and then I heard The Doors - Riders on the Storm | First Reaction 

Everytime...

Amen to that. Heard it for the first time 40 years ago will never get old.

Amen.

Timothy Leary loved it. I think I did. The times are kind of hazy. ;-)

A friend spent lots of money on a quadraphonic system when they came out and the LA Women album was one he had that we played over and over again it sounded so good. This song specifically I would watch other’s expressions as the heard this on that system for the first time. It was special.

My brother and his friends graduated from high school and straight to Vietnam.

Thanks for your service !

@@michaelsullivan6854 Amen to that!

66 and onward, 100%

Here's another 70 year old, we had the best of the best didnt we?😃

Yep, 72 y.o. here. No autotune or sampled loops or electronic drum machines here. Just pure talent that still speaks to us all.

also 70- fun watching you discover this wonderful old music

Class of 72...😊

You were. The flipside is if you're open and prepared to go searching every successive generation has everything that went before to experience and draw from. Admittedly there's not much new music today that I would even put in the same ballpark let alone on the same level as pretty much anything by The Doors. But once in a while somebody puts out something that might just stand the test of time.... I think it gets harder for artists to do so... so much has been done before. So much is intentionally or unintentionally derivative. But we are endlessly creative...

@@Matt_S104 the difference is something about the music business ... what gets promoted and to whom.

It's no accident. Read the book Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon.

Don't forget we had NO autotune and schools taught music n art. History. Civics. Real math not Common core garbage. Ya'll will miss us when we're all gone. Many blessings ya'll.

Amen to that! 🎯

*Spot on. Amen brother.*

Could not agree more

My dad turned me on to The Doors when I was so young I didn’t really know what music was yet. The Doors are part of the soundtrack of my childhood.

I am 72 and it gives me complete joy to see young people like yourself experiencing our music. It is so precious and truly a beautiful thing and no matter what our age is, our politics, our views, or whatever we can at least be united with music. Imagine if the world listened to more music and less of everything else how much better off we could all be. Thank you for this! You are a fine young man!😊❤️😊

I'm nodding my head, in agreement.

Saw them in person. Great!

Yess

Been listening to them over 40 years and their music is just as great today as when I first heard them. Great to see this fine man appreciate The Doors- keep it alive my man 😎👌

​@@ellbanks425 And it didn't cost $1,000 per ticket, lol.

Every generation has it's own class they can't be matched in. Me I grew up listening to music from 1920s all the way up to the 60s till I was 13. Then went on to 70s-2000s

I agree so many great bands wish I could go back though time and relive that era.

Like I'll be the match you be fuse, boom 🤔

Whatever. signed genx

Absolutely!

The studio version actually had Jerry Scheff (Elvis' old bassist) on bass, but Ray would do it live on his keyboard.

And Ray played the keys and produced the first album by X, Los Angeles. And in great style. Check out the instrumental by Luna Lee.

Ray Manzarak really is the the sound of the Doors

@@lsmith992 And easily found on RU-vid even today.

You should read his book. What a trip!

yep, sure did!

69 years young. The best memories 💓

They still make real and great music nowadays. It's different, though. My dad is just a bit younger than you, and he loves the music he grew up on, as well as some of the music we made him discover. One doesn't exclude the other.

Good comment

they still do.... you just aren't looking hard enough. They don't play it on the radio anymore.

Truly incredible!

They had actual bass players for the studio recordings and such.

And a great sound engineer 👍

This song actually has a fifth musician playing bass guitar

@@gotham23us I think it was the guy from oasis’s dad

That damn 27 club. Took some greats in the 90s too. So strange.

And album was only $2.99, had them all!

Yes, and the lyrics sang with Jim's smooth, haunting voice. Perfection.

Correct jazzman👍

That's me many, many times!

This is one of my favorites to listen to while getting a new tattoo. It takes my mind somewhere else and I can relax and the pain is almost non-existent.

In your beanbag, too!

And a fat loaded bowl bro

My name is Michael as well, and I am 70, we both lived it ---GOOD ON YOU !!!!

Ditto...thank you to your son for his service

It was released in June 1971, the last song Jim Morrison recorded. He was found dead in a Paris apartment a month later.

I was 10 when this came out and I remember being terrified the first time I heard it. My all time favorite Doors song! I just found out that he achieved that haunting vocal by overdubbing himself singing the song in a whisper.

Shoulda heard it stoned on acid......😮

Thanks for this! I have always wondered what people with synesthesia ‘see’ with special songs…

You should paint this wonderful image! I always see the Carmel shoreline at night illuminated by phosphorescent green sea creatures. The thunder sounds to me are crashing waves.

huh.. I wonder what colors you get if you listen to "The Figurehead" by The Cure?

That is SO COOL! I always wished I had it.

I can see that...

As much as I love Jim, I think he was destined to leave this plane of existence when he did. We will never see his like again.

Unfortunately all of "The 27 Club", which began in the 30s with Delta Blues legend, Robert Johnson, is the same. Janis, Hendrix, Morrison, Brian Jones, Alan Wilson( Canned Heat), Kurt Cobain, to name very few...all were extremely talented and very troubled, self destructive souls. Unstable flames that went super nova to out. They all made their huge marks on Rock n roll roots, and none of us can ever quit them. What they gave was a small sample of greatness that is so precious that no one dares ever let them go.

He died, Janis Joplin and Jimmie Hendrix all died within a year of each other. Such a disaster.

​@@karleneblaser1261 You forgot Amy Winehouse.

​@@221BBakerStreetShe was much later, but again what a damn loss

NOT a Rhodes scholar.,..O wait! Clever you are!

Jerry Sheff is the bass player on this track. On previous albums, Ray was doing the bass with his left hand, but not on LA Woman. The contribution of the bass on the album is fantastic.

They used a bass player on all their albums. In order to achieve that bottom sound they needed a real bass. It was only during their live shows Ray played keyboard bass.

Very same. Started playing bass at 13 and at 15 was gigging every weekend pretty much through the rest of H.S.and into my late 40s. I'll be 58 this year. Frost bite and nerve damage has pretty much put an end to that.

Amen!

Backyard/sometimes performing musician. I like that. Describes me as well.

@@HBFTimmahh sad.

@@scottmcneely1927 it sucks no doubt. But by the early 2000s the 'live scene' was already in the tank. Things just were not the same here in Michigan after 2004/5 as far as playing out and the crowds/scene.

Not entirely true. Especially on the studio version of this song. It is true that the bass lines are all originally laid down by Ray on a hammond organ, ad in concert there was usually no bassist. However, session bassists were brought in to overdub the same lines, to give them added "punch" on the album. I believe that the late great Jerry Scheff was the guy who did the overdub on "Riders on the Storm"

@@k-matsuIt was Scheff and he's still with us last I knew.

That’s Peace Frog ‘my alarm’ on my iphone

Ray Manzarek made Jim and the Doors.. He was like Don Rich was to Buck Owens, without either there would be mediocracy...It takes two to tango and they tangoed!!!

No bass? Don't agree.

The fact that Ray was able to play the bass part and lead parts on two different organs live is nuts. This bassline and drum part are such a good groove

Excellent summation of the final Doors song they recorded. Haunted voice perfectly describes Jims vocal. It’s like he knew he was leaving LA and the Doors behind and moving to Paris where he died. What a final act! He left behind timeless music that will live on forever.

Great lore, thanks Martin.

Thanks for the trivia. Yes, L.A. Woman, I believe was recorded live in the studio!

Just other worldly❤Jim was a beautiful man with a amazing voice. Miss him

Yep The 27 club, Morrison, Hendrix, Joplin, Winehouse... Just imagine the fun those guys are having .... I wanna be allocated to their dept when I go ❤

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Jim Morrison never got to hear the finished article; as soon as they were done recording, he flew to Paris where he died.

Isn't it sad to look back to see we lost great writers/musicians so young and long ago. No telling what they could have created but still so grateful for their vital contributions to our era! 💜

To be fair, a 27 year old in the early seventies is probably comparable to a 40 year old man now

contemporary music is all garbage .

He reacted to it

it did

This record was made for a certain film! AN a great film…….

@@01chittock Apocolypse Now

The End was on the Doors first album in 1969 Apocalypse Now was released in 1979. The song was not made for the movie, it was chosen for the mood in the scene.

Sounds like a jam from a jazz juke. Just finding a groove and a pocket and letting it cook a while

Well said, spot on and truth spoken!!

YES!

Ha! Still are!!

was on varsity swimming in HS and we came out of the locker room to this one (our mascot was Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders)

It kills me to this day that this was played on the radio station my dad listened to in the car. 😂 Quite the experience, looking back.

Same for, a riding song down a desert highway at night.

Not on the radio, but on an 8 track, in dash tape player...along with the long version of Inna Godda Da Davida...in a 1955 Chevy...with the boy who became my husband...

❤

challenge!!

@@poloreacts27 Don't forget your stogie!

@@poloreacts27Polo, you gotta do “ LA Woman “ it’s a awesome tune ! 👍😎

not 14 floors above tho!! down on the floor in the meat and potatoes unseen by the public eye. invisible to the common but understood by the on lookers

@@stevedouglas1654I concur! He will love it.

55 😊

Remember when FM radio started up. My older brother had me call and request In a Gadda da vida on FM 100 in Memphis one day! They played it! A whole album side!

@@lisamcintyre9832 There were some stations that played it every hour.

Ya know, I ALMOST mentioned Iron Butterfly in a separate comment about when I heard The End for the first time. It was an ethereal experience to be sure. But the most emotional reaction I remember was hearing In A Gadda Da Vida for the first time whilst watching the movie Manhunter in theaters in 1986. THAT was amazing... with the emotion and tension from the scene and the music - it was awesome to me at 19. I remember coming out of the theater and saying to my boyfriend, "I have to get that soundtrack music. That one song when he crashed through the window was amazing." Then he, being a bit older, said,, "That was In A Gadda Da Vida by Iron Butterfly. Not just soundtrack music." The next day I went to work (at a record store, of course) and found Iron Maiden and flipped backwards a little bit and found Iron Butterfly and immediately bought the LP.

Definitely!

Yes!

Not to mention those leather pants.

​@@Beth-ou3wjDon't mention the leather pants.

What a crooner!

Totally agree. Great movie. I watched it a thousand times. Polo, check out the movie as well.

I'll have to look for that...

He becomes Morrison.

Yes.

Yeah you should do a reaction to the movie- Val Kilmer is almost more Jim than Jim. My apologies to those who disagree, I k😮now

Also, Lizard King

the drummer and the bass player are one person. Ray Manzarek. He played a keyboard bass with one hand and a keyboard with the other

Ray Manzarek IS THE BASSIST and the Keyboardist. They didn't have a base guitar player. The Doors have always been one of my favorite bands. I was a teenager when they were On Fire. Please keep going down thus rabbit hole. They were iconic. You might have heard their music in a movie about the 60s. Jim Morrison died in 1970. Songs...Unknown Soldier...People are Strange...When the Music's Over...Roadhouse Blues

Perfectly stated...

@@micheleferrazzani638Not on this song. The bassist from Elvis Presley’s band was brought in to lay down the bass track here.

@@maryannturton9830 Thanks. Perfectly performed...

Written by Robby Krueger at age 19.

@@TheDivayenta Yes. I could listen to Light My Fire a thousand times and get the same feeling on the song every time. Just my opinion.

Lots of people’s opinion!

@@annehemmer5153 Thank you

While this amazing keyboard solo is very,very good, if you haven't heard it before you should listen to Tom Scholz's solo on their song " Smokin' " from the band Boston !

This solo is great for this song but Deep Purple's Jon Lord or Boston have several keyboard solos that smash all others.

Steven Wilson- Home invasion/regret 9

One of my favs but keyboard solos in rock don't get any better than Keith Emerson (ELP), Rick Wakeman (with and without Yes), Deep Purple (Jon Lord), Rod Argent

@@bookhouseboy280 Those are some great ones for sure!

I was 10 when this song was released in 1971. This is my Doors' song.

@sisterhoney61 nice. My sister was 17 an I was 8

I was 13 and every year just got better

I was that age at this time. Was in High School in the mid 70s and listened to Dark Side of the Moon and all the Zeppelin albums around. Punk, New Wave hit in my early 20s and in my early 30s grunge. Loved it all. Then the 2000s hit and I saw the end of the road for the great and creative and innovative music I felt privileged to grow up to.

I was always enamored of Crystal Ship

King Snake too.

@@HBFTimmahh yes indeed Crystal Shop and King Snake too. But the problem is that these are obscure. He only wants radio played songs so more people will recognize and click for views. Think radio people don't go off the beaten path with your obscurity it's bad for the channel.

@@laurabrevitz3944In high school gym class we had to make up a dance routine and could pick our own music. I picked Crystal Ship! It’s a hypnotic song that makes you move like a slow winding river.

You forgot to mention 'Roadhouse Blues'

Exactly 💯

I can’t stand it.

You baby boomers also fucked this Country up now us Generation Xers have to fix it. Trump 2024!

You won't find young talent on the radio.

Amen!!!

I can picture it !!!

Hear, hear, keepin the rubber side down. 🎼🎸. 👍

...and I never picked up a hitch hiker again after hearing this song. It was quite common to pick them up in the 60's.

Magical is a perfect word to describe this fabulous song., I feel transported through portals when I listen to it.

We lived in such a musically magical time. ❤

I’m surprised no one mentioned it but the lines is a killer on the low road and the lines. If you pick them up entire family will die was based on a serial killer from Texas in the early 60s.

After a bowl or two...

Ditto

Roadhouse Blues would also go to Polo's 4Runner.

Mojo risin!

LA Woman is the ultimate cruising song!

Wow, one of the nicest things anyone has ever said to me. Thanks and thanks for watching

@@poloreacts27they’re right! You have the voice of a late night jazz deejay. Sexy! ❤

@@poloreacts27 Dear Polo, I stumbled on to you too, just as the gentleman said. I really appreciate that you don’t keep interrupting the songs. Sometimes, the music is so good and brings back so many memories and evokes so much emotion that it’s hard to listen. On a lighter’note’, two doors songs that l love that are vastly different are, Don’t You Love Her Madly and Touch Me Babe. Sexy, cool, fast and unforgettable. Keep up the good work. You’re a class act.

I get it. My dad was KIA in Vietnam and this music from that era has been the soundtrack of my life.

Not true. Watch the story of how this was written and the incredibly awkward fingering for the bass.

the doors at there best had a transcending power. unique signature & elemental themes & sounds... inconsistent band, but when on their A game, like here.... indeed for the ages.

I knew he whispered the backing vocals, I didn't know it was an accident. If it really was that makes it even more amazing.

Would like to heat the whisper

4 way Planar axis metronome

I have now. Thanks

I will never be able to unsee that. Thanks.... I can't even see anything but the perpetual motion device. I gotta get one of those for my meditation space

It's jammin

I love that damn thing