EliasIak2011 thanks for posting this:) I’m glad Ray made this... It’s great hearing his take, narration and history of this song... I have a unused Doors of the 21st century ticket before they changed the name:/ RIP RAY and Jim

Looking at his hands, I am so glad arthritis did not get him before he passed. Life can be all too cruel. He remained cheerful,upbeat and optimistic. Tells even the tragic bits in such a fashion that he clearly prefers to stay with the good memories. Working with a "functional" alcoholic must have had nightmarish moments. Yet he does not dwell on that. Good stuff.

Music is not what it used to be it's to commercialized the art and feeling and creativity has gone to the way side

Thank you for posting! My favorite song by the Doors. I would've loved to hear a 20 minute version of this song. It is so mystical, you don't even need drugs to get spaced out on it. That was Ray's magic.

You gotta Love Jim,, but man, Ray was a very talented musician. RIP

Absolutely, no music such theirs can be made anymore..!!!

can someone suggested me a band/some band sounds like the doors??

Polish blood. I don’t have too explain nothing more.

It’s a good song. Idk about genius though

These guys made history because they were in their own league. Only the Doors played like the Doors. They helped open the doors to the World of Rock and Roll. They were new, they were a fresh taste of music that No One Experimented with Yet! At that time. Now days, everyone wants to produce more like so and so's band. No one has the interest to be Unique and have their own music, their own style, their own sound. Someone needs to bring back the sound of music like the Doors!

Clever

Underrated comment !

I see what you did there

His fingers squriming on the notes

His Rhodes ran into a Fender!!! Doh!

It is just normal after all.

It's a very good song, I wouldn't call it one of the greatest. Once you have heard a minute of it you have heard the entire song

Honest to God, if Cancer didn't claim this man, he would've definitely got Dementia because if his above average IQ would've shriveled up his brain with old age

Certainly not even in the top 1000

Certainly top 10 greatest songs of all time

That is so spot on.

Agree. He was a genius.

😭

What a great comparison!

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***** probably my favorite Doors song. And Ray is on my all time favorite keyboard players list, along with Emerson and Lord. (RIP Ray and Jon). And what is remarkable is that he used a Farfisa organ (I had one as a teenager when I played in bands). Farfisa organs were the mainstream organs before the Hammonds. Farfisa were nowhere as versatile a keyboard. To do what he did using the keyboards available at the time is testament to his abilities and talent. And he also played the bass lines while soloing - incredible)))) (He had the finger bass keyboard from Fender).

jim massa yeah, playing the bass lines along with the soloing was an unbelievable talent:) Even to play bass lines and sing lead vocals takes full attention but to do what Ray did was really something.

jim massa . . To be accurate, Ray played a Vox Continental, and then a G101 Gibson Kalamazoo. Similar to a Farfisa, indeed--they are all transistor organs.

Alex Tirrell Really? How interesting. I was not aware of this. It sure sounded like a Farfisa to me because his organ sounded exactly like the Farfisa I played (before I went with Hammonds). He was such a good player, that no matter what he played on, he would have sounded superb - very tasteful solos, phrasing and so forth)) Thanks for the clarification. Cheers))

+jim massa just watch The Doors+Eddie Vedder, he plays a Casio but it sounds nice even whit that

The Doors sound wouldn't havent without Ray. 😎cat😻

I feel like that's a very ignorant take of keys players throughout recent history. I get you are speaking from a fan perspective, but don't be foolish. Rick Wakefield-Yes Benmont Tench- Tom Petty and the heartbreakers Herbie Hancock- Pick a record/group Stevie wonder Those are just a few players who were essential pieces to their bands and are definetely of Ray's Caliber. You can throw Journeys keys player in there, or Bruce Springsteen's... Those early Bowie records wouldn't be what they were without Mike garson.

D Boivin You are correct sir, he was one of the Greats. Magically hypnotic RIP

Absolutely!!!!

@@drdre4397 Don't forget Augie Meyers -- His Vox Continental was the keystone of The Sir Douglas Quintet's sound!

Kinda like JPJ, who used to play with both hands on the keyboard and both feet on the foot pedals

@@rkang6531 who are you referring to?

@@jamiegrubb3653 John Paul Jones, from Led Zeppelin. He's a multi instrument extraordinaire

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Wow... I didn't know that. That's very interesting. 😮

Agreed👍🏻

So much better than playing that game before sleeping (I'm addicted). Now I'll listen with more appreciation to Riders on the Storm.

For sure Mate

Give that 50min. So You can listen 5 times.

Agreed

Exactly bro!

Made me wish Jim Morrison wasn't a crackhead and didn't OD and was still alive ..

I agree

@4:30 especially when Ray calls out to "..Robbie!" ....and me not expecting that treat was very enjoyable!! #RipBoys

@@juanch6936 wasnt a crackhead. Coke head he was!

I could listen to musicians anecdotes all day long. It transports me to a more glamorous world and I imagine high spirited studio sessions with eccentric creative divas and tantrums and all sorts of self indulgence while the rest of society were obliviously getting through the drudgery of the 9 -5 not knowing that all this great music was being commited to tape to be enjoyed for years and years to come. I wish I could be part of that world.

a genius and funny moment 1:49

Every day I wish I could go back and find it again. Ray's insights are so incredible here

I got to see him in 1994 or so doing seminars at little local colleges, doing this shtick. One of my favorite memories.

God works in mysterious ways

you should check the LA Woman album making of, it is pure gold!

Agree! Saw him solo, it was fantastic! Always found the musicians explanation of the music's origin much more enjoyable than the song itself!

Yup! Was truly the head of the group, as far as what he envisioned the band to be!

Will enjoy the song more when the band explained how the song was written,....u just love these things about the band, the songs n all that...peace

I saw him with McClure as well, in Ann Arbor, MI. What a great show.

Matt think you summed that up perfectly.

If only I could make being so simple look genius.

@@grungepants haha real knowledge

If I could make look simple what’s simple

@@polythenepam3058 I don't want to know the truth about life and death though.

All these years I thought the line was "if you give this man a ride.....sweet Emily will die".

Agree 100%.

Definitely my Favorite DOORS SONG!

He looks and sounds like Neil Peart from Rush.

That opening is so nasty. That piano and base and then the rain. Uh.

The film was a disgrace. Had him as virtually a side man.

Robby too fr

Some might argue he was more essential!!

That's exactly what i thought

This song would make Leonardo Fournette puke but its awsome

gods 2 stroke kx500 started up, thunder crash, positive lighning out the exhaust port out of gods 2 stroke kx500 with a power valve of course, killer 2 stroke on the road

Discovery of a new sound was so exciting. Brilliant.

if you could play a and e and come up with a bassline like that you would be as well

It is great nothing like it anymore,a real shame.

ericplaysbass sure in the fuck is my friend , just takes me away like that calgon commercial from back in the day

Good description

@@porkfied that is the perfect way to describe this dude!

Exactly. The whole song and then outro makes it so dreamy

And he blames everyone else for how good each part sounds

Sasssss maate

This is amateur hour compared to what Jordan Rudess is capable of.

@@rbeforme two different styles not comparable

@@rbeforme capable of what? Pure skill on the piano? Because that was not what I was referring to but how his music makes you feel.

He was literate as hell as a speaker, so is Densmore, just more proof those guys were up so much more on the IQ scale than other bands. Ray was incredible, I mean who the hell comes up with an intro like the one for Light my fire at a moments notice?

britney spears

FSU weight room song

My old music teacher got me into the doors, Hendrix, Janis Joplin and many others. Without her I would have missed out on so much great music and amazing bands. Thank you Ms Taylor.

I was lucky enough to actually have a music teacher like this in school a jazz drummer and best teacher I had

Cory Clarke It was definitely part of what made them unique.

Cory Clarke Definitely the backbone of the music writing. one of a kind.

I agree 100%

It was the SUM TOTAL! ;-) Damn what a gang... and what a time and place

That's not an organ, he is known for his Fender Rhodes piano work.

You are not alone.

Exactly was going to say the same thing.and that sound......hair raising mystical magic

I agree... I've got this audio thing from Deezer. Jim and the band, just being interviewed by different people. I think it's called ' the lost tapes'?.. Jim was so elequent, and articulate.... U can listen to them talk- for hours. One thing I do know.... When that door closed- another one never opened- ever again..... Total class guys!👍👍😁

@@stephenrobinson9709 brother. right behind ya

Mmhmm, Ray's voice is more musical than Jim's, but Jim's was darker LOL xx

DeadheadJ Absolutely beautiful.... just brilliant...... I'm at a loss for words......

DeadheadJ Can't agree more, my friend..

DeadheadJ Best rain on an album, haha

similar thunder on black Sabbath by black Sabbath

The rains pretty and God damn difficult for key players

Sometimes the simplicity of just running down a scale is enough to add something beautiful to a song. I like to look at things such as that as examples of how easy it can be to play great music sometimes. It doesn't always have to be complicated

Get well soon

@@nicks4802 whats that scale

@@oylededemeseydin8320 no idea, im not a music reader, i just play things by ear, and half the time, i can't even tell you weatger or not im playing in minor or major. Its the oposite of the old saying "those who cant DO.... TEACH" I can't formally teach you anything, but I sure as hell know how to play it, and as long as you dont mind NOT knowing what it is that your playing, i can teach you plenty. If you want chord names and such, i can teach you the basic A through F chords in their open positions lol I can't actually make anything else I can play. Its just NOTES THAT SOUND GOOD TOGETHER IN SEQUENCE

@@oylededemeseydin8320 E dorian starting on the fifth and descending by thirds: B, G, A, F#, G, E etc.

agree 100% this is the Doors at their finest.

And notice that he is as exited about it now as he was 50 yrs ago.

Tardis exploding.

Naw, completely different. You’re obvs not a creative individual

Who's van gogh and what band is he in?

So..........who do you think will take the regionals this year?

"The End" would be a better pick for a funeral.

Best comment this year dude 👌

Im having highway to hell

Lol thats funny

@@nihsla yep

Best Comment ever Made!

Ray was simply a beautiful musician. Where the hell is that talent today? Happy to have grown up during the 60s and 70s. Man! As Ray would say LOL!

1960pj Special time for music for sure. Very different world today. Still good music out there (The Black Keys) but much more junk.

Still lots of good music out there from the 80s and 90s, depesche mode, smashing pumpkins, soundgardern. nine inch nails. Not much new talent after 2000 though. Bands are more concerned about making a 2 minute hit video then playing an instrument. I feel growing up in the 90s I had the last great era of musicians. Wish I could have been around to see the doors, floyd, zeppelin, the who, etc.

benD'anon fawkes lmao that's what I'm saying man.. a masterpiece at their fingertips. Lol

mick ray absolutely!

I couldn't have said it any better. I'm so thankful I found this video.

I've never heard the spirit, the essence, of the music of The Doors put quite that way! Not taking ANYTHING away from Robbie and John, as they're both brilliant in their own respect, but the mystical marriage of two of the greatest minds in rock music history, was just encapsulated in the most simple yet profound way in your words. Thank you Carl for your comment - it's perfect. 👍✌

@@paulwhite382 Ah, Thank you, but the words musical poetry are Isaac Asimov's, I just applied them here.

Jims words are overrated in my opinion

Robbie wrote alot of the songs, and all but one their hits.

@@Potimus_Ripme they are my favourite band from the 70's, yet I agree, jim morison lyrics are far from great..

Ray is the kind of guy I wish I was. The talent, the intunment with muse, the authenticness, (as you said) the down to earthness, the loyality, and basic openness to people and ideas. He was a true surfer of the cosmic wave, and I mean that with full respect of that oceans depth, and power.

He sounds really humble according to this. I find humblenes a beautiful characteristic.

Oh yeah, I'd like to see that interview with Ray and Echo and the Bunnymen.

Must have been around the time they were recording People Are Strange for The Lost Boys soundtrack.

@@dannylgriffin it was on MTV they were at some festival. We turned on the TV and there it was. It was sort of like lolopoloza (spelling?) or something, an outdoor concert with lots of bands

film school....

Jennifer Calabrano A. And he did all the bass lines on keyboard-the Doors had no bass player, that I’m aware of.

@@jackp9122 yes, it's true 👍

Totally agree

He was a wind bag.

--Beyond words---

Yessss! I love it!

i wish my spine could tingle

Goosebumps. Always...

ABSOLUTE - Just stumbled in as if just won the lottery @! It's Magic I tell Ya....

Agreed

Indeed.

True words .

Agreed.

OtavioFesoares... And a good singer

And now he's dead.........the curse of the Doors!

ListenToBigFace I wouldn't call it a curse. He lived another 42 years. Everybody dies eventually.

We all have that curse. First book I read about the doors in 1980. The title? "no one here gets our alive".

Like for Jane!

Luxembourg was my FIRST glimpse of Europe in the summer of 1982. What an experience. When we left a month later it was pouring and the Boeing 707's wings and engines were flexing like mad, thru the lightning filled clouds

Jonathan Vogel i

Jonathan Vogel yes I heard it then too. Got lots of great stuff from radio Luxembourg. This song blew me away. Been my all time favourite ever since. 👍🏻😊

Jonathan Vogel are you a doctor perhaps?

National Archives.

I regret never seeing the Doors in concert. They were phenomenal!

Gotta a love KZfaq!

......and some of us saw them more than once, they came twice to Phoenix.

@@maxjackism you lucky duck

I didn't know he died. This sucks. R.I.P.

Is lightning a uniflow or loop charged 2 strke, it can be either, Rotax 850 riders of the storm ETEC!!Im obsessed my OMC rotary 2 strokes are like break on through to the other side, nothinhg but XD-100 oil in my detroi 8v92 2 stroke

Ray manzerek defloped the Rotax 850 ETEC DFI, riders on the storm, Jim had an old Chevy powered by his own 2 stroke DFI engine, its what the riders of the storm ETEC is today, Mercury optimax is another of jim morrisons favorites, lighting is the ultimate 2 stroke with ball lightning plasma roller bearings for low friction! there is nothing like a doors based 600 CID 2 stroke v8 DFI engine! Mercury optimax and Evinrude ETEC are just parts, Detroit Diesel 2 stroke was just part of this!, A haunted 2 stroke i have a few OMC 2 stroke 528cc rotaries that are haunted!

I played a sax for many years, so can only play a keyboard with one hand. Ray was truly a master and a genius with it!

funny to read that, the way he's playing and talking through that 'gotta love your man' part, I'm just shaking my head and thinking that I'm definitely looking at one of the coolest cats to ever live. Said his name out loud for him a couple times, he deserves it.

+Ka D'Argo totally

Ka D'Argo no. Not really. He sucks at playing but you wouldn't know because you are a bitch

What sucks is thinking you know music, and being completely wrong. Sorry, Dixie. Ray Manzarek has a talent that is beyond your perception.

Judges others to be hateful... and is hateful himself ... be the change you want to see in the world.... +S Cramer

Bart Nelis yea exactly. What a dick that Cramer guy is for saying that

That always makes me lose it. I know he's a great keyboard player but he can do other stuff at the same time. Freaky.

You spend enough hours on an instrument and it does become an extension of yourself.

Muscle Memory! He is very talented and plays for ages. It is like walking for him. Everyone who learned to walk can easily talk while walking. ;)

@@TheBod76 Easy to say it

@@crtnmoya What do you mean? It works exactly like I explained it.

Don't forget the drummer. John Densmore's work with The Doors was just about perfect....much like Ringo Starr's contribution to virtually all of the Beatles recordings. Wholly different styles, but both knew how to consistently walk that wafer thin line between less and more. Few percussionists in a rock band have that talent.

Best line ever

Damn sorry dude, I just liked you comment and put it over 420....if that means anything to ya.

Jazz born from the blues, from the belly of the slave ship, dark indeed

So poetic

@Samí Warrior no it's not dipshit

I bet you that you could play…it’s in everyone’s DNA! I’ve taught tons of people and it is pure magic when it happens!

The front man ain't shit without great musicians backing him...

why underrated? Still much listened

That's the understatement of the year.

No one says he didn't

I dont think you know what underrated means, or you have no clue of the popularity of the doors. Either way you sound like a moron.

IKR! Didn’t he produce Los Angeles by X as well? Awesome guy.

My kids and grandkids have😎😎

My dad is a true artist/musician I got lucky.

or a grandson ( in my case)

Was just thinking that. I would have brought him for show and tell with the hopes there would have been a teacher cool enough (and old enough) to appreciate it.

Everyone wished

Ray was the Doors.

The hinge

The knob lol 😆

Nice

I will always wonder what The Doors would have evolved to, if Jim hadn't died. They were a very talented group.

just watched..great to get Rays insight and my thoughts exactly..genius, what an amazing song..thanks Ray,RIP

Jim told his sister he was sick of singing "light my fire".

He didn't spend decades, playing this night after night after night, with crowds expecting it the same way. It was also the last song Jim sang with The Doors. I am sure it is a special song for him.

@@seanj3667 I thought l.a women was the last song Jim recorded before going to Paris.

Personally, I believe the artist needs to “outlive” the disdain they develop for their popular piece. Ray has surly done this. Most don’t live that long.

Such a great enthusiastic story teller & explained what was going on!

And it's still magic.

Jim Morrison's poetry was trash

Sabiini uh oh your opinion sucks

They did have a bass player on a lot of recordings. 'Riders on the storm' and the 'LA Woman' album is covered in bass guitar by Jerry Scheff. This song has a very noticeable bass guitar, 'Love her madly ' has a great bass guitar riff.

True, especially live.. but they did use studio bassists on many songs where his keyboard bass didnd't cut it. Morrison Hotel and LA Woman have a bass guitar on every track.

I have their demo album, and rumor has it that it was woman.

@@rexterrocks Ray even mentioned Jerry in the beginning of this video hah

Chris Skinz maybe Carol Kaye?

I feel you man. The more i age as a musician myself. The more i realise that music is just a reflection and a purer form of everyday sounds we hear and pick up on throughout our lives ! God bless !

I'm crying watching this. Such incredible beauty and talent.

I am

@@damirzlatkic8134 did you read my mind? :) I also thought contemporary music is a harmonization of everything we hear . To be honest once I heard that idea in a jazz documentary many many years ago, I can't recall where. They said jazz reflected the sound of horns, construction and basically the sound of those years. Paying attention to late 90's early 2000's electronic music you can hear the new almost silent sounds of floopy disks and hard disk readings, compact disk players closing, silenced engines and confort gaining terrain, the new confortable places has a diferent sound, even today I kind of believe that electronic music is the sound of luxury, you can't play this kind of tune on an old am radio but you can surely play a blues on one.

Not really, no.

Jimmy Chimpo and a fucking genius!! :)

...and picking up hitch-hikers !

That and golden earrings radar love...

Wongchuk Atuk SO TRUE! Driving OTR, I drive a lot of nights, and there’s not much better than some Doors in the early morning hours, rolling into the break of dawn to shut down.

All thanks to Need For Speed Underground 2

@Omar Pavone the better version tbh

Same

I have the exactly same feeling brother!!

I enjoy watching this video clip so much and I do return to this so many times.

I’ve done it so many times and each time is magnificent.

Me too.

He was actually pretty damn good player. Like really good. :) That groove and stuff he's doing aint that easy tbh.

Ray was the doors ! I love jimbo but man the guy played bass,organ,keyboards,piano and sang in jim's place when he was unable to. Truly a genius

crunchb3rry He was a VIP but each of the four added to the mix. Ray was perhaps the MVP in this one.

This keyboard sound is synonymous with 60s music

@@mysoncrumphaseveryinjury3853 yet no one sounded like the Doors back in the day.

@@mysoncrumphaseveryinjury3853 it is a 60's song, but the doors were unique

Listen to some Floyd some time. Or some GOOD new age

No matter, this is still the most atmospheric song.

Natural Mystic- Bob Marley

Brilliant description

MR SLAV No Quarter Led Zeppelin