Classicly trained pianist + flamenco guitarist + jazz drummer + possessed poet = greatness

The beauty of the song is that it is studio live. No over dubbing, no added tracks. Just start recording, jam, done.

I always loved how he sings "Lets change the mood from glad to sadness" and then he does.

Jim Morrison, a lovely troubled soul and a professionally supportive band heightening his lyrics of poetry to perfectionism. I love every single song.

Jim has a thousand voices man. This is a great driving song.

A lot of whiskey and cigarettes went into that later voice.

As soulful as Morrison's voice is in this song, there is a sort of gritty anger and aggression to it.

30 years of owning this album and I never noticed America the Beautiful and you heard it first take. This is what a fresh perspective is all about. Love this channel. Love it.

It Jimbo's voice. Jimbo was Jim's drunk alter ego. Jimbo recorded LA Women.

You got to check out Roadhouse Blues guys. You'd definitely love that.

"Motel money murder madness..." line is in reference to the mysterious homicide of R&B singer Sam Cooke, who died in an LA motel. Great lyrics by Morrison to go from driving down your freeways where everything is sunny and care free to the dark underbelly of LA.

He is not singing about a woman as an actual living being. In the context of this song, L.A. IS the woman. Hope that helps.

The Doors were waaaay ahead of their time. Much like Black Sabbath was as well.

It's funny when George says he imagines a fat dude with a beard singing. Jim was heavier and had that full beard at that point. Roadhouse Blues should be next

I got a speeding ticket listening to this song, on the way to Saint Louis...the trooper said if I don't drop this down a mile an hour, you are going to jail. I told him what was playing on the radio and he told me to head on out and slow down....

One of the best songs ever made by one of the best bands to occupy the earth.

Roadhouse Blues will make the play list most def!

Fun fact: Jim Morrison was a poet and overall wordsmith of sorts and “Mr. Mojo risin”, the nonsensical lyric during the breakdown, is actually an anagram for Jim Morrison. Also the doors DID NOT have a full time bass player. This track had a studio musician, but What you’d be hearing live, and in the studio on most of the earlier albums, would be bass being played on these lower notes of a separate keyboard called a Vox Continental. Ray Manzarek would often split duties between bass rhythms and lead keyboards. Sometimes at the same time.

Morrison was an educated man and very intelligent. Despite all the contrary nonsense that he was an out of control hippy dippy. He had a keen incite on the 60's. Sadly he was a flawed man like everyone else and couldn't escape his demons! If he had lived I think we would have sought out his wisdom as an enlightened man.

Listen to “Love her Madly” and “Break on through to the other side.”😎

L.A. Woman was their 6th and final album before Jim Morrison’s death. All six albums with Jim are excellent!

If "L.A. Woman" made your play list then you MUST LISTEN to the doors The End", "People are strange" and "Roadhouse Blues" to truly understand Jim Morrison's voice range.

You two are my FAVOURITE reactors, your’e so smart, insightful and your’e authentic...it never feels fake with you. I wish you uploaded more videos!

Sadly, The Doors never got to play one song live from LA Woman. An absolute crime. RIP, Jim.

Robby Krieger is criminally underrated as a guitarist.

"My image is this heavy set, grungy, big bearded. . . " By the time they recorded L.A. woman, your not far off.

Mr Mojo Risin is an anagram of his name. I love that.

What an amazing song. Jim Morrison lyrics at his best. I grew up listening to the doors. What a great band. Morrison died way too soon. He was a great poet.

Upbeat music with dark lyrics was a trademark of the Doors.

Jims blues era towards his death were some of the best songs.

The Doors live concerts must have been out of this world! Jim Morrison was so hypnotic as a poet and to follow up with him, you got Ray, John, and Robby who were all masters of their craft. One of the greatest fkn bands ever dude

Elvis bass player Jerry Schiff played on this album, in concert Ray played the bass on the keyboards with one hand while playing chords with his other hand

Interestingly, Manzarek was classically trained on piano, Kreiger was a Flamenco guitarist, and Densmore was a jazz drummer.

Dudes that comparisson between Tool Anema and LA Woman, you are genius! It has the same vibe, different style same message, of course Tool is more apocalyptic.

LA Woman is the song Jim was allowed to let loose and over blow. The album didn’t have a producer restraining the sound. This song captures Jim finally set free.

Dude you captured it! "Motel, money, murder, madness! Let's change the mood from glad to sadness!" Total L.A. Woman right there! This is their city and The Doors world! Things are up and they are down but it's the world they are living in L.A.

Finally another Doors video 😁👍🏻

Mr. Ray Manzarek was a genius on the keys, absolute beast!

The Doors never really considered themselves part of the Hippie peace generation - they related more to The Beat generation that preceded it - one reason their music was so strongly influenced by Blues - I think the Miami concert was when this division really came out as Jim screamed at the crowd of hippies who wanted to hear Light My Fire and called them all "slaves" - he was out of his mind and got arrested later on and charged with public indecency and all that jazz ...

I never understood why so many people hate on The Doors. I've always liked them

Morrison definitely sings this song. He was absolutely hammered during nearly the entire recording session for this album.

The End is very much it’s own thing. It’s not about getting to know The Doors, it’s just a weird trip, that doesn’t hand you a good example of what this band does best.

This track is great, the album is magnificent. More of this bluesy quality on it as you all know. Of course it followed Morrison Hotel where that twisted alt-country-blues sound started for the Doors.

That's the beauty of his voice. It came from a messed up place but it was beautiful. 💖

Oh thats jim alright. He had more than one singing style, very versatile

I’d love to see y’all react to People Are Strange by The Doors, Nights in White Satin by The Moody Blues and Spill The Wine by Eric Burdon and War.

For a band that had so many great songs this is probably my favorite (this & Roadhouse Blues) it never gets old & is probably one of the best driving songs ever recorded....check out “Peace Frog”

Interesting story about this song: When it was recorded, the band members were not speaking to each other and recorded it in a hotel room in L.A. The band was playing in the main part of the room and Jim was singing in the bathroom. That's why his voice has sort of a echo quality to it...

He’s not mimicking, he’s just drunk jimbo.

The Doors are the perfect soundtrack to summer cruising at night, convertible optional.

Yes that is Jim singing. On this album he took the mic in a bathroom to record the whole album. After years of alcoholism his voice showed the damage even though he kept the soul of himself. I enjoy you two handsome guys very much.

That's the "porcelain echo". He recorded his vocals for this song (and possibly the whole album) in the studio bathroom. It makes his vocals sound a bit different, and this particular remix enhances that. Also I just recently learned that it's Elvis' bassist at the time (Jerry Scheff) on bass for this album. Their producer (Bruce Botnick) usually played bass on their studio tracks but they brought in Scheff at Morrison's request (IIRC). Of course, Ray Manzarek would do double duty playing a bass keyboard with his left hand when they played live.

Jim Morrison had a very versatile voice. He doesn't sound the same in any of the Doors songs.

"Woke up this morning and got myself a beer." Morrison could write beautifully as well.

That's Jimbo. He was just blitzed outta his mind constantly. Wasn't a moment he didn't have a bottle in his hand

The Doors L. A. Woman was released in 1971 and that was their last album due to the fact Jim Morrison (lead singer) died of a heart attack while taking a break in Paris, France. He was only 27 years old. (Note: Jim Morrison did all the lead vocals on the songs.)

Y'all get it. That's why I keep coming back.

This is Jim Morrison's alter-ego "Mr. Mojo Risin" -- Hammered as hell in the bathroom of a Hollywood bungalow

He was a modern day poet a real genuine talent.

RIP Mr Morrison WE NEVER FORGET WHAT YOU GIVE TO US love you for ever !!!

"Love her madly" that's a very underrated song by the doors

"When the music's over". You gotta do it . The best Doors song ever

That change in mood at 15:40 in this video is cool because he sings 'Let's change the mood from glad to sadness' and right after that the song changes to a Minor tonality from being Major throughout the initial part of the song. The music literally changed from 'happy' to 'sad'

It was Morrison singing, his voice got more mature and more controlled

You were mostly correct! The distorted sounds at the beginning are "My Country, 'Tis Of Thee".

The bassist on this album was Elvis’ bass player from the 60’s until Elvis’ death

The album is mostly a look at the underbelly of LA. The song LA Woman is a love song to his city! The line, “if they say I never loved you, you know they are a liar,” was because in the last year of his life he and his girlfriend had moved to Paris. If you really want your mind blown, listen to “The End,” “When the Music’s Over,” “The Soft Parade,” and “Texas Radio and the Big Beat.”

That's Jim singing🥰. I used to listen to that cassette every day on my Walkman on my way back and forth to work ( making meals for the homeless) every day for a long period in 1988. He really made my days💃

That IS Jim in the flesh my man. Dude could sing twenty different ways if you asked him

I don´t know if someone else already said this, but Mr Mojo Risin is an anagram for Jim Morrison :)

Guitarist, keyboardist, drummer, vocalist created mystical, mythical, magical tunes for us to rock to.

John Densmore learned his chops from jazz great drummers, and what he's up to around minute 12:40 in this video is all Elvin Jones.

Peacefrog, Moonlight Drive, Break on Through..... So many more

Jim was a fan of film, and I think he was channeling the cynicism of 1940s films noir about the dark side of LA. You guys nailed this.

These 2 guys are great. They feel music

This song has what many fans and listeners would consider to be a signature Jim Morrison vocal -- that deep tenor/baritone with grit and growl. A sense of menace and pain woven in.

This is JIM MORRISON, he could sing so melodic and beautiful and in one second rip your heart out with a blood curdling scream !!!! Jim loved singing blues. Great job guys !!!!

Ahh, The Doors make me swoon. James was such a unique man. Their music, for me, is profound on a spiritual level.

you guys crack me up. Great video! The way you guys reacted to this song is how I react every time I hear it

That's funny that you guys analyzed that beginning part. My son said it hurts his ears lol. He's got perfect pitch so I understand his logic.

Jim Morrison was the ultimate front man. Could you imagine how different this would sound in the 70's?

Man you guys help me see some of these songs in a different light. Thanks free thinking folk.

This song is a combo of Robbie, the guitarist and his flamenco background, and the vocalist, Jim, and his love for the blues. He loved the blues more than rock. Get your mojo rising is punny as mojo risin is a rough anagram of Jim Morrison, the singer. Relisten to Riders on the Storm... not only does he sing the lyrics...he whispers them too. Be well!

The entire LA Woman album has a jazzy/blues genre. So youd definitely have to check it out. In particular the number "Car hiss by my window" that number is such a typical blues youd definitely love

The Crystal Ship.

"... topless bars. Never saw a woman so alone, so alone..." Hard to imagine a more powerful, visual statement with so few words in rock lyrics. Well-crafted, thoughtful poetry in an eternal song.

Wow, man I loved your reaction. The Doors captured the truth and the feel of LA in 1970, and that same truth and feel applies to LA today! LA Woman was recorded in 1970, and released in 1971. You nailed it! You're right, Mr. Mojo Risin' was Jim Morrison's alter ego. As the story goes, when Jim Morrison was a boy, his family came across a fatal accident involving a bus full of Native American Indians. He said that it was a really bad accident scene with a lot of bodies so badly injured, still laying in the road and on the side of the road as his family drove by. He said he saw some of them look right at him!! He couldn't look away and then he said he saw their souls leaving their bodies. Jim said that one of them entered his body!! He felt him inside his mind as a little boy. He said that man would come out sometimes, and when he got older, that man became his alter ego! Remember, the country was at war in Vietnam. The teens and 20 somethings were doing drugs. Everyone was fascinated by drugs. I might have only been a kid, but growing up in a big family in the city, I watched it all happen. The Doors were playing on every radio on every street corner as we all watched the older teen boys being marched off to war. The average U.S. soldier was a 19-year-old man from a poor or working-class family and they were drafted. The draft didn't end until 1973. This amazing one of a kind song brings back my childhood days. Every teen and 20 something , even, kids were mesmerized by the Doors. I still listen to it when I want to feel young and wild. THANK YOU for your appreciation of this counter culture song . Gotta' keep on risin'! Risin, risin!! Yea!

Jerry Scheff In 1971, he appeared on L.A. Woman, the final album recorded by The Doors with Jim Morrison, playing bass on every track save one. In July 1969, Scheff became a member of Elvis Presley's touring TCB Band. 1st time Doors used bass player They asked Jerry to join to keep Jim focused because of Jim's respect for Elvis n his band

Great reaction. You all break it down. Very professionally produced video.

Ray Mandzarek was perhaps the greatest pianist in rock. He would play piano with one hand, a bass line with the other.

I think Jim was REALLY hammered when he sang and recorded this.

This song and driving through the Hollywood hills in a cabrio in the summer = pure bliss 😄

The Doors were like Faith No More back in the 60s. Extreme singer. Great keyboards. Unique guitar player.

Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing

Can you imagine seeing the Doors live in the Whiskey a go go back in the day

at least 3 speeding tickets have come my way because of this freaking tune! Love it!

Jim had a few different levels to his voice depending on how high he was. Lol Not being insulting, just stating truth.

Love the Doors. They are not for everyone. So I was pleasantly surprised that you are a kindred Doors listener, and paying close attention to the lyrics. Above all, Jim was a poet. This is latter Morrison after the drugs and booze got to him. His voice changed and evolved throughout his career depending on the alcohol and drug consumption, whether he was drunk when he recorded or tripping on acid. He also gained an enormous amount of weight which impacted his vocals as well. He’s definitely drunk on this recording which gives him that slurry kind of rich bravado. So sad the excesses killed him in the end. 😢the murder madness is about Manson. The Manson murders happened 2 years before. And it was still very heavy over LA in 71’. Also fun to note, the Doors had no bass. The bass you’re hearing is actually organ. This right here is music made for getting stoned 😉 also Mr. Mojo Rising is the name “Jim Morrison” rearranged. 👍

Let err rip! Jim's vocals have an incredible power here. I've always loved that part at the middle-end. So much soul and gusto!

This is jim influenced by LA getting drunk everyday in LA