Hip Hop Fan's First Reaction and Analysis of Light My Fire by The Doors

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  • @konradv7
    @konradv7 Рік тому +37

    Morrison threw out a challenge to the group to write something and Kreiger came up with their first hit.

  • @HMcQ7891
    @HMcQ7891 Рік тому +63

    A mix of Classical, Jazz, & Rock with long instrumental sections, "Light My Fire" could be considered the birth of Progressive Rock. Music & (most of the) lyrics by guitarist Robby Krieger - this is the first song he'd ever written - _in his life._

    • @helenespaulding7562
      @helenespaulding7562 Рік тому +10

      Well….you might make that claim. But I would give the nod for the beginnings of prog rock to The Moody Blues. And say that The Doors was rather the pinnacle of psychedelic rock.

    • @deanjarva1373
      @deanjarva1373 Рік тому +10

      In an interview, Robby Krieger said this song is consistently their most popular song and said, "I guess I saved the best for first."

    • @davidbanks736
      @davidbanks736 Рік тому +4

      Robbie wrote this and the idea was that the long instrumental break would have a jazz vibe like John Coltrane when he did my favourite thing. Most well known song but so many better tracks like peace frog, wishful sinful, when the musics over live at the Hollywood bowl, love her madly, soul kitchen, changeling, soft parade etc. Great reaction channel tho! Keep up the good work.👍

  • @steveullrich7737
    @steveullrich7737 Рік тому +19

    The drummer John Densmore deserves much more credit!

    • @wadsworthaaron
      @wadsworthaaron Рік тому +4

      Densmore didn't drum with John Bonham's thunder, Nick Mason's wizardry, or Ringo Starr's/Charlie Watts's absolutely swinging precision, but Densmore captured the drama and theatrical elements of music like no other. He was a truly unique and brilliant percussionist.

  • @davidzimmerli489
    @davidzimmerli489 Рік тому +57

    I purchased this album several lifetimes ago, when it was first released. I had no idea who the Doors were or what their music was like, because none of their songs had been played on the radio in my region of the country (Rochester, New York) yet. I bought it because I liked the album cover. In my opinion, it is one of the greatest 1st albums by a rock group. The album was a revelation to my young ears. I had never heard anything like it before. I loved it ..... and I still love it, Regardless of genre, this is just great music, and great music never grows old. (I wish I could say the same for myself ....) I really enjoy your intelligent reviews/reactions to the recordings that you present here.

    • @trevorholden7423
      @trevorholden7423 Рік тому

      several lifetimes AGO? Like when you were Egyptian?

    • @thirdbase6870
      @thirdbase6870 Рік тому

      ua-cam.com/video/MgAfyJR3ptQ/v-deo.html

    • @dizzle7558
      @dizzle7558 Рік тому

      @@trevorholden7423 She's saying she's old asshole..Don't be a dickhead..

  • @mathewfranco3211
    @mathewfranco3211 Рік тому +18

    I am 69 years old and I’ve heard this song hundreds of times and your interpretation of this song was awesome I never thought of it like that thank you!

  • @beverlyoyarzun3326
    @beverlyoyarzun3326 Рік тому +29

    I’m sure it’s been mentioned that their secret weapon, guitarist Robby Krieger wrote “Light My Fire", as well as “Love Me Two Times", "Touch Me", and "Love Her Madly".

    • @donfette5301
      @donfette5301 Рік тому +1

      Second verse is mostly Jim, as is “set the night on fire” line.

    • @donfette5301
      @donfette5301 Рік тому +1

      “Wishful, Sinful” is my fav Robby song. I believe Jimbo hated it. His loss 😆!

    • @jeremyworkman5104
      @jeremyworkman5104 Рік тому +2

      @@donfette5301 the really interesting thing about that line is more recently while compiling the Collective Works of Jim Morrison they discovered that Jim had actually written that line way before there was a Doors. If I'm not mistaken it was in a notebook from when he was in high school

  • @BeeLineEast
    @BeeLineEast Рік тому +35

    This song is a masterpiece. Perfect blend of all the instruments in the song.

  • @BalbazaktheGreat
    @BalbazaktheGreat Рік тому +28

    Iconic Doors track - makes you wonder what ever happened to the jazz organ in rock 'n' roll. Guess it got replaced by synth as prog rock took over. You hear that organ and it transports you instantly to the sixties... even if you were never there in the first place.

    • @helenespaulding7562
      @helenespaulding7562 Рік тому +2

      That is absolutely true. That sound is definitively that time.

  • @thelasticonoclast9467
    @thelasticonoclast9467 Рік тому +10

    Not being a Doors super fan, I only recently realized that Ray Manzarek was playing both lead and base on the keyboard solo. Something worth noting.

    • @MrDiddyDee
      @MrDiddyDee Рік тому +3

      That's bass, not base, but yeah, Manzarek carried the bass lines when they played live, but in the studio they employed various bass guitarists on their albums, the keyboards didn't have the depth and warmth their producer wanted. Manzarek's Rhodes keyboard bass lines are there apparently, but what you mostly hear on this track is session player Larry Knechtel giving the bass parts some life.

  • @36karpatoruski
    @36karpatoruski Рік тому +4

    Cruising the Strip in LA 1967 in your convertible Corvette and this blasting. Oh yeah!

  • @glass2467
    @glass2467 Рік тому +27

    Surely someone has already brought this up, or you may already know this, but just in case - The Doors took their name from the book The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley - famous writer who wrote many ground breaking books, such as Brave New World. Quite a fitting name to the band.

    • @options378
      @options378 Рік тому +3

      Thanks for that, never knew this.

    • @rogeebundy6002
      @rogeebundy6002 Рік тому

      The doors of perception is a great read by Huxley
      Of his experience with mescaline

    • @cyeamaculture8486
      @cyeamaculture8486 Рік тому +2

      Huxley asked for..and was given LSD on his deathbed.he died tripping..how strange would that be?

  • @muriel2267
    @muriel2267 Рік тому +13

    I would love to hear your analysis of their song The End 😅

  • @vicprovost2561
    @vicprovost2561 Рік тому +23

    This song so added to the vibe of 1967, amazing music coming from every direction, a new classic song weekly. For more great Doors try Waiting for the Sun. Enjoy! 🎵🎹🎤🎸🎶

    • @DENVEROUTDOORMAN
      @DENVEROUTDOORMAN Рік тому

      Nope one of their worst albums...just a top 40 garbage album....too bad most requesters listen only to top 40 and not the best songs...

    • @vicprovost2561
      @vicprovost2561 Рік тому

      @@DENVEROUTDOORMAN LOL! What nonsense, Having a bad day are we?

  • @Hartlor_Tayley
    @Hartlor_Tayley Рік тому +18

    Great reaction. I think the song was written by the Guitarist Robby Krieger. Revolutionary song. Sixties had some of the best songs Thanks

  • @WMalven
    @WMalven Рік тому +25

    Actually this song was written by guitarist Bobby Krieger after Morrison challenged the band members to write songs. Morrison wrote only the second verse and the chorus, the rest was Krieger's. John Densmore suggested the Latin beat, because the Bossa Nova was popular at that time. They didn't want to just start in on the song without s lead-in, so Manzerak just sat down at the organ and came up with that opening.
    Not about drugs, it's about sex. Morriison was not a druggy per say (though he used plenty early on), his demon was alcohol

    • @TheCodyv1971
      @TheCodyv1971 Рік тому +6

      Jim actually wrote the second verse about the funeral pyre...Robby only had one verse written. Robby also repeated the chorus line of "come on baby light my fire" three times. Jim changed it to just two times then added the "try to set the night on fire" line to finish it. Robby introduced it to the band with a more acoustic, folk sound. John's Latin beat definitely was the right call.

    • @briankaufman7293
      @briankaufman7293 Рік тому +3

      You need to read Kreiger’s biography. Sounds like Jim did PLENTY of acid…other stuff too. Tho, yes, his main thing was booze.

    • @B4NDllKOOT_
      @B4NDllKOOT_ Рік тому

      Jim decided to change the last verse to “Tryna set the night on fire” cuz he thought it sounded good after “cmon baby light my fire” but Robbie has all the credit for creating the song from the very start and bring his ideas out to the band in the early days. They were truly a ruly band against the media back in the day

    • @michele-33
      @michele-33 Рік тому

      @@briankaufman7293
      He was allegedly angry with his girlfriend "Pamela Morrison Courson" when he found out she was doing heroin.
      I've I've always thought his drugs of choice were psychedelics and alcohol - and danger, pulling stunts like hanging out windows of high-rise hotel windows etc.
      (I don't know if it's true or just Rockstar myths :)

  • @Mr.Thriver
    @Mr.Thriver Рік тому +2

    "The Crystal Ship" .... Beautiful Morrison Voice!!! Thanks!!!

  • @vincentvancraig
    @vincentvancraig Рік тому +11

    There’s NO one like Ray manzarek, not even johann Sebastian Bach, Ray was just so unique...f’n out there, but so together and coherent at the same time...the repetition and symmetry in his playing and solos is what I’ve always wanted to here from a guitar player, or what I always look/listen for....Robby, of course did a good example of that kind of playing here...damn, they were legends

  • @RicoBurghFan
    @RicoBurghFan Рік тому +26

    Ray Manzarek was the best rock keyboardist ever, hands down. He and Jim, not to mention Robby Krieger and James Dinsmore, created some of the most unique and groundbreaking music in rock history.

  • @blackdog9951
    @blackdog9951 Рік тому +20

    Another classic Doors song written by Robbie Krieger is “Love Me Two Times”, a song he wrote for the US soldiers fighting in Vietnam.
    The Doors music was very popular with the soldiers over there. Later Apocalypse Now and Forest Gump would use their music in the movies. Check out “The End” sometime.
    Enjoying watching your reactions very much. 👍

    • @DENVEROUTDOORMAN
      @DENVEROUTDOORMAN Рік тому +1

      Love me 2 times not anyways near as good as When The Music's s Over or The End

    • @YariAzQuran
      @YariAzQuran Рік тому +1

      @@DENVEROUTDOORMAN When the Music's Over is one of the greatest songs of all time, IMO. I put Light My Fire and Crystal Ship in that category too.

  • @antarcticorb9197
    @antarcticorb9197 Рік тому +7

    In the summer of 1967, you couldn't leave the house without hearing this tune. It was a huge hit for them.
    It would be nice if you could keep the lyrics in time with the singer, otherwise great reaction!

  • @aufornvic
    @aufornvic 8 місяців тому +1

    The guitarist, Robbie Krieger , wrote this, it was his first ever song. Jim told him to write a song, and this was it. It was their first big hit.

  • @glennsmith8390
    @glennsmith8390 Рік тому +8

    Don't ever stop the great instrumental by Ray Manzerak-we know it's good-we don't need you telling us how great it is. we can hear it.

  • @LClark-ry9to
    @LClark-ry9to Рік тому +1

    When this came out it was on the AM radio constantly, fantastic.
    Age 66 lol , great channel.

  • @benhinds2971
    @benhinds2971 Рік тому +6

    The instrumental break is a take away from "My Favorite Things" -Coltrane. The base line is actually identical, and they modeled it after Trane on purpose.

    • @DENVEROUTDOORMAN
      @DENVEROUTDOORMAN Рік тому

      No it aint

    • @benhinds2971
      @benhinds2971 Рік тому

      @@DENVEROUTDOORMAN The minor progression when McCoy Tyner's solo starts until they go into the major progression at the ending of the solo is used in the solo portion of Light My Fire. Same bassline. Has the same vibe. That's what Ray told me. I lived in Den for 16 yrs. Miss it. Cheers!

  • @rodneyhearne3405
    @rodneyhearne3405 Рік тому +3

    Great reaction and breakdown. It is very hard to believe that this recording was made in 1966 and their debut Album was released in January of 1967. This song was a monster hit and is amazingly fresh after all of these years. I was 13 when I saw the Doors in Sacramento in December of the same year. What a concert! Thanks for ride!!

  • @cdronk
    @cdronk Рік тому +18

    Not my favorite Doors song, but. it was the one that introduced the Doors to the general public. It was a massive hit. I think the drummer never gets enough credit. There is so much subtly and flavor is his drumming. Particularly with his cymbal work.

    • @steveullrich7737
      @steveullrich7737 Рік тому +3

      Exactly his drumming was fantastic and added as much to the song as the others.

    • @paulkane7771
      @paulkane7771 Рік тому +1

      *cymbal. But hey, you got 4 of the 6 letters right!

    • @cdronk
      @cdronk Рік тому +2

      @@paulkane7771 Thanks for the free spell check nobody asked for. I'm sure you're a lot of fun at parties.

    • @DENVEROUTDOORMAN
      @DENVEROUTDOORMAN Рік тому +1

      Actually one of the groups songs

  • @ThePittsburghToddy
    @ThePittsburghToddy Рік тому +6

    New subscriber here. You really did a great analysis of this classic Doors track! 👌🏼🖖🏼

  • @ziggymarlowe5654
    @ziggymarlowe5654 Рік тому +5

    My father had a melt down when we played this in the house. He thought it was all about a guy trying to talk young innocent girls down the garden path. He was not a proponent of make love, not war.

  • @prairieschooner2595
    @prairieschooner2595 Рік тому +3

    That base line is hypnotic. Doesn't vary this is what I always focused on. It just put me in a trance

  • @helenespaulding7562
    @helenespaulding7562 Рік тому +6

    “The End” is a song by them that you should definitely review.

    • @DENVEROUTDOORMAN
      @DENVEROUTDOORMAN Рік тому

      Yes not enough requesters ask for it...cause they only listen and like short wimpy top 40 crap

  • @jbellinger99
    @jbellinger99 Рік тому +12

    The Doors are an interesting band, but rose and fall with the fortunes of Jim Morrison. When he was gone, they were over - Manzarek had a fair solo career, but this is Morrison's band. He was a mesmerizing presence, an uneven poet, and he had a short and meteoric career. Rumors persisted for years that he was still alive - he had a mysterious death in Paris. A lot of people hate it, but i think "American Prayer." an album assembled long after Morrison's death is really cool and interesting. It is too bad that Morrison took so much attention away from a fine band, or perhaps that they could not go on without him. When they worked, they worked well. "The End" may be one of their most iconic songs, besides "Riders on the Storm" which you have already heard. Thanks.

    • @jbellinger99
      @jbellinger99 Рік тому +3

      "the End" was featured predominately and beautifully used in the clasic film "Apocalypse Now".

    • @36karpatoruski
      @36karpatoruski Рік тому +3

      None of the other guys could sing worth a hoo-hah, or had any stage presence whatsoever. That’s why they flamed out. No one could take Morrison’s place!

    • @jbellinger99
      @jbellinger99 Рік тому

      @@36karpatoruski he ended up being his own worst enemy. If he had straightened out, or at least survived, who knows? Probably too old for a comeback now. I can't see him doing Vegas, 2 shows a night, three on weekends.

    • @jbellinger99
      @jbellinger99 Рік тому

      @@36karpatoruski They are questionable heroes. Ray Manzarek was the real deal, or they would have been little more than a great bar band with an awesome front man who took drank a little too much. A lot of weak material, but when they clicked, they clicked good.

  • @johncarpenter3751
    @johncarpenter3751 Рік тому +8

    Listing to the doors always makes me wanna dance, and I don’t dance. It’s really the keys 🎹 in this band. They just make you wanna dance

  • @Donnachaidh07
    @Donnachaidh07 Рік тому +2

    Check out their song:
    When the musics over.
    Amazing!

  • @greggeller450
    @greggeller450 Рік тому +4

    All of us who grew up with this music really like your appreciative reviews. Yeah, Ray is amazing (...they all are, here). His keyboard playing is, to me, reminiscent of David Gilmore's (Pink Floyd) guitar work: always perfect note choice, with a predominant focus on melody, not brute "shredding". Like Gilmore, you get the impression that this other genius could also go on for hours more or less improvising. This is what timeless brilliance looks like.

  • @jons3808
    @jons3808 Рік тому +3

    Great reaction! Such a powerful song lyrically and musically.

  • @thomasdreher8221
    @thomasdreher8221 Рік тому +6

    Note that Robbie Kreiger actually wrote the bulk of the song. Morrison added the more and pyre lines. Morrison was annoyed one day when they were trying to come up with more original material and he challenged everyone to write a song. Kreiger wrote this as a folk song. Morrison change the singing melody then Manzarek and Densmore added a "latin beat" to it. Krieger actually wrote some of the bigger hits. Morrison's lyrics and subject matter were usually to deep and disturbing for tje general public. Kreiger wrote Light my Fire, Love me Two Times, Love Her Madly and one or two more. Light my Fire is supposed to be a musical version of sex. That's why it starts slow, builds to intense crescendo, then returns and settles in to the same as the beginning. Listening carefully to the instrumental. The pounding beat, the repetitive guitar riff, keys going higher and higher, fasterband faster until it all comes together in a pounding finale to the instrumental

  • @michellezaleske-estrada40
    @michellezaleske-estrada40 Рік тому

    I was a little girl and I would wait, wait and wait, for this to come on the radio! I love Jim's voice to this day!

  • @helenespaulding7562
    @helenespaulding7562 Рік тому +1

    EXCELLENT review and analysis, Syed! SO glad the algorithm brought me to your channel! 😁✌️

  • @helenespaulding7562
    @helenespaulding7562 Рік тому +2

    That very particular sound from an organ, that you hear in the Music of The Doors, was one of the defining sounds of psychedelic music at that time. I remember….I was in college at this time…in LA. This song was all over the radio at that time. MAJOR hit.

  • @jtj909
    @jtj909 11 місяців тому +1

    These guys could PLAY!

  • @ungenerationed9022
    @ungenerationed9022 Рік тому +1

    Nicely done young man. Once again.

  • @huascar66
    @huascar66 Місяць тому

    Even though this song was released in early 1967, I associate it always with the summer of 1967, which was a most magical time, I must say! So much good music came out in 1967 that it has to be one of the most defining years in rock music.

  • @wiltchamberlain9920
    @wiltchamberlain9920 Рік тому +4

    Love the Doors. Love hearing your commentary on it. Light My Fire and LA Woman go back and forth as my personal favorite Doors song.
    Still hoping you'll do some Meshuggah someday. Preferably Bleed. Probably not yet. You're not ready. When you do it, make sure you watch the Drum Cam version.

  • @jackbackband7733
    @jackbackband7733 Рік тому

    Keep up the great job my man!

  • @827dusty
    @827dusty Рік тому +1

    Ray Manzarek, was the classically trained piano/organist for The Doors. He and Jim Morrison enjoyed their LSD trips together and creating these great songs. Morrison always considered himself a poet, more than a Rock Band front man.

  • @ed9095
    @ed9095 Рік тому

    The sitar was making its rounds in the rock world during this time period and Robby Krieger's solo in this tune always gave me the impression of imitating that particular sound.

  • @b3u3g3g3y
    @b3u3g3g3y Рік тому +2

    You might not believe me, but my uncle Robbie wrote this song. It's really cool to see you react to it. Be careful not to over-intellectualize the lyrics and music; Robbie will tell you that they were pretty much just trying to make it all sound trippy, and that's about it lol.

  • @ricellisfrost620
    @ricellisfrost620 Рік тому

    You're so into the Doors, great stuff Syed!

  • @becksullivan4796
    @becksullivan4796 Рік тому

    This song was soooo hot and Morrison was even more so. You just sat back and listened to this song over and over. A great time to be a teenager.

  • @827dusty
    @827dusty Рік тому +2

    There was simply no other Band like "The Doors" in the world from 1967 to Jim Morrison's Death in 1970, They produced a music catalogue that screamed, "You can't Pidgeon hole us!" Of course, he was (Jim Morrison) a member of the infamous "27 club," along with Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin. All three were superstars from the same era in the late 1960s, and all three died from drug, and or alcohol overdoses in their sleep., at the age of 27. They were in many ways, the poster children of the 1960s "Classic Rock/Blues culture. They are as well-known and popular today, as they were in 1967. These were top shelf artists, the best of the best.
    Thanks

  • @jamiereed2463
    @jamiereed2463 Рік тому +8

    Another great reaction! If you like keyboards, you really should check out some Deep Purple! Smoke on the Water, Space Truckin, Woman from Tokyo are a few suggestions!"

    • @TheDivayenta
      @TheDivayenta Рік тому +3

      “ Lazy” kills it on the organ.

    • @jamiereed2463
      @jamiereed2463 Рік тому +3

      @@TheDivayenta Can't believe I forgot to mention Lazy also Highway Star!

    • @TheDivayenta
      @TheDivayenta Рік тому +3

      @@jamiereed2463 I so miss the Hammond organ in music today.

    • @helenespaulding7562
      @helenespaulding7562 Рік тому +1

      Good suggestion for organ. Jack Lord was amazing keyboardist.

    • @helenespaulding7562
      @helenespaulding7562 Рік тому +2

      Yes, I don’t think Syed has reacted yet to them. The third member of the “Unholy Trinity”

  • @phillipharrison7283
    @phillipharrison7283 Рік тому +5

    Syed please listen to the version of Light my fire by Jose Feliciano. It was released as a single before the Doors and was extremely popular. The Doors released the single some weeks later and didn't get as big a response. I quite like both versions equally as they give off different vibes. Jose's is about half the speed and has no huge instrumental interlude. The Doors are brilliant no doubt. All four had significant input. Robbie is still in my top 10 guitarists of all time.

    • @kevinhumphreys1016
      @kevinhumphreys1016 Рік тому +2

      I remember hearing the Jose Feliciano version after the Doors version, at least here in Australia way back then

    • @36karpatoruski
      @36karpatoruski Рік тому +3

      Uh, NO. The song was written by Robbie Krieger, the Doors guitarist. Not a chance Feliciano recorded it first, or had any clue it was even written yet until the Doors made it a massive #1 hit.

    • @phillipharrison7283
      @phillipharrison7283 Рік тому

      @@36karpatoruski But the record company and management wanted to cash in on selling rights. They decided afterwards to release as a single.

    • @36karpatoruski
      @36karpatoruski Рік тому +2

      @@phillipharrison7283 Nice try. The Doors original was released in April 1967. Feliciano cover released in July 1968. If you heard the Feliciano version first you slept through the most important year of rock in history.

    • @DENVEROUTDOORMAN
      @DENVEROUTDOORMAN Рік тому +1

      Fuck No.....he butchered the crap out of this song...that version wasnt even good on top 40 garbage radio....How dare you

  • @cartercarter645
    @cartercarter645 Рік тому

    Yo u r soooo right - Ray is the glue - holds it all together. And if you listen to an interview, he is very intellectual

  • @I_Am_Become_Life
    @I_Am_Become_Life Рік тому

    Pucking brilliant on so many levels!

  • @jsutter52
    @jsutter52 Рік тому +1

    The ultimate making love ❤️ song from the '60s ... It's way , way Iconic ! Signature song of a generation ...

  • @elijahbaley1720
    @elijahbaley1720 Рік тому +1

    I love your interpretation of this song. I think you nailed it.

  • @randallpetersen9164
    @randallpetersen9164 9 місяців тому +1

    Dude, you're overthinking it, he just wants to get into their pants. So so so many guys used this song for that purpose in those years. :)

  • @theoeklund2840
    @theoeklund2840 Рік тому +1

    You should react to Roadhouse Blues, Break on through (to the other side), The end, Love me two times, People are strange, Love her madly, Soul Kitchen or just anything

  • @michele-33
    @michele-33 Рік тому +1

    Jim allegedly took the bands name from the book
    *The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley*.

  • @marklerner8963
    @marklerner8963 Місяць тому

    Transcendant Love.....the fire of love, going higher and higher, is to dive into the funeral pyre. Death-Love....dying into rebirth, a higher plane of consciousness together. Sexual passion as transcendance. Love as a kind of ego annihilation. 🔥

  • @MARCOSIDJUNE
    @MARCOSIDJUNE Рік тому

    Good job Brother...✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽

  • @garyspeed8961
    @garyspeed8961 Рік тому

    not a battle.. a magical dance of lovers, keyboard and guitar

  • @chrisbanks5925
    @chrisbanks5925 Рік тому

    Awesome .. nice reaction.

  • @slimpickins9124
    @slimpickins9124 Рік тому

    When this song hit the airwaves in "67 it became known as the "DJ's friend" as it's 6 minute play time was twice as long as the average tune at the time. It gave DJ's time for a personal break.

  • @ThisCharmingBat
    @ThisCharmingBat Рік тому

    One of the best songs of all time!

  • @alanstrom2221
    @alanstrom2221 Рік тому

    Aldous Huxley wrote a famous book called THE DOORS of PERCEPTION.
    This is where they got the Band's name.

  • @ronaldstokes4841
    @ronaldstokes4841 Рік тому

    Ed Sullivan said they'd never do his show again. They didn' want them to sing, "...we couldn' get much higher." They balked but Jim said OK, when they came on live, he sung the original. As for the 'Instrumental Break' ...probably one of the best long songs that radio stations would edit.

  • @williamlovett619
    @williamlovett619 Рік тому

    I enjoy your enjoyment

  • @helenespaulding7562
    @helenespaulding7562 Рік тому +1

    Syed, the longer I listen to your channel, the more I am intrigued by your amount of eclectic knowledge. Or perhaps you do research in advance? I mean, knowing Salvador Dali’s muse? That’s damn esoteric!
    I can’t do the live streams to get to know a bit about you, unfortunately. Would love to know what your “day job” is. 😁

  • @marklerner8963
    @marklerner8963 Місяць тому

    Manzarek's organ jam-fill is to me like a New Cosmic Mass.

  • @stevedahlberg8680
    @stevedahlberg8680 Рік тому

    Yep, definitely a signature tune. I really like the insightful nature and your analysis of this and I'm glad you appreciate it on a musical level as well. I got a 5 on the AP English test in high school and somehow it takes me back to that. Analyzing these metaphors and such, laugh. It's fun. I'm more of a musician myself and I like a lot of their stuff but I would very strongly urge you to check out their song Don't You Love Her Madly, if you haven't already. I am a hardcore musician and a whimsical romantic and a lifetime lover and for some reason this song works on all of those levels for me. 😀

  • @actorcontact
    @actorcontact Рік тому +2

    So much better when you are not reading the lyrics, just listen to the song and react and go back and read the lyrics later. Love to see you just react to the the song and not analyze the lyrics at the same time

    • @helenespaulding7562
      @helenespaulding7562 Рік тому +1

      I’ve also suggested that approach…which many other good reactors use. Evidently, Syed disagrees with us 😉

  • @kikovazquez7277
    @kikovazquez7277 Рік тому

    This was the killer song of I guess it was the summer of '67 which was also the "Summer of Love" in San Francisco. Quite a time in the music universe. We couldn't get enough of it. Almost all the time we heard it was on AM radio with the extended instrumental cut out to meet the time standards. Young ears still were not acclimated to long form compositions that the bands were playing with some frequency as the decade grinded towards the 70's. The pioneering FM rock stations distinguished themselves by playing these long form songs uncut.
    Speaking of long form, I think you could be in critical condition after getting your mind blown by the Doors avant garde long compositions "The End" and "When the Music's Over". Music and dark beat style poetry with Jim Morrison on the far edge - it was more performance art certainly than anything aimed for the hit parade. "The End" was used to great haunting effect in Francis Ford Coppola's "Apocalypse Now".

  • @randycomerford2038
    @randycomerford2038 Рік тому +1

    The Doors are the best band to come out of the 60's!!!

  • @mudbutt_9940
    @mudbutt_9940 Рік тому +3

    The doors are one of my favorite bands, If I had to rank every one of their songs, unfortunately, I would rank this song last, it's the only one if their songs I sometimes skip

  • @damonhines8187
    @damonhines8187 Рік тому

    Two brilliant solos performed back-to-back form the molten center of this jazz-rock gem. Add the Bach-ish bookends, Morrison's perfectly cresting vocals and you have something unlike anything we'd heard before. Whew. Or wow, indeed. The prize on a treasured album.

  • @emeraldcity_
    @emeraldcity_ Рік тому

    What’s under appreciated is Manzereck playing both the keys and the baseline at the same time

  • @kengunter6903
    @kengunter6903 Рік тому

    U gonna like this 1 for sure.

  • @mojorider8455
    @mojorider8455 Рік тому +1

    Syded, what's amazing about Ray killing the keyboards is that he played the bass with his left hand on a piano bass keyboard for the band! They didn't have a bassist and then Ray had to continue using his right hand to play the chord progressions and other musical lines.

    • @MrDiddyDee
      @MrDiddyDee Рік тому +1

      Live , yes, studio, no, what you mostly hear were session bass guitar players on their albums.

  • @izzonj
    @izzonj Рік тому +1

    I think Robbie Krieger actually wrote these lyrics for a change. It's really rare that a band's biggest popular hit is also one of their most musically creative and not just pop tripe

  • @bierce716
    @bierce716 Рік тому +3

    The name came from something Jim wrote, "there are things known, and things unknown, and between them are the doors"

  • @gordonpirie3707
    @gordonpirie3707 Рік тому

    Well done

  • @stephanieu.
    @stephanieu. Рік тому

    My favorite song by The Doors 🎸.

  • @robertjohnson5796
    @robertjohnson5796 Рік тому

    You are so much more intelligent than we were.

  • @malcolmhardwick4258
    @malcolmhardwick4258 Рік тому

    It was the guitarist who wrote this song. Robbie Kreiger. He wrote many songs in the band !

  • @bomberfox8360
    @bomberfox8360 Рік тому +1

    "a little bit of an instrumental break"

  • @LoveBandit1000
    @LoveBandit1000 Рік тому +2

    That organ solo is almost trance-inducing....

  • @mikeross14
    @mikeross14 3 місяці тому

    He only contributed No time to wallow in the mire!' Robbie Kreiger wrote tune!

  • @Airbaja
    @Airbaja Рік тому

    Robby wrote it, the very first song he ever wrote for the Doors, they were a true band, not the vehicle for Jim some suspect. Love the channel.

  • @user-cv3ep5ti4f
    @user-cv3ep5ti4f Рік тому

    The first verse was written by the guitarist Robby Krieger and the second by Jim. :)

  • @bjwnashe5589
    @bjwnashe5589 Рік тому +1

    Densmore is swinging on them drums.

  • @craigplatel813
    @craigplatel813 Рік тому

    Talk about opening doors! They were named for Aldous Huxley's The Doors of Perception.. so much if their music plays on perception of reality points if view etc...

  • @Alewifes_Husband
    @Alewifes_Husband Рік тому

    My older sister was a HUGE Doors fan -- still is 55 years later -- and I became one listening to her listen to their records in the late 60's and early 70's. Is it just me, commenters, or does this playback seem JUST A HAIR faster than usual?

  • @davidgagne3569
    @davidgagne3569 Рік тому

    I hope this isn't a double post. Robby Krieger actually wrote most of the song. This was his first song to write. Morrison actually gave him creative direction though. Jim brought in the second verse. At first Robby didn't care for it., "Why does it always have to be about death Jim?"
    The name of the band comes from the Aldous Huxley book "The Doors Of Perception". It's about Huxley's experience taking mescaline in 1953.
    The extended jam was inspired by the jams of John Coltrane - the jazz shaman.

  • @garufia
    @garufia Рік тому

    If you want to do more Doors reactions check out this live version of Bo Diddley's "Who do you love": The Doors - Who Do You Love (Live At The Matrix, 1967) A more somber version of course. Leave it to the Doors to interpret it that way. But I think you'd find it interesting.

  • @deborahscranton9279
    @deborahscranton9279 13 днів тому

    tHIS IS THE END

  • @jamesdignanmusic2765
    @jamesdignanmusic2765 Рік тому

    The band took their name from an Aldous Huxley book, a memoir of psychedelic experiences called “The Doors of Perception.” And don't forget John Densmore's input to that instrumental!

  • @notmichelle123
    @notmichelle123 Рік тому

    This is “the one” song for me. If there was only one song left, this would be it. It’s perfection!

  • @donfette5301
    @donfette5301 Рік тому

    Classic example of the classic Eros/Thanatos dyad.

  • @Amelas_One_1953
    @Amelas_One_1953 Рік тому

    If this is the 45 Single flip it over and play "The Crystal Ship". It's a great tune of the times in 67 as I recall!
    Amelas One