I cant hear this song without thinking of the Francis Ford Coppala movie Apocalypse Now. The movie starts with this song. Vietnam themed movie

John Densmore's drumming in this is phenomenal, captivating, brilliant. from start to finish in one take.

I remember this tune coming out, 17 then. All-night LSD party with all the stunning music outlaw music, Doors, Led Zepplin, Country Joe & the Fish, Blue Cheer, Steppenwolf, the list goes on & on.

Thanks for being courageous and reacting to this song...Jim Morrison never wanted to be a rock star, he studied film, and had a passion for Poetry...and the fates aligned, ...if every English teacher in America , gave two weeks to Dylan and Morrison, me thinks no one would thing Literature and poetry were boring ❤..great reaction my friend.✌️

Hey JM, My son Mike called, I said...JM just did The Doors - The End.... He said, NO! KIDDING!!, That is one of the songs that you must hear to consider yourself a true connoisseur of Classic Rock, and some borderline insanity.... I said Yep.

Can't say enough about the Doors. Vocals, arrangements, and the keyboards..omg. so good. Once in a generation band. Tons of great , great music.

What a beautiful tragic tale of a song this is just chilling.

Amazing looking back that The End and Light My Fire were on the bands first album! Nobody else sounds like the Doors. Sweet, dark melodies and lyrics.

Jim was an avid reader and philosopher, as well as a writer, and even playwright. He was almost obsessed with dark themes and death, and how they interact with life. He used to do things like walk on the railings of his hotel balconies, many stories high. While also high on drugs! This song has elements of the Greek Oedipus complex. "The End" is death, although the song also deals with Jim Morrison's parents - it contains Oedipal themes of loving the mother and killing the father. Morrison was always vague as to the meaning, explaining: "It could be almost anything you want it to be."

The End was Jim Morrison's improvisation song onstage. Every night he sang it, the extended poetry section in the middle was different. He used it to try out new ideas, scraps of poetry, lines he was toying with. But when they went into the studio and recorded it, that pretty much froze the song. Everyone expected to hear what was on the album, so the improvising faded out mostly. Onstage, he yelled out the climax of the Oedipal section, but that wouldn't fly on a record, so he mangled it. And all of those "fuck me"'s at the end were originally buried deep in the mix; you had to turn your speakers way up to hear them. Now it's not necessary to hide such stuff, of course, so when the album was remastered, those barking whispers were brought back up to the fore where they belonged. What Jim meant by this song, no one is sure. He had a habit of telling everyone who asked about it something different. I live in L.A., and I've met at least three people who say Jim told them the song was about their friendship, including the poet Michael Ford. Morrison was mischievous that way. (In one sense, this song really was the end, since it was the last song on their debut album.)

In an interview Manzarek said Jim had no real lyrics and went into the booth empty handed and created most of the songs lyrics as they played following his hand gestures for intensity after one brief run through musically before recording. They had no idea what he was going to say and were not too surprised given the state of mind he was in at the time.

Jim wrote all the words. Ray Manzarek wrote all the music was the keyboard player.

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The Doors are basically a three man band with a vocalist who played Tambourine on some tunes.. Formed in Los Angeles in 1965, with vocalist Jim Morrison, keyboardist/Fender Keyboard Bass, Ray Manzarek, guitarist Robby Krieger and drummer John Densmore

My husband is a Vietnam Vet and he said that during boot camp the Drill Instructors would repeatedly yell "KI*L! KI*L! KI*L!" which Jim also did in this song. He may have gotten that line from the military - his father was a rear admiral in the Navy.

Great song, great reaction! There was a shorter, cleaned up version that was played on the radio at the time. Two reasons, 1) the length of the song was not considered radio friendly and 2) certainly not the repeated use of the F word 😂

"The killer" DEFINITELY killed his Mother....but he "did something to her" first. It's ASTONISHING to me how many younger listeners/reviewers DON'T GET THIS Oedipal reference. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised but WOW.....just......wow.......

Another example of a band from the 60's that was totally unique. You can pretty much hear a song by the doors and you can tell it's them before 15 sec goes by. Love this song!

a live version in Toronto Canada TV studio is just wicked. Rock on JMBOY TV

Like the fact u play full songs before reacting was getting fed up with other reaction videos who keep stopping to give their options excellent keep up my friend.😊😊.

Haha great reaction the doors are absolutely awesome the most unique band of all time

Well JM... Now you truly have stepped through the door into the world of Jim Morrison and The Doors. Imagine you are only 11 years old when this experience changes your life as you knew it... Great Mother Natures Finest helped a lot.

At 11 years old I had to buy this album with my own money knowing my parents would never approve of some of the songs on this album. I never played it with them at home,,,, But... brought it to many PARTY and everyone was happy. Light My Fire.... Yep, every time I hear that song.

Recorded Live in One Take..... The Good Old Days Of Classic Rock.

This & When The Musics Over are my favoritesof theirs. And their version of Gloria (uncensored). Jim

Vietnam War movie Apocalypse Now this is the song they used, if you get a chance to see it do so.

Morrison was a poet, what might be called a beat poet, in that it was very disjointed with fairly indecipherable meaning, more like setting a dark mood. He was also a great vocalist and a self-destructive person who died way too young. Ray Manzarek was the greatest keyboardist in rock history, Robby Krieger was an awesome, versatile guitarist and James Dinsmore a brilliant drummer. Together they formed one of the greatest bands ever assembled. You entered a deep well here bro!

Morrison wrote this song in the beginning about a breakup he had a with his girlfriend Mary Weberlow. Before the Doors became famous they performed this song over and over at a club in LA called the London Fog, and then the Whisky a Gogo and one day when the band was about to perform, Jim hadn’t showed up and they went to pick him up at his hotel and he was stoned on acid and absolutely wanted to perform that song and he added the oedipus part. The blue bus thing is a reference to a bus he used to take as a teenager to school he just added it that up. To really understand the song you have to remember the 60s for teenagers was about rebelling so the oedipus thing is really Morrison call to tell kids to break up from all the very rigid attempts and restrictions parents used to place on kids in the 50s

Strangeness of this one sets it apart even from other great Doors pieces. Its musical and vocal stream of conciousness excursions from psychedelia to psychosis to the ''electric kool aid acid test" (Cowboy Niel was at the wheel of the Blue Bus) to the farewells at the "end" are truly remarkable.

BTW... Every song on that album is something you want to hear. I almost suggested you do an entire album reaction with this album.

Great reaction. Peace out.

If you do album reactions, try The Door's 'An American Prayer', an account of Jim's poetry that he recited on tape, which was backed up musically by his bandmates after he 'died'. Although I doubt he died- he had said at one point that he was going to fake his death one day. And only two people claimed to see his body- his girlfriend Pamela Courson, and I believe his manager.

Morrison was one of the greatest musical minds ever. He was also insane he would strip naked and think he was mind controlling the crowds tripping on acid😂

Even after I started tripping once hearing this song again always make me think “yeah dude was tripping hard on this one” 😂

This was the most outrageous song in my teeny bopper mind way back then. To depict murder shocked my 13 year old self

It was “Light My Fire” that launched The Doors into the stratosphere. . . and I can only imagine how all those kids who bought their first album to get that very nice pop song reacted when they discovered that the record closed out on this epic of inspired lunacy. (Morrison’s torrent of obscenity is buried in the original mix, though the Oedipal material isn’t.) Not to everyone’s taste, but for my money the only thing more note-perfect than “The End” is its use in Francis Coppola’s APOCALYPSE NOW.

"Ride the snake to the lake" the man was a poet. AN EXTRORDINARY TALENT!!

Hi JMBOY, I liked your reaction/ Checkout the story/play by Sophocles Oedipus Rex ( aka Oedipus the King). There's great teleplay with Michael Pennington and Claire Bloom on KZfaq. Sir John Gielgud even makes an appearance, the acclaimed Shakesperean actor. That play served as the basis for Aristotle's book, The Poetics, which is classic theatre knowledge. Enjoy. I subscribed.

Yeah, that’s as crazy as I remember it.

This is another of those ICONIC songs that if you know all the lyrics... Much Respect For You.

One thing you MUST understand. LSD. It is as part of the Doors as the music itself. Same with Donavan and the Beatles after Sgt Peppers. The Moody Blues so many bands in the 60's were high AF. Take it for what you will. It's just a fact.

The Doors + Acid = Blowin Mind. 💥 💥

This was Morrison's "death/suicide song"

I never heard this song before, but I love Jim Morrison’s music. He was quite the rebel in his day, the fans loved him, but the establishment, not so much. 😄🥰

I wish the song was longer. Now watch Apolcalypse Now. Film revised the song

I admit i listen to the Doors without reference to the lyrics. Just Morrison's voice and the musicians' massive talent is enough for me. I'm more open minded now, in my 70's than i was in my teens in the 60s. I found Morrisons lyrics very disturbing then. Couldnt help but listen, though.

Cool story. But truth. Nobody will ever believe me. I was a mechanic workin on 18 whllrs in rva. I swear....I met Jim. After his....ahem...death. he wad drivin a 78 Pete. I asked him his name ....JOHNNY JOHNSON was his reply. Roadhouse Blues was on radio at the time. I asked him if he was Jim. He just replied ...."aint this a good song".....climbed in his Peterbilt. And sailed off on 95 south. No shit!!!

This does bring up the question of, has JM seen Apocalypse Now!?

No commets . Just ❤️ for you! You have a new secriber from Sweden.

Riders on the Storm Peace Frog Touch Me Back Door Man Hello, I Love You these are just few I can come up with off to the top of me puny lil head.

Would a patron be so kind to possibly suggest JM to consider reacting to "Inside Looking Out" by Grandfunk Railroad. The video, audio? I just think JM would immensely enjoy and his reaction would be epic to watch 😊

The revolution....will b televizd

JM, as you know I copy most all your videos. This is among my Top Ten Favorites of mine you have done. Thanks again.

Just a little bit, it was like the indian sitar music.

Crystal ship

American Bohemia

watch the movie The Doors by Oliver Stone. The song is about experiencing LSD when the group is in the desert and the psychedelic experience.

I love thier songs. P LEASE react to love street. The Doors movie is fabulous.

1967

No....he didn't kill his mother. It's a reference to Oedipus.

Snake=road.

Driver, where you taking us? When The Music's Over is easily as good as this tune...

Vietnam.

Back when music was creative and artistic. Created and celebrated, as opposed to creating a template and packaging it for mass consumption. IMHO

Psychedelic….my youth. I really enjoy your reactions. You let the music play. And trust us to listen to your take on the performance A+… you have a subscriber. His mom…pretty much he wanted sex…

The Doors top 5?

This is one of the great songs of it's time/genre, but in truth The Doors this song apart and a few others, were one of the most overrated Bands of their time