Being born in 1956 ~ I was 11 when this song came out. Thank The Universe my sister was 8 years older than me and my friends had older siblings too ~ with out them I would have missed out on so much of this Great music! Thanks for keeping it alive for the future.
Crystal Ship is so hauntingly beautiful. Morrison at his best, IMHO. Let me sleep all night in your soul kitchen. No idea what it means but it’s perfect. Densmore, Krieger and Manzarek just killin it. What an album this is by a The Doors. Thanks Lee.
Robby Krieger. Robby Effin Krieger. So understated. So overlooked. So underrated. Not by you or anyone in particular but most of us have undestimated him because of how restrained he is. But restraint is just another kind of talent.
Extra 👍 up for doing the extra song 😂 need some jimi hendrix after the doors You Got Me Floating, She's So Fine and If 6 Was 9, then some iron butterfly You Can't Win and Soul Experience ✌️☮️
You cannot imagine and I cannot articulate how magical this album was hearing it when it came out. As teens we were already listening to a lot of great new music but this was "more" special somehow.
Two of my favorites. Thanks for playing Back Door Man also. Hope you're feeling better; go to the dentist (I'm sure you are). Remember, The Doors are named after The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley.
Thanks for that ~ honestly, I never looked into the origin of the name. Now it's time to dive into that rabbit hole. I've listened to some Aldous Huxley so I'm really interested in this. I did find this for anyone else who may be interested. czcams.com/video/8AWvq9swbEo/video.htmlsi=iofCM60B6X5tSiUp
The Crystal Ship has been one of my favorite Doors songs since I heard it for the first time. Soul Kitchen took some years until I heard a fantastic cover by Mitch Ryder he played as an encore at his appearance on a German TV show "Rockpalast Nacht Okt. 1979". It was one of the best concerts I ever saw on TV until now. Mitch Ryder was almost unknown before in Europe but after that concert he became rather popular and is still on the road in Germany at the age of 79. Great rock singer.
I am going to ramble for a bit, hopefully will be worth it but at least I put it out there...AS I said I saw the doors in Hawaii in 1970, during When the musics over, he said turn off the lights, so he asked again and they got a lil dimmer, then he sat mike down and walked off...a few secs later, the lights wwent out...the crazy part is, I about 1984, I was working at a chemical plant in se georgia, was midnight shift, got to talkin to an air force vet, as a brat I wanted to know where he been stationed, once I realized we had hawaii in common in some of the same years I asked about this concert, he said he was there too! I asked what was unusual about the concert, he said when Morrison sat the mike down and walked off! Sometimes life is trippy...and in Good ways!
Ray Manzarek and his wife were at a club in L.A. to hear a band called X. The band did a cover of "Soul Kitchen" and Manzarek was so impressed that he produced the band's first four album. Years later, X did a cover of "Crystal Ship" for the soundtrack of "The X-Files" movie. X is/was a punk/rockabilly band.
When I was a child, it was thrilling to hear Light My Fire everywhere on the radio. I liked The Crystal Ship, but it was scary because I thought it was about dying. “Before you slip into unconsciousness I’d like to have another kiss.” Soul Kitchen and Back Door Man were dark to me, too. I didn’t remember Jim Morrison being so energetic in Back Door Man! It was interesting to hear the three again, Lee!
I bet he likes both of these songs, there was thought put into the selection and sequencing. So different sonically, but so captivating each in it's own way. And then there's Back Door Man!!
I’d never noticed it before, but alongside the nose of the “Lizard King,” on that album cover, is the perfect reflected silhouette of a King (as well as Emperor) penguin.
I bought the Doors album when it first came out and was hooked. I remember the reader board on the Whiskey A-Go-Go saying, The Doors. I was 13, a little young, but just driving by that place, where it was all happening, stirred me up. The band lived on Wonderland Ave. up Laurel Canyon from the Whiskey. CSN&Y, Joni Mitchell, the Ladies of the Canyon, Frank Zappa, all lived in Laural Canyon. We used to hitchhike up Laurel and hangout or go to the Sunset Strip. You never knew who may drive up at the store. Eventually, we got into the Whiskey! Never saw The Doors though.
Three great songs, killer performances!! I used to play 'The Crystal Ship' with my 3-piece(gtr., bs., dr.)in 1980 'til I added enough originals to our repertoire not written specifically for the rock-theater show we did in May that year. I'd heard this album around the time it came out at a friend's cottage and was completely knocked out by it and the debut by Toronto big rock band (horns and strings added) Lighthouse(check out 'One Fine Morning', 'Sunny Days', 'Hats Off to the Stranger', 'Pretty Lady', 'Take It Slow', 'Broken Guitar Blues'). 🖖🏼😊🎶❤✨️🕊
The Doors and The Band are 2 of my favorite bands, and Jim Morrison and Robbie Robertson 2 of my favorite song writers. I have read several books about both Jim and The Doors "No one gets out of here alive", one of them, as well as several books about The Band, one Robbie's "Testimony" and Barney Hoskyns biography of The Band. I'm of there generation.
Yeah, Lee. These 3 Doors tunes are ALL top notch. Crystal Ship was the world’s shortest trip, but a nice trip. Get that tooth issue taken care of bro. Stay ahead of it or …. Well, stay ahead of it. And let me throw Peace Frog out there with the others. Another banger that you wish would go on a lot longer.
Discovering music that I liked was me coming home after high school circa 1988, lying on my bed at night in the dark (early evening) and listening to Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, and The Doors tease out their sounds. I was not a Marley or Zeppelin fan until a few years later, so those would come down the road, but not now. Then, it felt like riding a gentle river raft and I wonder what Samuel Clemens would have thought in that moment. What a great feeling that was and is.
I was. am an air force brat, was in Hawaii in 1970 I was 15, saw the doors at the HIC arena, was epic....but to be honest, my 1st concert was The Monkees! Long ago and far away bro! I enjoy your reacts, keep on
I went to the yearly Teenage Fair at the Hollywood Pavillion in early 67. Looking at the record section, Ray was there holding this first Doors album almost saying "you are going to dig this". Bought this album along with.my girlfriend and the music totally blew us over, as we had never heard songs like these They were and they remain my favorite Rock Band
Great reaction Lee!! All of these, but especially The Crystal Ship have LONG been favourites! Ray (RIP) is the secret sauce to so, SO many of their tracks - his sense of groove, melody are tops in the keyboard world! John Densmore and Robbie Krieger are no slouches either. They all played off each other so effectively! And then there's Jim...what else can be said about The Lizard King that hasn't already?! Cheers.
Love all 3 songs, but “Soul “Kitchen” is my favorite. That song jumped into my 14 year old soul back in ‘67 and never left. “Psychedelic Blues”, good description , Lee. Defines Hendrix, Cream, Deep Purple, and on and on and on. Nice that you went for the 3rd song.
I thought I’d surprise y’all for Father’s Day lol well, in the moment I just wanted to hear more doors… but I’m backdating it as a Father’s Day gift 💁🤣😄😄😄
That first album was energetic and sounded like no one else. Thanks for the gift! I swear I saw Jim Morrison in jeans and jean jacket, clean-shaven and healthy, sitting behind us at a CSN show in Daytona Beach in 1987.
You never know… he might have faked his own death. Maybe he was tired of being in the spotlight. Maybe his admiral dad had something to do with it. Who knows. He obviously loved good music so I could see him loving CSN lol
Many others have said that they saw him years later, including myself in 1978 in a small town in New York. I was working as a nanny for a musician, where people came and went.
One of the great debut albums. The hard choice for me is who is my favorite American Band-the Doors or the Allman Brothers Band or the Grateful Dead? ✌️❤️🎶
@@lisarainbow9703 I saw the Doors once, the Allman Brothers three times, and I quit counting Dead shows, but that was mainly due to the deaths of band members. Love them all.✌️❤️🎶
@@kelvinkloud Even better live. I had turned 15 a month & 1/2 earlier, & I was blown away. I had been a fan since Light My Fire, and they jammed live. Did you know Ray Manzarek was from Chicago’s Southside? (He went to a rival high school of mine, which I will not name.) Since then I have seen 109 other bands/acts/artists, and that was still one of my favorites. ✌️❤️🎶
@@alpetrocelli4465 did morrison have the ability to draw in the audience, create suspense and aura different then the other greats you saw?… were they as big then buzz wise as they would become later in early 80s?
Re. Morrison's background. He had no musical background whatsoever, other than a brief period of childhood piano lessons, and then in college he was a huge fan of blues and Elvis. He was intellectually brilliant, wrote poetry, and read books that were beyond the scope of his teachers and even some of his college profs. He went to various colleges until he ended up in LA, where he went to the UCLA film school. That's where he became friends with Ray Manzarek, who also had a bar band that the film students regularly went to see. Jim once got up to sing Louie Louie with them, and another time he "filled in" for a guitarist who couldn't make the gig - Ray's band was contractually obligated to supply six musicians, so Jim pretended to play rhythm guitar the whole night. It was several months after film school ended that Jim and Ray ran into each other on Venice Beach, by which time Jim had been taking acid and writing his first songs. He sang Moonlight Drive to Ray, who said "Let's start a rock & roll band and make a million dollars".
You crack me up. I believe those moments or sounds or sites are from a different dimension. I was “ rapping” with a friend and at the same moment we both saw a mushroom object at the same time and place. Then again I really took a lot of acid when younger…
It’s great you’re getting the Beauty of playing albums the way they were made to be heard. Albums especially great albums are an audio journey taking you along. They are also meant to be audio only , your brain processes the music and this allows a very personal experience. It’s a drag to me when someone rewrites history by putting some stupid video on a song I have great memories of. Changing the experience to their interpretation
these are two of my favorite Doors tracks.... I don't know if it's when you would want to react to but there's a short track with just Jim talking. it's called "the movie". it's quite haunting and almost Nostradamus-like. but at least listen to it on your own because it's it's mind-blowing.
dude.... I just listened to you talk about house Spirit gets weird when you are listening to The Doors..... YOU ARE THE ONLY PERSON WHO HAS EVER SAID THAT AND I HAVE EXPERIENCED THE SAME THING FOR DECADES.
Ray Manzarek produced the first four albums by LA punk band X. They covered "Soul Kitchen" on their 1980 debut album "Los Angeles". Ray played organ on a number of songs, including a solo on the album closer "The World's a Mess; It's in My Kiss" czcams.com/video/spNaxL24gZo/video.html
For your private listening pleasure I would extremely highly recommend an album released by the band after Jim died. It's called "An American Prayer". It's an album of Doors music, some previously released and some not, interspersed with Jim's poetry including readings by Jim while he was still alive. It's nsanely freaky and a snapshot of the times back then. I know because I was there. It's should be listened to one track after another uninterrupted. If you're a Doors fan, and I believe you are, you will love it. After listening you may want to do a review of some or all of it.
When I heard we were getting three but you decided you cut Back Door Man I got a little bothered. I thought now when will you get to it and they go so well together. Then the miracle happened. Only takes two more before you can be nominated for Sainthood. 😅 Hope you feel better soon Lee. You’re a big reason why this old man watches CZcams over TV. Keep up the good work. Your appreciation for this music is awesome.
jan van impe i'm from Belgian, so my english is not so good.But i'll try my best to explain something : it's very sad that the doors didn't make more long songs. The reason ?? : well, Jim said it many times during the outtakes of roadhouse blues : "money beats soul every time !" but luckily, there's one more long song that survived on the live album "absolutely live" CELEBRATION OF THE LIZARD " that song normaly was intended to appear on their 3th album (waiting for the sun) But after different takes in the studio, the music company an the other members of the band said: this is not commercial, so stop it !!! Jim was very disappointed and wanted to leave the group immediately. But they made an agreement; "we will put a small part of that song on the album : NOT TO TOUCH THE EARTH ... years after his death ,the 3 remainig doors finally realised that jim was a poet and put a lot of his poetry on an album "amercian prayer" but the music had no longer the spirit of their singer !!!
Saw them at the Whiskey a Go-Go a week or two before their 1st LP came out. They were UN-FUCKING-BELIEVABLE! Their first 2 Lp’s were the shit. From 64 to 69, 5 bands killed it. Kicked off in 64 with Beatles & Stones. From 67-70 it was Cream, Doors & Hendrix. Those 5 defined the era. The rest. Sure, ok… but not so much. After that, the next killer bands were Jeff Beck & Led Zep. Other than those 7 bands- it just didn’t matter. At least not in the same way,,, on that same elevated level.
Yo L33---Are you familiar with 13th Floor Elevators? A band from Texas whose first two albums, Psychedelic Sounds O' The 13th Floor Elevators (1966) 'n Easter Everywhere (1967) are correctly considered two o' the earliest 'n best examples o' psychedelia. Roky Erickson, lead vocalist is one o' a kind fantastic! Yamo highly recommend 'em tuz yuz now...The real deal.
Crystal Ship is one of my favorites, such a beautiful melody.
Being born in 1956 ~ I was 11 when this song came out. Thank The Universe my sister was 8 years older than me and my friends had older siblings too ~ with out them I would have missed out on so much of this Great music! Thanks for keeping it alive for the future.
Crystal Ship is so hauntingly beautiful. Morrison at his best, IMHO.
Let me sleep all night in your soul kitchen. No idea what it means but it’s perfect. Densmore, Krieger and Manzarek just killin it. What an album this is by a
The Doors. Thanks Lee.
Still need to hear “ 20th Century Fox” off that album👍🏻🎼🎸
Robby Krieger. Robby Effin Krieger. So understated. So overlooked. So underrated. Not by you or anyone in particular but most of us have undestimated him because of how restrained he is. But restraint is just another kind of talent.
I’ve always thought he was their secret weapon- that little bit of stuff that makes everything tasty
the days are bright
and filled with pain
enclose me in your gentle rain
First doors album. Beautiful
Very strong debut album
Extra 👍 up for doing the extra song 😂
need some jimi hendrix after the doors You Got Me Floating, She's So Fine and
If 6 Was 9, then some iron butterfly You Can't Win and Soul Experience ✌️☮️
I’m thinkin You Can see by now, this album was solid gold.
I love The Doors.Such an original sound they have.
Robby Krieger was so underrated as a lead guitar player, he was so emotional in his playing...
You cannot imagine and I cannot articulate how magical this album was hearing it when it came out. As teens we were already listening to a lot of great new music but this was "more" special somehow.
Two of my favorites. Thanks for playing Back Door Man also. Hope you're feeling better; go to the dentist (I'm sure you are). Remember, The Doors are named after The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley.
Thanks for that ~ honestly, I never looked into the origin of the name. Now it's time to dive into that rabbit hole. I've listened to some Aldous Huxley so I'm really interested in this. I did find this for anyone else who may be interested. czcams.com/video/8AWvq9swbEo/video.htmlsi=iofCM60B6X5tSiUp
Three great songs from the Doors. Nice surprise.
Ray was born and raised on the Southside of Chicago in Hyde Park so he grew up hearing the blues from all the legends that were in Chicago then.
Funny, when young people first hear The Doors that usually very impressed….why….I believe it’s sounds very fresh and original to them
The Crystal Ship has been one of my favorite Doors songs since I heard it for the first time. Soul Kitchen took some years until I heard a fantastic cover by Mitch Ryder he played as an encore at his appearance on a German TV show "Rockpalast Nacht Okt. 1979". It was one of the best concerts I ever saw on TV until now. Mitch Ryder was almost unknown before in Europe but after that concert he became rather popular and is still on the road in Germany at the age of 79. Great rock singer.
"The Crystal Ship" is the most beautiful song about taking drugs ever written.
Love all three of these, but then again I love almost every song on all 6 of their albums with Jim. The Crystal Ship is extra special to me
I am going to ramble for a bit, hopefully will be worth it but at least I put it out there...AS I said I saw the doors in Hawaii in 1970, during When the musics over, he said turn off the lights, so he asked again and they got a lil dimmer, then he sat mike down and walked off...a few secs later, the lights wwent out...the crazy part is, I about 1984, I was working at a chemical plant in se georgia, was midnight shift, got to talkin to an air force vet, as a brat I wanted to know where he been stationed, once I realized we had hawaii in common in some of the same years I asked about this concert, he said he was there too! I asked what was unusual about the concert, he said when Morrison sat the mike down and walked off! Sometimes life is trippy...and in Good ways!
“And like a disc jockey from Paradise, he flipped her over and played Her B side. “
Back Door Man written by Willie Dixon.
Two of my favs from these guys. Peace Frog is another banger I love!!
Correction....THREE of my fav Doors songs. Nice surprise.
Three of the best songs that The Doors ever did! Along with almost all of their songs these are some of my all time favorites.
Ray Manzarek and his wife were at a club in L.A. to hear a band called X. The band did a cover of "Soul Kitchen" and Manzarek was so impressed that he produced the band's first four album. Years later, X did a cover of "Crystal Ship" for the soundtrack of "The X-Files" movie. X is/was a punk/rockabilly band.
Morrison and Ray went to college together. UCLA film school. Started a band after graduating. Instead of making movies
Thanks L33, for this great trio of songs … from one of the greatest debut!!
The Doors never fail!!
When I was a child, it was thrilling to hear Light My Fire everywhere on the radio. I liked The Crystal Ship, but it was scary because I thought it was about dying. “Before you slip into unconsciousness I’d like to have another kiss.”
Soul Kitchen and Back Door Man were dark to me, too.
I didn’t remember Jim Morrison being so energetic in Back Door Man!
It was interesting to hear the three again, Lee!
And The Doors always put me in a different mood than other bands do ! Not sure what , , but I have always liked it !
I bet he likes both of these songs, there was thought put into the selection and sequencing. So different sonically, but so captivating each in it's own way. And then there's Back Door Man!!
Yes, I love Crystal Ship and Moonlight Drive. Back Door Man is great.
I’d never noticed it before, but alongside the nose of the “Lizard King,” on that album cover, is the perfect reflected silhouette of a King (as well as Emperor) penguin.
The organ was a Vox Continental. Ray did start using a Hammond with a Leslie cabinet toward the end especially the LA Woman album.
Texas Radio and the Big Beat was a B3 - still some Vox on LA Woman album as well.
Two amazing pics I used to play the whole LP when I got home from school as a teenager just go to my basement and chill out with the music❤
Great collection of Doors tracks, luckily the Doors NEVER do any bad music.
Nice! Thank you!! Love the Doors!
That was a nice surprise
I bought the Doors album when it first came out and was hooked. I remember the reader board on the Whiskey A-Go-Go saying, The Doors. I was 13, a little young, but just driving by that place, where it was all happening, stirred me up.
The band lived on Wonderland Ave. up Laurel Canyon from the Whiskey. CSN&Y, Joni Mitchell, the Ladies of the Canyon, Frank Zappa, all lived in Laural Canyon.
We used to hitchhike up Laurel and hangout or go to the Sunset Strip. You never knew who may drive up at the store.
Eventually, we got into the Whiskey! Never saw The Doors though.
Go Lee! Love it!!
I was 17 when this album came out. There's not a bad track on this album
Bravo young man...once you hear it you will realize it all kinda fits together...lol...I was hoping you would do it! Keep on man..
Three great songs, killer performances!! I used to play 'The Crystal Ship' with my 3-piece(gtr., bs., dr.)in 1980 'til I added enough originals to our repertoire not written specifically for the rock-theater show we did in May that year. I'd heard this album around the time it came out at a friend's cottage and was completely knocked out by it and the debut by Toronto big rock band (horns and strings added) Lighthouse(check out 'One Fine Morning', 'Sunny Days', 'Hats Off to the Stranger', 'Pretty Lady', 'Take It Slow', 'Broken Guitar Blues').
🖖🏼😊🎶❤✨️🕊
The Doors and The Band are 2 of my favorite bands, and Jim Morrison and Robbie Robertson 2 of my favorite song writers. I have read several books about both Jim and The Doors "No one gets out of here alive", one of them, as well as several books about The Band, one Robbie's "Testimony" and Barney Hoskyns biography of The Band. I'm of there generation.
Yeah, Lee. These 3 Doors tunes are ALL top notch. Crystal Ship was the world’s shortest trip, but a nice trip. Get that tooth issue taken care of bro. Stay ahead of it or …. Well, stay ahead of it.
And let me throw Peace Frog out there with the others. Another banger that you wish would go on a lot longer.
Larry Knechtel on bass. A member of the L.A. Wrecking Crew.
Discovering music that I liked was me coming home after high school circa 1988, lying on my bed at night in the dark (early evening) and listening to Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, and The Doors tease out their sounds. I was not a Marley or Zeppelin fan until a few years later, so those would come down the road, but not now. Then, it felt like riding a gentle river raft and I wonder what Samuel Clemens would have thought in that moment. What a great feeling that was and is.
I was. am an air force brat, was in Hawaii in 1970 I was 15, saw the doors at the HIC arena, was epic....but to be honest, my 1st concert was The Monkees! Long ago and far away bro! I enjoy your reacts, keep on
I went to the yearly Teenage Fair at the Hollywood Pavillion in early 67. Looking at the record section, Ray was there holding this first Doors album almost saying "you are going to dig this". Bought this album along with.my girlfriend and the music totally blew us over, as we had never heard songs like these
They were and they remain my favorite Rock Band
Great reaction Lee!! All of these, but especially The Crystal Ship have LONG been favourites! Ray (RIP) is the secret sauce to so, SO many of their tracks - his sense of groove, melody are tops in the keyboard world! John Densmore and Robbie Krieger are no slouches either. They all played off each other so effectively! And then there's Jim...what else can be said about The Lizard King that hasn't already?! Cheers.
Howlin Wolf originally sang back door man. Check him out, 👌
Love all 3 songs, but “Soul “Kitchen” is my favorite. That song jumped into my 14 year old soul back in ‘67 and never left. “Psychedelic Blues”, good description , Lee. Defines Hendrix, Cream, Deep Purple, and on and on and on. Nice that you went for the 3rd song.
Woohoo! three tracks today!!
I thought I’d surprise y’all for Father’s Day lol well, in the moment I just wanted to hear more doors… but I’m backdating it as a Father’s Day gift 💁🤣😄😄😄
I enjoy the first 6 songs of THE DOORS ABSOLUTELY LIVE, and SOUL KITCHEN too, never been into poetry.
Great reaction .nice trifecta .! .Please do THE CHANGLING by the Doors
That first album was energetic and sounded like no one else. Thanks for the gift! I swear I saw Jim Morrison in jeans and jean jacket, clean-shaven and healthy, sitting behind us at a CSN show in Daytona Beach in 1987.
You never know… he might have faked his own death. Maybe he was tired of being in the spotlight. Maybe his admiral dad had something to do with it. Who knows. He obviously loved good music so I could see him loving CSN lol
Many others have said that they saw him years later, including myself in 1978 in a small town in New York. I was working as a nanny for a musician, where people came and went.
Saw the Doors in the summer of '67 after getting their first album when it was released...
This is possibly my two favorite tracks of this album. Love your reactions!
Great summer night decktime listen. ❤
One of the great debut albums. The hard choice for me is who is my favorite American Band-the Doors or the Allman Brothers Band or the Grateful Dead? ✌️❤️🎶
All three!! ✌🎶
@@lisarainbow9703 I saw the Doors once, the Allman Brothers three times, and I quit counting Dead shows, but that was mainly due to the deaths of band members. Love them all.✌️❤️🎶
How good were the doors live vs on vinyl?…. Was morrison a standout in his talent laden era like the legend portends now?
@@kelvinkloud Even better live. I had turned 15 a month & 1/2 earlier, & I was blown away. I had been a fan since Light My Fire, and they jammed live. Did you know Ray Manzarek was from Chicago’s Southside? (He went to a rival high school of mine, which I will not name.) Since then I have seen 109 other bands/acts/artists, and that was still one of my favorites. ✌️❤️🎶
@@alpetrocelli4465 did morrison have the ability to draw in the audience, create suspense and aura different then the other greats you saw?… were they as big then buzz wise as they would become later in early 80s?
Bonus! 😊
A gift to this wonderful community :) happy Father’s Day!
Re. Morrison's background. He had no musical background whatsoever, other than a brief period of childhood piano lessons, and then in college he was a huge fan of blues and Elvis. He was intellectually brilliant, wrote poetry, and read books that were beyond the scope of his teachers and even some of his college profs. He went to various colleges until he ended up in LA, where he went to the UCLA film school. That's where he became friends with Ray Manzarek, who also had a bar band that the film students regularly went to see. Jim once got up to sing Louie Louie with them, and another time he "filled in" for a guitarist who couldn't make the gig - Ray's band was contractually obligated to supply six musicians, so Jim pretended to play rhythm guitar the whole night. It was several months after film school ended that Jim and Ray ran into each other on Venice Beach, by which time Jim had been taking acid and writing his first songs. He sang Moonlight Drive to Ray, who said "Let's start a rock & roll band and make a million dollars".
Yay! Love it. Thanks!
Following the previous post.
I was 10 when I heard this .
I did not understand the lyrics but I understand the music.
You crack me up. I believe those moments or sounds or sites are from a different dimension.
I was “ rapping” with a friend and at the same moment we both saw a mushroom object at the same time and place.
Then again I really took a lot of acid when younger…
Absolutely Live
This is a cover of the song of the same name released by Chicago blues legend Howlin’ Wolf in 1960.
It’s great you’re getting the Beauty of playing albums the way they were made to be heard. Albums especially great albums are an audio journey taking you along. They are also meant to be audio only , your brain processes the music and this allows a very personal experience. It’s a drag to me when someone rewrites history by putting some stupid video on a song I have great memories of. Changing the experience to their interpretation
This should be fun🎉🎉😢
Morrison's father was a Commander of the Pacific Naval Fleet.
My band covered "Back Door Man" back in the 80's.
these are two of my favorite Doors tracks.... I don't know if it's when you would want to react to but there's a short track with just Jim talking.
it's called "the movie". it's quite haunting and almost Nostradamus-like. but at least listen to it on your own because it's it's mind-blowing.
Peacefrog is a fantastically funky Doors song...
I would say Crystal Ship is my favorite Doors song❤
Nice, Lee, that was exactly what we all said, was?? what, no way, play it again, wtg, Lee.
dude.... I just listened to you talk about house Spirit gets weird when you are listening to The Doors..... YOU ARE THE ONLY PERSON WHO HAS EVER SAID THAT AND I HAVE EXPERIENCED THE SAME THING FOR DECADES.
Ray Manzarek produced the first four albums by LA punk band X. They covered "Soul Kitchen" on their 1980 debut album "Los Angeles". Ray played organ on a number of songs, including a solo on the album closer "The World's a Mess; It's in My Kiss"
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For your private listening pleasure I would extremely highly recommend an album released by the band after Jim died. It's called "An American Prayer". It's an album of Doors music, some previously released and some not, interspersed with Jim's poetry including readings by Jim while he was still alive. It's nsanely freaky and a snapshot of the times back then. I know because I was there. It's should be listened to one track after another uninterrupted. If you're a Doors fan, and I believe you are, you will love it. After listening you may want to do a review of some or all of it.
jan van impe
"who do you love" (live version) !!!
Happy Father's Day Brother
Not sure why the low views these are two amazing songs off an incredible iconic album I just don't get it❤
they would end concerts with Soul Kitchen.
When I heard we were getting three but you decided you cut Back Door Man I got a little bothered. I thought now when will you get to it and they go so well together. Then the miracle happened. Only takes two more before you can be nominated for Sainthood. 😅 Hope you feel better soon Lee. You’re a big reason why this old man watches CZcams over TV. Keep up the good work. Your appreciation for this music is awesome.
jan van impe
i'm from Belgian, so my english is not so good.But i'll try my best to explain something : it's very sad that the doors didn't make more long
songs. The reason ?? : well, Jim said it many times during the outtakes of roadhouse blues : "money beats soul every time !"
but luckily, there's one more long song that survived on the live album "absolutely live" CELEBRATION OF THE LIZARD " that song
normaly was intended to appear on their 3th album (waiting for the sun) But after different takes in the studio, the music company
an the other members of the band said: this is not commercial, so stop it !!! Jim was very disappointed and wanted to leave the
group immediately. But they made an agreement; "we will put a small part of that song on the album : NOT TO TOUCH THE EARTH ...
years after his death ,the 3 remainig doors finally realised that jim was a poet and put a lot
of his poetry on an album "amercian prayer" but the music had no
longer the spirit of their singer !!!
Street lights share their hollow glow....
your brain seems bruised with numb surprise
still one place to go..
still one place to go....
peace
Willie Dixon wrote it but I'd say Howlin' Wolf's version is most well known.
Ray and Jim met at UCLA film School.
Nice surprise.
Saw them at the Whiskey a Go-Go a week or two before their 1st LP came out. They were UN-FUCKING-BELIEVABLE! Their first 2 Lp’s were the shit. From 64 to 69, 5 bands killed it. Kicked off in 64 with Beatles & Stones. From 67-70 it was Cream, Doors & Hendrix. Those 5 defined the era. The rest. Sure, ok… but not so much. After that, the next killer bands were Jeff Beck & Led Zep. Other than those 7 bands- it just didn’t matter. At least not in the same way,,, on that same elevated level.
The L.A. punk band X did a kickass cover of 'Soul Kitchen' on their first record.
Check out Soul Kitchen by X.
Listen to Ray playing Crystal Ship on piano.
Now do Xs version of Soul Kitchen
Got a sub for that extra
I wonder/wish if Jim could have held it together without the alcohol...
Yo L33---Are you familiar with 13th Floor Elevators? A band from Texas whose first two albums, Psychedelic Sounds O' The 13th Floor Elevators (1966) 'n Easter Everywhere (1967) are correctly considered two o' the earliest 'n best examples o' psychedelia. Roky Erickson, lead vocalist is one o' a kind fantastic! Yamo highly recommend 'em tuz yuz now...The real deal.
Why is it that the seemingly most effed up people create some of the most beautiful music???
In old Blues parlance "eating chicken" referred to a certain sex act. hoo boy
SOUL KITCHEN is on the ABSOLUTELY LIVE album, I prefer the Live version.