Was literally listening to this last night driving in the rain ❤

If you're a Stalker.

yep, first heard it in the backseat at night of my friends sister's car driving us home from a Suns game, never forget it.

I think you are right about this because it has some Jazz in it.

I love The Doors, but I seriously doubt that

how good were they live in comparison to all the other great talent of that era??? .... did morrison have an ability to transfix and work a crowd as the legend portends?

The Doors always said their Fillmore East and Roundhouse shows were some of their best.

I recall a classmate found in the university library, a copy of a book of poetry he wrote. It was out there, and very cool.

All four of them are credited for writing this, not just Jim.

Not important

Morrison’s father was CIA/DoD as were many other other artists in Laurel Canyon scene

Nope he was a songwriter

Well, I woke up this morning and I got myself a beer..... Exactly the sing I was thinking of! Late-stage Doors, where they just did whatever they wanted to.

Sacramento!!! That’s where we are from. Our Dad moved to Sacramento in 1968.

We will definitely continue down this rabbit hole

how good were they live in comparison to all the other great talent of that era??? .... did morrison have an ability to transfix and work a crowd as the legend portends?

@@kelvinkloud I just saw your post and wanted to at least give you feedback. Morrison was good and the band itself was very good. Morrison as you may know was a wild child and he pushed the limits quite often on stage but when I saw him, he was pretty good vocally and appeared to be very stable. By the way, in 1968 I was also blessed to see Cream and Jimi Hendrix in my hometown of Sacramento. It was a very heady time!

@@rodneyhearne3405 compared to all the other lead singers you saw in that great era, did morrison have the ability to transfix a crowd moreso.... was his command of stagecraft on another level?... i was too young to see him, but that is what is marketed about him in retrospect when you hear the doors talked about. I just dont know if it was overhyped or truly tangible. Ive seen moments on film where I see hints of it. but film & live are different. its why I'm interested to hear your takes. Your were a lucky guy to have grown up in that era. power to you for catching all that great talent. thx for any takes.

my favorite, peace frog

Different vibe for sure, but also a dark song.

I've always loved that whisper effect since I first heard it. Makes it sound creepy, especially on the "killer on the road" verse.

Thanks. I didn't know they used a bass player in the studio recordings.

When led Zeppelin was on the stage and when Jonh Paul Jones had to be on keyboards for some songs he played the bass line with his feet using his bass pedals

Ray used a Fender Rhodes Bass. It's an electric piano tuned in the bass register. The reason he can make it sound like a bass guitar is that the Fender Rhodes is a piano with guitar-type pickups, so it plays through amps and pedals like a guitar would.

@@jasonremy1627 Thanks for that trivia. I was unaware of that instrument. Very cool.

Glad you said that. I'm a terrible texter!

rays hand steered the ship.... jim's Eye rested atop the mast.... john & robby were the gears

@@kelvinkloud Robbie who I feel was underrated also had some incredible riffs and melodies that no one else could have

@@acehays John and Robbie are the most underrated members IMO

Eh....playing bass with your left hand is professional keyboard 101. Most jazz and classical players can do it in their sleep; Manzarek stuck out because nobody in "rock" was doing it but in reality it's not that big of a deal. He was a nice player but quite far from Genius level

Ray's equipment is a big part of his sound. He used a Fender Rhodes Bass, which was basically a mini piano equipped with Fender's bass pickups. So it sounded a lot like a Fender bass guitar.

The Doors took their name from Aldous Huxley's book, "The Doors of Perception".

@@coinneachmaclellan3121 Yes, I know.

agree.... although I think he is also scaling it out reflecting on the overall culture & its direction. present to future.

@kelvinkloud You're probably right. I've picked up on that theme in a couple of other songs. Of course, Jim was a poet not a philosopher, so none of his themes were directly fleshed out. He used poetic imagery.

@@jeffmurray1681 he like and studied symbolist poetry. Blake was a master at it & he loved Blake. Much of Morrison’s later work as here w/ riders implemented that style. More bare bones direct word usage wh/ at first appearance is seemingly simpler then some of his more abstract earlier like, can’t see your face in my mind. That Blake style like in Blake’s poem Tyger however is deceptively much denser than under first view. Like a the 7/8 of the iceberg not seen by the eye. Riders is using this same method as good as morrison ever did. He draws out a pretty simple narrative between a driver and a hitcher, yet the landscape it’s set in is dense. And the word usage though sparse and non abstract, is nevertheless dense and connects like a star pattern to scale out a larger picture. Aside from a spooky mood piece of a tension filled scene out in the desert canyons between a driver and a hitcher, it’s a contemplative ode to the unrest of the greater culture and what it may portend for both the indiv and the collective society. The fork in the road is the option of whether one (or society) indulges in destructive temptation by picking up the hitcher (who on a larger scale represents evil choice) or makes the decision to ride onward past the hitcher down the road (one or societies future destiny) and embrace one’s or societies positive potential of growth via finding love, family, holiday and sustained growth… it’s a really strong work by Jim and the band and quite the coda for him and his relationship and hope for his homeland. It also doesn’t dictate or impose an idea, rather lays out the options and brings the viewer in to contemplate and in turn thru free will, choose. It inspired the screenplay, hitcher and could be further developed in film or story I’m sure. It was also prescient as by the mid to late 70s some boomers did pick up the hitcher (evil choices) dissolved into madness w/ worse drug usage of coke, heroin, rising divorce and even violence as people like Ted bundy emerged. Yet, many others found healing, family and growth as they moved down the road of time in a positive manner. This same construct was shown in forest Gump thru his choices post Nam vs Jenny’s wh/ cost her though she did find peace in the end.

From the web site Songfacts - The song can be seen as an autobiographical account of Morrison's life: he considered himself a "Rider on the storm." The "killer on the road" is a reference to a screenplay he wrote called The Hitchhiker (An American Pastoral), where Morrison was going to play the part of a hitchhiker who goes on a murder spree. The lyrics, "Girl you gotta love your man" can be seen as a desperate plea to his long time girlfriend Pamela

Where does he say this?

@@ridgeracer7136 Everything I know, I learned from wikipedia :)

"Long Live Rock"...

The first and last good but Soft Parade was wimpy not a hit and way too commercialized

@@DENVEROUTDOORMAN I believe you must be thinking of something else. Not a wimpy song at all. Pretty strong lyrically and melodically. In addition, how does a non-hit become over commercialized?

Agree!!!

the bass on this album is exceptional... it was elvis' bass player brought in as a session man.

@@kelvinkloud that guy's good

"Jim wrote the lyrics" Robby Krieger wrote more of their hits and their better songs than the "poet".

That's great stuff Mark. I absolutely LOVE the unmistakable sound of the Fender-Rhodes electric piano. You're absolutely right, there has been an unbelievable amount of incredible music played on that instrument. I used to help a buddy carry an 88 key FR around for our gigs. Good grief that thing was a beast. Especially when it was in the Anvil case he had for it!

Exactly should have been down before this

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@@AirplayBeats 😂

Fantastic songs

"keys, guitar and drums actually came from a jazz background" No, they didn't. Was is it with you people making up bullshlt in these reaction video comments?