Many Are OFFENDED by This INSANE Song…But it DOES'NT MEAN What You Think it Does!--Professor of Rock
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- Up next one of rock’s most mesmerizing frontmen, Jim Morrison, was playing one of The Doors's new songs "The End" as the house band for one of California’s most happening clubs... when Jim suddenly went off on a creative tangent that hearkened back to a story from Greek mythology. But the audience had no idea what was going on… Jim Morrison took a song that was already about death, birth, freedom, sex, murder, madness, and whatever else you can think of and put some relish on it. He screamed out a profanity-laced desire that would shock every generation thereafter who would hear the story or the song. and that’s not all. There are some insane stories that go with this epic 12-minute song… including how Morrison was fired for performing it and how he got buck-naked and hosed down a recording studio with a fire extinguisher. And there’s plenty more where that came from… It’s all coming up NEXT on the Professor of Rock.
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How do I even introduce today’s song… It’s so messed up. so insane I have wondered for some time if I should even cover it. But it’s also one of the most interesting songs of its time. So after pondering on it for a few months i’ve decided to enter the doors of perception and tackle this strange and tortured song. On today’s episode, from their 1966 debut record, it’s The Doors with their haunting and enigmatic 11 plus minute epic, The End.
The beginning of The Doors goes back to a chance meeting between lead singer Jim Morrison and keyboardist Ray Manzarek. The two acquaintances had previously met at UCLA’s film school, but crossed paths again on the beach in Venice, California. This was in the summer of 1965. Originally, Morrison had no aspirations of becoming a singer. But a poet by nature, he had started writing songs based on, in his words, “a fantastic rock concert that was going on inside my head.” After the subject of songwriting came up, Manzarek’s asked Morrison to sing some of his lyrics… Jim then serenaded Ray with the opening words of "Moonlight Drive”, a song that would later make its way onto The Doors’ sophomore record, Strange Days.
After hearing Jim’s lyrics, Ray was in shock. He had never heard anything like them. So he invited Jim to join his group Rick and the Ravens. The line-up featured Ray’s two brothers Rick and Jim, drummer John Densmore, and bassist Patricia Hansen. With Morrison on the mic, the Ravens recorded a demo that included several future Doors tracks. However, EP failed to garner any interest in the music industry. And so Ray’s brothers, along with Patricia left the band.
From there, the remaining trio renamed themselves The Doors after Aldous Huxley’s The Doors of Perception, and enlisted guitarist Robby Krieger. By 1966, The Doors were hired on as the house band at the famed LA club the Whisky a Go Go. - Zábava
Poll: What is your pick for most EPIC song of the Rock Era. Epic in lyrics, music and message....
Has to be from the other day American Pie.
The End - The Doors (You called it correctly, Professor!)
Kansas "Dust in the Wind"
Alan Parsons - As Lights Fall
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Alan Parsons - Old and Wise
Closer to Home - Grand Funk
Higher Place - Tom Petty
Karn Evil 9 - ELP
Iron Maiden - The Trooper and Aces High.
In 2006 I was 400 miles away from home and was involved in a horrible car crash. I was severely injured, with a traumatic brain injury and a dislocated shoulder. I couldn't get back home and had no place to stay. But a friend of mine found a place for me to stay. That place was with Jim Morrison's first cousin, a retired multi-millionaire and gourmet chef. I was injured and temporarily homeless, but spent the next several days as the guest of Mr Morrison, eating gourmet food and listening to stories about he and Jim as children. Unfortunately, my concussion has prevented me from remembering a lot of what Mr Morrison told me. But I do remember the irony of the situation I was in.
Apparently, when Jim talks about 'the snake is long, seven miles' he is talking about when he would trip on acid and walk from Coronado, CA to Imperial Beach, CA on the beach that is seven miles. The Navy Seals used to swim that distance in BUD/S training for their seven mile swim. For anyone really wanting to know the impact of Jim, if one goes to Nimitz Hill in Guam where COMNAVMAR (Commander of Naval Forces Marianas) sits, there are pictures in the foyer of every admiral, in order, that served as COMNAVMAR. There is always one picture missing, always, of Jim's Father Admiral Morrison. It doesn't go unnoticed like a missing tooth. No other pictures ever came up missing to include the first COMNAVMAR, Admiral Nimitz. We used to run bets on how long a new picture would last before someone stole it from its slot. Keep in mind, there are security cameras in the foyer and the picture still managed to get lifted. That is the impact Jim had in that many would risk their careers to steal his Father's portrait. When Admiral Morrison died, the San Diego Union Tribune ran a piece on his career (Admiral Morrison still lived in Coronado, CA) and Jim's Sister, Anne Morrison Chewning, commented that the Admiral never understood the impact his Son had on American culture. I sent in the above to the Tribune so that many would understand that people were stealing his Father's picture just to get closer to Jim.
I drive down the Strand one or two times a week taking people on Lyft rides from the Hotel Del Coronado to Imperial Beach. Thank you for the new story to tell my riders!
This song being the opening to “Apocalypse Now” is so perfect for that film. I myself never found anything offensive about it.
I love it
100% - I can literally not separate the two!
It’s so fitting.
same
I was gonna say same thing, every movie about Viet Nam...and it still mesmerizes me
A lot of people don't know this. I just recently found this out myself but Francis Ford Coppola and Jim Morrison went to film school together. They were in the same class. Apparently they used to get drunk and play board games all night long.. that's a crazy fact.
thats a cool fact😮
That's right!
FFC used this song in Apocalypse. Added some Moog effects to mix it sounds of helicopters, flying bugs and foreboding of Kurtz' death. It's a fun mix and it's out there, can easily be found here on YT.
Not sure if the above is elaborated here. Currently at the 4 min mark.
And Harrison Ford used to sell them weed, lol
@@JermaineBulls I think he also built the doors stages before concerts? I'm Cali mostly
"Ladies and Gentlemen, from Los Angeles, California... The Doors!"
Jim wanted the announcer to say "From Venice, California".
I have all three of Jim Morrison's books of poetry and they are intense. My all-time favorite band, at the age of ten (1978) I sang into the end of the pole used to vacuum our family's swimming pool. I mimicked Jim's stage performance and it took my five times longer to clean the pool, but I had to sing every song I knew.
Later in my life, I would go north from San Diego to visit the Whiskey a Go-Go just to sit on the same stage The Doors played upon. It was so mystical to me, and magical of an experience.
The thing you have to remember about Morrison is that at heart he was a showman and a poet first, a rock singer second. For him it was all about setting the stage and mood and taking the listener on a journey. It was rarely so simple as "Here's this thing, it means exactly what it sounds like".
He was not the best singer, but he was a phenomenal interpreter.
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Yeah... but he was plenty good enough of a singer to interpret what he was expressing... He didn't need an opera-level voice to be "the original shaman rock'n roll frontman"... The Doors wasn't just Jim either... there was pure chemistry with all of them in the moment...
I heard an interview with his father and basically laid out what you said here. He didn't think much of his son's singing at ALL, but respected his commitment as a performer to give an audience a "full experience"... like a performing poet sets out to do.
Then pepper in drugs and serious amounts of alcohol!
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 perfectly expresses meh barks on teh topic
Only pansies took anything from the music of that era seriously.
Genius and insanity are close together at times
One begets the other in many cases.
@@Code.Name.V How the brain works still has mysteries to it
No question.
I live it everyday
Mind altering substances don’t help.
The Doors were always out there. June 1967 Summer of Love in Haight-Ashbury was set to some of the best music. The Doors and this song The End, were played over and over. We all mellowed out to this deep music. This is one of the songs that helped me learn to visualize music. For me music has been better than anything ever to be on television.
Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin. The 3 'J's" of 1967. 3 names that shook the world in 1967. All had tragic ends. All left a mark on music forever.
Professor of Rock. Once again Sir, You have taken this old woman back to my youth and brought back wonderful memories.
I always remember “JiJaJi”
Thanks for sharing. For some reason I feel like I know that era, even though I was born later.
Great comment! I'm an old guy and I've been listening for a long time too! I always tell people I might be old but I got to see all the good bands!! And back then it was cheap! The most I spent then was 9 50 for Zeppelin. 3rd row center. I got to see a lot of them, but I'm fading away with them too. I also was an owner operator and I caught your comment to a guy saying you shouldn't have radios in trucks! I'm glad I came across the Professor also!! He brings a lot of great stories here!! And stuff I remember seeing concerts! Keep Rockin! And listening to Bob!!
Yes and sadly foundational members of “The 27 club” imagine the musical tapestry if each of them were granted even just 10 years more. 🎶🎶❤️🎶🎶
First time I heard this song I was 14. My best friend had died of cancer and me and others had been drinking beers in his memory. I came home, turned on the radio laid on the bed and this song came on and blew my mind. Still gives me chills to this day and always reminds me of my friend.
always amazing when you can connect a song to a certain memory. Thanks for sharing.
Drinking beers at 14? Good times
Thanks for sharing. Had I've known I would've dedicated to him.
@@ProfessorofRock Thanks for the thought, that is nice. Hearing those opening words “this is the end, beautiful friend, this is the end my only friend” at that moment in time…. For the first time….it was like the song was sent by him.
@@shawnmartin95358 The best of times. 1984 was a different world.
For me, there is only one singer on the Top Tier of Rock & Roll's GOAT Vocalist. Jim Morrison is beyond human in some of the emotion he manages to convey in his performances. He is Primal. I love Daltrey, Plant, Rogers, and many other OG Rock heavyweights, but Morrison was more than any of them. More real, more raw, more animalistic. His screams put the hair up on ANYONES neck. There has never been, and may never be, another vocalist like him.
Morrison is probably the greatest rock n roll front man of all time. He knew how to work a crowd, and had a great voice.
yes kreiger told uncut few months ago new book preview he kinda fell into by accident just out of school looking for something to do
You’re not wrong
Spoken like a fellow Doors fan! Every year has a new crop of Doors fans too... and GONE at age 27... unbelievable.
Even with hitting the high notes, he still has a strong masculine voice. The original Rock Star!
I saw the Doors, with the Chambers Brothers and Steppenwolf opening at the Hollywood Bowl in 1968. I was 9. For most of the second half of the show a guy behind me would say “This is the End” at the start of every song. He guessed wrong until they actually played, but me, not knowing the song, kept thinking he was announcing “This is the end” of their set!
The Chambers Brothers are so boss.
Did they suck live?
@@kingofallwhites they didn’t suck, their music sounded great. But Morrison was virtually glued to the mic stand, hardly moved, eyes closed for most of the show. I enjoyed Steppenwolf more. The Chambers Bros sounded frightening but what a tight band!
Each time I hear this.
.I have my eyes closed...it's almost a transcendental experience . Poetic and involving... beautiful and perverse. The whole band is on fire.
I have to agree!
Indeed.
I have a close friend who just LOVES "The End." It's probably one of his favorite songs by The Doors, maybe even among all R&R songs. Don't know why people would be upset by it. *It's just a song!*
This was a perfect song for "Apocalypse Now", such a timeless classic.
Such a poignant moment.
It fits the situation like a hand to a glove and a foot to a boot.
there is no greater song for practicing Katas in your underwear in a motel room.
@@dustybrand Agreed.
My first time hearing it was in January, 1980. The first R rated movie I saw at the movie theater was "Apocalypse Now". That first scene was so chilling yet exciting. My friends helped get me into music. We would listen to."The End" while drinking. It is truly a classic. Thank you for covering it. The Doors were truly a revolutionary band with Jim Morrison as the front man.
One of the coolest stories from my youth. In 1992, Ray Manzarek performed a show at the Tilles Center on the CW Post campus where I was attending college, after which I bumped in to Ray Manzarek outside and after talking a little I invited him back to my dorm room where he and I smoked a joint together.
The Doors are my favorite band of all time
Very cool!
The first song I remember hearing as a child was People are Strange, I must have been 3 or 4. It was mesmerizing and have been a music fan since.
@@andjulia9292 'I can't see your face in my mind' for me exemplifies the bands spooky beauty and elegance.
I have always loved The End... Great song and makes you think a lot too. We did play it on Classic Rock radio in 1991-1996 without anyone trying to pits a fit over it. Although radio today is loaded with cowards who are afraid of playing songs that long or anything like this song. ABC/SMN radio played it all the time. We loved it!
Great comment!
I miss those days of real human radio.
Yeah, they focus on trying to make songs more “radio friendly.” 🙄
Not necessarily "afraid", just controlled by Tipper Gore.
I find it amazing and depressing that the doors appear to have completely disappeared from the national Zeitgeist. They just never seem to come up in any cultural context. I'm not even sure the younger generation knows they existed
I think you're right. And they are on the most unique bands ever to grace rock.
@@ProfessorofRocksaw the live twice…incredible under appreciated mucisians
When you do introduce them to The Doors, unless already music loving, they think of them as too weird.
Bizarre, isn't it?
I’ve heard a couple people talk about the Doors lately.
"The End" is such a haunting, disturbing and enthralling song. I've loved the song for years. It was very fitting for use in "Apocalypse Now", a fascinating and bizarre movie.
A biographer of Jim’s recounted a Door’s concert in Mexico. Jim sang, “Mother, I want to….” And the audience loudly and enthusiastically completed the verse! A great, unique talent.
Lest we forget the epic guitar playing of Robby Krieger on this song.
So great!
Always reminded me of a sitar or some other Eastern instrument.
@@davidzack8875 Gibson SG with "open guitar tuning" provides that sound.
@@pinballinc1752 Playing with his fingers instead of a pick helps as well.
Great slide player. He was bold enough to explore raga. The Beatles, Shocking Blue, and later Steely Dan did as well but Robby Krieger's arpeggiations rule.
If you’re ever in New England. A good friend of mine is a tribute band for the Doors. He’s been doing this since the mid 1970s. He’s been singing the Doors songs longer than Jim Morrison. They’re very good. He’s an older guy now. But he also has a younger guy in his band and they switch back and fourth doing old Jim and new Jim. They are Band is called “through the doors.” I try to catch them as much as I can when they’re playing out.
In 1993 I got my very first tattoo. It was The Doors and I was 15. They changed my life forever the moment I first heard them. It was Jim's Celebration of The Lizard that got me into poetry and I've been writing every since.
I've been a hard rock/metal fan since 1980, but The Doors are my favorite band of all time - mystical, magical and transcendent.
Mystical is exactly right!
@@ProfessorofRock
Rock alchemy ✨️
This song, and the rest of the Door's catalog were a major part of my childhood. My Dad played the Doors on so many of the trips to and from his place when he had me and my sibs for the weekend. Great music to listen to in the car at night.
Thanks for sharing!
Neither of my parents listened to rock. I was a teenager listening to rock and classic rock in the late 70’s. I still have the Doors albums from my youth. Thanks for a refresher!
When I was a high school senior in 1982, some one wrote all the lyrics to The End in paint down a corridor at my school.
I loved them so much! My brother was 12 years older than I, and listened to them and a bunch of great bands.
Adam the Doors are one of my favorite bands and I have found over the years my favorite Doors song has changed I’m 67 now look at life and rock with better sun glasses there is no way to pick a favorite rock song. I do love the 70s but it’s impossible
The End of Laughter and Soft Lies
The End of Nights we Tried to Die
The way he sings those lines has always given me chills!!!...Great video about a dark masterpiece. The End has multiple meanings, the first part seems more symbolic of the death of a relationship or the end of an Era, etc...then the killer/oedipus Rex portion brings the symbolism to a more violent, literal death...but then A section comes back in a softer way now, much darker after what we have just experienced in the violent section...such an incredible song!!!
So great!
This song can be applied to just about everything.
I first heard The End in Apocalypse Now. I can never hear that part of the song without those images coming to mind.
You didn't mention Nico. She's more famous for her work with the Velvet Underground, but on one of her solo albums she did an absolutely haunting version of The End. She captures the essential bleakness of the song at least as well as Morrison himself did.
Her and Jim had an intense romantic alignment for some time.
I love Nico’s voice.
yes waa described in last months uncut interview
When I was at Minot AFB, ND in 1980 a friend from Long Island turned me on to the Doors, I was 21. I had heard the Doors on the radio but never knew them other than that. I immediately fell in love with them and have been a serious listener since.
I drove by Jims childhood home recently. I always think of Roadhouse song when I pass by. The End always makes me think of wars. Fitting for who his dad was and what he did to pull us into the Vietnam war.
I was in single digits, age wise, when the Doors were active. I didn't become aware of them until the late seventies. I remember hearing Morrison's voice on the radio, the song being Touch Me. I was struck by the beautiful, mellow quality of his tone in the chorus of that song. I said to a friend and co-worker, "Wow, a rock and roll singer with a real, legit voice." He looked at me like I was from another planet and said, "That's Jim Morrison. You know, The Doors." I had probably heard Light My Fire and others, but it never registered until that moment. I went on an immediate deep dive and remained a fan of their work ever since.
In the coming years, The End became my favorite song to listen to when I just wanted to relax and just let my mind go free. Never took any chemical enhancements, that was not my thing. But with Morrison, sometimes his music and lyrics were all you needed to get your mind to go off into space. It was almost trance-like for me, and so relaxing, the Oedipus text part aside. Never took that too seriously.
I also did not get to know the Doors until the late 70’s when Jim Morrison was long gone, for the same reason that I was too young in the 60’s.
We discussed this song in class. Teacher was pretty cool about it and said it was a natural stage for boys to go through. The teacher was female also a skier, skydiver, pretty cool for the 60s 😁
This is cool!
Uh yeah, I never went thru that stage. I can guarantee it doesn't happen that often though I could see where it might. If your mom is Farrah Fawcett or something, the thought might cross your mind. Now my older sister was quite pretty and I knew that, but still never turned to attraction probably because I knew her too well. Some of her friends on the other hand.
This has been my absolute favorite song since I discovered it as an 18 year old in 1989. This song has gone with me everywhere ever since
I always thought the Rnd was about Oedipus Rex. I started listening to The Doors in the 80’s, I went through quite the 1960’s phase, I bought old original albums of The Doors. I always thought this song was really unique and cool
Many thanks Professor of Rock🤘
Thanks!
He died at the right time. Forever immortalized at the peak of his creative output. Never to waste away on devolving vocals, pop lyrics and neverending farewell tours.
Good comment.
Not only Morrison but a lot of Rock n Rollers just rushing to die at a young age. The music was great but at what cost?
@@partain2000some would say immortality. Take that as you will.
@@partain2000I don't think most of them are set out to die young. They just live the way they want, and sometimes it's too much on the body. Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Brian Jones, Keith Moon, and many other rock stars would take any drug handed to them, while others like Harrison, Lennon, and Jagger had more control over their drug intake. Some people enjoy being high more than others. Depends on which drugs they got mixed up in. Most people think Morrison took LSD every day, but he didn't. Between 1965 and 1968 John Lennon and George Harrison dropped far more LSD than Morrison had in his whole life. Lennon sent a film crew to Monterey pop festival for the sole purpose of smuggling two pints of Owsley's LSD from California to England. It was probably an accidental overdose of heroin that took Jim out?
Long before the eventual advent of autotune in the mid 80s ... real art was created, which captured and preserved the vocal nuances of the artist -- not machine generated notes!
I was 10 years old when I saw the Doors play live in a tent at an LA shopping center! Life changing!
C'mon: "Apocalypse Now."
That says it all when it comes to this mesmerizing and moving piece of musical art.
Astonishing. Thanks for covering, sir! 🤙🎶🎸
Hypnotic, flowing like a lazy river. Great song, love the Doors
Great description.
The great thing about the doors was you didn't really know what Morrison was going to do. Another great episode on an iconic band. Thanks, professor.
So true. Nobody knew.
What's your favorite song?
@@ProfessorofRock When the Musics Over.
@@ProfessorofRock Riders on the storm
@7:24 I'm just drooling over those Fender amps in the background.
Thank you for covering this, one of my two favorite Doors songs. The other is "Riders on the Storm". Love the line "his brain is squirming like a toad". My father would play it in the car because he knew I got a laugh out of it. Loved that they played "The End" in Apocalypse now.
My favorite song by one of my favorite bands.
Love your profile pic!
Thanks. Morrissey solo and The Smiths are also top favorites of mine.
You made the RIGHT call to cover this one. Morrison was on another planet, dude was something else. Jim's Final 24 episode uncovers a lot of what made the Lizard King so infamous.
He was off his rocker in his final years.
Like many, I discovered this song circa 1980 during the explosion of new interest in the Doors. The song's use in Apocalypse Now was mesmerizing. That was the first time I heard it. I had heard a few Doors songs previously (Light My Fire, Hello I Love You). I didn't see the movie until 1980 (when I was 15). It took that long to convince an 'adult' to take me given it's restricted status. At the same time, my brother bought the newly released Greatest Hits album and the Morrison bio, No One Here Gets Out Alive, by Hopkins and Sugarman. For me, these 3 events all happened simultaneously and I became obsessed with the Doors.
It's interesting how you stated that Jim Morrison's legacy endures. I'm not old enough to really appreciate the Doors when they were at their peak (I was but 9 years old when Jim died), but I did become a lifelong fan in 1981, when a "Best of" album was released. That compilation (along with Danny Sugerman and Jerry Hopkins' book "No One Here Gets Out Alive) triggered a resurgence of popularity for the band and Doors music started appearing on rock radio in regular rotation, along with REO Speedwagon, Billy Squier, Styx, etc. Rolling Stone Magazine even put Jim on the cover of the September 17, 1981 issue with the headline "Jim Morrison- He's hot, he's sexy, and he's dead". I've since bought all of their albums- including the rather awful post-Morrison albums, and remained a fan for all this time. There will never be another Doors.
Every year some friends and I make a Pilgrimage to see Peace Frog, the best Doors only cover band. Funny almost 60 years later we are all singing along to every single Doors song as if we were 16 again. Jim and The End changed music. For all his wild antics and crazy stories his music is still a must for me. The first album my parents ever took away from me, lol. Fantastic episode professor! Any Doors episode I'm all ears!!
I want to see Peace Frog! Thank for the reminder My Name!
@@ProfessorofRock fantastic show every time
@@MyName-pl7zn Ah... Thank you!
I didn’t know about Peace Frog! They need to come to NC!
❤🎉
Love the Doors!
Just wanted to say hi before I go into this huge building for more tests!
Happy start to the week Professor and Classmates! ❤
Morning and good luck with the tests. I just recently went through the same thing. Started to feel like a 📌 cushion. Good to stay on top of it.🍷 to good health.
Hey Roger!
@@AnnaTrail-xp8pr Hello Anna!
@@ProfessorofRock Hello hope all good with you and the family
Good luck Roger! 👍
Born in 1966 on Bob Dylan’s birthday, I grew up listening to an array of musical genres. It was standard for me to paw through my eldest brother’s vinyl, scurry off to my room, and listen on the cheap second hand record player. The Doors were among the albums I smuggled across the house, spending hours saturated in their music.
Best use of this song was in Apocalypse Now
So great!
Lol, my wife's water broke while we were listening to this song. We were trapped in our apartment because there'd been a hostage taking next door involving some escaped prisoners, and we weren't allowed to leave for the hospital. We'd been listening to records and we were just letting this one play out while we went to bed when we saw the flashlights through the trees along the river, the barking dogs, and the dozens of armed police officers storming through our parking lot. My kid was born 20 hours later. She's on her way to becoming a lawyer now.
A very problematic outcome, and a sound argument against subjecting infants to trauma: an attorney ... oy vey!
Congratulations to her!
Did you get to the hospital on time???
This was one of the best scenes in The Doors movie, & perfect for the end of Apocalypse Now!! Definitely one of my favorite Doors track & a masterpiece that influenced countless bands & songs after
Amen. Great comment.
Nothing like this song.
10:24 Hence, "show me.. the way.. to the next.. whisky bar"
In '67 I was a sophomore in high school. I did a 'call in' on local radio KGB (San Diego) and WON the Doors album. When the album arrived I was disappointed it was Mono but what the hell... it was free... right? So the first thing I played was.... of course.... Light My Fire and soon afterwards flipped the album and saw it was only one cut... The End! Needless to say I was shocked by some of the verse but overall I was impressed... but confused. But I knew it wasn't what my Mom would approve of so I made sure she never heard it! Then flash forward to APOCALYPSE NOW and 3 friends plus myself are in a small theater in S. Lake Tahoe and the movie starts with.... what else..... THE END! We were all Doors freaks so we knew the flick would be great! Then we got stoned....again
Damn. I just rewatched Apocalypse Now.
Love when the Doors atmosphere resurfaces once in a while like in Joy Division or Interpol's "Turn on the Bright Lights" ; like the warm hum of a dark melodic storm looming up from an inky western night
Great comment!
Ooh, I like that. I might steal it.
@@leeaycock8602 I aint stoppin you ! :-))
Joy Division took a huge page out of the Doors
I got the Oedipus Rex reference when I first heard it, most people unfortunately don't.
This was one of Adam’s best videos, as befitting such a monumental song. His presentation and insights, not too mention incredible enthusiasm and passion for “The End,” were great. 🤘🏻
I will always associate The End with Apocalypse Now. Great tune from a, classic debut album
I think many do!
I don't want to die because I might miss out hearing another great song. Life is good. 😊
Have a wonderful Monday Catherine!
On Wednesday it was so hot here that I thought I might pass away. But I’m glad I live to see Adam cover this song.
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Hi. This was the first time I heard this Doors song.
@@catherine6653 I’m surprised you hadn’t heard it before, but that makes sense! Which Doors songs have you heard?
There are many- People Are Strange, Light My Fire just to mention a few.
In the early 80's I was working as a Security Guard. One location was a fruit juice processing factory. We guards had a little guard house at the front gate. One guard would work the entrance and the other guard would tour the factory and check things. Whoever stayed at the guard got control of the radio we listened to. The older gentleman listened to country stations, but I would always flip over to the best album rock station (probably WORJ at that time). The older gentleman had come back and made himself comfortable when this song came on. We sat there quietly and he listened to this song for the first time. When it ended all he said was "That's a sick piece of shit!" I went out for the next walk of the factory, and he got control over the radio.
This episode was awesome 👌 The Doors still remain near the top of my favourite band list after all of these years. They were the band that after listening to I finally realized the beauty and power of Rock music. A Monolith for sure!
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Love the Doors. Always have. The soft Parade is one of my all time fave albums
Great record!
Always liked The Doors.This song is great
So Epic!
How The End bookends Apocalypse Now is immense!
"Riders On The Storm" is a favorite of mine. I was too young to appreciate The Doors music when it was new. 🤠
Absolutely, one of my favorite songs of all time.
Yes, The Doors, one of my favorite bands ever. They definitely had a more cerebral and darker tone, which made them different than most bands of the time. Life isn't always a bowl of cherries!
So true.
Indeed a dark song.
Heard this on Texas radio with a big beat.
ive always loved the doors but i dont think i really got into them until i moved to china for a year when i was 16 in 1999/2000. anything resembling rock music was pretty hard to come by, so whenever i saw a cd that was western and rock, i immediately bought it. i ended up getting a cd (that i have long since lost) and a vcd of a documentary with a bunch of music videos and stuff. the doors really helped me get through a complicated part of my life when i was in china and i dont know where i would be without their music. and as a baritone, i love singing their stuff
The Doors played their first concert after Jim's death at Pershing Auditorium in Lincoln NE. Sadly it was torn down last year. It was also the site of one of Elvis' last few concerts.
Back in the Saddle Again Naturally 📣
Good morning, constipated! You're first!
@@bobdavis4848 Good Morning Captain with a smile and song we sing .🎶We're happy to see 👀 you and all the Joy you bring !😊 Do you remember this ?
@@constipatedinsincity4424 Those are nice lyrics; what song is that? it reminds me of a Slint song "Good Morning Captain" and a little of the Youngbloods' "Get Together."
@@bobdavis4848maybe first but not to go to the bathroom remember he is constipated!
The Doors are definitely a significant motivator in my own world of music. It isn't half as much to do with Jim Morrison (though his poetry has definitely impacted me) as it is his bandmate Raymond Daniel Manzarek. Ray's keyboard playing knocked my socks off, a combination of his playing and his choice of a transistor organ (which Ray said was the California influence on him) and Rhides piano bass. In January 1995, my father handed me an ultimatum as I was planning to get out from behind the drums. I planned to become a bass player, but my father wanted me to choose guitar or piano. Having tried and failed to learn the piano, I ended up letting Dad show me how to play the simple guitar voicing he knew, thus giving me the motivation to jump on it. Later that same month, I heard the music of the Doors for the first time. If I had heard that music, "The End" included, only *one month* sooner, things would've been different. Hearing Ray's playing would've been my musical yardstick. I would've become a keyboard player (which I started doing anyway) instead of a guitarist. I would've wanted to do it the way Ray did it.
Manzarek was a key factor in their sound... No question. Thanks Eric.
And, he's missed.
One of my piano teachers once told me to “play like Ray Manzarek once did”. And he was right after all!
I was born in 1978, but grew up on The Doors. They were (in my eyes) the original L.A. rock band. Being born and raised in Los Angeles, that was always such a huge deal to me.
This was a great deep dive. I'm so glad you covered this song and story. As a young teenager 45 years ago I was a Doors addict. A bad Doors addict. lol. Thanks for the great video. You have a great channel.
After this and your episode on American Pie, you need to do a top epic rock songs list.
Sounds good!
Don't forget Supper's Ready and Thick As A Brick
Some artist do fairly simple work that feels good. Some have a deeper meaning. Jim went way beyond that. It's hard to understand Jim when Jim doesn't understand Jim. If he hadn't died I think he would have been like Neil Young. Creating but not caring about the business much which wouldn't have made any more popular. Certainly the artist with the tortured soul. Who else would turn Oedipus Rex into a rock song?
No kidding. Great comment.
He had lots of inner demons!
If you think Morrison didn't contribute anything musically to the Doors, listen to what Krieger and Densmore sounded like in the Butts Band. It's not that the Butts Band is bad, but it definitely is prosaic compared to the Doors.
When I first heard Palaces of Montezuma by Grinderman, It reminded me of The End. With lyrics like,
"The spider goddess and needle boy the slave dwarves they employ", and "The spinal cord of JFK wrapped
in Marilyn Monroe's negligee". Both had me trying to figure out WTF did I just hear.
Yep. As soon as you mentioned getting naked and using a fire extinguisher in the studio, there was no other possible person.
Sagittarius do nudity so easily
Insane!
people are strange when your a stranger faces look ugly when your alone women seem wicked when you're unwanted streets are uneven when you're down when you’re strange faces come out of the rain when you’re strange no one remembers your name
Such a poet.
I won't be able to get that out of my head. Love that song! PEACE!
yeh always like echo macs version on soundtrack cd they performed live club show
This song kills me.
I always saw the oedipus part as the climax of his example list of people and children going insane in their lives until it ends in the end of their life. It's basically a life cycle song of the human condition.
I was never much of a Doors fan, so I've never heard "The End" beyond its use in soundtracks, but color me stunned that anyone didn't pick up on the references. The Theban Plays were required reading when I was in high school (well, maybe not in the remedial classes), so if you were old enough to understand what Jim was saying, you should already be familiar with the plays.
It floored me that they used no bass guitar! It was a small bass keyboard that Ray played with his left hand!
Right!
They used a bass player in the studio. The keyboard bass wasn't enough for recording.
yes article uncut recently robbie kreiger said they hired elvis bass player a few times but forget name
That is so genius.
@@marktait2371 They used Jerry Sheff on LA Woman. He was in Elvis's band. Doug Lubahn played on the other albums. Larry Knechtel played on the first album.
I was born in Dec '67, I'm bummed I never got to witness the Doors. I knew exactly what song/lyric you were talking about right off. They are my favorite, every time something new comes out, it's in my shopping cart. All the live CD's that have come out over the years makes me happy. The celebration of the lizard is another song that grew over each session, it's another mind trip.
I love the doors my favorite band. Jim Morrison is the best in my opinion. Tell all the people is my favorite song of the doors from the soft parade album. I love every Jim Morrison doors song. Do more doors songs in the future.
WIll do! Thanks Wayne!
Epic. I get the feeling Kurt Cobain was a reincarnation of Jim Morrison. At a 4x4 camp out in the mid 90s. Every one was drunk and lit. I started flying from some shrooms a dude gave us. And to chill, I walked away from the group by the fire. Music was comeing from everywhere. But a Doors CD was nearby. I climbed down a small hill and sat next to a small stream. I can hear Peace Frog loudly. Then I notice frogs on the bank faceing me. Then I can see several frogs chilling with me. I just laughed and started talking to them. They shifted around but kept faceing me. It was trippy. "Blood in the streets in the town of New haven!" I was their god. I was the Lizard king! 🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸 A bond was formed from Doors & shrooms. And a 100 foot walk to a creek. No squirming toads. Just a communion with Kermits family.
As with all songs, it's how you 'hear' and interpret the lyrics. To each their own thoughts. Jim's voice was so good, intense and mesmerizing.
A really good poetic song. This kind of writing is a lost art.
No kidding. So gripping.
No one else today can write a song like Morrison did.
Greatest front man in rock history. He epitomized the concept of sex, drugs, and Rock 'n Roll
He's definitely in my top 5!
Including the downsides of living that lifestyle!
Thanks for covering the doors. Discovered them when I was 9 and they've been my favorite band since. Very early on I heard the story of the break up as its initial intent but being the great American poet Jim was, I knew there was a little more to it. He wrote in a way that anyone looking could easily garner more than one meaning from it. He often remained vague when explaining song meanings dropping subtle hints as to a possible meaning but telling friends often he liked to leave it open for the listener to interpret their own meaning and whatever they chose to believe it was about, that was its meaning. I believe he kept slot of the more vague songs close to himself. Cheers..
The Doors were Amazing musicians and songwriters! Imo, they blew The Beatles away by far!
Say what you will about Jim Morrison, he knew how to get - and keep - the audience's attention.
Yes he did!
For sure! He was an excellent performer.
Morrison had the most laid bavk vocals ever. Even Break on Through had a laid back styling. None like him before or since.
I think Billy Idol is somewhat similar.
I agree. Such a great voice!
Good comp!
@@Code.Name.V I can kinda hear that, never actually thought about that comparison. 👍
last summer i bought billys ghits cd he covers la woman
Ernie Fosselius parodied the song for Porklips Now which was done and often paired with Hardware Wars. he signed my copy of the DVD in the late 2000s
The Doors were musically way ahead of their time yet still placating the current music scene. Ray Manzarek was the sole reason for that
Didn't this come out in 1967?
Yes.
Hey, y'all.
HELLO BAAAY BEEE! (Chantilly Lace had a pretty face...) 😄
@@LaManteca76 Sing it, babay!
Oh bay-bee that's a what I like! 😁