIN is an anagram of Jim Morrison's name 🤘🧐✌️
My favorite Doors song. I was a fan as a teenager because I heard them growing up as my folks were the 60s generation. Never really meant much to me, but then I got on my first plane ride ever to California to go to Marine boot camp and this song was in my head the entire time, looking out that barracks window at night at the bungalows and city lights of San Diego (I know, not LA, but for me, it was the same feeling)
Break on through (to the other side); Light my fire; When the music 's over; Hello, I love you; LA woman; Riders on the storm; Love her madly; The End - accessible, great, and representative of the era they were conceived in.
I love this channel :) I would love to see you guys do When The Music's Over live at the Bowl It's one of the most iconic live performances ever and represents The Doors perfectly Please continue The Doors journey
Spanish Caravan needs more attention in the reaction community! It's another one similar to Roadhouse blues in that its not the "typical" Doors sound, but rather than blues it has a Spanish flamenco style. Great song all around. It is one of many perfect examples of both their talent as a band and the amount of various influences they had as a band.
"L.A. Woman" is a personification of the city of LA as a woman; it's darkness, bleakness, the underbelly of the city and its denizens. Nope, the Doors didn't perform at Woodstock. Morrison's voice is in the baritone register which helps give it a "mature" sounding resonance. They formed in 1965 in LA and produced 6 albums in 5 years. Morrison died in 1971 and the band tried to continue as a trio until finally disbanding in 1973.
This song has the feel of a farewell from Morrison. A tip of the hat, salute, ode, whatever you want to call it to L.A. before he left for Paris. Maybe Oliver Stone thought the same, using it for the final scene in the movie when they were recording it in studio then as the song tails off at the end, his plane taking off as it heads for Paris.
What a voice! I love the passion that Morrison sings with, and his lyrics are pure poetry, beautiful stuff, bro. Another legend we lost way too soon. RIP: Jim Morrison 💔🔥U R Missed I thought I'd suggest another studio version of another song by TD, in case you're interested. "The Doors - Riders On The Storm (Official Audio)" This was super fun guys thanks for sharing
I love how you kids react to some songs. I always considered this one a "cruising song", sound and beat just perfect for cruising down the road. Great reaction and analysis.
They really were all over the map with their sound but it still always sounded like The Doors. One of my favorites from them that I bet you guys would love his called Don't You Love Her Madly. Ray Manzarek was an excellent keyboardist and multi-instrumentalist and arranger. He went on to produce and play on the very first X album, a seminal early Los Angeles based punk rock band. You guys really should react to some of their stuff. It's historic.
To me, THE Door’s signature songs are Riders on the Storm., Light My Fire and The End. They had such a psychedelic, unique sound, and Morrison’s voice is instantly recognizable. He was indeed a gifted man….but a very troubled soul.
Hi , greetings from London Love this fantastic piece of music ! It was a big part of the soundtrack of my drugs fuelled teenage years growing up in grey 70s England! It transported me to a very different place! Still sounds dangerous! 'Mr Mojo rising' is an acronym It spells his name 'Jim Morrison !
My older brother bought their greatest hits album. While he was away in the Navy, I listened to the cassette every night as I was going to sleep in the 8th grade.
I was 18 when this song came out, could not wait to buy the Album and "8 Trac Tape", LA. Woman, I bought the 8 Trac Tape 3 times and of course 3 Doors 8 Trac Tapes ate "eaten" in a year or so by my 8 Trac player in my Hot Rod before I said enough is enough and thought Ill just Surgically tape it back together with Scotch tape. The Doors are Great but my La Woman 8 Trac is when I finally said enough is enough. So the Scotch taped 8 Trac Tape has a skip in it at the Motel Madness stanza part of the song. Now music is all digital. So Fun. I Guess I should say l Love the way you young kids react to that Music. I subsrcibed to you two, some reaction sites I don't subscribe. Rock On
FYI...Song facts; "Mr. Mojo Risin'" is an anagram for "Jim Morrison." He repeats the phrase at the end of the song faster and faster to simulate orgasm. Early blues musicians often referred to their "Mojo," like in the Muddy Waters song "Got My Mojo Working." A mojo is a Hoodoo charm, usually a bag filled with items like roots, lodestone, rattlesnake rattles, alligator teeth, charms, coins - whatever does the trick. Different bags would be used for different purposes: If the bag were red, it would be a mojo for love and you would have to put a personal item, such as hair or bit of clothing in order for the mojo to work. If the mojo were made out of a black bag it would be for death. Many white listeners, including Jim Morrison, thought mojo meant sexual energy, and that is how it's usually interpreted today, in part due to Austin Powers movies. >> Keyboardist Ray Manzarek explained the song's meaning to Uncut magazine September 2011: "A song about driving madly down the LA freeway - either heading into LA or going out on the 405 up to San Francisco. You're a beatnik on the road, like Kerouac and Neal Cassady, barreling down the freeway as fast as you can go." Morrison recorded his vocals in the studio bathroom to get a fuller sound. He spent a lot of time in there anyway because of all the beer he drank during the sessions. The Doors performed this live only once, in Dallas at the State Fair Music Hall on December 11, 1970. The only live recording of this is on the bootleg If It Ain't One Thing, It's Another. The band wanted to bring more musicians along to simulate the studio sound, but Morrison died before they could launch the tour. >> This was the title track to the last Doors album before Jim Morrison died. The remaining members released two more albums, Other Voices and Full Circle, which both sold poorly. >> The Doors needed extra musicians to record this. Jerry Sheff (famous for his work with Elvis Presley) was brought in to play bass, Marc Benno to play guitar. Sheff and Benno were going to tour with the band, but Morrison's death canceled those plans. Morrison got the idea for the "City of Night" lyric from John Rechy's 1963 book of the same name. The book describes a sordid world of sexual perversion, which Morrison translated to Los Angeles. They put this together in the studio and recorded it live with no overdubs. It came together surprisingly well. Guitarist Robby Krieger has called it "the quintessential Doors song." The first line, "Well, I did a little down about an hour ago," is a reference to a barbituate, specifically Rorer 714. Billy Idol covered this on his 1990 album Charmed Life, his version hitting #52 in the US. Idol was in the 1991 Oliver Stone movie The Doors, but had to take a smaller role because of a 1990 motorcycle accident that limited his mobility. At a press conference to promote the album, Idol explained that he had been playing "L.A. Woman" for years and was a big fan of the song. He would often use it to audition new band members. The Doors produced this album with Bruce Botnick. Paul Rothchild, who produced their first five albums, did not want to work on this because he didn't like the songs. He produced an album for Janis Joplin instead. In 2000, the surviving members of the Doors taped a VH1 Storytellers episode with guest vocalists filling in for Morrison. Perry Farrell, formerly of Jane's Addiction, sang on this. Doors drummer John Densmore said in the The Story of L.A. Woman documentary: "The metaphor for the city as a woman is brilliant: cops in cars, never saw a woman so alone - great stuff. It's metaphoric, the physicality of the town and thinking of her and how we need to take care of her, it's my hometown." Ray Manzarek put his UCLA film studies to use when he made a video for this song that was issued on a collection of Doors material called R-Evolution in 1985. To make the video, Manzarek combined archive footage of the band with new material he shot in Venice Beach, California. The actress Krista Errickson stars as the "LA Woman"; the male lead is John Doe of the band X - Manzarek produced their first four albums and directed two of their videos.
This was their last album before Jim left for France and died. His voice is dramatically different from the early albums, mostly due to heavy smoking. The Doors did not have a bassist in the group, but would typically bring in a session player bassist in the studio.
My friend Willblood it’s bullshit! I’m an active smoker for more than 60 yrs, and still can squeeze out some falsetto noises and right after I can sing Mongolian troth singing. It’s not smoking what killed him. The medical examiners stated that his death was caused by Drugs. Just can’t understand why people making a God from him? Many even more talented singer songwriters died from the same reason, or was killed by some crazy person. Compare the Doors to any English bands from the 60s or the 70s, it’s like comparing The Beach Boys to some symphonic assembly. Sorry, but I just want to open your eyes to the world of music!
@@bubamaranovichok4901 My eyes are wide open to music. I never said smoking killed Jim, I said it dramatically changed his voice from the early albums, which is a fact with many singers.
In fact The Doors were a very bluesy bunch. Some of their best tunes were classic 12-bars, Kreiger was a fine slide player, and Manzarek loved that jangly honky tonk boogie piano sound. I’m an old geezer, and I was once privileged to see a jam session between Morrison and Canned Heat! Morrison was a fine harp player, btw.
The keyboard player, Ray Manzerick, played bass with his left hand on a special little bass keyboard, in their live shows. They used studio bass players for the recordings. PJ
My favorite doors song by far. It's not about a woman from or in LA, it's about LA but describe as you might describe a woman. As others will likely point out Mr mojo risin an anagram for Jim Morrison
No bass player on tour tho they did use one from time to time in the studio. Ray Manzerec had a bass keyboard with his regular keyboard and played both at the same.time
Glad you are doing more of The Doors. They had a lot of great songs such as "Riders On The Storm", "Love Me Two Times", "The End", "Break On Through (To The Other Side)", "People Are Strange", "Light My Fire", "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.
I believe that their greatest masterpiece is "when the music's over" myself. Although I love all of the songs listed.
Also “Soul Kitchen and Crystal Ship.” I was 14 when I bought my first album ever, “The Doors.”
@@cajunsushi crystal ship is a real journey. it's use in "the banger sisters" was brilliant.
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The End is probably my favorite song from The Doors and that's saying a lot. It just creates an atmosphere I can't describe.
It took me 20 years to finally understand what it is he says in that first line of the song.
Fun Fact: Mr Mojo Risin' is an anagram for Jim Morrison
Should of Googled it
It took me about 40 years. These lyric videos can occasionally blow your mind if you're older....
I always thought it was "Well I did a little down about an hour ago".
Actually, I still do. I don't trust the lyrics sites, and they all copy from each other. If somebody got it wrong 20 years ago, it will have propagated everywhere,
I never quite knew what the first line was exactly. although you get the jist of it... and yeah, the lyric videos screw up sometimes. But not usually.@@terrycunningham8118
@@terrycunningham8118 I always thought he said "dig down in mine about an hour ago" which I always thought was a reference of being at work
The Doors used a bass player making this album. It was Elvis Presley's bassist Jerry Schieff
Yeah man I'm not into Elvis really but Jerry was awesome on LA Woman!
Unless I'm mistaken, they used bass players on all of their LPs except the live ones.
This song always impressed me. It's 1 take in the studio all the way through. Morrison was drunk off his ass. You can hear some of his vocals are a little raw but that's the magic of the song. Can you imagine if this song was recorded today? All the shine would have definitely been polished off. It's great just the way it is.
Exactly, they would have destroyed the sound they achieved, a roadhouse sound. Live, raw, and playing off each other
Yes very true I loved Jim Morrison and the Doors
You're confusing it with "Five to One". There are several studio takes of L.A. Woman and Jim was mostly disciplined and not drunk when he recorded the album. That was the blues album he wanted to do. If you want to hear Morrison drunk singing on a studio song, listen to Five to One...which was recorded in one go. Jim's voice had simply become rougher during the L.A. Woman performances after all the years of excess and cigarettes. Listen to the song L'America, I think the song was from '69 (actually produced for a film) and was included on the album...the difference in the voice to the rest of the songs is clear. Paul Rothschild the producer left the recordings, Bruce Botnick the sound engineer took over and Jim even sat in the bathroom and sang to get the reverb in his voice.
The Lizard King🦎
The Lizard King can do anything
@@lancerx1759 As he discovered, he couldn't. By the way, Morrison meant that ironically... I hate "fans"😏
@@Everyoneisafraidoftheirtruth stop hating ❤
And again someone reacts on what he meant with "I am the Lizard King, I can do everything". Ever read his early poetry? It's kind of more complex than your simple statement.
Best tee shirt I ever had with the lizard wrapped around the outside of band ..wore until fell apart with holes in high school 70's
I grew up with my parents listening to Cash, Orbison, Charles, Presley and then in 1968 when I was 8 I heard the Doors on the radio. I remember stopping what I was doing and thinking, WHAT? and never looked back. What a group...
Ey yo , those are fucking great artists as well though. Nothing wrong there.
Perfectly captures LA in the '60's-'70's. Powerful song from this great band. Thanks for your reaction.
Our pleasure!
The piano player is playing kwyboard bass with his left hand..
Incredible
It's Jerry Scheff on bass guitar.
The Doors were one of those groups that when they were playing on the radio, I couldn't shut it off until the song finished. Even if it meant sitting in the car for a few minutes in the driveway.
YES so true still sad and I am 72 now that Jim died
@@wildbill7081 71 here. Doors forever.
One of the best songs ever! I LOVE IT! GREAT REACTION, GUYS!
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The greatest driving song ever. Makes me put the pedal to the floor every time. It's Jim Morrison's love letter to LA.
Great reaction! I think you would also enjoy Riders On The Storm. Ray Manzarek is at his jazzy best in this one, Also, The End is a must. When I heard it played during the opening scenes of the film Apocalypse Now, I got chills.
"The Doors" is what happens when you put a Poet out in front of three consument, clever & creative musicians - Ray Manzarek in particular. A keyboard genius in at the dawn of keyword wizardry.
Consummate. But yeah. Most innovate American band ever, second only to The Beatles in pushing musical boundaries and exploring many different genres. Neither lasted long, but the most brilliant ones never do. Candle in the wind, as Elton and Bernie said about Marilyn :(
@@p3-jm4im 'Consummate' - oh the shame. In my defence I had been imbibing & that one just slipped by.
The greats pick something up, move it on to somewhere new & then leave it for the next generation to do the same - sums up The Doors perfectly.
@@jockeyladjockeylad8492 lol no worries. And well said :)
Robbie is IMO incredibly under-appreciated and unacknowledged as a guitarist. Not flashy, attention-demanding, or a technical virtuoso to be sure - but creative af, he perfectly picks his spots for fills and flourishes (reminds me of Brian Jones a bit), and meshes perfectly with the rest of the band. And I think his flamenco background adds a unique complexion to the sound and his writing. He does it all “just right” if that makes any sense, lol.
@@donfette5301 It's all finger work, too. He didn't use a pick.
Moved to LA in 85, crazy fun and dangerous place. The song is right on the money with it's description, as well as GnR Welcome to the jungle.
That is what LA was like when I was in my teens, and the songs locations I have been at in that time period. This was a crazy time in LA with Charles Manson, Patty Hearst and the S.L.A., about 5 years after the Watts riots and just a crazy time in LA's history. One of my favorite Doors songs - Thanks! Oh - a lot of the bass came from the organ Ray Mizerak (SP?) played.
The Doors are one of my all time favorite groups. Each of the 4 members of The Doors had so much talent. I was lucky enough to get to see Robby Kreiger the guitarist live a few years ago and he sounded just as good as he did in the 60’s.
Sorry to spoil the soup with my response. But they were just copied the Beatles like other American bands did. And the perfect example is the making songs for the “ roof top “ concert. It’s a video out there how they created songs out of thin air. Without rehearsing any songs from it fully they were climbing trough barrages with their instruments and give a life performance to the crowd. Perfection starts there. Many like the Doors was trying to copy them, but still today just one band could do it. And it’s not an American band. They called the Warning, three sisters from Monterrey Mexico and still very young, but their lyrics remind us old farts to the Fab Four. They hitting hard as a rock band but they can and did write ballads to. LA women is like a a garage band written song, and sounds to as a garage band written song. To compare it other “ driving “ songs it’s very much like OK I listen to it but I’m not sure I would listen to the whole song. It’s a band named “ Golden Air ring “ from the Netherlands wrote a song “ radar love “ that is a drivers creation and could listen to over and over again. Sorry but I’m to old and to experienced in music, but I had to say the truth. Jim Morrison become an icon since he died and still today nobody couldn’t explain it to me Why? His charm? Or his cross eye? It could be his Mojo? Mike Mayer wouldn’t make a joke about it if it wouldn’t be a joke in those movies. As I said I’m sorry to spoil the mojo but this is the truth.
This is your truth and I feel, very few others.
The Doors stand the test of time!!!
If I took a guess, you maybe a failed musician?
Like me.
The Beatles, sure, are at the top of the pile.
My truth is that The Doors created an abundance of amazing and creative songs.
Four very talented people come together and create for creative sake.
Everyone has their opinion and has a right to express it.
I Love the Doors and they definitly stand the test of time.
Truly one of the Great Bands of all time.
They transcend Greatness.
I am sorry to spoil your Truth?@@bubamaranovichok4901
Interesting fact: in the studio, they used a studio bassist. Live, Ray Manczarek, the organist as he loved to call himself, palyed all the bass parts on the keyboard as well as the keyboard parts. They guy was a genius! All of them were. A career that lasted only 4 years and a huge musical legacy they left. All killer, no filler!
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...... saw them do that live, front row balcony, right over the stage. Great memories. No Bass guitar player... the keyboardist played pedal Bass.
I don't know if it's been mentioned yet... When Jim Morrison was a little younger he liked Frank Sinatra and L.A. Woman was his answer to "New York-New York", I once read in an interview by Ray Manzarek. I don't know if it's really true but it's plausible. Thanks for sharing and best wishes @all from Hamburg-Germany
This song is one of their masterpieces. 'When the music is over' is another. A great band.
Mr. Mojo Risin ....
We were severely short changed...
Can you imagine if this man & band played for another 10, 15, 20 years ... WOW ( mind blown )
My favorite singer / group since I first heard them in the early 70's
Yes though you can say the same for so many artists especially a member of the 27 club.
Hello Hello from New England...This is one of the best songs in their catalog..It's so jazzy in the middle section and really elevates the song... Unfortunately you can hear it in Jim's voice how shot it was bc of nonstop drinking and drug use but it's an amazing album to finish a great career..Btw MR MOJO RISIN is an anagram of Jim Morrison's name 🤘🧐✌️
Really? Where is the "T" in Jim or Morrison?
@@Mister_Samsonite Mr not Mister...sorry I should've abbreviated 🧐✌️🤘
Robbie Krieger, so underrated.
The woman is the city, the city is the woman. Clever lyrics.
Best driving song ever!
They were the first, and original Jazz/Rock fusion band! 😎🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 the L.A. women is the City!
These guys are pros . They can go wherever they wanted.
Saludos chicos abrazo enorme desde Asturias, the doors forever , ray, robbie, jhon y jim , jim en esa epoca tenia 27 años brutal
I bought Doors albums since 1967 when I was 13.
Always thought of Robby Krieger as an underrated guitarist. His tone was always spot on. Cheers....
One of the greatest songs ever. Thanks for reacting!
My favorite Doors song. I was a fan as a teenager because I heard them growing up as my folks were the 60s generation. Never really meant much to me, but then I got on my first plane ride ever to California to go to Marine boot camp and this song was in my head the entire time, looking out that barracks window at night at the bungalows and city lights of San Diego (I know, not LA, but for me, it was the same feeling)
One of the best rock songs ever
Yes! So glad you chose this song next!
You two look so happy
Break on through (to the other side); Light my fire; When the music 's over; Hello, I love you; LA woman; Riders on the storm; Love her madly; The End - accessible, great, and representative of the era they were conceived in.
FYI , MR MOJO RISIN is an anagram for Jim Morrison. :)
I love this channel :)
I would love to see you guys do When The Music's Over live at the Bowl
It's one of the most iconic live performances ever and represents The Doors perfectly
Please continue The Doors journey
Awesome song ,
Spanish Caravan needs more attention in the reaction community! It's another one similar to Roadhouse blues in that its not the "typical" Doors sound, but rather than blues it has a Spanish flamenco style. Great song all around. It is one of many perfect examples of both their talent as a band and the amount of various influences they had as a band.
"L.A. Woman" is a personification of the city of LA as a woman; it's darkness, bleakness, the underbelly of the city and its denizens. Nope, the Doors didn't perform at Woodstock. Morrison's voice is in the baritone register which helps give it a "mature" sounding resonance. They formed in 1965 in LA and produced 6 albums in 5 years. Morrison died in 1971 and the band tried to continue as a trio until finally disbanding in 1973.
Fantabulous classic. Thank you
This song has the feel of a farewell from Morrison. A tip of the hat, salute, ode, whatever you want to call it to L.A. before he left for Paris. Maybe Oliver Stone thought the same, using it for the final scene in the movie when they were recording it in studio then as the song tails off at the end, his plane taking off as it heads for Paris.
He Had to leave for Paris to avoid prosecution for indecent exposuse during his acts onstage and his penchant for underage girls
What a voice! I love the passion that Morrison sings with, and his lyrics are pure poetry, beautiful stuff, bro. Another legend we lost way too soon. RIP: Jim Morrison 💔🔥U R Missed
I thought I'd suggest another studio version of another song by TD, in case you're interested. "The Doors - Riders On The Storm (Official Audio)" This was super fun guys thanks for sharing
I love how you kids react to some songs. I always considered this one a "cruising song", sound and beat just perfect for cruising down the road. Great reaction and analysis.
The Doors actually used several different bass players in their recordings..Manzarek did the bass chords on keys in most live performances
They really were all over the map with their sound but it still always sounded like The Doors. One of my favorites from them that I bet you guys would love his called Don't You Love Her Madly.
Ray Manzarek was an excellent keyboardist and multi-instrumentalist and arranger. He went on to produce and play on the very first X album, a seminal early Los Angeles based punk rock band. You guys really should react to some of their stuff. It's historic.
One of my favorite songs by The Doors! Thanks for your reaction 💖🦋
It is nice to see the two of you enjoy this classic. Thanks for your nice reaction.
Thank YALL Much that’s my favorite 👍
"Hello I Love You", "Light My Fire", "Break on Through"
My favorite song from these guys, and one of the best driving songs ever IMO. 🔥🔥🔥
Love the Doors, love this song/album; Billy Idol does an amazing cover to this sing.
To me, THE Door’s signature songs are Riders on the Storm., Light My Fire and The End. They had such a psychedelic, unique sound, and Morrison’s voice is instantly recognizable. He was indeed a gifted man….but a very troubled soul.
Greatest Band of my generation. I was 25 when Jim died.
The Doors 'Light my Fire'...You should give it a go...💛
This is basically Jim's love song to the city of Los Angeles
Rock-blues your socks off!!!😂
Good introduction of The Doors is song "The End"
The unknown soldier is a must for any doors fans. You should keep going through the doors catalog. There are wonders untold.
The singer, Jim Morrison, was a poet, even before he started singing...
Yes, glad to see more doors. Peace Frog and the Alabama Song are also great.
I think Jim was trying to sing like Adam Sandler lol (sarcasm). Love this song. Nice reaction.
Great song. Great performances. Best band to ever come out of the US.
"Did a little down about an hour ago" Was the opening line we came to know way back when. I for one hear it that way still.
Hi , greetings from London
Love this fantastic piece of music !
It was a big part of the soundtrack of my drugs fuelled teenage years growing up in grey 70s England!
It transported me to a very different place!
Still sounds dangerous!
'Mr Mojo rising' is an acronym
It spells his name 'Jim Morrison !
So many layers to The Doors. I think you guys will fall in love with this band
My older brother bought their greatest hits album. While he was away in the Navy, I listened to the cassette every night as I was going to sleep in the 8th grade.
"Mister Mojo Risin" is the scrambled letters of Jim Morrison.
Love it. Love the saloon piano, which almost gives a wild west atmosphere next to their personal rock sound that was occasionally avant-garde.
I was 18 when this song came out, could not wait to buy the Album and "8 Trac Tape", LA. Woman, I bought the 8 Trac Tape 3 times and of course 3 Doors 8 Trac Tapes ate "eaten" in a year or so by my 8 Trac player in my Hot Rod before I said enough is enough and thought Ill just Surgically tape it back together with Scotch tape. The Doors are Great but my La Woman 8 Trac is when I finally said enough is enough. So the Scotch taped 8 Trac Tape has a skip in it at the Motel Madness stanza part of the song. Now music is all digital. So Fun. I Guess I should say l Love the way you young kids react to that Music. I subsrcibed to you two, some reaction sites I don't subscribe. Rock On
FYI ---------------------- they used Elvis's bassist on this album
FYI...Song facts;
"Mr. Mojo Risin'" is an anagram for "Jim Morrison." He repeats the phrase at the end of the song faster and faster to simulate orgasm. Early blues musicians often referred to their "Mojo," like in the Muddy Waters song "Got My Mojo Working."
A mojo is a Hoodoo charm, usually a bag filled with items like roots, lodestone, rattlesnake rattles, alligator teeth, charms, coins - whatever does the trick. Different bags would be used for different purposes: If the bag were red, it would be a mojo for love and you would have to put a personal item, such as hair or bit of clothing in order for the mojo to work. If the mojo were made out of a black bag it would be for death. Many white listeners, including Jim Morrison, thought mojo meant sexual energy, and that is how it's usually interpreted today, in part due to Austin Powers movies. >>
Keyboardist Ray Manzarek explained the song's meaning to Uncut magazine September 2011: "A song about driving madly down the LA freeway - either heading into LA or going out on the 405 up to San Francisco. You're a beatnik on the road, like Kerouac and Neal Cassady, barreling down the freeway as fast as you can go."
Morrison recorded his vocals in the studio bathroom to get a fuller sound. He spent a lot of time in there anyway because of all the beer he drank during the sessions.
The Doors performed this live only once, in Dallas at the State Fair Music Hall on December 11, 1970. The only live recording of this is on the bootleg If It Ain't One Thing, It's Another. The band wanted to bring more musicians along to simulate the studio sound, but Morrison died before they could launch the tour. >>
This was the title track to the last Doors album before Jim Morrison died. The remaining members released two more albums, Other Voices and Full Circle, which both sold poorly. >>
The Doors needed extra musicians to record this. Jerry Sheff (famous for his work with Elvis Presley) was brought in to play bass, Marc Benno to play guitar. Sheff and Benno were going to tour with the band, but Morrison's death canceled those plans.
Morrison got the idea for the "City of Night" lyric from John Rechy's 1963 book of the same name. The book describes a sordid world of sexual perversion, which Morrison translated to Los Angeles.
They put this together in the studio and recorded it live with no overdubs. It came together surprisingly well. Guitarist Robby Krieger has called it "the quintessential Doors song."
The first line, "Well, I did a little down about an hour ago," is a reference to a barbituate, specifically Rorer 714.
Billy Idol covered this on his 1990 album Charmed Life, his version hitting #52 in the US. Idol was in the 1991 Oliver Stone movie The Doors, but had to take a smaller role because of a 1990 motorcycle accident that limited his mobility.
At a press conference to promote the album, Idol explained that he had been playing "L.A. Woman" for years and was a big fan of the song. He would often use it to audition new band members.
The Doors produced this album with Bruce Botnick. Paul Rothchild, who produced their first five albums, did not want to work on this because he didn't like the songs. He produced an album for Janis Joplin instead.
In 2000, the surviving members of the Doors taped a VH1 Storytellers episode with guest vocalists filling in for Morrison. Perry Farrell, formerly of Jane's Addiction, sang on this.
Doors drummer John Densmore said in the The Story of L.A. Woman documentary: "The metaphor for the city as a woman is brilliant: cops in cars, never saw a woman so alone - great stuff. It's metaphoric, the physicality of the town and thinking of her and how we need to take care of her, it's my hometown."
Ray Manzarek put his UCLA film studies to use when he made a video for this song that was issued on a collection of Doors material called R-Evolution in 1985. To make the video, Manzarek combined archive footage of the band with new material he shot in Venice Beach, California. The actress Krista Errickson stars as the "LA Woman"; the male lead is John Doe of the band X - Manzarek produced their first four albums and directed two of their videos.
Never forget the final scene from the Val Kilmer Doors movie depicting Jim sitting on the toilet wailing out this song….the best movie ending ever…..
I think you'd both enjoy the song The Changeling off this album ✌️🧐🤘
Thank you for being respectful.
If you see a jukebox around, this tune is probably still on it, either it or Riders on the Storm, two tunes that will live for centuries.
Great reaction! LA Woman is the perfect raw adventure warning song.
To me at least Jim is the OG rock star 🖤🤘🏻
La Woman great album La Woman The Changeling Love her madly and thats just a few masterpiece
Una vez mas la escucho y es brutal con cascos y escuchas sonidos y esa voz con 27 años
Peace Frog is a groovy jam.
This song always gets me going!
Mind blowing tune on every level.
All the light pop groups at the time and the Doors come in like a moonless, black night. Dark lyrics and subject matter. Incredible band.
Love the dancing. I dig it
Are u fucking kidding me what a great song just a little before my time would have loved to see these guys play live.
It’s good you two acquaint yourselves with all this great music the cropped up during my younger years , awesome. 68 in Texas. 🥹
Lovely. And Beautiful. You are lucky.
This was their last album before Jim left for France and died. His voice is dramatically different from the early albums, mostly due to heavy smoking. The Doors did not have a bassist in the group, but would typically bring in a session player bassist in the studio.
For this album they used Elvis's bass player
My friend Willblood it’s bullshit! I’m an active smoker for more than 60 yrs, and still can squeeze out some falsetto noises and right after I can sing Mongolian troth singing. It’s not smoking what killed him. The medical examiners stated that his death was caused by Drugs. Just can’t understand why people making a God from him? Many even more talented singer songwriters died from the same reason, or was killed by some crazy person. Compare the Doors to any English bands from the 60s or the 70s, it’s like comparing The Beach Boys to some symphonic assembly. Sorry, but I just want to open your eyes to the world of music!
@@bubamaranovichok4901 The Doors were masters of the use of dynamics like no other band of the time
Lonnie Mack played Bass when they recorded Roadhouse Blues.
@@bubamaranovichok4901 My eyes are wide open to music. I never said smoking killed Jim, I said it dramatically changed his voice from the early albums, which is a fact with many singers.
THERE YA GO!!! 😊BANGERRRRR!💯
Great song and reaction.
Jim is from Florida, so he
probably came out to (LA)
for some west coast shows
& meet with record studios.
In fact The Doors were a very bluesy bunch. Some of their best tunes were classic 12-bars, Kreiger was a fine slide player, and Manzarek loved that jangly honky tonk boogie piano sound. I’m an old geezer, and I was once privileged to see a jam session between Morrison and Canned Heat! Morrison was a fine harp player, btw.
No bass player live.
Studio, yes they had a bass player was Larry Knetchel (Bread bassist) among others... Patty Sullivan.
Mr. Mojo Rising
Mr mojo risin
The keyboard player, Ray Manzerick, played bass with his left hand on a special little bass keyboard, in their live shows. They used studio bass players for the recordings. PJ
One of these songs is gonna get you out of your seats and dancing
My favorite doors song by far. It's not about a woman from or in LA, it's about LA but describe as you might describe a woman. As others will likely point out Mr mojo risin an anagram for Jim Morrison
Always gets my Mojo going.
No bass player on tour tho they did use one from time to time in the studio. Ray Manzerec had a bass keyboard with his regular keyboard and played both at the same.time
In the studio they would often use a bass player while live Ray Manzarek played the bass with his left hand on a bass keyboard.